Bad Movies: Stargate

Things I thought while watching Stargate last night:

-If the Stargate was found in Egypt by an Englishman, How did it end up in American hands?

-When Kurt Russell’s character is informed that he is being reactivated while sitting in his son’s room holding a gun, why didn’t the soldiers bother to ask him if he was feeling alright?

-If Kurt Russell was so suicidal, How did he manage to get over his grief and report for duty fully committed by the next scene? Wouldn’t it have made more sense for him to have been committed in the other sense of the word?

-When they reach the other planet, why is the tribe they first meet portrayed as middle eastern stereotypes? That and the score both appear to have been ripped off from Lawrence of Arabia.

-Speaking of rip-offs, Wasn’t the mutli-moon world used in Star Wars?

-Who the hell let French Stewart into the military?

-Why did we choose to send a monkey into space before humans, but have no problem sending a group of seemingly ordinary military members to an unknown star system almost overnight without any way to return?

-How much did Kurt Russell get paid to sport that hair cut…and cover it with that beret?

-Isn’t Ra’s back-story essentially the same as Superman‘s?

-Hey!, There’s Academy Award nominee Djimon Hounsou. I wonder why he choose only to be credited as Djimon in this instead of by his full name?

-Ra isn’t a very scary looking villain. He looks more like a crazy ex-girlfriend. (Maybe that is pretty scary)

-Why is Roland Emmerich still allowed to make movies? Someone take the camera away already!

-Looks like Emmerich re-used the space ships in Independence Day and the costume designs for 10,000 B.C.

-Kurt Russell may not have destroyed Stargate, but Stargate seemed to destroy Kurt Russell’s career.