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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: Blu-ray
Brand: Lions Gate
EAN: 0012236191551
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Subtitled
Item Dimensions: 300
Label: Lions Gate
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
MPN: LGEBR19155
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 29, 2006
Running Time: 128 minutes
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: 1994

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 01/08/2008 Run time: 21 minutes Rating: R

Amazon.com:
Before they unleashed the idiotic mayhem of Independence Day and Godzilla, the idea-stealing team of director Roland Emmerich and producer-screenwriter Dean Devlin concocted this hokey hit about the discovery of an ancient portal capable of zipping travelers to "the other side of the known universe." James Spader plays the Egyptologist who successfully translates the Stargate's hieroglyphic code, and then joins a hawkish military unit (led by Kurt Russell) on a reconnaissance mission to see what's on the other side. They arrive on a desert world with cultural (and apparently supernatural) ties to Earth's ancient Egypt, where the sun god Ra (played by Jaye Davidson from The Crying Game) rules a population of slaves with armored minions and startlingly advanced technology. After being warmly welcomed into the slave camp, the earthlings encourage and support a rebellion, and while Russell threatens to blow up the Stargate to prevent its use by enemy forces, the movie collapses into a senseless series of action scenes and grandiose explosions. It's all pretty ridiculous, but Stargate found a large and appreciative audience, spawned a cable-TV series, and continues to attract science fiction fans who are more than willing to forgive its considerable faults. --Jeff Shannon




Rating: - Bluray conversion is good but extended cut is not
Stargate is one of my favorite sci-fi films. Unfortunately, the movie studio had to mess it up with their 'improved' extented cut version. When will the movie studios will ever learn that the real director's cut is the version that they chose to show at our movie theaters? 99% of the time the theatrical version will be better than any other versions that they will introduce later. In this extented cut version, it includes extra scenes that did not need to be there, a few extra dialogues that ... Read More

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Rating: - Not the best bluray but the price was right
I wasn't too happy with the quality of the movie as others have said but then again I believe it was filmed in 1994 and wasn't expecting a full 1080p transfer to look that great. And I got this movie for $9.99 which I figure is a few bucks more than the dvd costs right now so it can't hurt. Other than that the movie itself is rather great; I have seen all of SG-1, Atlantis, and the two new Stargate movies but never the original.

The subtitles on the movie are not defective they are just ... Read More

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Rating: - What happened to the 1080p
I cannot get the movie to play in 1080p as advertised all over the box. I have an HDMI cable between my Blu-ray player and my plasma, but it continually says, 480p. Any suggested or did I get duped?

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Rating: - Stargate Blu-Ray
Like other reviewers, I love the movie and already had it on dvd, but was VERY disappointed with the Blu-Ray transfer. When the scenes are bright (e.g., in the desert), the picture is excellent. But darker scenes are horrible. Very grainy. I'm not even sure grainy is the right word. There's snow on the picture like I'm receiving it with an antenna and the signal is weak. But then, switch to a brighter scene and we're back to crispy again. I can't figure out what went wrong. Was the original film poor ... Read More

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Rating: - Terrible Picture Quality for Blu-ray
I bought the blu-ray edition of the movie and was blown-away at how horrible the picture looked. I'm not sure how they transferred the film to digital but the blu-ray looks worse than DVD copies of the film I've seen. You'll be looking at the TV wondering if its on the fritz becuase there's so much snow and artifacts in the picture - and no I don't mean archeological artifacts either. Avoid the blu-ray version!

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