by Roland Emmerich & Mario Kassar
ultimate director's cut > 02:09:55
aspect ratio > 2.35:1 anamorphic
premiere > 28/10/1994 USA
budget > $55 million
box office > $196.6 million
Imagine Indiana Jones and Star Wars in the same universe and you get Stargate, Roland Emmerich's first foray into big budget sci-fi territory and his first certified blockbuster hit. Making a 300% return on investment it gave Emmerich a lot of room to expand on his apocalyptic visions of the future in Independence Day, establishing himself as Hollywood's very own Master of Disaster.
This movie, dare I say film, always held a special place in my heart and is one of my all time favorite sci-fi universes to inhabit. Alien technology has traditionally been linked to ancient Egypt and the pyramids and this storyline makes full use of that premise, much to my personal delight. It was Immanuel Velikovski's "Earth in upheaval", Erich von Däniken's "Chariots of the gods" and later Graham Hancock's "Fingerprints of the gods" that first exposed me to these bizarre theories about highly advanced civilizations that flourished in the distant past and left traces everywhere. According to some it's actually one of mainstream science's primary objectives to study and archive this forbidden archeology/technology and keep it hidden from the masses. Mr. von Däniken appeared on Coast to Coast not too long ago and he was treated like royalty by George Noory. He also tends to be more factual and less ideological than Zachariah Sitchin, who seems quite obsessed with the Anunaki and their obsession with gold for some reason. (Ancient Aliens Syndrome > I'm not saying it's aliens, but it's definitely aliens)
With art imitating life and vice versa, one fact that seems fiction to most is truth is usually stranger than fiction and I'm watching it dubbed in German to avoid hardcoded subtitles so some of that truth may get diluted or lost in translation altogether...
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