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  1. Stargate (1994) continues the excellent trope of opening on a bustling archaeological dig in a desert landscape. See also: The Exorcist.
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      Unlike The Exorcist though, apparently French Stewart is in Stargate?! Evidently I don't remember this film at all.
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        People in academic conferences at films are a lot more willing to shout out objections than in my experience IRL.
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          Kurt Russell! And he's hit rock bottom. Poor Kurt Russell.
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            James Spader is unbelievably young and unrecognisable in Stargate. He has such a thick luscious head of hair.
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              After the Stargate opens, they send through one probe. It's lost so they send a human party. Rather than, say, another probe?
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                Why do you only have one probe? Just order another one. It's throwing good humans after bad probe.
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                  It turns out Stargate is a worse film than I remember from when I was a young and uncritical child.
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                    Kurt Russell is phoning in this performance from another galaxy.
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                      Stargate's racial politics are also more than a little problematic. Lil' Simon just enjoyed the space travel.
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                        It sure was lucky those white Americans turned up to teach those brown people how to be free and use guns.