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List Price: $9.98 Our Price: $5.99 You Save: $3.99 Features • Anamorphic • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DTS Surround Sound • DVD-Video • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 28 October, 1994 DVD Release : 17 February, 2003 |
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Stargate (Ultimate Edition) description Before they unleashed the idiotic mayhem of Independence Day and Godzilla, the idea-stealing team of director Roland Emmerich and producer-screenwriter Dean Devlin concocted this hokey hit about the discovery of an ancient portal capable of zipping travelers to "the other side of the known universe." James Spader plays the Egyptologist who successfully translates the Stargate's hieroglyphic code, and then joins a hawkish military unit (led by Kurt Russell) on a reconnaissance mission to see what's on the other side. They arrive on a desert world with cultural (and apparently supernatural) ties to Earth's ancient Egypt, where the sun god Ra (played by Jaye Davidson from The Crying Game) rules a population of slaves with armored minions and startlingly advanced technology. After being warmly welcomed into the slave camp, the earthlings encourage and support a rebellion, and while Russell threatens to blow up the Stargate to prevent its use by enemy forces, the movie collapses into a senseless series of action scenes and grandiose explosions. It's all pretty ridiculous, but Stargate found a large and appreciative audience, spawned a cable-TV series, and continues to attract science fiction fans who are more than willing to forgive its considerable faults. --Jeff Shannon |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Great movie - who knew how far it would go? |
| I have only two issues with this flick: Too much emphasis on character relations with less action, and the director/producer commentary. First, the dir/prod explain that they had a whole lot more dialog than in the movie that they cut out - saying that it was more important (to them) that the interaction of communication between the cultures(worlds) and breaking down the lanuage barrier was better served. I agree to a point, but this is about good against evil: action speaks louder than words.
Secondly, the commentary is informative, but pretty annoying....(sorry, guys) - I especially didn't like the "....we had absolutely NOTHING to do with the TV series..." comment. They didn't elaborate. Aside from that, The movie frickin' rocks! Who knew it would spawn a 10 season TV series! (I think this is one of Spader's and Russell's best performances... very natural looking in their respective roles) |
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