The Fly on Stargate
Fair warning: this is the Fly bitching about nerd stuff, no more, no less.
Okay. So last week after Galactica, I watched the first part of the season finale of Stargate SG-1. Last night, since I'd seen the first part, I decided to watch the second part. Hey, I was curious how it'd turn out, right?
Seeing as how I have the film that started it all (yes, Stargate was a movie with Kurt Russell and James Spader before it was a television show with Richard Dean Anderson), I decided to watch it this afternoon instead of doing work. After I put the tape in, I read the blurb on the back of the box.
Right then. Let's just break this down, shall we?
First off, "secret Air Force military base" is redundant. If it's an Air Force base, it's a military base. They should have used one or another; probably the latter, as the fact that it's the Air Force has little to do with the actual storyline; it could easily be any of the other branches of the military, save for the fact that they're (for some unknown reason) in a missile silo. The point of the matter, though, is that "secret Air Force military base" is very poorly written.
Second, the blurb says that Colonel Jack O'Neil "commandeers" their trip. Not "commands" or "leads." He commandeers it. Now, allow me to educate you wankers. To "commandeer" something is to take control of it and steer it in a direction it was not previously intended to go. No such thing happens in this film. The writer is just a moron who has no mastery of the English language... And yet they've got him writing cover blurbs for films that are printed, distributed, and sold to thousands of people.
Anyway. Back to the film.
Okay. So last week after Galactica, I watched the first part of the season finale of Stargate SG-1. Last night, since I'd seen the first part, I decided to watch the second part. Hey, I was curious how it'd turn out, right?
Seeing as how I have the film that started it all (yes, Stargate was a movie with Kurt Russell and James Spader before it was a television show with Richard Dean Anderson), I decided to watch it this afternoon instead of doing work. After I put the tape in, I read the blurb on the back of the box.
When a mysterious woman makes Professor Daniel Jackson (James Spader) an offer he can't refuse, he ends up in a secret Air Force military base. His mission: to decode an ancient Egyptian artifact known as the Stargate.
The mission leader, Colonel Jack O'Neil (Kurt Russell), a tough military man with nerves of steel, commandders their trip through the Stargate to an ancient civilization on the other side of the universe. But once there, they must battle the astoundingly powerful Sun God, Ra (Jaye Davidson), before they can find their way back home.
Right then. Let's just break this down, shall we?
First off, "secret Air Force military base" is redundant. If it's an Air Force base, it's a military base. They should have used one or another; probably the latter, as the fact that it's the Air Force has little to do with the actual storyline; it could easily be any of the other branches of the military, save for the fact that they're (for some unknown reason) in a missile silo. The point of the matter, though, is that "secret Air Force military base" is very poorly written.
Second, the blurb says that Colonel Jack O'Neil "commandeers" their trip. Not "commands" or "leads." He commandeers it. Now, allow me to educate you wankers. To "commandeer" something is to take control of it and steer it in a direction it was not previously intended to go. No such thing happens in this film. The writer is just a moron who has no mastery of the English language... And yet they've got him writing cover blurbs for films that are printed, distributed, and sold to thousands of people.
Anyway. Back to the film.
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