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In the scene where O'Neil is fighting Anubis, Anubis uses claws and hits O'Neil's back, tearing his shirt and wounding him. But you can see Kurt's "wounds" and torn shirt right before he's hit by Anubis (a scene after Anubis's claws are shown). (Director Version DVD, Polish Edition} See more...

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Stargate (1994) - 19 corrections

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It is established in the film that Abbydos is on the other side of the known universe (something later contradicted by the TV series). If this is the case, why would one of its co-ordinates be the constellation Orion which logically is itself on the other side of the known universe from the destination; something that spoils Dr. Jackson's six points in 3D space idea. [There is no reason why one of the points for a destination could not be extremely far away. Planets are identified by the intersection of three lines formed by six points, not by the 6 nearest points.]
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Dr. Jackson states that you need six points in a 3D volume to define a unique position. He then draws six points on the faces of a cube and connects the opposed pairs of points with lines, demonstrating that they all intersect to reveal the unique location. Whether this is really a good way to identify points in space is debatable, but even so, the technique he demonstrated requires only four points, not six. Any two lines that intersect do so at a unique point. [That is only true in a two-dimensional way. To account for depth, you need a third pair of points.]
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When Jackson walks through the doorway where the cover stones are, he is carrying the two bags with "everything he owns." When he gets close enough to see the cover stones, the bags are suddenly gone. [If look carefully, (part of the two bags) of Jackson can be seen on the floor.]
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All these scientists and military personnel have opened a gateway to the other side of the known universe using a technology that is a) completely foreign to them, b) the first time they can get it to work, and c) one that can send stuff back to Earth instantly. No scientist or military personnel would ever allow a Nuclear Device to be sent through the portal, as the properties of the bomb alone travelling at the speed of light or faster could have had catastrophic results. [Perhaps very poor military judgment, but a character mistake, not a movie mistake.]
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The same military car is used in multiple scenes. It is first seen outside the hotel after Dr. Jackson is delivers his talk. Next it is seen outside of Col. O'Neal's house. It is then shown taking Dr. Jackson to Creek Mt. And finally it is the first car bringing all of the brass to Creek Mt. The car is identified by both its license plate (G13 48260) and damaged window trim above the left rear door. [I see nothing wrong with them using the same car, it's not stated any where in the film that all the stated scenes happen at the same time. If the military needs to ferry all these people; presumably it would be a good idea to use the same car and driver to keep the number of people involved in the Stargate project to a minimum.]
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When the Stargate is locking the symbols, the sequence on the computer is just like the one in the cartouche but, on the gate itself, the symbols (apart from the Earth symbol) don't match the chevrons' sequence. Besides, the second chevron locks a symbol on the gate, but another one appears on the monitor. [When dialing, the glyph to be dialed is rotated to the seventh, or 'selector' chevron. Thus, the chevrons themselves would not lock on the symbol they are dialing. However there are mistakes in the dialing process - the order of the chevrons is jumbled, and the inner track is randomly rotated to incorrect positions when seen from a distance.]
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(On the Director's Cut Edition) When Ra and James Spader are talking, Ra says something about sending to weapon back to earth. Instead of soon he says son. A further plot we have yet to discover? [This may be true but it wouldn't seem weird that Ra, would call him "son" since he tells him while they are talking that he (Ra) is the one who started the human race.]
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When Jackson takes the girl into the hieroglyph chamber, she motions to the symbols and says "hieroglyph", allowing Jackson to understand her accent and talk to her. Trouble is, 'hieroglyph' is not an ancient Egyptian word. It is Greek in origin and was suggested as a name for the symbols by archeologists at a much later date. [Well then we find out that the humans on that planet were all stolen from earth at some point, so it's reasonable to believe she's from a time where the word was being used.]
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When the four crew members retreat back to the pyramid during the sand storm and realize something is coming (when Ra is arriving), you hear guns being cocked about 6 or so times without hearing any shots being fired. There are only four men and four guns. [There are 4 men, but they all have machine guns and pistols; some of them might be cocking their berettas, too.]
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When O'Neil is fighting the guard near the Stargate, and the guard slashes him, you can see that the wound is on his back, yet in the scene right after Ra's spaceship explodes you see O'Neil standing with the wound on his chest. [If you watch closely, Anubis slashes his chest to. It's at a camera change so its pretty quick. You can see O'Neil stumbling back after the slash.]
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It's the very first time they opened the Stargate (Katherine says they've never got past the 6th chevron), and though they tried to study it, they had no clue about what it really is until Daniel properly translated it 2 weeks before the mission (in the series, someone did use the Stargate by accident many years ago, but it doesn't apply for this movie). Yet, not knowing how it works, and having a vague idea about what it does, their system is designed to monitor things like molecular deconstruction that only happens when matters pass through the gate, which they had no idea it would happen. Also, they have a state of the art map of space, that tells exactly what star they dialed, still without ever opening the Stargate or knowing how it works. They did have an idea about its purpose only 2 weeks earlier, which still isn't enough time to design and create something to help monitor a device they know nothing about. [They did have an idea as to what the Stargate did before Daniel came on board - Daniel only corrected a previous translation and he didn't change the meaning of the words, only the precise details. Also, the fact that the project is in a military base with military personnel all over the place indicates that they had a good idea of what it was capable of. There was plenty of time to have come up with the monitoring equipment before Daniel came along.]
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When Daniel is about to go through the Stargate, he touches it first, then sends his hand all the way through it, then pull his hand back out. He shouldn't be able to pull his hand back, since the hand was already in the event horizon, and matter can only travel through a wormhole in one direction. [The Stargate only goes one way, but Daniel hasn't gone through the Stargate entirely. His hand won't appear out of the other Stargate until he brings his body through the event horizon of the earth Stargate. He just pulled his hand out of the event horizon before it appeared on the other side.]
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Supposedly writing was outlawed because it would prevent the people from having any recollection of history. This totally ignores the idea of oral history, the mechanism used before the development of writing and still used today by Native American and African cultures. In Africa these people are called griots and can literally recite history for days without ever repeating themselves. [Ra may not have forbidden only writing, but also retelling about the past, which means oral history would be of no help. Furthermore, I doubt even the best of oral retellings could be efficiently transmitted after 3000 years. After all, what would *we* know of ancient Egypt, weren't it for hieroglyphs?]
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In the scene where Jackson is looking at the hieroglyphics on the walls of the cave in the city and figuring out the language, how did the girl know what he meant as he pointed at the hieroglyphics if Ra had outlawed any of the people there learning to read. [It can mean one of two things. First, that there is a general feeling of insatisfaction and that though the slaves don't do anything about it, there's a covert movement where at least a few people still know a few symbols--kind of a peaceful and subdued way to rebel against Ra. Second, it can mean that she is simply a bright and imaginative girl who has a good sense of observation and was able to relate the drawing to her own living universe, to find the closest thing around her looking like it.]
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For the public execution scene, as Jackson lowers the staff weapon, the lighting is from one way, then in the next shot it is from the opposite direction. [Jackson's always lighted from the left (his right), which is consistent with the building's shadow.]
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When Ra prepares to send the bomb through the Stargate, Jackson and O'Neil disguised as Egyptians enter the building in front of Ra's pyramid ship along with some other Egyptians who proceed to shoot dead some of Ra's workers. During this battle the doorway to the building closes before the others can get in. Now it's a big heavy rock door so presumably it's rather difficult to break down or force open, but just after Ra and his ship get blown up at the end we see Jackson, O'Neil and Sha're standing in the doorway which is now open again. We never see how they get that door open. [Any number of people could have opened it. Probably most of those who worked for Ra knew how to work the mechanism. There was plenty of time for someone to take the initiative.]
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Surely after spending millions trying to decipher and work out the final symbol wouldn't they go for the obvious trial and error of seeing if the other symbols worked? [The series Stargate SG-1 explains this mistake. The planets are moving farther away from each other due to galactic drift. They had to alter the dialing computer to get anywhere. It was pure luck that they connected to Abydos even after finding the last symbol.]
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At the beginning of the film when they are still trying to decipher the stone tablet, Jackson renames the 'Door to Heaven' a Stargate. He then works on deciphering the other symbols and determines that they are charts of constilations. A few scenes later when they operate the Stargate, crew members call it 'the Gate' and there is equipment already set up to track progress through the Gate. How did they know to call it a Stargate if he only just translated it as such, and how would they know they would have to track out in space? [He translated the "stargate" 2 weeks before he deciphered the constellations. Therefore, they would be calling it the gate instead of the door.]
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When the military sends the robot-transmitter through the stargate for a test, the mapping machine locates where in the galaxy the robot is transmitting from. One of the researchers says that the robot is 5 light years away. If something is 5 light years away and it's transmitting a signal to earth, it would take the radio signal 5 years to reach the earth! How did the robot let them know where it was so quickly? The signal couldn't go through the stargate, because a code to open the gate on the opposite side is required. [Although a code is indeed needed to open it, after you go through, it stays open for a short time - it was in that period which the robot sent the data back].
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