Ark of Truth Leaked

Sherifu

A copy of the movie has been leaked.
It can be watched in a streamed version at the moment.
I wont post any details here but if you want details feel free to PM me.
If a mod says its ok, ill link to the video.

Update: The video has been removed already but the DVD has been leaked so have fun everyone

Happy Christmas everyone

Mitch Connor

when is is due to be released officially?

Sherifu

March I believe


edit: from IMDB

Release Date:11 March 2008 (USA)

ixoy

Merry Christmas to ye all!

Now I'm not sure I'd want to see a half-finished cut of a movie. Best to wait for the real thing.

Sherifu

Apart from 1 scene towards the end it looked pretty finished to me.
And that scene involved some special effects that have yet to be made special.

Of course its for each person to decide if they want to watch it, just letting everyone know it's out there.

jhegarty

If people watch this instead of buying/renting the DVD then it will be the last we see of SG1....

a TV show is one thing , but this is quite another....

Sherifu

Of course a person can't do both...
Of course i'll be buying it when it's released like every fan will.
But one thing i'm not doing is waiting till March to see it.

alastair_doom

wow... and i thought we were lucky get the season premiere of Atlantis leaked a week early.
Cheers for the info rkm.

As far as the 'piracy damaging the franchise' discussion goes, IMO, if the movie is good, it will probably only suffer very slightly from piracy.

BKtje

Was enjoyable enough, pretty much a feature length episode. I'm sure i'll add it to the collection when it comes out.

There were some pretty dodgy special effects throughout really that could use a few touch ups (and will i hope) but i won't complain

Overheal

jhegarty wrote: »

If people watch this instead of buying/renting the DVD then it will be the last we see of SG1....

a TV show is one thing , but this is quite another....

+1 but seriously if the movie is quality id buy the DVD. its like watching BSG on stream but I still have the first 2 seasons on DVD as well cos i liked them that much.

childoforpheus

Tauren wrote: »

when is is due to be released officially?

According to Play.com it is due to be released on 14/04/2008 in the UK and Ireland.

Conor108

Take it the video isn't DVD Quality?

Sherifu

Conor108 wrote: »

Take it the video isn't DVD Quality?

No, it isn't.

mcgarnicle

jhegarty wrote: »

If people watch this instead of buying/renting the DVD then it will be the last we see of SG1....

a TV show is one thing , but this is quite another....

Well if the quality of this is any indication of future SG-1 movies I seriously hope it is the last we see of it.

Absolulte rubbish. I know they had to come up with a bit of a gimpy story to tie everything up into 90 minutes but my God this was awful.

murdoc8

science fiction is dead, thank you scifi channel

Owen

I haven't seen the leaked version, but I probably will at some stage. I will buy the DVD though, I really like the Stargate Franchise, and would like to see it kept alive.

robby^5

mcgarnicle wrote: »

Well if the quality of this is any indication of future SG-1 movies I seriously hope it is the last we see of it.

Absolulte rubbish. I know they had to come up with a bit of a gimpy story to tie everything up into 90 minutes but my God this was awful.

You've just crushed my hopes and dreams of SG1 becoming a decent film series

mcgarnicle

robby^5 wrote: »

You've just crushed my hopes and dreams of SG1 becoming a decent film series

Well I'm sorry to crush your hopes, I really wanted it to be good too. I can't really explain why I hated it so much without giving away massive spoilers but the basic point is that the whole thing just smacked of extremely unimaginative and lazy writing.

The film is about 100 minutes long but when any of you watch it what will become painfully clear is that the writers are unable to use this time. The actual Ori story itself (which was terrible too) only came in at about an episode's length. The really bad part is the totally ridiculous way they have filled the rest of the time. A derivative little crises that is absolutely out of context in this film and has nothing to do with anything related to the Ori. It was just terrible, so bad Ed Wood himself could have come up with better.

User45701

murdoc8 wrote: »

science fiction is dead, thank you scifi channel

Huh?

Battlestar Galactica comes from the scifi channel, and i dont watch tv but its my understanding that the scifi schannel show things like the outer limits

How scifi be dead if its still on and still has such massive dvd sales and also if the channel you accuse of killing it actually airs it?

robby^5

User45701 wrote: »

Huh?
How scifi be dead if its still on and still has such massive dvd sales and also if the channel you accuse of killing it actually airs it?

Its scifi channels fault Battlestar is ending now, sure it probably wasnt going to go on longer, but the fact that they wouldnt confirm a 5th season was a factor in why they decided to wrap things up this season.

SciFi also killed stargate. In general, they dont go by dvd sales figures they go by ratings, and with the advent of DVR ratings have been dropping drastically as of late. And since SciFi shows have relatively small audiences compared to mainstream shows they get axed quicker.

Anyway, in the end I think most of us would agree the Ori plot was fairly weak from the off, maybe the second film will be better? I personally love the idea of having stand alone movies with no huge story archs or continuing plots, sorta like the early days where sg1 didnt need to have INTEL about an Ori superweapon to go to a planet they just went exploring to make allies/find technology.

User45701

but sci is not dead thats what i dont understand.

robby^5

Well this is one of the biggest lulls in scifi history in a long time.

Star Trek/Sg1 both off air having being huge hits of the last decade and poor ratings for the big scifi shows like Atlantis/Battlestar, its looking bleak in fairness... once Battlestar is gone we're kind of ****ed.

mcgarnicle

robby^5 wrote: »

Well this is one of the biggest lulls in scifi history in a long time.

Star Trek/Sg1 both off air having being huge hits of the last decade and poor ratings for the big scifi shows like Atlantis/Battlestar, its looking bleak in fairness... once Battlestar is gone we're kind of ****ed.

I agree that Sci Fi is dying off but in fairness I don't think Sci Fi channel are to blame. If idiots want to watch the latest celebrity dance/singing/desert island reality rubbish which costs about a tenth the amount it costs to make a sci fi show then obviously tv networks (which are businesses lets not forget) are going to invest in these sure fire and cheap to make winners over the comparitively expensive and niche targetted sci fi.

User45701

robby^5 wrote: »

Well this is one of the biggest lulls in scifi history in a long time.

Star Trek/Sg1 both off air having being huge hits of the last decade and poor ratings for the big scifi shows like Atlantis/Battlestar, its looking bleak in fairness... once Battlestar is gone we're kind of ****ed.

True,

But what about Starfighters the pretorian issue

http://www.starfighters-pi.com/

OMFG! im not kidding they have actually updated the site for the first time in almost 2 years! - i just spotted that now i was giving you the link for the lol

its comming out in 2008 lol i thought this show was going to be like dukenukem forever.
Full story of the show is http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055036722&highlight=praetorian

senordingdong

mcgarnicle wrote: »

I agree that Sci Fi is dying off but in fairness I don't think Sci Fi channel are to blame. If idiots want to watch the latest celebrity dance/singing/desert island reality rubbish which costs about a tenth the amount it costs to make a sci fi show then obviously tv networks (which are businesses lets not forget) are going to invest in these sure fire and cheap to make winners over the comparitively expensive and niche targetted sci fi.

McGarnicle....how did you rate season 9 & 10?

And us getting it only one month after America....I find that a little hard to believe.

ixoy

Science fiction, as a TV genre, is not in good shape. A flash intro for one series is not indicative of any state of good health and with just "Stargate: Atlantis" surviving into a new season after BSG, we're on very limited fare (I've heard no word recently of any developments on the new Stargate series).

Even in novels, there's a strong reluctance to often admit that certain novels are science fiction, instead labelling them as the better-selling fantasy. This is a topic covered in the latest SFX and recently in the Sunday Times where Bryan Appleyard discusses how science fiction is being heavily set upon of late.

In TV, the science fiction angles we'll get to see are those contemporary shows which have exotic elements - "Lost" or "Eureka" for example. No show now seems to be willing to put itself several hundred years in the future and really ask the big questions and ponder them. It's very expensive and it seems audiences want more simple fare that they can easily involve themselves. Even though the hardcore fans might be loyal DVD buyers of a show this will often not be enough, especially when DVD profits may not even go to Sci-Fi directly the way advertising revenue does.

Anyone else find there's still a disdainful attitude to sci-fi in general and until there's more movement in that, we may see this lull continue.

senordingdong

Untill the genre dies a death.
And then in forty years time, people will cry out for it and then we will be knee deep in H.G. Wells wannabes, and tv shows set in the future.

mcgarnicle

senordingdong wrote: »

McGarnicle....how did you rate season 9 & 10?

And us getting it only one month after America....I find that a little hard to believe.

I'd rate most of those two seasons as pretty poor, there were some good episodes and some absolute stinkers. Overall I wasn't too upset to see it cancelled.

That's not to say I wasn't hoping for good things from these movies but this one was just bad. The writers are clearly still in tv writing mode and are incapable of making a compelling story last for 100 minutes, hardly surprising since they were rarely able to put a good 45 minutes together over the last couple of seasons.

mcgarnicle

ixoy wrote: »

Science fiction, as a TV genre, is not in good shape. A flash intro for one series is not indicative of any state of good health and with just "Stargate: Atlantis" surviving into a new season after BSG, we're on very limited fare (I've heard no word recently of any developments on the new Stargate series).

Even in novels, there's a strong reluctance to often admit that certain novels are science fiction, instead labelling them as the better-selling fantasy. This is a topic covered in the latest SFX and recently in the Sunday Times where Bryan Appleyard discusses how science fiction is being heavily set upon of late.

In TV, the science fiction angles we'll get to see are those contemporary shows which have exotic elements - "Lost" or "Eureka" for example. No show now seems to be willing to put itself several hundred years in the future and really ask the big questions and ponder them. It's very expensive and it seems audiences want more simple fare that they can easily involve themselves. Even though the hardcore fans might be loyal DVD buyers of a show this will often not be enough, especially when DVD profits may not even go to Sci-Fi directly the way advertising revenue does.

Anyone else find there's still a disdainful attitude to sci-fi in general and until there's more movement in that, we may see this lull continue.

I don't know there is an anti sci-fi attitude, I honestly just think it's a matter of cheap reality drivel replacing original and often more expensive work.

TV is a business, not an art form.

Sherifu

When I started this thread it was a happy thread. Now it's depressing.

****ing reality/celebrity bull**** tv.

senordingdong

mcgarnicle wrote: »

I'd rate most of those two seasons as pretty poor, there were some good episodes and some absolute stinkers. Overall I wasn't too upset to see it cancelled.

That's not to say I wasn't hoping for good things from these movies but this one was just bad. The writers are clearly still in tv writing mode and are incapable of making a compelling story last for 100 minutes, hardly surprising since they were rarely able to put a good 45 minutes together over the last couple of seasons.

Ok then.
I'd disagree with you, so I can keep my hopes high for the movie.

RoyalMarine

i didnt think the sg1 series should have ended. ok there were a few lousy episodes towards the end, and i much prefered the un-expected what could happen now episodes back in the day, but i still think its better than a lot of tripe thats available on tv lately.

as for the 2 stargate movies, well i just got the first one. and yeah there are still a few things to add, but i think its pretty much the way it will be come march when its released.

the second one will probably go to ending the story line of the ori and playing into atlantis a bit to show that they have no imminient plans to end the atlantis show.
no complaints on that to be honest.
lets just hope they dont do to atlantis what they did to sg1.

well off to watch

User45701

Interesting watch alright. Im waiting for the next one now. RDA is in it isent he? might add a bit more for those who havent seen it and the plot for the 2nd one wounds better

Also ixoy, was there not something on gateword just over a month ago that they had started activally looking for cast for the new SG show? SG Universe?

RoyalMarine

didnt know they were casting already. hopefully there'll be something completly new in universe. pray for now.

just gonna have to wait now until july for Continuum unles it gets leaked early :P

Sherifu

RoyalMarineComm wrote: »

the second one will probably go to ending the story line of the ori and playing into atlantis a bit to show that they have no imminient plans to end the atlantis show.

afaik the plot is mostly known and

doesnt involve the ori or atlantis

RoyalMarineComm wrote: »

just gonna have to wait now until july for Continuum unles it gets leaked early :P

that'll never happen

Venom

Just watched Arc of Truth and all I can say is meh. The storyline was always going to be rough going considering they had to deal with the Ori but damm it could of been so much better. The whole extra crisis crap seemed to be just bolted on to take up extra time to justify a DVD release.

Personaly I think SG1 should of ended around season 8 as Mitchel and Vala added nothing to the franchise and Sg1 without Jack is like Star Wars without lightsabres.

_JOE_

I agree somewhat with the aboe comment...the movie had the feel of an elongated episode...my personal view on the whole series itself is that the asgard and ancient storylines were cut short and underused in many ways, whilst in contrast the Gou'ald storyline was too expansive when considered in context with the others...

Mahatma coat

Jaysus I'm glad I didnt pay any money to watch that , feckin weak, course then the Ori were always a bit of a crappy storyline, but still I expected a lot more from this, besides using the supergate did they use any other gates, like someone said tis gettin a bit too Startrek, and if I wanted startrek I'd watch Startrek, also

WTF Replicators, who in all fcukin seriousness thought that would be a good Idea, especially the really cheesy terminator ripoff at the end

just seemed to fizzle out.

I hope the next one has O'neill, twould be cool of Thor didnt kill himself but was knocki around with jack and an O'neill class ship, that'd be cool. course based on this effort it'd probably be ****e, padded out to be longer but still ****e

Pepe LeFrits

Very weak. Clichéd, B movie nonsense.

Overheal

Is it worth looking at or is this another thing where I like to pretend season 9 and 10 never happened?

Sherifu

Overheal wrote: »

Is it worth looking at or is this another thing where I like to pretend season 9 and 10 never happened?

I think the good outweighs the bad. But it will ruin your pretence seeing as the ori are in it.

Overheal

see the Ori thing started off ok and then I just kept saying ah give it a chance to pick up... but it never did. Not only that but you had to learn how to live with this new Hick as the team leader. It was doomed from the start even though there was an interesting premise behind the Ori.

Overheal

So apparently Sky One is going to broadcast it on the 28th of March.... so I dont even have to bother __________ __

senordingdong

Overheal wrote: »

So apparently Sky One is going to broadcast it on the 28th of March.... so I dont even have to bother __________ __

Yeah, but it will be sucky with ad breaks.
I can't watch on movies on tv anymore, they do hy head in.

Pepe LeFrits

Pretend it never happened, Overheal.

senordingdong

Also, have to say, I don't like the new cover art....much preffered the preliminary picture that was released a while ago.