The show takes place years after the movie and replaces the main actors (although some of the original movie actors do end up in the show from time to time!)

[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Honestly you can skip this movie entirely and go straight into the show, Children of the Gods (The first ep, a 90 minute movie) will recap enough information covered in the movie.

And the show is infinitely better than this movie.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

kind of like watching the Buffy movie before watching the show ...

[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

I was happy having completely forgotten about that.

[–] 7u5k3n@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Great movie.. started my SG1 rewatch after watching this recently.

[–] celeste@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is the director's cut different in an interesting way? i have the standard version on vhs and watched it a hundred times as a kid.

[–] pwnicholson@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not really.

Mostly there's a scene at the beginning that is in ancient Egypt with the kid that went on to host Ra. It's just a slightly longer version of the story Daniel tells later in the movie, but slapped at the beginning where you have no idea what you're seeing.

I can't think of any other notable changes.

[–] celeste@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Huh! Thanks.

[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Interesting to compare this movie to 10,000 BC, also by Emmerich. I think 10,000 BC is a slightly superior movie. I wish Stargate had gone a different direcion after the first 30 minutes and been a lot more "serious," like Contact or Arrival.