Stargate
An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra.
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"The movie that started the whole Stargate franchise, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe. The story is very intriguing and the whole ring concept introduced is extremely fascinating. Jack O'Neill (Kurt Russell) and Daniel Jackson (James Spader) as the two leads work really fine together. Th effects might not live up to today's standard but much better than other 90s movie and the concept and this whole idea behind the Stargate is interested and explored more deeply in the shows. The villain Ra (Jaye Davidson) also show a lot of promise early in the movie but unfor..."
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James Spader found Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich's original script to be awful, and even had issues with the revised version. According to Devlin, Spader's main problem was with the dialogue: "There was one day where he wouldn't come out of his trailer until we rewrote the scenes. Kurt Russell got very upset with him. He burst into his trailer and said 'What are you doing?' And James said, 'Come on, admit it. The dialogue is horrible.' Russell said, 'Of course, it's horrible. That's why they pay you a million dollars. If it was brilliant, you'd do it for free.'" Devlin said that things gradually improved: "The movie always had a [...] wink to all the science fiction fans about what we were trying to do and the kinds of movies we were referencing. Once they started to understand the tone, they started to really get it. When the movie was finished, both actors were really pleased with it. They were really happy, but I think it just took them a while to get where we were going with it."
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An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra.