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Summary: All smoke and no fire!
Review: This movie builds up pretty good to the moment when the soldiers cross the wormhole, but it is downhill from there on. The egyptian theme is fine, but the rendition of it is poor and limited. This film feels almost rushed with little care to improve depth and details of the story and characters. Overall: MEDIOCRE.
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Summary: WHO HAD CREATED THESE MASTERPIECES ?
Review: NOBODY KKNOW ! So every possibility is good to take with consideration because nobody at this moment of the 21 century within the savants could construct a same THING ! THIS IS NOW IMPOSSIBLE ! EVEN OUR TECHNICALS AVERAGES ! An the orientation of these pyramids are perfect ! THEN THE SCENARIO HAS IMAGINED A POSSIBILITY WHITCH ENTITIES E-T WAS PRESENT MANY TIME AGO JESUS CHRIST IN AN OTHER PARALLEL UNIVERSE SAME AT OUR WITH UTILITY FOR SPACE VOYAGE THROUGHT BILLION MILES KILOMETRES AT THE OTHER THAN LIFE / THIS MOVIE CAN DEMONSTRATE WITH MANY EFFICIENCY WITCH WE ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS IMMENSITY OF UNIVERSE BECAUSE THE MIND HAS NO LIMITS AS MUCH AS INFINITE
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Summary: Great starter for the show!
Review: I started watching Stargate SG1 from the first season. Naturally, the more I watched it, the more I grew to love it. After all these years I still had not seen the movie up until a week ago when I rented it. And I was not disappointed in the least! Although there were some changes from the movie into the show, I was still enthralled. And Alexis Cruz was so great in this movie! Cast as a young boy (Skaara) on the enslaved alien planet of Abidonia, he is, without a doubt, the best part of the movie! He does a superb job as do all of the actors. It makes for a wonderful movie to own.
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Summary: "Give My Regards To King Tut!"
Review: Bonus features: Both the original theatre version and the director's cut (Has deleted scenes), 2 documentaries, Trailers, Audio Commentary, Production notes, Cast/Crew info, Remastered sound, 6.1 DTS-ES digital discrete sound, 5.1 Dolby-EX digital surround audio & Spanish subtitles. Movie: The US gets it's hands on a device capable of opening a gateway to another world. Sends a team to investigate. Team encounters a civilization enslaved by an evil alien. Team has to fight the alien and his forces. Note: This movie isn't for everyone. I suggest renting it first, especially if you like sci-fi, then buying it if it pleases you half as much as it pleases me. I think it's well worth it. "Give My Regards To King Tut" would be the best one liner found here but there's a few more good ones. This is my favourite movie. Best DVD version yet! Thank you Artisan! Cheers.
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Summary: Should Have Been A T.V. Show From The Start
Review: This film directed Roland Emmerich and written/produced by Dean Devlin deals with the discovery of an ancient Egyptian portal to extra-terrestrial worlds. A young Egyptologist (James Spader)is able to translate the portal's hieroglyphs and activate it. He then joins reconnaissance force led by Kurt Russell to a desert planet that eerily resembles ancient Egypt. The team soon brings on the wrath of an extraterrestrial who was/is worshipped as the sun god Ra (Jaye Davidson) and who threatens the fate of humanity on the other side of the portal.The story is imaginative but shoots itself in the foot. The aliens in the movie seem far less of a threat than those in the T.V. show. At one point, Ra foils the team's detonation of a tactical nuclear device and, in an ominous voice, threatens the world's leaders by saying "We have weapons a hundred times more powerful!" The absurdity of the threat being that such weapons would be but a mere fraction of the total nuclear arsenal possessed by the U.S. alone! I couldn't help but laugh and, realistically, the humans receiving the message would have laughed too or breathed a sigh of relief at the very least. The audience also never really gets a glimpse of this seemingly omnipotent being's powers other than a small number of Anubis look-alike guards carrying laser staffs and clumsily piloting seemingly unimpressive flying saucers. Where are his legions of doom? Where is the threat that seems to instill so much fear among the characters and bring the climax to the story? The audience sure doesn't see it! I like the t.v. series much better than this pretentious sci-fi production. The acting was decent and the special effects o.k. Unfortunately the writers should have thought their story through before releasing it to the theaters. Nice to rent once but it's not worth owning: save your money and buy the T.V. series instead.
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Summary: What "Director's Cut"
Review: Well... I finished watching the director's cut last night. I thought that I would see some of the "never before released footage" after the first hour or so, but there was none. I resigned myself to thinking that it was all going to be added at the end, but when I saw those two words, "The End" I realized that the movie was over and that there was absolutely NO distinguisable new scenes added to this DVD (The Ultimate Edition). I'm going to watch the Theatrical Release DVD just to see if the DVD publishers made an error when labeling the disks. By the way, the movie itself is great. This reminds me of the time when I rented the movie, "To Sir With Love" which had a wide screen and full screen side on the DVD. When I put the wide screen side into the DVD player up came, "Godzilla vs. Space Godzilla." Ooops, publisher pressed the wrong button on the duplication machine.
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Summary: A mixed blessing
Review: Others have more than adequately discussed the movie itself - which I love - so I'm going to largely limit this to technical aspects of the 'Ultimate Edition' release. The Ultimate Edition brings what many (including myself) were waiting for: an anamorphic version of this movie. Unfortunately, the quality of the anamorphic relase is largely wasted on a very poor transfer in this 'remastered' DVD. Apparently, someone decided that the original film was too dark visually: The problems with this new version are all the result of trying to brighten and lighten the image. The contrast is too high, with some scenes blatantly posterized. Once they lightened the image, they 'pushed' the color saturation very hard to make up for the washed-out quality lightening the image produced. Some scenes are so over saturated that the flesh tones almost 'glow.' The effect is cartoonish at its worst. Oddly, the theatrical release on disk 2 isn't quite as bad - but the effect is still very noticable. The original non-anamorphic DVD relase has none of these problems and preserves the wonderful subtle colors that this film showed in the theater. But it's not anamorphic... Another review mentioned the muddled and inconsistent balance of the sound in this version. I agree completely. I was constantly having to adjust the volume, even with the dynamic range compression engaged on my amplifier - which I generally loathe to turn on. Is this DVD worth it? Depends. The poor quality of the Director's Cut transfer means I probably won't watch it much. The added scenes add little or nothing to the film, so this won't be much of a loss. The Theatrical Release is probably the best balance of anamorphic quality vs. transfer quality, so it's probably worth it to home theater fans who can take advantage of that. The special features are the main reason for fans of the film to purchase this release. If you're neither a videophile nor a rabid fan of the film, save your bucks and buy the Special Edition DVD.
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Summary: The sound is extraordinary.....
Review: unfortunately. The music of composer David Arnold is wonderful. However, it is so LOUD on this DVD that you can't hear the dialogue. With the volume low enough that the music is bearable, you can't hear the dialogue when it stops unless you raise the volume again. I found myself constantly fiddling with the volume control which was very annoying. Also, I thought the theatrical cut was better than the director's cut. Rent this, and save your money to purchase the boxed sets of the series, Stargate SG-1. Richard Dean Anderson and Michael Shanks give better characterizations in the series than Kurt Russell and James Spader do in the movie. I have the first three seasons and they are great.
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Summary: unbelieveable
Review: more cgi effects more money better movie for horror fanatics in all countries.
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Summary: In a way, a very realistic movie...
Review: First off, once you get past the idea of a Stargate the rest kind of falls into place. The government, with the help of Professor Daniel Jackson (James Spader), figures out how to work it. Pro. Jackson, with an escort of soliders led by Colonel Jack O'Neil (Kurt Russell) step through it to the other side.
They find a desert planet where humans are being made to mine for the same material that the gate was made from.
The people are Egyptians who were removed from Earth over 10,000 years ago, by an alien, and even Daniel Jackson can't understand their language because living languages CHANGE.
The movie is careful to stay away from many of the cliches of most sci-fi movies but also stays away from having characters which are TOO simple. Both Daniel and Jack (played by James and Kurt) are real people, not cardboard cut-outs, with all the flaws and merits of our own reality. The natives are catch between trying to be friendly towards strangers AND not pissing off their Gods.
The science and technology used by Ra and his men look very sleek and very real. From the spaceship to the gliders, everything has a touch of old Egyptian myth mixed with advanced alien know-how.
The DVD comes with two versions of the movie, Director's Cut and the theatrical cut, in which the former has audio commentary. The DVDs also have a great 'Making of Stargate' featurette, a 'Is There a Stargate?' short starring Erich von Daniken himself, trailers, scane access, crew and cast information and production notes.
Everything you could want in a DVD set, a mixture of sound science fiction, a touch of great effects and the pinch of old fashion adventure. This is a great pop corn flick. Enjoy!
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