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Stargate (1994)
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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...
| Release Date: | October 28th, 1994 |
| Running Time: | 121 minutes |
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$71,567,262 (US)
$196,567,262 (World) |
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| Stargate Movie Review by Thom (9/17/2007) |
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Before the long-running Stargate: SG-1 and it's lesser and somewhat cheesier sister program Stargate: Atlantis, there was the movie Stargate. Although Stargate never gets as cerebral as it could and ultimately defaults to 'kill the bad guys and get out of here' (not unlike Lost in Space), it is a lot of fun and at least a...
(complete Stargate review by Thom)
I was immediately reminded of Chariots of the Gods, a book written in 1968 by Erich von Däniken, when I sat down to watch this film. It is centered on the theory that many ancient civilizations' technologies and religion were given to them by space travelers who were welcomed as gods.
I have seen Stargate several times...
(complete Stargate review by Movie Addict)
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