Peter’s
picks with comics and flicks
2/17/14
This month’s
pick: STARGATE
Released in
the year: 1994
Directed by:
Roland Emmerich
Starring:
Kurt Russell and James Spader
The story is
about James Spader portraying a nerdy Egyptian Cultural researcher who has been
hired by the U.S. Air Force to decrypt the mysterious hieroglyphs on a ring
like portal called a Stargate and Kurt Russell portraying a serious Air Force
colonel who is ordered to lead a military team into the Stargate and destroy it
if it poses as a threat.
When Spader, Russell and the other
military personnel enter the Stargate, they arrive on a desert planet where
tribes of ancient humans work as slaves to alien possessed humans disguised as the
Egyptian gods who forbid reading and writing due to a revolt back on Earth
centuries ago. It is then that Spader and Russell help lead a revolution
against the godlike human/aliens and win. At the end, spader’s character
chooses to stay on the planet while Russell goes through the Stargate to back
Earth.
In my
opinion, I think Stargate is the coolest science fiction film of all time. It’s
premise and plot is interesting and engaging, it’s characters are funny and
likeable, and above all else, it’s probably one of the most realistic sci-fi
movies of all time and that’s really saying something. It shows aspects from
the classic 1968 book, “Chariots of the Gods” by Enrich von Danikken, in which
aliens helped the humans with building the Egyptian pyramids and were worshiped
as gods. While there has also been a movie made in 1970 based off this book,
Stargate shows it well through groundbreaking special effects and interesting
plot. Ronald Emmerich and Dean Devlin are the kings of 1990’s science fiction
movies (or they were, at least until 1998, when they remade Godzilla). The
whole movie is an amazing spectacle that basically not only unlocked a
franchise… but a universe as well.
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