Oct 5, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min · 12 segments
This week's double feature is: Stargate (1994) The Fifth Element (1997) Trigger & Content Warnings for this episode include: Violence, Death, Cults, Sexism, Trafficking, Child soldiers, Forced…
Stargate was a movie from the '90s that ...
There was very much a fascination, I think, with Egypt in the '90s.
Yeah.
So we've had The Mummy that we've seen, um, Stargate that we watched now, and the one we paired it with, F- Fifth Element, which also had a little bit of the pyramids in it.
Yeah, and it even, I think there's even the pyramids in Independence Day and, like, there's a, the, it really does show up quite a bit, just these glimpses of Egypt or this idea of the pyramids seems to have been a kind of popular thread in the '90s.
The idea of, like, supernatural stuff or strange things in the pyramids.
We have two movies now that have done that.
Yep.
Yeah, so that was a good 10 years after the other ones.
Did, did you notice something?
Yes.
What?
We have the same director in two of the movies.
There you go.
[laughs]
I don't have spreadsheets tracking everything.
But I wo- I wondered if you were going to either remember that I had said it was the same director as The Fifth Element, or if you were going to, um, like, see it on your spreadsheets.
I, I had deliberately picked something by a director we had seen.
We saw him last time.
He did Delblanc Sec.
Doing something more recent and something that was in his, his home language.
Yep.
Stargate was a movie from the '90s that ...
There was very much a fascination, I think, with Egypt in the '90s.
Yeah.
So we've had The Mummy that we've seen, um, Stargate that we watched now, and the one we paired it with, F- Fifth Element, which also had a little bit of the pyramids in it.
Yeah, and it even, I think there's even the pyramids in Independence Day and, like, there's a, the, it really does show up quite a bit, just these glimpses of Egypt or this idea of the pyramids seems to have been a kind of popular thread in the '90s.
The idea of, like, supernatural stuff or strange things in the pyramids.
We have two movies now that have done that.
Yep.
Yeah, so that was a good 10 years after the other ones.
Did, did you notice something?
Yes.
What?
We have the same director in two of the movies.
There you go.
[laughs]
I don't have spreadsheets tracking everything.
But I wo- I wondered if you were going to either remember that I had said it was the same director as The Fifth Element, or if you were going to, um, like, see it on your spreadsheets.
I, I had deliberately picked something by a director we had seen.
We saw him last time.
He did Delblanc Sec.
Doing something more recent and something that was in his, his home language.
Yep.
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