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Stargate (1994)
Directed By: Roland Emmerich
Written By: Dean Devlin & Roland Emmerich
Cast: Kurt Russell, James Spader, Jaye Davidson, Viveca Lindforsl
Rated PG-13 for sci-fi action violence
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Over 20-years, and it still has an impact.
Yep 👍
Almost 30 years
there are now people running around who are so young they never seen this movie.
It spawned an entire sci-fi series, with spin-offs, each one fairly popular … apart from universe.
The score really amplified this scene so much. Great movie
It's criminal a franchise like Stargate was abandoned.
They was one in Iraq 🇮🇶 the reason the 9/11 happened. 1010010
Still one of the best and most under appreciated sci-fi films ever. That iconic moment launched decades of fun.
I watched this with my mum and every episode of the series as it aired over the years.
She died last year and watching the show always reminds me of her, we were both superfans.
@@mickenossI’m sorry for your loss.😢
@@mickenossthat's a sweet story man, all the best to you 👍
Indeed
if only they finished stargate Universe! sucks there is no end@@mickenoss
Can we all agree that Michael Shanks did a superb job of playing Daniel in SG1?
I like James spader
It's Raymond Reddington, James Spader.
Both commentators are missing the point and this p.i.t.a.
Absolutely
@@KalterKriegerhe's talking about SG1. James Spader wasn't in the TV show.
You see the 90’s we’re simply more fun
Because 9/11 ruined everything. Even 2000 was a great year
All those rock songs about doom and the world ending all had a poignant quality-- back in the day when the subject was merely hypothetical.
Well, at least REM was just saying it was the end of the world _as we know it,_ not The End flat out.
Nowadays movies tell you everything in the first 3 minutes, like you don't have eyes they also have to explain everything what is going on on screen and also as there if need they are trying to keep your adrenaline high throughout the entire movie
...and the 80's.
As hard as it is to find anyone to step into James Spader's shoes, they did an incredible job finding Michael Shanks for the series.
Agreed. Michael carried over quite a few of James' Daniel's quirks and I loved that.
Rumor has it, Mr. Spader is uncircumcised.
True
Shanks, was better in the role. He played it more realistically
@@kewlztertc5386 Shanks got the whole series, Spader just one movie. But I really like how Shanks managed to start a lot like Spader and than gradually, over the seasons, evolved his character.
That whole scene still gives me goosebumps...Daniel just casually explaining everything not knowing what he's about to see. You can feel the validation of all he's worked for, all the ridicule he's undergone over his professional career...just evaporating as he sees the Stargate.
Show Him
Well actually his professional career was still ridiculed by his fellow scholars and colleagues as this was obviously classified, there have been i think multiple episodes where he vents his frustration that he figured out one of the greatest mysteries to the universe and he couldn't share it with anyone, he couldn't go public, he got no fame. and there was one episode where he was called out for not publishing anything in years, gone dark, no one knew what happened all because he thought the pyramids were landing pads for alien space ships lol.
@@JangumTute It helped that he had a bit of humility...hard to stay silent otherwise.
It was the best scene in the movie for me.
For a tutorial on interstellar travel see Pleadian contactee Billy Meiers material with a narrative by Randolf Winters...hit the video icon.
Than Google search Tr3b astra-hit the video icon-scroll down to the night time footage of a Tr3b powering up its gravity wave propulsion system until it disappears.
This is U.S space forces near stellar reconnaissance workhorse which spys on the alien bases in our solar system.
It occurred to me the other day that Stargate could not have been made at any other time. 1994 was the perfect moment when SFX were good enough to make this sequence awe-inspiring, but everyone was still familiar with the idea of rotary phones and 'dialling a number'. Wouldn't have the same resonance today.
And Babylon 5
This movie came before I was born (2000), but I was a kid for SG-1 and Atlantis when they got to Scy-fi channel. And my parents had this on DVD.
So for me, while I know rotary phones existed and I'm nerdy enough to know how they work, I always thought of a star gate when I used the combination locks for our school lockers. Twist one direction, lock, twist other way, lock.
Sadly now we're hitting a time where kids like me are among the last who remember stargate. I hope a new show comes sometime soon.
@manifold2241 Well it's good that for Babylon 5 they have renewed the CGI scenes. But yes, it was good that the story inside the station was still played with actors on soundsets and not before green screens! It gives the shows a much better atmosphere
btw. nowadays shows also don't play before greenscreens anymore, that is a thing of the 2000s and 2010s, as nowadays they are able to augment stuff into the actual filmed footage.
Never thought about rotary phones and i watched and rewatched SG1, A and U.
They actually pumped 40 gallions of water in a tube pressure wise and filmed it side wise.
29 years later, and this sequence, and the whole movie, is still as amazing as when it was released.
just this sequence lol come onnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn, After they travelled through it and meeting that creature was the only best thing
Now days, anything with good writing is better than movies today
Jump room to mars!
& not a g-damn superhero in sight!
except the smoking
The best part of this movie for me was that the hero was a linguist. I was in college finishing my linguistics degree when this came out, and we were always jealous of our friends in archaeology who could brag on Indiana Jones. Daniel Jackson was and is OUR hero. 😄
I recently had graduated DLI Monterey when Stargate came out. I was at my first duty station as a military linguist. I understand the pride.
An archaeologist who hero-worships Indiana Jones is akin to a police officer who hero-worships Harry Callahan. You better worry.
Now we also have Louise Banks (Amy Adams)
And has it never bothered you that this linguist was able to speak fluent Ancient Egyptian, including being able to talk about nuclear weapons?
@@ptolemyauletesxii8642 You can describe a nuke in many manner of ways.
Use the term "nuclear barrage" to someone in the 1800's, they'll assume you're saying "central barricade" because 'nuclear' and 'barrage' mean something different to somebody who has never heard of atomic physics nor breechloading artillery guns.
If some alien came along and mentioned a "metallic disruptor" would you assume it was a fancy sci-fi death ray of which we have no understanding, or did they really mean an old-timey fission bomb?
There are movie moments that make such huge impacts on viewers, I'm sure when they made this they didn't think so, but you just never know what's going to become iconic. This was a memorable sci fi moment. Great job James Spader.
He was the best thing about the movie.
This film came out when we were studying Ancient Egypt in primary school, including a school trip to the British Museum. It couldn't have been timed more perfectly in my life
no that symbol is not anywhere on the device oh but it is🤣🤣🤣
Always loved how the scientists looked on in wonder with smiles and awe..and the military guys just looked really grim as they considered the implications of the Pandora's box they'd just opened - Both 100% legitimate reactions from the mindsets being portrayed.
Amazing film that spawned an amazing franchise.
judging by the situation in the world, the us military and goverment does not really think about pandora's box
Except you only need the 4 points! NOT 6! 🤦♂🤣 But even then things move in space! LOL
Scientists: oeh shiny! Soldiers: shiny likely carries guns too >.
@@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307 if you go down to it all you need is 3, it all depends how you define the resulting target point
as someone both military and nerd I think I would be both
Described by Richard Dean Anderson as the greatest movie prop ever created. He was right on target. The story never gets old. It just transports itself to another place and time....in your mind.
though i believe it owes much to 'the time tunnel'
Nope! Star Trek was
@watcher of video lol Ds9 has easily 5 of the top 10 trek episodes ever written and Garak a side character is arguably one of the best characters ever brought to life on television.
I always wondered when she said: "That's as far as we got" meant they had 6 chevrons and were missing the last one. One out of 30? Why not test all of them?
@@zabdas83 Star Trek is a tv show.
Hard to believe this man was Raymond Reddington... what an actor to be be fair
I don't watch movies or series at all, but Stargate has a special place in my heart and mind.
After 20 years this choked me up a bit.
Thanks.
It'll be 30 yrs this October. Time flies! 👍
Props to the guy who held the pencil in his mouth the entire scene.
I still remember it dropping out of his mouth from when I saw the movie in the theaters, lol...
I love when she tells him "Its your Stargate". The music everything makes it so epic
The "your" makes it next level.
Spader played this scene so amazingly well, with humor and certainty, while the military men and some of the scientists in the room looked on baffled until the light dawns on them.
Ah,back when he was nice.
@@onkcufwhen who was nice?
And this geeky guy turned out to be one of the most amazing actors of all time.
An iconic moment in sci-fi. When the Point of Origin symbol pops up and locks into place, knowing what comes after, the journey to Abydos kickstarting a series of events that brings the Tau'ri from a race that didn't even know what was out there, to being the Fifth Race....just amazing.
Sweet! Wowman, when the Point of Origin is both a teleport and .... a female, woman.
Respect ❤🎉
Tau'ri is just the name that the Goa'uld and their Jaffa slaves had for the people of Earth.
Given that they did not create mankind but only influenced their early cultural evolution (partially) I would say that they don't get a say in the name.
@@mnomadvfx Tau'ri just means "people of the first world". As far as assumed names go, it's not actually an insult and to the humans spread across the milky way the people of Earth would be from the first world.
The most plausible alien/god/culture film I think Ive ever seen. I loved this movie and still go back and watch it regularly. Usually right before I start the binge on SG1. This is an amazing story line and an excellent trip through the imaginings of our past
The actors they chose for the characters for the tv series were spot on. But l never really liked Sam a whole lot.
yep i had dreams i went to another planets across space after my 6 year old self watched the movie in full theatre spectrum
I love these movies, where actually there was almost no CGI and everything is so believable. I think im old.
You're not old, you're vintage.
@@The_Daily_Tomato ... vintage, with imagination and a sense of wonder.
I like that the "puddle" is quite literally an overlay of water inside a glass that has been lit from one side and filmed from the other. It's great how this effect holds up even after almost 30 years.
What kind of glass? What kind of water?
@@somguy728 Drinking glass, stirred tap water.
Ye I heard about that, which makes it all the weirder that such a cheaply sourced effect was replaced unnecessarily with CG in the series.
The show CG effect is tacky and 2 dimensional by comparison.
One of the lead effects guys that actually did the effect said they used a large, deep pool and a jet engine that was mounted above the surface. They filmed from the side and briefly fired the engine, forcing a large blast of hot air straight down into the water. He was amused that all these years later they were still using the original stock footage for the TV shows.
@@mnomadvfx Critical thinking is not your thing, is it?
The older I get and the more times I see this the more I appreciate Stargate. A wonderful movie that gave us an even more wonderful TV series.
the tv show is worth watching too. I'd say even more so 👽
And then a spin-off series.
Dang guys and gals now it looks like I need to watch the TV series :D
show was kinda meh...low budget drivel for TV. hope none of that nonsense is considered canon.
@@LarryPanozzo of course you should. SG-1 developed the idea started in that movie. . Only in series you will know about gate network over the galaxy. And 8-symbol address )
I still love that, with the exception of the actual event horizon, everything else about the stargate was practical.
The inner ring actually spun, the chevron crystals actually lit up (in the series), the activation was done by shooting pressurised air into a clear bucket of water and super imposing it into the Stargate, and the vortex was done in a similar fashion only instead of air it was a device created to spin at the bottom of the bucket.
The soundtrack is great, the cast - even if some had their misgivings about the script - were great, and of course it spawned perhaps one of the greatest science fiction TV shows on par with Star Trek.
chevron seven is locked in place!
Emmerich's best and most underrated film.
yes it was
I love how they took this concept and ran with it and made one of the best science fiction shows of all time
It's an OK show, but the general quality of any singular season is beneath that of this film.
Even at the height of the show the gate special FX in the film still looks superior to the lazy goop CG effect of the series.
I still remember seeing this in the theater, and this scene was so powerful. Between the tension buildup, the mystery, Spader's sense of innocent discovery and thirst for knowledge, the music swelling as they reveal the device, and Spader's slackjawed look of wonder and amazement. It's just SO GOOD at capturing that spirit of discovery and exploration, that drives so much of humanity.
I remember seeing this in the theater and complaining at the end of the movie trying to figure out how they activated the gate from the other side!!! They needed a huge super computer to activate it from Earth, but they never even showed how they did it from the alien planet. I was more than excited when I found out they were making a tv series spin off
@@leogetz3570 I just assumed it was because the system of the gate had been designed to be used. The only reason they needed all that stuff on the earth side, was that the human slaves who had rebelled, had torn down the mechanisms that ran the device. So they had to build a new interface. But on the alien planet side, the device was still fully functional. So with Daniel there to read the instruction manual (off screen), they could use the device to go back. That was my take on it anyway. It's like the earth side finding a busted up telephone, jury-rigging it to work with the phone system and making a call. But then when they realize "hey there is this whole network of phones!" when they are at someone else's place....they just pick up the handset, you know?
@@happyninja42 yeah, definitely "off screen" he read the instruction manual!!! It was cool when the tv series resolved that issue
Well, you write really well. I would like to read something written like this.
nopw fast forward to Spader playing in the spy series. Totally different guy.
29 years later, and the CGI is still breathtaking. Compare that with what is delivered today... we made large steps back.
That wasn't done with CGI, it was done with real water
Stargate, certainly after many years of Star Trek, was something interestingly and refreshingly new for the sci-fi universe. I’m glad that James Spader was in it because he’s a most distinguished actor.
Stargate is a movie I can watch a million times and never get tired, an old time favorite.. Series too!
I think you mean “all time.”
I can only watch it up to the scene where they meet the people of the village. After that I turn it off.
I did not know it was a movie. Saw a few of the TV episodes . Meh. I'll try the film.
Seeing this scene once again in 2023, and still getting goosebumps :')
this is as far as we have ever been able to get and the rooms shaking like the planets about to explode🤣
I really miss my Father, Brother, and Myself getting together to watch the new episodes every week. SG1, Atlantis, and Universe; we watched (almost) every episode as they came out. Some of my favorite memories.
The beginning of ten years of glorious Sci-fi exploration...
Over the course of the last 29 years, I have watched this amazing movie hundreds of times and it was such an experience to see it for the very first time in the cinema. The scene at 3:53 always, always, always gives me goosebumps and a shiver down my spine as the first chevron is locked in and the sequence continues. This movie was indeed way, way ahead of its time and still holds up and stands up well today.
I've only watched this movie one time, and I don't remember why they couldn't simply guess the last symbol. There's only a few dozen of them, and it would seem rather easy to brute-force the very last one. Even if it destroyed the research facility with a self-defense nuclear blast or something at each wrong guess, then you could just build as many other facilities out in the desert as needed until getting it right.
Am I missing something here? I honestly don't remember the details all that well.
@@djhenyothe dialing sequence is sort of like a combination lock, and you need the 7 right chevrons open the lock. It's might have been possible to brute force it as each unsuccessful try would have just met with the 7th chevron not locking to complete the sequence.
You wouldn't want the gate going nuclear. It's made of Naquadah. Ra took Col O'Neill's nuke and added Naqaduah to it to increase the bomb's destructive yield 100-fold. The bomb was no bigger than a person. Imagine what a two-story disk made of it would do if it went critical.
Oh, come on. How was the movie 'way, way, ahead of its time'? This was made in 1994, not 1924. The sci-fi/fantasy genre was already filled with tons of time/space travel stories. Stargate is good, but it is hardly revolutionary in any way whatsoever.
@@djhenyo in the Spinoff series, Stargate SG-1, turns out while doing experiments on the gate in 1945, they Did indeed guess the Seventh Symbol and Activated the Stargate, but it resulted in one of the scientists going missing and the gate being Shelved for several decades until the Abydos mission and when the SGC rediscovered the Tapes it was recorded with, they sent SG-1 on a mission to that address to Rescue or Recover Doctor Littlefield’s Body … Spoilers, He was Alive!
@@Kreachie I figured that some things in the movie would be ret-conned for the TV show as is standard practice, but that particular example is one of the worst ways to do it. James Spader's entire justification for being involved with Stargate was the supposed need to find the seventh symbol. Later, in the series, it is revealed they already knew the last symbol, and so the main and most-likeable character in the movie was completely unnecessary from the start?
I'm not saying that SG-1 was bad. I watched some episodes back during the original run and enjoyed it, but that episode you just mentioned seems incongruous to the plot of the source material to the point of invalidation. They already knew the seventh symbol for almost 50 years and then hired James Spader's character to...translate it again? I don't understand.
I freaking love how the show was able to capture this.
It really feels like they are in Cheyenne mountain before the SGC program was fully running.
I love Stargate so much.
The TV series was really made with love and an eye for detail. They started following the movie closely, but also managed to expand it into something wholly their own.
Colorado Springs really needs to build a Stargate.
@@NotMykl Actually, in the Cheyenne Mt. facility there is a door marked "Stargate Access."
The door opens onto the janitor's closet. Those boys DO have a sense of humor.
Back when acting was more important then special effect this is an instant classic!!!!
Has it really been that long. I loved this movie, especially when the Stargate first activated.
One of the best scenes in this film, the potential is tremendous!
so i have this idea, we could make a tv show around this. All you have to do is find a new portal once a week, and go through encounter a variety of pple and it could work and have a budget. Be like scyfy fantasy island.
@@reneprovosty7032 Fantastic idea! We could probably do two or three shows off of it.
It looks like they recycled this set and used it in Stranger Things.
@@reneprovosty7032 hear me out. You can get rid of the symbols and dialing. Just put a gate in every star system. Then create a hub space where all the gate are accessible. You can call this hub space The Expanse. 😉
@@reneprovosty7032 Yeah, it was called "Time Tunnel" and was created by "The Master Of Disaster" Irwin Allen in 1966. Even though it only lasted one season, as 9 year old boy, I absolutely loved it.
Nearly 30 years on & STILL one of the greatest scenes in a SciFi Movie!
That Music always makes the hair on my neck stand up...EVERYTIME!!
Ya for sure David Arnold hit it out of the park, a very recognisable theme.
The pen falling out of the guys mouth is a very nice touch
My favorite scene of any of the thousands of movies I've seen. The innocent wonder on Daniels face when the gate opens. It's so simple, but he shows the raw wonder of his life's work. Amazon job.
And it’s almost as sweet when he decides to stay back and not go home with his team!
Now is the perfect time for more Stargate. A new series on Prime or Sci-Fy the world needs more Stargate now
Imagine a sequal but let it take place at the other pyramids around the world and connect it to other civilisations in space, would male sense cos they could connect em just by their position on the earth , like all these sites around the world are in a 50 mile wide circle around the earth (which is also a terrifying fact😳) and could be tweaked to bring things like humanity's past maybe having civilisations that are lost to us because they simply just left😲 and humanity is actually spread out across the universe already.
Bring spader back (actually I'm thinking he stayed behind? But I can't remember 😕) but let's say someone figured all this out like the son or daughter of the old lady but are ridiculed because the Stargate was so secret nobody else knew😳😳.
Eek
Or a channel that doesn't cost a fortune for only about 2 things worth watching.
@@dogwalker666 Pluto TV
@@brandonreed09 good point I keep forgetting them.
Amazon now owns MGM, but for some reason you still have to pay to watch the MGM channel even with Amazon Prime.
One of the most epic moments in sci fi.
...
For entertainment value it was nice. And I loved the movie. Although even when it came out I found it dumb that they couldn't brute force every combination. It isn't exactly a complicated system to figure out.
@@chrisaguirre5988 Season 1 Episode 11 "The Torment of Tantalus" they do just that and brute forced the dialing code and sent a man through but he couldn't return so they kept it secret.
Still gives me goosbumps!
@@chrisaguirre5988 On the Children of the Gods episode of SG1 Sam discovers that the coordinates are not enough due to the solar systems drifting through space over time. Our own solar system drifts through space around the Milky Way too. The DHD automatically calculates the new positions of the planets but the homebrew DHD of Earth requires manual calibration. This is one of the little details that makes the sense of discovery throughout the show so captivating until the end of its run.
The score during this scene did a fantastic job of setting the mood as the Stargate began dialing in the symbols and you could just see everyone of the staff members imaginations running wild with all the possibilities of what they might find on the other side of the portal.
So true. The sound track for this movie was a big part of it's success.
Yes, the music added so much.
Still David Arnolds finest work imho, and indeed his very first big hollywood soundtrack :D
or what could come through
I still get tingles hearing it. One of the greatest music scores ever.
This level of originality is precisely why modern films fall far short of a good standard.
Daniel Jackson asking "...what device?" just chokes me up man.
This movie with its story primarily is more innovative and engaging than most movies nowadays. The 90s was definitely the last great decade.
The last great decade indeed!!
And in the '90s, people were saying exactly the same thing about the '80s or the '70s. People always say things like that.
@David Lamb nobody saying that about 2000s lol
@@lament666 and noone ever will!
@@lament666 they really aren't 😂
The concept of traveling across the galaxy without a spaceship is a rare thing to find in all of science fiction. One of the oldest stories using a form of that concept was created by Edgar Rice Burroughs with his John Carter of Mars series.
I could recommend "The Silence Warriors" by Pierre Bordage, a SF trilogy where you have monks able to teleport themselves on other planets, i only hope it has been translated and distributed in english countries.
JC travelled through time as well...the Barsoom he travelled to is millions of years in our past. Dejah Thoris tells him that the Earth was regularly observed by them, but there were no humans there, just huge lumbering creatures (the implication being that they observed dinosaurs or long extinct mega-fauna).
ERBs Mars and Venus were brimming with life, as was our hollow Earth apparently - His version of our world and solar system was lively to say the least!
And of course "tessering" from "A Wrinkle in Time"!
In the later Enderverse books they could.
If your budget is low to make miniature space crafts portal is the best plot device.
Such a sci-fi classic, despite what some critics might say. The effects still hold up today, great cast, brilliant soundtrack
Love the fact that Sam has connected the dots, dismiss that non-sense translation of the previous linguist/anthropologist.
Reminds me of the S.E.T.I. scene in Arrival - when Amy Adams character told the military representative to ask the other linguist what his interpretation/translation of a specific text was.
The soundtrack in this scene was beautiful.
I LOVE THIS MOVIE ❤🎉😊🍿 🎥
Same
it's very john williams -esque
It’s like if you combine John Williams and Jerry Goldsmith.
Or you can just check out the actual score by David Arnold which is absolutely beautiful.
As a kid I loved stargate.
I loved watching the multiple series when they came out.
I love this, and I want to see more stargate stories.
Do you mean like the best of all of them, Stargate Universe? What a shame it was cancelled so soon.
@RiseUpAC I disagree. They seemed to have turned the show into a nihilistic soap opera that we now see in 99% of current TV.
Give me the campy, light hearted, funny SG1 anytime.
@@Miller54K I liked SG1 and Atlantis more than Universe.
I liked it too and would like to see some more of that story as well.
All these things are real. It's not a story
@@shahbajsiddique1196 lol
A classic movie that helped bring around a classic tv show that went for 10 seasons and two spinoffs
Still have goosebumps 20 years later
Not many recent movies do that
This scene and Contact, when Ellie hears the signal, are 2 of the greatest scenes in SciFi history.
I also loved the scene where Ellie was sitting in The Machine, with unimaginable energy flowing around her, immersed in technology she didn't understand, not knowing if all of the details of such a vast undertaking were completed correctly, with her entire world shaking itself apart with no idea of what was going to transpire, scared to death, repeatedly saying, "Good to go. I'm good to go." She was going even if it killed her. Such a powerful scene.
@@Liberty4Ever and all she has to show for it is .....18 hours of static on video tape.......
Contact? Yeah...sure... 🤣
@@marcteenhc9793 💩🤡
It's was a time when walking into a cinema is like walking into a magical kingdom...
Every now and then--at least when I was younger--a movie comes along that captures my imagination. Stargate was one of those. I dreamed of travelling through a stargate and finding an alien world and a lost civilization. I never get tired of this scene, and the scene where they go through. In fact, this movie has a lot of great scenes.
the telephone is shaking the telephone is shaking!!!!
@@SaraMorgan-ym6ue My favorite part is the pencil drop. 😊
"The Stargate has to spin, it's round. Spinning is so much cooler than not spinning."
One of the best Sci-Fi series...inventive, imaginative, and totally entertaining!!
Except that it's not science fiction: it's fantasy, and no more realistic than Lord of the Rings. Teleportation, wormholes, time travel, telepathy, faster-than-light travel -- sorry, but they're all simply a fantasy, our modern world's equivalent of the Greek and Norse myths of gods and heroes.
@@DieFlabbergast Hence the "fiction" part.
@@DieFlabbergast bravo dude, you're a genius. You've used a paragraph to show you don't understand what genre the movie is in.
@@DieFlabbergast What are you talking about? There is a difference between Fantasy and Science Fiction. Sci Fi requires being grounded in some form of science (even science that doesn't exist yet but the principles exist today). Fantasy is a free for all where anything goes. There could be zero science in a fantasy world or magically based. You mentioned things like time travel, wormholes, etc. Those are based on science. Just like decades ago, the concept of computers in your pockets was considered fantasy, or going to Mars.
@@DieFlabbergast Except on paper they might work, also quantum physics is yet to discover... what you talk about is the past which can be examined, and we can state that it did not happen - maybe in other dimensions, who knows -, while scifi is about the future possibilities, when our knowledge evolves. However I agree that finding a stargate is rather a fantasy part of the movie, but how it works, could be scifi.
An iconic scene. The concept that was expanded in to the tv show was brilliant. You didn't need ships...you just stepped through the gate and you were on another world (well yes, one that looked like the area around Vancouver but you know what I mean). You had an adventure and came back, ready to go out again. The sky was the limit. And you had the standard formula in those days...the background mythos of the Stargate and the Ancients were sometimes featured, and then you had the adventure shows, On the X Files, they called it MOTW-- or Monster Of The Week in their format.
But then the usual happened... budget constraints and location shooting is expensive, So they focused more on ships because I guess studio shooting on standing sets is a lot cheaper. The formula changed to more arc driven stories and the Stargate basically became public transportation in the end. It was much more exciting (I guess) to be out hopping galaxies in ships...ironic, because that what made Stargate different in the first place...
To an extent the stargate becoming public transport made narrative sense. It stopped being a strange and alien thing, it became the thing they used to get about for the big plots, and as their military might and ability to protect themselves improved, it again makes sense that the emphasis of the stargate itself is pushed back.
Ships were part of the story from the beginning... Ra has one.
Yeah, the Gate made the story unique. But there had to forward progress in the overall storyline or else you're just spinning your wheels on unrelated short stories.
That is on par with seeing the Millennium Falcon going to lightspeed the first time. Such a mind blowing movie.
I loved that Stargate was a huge influence for No Man's Sky. They use the SG's activation animation and it makes me remember Stargate every time I travel to a galaxy in NMS.
James Spader was awesome in this. This is my favourite James Spader performance. Its a shame that He hates his part in the star gate movie with a passion.
I never knew he hated the part. I wonder why he took such a dislike to this. I agree with you he was totally awsome in this
@@williambinions4205 Cause science fiction isn't realllllll art
Remember when movies were still capable of producing awe? When I saw this in the theater, when that last chevron locked and the gate activated the entire theater was just staring in amazement.
Every time I watch this movie I still get the chills. Timeless masterpiece
engage!!!
Did you jack it?
This movie ignited my love for Sci-fi. I still have the movie ticket - March 31, 1995, 2:30pm, Row 3, seat 5 at the UFA-Palast Bremen, Germany - three weeks after it launched. I was 12, just old enough to see the movie, and my dad took me. The gate activation and the trip through the gate started a life-long fascination with other worlds, dimensional travel, portals, gates, ftl and what-have-you. The 90s were great.
Decades of working on the machine, no idea how to figure it out, and he walks in and solves it in 3 seconds.
No wonder Raymond Reddington joined the armed forces - they really needed him.
Alien and Stargate are classic movies no modern CGI can replace
My childhood was horrible, not as extremely bad as some but bad. One of the VERY few fond memories I have of my father is seeing this in the cinema with him, and Jurassic Park. I was and still am a science nerd but this movie was just pure magic and wonder. Looking back it's hard to recognize the world now from then.
Lol I read your comment thinking I had written it. The two movies that had the biggest impact at the cinema when I was 7 and 8 were Jurassic park and stargate. I believed everything I saw because I believed the science behind it haha.
@DCDSG dude same as me love both movies!
Everything in this movie looks realistic. Not the science, ofc, but how the characters play, their interactions.
Even more interesting is how exquisitely they assembled the team for the series. They followed the humor, the chemistry, I just love it all.
10 + 5 full seasons and spin off movies. It all started here, Brad took it to the galaxies.
Except how Daniel Jackson is an archaeologist who in this one clip alone demonstrates expert understanding of astronomy, maths, linguistics and theology.
@@dyent Well linguistics and theology can go hand in hand with archaeology, especially when dealing with ancient cultures and the religions that surround them and their artifacts. Since his ideas of the pyramids being landing platforms for ancient ships is what got him laughed out of academia, that suggests he did a bit of studying in astronomy.
@@Krahazik "Since his ideas of the pyramids being landing platforms for ancient ships is what got him laughed out of academia"
Actually that is never once presented in the film - at least not the theatrical version anyway.
All he states at the academic presentation is that the pyramids predated the 4th dynasty, and that he had found evidence of a writing system far older than that of the dynastic Egyptians.
The point that he believed the pyramids to be landing platforms came in the series - likely as a result of pseudo archaeology media released in the intervening time.
Can you imagine witnessing this? Knowing the implications of what it means for Humanity? The small detail of Mitch dropping the pencil is very accurate.
There's something about this movie that just hits different. The effects, the sets, the music, the story...the whole atmosphere of it.
Maybe because certain things in the film are actually based on truth.
it's because it's actually used giant sets and had worked out lighting
It's not a CGI overdose.
One of the best science fiction movies ever made.
James Spader was always a monumentally underrated actor.
One of the last original ideas to hit theaters and television. An absolute classic.
The author came up with a great Sci-fi idea on this one.
when she says "he did it" there is something about that line... this movie is only second to Interstellar.. if I could watch this again for the first time.. ohh my.. what an incredible film..
It was a good moment. They never knew what to do, but Daniel Jackson was able to figure out a basic procedure. Bring military with at least 1 scientist with combat gear for unexpected stuff.
Kudos to the sound track composer.. still giving me chills.
The great David Arnold. He collaborated with Roland Emmerich a lot, including Independence Day and Godzilla.
Such a great movie, with great cast. I love James Spaders character.. James is a boss actor imo..
This reminds of dialing a rotary phone. The finger pushing a digit, moving around, pushing another digit, and so on.
That was the main inspiration ! And it's also why later the TV show called the control panel a Dial Home Device.
I was there 3000 jears ago
@@vaniellys also In i think it was Atlantis they make the comparison of that gate and the sgc gate as a rotary/binary phone to a digital one
An incredible film that gave rise to one of the most successful sci-fi series.
"Most successful" is downplaying its impact. I don't care about success, to me it will always be one of the best TV shows! (SG-1)
@@jebatman756 Always loved Sg1 but i love Atlantis... and McKay is my favourite character... petty but a genious... and demented brave sometimes.
@@neddhu Atlantis was good, but it lost the connection to mythology and Earth's cultures that SG-1 had. Other than the Genii and the Travelers, most humans were just the same random backwards peasants living in a British Columbian type of biome.
30years and still one of the coolest effects
Best series ever made, no one can’t pass this series. ❤ ALL STAR GATES SERİES ❤
That's how I'll always think of James Spader. I didn't even recognize him in later shows (though I don't watch much TV any more). His appearance older was such a shock (I didn't age, of course- lol).
I always felt the best sci-movies spend a lot of time in the discovery phase solving problems and exploring characters before any action starts.
God I love this franchise. I want more, and I'm sure I'm not alone. No remakes, no reboots, just continuation. MOAR CANON!
The fact that I'm watching a recorded video in the year 2024 within a particular space-time-frame from the year 1994 on a smartphone manufactured in 2015... blows my mind. It's like I'm looking into a keyhole that crosses multi dimensions of spacetime.
We NEED more Stargate movies and series.
5:21 That was simply breathtaking.
The characters would agree with you.
Crazy how red went to a different planet before becoming the most dangerous criminal on the blacklist
This was the Best Scifi Movie of the 20th Century 😊❤ !
The sound effects and music make this movie spectacular.
This Movie SHOCKED Me!!!!
I almost cried, when 'Jackson' turned around, after stepping into the "StarGate" and proceeded forward outside the temple!
"I KNEW IT!!" - Jackson
I can't think of too many movies today that are as engrossing as this was in the theater.
90s movies just had a special magic to them that we nolonger process. The music score is lit!
And thus began the greatest series of shows ever.
This is...... and ALWAYS will be...... one of my FAVORITE movies of ALL TIME!!!!!👍👍👍👍👍👍
In this Stargate movie EVERYTHING fits: The incredible story, the cinematographic set-up, the "science", technique, special effects, the actors and last but not least, the incredibly beautiful music!!!!!🤩
There are rare times in cinema when cinematography, dialogue, acting and score come together to create pure magic. Theses scenes in Stargate represent one of these magical moments.