The Reel Rejects - STARGATE (1994) MOVIE REACTION!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

Episode Date: June 23, 2024

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We even partner with them, and that app is Rocket Money. More on them after the reaction people. And now, without further ado, let's go through the Stargate. all right that was stargate before we get into our thoughts want you good people to note if you want to dress better than uh an alien trapped in another civilization check out reject nation shop dot com for all your reject nation merch we appreciate it especially to keep this channel going and if you're hearing this on apple and spotify please hit likes and stuff and we appreciate you tuning in there we're about to dive into our thoughts on 1994 stargate what did you think andrew i really enjoyed it uh i think we mentioned it quite a few times. I'm surprised this isn't talked about more, especially not only just in Roll in Emory's filmography. In sci-fi in movies. Yeah, like I really enjoyed it. I just remember like you saying earlier, the poster. And obviously, I'm such a Kurt Russell fan in general, but the mystery that shrouded it, the story. And there's so much emotional depth to it with the

characters and the development as well. Like, there's just so many different layers about this film that I just appreciate. The visuals, the uprising of the rebellion and all that. There's just so many different things about this film that I appreciate, which we're going to go into all of it. But all on all, I really loved it. And I just love to with Kurt Russell's character, how he finally found purpose through the parental connection that he found with that one character. And obviously just helping the civilization, you know, get under from that dictatorship that they were dealing with. Yeah. And then also, too, with James Spader. He's an outcast. And I love that he found purpose as well in here. And it's just a great,

great film, great acting. Kurt Russell is so damn the man because of you, I'm not going to see him now. It's not so good. Right? Like you really, if time travel casting, there's certain ones like Michael J. Fox is Spider-Man. Kurt Russell is Captain America. There's certain ones where I'm like, man, if we had a time machine, Angela Bassett's storm. Oh my God. Yes. Almost today. But especially if you go back to the 90s. Yeah. What did you think of the film? I don't want to be hyperbolic. I grew up with Independence Day, and Independence Day is one of those movies

that is an every year on the 4th July, every, like, you've got to celebrate it's such a family film. Yes. I think this was almost that good. So I'm trying to make sure I'm not being like recency bias, but I don't know why this isn't with that in Roland Emmerich conversation.

I know a lot of people give Roland Emmerich Guff for whatever reason, like, oh, you know, maybe his later stuff isn't as good, but when you've got to, this foundation of work, I don't understand when I say, hey, I want Roland Emmerich on a blank film. That's not like, yeah, because this shows what he does with scope, what he does with practical effects, what he does with world building, what he does with setting a tone, what he does with balancing tones, what he does with fight sequences, what he does with, like, there was some

Ridley Scott epic stuff in there, you know? Like, it was Lawrence of a Spacey. Like, there was so much grandiose. And then like the, the actors getting beautiful arcs. I love, and I mentioned it a few times. I love that characters that were even slightly unlikable got just enough sprinkled in where it felt true to their characters, but you cared about them. Like, I don't want every character to be a lead. I don't want every character to be a good guy. I don't want every character to be just as affable as someone else because they don't really care about anyone. If you kind of care about everyone, they did a good job

making me care just enough about French Stewart. For sure. I mean, yeah, yeah, totally. I mean, we didn't get to, I know I made the alien reference, or aliens reference joke about like the whole military team kind of thing but i wouldn't say we got to spend as much time getting to know each and every single one of those characters like we did with uh some of those soldiers like in as aliens but like you said i still cared enough about these ones to the point where when the danger was impending like i actually did give a shit about these characters um so but yeah no i mean again the the scope of this and the imagery so damn and the practical effects everything was done so tightly and so impressively i just i i

I'm just so shocked that this film is not talked about more. And I think we talked about earlier as well that it's, I think there's two shows that came about from. Yeah, I'm looking at this Stargate SG-1. It looks like that guy clearly is playing spader character. Looks like this dude's like another Kurt Russell. And I've seen images of this show. I think it was on sci-fi when I was growing up.

I know nothing about it. But I hope it's as good. I mean, it went on for a long time. I remember like it played. It looks like there's a Stargate Atlantis. Oh, okay. Oh, Atlantis. There we go.

Oh yeah, like we kept talking about. Yes, yes. And I think another thing that I appreciated about this film, yeah, we were able to call a couple things out in terms of like... They kept taking lefts. But yeah, exactly. It was very unpredictable.

And again, it was just very shrouded and missed from like, what's going to happen next? And the things we called out were just good story beats. Yeah. The things weren't not plot points from other thing. Like, and that's okay. When you have an archetypal story, it's sometimes good to hit those beats.

I just like that they delivered so well that I felt like, oh, that earned it. Yeah. But 4.8. I mean, four and a half stars, 4.8,000 reviews. It clearly is loved by those who love it. I'm just wondering if this is like,

I'm wondering if this is a pre-2002 Comic-Con audience. Like people that loved what we love now that are in their 40s plus. I wonder if this is a huge market for people that like had print magazines. You know what I mean?

Because I used to like read Wizard and I used to like love sci-fi back when it was spelled correctly. Like all those things. I wonder if that's the market and we're just just too young to be around the people love Stargate because I really have not heard much conversation around this and it should have that. Yeah. No, absolutely. I'm going to say this is like one of my favorite Kurt Russell's and that's saying something. I'm also going to say like the performance was really reserved and stoic but it didn't

feel bored. For sure, for sure. And also too, like I love, we talked about it earlier as well in terms of like how lost he was and how, you know, saddeny was from what happened to his son. But again, there was no dialogue. It was all visual storytelling from his eyes, his body language. And you can just feel like the loss of his son. Obviously, we saw the picture so you could take a little bit of a guess there. But again, it was just the more of the stoic vibes and just his facial expressions, like just told the story right there. And so I'm like, that's powerful acting I thought from him right there because I felt it like down to, you know, down to my soul. I mean, he was, it was great acting by Kurt Russell. Again, he's a very multifaceted actor. He's got so much range. You can do so many

different types of roles. I mean, like, and at this time, too, he was really playing around with different types of roles as well. I mean, he was doing Captain Ron. He was doing Snake Bliskin and Escape from L.A. right around this time as well. So he's just, and he's got so, he's really a funny actor as well. He's got comedic shots.

Do you watch his interviews? I have not seen many Kurt Russell interviews. Kurt Russell's one of those guys that if I come across interview with him, I will watch it just because like I think he interviews well. And there's some recently where he jokes about like he loves turning on TV and just watching his own stuff as it casually pops on. And his kid, why it doesn't like seeing him.

so he's joking about how much Kurt Russell loves Kurt Russell and like you can see that joy even in the Stoic performance. You can see his reverence for acting and for filmmaking and that's something I've always admired about him. He really has a reverence for the craft and I love how in this era he could have just been

Snake Pliskin ten times. He could have just been and a lot of actors did and this was a beautiful kind of playing against type in type because the military element was there but the reluctance and all those like non-URA moments while he also played URA guys. Yeah, no, you're right. There were so many times where he could have just started shouting crazy and been that crazy military guy that we've seen so many times. Yeah, for sure.

This was the crack in the armor. And there was that one scene too where he was, again, we got that the start of that parental connection with the lighter and letting him try the cigarette. But then the gun moment like that was major PTSD again, visual storytelling without saying any lines of dialogue, which again, I thought the other two actors that nailed again, visual storytelling without lines of dialogue, James Spader and. And I forgot the actress's name. I don't know her name. Yeah, it's the first time I've seen. She was incredible, too. And again, you felt that chemistry. They hadn't even interacted even one time. And I instantly felt that chemistry just from the way they were looking at each other.

Great editing, too. Oh, yeah, for sure, too. Just want to get credit to the people who don't get love. I'm so with you. The editing was definitely very good, too. But the way they were looking at each other without any interactions of any kind. And also, too, I love that James Spader, again, just being an outcast and just being so socially awkward when they were offering her to him just like, oh, no, no, no, because many gentlemen,

or I don't want to call them gentlemen, but many perverts nowadays, like, given the opportunity with a woman that attractive, would have taken a different angle of what James Spader did. So I appreciated that about his character, that he didn't like, hey, okay. And I think I didn't articulate it well in the movie, but I also realized, then I was trying to phrase it. In the 90s, I think a guy just going for it wouldn't have been seen as wrong. Okay. I think in the 90s would have been like, yeah, I mean, guys got to do what a guy's got to do. There was a lot of that like, and I think that it was nice in society 30 years ago to have our lead be someone that was like, this isn't how I want this to go. Like, he cares

about her, but caring about her is not doing that. And I like that I think they would have shot this movie depending on the filmmaker is like, well, he's figuring the world out there. They could have made it like a ha ha, he's becoming local. And instead, they made it like a really long arc of love. I agree with you. It was a, uh, uh, in regards to the time, but I cared about him so much more that he didn't do that. Oh, 100%. They did the right thing. Yeah, yeah, for sure. I'm giving a credit as a, uh, ahead of its time.

Absolutely. Absolutely. Also, Spader, I usually think of as like a, a, a, not villain, but there's a maliciousness in his roles. And I really love seeing him as this like, gentle again, Atlantis, like the animated Atlantis, very much that kind of like nerdy, geeky, exploratory dweeb. They call them a dweeb. He's a dweeb. And I love that. Yeah. And I love that they took time to develop that relationship as well. It was just really well earned. And I also love seeing James Spader learn the language as well. I'm like, holy year. Yeah. I know Bill's like well earned as well. I'm like, dude's nailing it. Just great performances. And also too, like he was not a man of, I know I kind of joked around a little bit, just calling him a pacifist a little bit. But again, when like,

you know, there's a dictator, a dictator like that and like the moment calls for it, you got to like, you know, rise to the occasion. And I thought, again, just, it was really, again, solid writing. I'm like, I bought that his character would do that. And that moment also, too, the civilization that he come to respect and also the woman that he come to love, like, were in danger. I totally bought that happening right there. So that was great. Just overall, such a such an epic story and the score also it doesn't hurt to have david arnold giving you an epic score you call it with the bond yes yes he did he did uh i think he did some pierce brazen films he did one of my all-time favorite films casino royale yeah um so yeah david arnold again solid score rolling emrick

uh solid direction production designer i want to give some love the production design the sets the costumes costume design the even even the visual effects for the time mixed with the production design like yeah the the the the the look awesome and there were moments where it didn't but those ideas delivered especially 30 years ago i was so impressed at the visual aesthetic and it all felt intentional like i really liked that the blending of our world and this world didn't feel like two different movies i like that the color palette was kind of there i like that the film opened with all that ornate woodwork and that tied into where we landed i love that the language felt like oh yeah that's probably what that would sound like i don't speak you know any of this and i don't know anyone

who does, but I love that when you translated those images, it did feel of one world. And that's so unique and special. This movie really made something. I see why it spawned a show. I see why it spawned like the sci-fi undercurrent. It's so good. And again, I just, I loved all the character traits

too as well in the beginning of James Spader, especially when he got the crowd going out with like his theories and all that. And also, too, how he didn't give a shit. He's writing on their shockboard. Who knows? He's writing on the screen. Like, who knows how long it took them to come up with their theories on that chocolate where it's like, oh, no, this is wrong.

I love that choice. Yeah, but again, he's, he doesn't belong. This is not where he's supposed to be. And I think it was the proper choice to keep him there in the end. Love that. Yeah, so I think that was a proper set off. But, no, great film. And again, he likes the food.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, I forgot the line that it was, too, that they gave. Oh, the line that Eric Havari gave him for the, the chocolate. Yes. It was rot, rat to why or something like that. Something like that. But, yeah, no, great film. film. It just did great. The sci-fi, the blending of genres, just everything. Yes. What did you call it? Lawrence of Cyph? Lawrence of Spacia. I think that's the best way you could do. I got to imagine that was the pitch, too, for Roman. And this is 100%. When they looked at this like log line, like this is what you make with that budget. I'm curious what the budget was. I'm looking at that after. But this is one of my favorite discoveries in doing reactions on this channel. I've had some big ones like Robocop, which I kind of expected to be a big impact positive or negative. I've never seen it.

So I think Dred was one of my big ones. There's been some very impactful movies. This one might have been the most out of left field as far as seeing and a lot of exposure, knowing the least about it, and not hearing the legend. Robocop's legend, dread is legend. This being quiet except imagery and knowing you got a spinoff, but then out of nowhere being like so impactful. This is one of my like a sleeper hits on Rejects. You've just made a great point. There's definitely been some great films.

I mean, there's been a lot of great films. that I've experienced on this channel, but this one is one that I've just not heard a ton of buzz from so many people. I mean, like you said, Robocop and Dredd, like so many people speak so highly of those films. You know you're going to get something special. But Stargate, like, I just have not heard,

maybe I just, I don't know, but I just have not heard so many people praising this film. I loved it so much. Certain kind of nerd should have this poster up higher. Like, it's just, it's one of those things where I've seen it, it's funny having reverence for something knowing it's important and still being like, but more.

Yeah, yeah. Like if I ever do get the honor an opportunity to ever meet at Russell. I would definitely tell him how much I appreciated this. Yeah. I want to talk to Roland Emmerich about it. Oh, man, he doesn't get the respect he deserves anymore. Yeah. So, what do you think? Some trivias? Yeah. And also, can we look up that actress.

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That's rocketmoney.com slash rejects. Your bank account will thank you. Because I am fascinated. Her name is, I think this is a right, Shari, right? I think so. Her name is Mila Avatol. She was in. Oh, she's in Dead Man.

I've never seen that, but I always wanted to. I've never seen that. It's a Johnny Depp doint. She's in law and order, I guess. Oh, so she's still working then. Yeah, well, let's see. 2021. Yeah, so up to a couple years ago.

How many credits does she have? Sorry. Oh, no problem. 100 or 301. All right, 43 titles. They're doing credits. So she works. Just never broke into the

our mainstream. Maybe she was bigger in the 90s. I guess that makes sense, though, that we didn't really recognize her. Yeah. Hadn't, weren't too familiar with her. Dead Man was the next year. Okay.

That's, I believe that's a Jim Jarmouche film. With Johnny Depp. Is that Johnny Deh. Oh, okay. Yep, Jim Jermush. I think it's an early Jim Jermous. I mean, it's like him and Crispin Lover, dude. And Lance Hendrickson.

Yeah. I mean, maybe that can be a watch. I don't know if that's big enough, but we're down. Yeah, let us know. Let me show if you're a big dead man. I have the DVD. It's like sat on my show. It's one of those iconic covers that I've just been like, not today.

It's so funny. There's so many DVDs and Blu-rays I have that I've never seen. I've got like maybe one-tenth that I haven't seen. Nine-tenths I have, but that's still like 60 movies. So that's why when I get the comments, you've seen this movie. I own the movie. I haven't seen it. What's funny is there's eight of us.

So whenever people are like, oh, it looks like Rejects just haven't seen anything. It's no, it's two of eight of us. haven't seen it because there's so many movies. Like, I've missed some that obviously, like when John hadn't seen Fight Club, I was shocked, but I'm sure you guys are shocked. We haven't seen Stargate. Yeah, right. And also, too, a little bit about me, you might be the same and maybe some of the other

members. I mean, again, I've watched a lot of new movies too, but I love watching things I love multiple times. And I've seen like Robocop, for instance, I've seen that probably about 40 times. Yeah. So in regards to, oh, well, you haven't seen that one movie. It's because I've seen Robocop about. 40 or 50 times. I've seen what about Bob

a thousand times. That's probably why. I've probably seen Embrooge 20 times. There's people that haven't seen it in Bruges at all. Like there's just it's my favorite comedy. Yeah, he's told me a few times. I need to see that. My God. I will. Let us know in the comments that you need. If you want him to watch in Bruges, I think John doesn't see it either, I think. Oh, okay. I want to

see it. Anything Koi recommends, I want to see. Would you have similar taste? So I feel like I can comfortably recommend it. I have never seen a film that Koi is recommended that I have not enjoyed. So anything he recommends, I will watch. All right. So let's see. The early pre-release screenings of the movie were disastrous.

Wow. The percentage of the audience who liked the movie fell into the mid-30s. An executive producer, is it shocking. Mario Casar realized the main problem was that the plot made zero sense. His solution have the raw character's dialogue subtitled and made into information that presented a clear storyline. When these changes were made, the subsequent test screenings produced an overwhelming majority of positive reviews, and this carried the movie into becoming one of the surprise hits of fall 1994.

I was so worried that you just took me on a journey. I was like, did this do well? I hope it did well. It started out poorly. I'm glad that they found, I do imagine without Raw being a clear villain, that might have been a struggle. Like, obviously he does horrible acts visually, but I think you need a little backstory form. So that makes sense. Yeah. So Ra's glowing eye effect was added in production, of course. I didn't cast a guy with glowing eyes. Because, yeah, right? Must have glowing eyes or you cannot get the parts. Very limited casting. Oh shit. I guess I can't audition.

So, Raz's glowing eye effect was added in post-production because test audiences didn't think that he was alien enough. The trait was continued in Stargate SG1 as an identifier to people who are taken over by the Gwalt. Maybe that's the alien? Yeah.

Okay. Jay Davidson's dislike of the attention that he received after the crying game, a film in 1992, made him reluctant to take the role of Raw in this film. He didn't want to just turn the offer down. So he made what he expected to be an unacceptable demand of $1 million. This was accepted and he appeared.

Good for him. Good for him. Give me your worth. Yeah. Also, great performance. Oh, no. He was menace. I was scared shitless.

Yeah. That's not easy to do when Kurt Russell, when I'm rooting for Kurt Russell, I'm usually not very scared of the villain. Also, what a cool physicality. And it was so, like, hypersexual, but also, like, look. so, like, um, uh, demureing. Like, there was a really interesting performance. Absolutely. Uh, Jay Davidson, I think that's the, yeah, that's who plays raw.

Jay Davidson thought his performance was terrible and did not know that his voice would be altered, which was an afterthought during post-production, or that he would otherwise be made to appear any more alien. After the first screening of the film, Dean Devlin found Davidson in tears. Oh. When Devlin attempted to apologize, David responded, no, you saved me. me and thanked and thanked him. Okay.

What a journey. I was going to say these stories are going from negative to positive. Oh, it turns around. Whoever wrote this time to me was like, I'm going to take these people. Yeah, right. James Spader admitted that he did the film for the money as he found the script to be awful. He said, acting for me is a passion, but it's also a job. And I've always approached it as such.

I have a certain manual laborist view of acting. There's no shame in taking a film because you need some. money. I love that Spader's just that guy. Yeah, sure that when he saw the film, he's like, I hope it turned for him. I got the money, but this is actually a pretty good film. Yeah, I wonder how he thinks it now.

Yeah, I'd be curious if I ever met him, just say, just curious. Stargate. How do that's that story? Read your thoughts. Yeah. Do a couple more. When Kurt Russell was sent the script, he thought it was terrible also. What was this script?

Because they landed well. Yeah, and turned the film down. I think it's because they. couldn't understand Raw's, uh, this sucks. Uh, when Kurt Russell was sent the script, he thought it was terrible and turned the film down. The producers made increasingly generous offers until he finally accepted. Dean Devlin later learned that Russell had somehow been sent the first draft of the script, which Devlin himself admitted was terrible rather than the final draft. So this is the lesson to be learned. Never send the first draft

of the script. Also, think about how much of a problem that would be in the 90s where you have to send a paper draft of the script and you would only have that one. hand delivered to your... Right, right. And then that's it. That's all your exposure. And how would they know that was the version? Yeah, different times.

Again, I'm loving these... Like the movie, taking these left turns in this... Yeah. Oh, boy. We'll do a couple more, I promise. We'll be done. David Arnold, the composer, was working as a clerk at a record store in England when he was recommended to compose the score for this film.

Damn. On the DVD's commentary track, Dean Devlin and Ron Emmerich admitted that they were a bit nervous after hiring him since his scoring experience at the time was limited to a few short films and only one length film. However, their touts were gone as soon as they heard what Arnold had composed and they continued their cooperation with him on Independence Day and Godzilla. Emric and Devlin also state that the quality of Arnold's score for the movie is best

exemplified by the countless times it was reused in trailers, TV spots, and programs. I was going to say, listen. This made him. That's incredible. And it's worthy. Yeah, not only that, but listening to the score, I'd be like, there's no way that they just pulled this dude out of a record store. Yeah, that's one of those stories.

You're like, that's not real. That's a movie. You know what? It kind of reminds me, too, of the story. Do you remember the story of Tim Burton and Danny Elvin? Yeah, yeah. Oingo, Boingo. Yeah.

Great band, by the way. Listen to some of that music. But you wouldn't hear that and go like score. Oh, yeah, but Tim Burton loved the band so much. And he said to Danny Elfin, hey, I watch you to score my movie, Pee We Herman's Big Avengers. I play music. I don't, I don't, I don't score movies.

Like, no, no, no, you'd be great. And then you hear that score and I'm like, damn, he's good. It's the other end of the spectrum because already giant world famous star, but Trent Resner and Atticus Ross with Fincher pulling, you know, Trent Resner from Nine-H-Nage Nails and being like composed something. I love Trent. You wouldn't expect the guy that McNus Nail's to be like a composer. And that's, but this guy wrecked him. Did Trent Resner do social network?

But like, that's what a pivot. Wow. And apparently the score for challengers is incredible. I love the score for social network. I know that's something you might. not think about when you think about social network, but I love that score. It's so good. Girl's Dragon Tattoo too. You're going to be mad. I haven't seen the girl in the There are so many these very specific favorite movies of mine.

Coy's becoming a commenter. How dare you, sir? What do you mean you haven't seen this? And Bruch, David Fincher moves. Start typing. All right, three more, I promise. According to the DVD commentary, the group of scantily clad youth surrounding Rob were intentionally included to create unease in the audience, which, yeah, no, we kept them saying, no, I hope that they're also just the idea of like children as whatever workers that made me uncomfortable, which was effective. Absolutely. Absolutely. Oh, I don't want to read that one.

That's not an interesting one. Okay, so we got last two, we're doing the spoiler ones now. Okay. Although the planet visited through the Stargate is never referred to by name throughout the length of the film, it's spin-off television series Stargate SG-1, which came out in 97, three years later would later reveal the planet's name to be abidos sorry if i abydos sorry if i mispronounced it while it says in the movie that the planet is located in the callium galaxy in the television series it's located and retroactively changed to be within the milky way while travel uh while travel to another galaxy

necessity is a combination of eight instead of seven glyphs oh so they added a plot element yeah all right last one people i promise let me just find one that people found one that people found interesting. Okay, we'll go with this last one because it's long. Theatrical trailer and promo reel found on the European DVD distributed by Kino Well The Momentum include extensions or snippets of additional scenes. Oh, I'd love to see those, which are neither included in the theatrical cut nor in the special edited version of the film. One of the guards appears behind Shari and Daniel. This is presumably from the scene where Shari gets shot. When Shari is in the sarcophagus, Ra holds his hand above her

a different take of the scene where Rae punishes his guard. Here, Ra is seen from the side. Village scenes at the beginning is longer, longer entrance of Ra at the assembly. O'Neill and his men are pushed down by the guard's extended entry of the control room. I would love...

There's more, but... It's cool. I would love to see these extended scenes and different angles and stuff. There's always scenes in movies and different takes where I'm like, I kind of wish we would have got that. Yeah, well, like, just really quickly

off the top of my head before we get going here. Just in the trailer of like the event The First Avengers one, Joss Whedon's 2012 film, because whenever I say the First Avengers, people think I'm talking about Captain America. So there's a take where Captain America is saying to Iron Man, he's like, a big man in a pseudo arm,

take that off, what are you? In the film, it comes off the delivery by Robert Donny Jr. is genius billionaire playboy philanthropist in a very serious tone, but I love in the trailer. If you rewatch that trailer, it's a genius billionaire playboy philanthropist. It's in that cocky, like funny. I'm like in that arrogant tone, but I'm like, oh, I was, I would love the trailer.

Yeah, it is funny when you see those all takes and your head can and makes it one thing and the other. And also, too, last one, I love also in the dark night trailer when the Joker is threatening Rachel. Yeah. He says, ooh, a little fighting you. I like that. And then Batman in the film says, you're going to love me.

And it's like really quick, very quick cut. And then in the trailer, it's, you're going to love me. And it's like, it takes this time. Yeah. Watch the trailer and you'll see it's a totally different delivery. I'm like, oh, I love Nolan so much, but I wish you would have went with that three-hical delivery. I'm like, sometimes it's interesting the decisions they make.

And the edit for the overall movie might have need the pacing. Right, right. I totally understand some of those. But it's good to have the results because then you can have that experience of a movie. For sure. And it's interesting too because when I'm in the theater and I'm expecting to see that because I've seen the trailer like a million times like, oh, that was not the same.

That also might make you love the original because that was your first exposure to it. So if you'd never seen the trailer. True. That's a good point. Because that's your experience of that. That's a good point. Leave us a comment below. Let us know if you've got an alternate take, you enjoy.

Let us know what you thought of Stargate. Let us know if you were like Kurt Russell and you originally were like, but this wasn't for me and you saw it again later. Like this was for me. Let's know what you think. James Spader thinks of it now. This was like one of my favorite reactions here on this channel. Awesome doing it with Andrew.

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McHale Lyndon. You know what celebrity you remind us of? Ooh. It's so easy just to immediately, when you say the sentence, you know what celebrity just reminds you of? It just comes out of your noggin right away. Yeah. Sometimes you just say the,

it's totally this name that we're both thinking of. You're not trying to, like, think of it in a name. It's really obvious. I can say it if you're not comfortable. Oh, dude. I know. I know we're both thinking the same exactly. Peter Sarzegard.

Definitely SARS is ours. You got like a sleepy eye yet attractive thing going on about you. I can't quite pinpoint it, but you know what, man, there is a sex appeal about you. That's true. You have a lot of mystery. You don't even have to open your mouth that much. Project onto you. You just project intelligence all the time and wisdom, I guess.

And you also just seem like a good listener. Yeah, you do. Or you might be nodding off. Or maybe, yeah, you just didn't go less. sleep last night, but either way, it's interesting, you know, those dark circles are stories under your eyes. You're just a beautiful, beautiful man. Just like Peter Sarsgaard, my favorite actor of all time. Definitely. And I mean, like, you know, the amount of joy Greg gets out of seeing Peter Sarsgard in a movie, you know, is like exactly the same as the amount of joy Greg gets when he

thinks about you or sees your name pop up or the occasional comment that you leave, you know. And it really inspires a lot of joy around these parts. Amen. Thank you, McHale. Definitely a top-tier actor and you're a top-tier patron. Thanks, buddy.