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Author: boris badenov
Date: Jun 25, 2008 13:37

also sprach supermann...

Welcome to the existential nightmare that is known to most as
STARGATE. Stargate was a PG-13 sci-fi epic that was released in the
summer of 1994 to lack-luster reviews, but some popular acclaim. The
many...
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Re: Stargate Movie(1994): reactionary template or bad flic?         


Author: boris badenov
Date: Jun 25, 2008 13:47

Gerald Meazell swbell.net> wrote in message 3E9D9502.3010009@swbell.net>...
> supermann wrote:
> [snip]
> (Ignoring the advice not to respond to you)
> C'mon! The system lords are an evil, corrupt regime. They are cruel to
> their enemies and keep their subjects under their collective boot.
> Killing Ra was the best thing that could happen to the people of
> Abodos. The O'Neil character in the movie was following orders. Go see
> if their is a threat, use the nuke if you find one. A better order
> might have been: if you find a threat, come back and we'll rebury the
> gate. Of course, that would not have made for an exciting climax to the
> movie. Instead of using the rings to send the bomb to Ra's ship, O'Neil
> and Co. come back and assign a bunch of privates the job of digging a hole.
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Author: boris badenov
Date: Jun 25, 2008 13:54

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From: "Eva" ukonline.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:25:13 +0100
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"Andrew Halliwell" ponder.sky.com> wrote in message

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> supermann yahoo.com> wrote:
>> OK, this guy's fucked up on something...will somebody tell me what the
>> hell he's talking about? What does he mean by "ascended"?
> Might I recommend you actually WATCH the show?
> You might begin to have a CLUE then.

I don't think he's made it past the movie. Just as well; imagine all
the
questionable deeds he would find in the show! :-))
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Re: Stargate Movie(1994): reactionary template or bad flic?         


Author: John
Date: Jun 25, 2008 14:12

boris badenov wrote:
>
> I am the descendant of africans whose continent was over-run by
> Col. Jack O'Niells, by the boatloads, over the pass three
> centuries....so what I saw in Stargate came as little ontological
> surprise to me. Sometimes an animal can't help but reveal itself.

What part of Africa? Would it be a part where powerful community (tribe)
members sold citizens to the white traders? Or is that a white myth?
> So I ask you again, "What did O'Niel do on Abbydos that you
> consider "legal"?

Nothing whatsoever. He interfered with another civilization. He presumed
his culture was superior. He screwed up. I'd like to have seen the movie
end with all the gaters dead and dried up on the desert, blown away in a
slow motion panorama of the planet as it blossomed into greater success.
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Re: Stargate Movie(1994): reactionary template or bad flic?         


Author: Citizen Jimserac
Date: Jun 25, 2008 15:07

On Jun 25, 4:37 pm, boris badenov yahoo.com> wrote:
> also sprach supermann...
>
> Welcome to the existential nightmare that is known to most as
> STARGATE. Stargate was a PG-13 sci-fi epic that was released in the
> summer of 1994 to lack-luster reviews, but some popular acclaim. The
> many critics that panned this film concentrated on what they believed
> were plotholes and sub-standard creative abilities on the part of the
> script. Stargate, they belived, was a badly written story, and with
> their strict time restraints in viewing new releases, the critics
> were
> forced(?) to move on to the next lemon without giving Stargate a more
> careful look. The general audience did more or less the same. That
> had
> turned out to be an earth-shattering mistake.
> The official synopsis is as follows: A discredited Egyptologist,
> Daniel Jackson (played by James Spader), decyphers the function of an
> ancient mechanical portal, long buried in the sands of Giza. Upon
> which, the air force dispatches a team of "military specialists" to
> utilize the portal to transport themselves halfway across the ...
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Author: boris badenov
Date: Jun 26, 2008 13:02

On Jun 25, 6:07 pm, Citizen Jimserac gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 25, 4:37 pm, boris badenov yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> also sprachsupermann...
>
>>  Welcome to the existential nightmare that is known to most as
>>STARGATE.Stargatewas a PG-13 sci-fi epic that was released in the
>> summer of 1994 to lack-luster reviews, but some popular acclaim. The
>> many critics that panned this film concentrated on what they believed
>> were plotholes and sub-standard creative abilities on the part of the
>> script.Stargate, they belived, was a badly written story, and with
>> their strict time restraints in viewing new releases, the critics
>> were
>> forced(?) to move on to the next lemon without givingStargatea more
>> careful look. The general audience did more or less the same. That
>> had
>> turned out to be an earth-shattering mistake.
>>   The official synopsis is as follows: A discredited Egyptologist,
>> Daniel Jackson (played by James Spader), decyphers the function of an
>> ancient mechanical portal, long buried in the sands of Giza. Upon ...
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Re: Stargate Movie(1994): reactionary template or bad flic?         


Author: Andrew Halliwell
Date: Jun 26, 2008 13:17

boris badenov yahoo.com> wrote:
> You, sir, are a gentleman. I have been at my wits end about the
> greater implications of being able to produce a film as socially
> destructive as this and not have its underlying sentiments rise to the
> level of cognacy in the audience. My biggest problem is whom I had
> chose to argue this point with. Those mindless snots over at
> "alt.tv.stargate-sg1"

Exqueeze me?
And you are?
Don't recall you're ever having posted here before anyway.

have a lot more wrong with them than just their
> spelling abilities. Indeed, it was their over-reliance on their
> "apologetics" that tipped me off that they're something other than
> simple fans of the tv show.
> You may find some of their arguements entertaining. I am all but
> done with them...
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Re: Stargate Movie(1994): reactionary template or bad flic?         


Author: monte
Date: Jul 11, 2008 19:11

On Jun 26, 4:02 pm, boris badenov yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Jun 25, 6:07 pm, Citizen Jimserac gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Jun 25, 4:37 pm, boris badenov yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>> also sprachsupermann...
>
>>> Welcome to the existential nightmare that is known to most as
>>>STARGATE.Stargate was a PG-13 sci-fi epic that was released in the
>>> summer of 1994 to lack-luster reviews, but some popular acclaim. The
>>> many critics that panned this film concentrated on what they believed
>>> were plotholes and sub-standard creative abilities on the part of the
>>> script. Stargate , they belived, was a badly written story, and with
>>> their strict time restraints in viewing new releases, the critics
>>> were
>>> forced(?) to move on to the next lemon without giving Stargate a more
>>> careful look. The general audience did more or less the same. That
>>> had
>>> turned out to be an earth-shattering mistake.
>>> The official synopsis is as follows: A discredited Egyptologist, ...
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Re: Stargate Movie(1994): reactionary template or bad flic?         


Author: -Phil Clemence
Date: Jul 30, 2008 15:34

"John" wrote in message
news:juSdnTyyl8wsKf_VnZ2dnUVZ_uadnZ2d@supernews.com...
| boris badenov wrote:
| >
| > I am the descendant of africans whose continent was over-run by
| > Col. Jack O'Niells, by the boatloads, over the pass three
| > centuries....so what I saw in Stargate came as little ontological
| > surprise to me. Sometimes an animal can't help but reveal itself.
|
| What part of Africa? Would it be a part where powerful community (tribe)
| members sold citizens to the white traders? Or is that a white myth?
|
| > So I ask you again, "What did O'Niel do on Abbydos that you
| > consider "legal"?
|
| Nothing whatsoever. He interfered with another civilization. He presumed
| his culture was superior. He screwed up. I'd like to have seen the movie
| end with all the gaters dead and dried up on the desert, blown away in a
| slow motion panorama of the planet as it blossomed into greater success.
| ...
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Author: -Phil Clemence
Date: Jul 30, 2008 15:40

| > > just another fantasy genre movie.
| >
| > > Citizen Jimserac
| >
| > You, sir, are a gentleman. I have been at my wits end about the
| > greater implications of being able to produce a film as socially
| > destructive as this and not have its underlying sentiments rise to the
| > level of cognacy in the audience. My biggest problem is whom I had
| > chose to argue this point with. Those mindless snots over at
| > "alt.tv.stargate-sg1" have a lot more wrong with them than just their
| > spelling abilities. Indeed, it was their over-reliance on their
| > "apologetics" that tipped me off that they're something other than
| > simple fans of the tv show.
| > You may find some of their arguements entertaining. I am all but
| > done with them...
| >
| > supermann
|
| 'Ey Super-bro
| ...
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