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* [[Cliché Storm]]: Roger Ebert's review boiled every element of the movie to this, right down to the snare-drum "military" music as Daniel arrives at headquarters.
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: [[3rd Rock from the Sun|French Stewart]] in a movie about aliens.
* [[Inferred Holocaust]]: So all those children on Ra's ship got nuked? Sure, the bomb was rigged to go off anyway, so the choice was between letting innocent people die or killing the [[Big Bad]] and presumably fewer innocent people. Thus, nuking Ra and the kids is arguably the lesser of two evils, but the [[Fridge Logic]] still pushes the act straight into [[Black and Gray Morality]].
** The morality of that still doesn't seem too gray to me. We only saw a handful of kids on the ship, versus a colony of thousands of men, women and children on the planet's surface. The good guys had no way to disarm the bomb, nor any other way to stop Ra. It was a decision made in the heat of battle. All things considered, the morality of the ending was as close to black-and-white as it could get without the good guys using some kind of phlebotinum of their own. If there's any [[Inferred Holocaust]] in the movie, it's simply from blowing up the ship in relatively low orbit.
** The [[Novelization]] has the children [[No Endor Holocaust|escape the ship at the last moment]] though.
* [[Special Effects Failure]]: Retroactive example from the [[Blu-Ray]] edition. The picture quality is so much higher than when the movie was filmed that you can see the wires holding up the Death Gliders (especially during close-ups on the pilots.
* [[Values Dissonance]]: You have to admit that all those scantily-clad children running around Ra's ship would [[Paedo Hunt|raise eyebrows if it were done today]]. Yes, apparently ''1994'' was a more innocent time. Either that or they wanted to give Ra an implied push across the [[Moral Event Horizon]].
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