Stargate: Continuum (2008)

Load of rubbish!!

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

We've got multiple deaths of Ba'al, plenty of Goa'uld arrogance, plenty of fun and a little bit of drama. This movie is a near coppy of the ending of SG-1 (season 8, Moebius), thus the movie is somewhat unnecessary (we've already seen a comparable plot) but still quite funny and entertaining. The production values are OK.

And I thought 'Dude Where's my Car' was bad. The first 30 minutes is music and one paragraph of talking. How in the hell did HBO put this on. 2nd worst movie ever.Please tell Jeff Bridges not to put a gun to his head and squeeze off, from his brother performance.MacGyver is in it too. Same smug character, It doesn't even relate to the series. Tapper's performance is OK. That's it.Ben Browder acting again is sub-par.I do like the fact that Hollywood has a sense of humor. This is a example to college students on how not to make a movie.

The whole story behind such great differences in reviews and ratings is that Stargate:Universe greatly differs from you had in Stargate:SG1 and Stargate:Atlantis. SG1 and Atlantis were purely sf - of course, you can't like the characters without any depth, so from time to time you had jumps into their emotional stuff and all that slice-of-life idea. But that was just some minor, the core was about real s-f like: alien invasions,new planets exploration, searches for some scraps of alien tech. that is the only hope remaining... and all the sweet stuff that I could go on and on (huh...a black hole connected to Earth's gate).And what about Stargate:Universe? You get a science-fiction scenery (some ancients ship, depth of space, all the fancy equip) but that's just the scenery, story focuses on subjects like: when some chick will tell her ex-or-something that he is the father of her child...and what is he gonna do about it? ; or - what is Eli(or whatever his name was) going to do when he finds out that his mother has a HIV ...If You like slice-of-life and you could enjoy s-f scenery instead of apartment/office/restaurant than it's a good chance You will like the Stargate:Universe. For the pure-SF fans it's pointless, You just gonna rage later.Why do I think it's not really a s-f series? It's like you would give a scene to Saw when that Jigsaw-killer is dancing - is that a musical now or it's still gore-horror?

I remember seeing the original movie and being impressed. In its day it was a risky mix of genres plus the expected overwhelmed by the unexpected. Later I studied the industry and took this film apart in terms of how the concepts were managed. It worked and I know why. Later, the safe parts were made into a lame TeeVee show following the then already lame Star Trek formula. I did not know what to expect coming to this. The first two minutes are an extraordinary tracking shot that sets context, introduces the heroes and establishes the energy of thing. After that, I might as well have been watching William Shatner. In fact, I believe that they hired someone else to direct those first two minutes while a committee of writers was re- engineering the script.There was an opportunity here to do something clever with time travel paradoxes. What we got was Back to the Future" with spaceships and Arctic ice.Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.