Sounds like you only watched the first 15 minutes of the film.
A bit of a nothing burger, it doesn’t really get interesting until the final 20-30 minutes.
There are a few entertaining bits inbetween (e.g. there’s a fun scene with Paul Rudd in a Wallmart), but there’s not nearly enough going on.
It’s just mostly bland: some decent acting and directing, but there’s not a lot of action, mystery, charm, clever comedy, drama or characters to get invested into (besides McKenna Grace).
For example, Finn Wolfhard gets as much development as the older brother from Jurassic World, he’s a teen and he wants to get laid. That’s all you get, and it’s not that interesting.
There are, of course, a lot of ‘member berries, which add nothing besides empty nostalgia.
The original Ghostbusters leave the biggest impression with just 5 minutes of screentime, and they clearly didn’t even give a shit about being there.
It’s not the worst thing ever, but this falls short of the benchmark for this kind of movie.
Just watch the original, or anything directed by Spielberg and Cameron in the 80s/90s.5/10
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Found one of the critics from the metacritic! ;)
The cuts to commercial in this episode are super abrupt for some reason. Happens both on Netflix and Hulu, and I'm sitting here wondering if the DVDs have those same cuts. I'd be annoyed. Is that how the episode originally broadcast in 1998? Yikes.
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There are no such cuts in any of the disc versions.
Also, you guys have ads on Hulu AND Netflix? That's wild.
In the story Maggie says to establish her toughness , what were those 'animal like things' fell from the attic with 'still round belly' ?
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People, women to be exact. She gives a precise description of these women - cut off limbs, gouged out eyes, cut vocal cords, everything cauterized. Basically, human incubators ;(
I don't like how all of the soldiers are assholes in this season. Especially since they have an assignment people get scrutinized pretty heavily for.
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It's not like the military men are the best and the brightest... Soldiers are to obey orders, when there are no orders and an officer in charge it's all Lord of the Flies. It's the exact portrayal that we saw in this season - when an officer was in charge things were (mostly) in order. Remove the person in charge, et voila - rampage and macho olympics.
This is a good spy-thriller film of course. But the main problem I had was, throughout the movie, I didn't actually feel the gravity of danger the world's facing or even the risk they are facing doing something like this that much. But nevertheless, hat's off to Benedict's acting, this man is incredible.
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I don't think the gravitas is felt in such moments - only after they pass one does realize how these situations shape the world we live in.
I have to agree with other comments. How many weak willed pansies do we have to put up with? It is getting to be very annoying that the universe is apparently filled with so many cowards.
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You do realize that the world, the one in the show and our actual one, is filled with cowards who would sell their mothers to avoid death?
Most of the people cave in under pressure, if you think otherwise you are deceiving yourself.
"Heroes" are few and far between, when faced with a decision only some of us take the high road, otherwise the world would look hella different.
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"3 days ago, you were negotiating a treaty."
So why is Jack O'Neill a 2-Star General? When she was negotiating that treaty, Jack was a Full-Bird Colonel.
Ya done messed up Asurans. The gaseous aliens from Home made the same mistake with Hammond, who was a 3-Star before the Expedition left Earth.I know the shows were made on a budget, but I do smirk everytime I see the precision Ancient scanning device bounce back and forth when reaching the end of it's stroke each time.
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Yeah, glaring omission - how can he be a general when Jack was not in active duty before he was re-activated for the Ra mission and then RETIRED before the Air Force came to him after Apophis incursion. Even after all this he was still a Colonel lol.
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Okay but like why is Daniel beefier than Cam???
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Add one to the Daniel's rep count!
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VIP3Carter said she wasn’t exactly single - I think that she and Jack have been seeing each other while she’s been away from the SGC.
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Yes, I grinned like a madman after seeing that scene :D
So they talk of taking a ZPM, but they don't talk of taking the one from The Brotherhood? That should have been the first suggestion.
The best part of the episode was the disposition on the inadequacies of Dr. Weir.
It also has a remarkably touching conclusion.
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The ZPM that The Brotherhood hid on another planet and they will not divulge this information since Eartlings are not Lantians?
Yeah, good luck with that.
The wraith make a much scarier enemy than the Goa'uld. They almost make the Goa'uld seem silly.
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Weird, I had the opposite reaction - Wraiths were always comical to me.
Goa'uld are evil, vain, arrogant and egotistical sadists, while the Wraiths are just boogeymen lol.
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VIP10Weird that Dr. Weir is already played by someone else. Surely the production team knew at the end of season 7 that they'd need her back, and held Jessica Steen's availability for when filming resumed for season 8? Jarring that they didn't even match hair colors.
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I never particularly liked Higginson's acting, Dr Weir could be so much more and I'd prefer to have Steen play Doctor Weir for SG-1 and Atlantis, but you know, can't have it all.
Perhaps it's just typical of the time period when this show was produced, but it certainly feels like Carter cries because she's a… she. When do we ever see tears run down O'Neill's face? Teal'c? Dr. Jackson? Hammond? Very, very rarely, if ever. It's like the male characters aren't allowed to show their grief. That's pretty typical Hollywood, despite the show's Canada-based production. It's a little disappointing.
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And yet in this episode you see Teal'c on the verge of tears and Daniel in the dark corner, obviously crying in solitude. We don't see Jack because of the way it's written and because he's well, Jack - it's a posture.
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VIP10I'm not sure what I hate the most. Dumbass journalists or asswipe politicians. Absolutely crap episode. Whoever wrote it should be shot. For fuck sake, kill that asshole senator or what the fuck he calls himself.
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I have yet to see a comment for an episode that you did not hate.
I always thought that this was such a cool sci-fi concept, and it struck me as being quite original. I wouldn't be at all surprised if something similar already existed (Star Trek: TNG's 'Remember Me' has some vague relation), but I have a strong memory of being pretty fascinated by this when it first aired. It's still good fun to watch now, and seeing Christopher Heyerdahl in the first of what will be many appearances in this and other sci-fi franchises is always a good thing. He brings a calming but emotional quality to his work, and I was always jealous of his hair.
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The Swede! Great seeing him in a wholesome character :)
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It's nice to finally get the issue of Tretonin addressed after it's introduction last season. Is it as effective as a symbiote? Will it have any side effects? And what happens when you don't have enough of it? I had been wondering these things and it almost felt as if the show had forgotten about it outside of vaguely mentioning its name a couple of times.
The episode is a fairly large story split into two distinct halves. Both halves are good, but I think I was most taken with Teal'c's recovery because it reveals things not only about him but for Daniel too.
The action in the latter half is fairly epic and very nicely done, with some strong material for Teal'c, Bra'tac and Rya'c. And I love that once again it looks like Bra'tac is going to die, but no!
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Bra'tac's "dying" is on par with Daniel's actual deaths :D
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VIP10"Corso", eh? Another Corso shows up in a later series created by SG-1 producer Joseph Mallozzi: Jace Corso from Dark Matter. Hmm…
The guards don't react at all to the sound of artifacts crashing to the floor in Quinn's lab? Curious.
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Thank you! It was doing my head in where I heard "Corso" in :D
Overall a good episode. I very much enjoyed it in spite of the stupid decision to evolve the replicators.
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You do realize that the Asgard's intent was to slow the passage of time inside the bubble? Replicators stopped the machine from starting and adjusted the settings, so that the time flew faster inside the bubble (so they evolved instead of pausing).
The Fifth changed the settings so that the time now flows slower inside the bubble, so exactly how Asgard initially intended.
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A good episode overall, and deeply relevant to the Tok'ra.
But I have to wonder, If Egeria was so opposed to the Pangarans using her young in the way they were, why did she not stop spawning? Surely she doesn't HAVE to spawn new symbiotes on a regular schedule.
Or for that matter, why leave them blank slates? One could have taken a host and then freed her, allowing her to renew the Tok'ra in earnest.
Instead, for sixty years, she continued pumping out brain dead slugs for the culture imprisoning her to run tests on and exploit.
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I'd argue that as a Tok'ra, the first one no less, Egeria would not take over a host, even if it means she'd suffer.
I literally have tears in my eyes after this episode (again!), came to read the comments and yours made me laugh out loud <3 I will miss him... also add one to the Daniel death count :D
Why are all of you watching this now? And not while it was on air?
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You now, people of different ages exist, actually.
Also, I watched it when it aired but there are a number of different, popular shows from the late 90s (and early 00s) that I have not seen yet.
I can believe an access code was overlooked, but why would they not have defences against the walk-through-wall bracers?
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High-trust society is the answer.
Damn... I wonder what Major Coburn did to get demoted all the way to the rank of Sergeant in the short time since Maternal Instinct.
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You must have misheard it in "Maternal Instincts" then, i just checked - he is referenced as a "major" throughout the episode, this one as well.
Also, all the wikis only mention him being a major, so there's that:)
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VIP6And just what the hell did the Goa'uld gain from this treaty? The humans gained not being invaded and the additional clause of keeping the Stargate. That I can see. The only thing I see was avoided was the Asgard not being roped in as they feared them. There must have been some concession to them though as why backtrack on their immediate plans.
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Goa'uld gained some kind of route/passage from the Asgard.
Didn't they already develop an accelerated dialing procedure during the last "siege" of the stargate? Why did Carter have to do it again?
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It was in the alternate world that Daniel was transported to via the alien mirror.
Teal'c's smirk is *chef's kiss*
There was a weird edit after SG-1 and Hammond decide on their plan about 27 minutes in: On Hulu, at least, one can hear the stargate activation sound just before a cut to black, then the next scene is the wormhole actually opening. But in between, there was clearly a commercial break. Something similar happened later, as the C-5 was landing—a cut to black and back where it didn't make sense. Seems like streaming services might have gotten re-edited cuts of the episodes originally intended for broadcast syndication with added commercials… Sigh. If only Amazon's rights to its HD versions hadn't lapsed.
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I've read your comments on different episodes so I'll re-iterate - no such cuts exist on the discs :)
Hulu's captions for this episode said, "Think it gets Showtime?" when Jack's actual dialogue was, "Mmm, Goa'uld TV." One of those was definitely edited since the initial broadcast, since they don't match. Given that the series started on Showtime I'm guessing it was Jack's speech that got replaced for later syndication/reruns after the series moved to a different channel. Same for a later line captioned, "That's bullshit!" where Jack's audible dialogue is instead, "We know that's not true."
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I just watched this episode from disc, can confirm it is unedited on disc - both "Showtime" and "bullshit" lines are left as they were:)
