Author Topic: Stargate the movie... (Read 15360 times)

mtnbkr · « **Reply #25 on:** March 23, 2008, 09:42:30 AM »

I keep recording SciFi movies in the hope that the next one will be watchable. I keep getting disappointed.

Chris

K Frame · « **Reply #26 on:** March 23, 2008, 10:06:10 AM »

I saw a commercial for Rock Monster...

I figured the Arthurian "Sword in the Stone" angle would be the absolute highlight, and vowed to skip it.

Manedwolf · « **Reply #27 on:** March 23, 2008, 10:36:07 AM »

Quote from: mtnbkr on March 23, 2008, 08:42:30 AM

I keep recording SciFi movies in the hope that the next one will be watchable. I keep getting disappointed.

Chris

Only made-for-TV I liked recently was "Supervolcano", and that wasn't made by SciFi, it was made by BBC.

Surprisingly very good what-if if Yellowstone went up as a sequence of eruptions that collapsed the old caldera. No stupid love story, no kids-in-peril-running-away, just some really good tension. Showed you can NOT outrun a pyroclastic flow, and an airliner running into the ash cloud was handled very well. Managed to make a blind coupled-approach landing with an abraded windshield and St. Elmo's fire crackling around the radome and wing roots, with the engines whining pretty loudly and sulfurious smoke in the cabin...but it landed okay. It was just absolutely shot due to the engines ingesting ash. Plus they even mentioned calling a ground stop on all air traffic after that point.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #28 on:** March 23, 2008, 12:20:25 PM »

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Showed you can NOT outrun a pyroclastic flow

I know, right? I tell people that all the time. But do they listen?

MechAg94 · « **Reply #29 on:** March 23, 2008, 12:23:16 PM »

Most of those SciFi channel movies are really bad.

My most memorable Kurt Russel movie is Soldier. I really liked that movie.

I have to agree with one post back there. The remake of Planet of the Ape was a horrible movie. Stargate doesn't even come close to contender status when faced with CGI abortions like that.

Matthew Carberry · « **Reply #30 on:** March 23, 2008, 12:34:14 PM »

"Big Trouble in Little China" is the pinnacle of Kurt Russell moviemaking.

There is nothing in that movie that could be improved, except, perhaps, the addition of gratuitous nudity.

roo_ster · « **Reply #31 on:** March 23, 2008, 01:11:14 PM »

BTiLC is a guilty pleasure of mine.

Mabs2 · « **Reply #32 on:** March 23, 2008, 01:13:35 PM »

Quote from: Manedwolf on March 22, 2008, 02:06:43 PM

Aw, it's a fun movie! cheesy

Though the series was way, way, way, way, way better. I like SG-1 a lot. So did the Air Force.

Also, it's the only SF series I've ever seen that does logical things like:

1. Earth guys find alien hand weapon.
2. Earth guys PICK UP alien hand weapon.
3. Earth guys give alien hand weapon to military scientists.
4. A year later on the show, the alien hand weapon has been reverse-engineered, put into production with a military M-number designation, and issued to the SG troops.

Same with spaceships. Find alien fighter. Reverse engineer. Build prototype. Then have F-302 squadrons based on alien fighter.

Plus I liked the overall theme. Humans from "now", when faced with an alien threat, instead of becoming mewling sheep... instead get their s*** together, reverse-engineer stuff, struggle through prototype fits and starts, and then build comparable battlecruisers and fighters, take the fight to the aliens, and proceed to kick the crap out of said long-stagnant-technology alien threats in a galaxy-wide epic fight. They'd been sitting on their behinds with "ancient technology", we take it, innovate and make it better.

I like that.

You'd like the game X-COM: UFO Defense

Cromlech · « **Reply #33 on:** March 23, 2008, 01:37:54 PM »

Quote from: jfruser on March 23, 2008, 12:11:14 PM

BTiLC is a guilty pleasure of mine.

It's all in the reflexes. grin

Matthew Carberry · « **Reply #34 on:** March 23, 2008, 02:16:25 PM »

Quote from: Cromlech on March 23, 2008, 12:37:54 PM

Quote from: jfruser on March 23, 2008, 12:11:14 PM

BTiLC is a guilty pleasure of mine.

It's all in the reflexes. grin

"I'd go but..."

"I know. There's a problem with your face."

Matthew Carberry · « **Reply #35 on:** March 23, 2008, 02:22:06 PM »

The biggest flaw with Stargate was, besides the idea of sending an Air Force team in the first place, that they decided to take MP-5's instead of real rifles.

Unknown threat? Let's take a glorified handgun. rolleyes

Strings · « **Reply #36 on:** March 23, 2008, 03:06:39 PM »

The Soldier was great, but I have one problem with it. EVERY time I watch it, I can't escape the feeling there's some tech off camera, making goofy faces at Kurt, trying to get him to break character...

Manedwolf · « **Reply #37 on:** March 23, 2008, 03:13:00 PM »

Quote from: carebear on March 23, 2008, 01:22:06 PM

The biggest flaw with Stargate was, besides the idea of sending an Air Force team in the first place, that they decided to take MP-5's instead of real rifles.

Unknown threat? Let's take a glorified handgun. rolleyes

Didn't you see the one where there were invisible enemies in a camp, so they just had everyone hit the ground and grabbed the SAW? cheesy

Bigjake · « **Reply #38 on:** March 23, 2008, 03:17:31 PM »

Attention, Strings and Bedlamite,

I googled "Zardoz". Here be the result:

You are both BASTARDS, And as a result I'll be forced to drink Makers Mark tonight until that image fades into the haze.

Thanks alot!

Strings · « **Reply #39 on:** March 23, 2008, 03:24:14 PM »

The really sad part is you had to post it. I've been trying for YEARS to get that image out of my head!

Bigjake · « **Reply #40 on:** March 23, 2008, 03:26:20 PM »

paybacks, buddy cool

Sergeant Bob · « **Reply #41 on:** March 23, 2008, 03:28:24 PM »

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Zardoz: The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life, and poisons the earth with a plague of men, as once it was. But the gun shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of brutals. Go forth and kill!

If ya kept your eyes closed for most of the movie, it might be quite entertaining! shocked

mtnbkr · « **Reply #42 on:** March 23, 2008, 04:31:58 PM »

Quote from: Bigjake on March 23, 2008, 02:17:31 PM

You are both BASTARDS, And as a result I'll be forced to drink Makers Mark tonight until that image fades into the haze.

Thanks alot!

ROTFLMAO!

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Zardoz: The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life, and poisons the earth with a plague of men, as once it was. But the gun shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of brutals. Go forth and kill!

Now that my wife is pregnant, I get that a lot. Cheesy

Chris

Strings · « **Reply #43 on:** March 23, 2008, 05:44:54 PM »

>Now that my wife is pregnant, I get that a lot<

Yes... but you get it from Mike... Wink

Balog · « **Reply #44 on:** March 23, 2008, 06:05:02 PM »

Speaking of product placement, ever see the episode of SG-1 sponsored by North Face? Everything, including light bulbs and Port-a-potties, had big NF logos. rolleyes

MillCreek · « **Reply #45 on:** March 23, 2008, 06:35:29 PM »

I am sure we all agree about the cool boots worn by Mr. Connery.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #46 on:** March 23, 2008, 07:05:15 PM »

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Zardoz: The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life, and poisons the earth with a plague of men, as once it was. But the gun shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of brutals. Go forth and kill!

Fortunately, Fred Phelps is no longer a screen-writer.

Tecumseh · « **Reply #47 on:** March 23, 2008, 08:00:35 PM »

Quote from: Mike Irwin on March 22, 2008, 01:55:58 PM

serious, and I mean SERIOUS, contender for the worst movie ever.

You have not seen the Postman? How about Water world?

K Frame · « **Reply #48 on:** March 23, 2008, 08:07:46 PM »

Quote from: Tecumseh on March 23, 2008, 07:00:35 PM

Quote from: Mike Irwin on March 22, 2008, 01:55:58 PM

serious, and I mean SERIOUS, contender for the worst movie ever.

You have not seen the Postman? How about Water world?

At the risk of being repetitive, let me repeat myself...

"Time to trot out your reading comprehension skills, folks...

I said it's a CONTENDER for the worst movie ever made.

Not that it is the worst movie ever made."

Strings · « **Reply #49 on:** March 23, 2008, 09:16:14 PM »

But Mike... there were so many much worse movies made...

*ducks for cover*

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