Kurt Russell kicks ass and utters the immortal line:"Give my regards to king Tut, asshole" I watch this once every couple of years and I get entertained.
I am surprised that they haven't already "rebooted" it. They are so eager to turn everything that was even slightly good in the past to complete sh*t....
Uh, I hate to break it to you, but I have heard rumors of a reboot. I don't even want to think about it. I watched the movie a few years back and decided to try the show. I was INSTANTLY in love! I don't know how I missed it when it aired. If I could afford the DVDs, I'd buy them in a heartbeat. They'd better leave it alone!
Apologies for having to make use of so many cutaways back to my character artwork in this video. I couldn't make use of very much footage from the film due to continuous content ID matches. I had to make a lot of modifications in the editing process. This was the best I could do.
It was a suicide mission. O'Neil (an Americanized spell, not uncommon over here) being suicidal is the reason he was selected to lead the mission. You know, because planting and arming the nuke, if needed, was a one way mission. To the point that the nuke was designed to not be able to be disarmed.
Because todays audience members have a very short attention span. LOL. Explosions,lots of action scenes hold their attention and covers up bad dialogue,plot holes as huge as mountains and some like lots of profanity too.But,they think that's considered dialogue.
@@jamessullivan7964 Stargate has it's flaws,but,it's a pretty good movie. The show runners made this film into a tv show that spawned into 2 more tv shows,not bad.
This was one of my favorite movies growing up. I never really noticed a slowness in the first half. It was careful exploration, intrigue but uncertainty. I've watched it again as an adult, introducing my kids and my spouse to the movie, and we all loved it. Could it be because we don't have lore in our brains from the other tv shows? Maybe. I still love this movie.
Same here I just think most of what they make these days is crap I couldn’t show to my family, my 11 year old son asked me why the old movies I get them to watch on family film night are better 🤷🏼♂️. There you go straight from the horse’s mouth TAKE NOTE HOLLYWOOD.
I remember this movie and I remember enjoying it. Plus without this, there probably wouldn't be any TV series. So I am grateful that this movie came into existence.
Stargate is an absolute favorite of mine! The setting, the characters, THE SCORE! How could you not bring up David Arnold's score? Arnold's best scores are literally every single thing he did with Roland Emmerich (this, Independence Day and Godzilla) and that's ROLAND Emmerich, not Ronald. By the way, Stargate was meant to be part one of a trilogy. But due to studio politics the sequels were canned and the tv show got made instead. Dean Devlin has been pretty bitter about it ever since. A shame, really, because as much as I enjoyed SG-1 I never cared for the changes and retcons it added to the lore. The Go'auld should've been separate race from Ra, O'Neill should have just one L if he's meant to be the same O'Neil from the movie. And I miss the language aspect of the film. Among a few other things, but that's just me.
Think of Ra as the most powerful Goa'uld of his time. So powerful he inhabited an Asgard before finding Earth and taking over an egyptian peasant boy when that Asgard body was used up. Why were the Goa'uld so much weaker in the show - None of them came close to Ra in the first place! Anubis was missing presumed dead. Apophis had enough power after Ra's death to cow the rest of the System Lords until SG-1 started picking at him. Heru'er tried to take over Ra's power base. So'kar was biding his time waiting for an opportunity. Hathor and Seth were stuck on Earth for three thousand years. and so on.
I partially agree with you in that much of the lore added by the TV show changes the feel quite a bit (at least for me). I'd also be very interested to see the other two entries in that trilogy. A real shame it never happened.
@@atomicninjaduck9200 What's known is that part 2 would've dealt with Mayan culture. Part 3 would've done something that tied every mystery/mythology together. That's according to Co-writer Dean Devlin. Pretty vague, I know.
The little differences between this movie and the show is why I headcanon that the show is a reality that's kinda next to the reality of the movie, I still enjoy them regardless.
@@indiajohnson Yeah, I've done the same. Thankfully there are a series of books by Bill McKay, and unlike the show Devlin and Emmerich did have input for them, so they're the closest things we've got to a Stargate 2.
"It's O'Neill, with two l's. There's another Colonel O'Neil with only one l, and he has no sense of humor at all." Fucking hell, 15 years since I watched SG-1 for the first time, and only now do I get that joke.
i haven't seen this movie in decades, and i truly had NO IDEA THAT WAS SPADER. i mean, now that i've seen boston legal and blacklist its impossible to miss him, but until now, i really had no idea.
I think the most frightening/interesting part is the theory that it was soft disclosure of actual technology and happenings obtained by our government.
I think the idea of reactivating O’Neil when he’s obviously under severe mental stress, is that he would be an operational officer willing to sacrifice himself using the nuke if the situation called for it. The problem with this in the script is that they brought him back before they were even aware that the device was a portal, let alone one used for interstellar travel.
As much as I enjoyed this movie, I have to admit it's the rare example of a TV reboot outshining the original I'm virtually every way, especially the characters were a massive improvement in SG1.
I much prefer the movie to the series. I tried to get into the show but it had some of the laziest lets have our cake and eat it writing prior to woke writing entering the industry. The way they encountered all the major baddies in the series was exactly the same as in the movie.
The Unas being the first hosts of the Goa'uld would explain the appearance of the Alien in the movie. This is strongly implied in the series when the Unas home world is found which also happens to be the home world of the Goa'uld. Also a Unas in the series with a Goa'uld referred to himself as one of the first ones. When Ra found humans the Goa'uld found them to be more suitable hosts thus the they started using humans instead.
I should add though one part where that doesn't work is when both right before and during when the nuke went off you get a brief visual effect of the alien again in Ra
@@wilsonj4705you make a good point. But you could say that the visual of Alien Ra in the movie could mean that the Symbiote retains elements of their last host. Or that Ra used some sort of full body transfer due to being so weak. As in if the body we see in the movie is a Unas. The Symbiote could be to weak to extract itself from the body so instead just fuses the Unas and the new human host together.
i understand from a modern view of action sci fi films, that the first half isnt very "exciting"... but this film really feels like the best form of old school sci fi. the story and mystery and wonder is there, the nerd is there, the military is there, the aliens are there (kinda). i would put this film on a pedestal for its time, and know that if it was made today it could be better but would undoubtedly be far worse. A+ from me
Stargate is a genuinely solid sci-fi movie, but the TV series surpassed it to become one of the best TV series ever done in any genre. This was due to some of the most intelligent writing I've ever seen on TV (low bar, I know) and also RDA's constant ad-libs creating a kind of gentle fourth wall effect where he was simultaneously in the show but also watching it alongside the viewers in certain comments he made. The effect was just brilliant and raised the level of the show tremendously.
You must be watching me through the screen, Dave. I’m always going back to Stargate and of course SG1. Old school Doctor Who, pre-2009 Star Trek, and SG1 are peak TV to me.
WOW! I didn't realize who O'Neill was referring to when, confronted by a reporter, warned him of another Colonel Jack O'Neil with only one "L" who lacked a sense of humor. -- So much FUNNIER now. Anybody remember which episode?
@@Tom_Kowalczuk I think so. He may have said this twice... 10 seasons of dialogue is alot for 1 brain. He definetly said 'with 2 Ls' to everyone he didn't like.
I had the benefit of seeing this in the theater at the time, no series to compare to, and I was hooked. I felt it could have cooked longer but the concept stayed with me, not just a popcorn flick but something that came very close to greatness. Same sensation I got with The Shadow, Sahara and strangely Encino Man. All of these had charming performances and moments of genius where you could see what they were aiming for.
I always thought Michael Shanks should have done a guest spot on Boston Legal. Where he would play an actor who was studying James Spader's character for a roll he was going to do. When Spader develops laryngitis (due to one of his many phobias), Shanks jumps in and wins the case. Shatner's closing statement on the balcony would be "Well, they could never replace me". 🤪
Shanks did a brilliant job of becoming Spader's Daniel, then slowly growing him into something else over a season or two. Based on the commentaries on the DVD releases, this was very intentional.
Shanks developed all these unique character quirks like pushing at the bridge of his glasses when others were arguing around him. He added so much depth to that character.
The films strongest selling point is that it was very original. There was no story like this before unless you want to get all abstract and talk Dungeons and Dragons or something.
No proper ending for either Atlantis or Universe. MGM doesn't seem to care that they're sitting on a treasure trove of story telling here. But I fear what would happen if they bring it back, for the "modern audience". So I guess we're at an impasse.
They would replace every male with a strong female of color, all lesbians of course. The Gouald would all be male as bad guys must be. The show would have a lot of crying like Star Trek Discovery. And o/c the women would know everything and not make a single mistake, ever. Sounds like a fun show to me! Stargate: DG-1( Diversity Gate 1) here I come!
If the only thing this movie ever did was to walk so that the tv show could run, then this film was worth a hell of a lot more than the overwhelming majority of films ever released are.
Intersting theme song. I thought it was an original influenced by the 80s since Boy George performed it. But it was actually from futher back in the 50s or 60s. That kinda broke my brain because it doesn't sound like any other song from those eras.
I loved the bit where O'Neil and Daniel both say "I've got an idea!" at the end. All the audience is thinking the same thing and the pay off is spectacular.
I suspect there was far more patience in 1994 for cinematic storytelling than today, 30 years later. Also, the storyline of the movie continued in a series of novels, each title starting with an “R,” which was a separate theme than SG-1. How the series was adapted is well-known, as are the differences.
Kurt's haircut for the role was his idea. I believe production was going to work around his hair length but he ended up surprising everyone with the flat top.
Jack O'Niel's mental state was the point. It's plainly obvious the military selected someone with nothing to lose to ensure the Stargate was destroyed if it posed a threat to earth. I like Russell's Jack O'Neil better because he was stoic and reserved, a man of few words. The TV Jack O'Neill is a cartoon character version of a military officer. The same wise cracking John Wayne type I've seen 1000 times in other B movies. The rest can be explained that this is SciFI, not action. Why does every single film have to be a thrill ride? The slow beginning was to lull the audience into a false sense of security. It was mean to immerse us in an alien, yet somehow familiar culture. There are few movies that let true SciFi fans savor the experience of exploring something new and cater to the lowest common denominator by throwing us straight into the action. I'm looking forward to "Rendezvous With Rama", but I hope Villeneuve overcomes the temptation to add a bunch of gratuitous action to attract a casual audience.
I always assumed that O'Neil was send because it was suicide mission to begin with, and that they green lit it because dropping nuke was more important then getting soldiers back.
Speaking of actors: I am a translator, I translated several episodes of Saving Hope before I realized that it was Dr. Jackson from Stargate. I couldn't believe it. He got muscular and tough. And his fiance was Louis Lane from Smallville. So both of them came from shows where they are in contact with the supernatural, very fitting as that's what happens in Saving Hope.
lol, imagine getting bored by the suspense build-up in the first half of Stargate. Like, the one movie that did that particular thing better than most movies at the time. XD
I am with you on this one. I liked the movie, but something was a bit off with it to be a classic that I want to rewatch. SG1 opened up so much more for me and I happily own and watch it repeatedly.
One of the few Sci-Fi franchises left to be untamed by the woke agenda. I used to wish they’d continue the franchise, now I just hope it gathered dust until the clown-world era passes.
I am a translator, I translated several episodes of Saving Hope before I realized that Dr. Charles Harris was Dr. Jackson from Stargate. I couldn't believe it. He got muscular and tough. And his fiance was Louis Lane from Smallville. So both of them came from shows where they are in contact with the supernatural, very fitting as that's what happens in Saving Hope.
@@Bagginsess And it kind of makes sense: he spent a few years living with a copper/bronze age desert tribe. You're gonna get cut and his wife made sure he got plenty of heh "cardio" heh...
@@ironhead2008 yea and then after he was constantly doing missions. Daniel doesn't get enough credit for being scared of combat in the first movie/few seasons to casually mercing people at the end of the show.
I remember a kid in school coming in one day and telling everyone that he saw Stargate and it was “as good as Star Wars”. Hearing that, my friends and I went the next day we had free and we were pissed. The following week we threatened that kid that he owed us all money for making us waste ours to go see Stargate. I don’t remember why we hated it so much, but I remember the moment Spader ate an alien food and one of us joked “it tastes like chicken” and then Spader says that exact line, we were done. The rest of the film was just us laughing at the screen.
Something like a past version of Earth. Like It brings them back to the room where they left but ten years earlier? I think that would be cool. Or an alternate version of earth where its more sinister and militaristic. @@The_Catnip
@@markequinox Sorry for my grammar btw, I just realized how stupid my comment was lol But I fixed it, I hope it is better now. English isn't my first language and sometimes I don't check what I wrote...
One of his best lines from that movie was [the stare]. And probably my favorite was the throat growl sent through the microphone. Can you imagine the pants-$hitting fear that growl caused all those people on that ship?
The movie was good, but SG1 is fantastic👏 It is a shame we can't get the boxset on Blu-Ray around the world😞 Bring more on, as it was just a great show, all around 😜
I always enjoyed the movie far more than the series. Nor did I find the first hour boring. Perhaps because I'm from a generation before 'splodies every couple of minutes were required attention hooks. I will admit, however, that my dislike may have been partly due to Stargate's part in the murder of Farscape, which I considered the superior series.
@1:22 dude, sorry, but that is one of the most interesting plot detail in the movie! He was chosen exactly BECAUSE they knew, he was suicidal! They wanted him to blow up the stargate, if he encounters serious difficulties and he certainly tried to blow it up...
Also, RDA's take on O'Neil/O'Neill actually works when you realize: 1. His version had a couple of years to meditate on his experience on Abaydos and loosen up some more. 2. His take didn't start out as a wisecracking smartass, he evolved in that direction over the first few seasons 3. It's established in the first season that he spent time in an Iraqi prison post Persian Gulf War, partially because his team didn't come back for him. That's another wound that was still fresh at the beginning of the movie. RDA and the showrunners spread enough goodies out over that series that I can believe they're more or less the same guy. Yes I know, parallel universe and all that. I wish they could have gotten Spader and Russell for a two parter. Snark on snark combat between RDA (smartass who plays the fool but knows way more than he admits) and Russell (dry as Vulcan sarcasm) would have been hysterical and mid series yoked up warrior philosopher nerd Jackson might be an interesting comparison to a Jackson that might not have had some of those experiences.
thanks for mentioning universe i liked the show the more griddy approach to this the cliffhanger after season 2 was so mean but i understand that ppl who liked the lighthearted sg1 could not accept the change in tone back then its a shame universe where getting better over time it was a sad thing when they cancelled it
The previous shows had some dark points (Atlantis moreso), but EVERYONE that wasn’t a returning character in Universe was either incompetent or an asshole, and the entire tone was a weird mixture of dark and negating its own premise (particularly with the body-switching tech that removed the most interesting part of the premise, them being so far from everyone else). This wasn’t just a shift in tone. It was a jump off the cliff into cynicism and in-universe politics, literally the least interesting parts of the previous shows. That for me was what killed my interest. There was no one worth rooting for.
The directors cut explains early on why they take a nuclear warhead. The general in the base shows O'Neil what was found buried under the gate stone; the remains of a Horus trooper and his armor
Nice summary Dave. Thanks mate. 11 year old me was obsessed with this movie. I started learning about Egyptian culture and was forever drawing pictures of the Egyptian gods like Ra and Anubis as depicted in the movie.
Sorry mate. This is not a review, but a summary. Almost 80% of this video was lost on info that can be plucked off imdb or other movie site. The remaining 20% is not worthy of being called a review, but predominantly consists of shallow comments and some comparisons with shows that followed. Would you agree that your balance is off and you may want to consider tuning the summary down to 5-10% and put more effort in reviewing? There are plenty of checklists that can be used to check most boxes to consider yourself a reviewer. Why the high horse? Just I have seen much better coming from your channel, and frankly quite disappointed with the quality of your upload. Take care.
I have a great memory of taking a literal genius friend of mine to see Stargate when it was in theaters. He had previously learned to read hieroglyphics and when Daniel did his translation, he chuckled and said it was wrong.
Funny, I liked the first half and felt the second half was a let down. I wasn't impressed with the world they transported to or the story of the alien overlord. It just seemed inconsequential. Great vid, thanks.
James Spader admitted he took the role for the money. He has said before there is nothing wrong about taking a role for the money, he pointed out it's a job after all.
Stargate the movie is my favorite among the Stargate franchise, and in my opinion it is the TV series (as elaborate as they may be) that are subpar. Sci-fi soap operas that are stretched unnecessarily thin to character build and cast promote.
The Jaffa armor was SO much better in the movie than the TV show. As the show went on and the technology to produce those effects became cheaper I always hoped they would reintroduce them.
They actually explained that in series, Ra's Jaffa and gear are several generations ahead of the system lords...he, largely, controlled their technology as best he could to prevent them from being a threat to him there. It's one of the reasons why there was the big background scramble for Ra's stuff in the early part of the series that had been going on
A lot of the CGI used in the movie was to supplement the physical props and I don’t think that the production had access to some of the original physical props…. that’s why the serpent guards helmets are so much less complex than Ra’s Horus guards. The sarcophagus was actually really cool to see them operate behind the scenes, but again, the TV show didn’t have the budget for that
Why so sassy? Somehow the Critical Drinkers tone comes off less bitter. Stargate is definitely a bit of good fun, despite some flaws Never gets in the road of the wonder in what was about the first CGI infused modern movie...
Splendid Video. In the first episode (Children of The Gods) of the SG1 tv series, Captain Carter explained that she was heavily involved in running countless permutations of the symbols in an attempt to activate the gate. She stated that she should have been one of the team members selected to go on the first mission but did not explain further why she was left behind. Teal’c, who was Apophis’ first prime, had fought a battle against Ra whereupon Apophis was defeated and was licking his wounds during the time O’Neill and Jackson first visited Abados.
Saw it in the theater in 8th grade. The story was great, the characters are well written and acted of course But That first trip through The Gate was truly a theater experience. No visual effect like that had ever been done before. The audio in THX Surround was amazing. It was a fun movie to see with your little brother and best friend.
@@stevenlornie1261 I have an opposite opinion of Cullen. The OG movie was great. I liked the OG TV show and I thought Atlantis and Universe were "less than". And I have physical media of them all.
Back when Roland Emmerich used to make good films. Universal Soldier, this film, Independence Day (my favourite film of all time), Godzilla 1998, The Patriot, The Day After Tomorrow and White House Down are his best films. 2012 and Midway were average. But 10000 BC. Stonewall and Independence Day Resurgence were complete crap.
I don’t understand, you admit this movie was made 3 years before the SG-1 tv show, yet you keep mocking it for not being the tv show? I like both for different reasons and don’t feel a need to compare them.
Deeply disagree on your negative view on the movie. One of my favorite movies. I was never fan of the series, I find it enjoyable but it felt too Star Trek. The Stargate movie has a classic theatrical quality to it and it's been a while in cinema around that time they hired so many extras. I love Spader's Daniel(Disney's Atlantis totally copied his character)and also Kurt Russell's troubled Jack O'Neil who lost his son and considered self deletion. The soundtrack by David Arnold is fantastic and improved the movie considerably. It got an applause by the audience in my cinema. You did not watch this in the cinema so you don't know how it felt to experience it on the big screen. Once I watched the pilot for the series, I was really put off by Richard Dean Anderson's Jack O'Neil who looks and act NOTHING like Kurt Russell's version. Stargate was one of the best experience in the cinema, please stop condemning the movie for the sake of the SG-1 series!
While I love the SG-1 show, I agree that I wish we had gotten an actor that was more like Kurt Russell’s character. The “funny guy” could have been a new character. An unpopular opinion, but I’ve long felt that way.
HARD disagree. I like the movie just fine for what it is, but SG-1 is LIGHT-YEARS ahead of it, elevating it far above what the movie alone was capable of being. I don't know how you think it's like Star Trek, other than there being aliens and spaceships. They don't have a prime directive. They interfere more than they probably should with primitive cultures, and frankly aren't afraid to escalate to extreme destruction. The MIRV (Multiple Independent Reentry Vehicle with multiple warheads) nuclear missile they dropped in Stargate Atlantis on a planet was wild. Not to mention blowing up an entire star system in SG-1 to take out a fleet of ships. None of that is things Starfleet would go around doing. The SGC would though... and did.
@@Seastallion I love Star Trek especially TOS and the original movies. First Contact is also one of my favorite Trek movies of all time. But SG-1 felt like they're trying to copy the Star Trek formula too much at times. Stargate Atlantis is a better series than SG-1 because it introduced new characters and setting but it's still the Star Trek formula. If I want Star Trek, I watch Star Trek and not the Stargate series.SG-1 is the series Trek fans cling to after TNG to get more of that same formula fix. As a previous commentor said the SG-1 series retconned the movie too much. I haven't even mentioned about the silly light bulb they added to the Stargate instead of the locking mechanism. Gone are the beautiful wide shots and cinematic quality of the movie. I can say one positive thing about SG-1, Shanks replicated Spader's performance as Daniel perfectly.
@@personatodo Sorry, but I'm going to HARD disagree with you too. Gate is NOT Trek. Does it have certain elements in common? Obviously. There's only so much variance when you've got two universes with spaceships and aliens. Being human centric, you can't help but have certain similarities. As I stated previously, Starfleet and the SGC are *VERY* different beasts. Could the Stargate universe evolve into a more Star Trek type future? Absolutely, and many fans predict something like that. However, if you want a show that's blatantly a Star Trek clone (on purpose too), The Orville is your show. SG-1 is full of things that Star Trek wouldn't do and it knows where it flirts with Star Trek tropes and makes fun of it. O'Neill wanting to name the Prometheus, The Enterprise was one such example. Not to mention the blatant scene in episode 200, where they specifically called out Star Trek. Does it flirt with certain elements in common with Star Trek? Absolutely, but that's kind of difficult for any scifi with spaceships not to do.
My favorite part of this movie is actually the first hour right up to just after Ra arrives and Daniels says we're going home. I love the mystery and the procedural and exploratory nature of it. Piece by piece the world opens up and new doorways and new discoveries emerge. It walks you into the world bit by bit, first with suggestion and then slowly revealing oh there's an actual Gateway oh there's an actual world with a pyramid oh there's actually still a civilization of living people on the other side and then the biggest reveal of all with the spaceship. At first you think you're looking into something ancient and dead and long gone and then you find out it's still living and then you find out it's far bigger and more alive than you were prepared for and you've actually discovered something you're not prepared to handle. After that it's just a matter of seeing how big the threat is and growing up big enough and fast enough to survive or defeat it. If anything, the one disappointment is that they are able to defeat such a massive existential threat so quickly and so easily . But then the TV show fixes all that.
This movie came out when I was 14. I’ve never seen any of the TV series. I have always liked the film a lot. Not seeing the series seemingly aids in that. I love Fifth Avenue
Geez, what a different era. Two straight white male leads (where's the diversity?!), saving the girl (misogyny!) and helping the indigenous people (white savior!), fighting a baddie who wasn't a straight white male businessman (pro-capitalism and racist!), and male soldiers with nary a badass female one who can show up all the boys in sight (RAMPANT misogyny!). Wild. I saw this in theaters when I was pretty young and I remember mostly being bored. I was expecting a bunch of gunfights with aliens and explosions and whatnot, and this just wasn't what I was looking for. As you said, the first forty minutes are kind of a drag, and I think it lost me. Saw it again years later and while I still didn't love it, I could at least appreciate it a bit more. The series really improved on it, though.
Less time means more urgency in a TV episode than a movie. OTOH, story arcs can span many hours of TV ... While they still need to pace carefully in every episode. While movies can introduce sub-stories, such can never really dominate over the main for very long. TV series can explore the subs more deeply providing pace and character development. In my opinion. 😊
I genuinely remember enjoying this film. I'd imagine it's generally easier to enjoy if the idea is divorced from the later series. I remember one story I read that basically stated the reason O'Neil/O'Neill was brought into the project was so that they'd have someone with nothing to lose in the case where the contingency nuke was brought into play. Make his death matter for something more than a total loss of hope. His survival and finding new purpose was a happy side-effect.
Totally agree with your assessment here, Dave. I saw the film at the cinema, and I remember the various trailers and so on made it an exciting prospect. As you say, a whole hour before anything really happens. The ancient Egyptian connection never really did it for me either. Generally a disappointment, and not particularly rewatchable - although I may rewatch it now! TBH, I wasn't a huge fan of the series either, but did stick around for a few seasons, and the show was obviously very well received. I did, however, really enjoy Universe. Very gritty and 'grounded' in a way. The idea of a few military, scientists and a bunch of 'HR office workers', thrown into the mix was brilliant. Constantly under pressue to find food and a way home and so on. Robert Carlyle was excellent. The only downside for me, and probably the reason I haven't rewatched as yet, is the inclusion of the inevitable, wise-cracking 'boy-genius' character, Eli. Also, I notice with these type of shows, where a group have serious resource/food issues, season after season, yet the more 'chubbier' characters never seem to get lean, as they very much would in those situations (reference Tom Hanks' character in Cast Away)
Kurt Russell kicks ass and utters the immortal line:"Give my regards to king Tut, asshole" I watch this once every couple of years and I get entertained.
I can't help reading that line in his voice. Haven't watched the film in years, but it's still as clear as the first time I watched it.
Kurt is one of my favorite actors.
Kurt is the man! Like at the end of The Thing. "Ya fuck you too!"
It is Oscar worthy.
Kurt Russell couldn't miss in the 80's and 90's
I'm thankful the Stargate franchise is safely dormant in our creatively-bankrupt modern times.
there are always rumors of amazon circling tho
I am surprised that they haven't already "rebooted" it.
They are so eager to turn everything that was even slightly good in the past to complete sh*t....
Thankfully, there's no "Stargate" on any of MGM television or Amazon.
Uh, I hate to break it to you, but I have heard rumors of a reboot. I don't even want to think about it. I watched the movie a few years back and decided to try the show. I was INSTANTLY in love! I don't know how I missed it when it aired. If I could afford the DVDs, I'd buy them in a heartbeat. They'd better leave it alone!
For now…for now.
Apologies for having to make use of so many cutaways back to my character artwork in this video. I couldn't make use of very much footage from the film due to continuous content ID matches. I had to make a lot of modifications in the editing process. This was the best I could do.
No worries Dave if we are watching this it is not for the snippets of the movie but for your opinions.
Heck, we've all seen it, bro.We just want to know if you love it as much as the rest of us. 👍
This was more a synopsis than a review. But a pleasure anyway since over the last few days I’ve been rewatching SG1
Your character is a godsend I couldn’t get mad if I tried
RUclips blows.
It was a suicide mission. O'Neil (an Americanized spell, not uncommon over here) being suicidal is the reason he was selected to lead the mission. You know, because planting and arming the nuke, if needed, was a one way mission. To the point that the nuke was designed to not be able to be disarmed.
What I was gonna say.....
O'Neill actually has 2 Ls in the show there is an episode where he says and that's with 2 Ls but I can't remember which one
@@hodge542 Yes, they "corrected" it in the TV show. It was "wrong" in the theatrically released movie.
I was in a Egypt themed escape room and I could not resist saying loudly " Where is Daniel Jackson when you need him?"😁
"I can't make it work without the seventh symbol!"
"Chicken man, You got it!"
And someone in the in corner says "Indeed"
probably dead again
the slowness doesn't bug me. I feel a lot of movies today to be too hyper and fast.
Because todays audience members have a very short attention span. LOL. Explosions,lots of action scenes hold their attention and covers up bad dialogue,plot holes as huge as mountains and some like lots of profanity too.But,they think that's considered dialogue.
Yes. It was like an old style adventure movie, and that's why we liked it. Discovering a new culture was part of the journey.
I remember the music in this movie being outstanding.
@@kerry-j4mso true and so sad
@@jamessullivan7964 Stargate has it's flaws,but,it's a pretty good movie. The show runners made this film into a tv show that spawned into 2 more tv shows,not bad.
I think it's Roland Emmerich's best film. It's the closest he has come to that Spielberg vibe he tries so hard to capture.
The Patriot is his best film.
@@reesebn38 I agree, the Patriot is a better film overall.
especially the music
Universal Solider will put hair on your balls and that is his best.
It's close between Stargate and Independence Day.
Midway takes an easy 3rd place - Massively underrated film.
This was one of my favorite movies growing up. I never really noticed a slowness in the first half. It was careful exploration, intrigue but uncertainty. I've watched it again as an adult, introducing my kids and my spouse to the movie, and we all loved it. Could it be because we don't have lore in our brains from the other tv shows? Maybe. I still love this movie.
It was only slow if you take it as a pure action film and not a sci-fi adventure more akin to old school Star Trek.
That was the best part. The mystery of what is beyond the gate. Why are there humans? What do the aliens want? What are the dangers?
Same here I just think most of what they make these days is crap I couldn’t show to my family, my 11 year old son asked me why the old movies I get them to watch on family film night are better 🤷🏼♂️. There you go straight from the horse’s mouth TAKE NOTE HOLLYWOOD.
True!
The first part is supposed to be slower: it's not action, it's exploring. And it is pretty great to be honest. 🤔
I remember this movie and I remember enjoying it. Plus without this, there probably wouldn't be any TV series. So I am grateful that this movie came into existence.
Stargate is an absolute favorite of mine! The setting, the characters, THE SCORE! How could you not bring up David Arnold's score? Arnold's best scores are literally every single thing he did with Roland Emmerich (this, Independence Day and Godzilla) and that's ROLAND Emmerich, not Ronald. By the way, Stargate was meant to be part one of a trilogy. But due to studio politics the sequels were canned and the tv show got made instead. Dean Devlin has been pretty bitter about it ever since. A shame, really, because as much as I enjoyed SG-1 I never cared for the changes and retcons it added to the lore. The Go'auld should've been separate race from Ra, O'Neill should have just one L if he's meant to be the same O'Neil from the movie. And I miss the language aspect of the film. Among a few other things, but that's just me.
Think of Ra as the most powerful Goa'uld of his time.
So powerful he inhabited an Asgard before finding Earth and taking over an egyptian peasant boy when that Asgard body was used up.
Why were the Goa'uld so much weaker in the show - None of them came close to Ra in the first place!
Anubis was missing presumed dead.
Apophis had enough power after Ra's death to cow the rest of the System Lords until SG-1 started picking at him.
Heru'er tried to take over Ra's power base.
So'kar was biding his time waiting for an opportunity.
Hathor and Seth were stuck on Earth for three thousand years.
and so on.
I partially agree with you in that much of the lore added by the TV show changes the feel quite a bit (at least for me). I'd also be very interested to see the other two entries in that trilogy. A real shame it never happened.
@@atomicninjaduck9200 What's known is that part 2 would've dealt with Mayan culture. Part 3 would've done something that tied every mystery/mythology together. That's according to Co-writer Dean Devlin. Pretty vague, I know.
The little differences between this movie and the show is why I headcanon that the show is a reality that's kinda next to the reality of the movie, I still enjoy them regardless.
@@indiajohnson Yeah, I've done the same. Thankfully there are a series of books by Bill McKay, and unlike the show Devlin and Emmerich did have input for them, so they're the closest things we've got to a Stargate 2.
"It's O'Neill, with two l's. There's another Colonel O'Neil with only one l, and he has no sense of humor at all."
Fucking hell, 15 years since I watched SG-1 for the first time, and only now do I get that joke.
Indeed - same here :D
The most frightening thing about this movie is just how much James Spader had changed since it came out.
i haven't seen this movie in decades, and i truly had NO IDEA THAT WAS SPADER. i mean, now that i've seen boston legal and blacklist its impossible to miss him, but until now, i really had no idea.
I think the most frightening/interesting part is the theory that it was soft disclosure of actual technology and happenings obtained by our government.
It was also out of character for Spader to not play a creep, but I wasn't aware of that at the time.
I didn’t like Spader until his role in Blacklist. That role was epic.
That'll be Roland not Ronald
HAHA! I was going to ask, did it sound like he said RONald? lol
I think the idea of reactivating O’Neil when he’s obviously under severe mental stress, is that he would be an operational officer willing to sacrifice himself using the nuke if the situation called for it. The problem with this in the script is that they brought him back before they were even aware that the device was a portal, let alone one used for interstellar travel.
The old lady and the higher ups knew it was an interstellar portal. They didn't reveal that they knew until Jackson figured it out for himself.
Stargate was one of the greatest movies ever made. Because without it we never get SG1.
Also without Stargate, we would never get Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire.
When people ask me which IP i like more, Star Wars or Star Trek, my answer always surprises them, because i respond with Star Gate.
I would say Babylon 5, but I absolutely respect your answer.
I used to sink to the bottom of pools, look up wearing goggles, then float up to the surface "through the Stargate".
As much as I enjoyed this movie, I have to admit it's the rare example of a TV reboot outshining the original I'm virtually every way, especially the characters were a massive improvement in SG1.
Yes
And several movie actors ended up as guests/recurring in SG1.
a TV show has way more time to be able to expand on the story. It's not really a fair comparison
Russell was great for the film, but RDA killed it as O’Neill, and Shanks was a better Jackson.
I much prefer the movie to the series. I tried to get into the show but it had some of the laziest lets have our cake and eat it writing prior to woke writing entering the industry. The way they encountered all the major baddies in the series was exactly the same as in the movie.
The Unas being the first hosts of the Goa'uld would explain the appearance of the Alien in the movie. This is strongly implied in the series when the Unas home world is found which also happens to be the home world of the Goa'uld. Also a Unas in the series with a Goa'uld referred to himself as one of the first ones. When Ra found humans the Goa'uld found them to be more suitable hosts thus the they started using humans instead.
That really makes a lot of sense.
I should add though one part where that doesn't work is when both right before and during when the nuke went off you get a brief visual effect of the alien again in Ra
@@wilsonj4705you make a good point.
But you could say that the visual of Alien Ra in the movie could mean that the Symbiote retains elements of their last host.
Or that Ra used some sort of full body transfer due to being so weak.
As in if the body we see in the movie is a Unas.
The Symbiote could be to weak to extract itself from the body so instead just fuses the Unas and the new human host together.
@@DarkLordDiablos I personally think this version got his hands on some Asgard tech and might have had one of them for his host at the time.
@@ironhead2008 Well considering he has guards from other System Lords and is looked upon as being above them, that would make sense.
Spader's a BOSS
i understand from a modern view of action sci fi films, that the first half isnt very "exciting"... but this film really feels like the best form of old school sci fi. the story and mystery and wonder is there, the nerd is there, the military is there, the aliens are there (kinda). i would put this film on a pedestal for its time, and know that if it was made today it could be better but would undoubtedly be far worse. A+ from me
Stargate is a genuinely solid sci-fi movie, but the TV series surpassed it to become one of the best TV series ever done in any genre. This was due to some of the most intelligent writing I've ever seen on TV (low bar, I know) and also RDA's constant ad-libs creating a kind of gentle fourth wall effect where he was simultaneously in the show but also watching it alongside the viewers in certain comments he made. The effect was just brilliant and raised the level of the show tremendously.
The novel series was also really good and kept more of the movies tone, though was something that would never have worked for a TV series.
You must be watching me through the screen, Dave. I’m always going back to Stargate and of course SG1. Old school Doctor Who, pre-2009 Star Trek, and SG1 are peak TV to me.
Can I agree 1000%
try FARSCAPE and maybe even Battlestar Galactica~
btw which seasons of Dr. Who do you recommend the most for a beginner?
@@FeelingPoyChina You can't go wrong with Tom Baker's run as The Fourth Doctor.
You don't like the new Who? he can twerk !
@@majorgear1021 He can twerk himself straight to Hell! lol
Great movie, and tv series
WOW! I didn't realize who O'Neill was referring to when, confronted by a reporter, warned him of another Colonel Jack O'Neil with only one "L" who lacked a sense of humor. -- So much FUNNIER now.
Anybody remember which episode?
Was that in Politic from 1st season?
@@Tom_Kowalczuk I think so. He may have said this twice... 10 seasons of dialogue is alot for 1 brain. He definetly said 'with 2 Ls' to everyone he didn't like.
@@Tom_Kowalczuk Thx
The writers had such a great sense of humour! You could tell they had as much fun writing the show as we had watching it.
It was an episode in season 2, I don't remember the name of it at this moment though.
I had the benefit of seeing this in the theater at the time, no series to compare to, and I was hooked. I felt it could have cooked longer but the concept stayed with me, not just a popcorn flick but something that came very close to greatness. Same sensation I got with The Shadow, Sahara and strangely Encino Man. All of these had charming performances and moments of genius where you could see what they were aiming for.
Also saw it in cine and got the same vibe, somewhat of a gem
The series never really grabbed me tbh 🤷🏻♂️ still revisit the movie from time to time
Sahara is also a favorite of mine 🥰
I always thought Michael Shanks should have done a guest spot on Boston Legal. Where he would play an actor who was studying James Spader's character for a roll he was going to do. When Spader develops laryngitis (due to one of his many phobias), Shanks jumps in and wins the case. Shatner's closing statement on the balcony would be "Well, they could never replace me". 🤪
i just heard that in shatner's (older) voice. fantastic.
Spader aged like Brando.
Ha! Truth! 😅
LOL, for a brief second, I thought you meant to write "Brawndo".
@@613harbinger316 It has electrolights! 😉
@@martinfiedler4317it has what plants crave.
It is uncanny how much James Spader and Michael Shanks look alike
I know. When the series SG1 first started I thought it was the same guy at first.
Shanks did a brilliant job of becoming Spader's Daniel, then slowly growing him into something else over a season or two. Based on the commentaries on the DVD releases, this was very intentional.
Now, the real irony: James Spader doesn't even look or sound like James Spader anymore. Has anyone seen "The Blacklist".
For real!
Shanks developed all these unique character quirks like pushing at the bridge of his glasses when others were arguing around him. He added so much depth to that character.
Hey, it was the 90s. People didn't go to "therapy". They got over shit and got to work 😂
Kurt Russell's military flat top haircut was on point. Damn!
The films strongest selling point is that it was very original. There was no story like this before unless you want to get all abstract and talk Dungeons and Dragons or something.
No proper ending for either Atlantis or Universe. MGM doesn't seem to care that they're sitting on a treasure trove of story telling here. But I fear what would happen if they bring it back, for the "modern audience". So I guess we're at an impasse.
the creative types seem to all be garbage now - so how does that turn around? There is no glimmer of that happening
Atlantis could have used another season or two. Universe sucked, it shouldn't have even been made.
@@JPGotrokkits I agree. But since it was made, and left on a cliffhanger, they left me wanting an ending.
They would replace every male with a strong female of color, all lesbians of course. The Gouald would all be male as bad guys must be. The show would have a lot of crying like Star Trek Discovery. And o/c the women would know everything and not make a single mistake, ever.
Sounds like a fun show to me! Stargate: DG-1( Diversity Gate 1) here I come!
If the only thing this movie ever did was to walk so that the tv show could run, then this film was worth a hell of a lot more than the overwhelming majority of films ever released are.
The actor who played the alien in "Stargate" was also the same guy who was in the movie "The Crying Game." That movie ruined my brain.
Jaye Davidson was more model than actor then, so when was asked to play in this movie he asked for a million dollars and got it ;-)
@@Tom_Kowalczuk That's interesting, I didn't know that. I thought he did a pretty good job in the movie.
And got an immense amount of pay for it I understand. Hot property at the time. I would have said - "Next".
oh my god, Einhorn is a man!
Intersting theme song. I thought it was an original influenced by the 80s since Boy George performed it. But it was actually from futher back in the 50s or 60s. That kinda broke my brain because it doesn't sound like any other song from those eras.
I loved the bit where O'Neil and Daniel both say "I've got an idea!" at the end. All the audience is thinking the same thing and the pay off is spectacular.
I suspect there was far more patience in 1994 for cinematic storytelling than today, 30 years later.
Also, the storyline of the movie continued in a series of novels, each title starting with an “R,” which was a separate theme than SG-1. How the series was adapted is well-known, as are the differences.
James Spader in his only non-A-hole role ever
Really underrated film plus it's the reason SG-1 and Atlantis exists, there would be no Teal'C or General Hammond without this movie.
Spader in SG created "Nerd Hair" for the following 15 years.
So essentially Kurt Russell's character in Stargate is not much different from the one he played in the movie Soldier that was released 1998.
Kurt's haircut for the role was his idea. I believe production was going to work around his hair length but he ended up surprising everyone with the flat top.
Jack O'Niel's mental state was the point. It's plainly obvious the military selected someone with nothing to lose to ensure the Stargate was destroyed if it posed a threat to earth. I like Russell's Jack O'Neil better because he was stoic and reserved, a man of few words. The TV Jack O'Neill is a cartoon character version of a military officer. The same wise cracking John Wayne type I've seen 1000 times in other B movies.
The rest can be explained that this is SciFI, not action. Why does every single film have to be a thrill ride? The slow beginning was to lull the audience into a false sense of security. It was mean to immerse us in an alien, yet somehow familiar culture. There are few movies that let true SciFi fans savor the experience of exploring something new and cater to the lowest common denominator by throwing us straight into the action. I'm looking forward to "Rendezvous With Rama", but I hope Villeneuve overcomes the temptation to add a bunch of gratuitous action to attract a casual audience.
Spooky coincidence: I watched Stargate yesterday afternoon for the first time in 20 odd years. Dave’s video review about it drops a few hours later.
I always assumed that O'Neil was send because it was suicide mission to begin with, and that they green lit it because dropping nuke was more important then getting soldiers back.
Saw it in the cinema with my dad, I'd have been 10 years old. The Ra mask creeped the heck outta me.
A classic. Spader has gained a lot of weight since that film.
...and lost a lot of hair.
He has aged like Brando.
Haven't we all. LOL
Speaking of actors: I am a translator, I translated several episodes of Saving Hope before I realized that it was Dr. Jackson from Stargate. I couldn't believe it. He got muscular and tough. And his fiance was Louis Lane from Smallville. So both of them came from shows where they are in contact with the supernatural, very fitting as that's what happens in Saving Hope.
@@Nodux359 It's like the extra fat pushed all the hair out.
lol, imagine getting bored by the suspense build-up in the first half of Stargate. Like, the one movie that did that particular thing better than most movies at the time. XD
I am with you on this one. I liked the movie, but something was a bit off with it to be a classic that I want to rewatch. SG1 opened up so much more for me and I happily own and watch it repeatedly.
One of the few Sci-Fi franchises left to be untamed by the woke agenda.
I used to wish they’d continue the franchise, now I just hope it gathered dust until the clown-world era passes.
I am a translator, I translated several episodes of Saving Hope before I realized that Dr. Charles Harris was Dr. Jackson from Stargate. I couldn't believe it. He got muscular and tough. And his fiance was Louis Lane from Smallville. So both of them came from shows where they are in contact with the supernatural, very fitting as that's what happens in Saving Hope.
Daniel Jackson got pretty ripped in later seasons. I'm surprised you didn't recognize him.
lol that's sg1 daniel not 1994 movie daniel. Sg1 daniel was always ripped
@@jonsnowight9510 I call him ripped warrior philosopher nerd Jackson, lol.
@@Bagginsess And it kind of makes sense: he spent a few years living with a copper/bronze age desert tribe. You're gonna get cut and his wife made sure he got plenty of heh "cardio" heh...
@@ironhead2008 yea and then after he was constantly doing missions. Daniel doesn't get enough credit for being scared of combat in the first movie/few seasons to casually mercing people at the end of the show.
I remember a kid in school coming in one day and telling everyone that he saw Stargate and it was “as good as Star Wars”. Hearing that, my friends and I went the next day we had free and we were pissed.
The following week we threatened that kid that he owed us all money for making us waste ours to go see Stargate. I don’t remember why we hated it so much, but I remember the moment Spader ate an alien food and one of us joked “it tastes like chicken” and then Spader says that exact line, we were done. The rest of the film was just us laughing at the screen.
My controversial opinion: First 20 minutes are amazing but once they go through the Stargate, the pacing and story goes to trash.
I understand your point but what could they have done different?
Something like a past version of Earth. Like It brings them back to the room where they left but ten years earlier? I think that would be cool. Or an alternate version of earth where its more sinister and militaristic. @@The_Catnip
@@markequinox Sorry for my grammar btw, I just realized how stupid my comment was lol
But I fixed it, I hope it is better now.
English isn't my first language and sometimes I don't check what I wrote...
One of my favorite Kurt Russell films was "Soldier". His character has some of the greatest lines you never heard.
One of his best lines from that movie was [the stare].
And probably my favorite was the throat growl sent through the microphone. Can you imagine the pants-$hitting fear that growl caused all those people on that ship?
The movie was good, but SG1 is fantastic👏
It is a shame we can't get the boxset on Blu-Ray around the world😞
Bring more on, as it was just a great show, all around 😜
An absolute sci-fi masterpiece. Oh man that David Arnold score, especially when they first reveal the stargate.
Teal’c served apophis not Ra. Teal’c he was probably doing the same old stuff for his system lord as when we first meet him in SG-1
If I remember correctly, Ra in the movie also had a First Prime named Teal'c.
Maybe Teal'c is the Jaffa equivalent of Bob or John.
SG,-1 and Atlantis remain my favorite shows to this day.
"banni-wae!!"
"This is actually how I met my father-in-law."
@@UzarranBartering for a wife with a 5th Avenue bar. Do those even exist anymore? (The bar, not the bartering.)
I always enjoyed the movie far more than the series. Nor did I find the first hour boring. Perhaps because I'm from a generation before 'splodies every couple of minutes were required attention hooks.
I will admit, however, that my dislike may have been partly due to Stargate's part in the murder of Farscape, which I considered the superior series.
@1:22 dude, sorry, but that is one of the most interesting plot detail in the movie! He was chosen exactly BECAUSE they knew, he was suicidal! They wanted him to blow up the stargate, if he encounters serious difficulties and he certainly tried to blow it up...
I LOVED the production design on this movie and how they took Egyptian motifs and mechanized them.
I got an idea. How about you review THIS MOVIE and not the TV show?
Also, RDA's take on O'Neil/O'Neill actually works when you realize:
1. His version had a couple of years to meditate on his experience on Abaydos and loosen up some more.
2. His take didn't start out as a wisecracking smartass, he evolved in that direction over the first few seasons
3. It's established in the first season that he spent time in an Iraqi prison post Persian Gulf War, partially because his team didn't come back for him. That's another wound that was still fresh at the beginning of the movie.
RDA and the showrunners spread enough goodies out over that series that I can believe they're more or less the same guy. Yes I know, parallel universe and all that. I wish they could have gotten Spader and Russell for a two parter. Snark on snark combat between RDA (smartass who plays the fool but knows way more than he admits) and Russell (dry as Vulcan sarcasm) would have been hysterical and mid series yoked up warrior philosopher nerd Jackson might be an interesting comparison to a Jackson that might not have had some of those experiences.
thanks for mentioning universe i liked the show the more griddy approach to this the cliffhanger after season 2 was so mean but i understand that ppl who liked the lighthearted sg1 could not accept the change in tone back then its a shame universe where getting better over time it was a sad thing when they cancelled it
The previous shows had some dark points (Atlantis moreso), but EVERYONE that wasn’t a returning character in Universe was either incompetent or an asshole, and the entire tone was a weird mixture of dark and negating its own premise (particularly with the body-switching tech that removed the most interesting part of the premise, them being so far from everyone else). This wasn’t just a shift in tone. It was a jump off the cliff into cynicism and in-universe politics, literally the least interesting parts of the previous shows. That for me was what killed my interest. There was no one worth rooting for.
The directors cut explains early on why they take a nuclear warhead. The general in the base shows O'Neil what was found buried under the gate stone; the remains of a Horus trooper and his armor
Love the start of the movie...but the end is a bit less enjoyable, but it spawned one of my favorite shows ever so I give it a pass
Nice summary Dave. Thanks mate. 11 year old me was obsessed with this movie. I started learning about Egyptian culture and was forever drawing pictures of the Egyptian gods like Ra and Anubis as depicted in the movie.
Sorry mate. This is not a review, but a summary.
Almost 80% of this video was lost on info that can be plucked off imdb or other movie site. The remaining 20% is not worthy of being called a review, but predominantly consists of shallow comments and some comparisons with shows that followed.
Would you agree that your balance is off and you may want to consider tuning the summary down to 5-10% and put more effort in reviewing?
There are plenty of checklists that can be used to check most boxes to consider yourself a reviewer.
Why the high horse? Just I have seen much better coming from your channel, and frankly quite disappointed with the quality of your upload.
Take care.
I have a great memory of taking a literal genius friend of mine to see Stargate when it was in theaters. He had previously learned to read hieroglyphics and when Daniel did his translation, he chuckled and said it was wrong.
@@ZXSPEX He is a literal astro-physicist that works for NASA.
@@ZXSPEX You are correct that he could be wrong, but given that he can actually read real hieroglyphics as a hobby, I suspect he was correct.
Funny, I liked the first half and felt the second half was a let down. I wasn't impressed with the world they transported to or the story of the alien overlord. It just seemed inconsequential. Great vid, thanks.
James Spader admitted he took the role for the money. He has said before there is nothing wrong about taking a role for the money, he pointed out it's a job after all.
Review starts at 8:04
Yep, 8 minutes of synopsis.
I thought this was a 'That Star Wars Girl' review for a good 8 minutes.
Stargate the movie is my favorite among the Stargate franchise, and in my opinion it is the TV series (as elaborate as they may be) that are subpar. Sci-fi soap operas that are stretched unnecessarily thin to character build and cast promote.
The Jaffa armor was SO much better in the movie than the TV show. As the show went on and the technology to produce those effects became cheaper I always hoped they would reintroduce them.
They actually explained that in series, Ra's Jaffa and gear are several generations ahead of the system lords...he, largely, controlled their technology as best he could to prevent them from being a threat to him there. It's one of the reasons why there was the big background scramble for Ra's stuff in the early part of the series that had been going on
@@AzraelThanatos Fair counter point.
A lot of the CGI used in the movie was to supplement the physical props and I don’t think that the production had access to some of the original physical props…. that’s why the serpent guards helmets are so much less complex than Ra’s Horus guards.
The sarcophagus was actually really cool to see them operate behind the scenes, but again, the TV show didn’t have the budget for that
Why so sassy? Somehow the Critical Drinkers tone comes off less bitter.
Stargate is definitely a bit of good fun, despite some flaws
Never gets in the road of the wonder in what was about the first CGI infused modern movie...
I often think about Carter. I miss when the Space channel had 23hrs of Amanda Tapping.
PlutoTV has a 24/7 Stargate channel.
I have a higher opinion of the film. I watched the movie before the series, so that's probably why.
The great score is one that sticks with me, the opening credits and reveal of the Stargate get the ball rolling for high adventure!
Score for this film is VERY underrated...
Splendid Video. In the first episode (Children of The Gods) of the SG1 tv series, Captain Carter explained that she was heavily involved in running countless permutations of the symbols in an attempt to activate the gate. She stated that she should have been one of the team members selected to go on the first mission but did not explain further why she was left behind. Teal’c, who was Apophis’ first prime, had fought a battle against Ra whereupon Apophis was defeated and was licking his wounds during the time O’Neill and Jackson first visited Abados.
Never got to see it because I was too young, but thanks to amazon Prime, I was able to experience a wild ride in the Stargate universe in order!
Saw it in the theater in 8th grade.
The story was great, the characters are well written and acted of course
But
That first trip through The Gate was truly a theater experience. No visual effect like that had ever been done before. The audio in THX Surround was amazing.
It was a fun movie to see with your little brother and best friend.
This may be a shock, but the ENTIRE series has been out in physical formats for 30 yrs now.
@@stevenlornie1261
I have an opposite opinion of Cullen.
The OG movie was great. I liked the OG TV show and I thought Atlantis and Universe were "less than".
And I have physical media of them all.
Hey, I enjoyed this throwback review. I'm new to your channel, so I don't know if you do old reviews, but I'm a fan! Please do more!
Back when Roland Emmerich used to make good films. Universal Soldier, this film, Independence Day (my favourite film of all time), Godzilla 1998, The Patriot, The Day After Tomorrow and White House Down are his best films. 2012 and Midway were average. But 10000 BC. Stonewall and Independence Day Resurgence were complete crap.
I don’t understand, you admit this movie was made 3 years before the SG-1 tv show, yet you keep mocking it for not being the tv show?
I like both for different reasons and don’t feel a need to compare them.
Deeply disagree on your negative view on the movie. One of my favorite movies. I was never fan of the series, I find it enjoyable but it felt too Star Trek. The Stargate movie has a classic theatrical quality to it and it's been a while in cinema around that time they hired so many extras. I love Spader's Daniel(Disney's Atlantis totally copied his character)and also Kurt Russell's troubled Jack O'Neil who lost his son and considered self deletion. The soundtrack by David Arnold is fantastic and improved the movie considerably. It got an applause by the audience in my cinema. You did not watch this in the cinema so you don't know how it felt to experience it on the big screen. Once I watched the pilot for the series, I was really put off by Richard Dean Anderson's Jack O'Neil who looks and act NOTHING like Kurt Russell's version. Stargate was one of the best experience in the cinema, please stop condemning the movie for the sake of the SG-1 series!
While I love the SG-1 show, I agree that I wish we had gotten an actor that was more like Kurt Russell’s character. The “funny guy” could have been a new character. An unpopular opinion, but I’ve long felt that way.
The series retconed so much of the movie it never felt like Stargate to me.
HARD disagree. I like the movie just fine for what it is, but SG-1 is LIGHT-YEARS ahead of it, elevating it far above what the movie alone was capable of being. I don't know how you think it's like Star Trek, other than there being aliens and spaceships. They don't have a prime directive. They interfere more than they probably should with primitive cultures, and frankly aren't afraid to escalate to extreme destruction. The MIRV (Multiple Independent Reentry Vehicle with multiple warheads) nuclear missile they dropped in Stargate Atlantis on a planet was wild. Not to mention blowing up an entire star system in SG-1 to take out a fleet of ships. None of that is things Starfleet would go around doing. The SGC would though... and did.
@@Seastallion I love Star Trek especially TOS and the original movies. First Contact is also one of my favorite Trek movies of all time. But SG-1 felt like they're trying to copy the Star Trek formula too much at times. Stargate Atlantis is a better series than SG-1 because it introduced new characters and setting but it's still the Star Trek formula. If I want Star Trek, I watch Star Trek and not the Stargate series.SG-1 is the series Trek fans cling to after TNG to get more of that same formula fix. As a previous commentor said the SG-1 series retconned the movie too much. I haven't even mentioned about the silly light bulb they added to the Stargate instead of the locking mechanism. Gone are the beautiful wide shots and cinematic quality of the movie. I can say one positive thing about SG-1, Shanks replicated Spader's performance as Daniel perfectly.
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Sorry, but I'm going to HARD disagree with you too. Gate is NOT Trek. Does it have certain elements in common? Obviously. There's only so much variance when you've got two universes with spaceships and aliens. Being human centric, you can't help but have certain similarities. As I stated previously, Starfleet and the SGC are *VERY* different beasts. Could the Stargate universe evolve into a more Star Trek type future? Absolutely, and many fans predict something like that. However, if you want a show that's blatantly a Star Trek clone (on purpose too), The Orville is your show. SG-1 is full of things that Star Trek wouldn't do and it knows where it flirts with Star Trek tropes and makes fun of it. O'Neill wanting to name the Prometheus, The Enterprise was one such example. Not to mention the blatant scene in episode 200, where they specifically called out Star Trek. Does it flirt with certain elements in common with Star Trek? Absolutely, but that's kind of difficult for any scifi with spaceships not to do.
Great movie, wish there had been a sequel. However we did get SG1 so I can’t complain
My favorite part of this movie is actually the first hour right up to just after Ra arrives and Daniels says we're going home. I love the mystery and the procedural and exploratory nature of it. Piece by piece the world opens up and new doorways and new discoveries emerge. It walks you into the world bit by bit, first with suggestion and then slowly revealing oh there's an actual Gateway oh there's an actual world with a pyramid oh there's actually still a civilization of living people on the other side and then the biggest reveal of all with the spaceship. At first you think you're looking into something ancient and dead and long gone and then you find out it's still living and then you find out it's far bigger and more alive than you were prepared for and you've actually discovered something you're not prepared to handle. After that it's just a matter of seeing how big the threat is and growing up big enough and fast enough to survive or defeat it. If anything, the one disappointment is that they are able to defeat such a massive existential threat so quickly and so easily . But then the TV show fixes all that.
I think the reason that the first movie felt underdeveloped is that the original plan was a movie trilogy.
Stargate universe was shit. I’m glad they cancelled it. Boring, depressing and couldn’t give a flying fuck about the characters.
Funny enough I like Universe more than SG1.
This movie came out when I was 14. I’ve never seen any of the TV series. I have always liked the film a lot. Not seeing the series seemingly aids in that.
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This was the first sci fi movie I ever watched in the theatre as a kid. Was an incredible experience.
Alan Shore leads Snake Plissken and his team through a Chevron gas station to the planet of Arakis
Geez, what a different era. Two straight white male leads (where's the diversity?!), saving the girl (misogyny!) and helping the indigenous people (white savior!), fighting a baddie who wasn't a straight white male businessman (pro-capitalism and racist!), and male soldiers with nary a badass female one who can show up all the boys in sight (RAMPANT misogyny!). Wild. I saw this in theaters when I was pretty young and I remember mostly being bored. I was expecting a bunch of gunfights with aliens and explosions and whatnot, and this just wasn't what I was looking for. As you said, the first forty minutes are kind of a drag, and I think it lost me. Saw it again years later and while I still didn't love it, I could at least appreciate it a bit more. The series really improved on it, though.
I remember seeing that in the theatre on a boring Thursday.
I knew nothing of it and was blown away walking out of the theatre.
Less time means more urgency in a TV episode than a movie.
OTOH, story arcs can span many hours of TV ... While they still need to pace carefully in every episode.
While movies can introduce sub-stories, such can never really dominate over the main for very long. TV series can explore the subs more deeply providing pace and character development.
In my opinion. 😊
Can't wait for the SG-1 review! The transition you eluded to.
I genuinely remember enjoying this film. I'd imagine it's generally easier to enjoy if the idea is divorced from the later series.
I remember one story I read that basically stated the reason O'Neil/O'Neill was brought into the project was so that they'd have someone with nothing to lose in the case where the contingency nuke was brought into play. Make his death matter for something more than a total loss of hope. His survival and finding new purpose was a happy side-effect.
Totally agree with your assessment here, Dave. I saw the film at the cinema, and I remember the various trailers and so on made it an exciting prospect. As you say, a whole hour before anything really happens. The ancient Egyptian connection never really did it for me either. Generally a disappointment, and not particularly rewatchable - although I may rewatch it now! TBH, I wasn't a huge fan of the series either, but did stick around for a few seasons, and the show was obviously very well received. I did, however, really enjoy Universe. Very gritty and 'grounded' in a way. The idea of a few military, scientists and a bunch of 'HR office workers', thrown into the mix was brilliant. Constantly under pressue to find food and a way home and so on. Robert Carlyle was excellent. The only downside for me, and probably the reason I haven't rewatched as yet, is the inclusion of the inevitable, wise-cracking 'boy-genius' character, Eli. Also, I notice with these type of shows, where a group have serious resource/food issues, season after season, yet the more 'chubbier' characters never seem to get lean, as they very much would in those situations (reference Tom Hanks' character in Cast Away)
I was never a fan of the movie but the TV show was fun mindless enjoyment.
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