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Product Description: The filmmaker who launched a UFO invasion in Independence Day and unleashed the forces of global warming in The Day After Tomorrow now unveils a new day of adventure a time when mammoths shake the earth and mystical spirits shape human fates. Roland Emmerich directs 10000 BC the eye-filling tale of the first hero. That hero is young hunter D?Leh (Steven Strait) set out on a bold trek to rescue his kidnapped beloved (Camilla Belle) and fulfill his prophetic destiny. He?ll face an awesome saber-toothed tiger. Cross uncharted realms. Form an army. And uncover an advanced but corrupt Lost Civilization. There he will lead a fight for liberation ? and become the champion of the time when legend began.System Requirements:Running Time: 109 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/HEROES Rating: PG-13 UPC: 085391139683 Manufacturer No: 1000023986 Amazon.com: To anyone who has ever yearned to see woolly mammoths in full stampede across the Alps, 10,000 BC can be heartily recommended. There's also a flock of "terror birds"--lethal ostriches on steroids--in a steaming jungle only a splice away from the heroes' snow-dusted alpine habitat. And lo, somewhere in the vastness of the North African desert lies a city whose slave inhabitants alternately teem like the crowds in Quo Vadis during the burning of Rome and trudge in hieratically menacing formations like the workers in Metropolis. That's pretty much it for the cool stuff. Setting movies in prehistoric times is dicey. Apart from the "Dawn of Man" sequence in 2001: A Space Odyssey, only Quest for Fire makes the grade, and its creators had the good sense to limit the dialogue to grunts and moans. 10,000 BC boasts a quasi-biblical narrator (Omar Sharif) and characters who speak in formed, albeit uninteresting, sentences--including a New Age–y "I understand your pain." But let no one say the storytelling isn't primitive. The narrator speaks of "the legend of the child with the blue eyes" and bingo, here's the kid now. When, grown up to be Camilla Belle, she's carried off by "four-legged demons"--guys on horseback to you--the neighbor boy (Steven Strait) who hankers to make myth with her leads a rescue mission into the great unknown world beyond their mountaintop. His name is D'Leh, which is Held, the German for "knight," spelled backward. So yes, there is some hidden meaning after all. 10,000 BC is the latest triumph of the ersatz from writer-director Roland Emmerich. Like Stargate (1994), Independence Day (1996), and The Day After Tomorrow (2004) before it, it's shamelessly cobbled together out of every movie Emmerich can remember to pilfer from (though to be fair, the section in pre-ancient Egypt harks back to his own Stargate). Emmerich's saving grace is that his films' cheesiness is so flagrant, his narratives so geared for instant gratification, he can seem like a kid simultaneously improvising and acting out a story in his backyard: "P'tend there's this alien ... p'tend maybe he came from Atlantis or something...." Just don't p'tend it has anything to do with real moviemaking. --Richard T. Jameson Customer Reviews: Rating: 
Date: 2008-07-08
10,000 B.C.
This was something like a cross between "Clan of the Cave Bear", "Conan the Barbarian", and "The Scorpion King". This is actaully a decent family Summer movie. There is no bad language or sex, but some normal fighting violence. Even the violence is not the typical grossly spatter everyone with blood. I found the movie entertaining and the acting was actually pretty good. I would have given it three and a half stars if I could of and I even considered four stars. In fact with a bit more money this might have rivaled "Apocalypto". This may not have had the budget or directing capability of such a movie, but rating it with typical B movies like One Million Years B. C. with Raquel Welch is ridiculous. Don't get me wrong I found even that one fun to watch. But this is far better than most caveman movies I have seen before, even if it is not historically accurate.
The story centers around a prophecy of a man that is a hunter who speaks with a spear tooth (Sabertooth Tiger) leading people to their freedom. We see this man from childhood along with several others so we don't instantly know for sure who our hero will be. As a young boy he meets a beautiful blue eyed girl that was found by his tribe. They are linked from then on as he does everything he can to ensure her safety and make her his woman. The story, acting, directing, camera work, music, sets, and effects are reasonably good. The scenery is a key part as they travel from snow covered mountains through desert and jungle. The exceptional photography makes it stand out in detail. I would say most people won't be disappointed renting it and fans of the movies I mentioned quite possibly may want to buy it. Good quality DVD with decent replayability. Rating: 
Date: 2008-07-07
So bad. Its the worst
I had expected 10K BC to be on the order of Gladiator or another epic movie - even Quest for Fire.
However, after popping in the disc and watching the first 5 minutes, I knew I was in for a horrifying waste of film and time. Boring dialog, horrible intros, you name it - it had it.
I ended up fast forwarding through the entire movie. Skip, listen, skip and listen again. All in all, this film isn't worth the 10 minutes it takes to skip through all of it.
Save your $1.99 - this film sucks and should be forgotten. Rating:
Date: 2008-07-06
Kind of interesting
I knew very little about this movie, if it was a strict remake of one made way back in the day (with Raquel Welch, I think?), or totally new, or what. We decided to watch it on HiDef TV out of Saturday night boredom. It's all right. The special effects are very impressive in places. It was evident that the director cast all local, native actors (aboriginals from New Zealand, Africans), and filmed on location, which lends a large flair of authentic pre-Christian, pre-Western culture and society to a picture that, let's face it, is supposed to take place 10,000 years before the birth of Christ.
The script wasn't bad, and the characters were pretty realistic. I'm not sure if it's worth buying the DVD, but renting it isn't a waste of time or money. It provides some entertainment, and actually draws you in when the plot really gets going. Usually I freak out about the historical accuracy of period pictures, but this time I didn't even think about it, since "10,000 B.C." is quite a mix of several predominant civilizations of that era -- which the filmmakers actually pulled off pretty successfully. The only big flaw I found was in the voice coaching; there were times when a few of the actors were very hard to understand, and I'm afraid I may have missed a couple of important lines because of that.
On the whole, though, not a bad movie. Rating: 
Date: 2008-07-06
Not highbrow cinema, but fun escapist entertainment
My wife and I picked up this movie this morning, popped it in the DVD player after dinner and just finished watching it. Okay, it doesn't break cinematic new ground and is hardly a classic. But, as semi-historical fantasy adventure flicks go, it was entertaining and worth the price and time in our opinion. If you're just looking for a fun movie to watch with a decent storyline, lots of action (but relatively little blood or gore) and some great visuals, you could do a lot worse than "10,000 B.C." Rating:
Date: 2008-07-05
DUMBDUMBDUMB DUMMMM DUMMMM
I'm sorry, but this movie sucked. I know or care nothing about history so believe me when I say that it is still a lousy movie whether it is accurate or not. The action sucked, the love story sucked, the casting sucked, the plot sucked, the wonderful pinball wooly mammoths sucked. The only cool thing in the whole movie was the big meat eating birds. It seemed like the plot had too much it was trying to do and it just didn't really get anything done. Kind of like they just tried to take the best parts of a ton of different movies and still botched the whole thing. |
