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Plot: A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe.
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MCT:August 26, 2008
This movie surprised me...our neighbor was so impressed he loaned it to us (a rented movie). Passionate well edited and artistic rendition of primitives with some attempt at being true historically, including sabre tooth tigers & woooly mammoths done beautifullly. Wonderful panroramic vistas!! Definitely worth see! Tribal ties add to the flavor of the film
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MCT:August 26, 2008Finally saw this and I couldn't believe it! It is a wonderfully made movie. The plot is very riveting and I loved all the characters in it.
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MCT:August 26, 2008
You have to hand it to him, Roland Emmerich thinks big. After the sci-fi extravaganzas Stargate and Independence Day, the historical epic The Patriot and the environmental disaster flick The Day After Tomorrow, he has set out to create his own mythology, no less. 10,000 BC embroiders the classic coming-of-age, boy-with-a-heroic-destiny legends and lore told around camp fires for millennia with straight-faced, pretentiously sober spirituality, made-up mysticism and reams of voiceover narration (from Omar Sharif). A fiercely good looking, inventively-clad cast interact among dizzying layers of CGI, visual and sound effects to make a preposterous prehistoric adventure quest that is undeniably spectacular. You can feel the earth and your teeth shake, rattle and roll when the mighty herds of massive woolly mamoths stampede through the dwarfed company of vulnerable but athletic spear carriers.
What is more embarrassingly enjoyable, guilty fun is the brash daftness run rampant. You can laugh at, but still dote on, the invented culture, ritual and poetic utterances (a dying warrior serenely says ?I am full of days.?) of the plucky Stone Agers, who are, of course, highly attuned to the spirit world, signs and portents, and the forces of earth and the heavens.
The Yagahl tribe (a hunky, dreadlocked lot in hide breeches and clay face packs) revere a crone called Old Mother. She crouches in her hide and bone lean-to speaking to the spirits and going into telepathic trances, suffering shakes and nosebleeds linked to the faraway travails befalling D?Leh (sincere, sinewy Steven Strait) and his handful of companions on their arduous trek on the trail of horse-riding, ship-sailing slavers to a lost civilization of proto-Egyptian meanies. It all takes place in a sort of imaginary Africa, by way of the Alps.
The Yagahl don?t think much of D?Leh, something of an angst-ridden misfit who has father issues since the disappearance of his own, the leader of the tribe, who seemingly abandoned his people long ago. That?s one mystery that will be solved far, far away and many moons later. When his true love is snatched, however, D?leh resolves to rescue her, accompanied by his sympathetic, sage mentor Tic?Tic (Cliff Curtis), a cheeky boy follower, Baku (British teen Nathanael Baring) and a hot-headed rival for Evelet. And somewhere along the way he grows into a heroic leader of men.
They don?t have a lot to work with, but one is struck by the quality of our heroes? rough-hewn footwear, which carries D?Leh and his fellowship from freezing mountain tops down into a Pleistocene jungle (where they are beset by 'Terror Birds', killer critters which look, unintentionally hilariously, much like gigantic, enraged ostrich chicks) and across the searing sands of a vast desert (and, eventually, back again.). They rack up more miles than Frodo, in a fraction of the time.
En route D?Leh bonds with a sabre-toothed tiger (it?s a prophetic sign) like Androcles did with the Lion; invents celestial navigation after wandering lost in the desert like Moses; discovers Agriculture (which will come in very handy for future survival, given the background of climate change) and gathers to himself an impressive variety of beleaguered tribal peoples -- of many tongues, many skin tones and helpfully colour-coded costumery with excellent accessories -- as he goes, creating an army for a terrific climactic uprising at the end of the world.
Needless to say, Emmerich and like-minded collaborator, co-writer, producer and co-composer Harald Kloser?s vision of things neolithic will have anthropologists, archaeologists and paleontologists rolling in the aisles. Documentary-drama realism this is not. But in its peregrinations from high-altitude camp fire to sophisticated pre-Pharaonic city (where harnessed mammoths helpfully toting the heavy loads offer a startling new hypothesis on how the pyramids were built) this opus happily and shamelessly plucks popular notions from every caveman and loincloth saga ever, from One Million Years B.C. to Apocalypto. There are also touches of Lord Of The Rings, The Thirteenth Warrior and all the spiffing silent screen role models of young men finding their courage and ingenuity; abducted heroines (Belle, although not, alas, given a fur bikini, is a good, comely one; and dastardly, decadent exotic fiends for villains, with terrifyingly long fake fingernails and a taste for human sacrifice. And all this without any nudity, profanity or visceral brutality! It?s really rather sweet. -
MCT:August 25, 2008I thought it was great. Good enough story, great acting, the way it was shot was amazing to watch. All round very good... Steven Strait yummy haha
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MCT:August 25, 2008I much prefered Mel Gibsons one but this had some great points. Not sure on the reality of technology this showed some of the tribes of 12,000 years ago were supposed to have but still a great movie.
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MCT:August 24, 2008
the cg was good.
the movies wasnt dat bad but not good either.
couldve done it better.
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MCT:August 24, 2008The effects were great! The acting was fine! The plot was interesting! But the movie sucked. . . >__>
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MCT:August 22, 2008
This movie is about life in the times of a prehistoric culture and how they survived AFTER a "more civilized" mankind attacked, killed, and kidnapped some of their people.
This was a really enjoyable movie to me! I plan on adding it to my collection so I can watch it again and again. -
MCT:August 22, 2008
I went in expecting less and a had a fun action packed ride. Was looking for a good fast action movie with nice effects and thats what I got.
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MCT:August 21, 2008
looked dull but was better than i thought
all the animals, except the mammoths, looked so ridiculously fake and the running in front of a screen was....lol....
the 3 powercuts in the cinema made this so much more memorable -
MCT:August 20, 2008
i wish Emmerich would have spent more time with 10,000 B.C.... it had such potential to be a great epic... one that we would remember for a long time... but unfortunately, he didn't... the result, an epic wannabe... disappointed is hardly the term... i would say... really disappointing!
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MCT:August 19, 2008
At least the CG was decent. It was "Apocalypto 2: This Time There's a Sabertooth." Complete waste of time, especially if you enjoy history to begin with. 300 did it better.
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MCT:August 18, 2008I have pretty much no reaction to this film. That's how interesting it was. There was nothing that made this film stand out against others in its genre or style. Nice try, but nothing really came out of this.
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MCT:August 17, 2008
Man, do I feel underwhelmed! I just can't believe that this movie was directed by the same guy who made the so much more qualitative Independence Day. It seems directors like Emmerich, who are quite soulless by nature, only manage to get one movie right per lifetime, and 10 000 B.C sure wasn't it.
Much like his previous films, the biggest flaw here was once again the absence of a good script. But to make matters worse, he also had the "brilliant" idea of throwing in some bad actors in the lead roles, which on one hand may have given the story a touch of believability, but on the other just wasn't a very smart move. I mean, I've seen better acting spring from that volleyball that Tom Hanks conversed with in Castaway, and that was just a piece of synthetic leather with a face painted on it.
Overall, the movie wasn't as bad as I had feared it would be though, as it did work as some mindless fun on a less-than-eventful Sunday afternoon. But if you're looking for a spectacular story, with sparkling actors and memorable dialogue...well, then you should probably look somewhere else. I must admit the mammoths looked incredibly realistic though, so at least they were able to get something right :-) -
MCT:August 17, 2008
The movie was great in the start with the mamooths but went to mediocre mode after that and stayed taht way...
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MCT:August 16, 2008
Hmmm. Where to start? This was an okay bad movie. What I mean by that is that, although it's annoyingly inaccurate history-wise, and some of the acting is...questionable, I was still involved enough to watch it to the end and wasn't achingly bored. Some of the parts of this movie were pretty darn good, and some were horrendously bad. Where does that place this movie? Somewhere in between I guess. I thought it was corny that he talked to the saber-tooth. That thing would have killed him immediately upon being released. And I thought it mildly amusing that they began in Greenland, traveled by land to South America, then to Africa, and then to Egypt. *Spoiler Alert* I thought it was dumb that Evorlet died and came back to life. But Emmerich really knows how to make the scenes where people come together for a singular cause inspiring (as we saw with that beautifully memorable president's speech in 'Independence Day'). So the bottom line here is that if you are into caveman-themed adventure stories, see it. If you are a history major, forget it. You'll be bald by the time you see the end.
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MCT:August 15, 2008
this movie was good. it has a really interesting story and i love the special effects, the mammoths and the saber tooth tiger were so cool!
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Pretty good movie, cgi could of been alot better. Egyptians' didn't use mammoths to help them build shit, where's the skeletal remnants?
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MCT:August 14, 2008
10,000 B.C. does have some great effects and better than i thought they were going to be.
but the story was a bit disappointing and i really hoped for more from this movie.
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the story for 10,000 B.C. is about a prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe. i would say that 10,000 B.C. has to be Roland Emmerich greatest ever film. -
MCT:August 13, 2008It was trying to be the archetypal myth, that much was odvious, but it came of as cliched. Note to Hollywood, if you are trying to make an archetypal myth film, try not to make it THE archetypal myth film.
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MCT:August 13, 2008
Not much more than the trailer, but it makes more sense if you consider it as a prequel to the movie, Stargate.
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MCT:August 12, 2008
At least the CG was decent. It was "Apocalypto 2: This Time There's a Sabertooth." Complete waste of time, especially if you enjoy history to begin with. 300 did it better.
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MCT:August 12, 2008
I don't care if it is historically accurate or not, I liked the mammoths and Steven Strait looks sexy with dreads :) Nevertheless this movie is boring and full of non-sense and the ending was cheesy and unnecessarily predictable. Don't waste your time watching this.
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eyenofiongposted 9 days ago -
Okay you know what? I refuse to believe anyone thought this was a good movie, even after seeing some 4 and 5 star ratings on here. I don't hate it just because of its historical inaccuracy. I hate it because it is AWFUL! And don't try telling someone if they take it for what it is (entertainment)it will be good. Because IT IS NOT GOOD even taken on that level! It's BORING if you look at it like that. This is by far the worst movie of 2008. I can't trust your taste in movies if you like this. I will tell you all this...if you thought this was a good movie...WATCH MORE MOVIES!!!
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Ouch!!, Visually stunning, but story was weak, predictable & boring, just a hollywood cash grab. Not worth the watch, very disappointed. :'-(
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Wow, was this a waste of time, energy and money. I do rely on movies to have a degree of historical accuracy - what bothers me is that some people will take this as truth.
Besides the acting, which was astonishingly bad.
And the poster had nothing to do with anything.
and the two leads seemed awfully clean and beautiful for such rough times.
and... well, I could go on forever like this. But mostly it was just plain BAD.posted 45 days ago -
is there a marilyn manson song at the end of the movie during the credits? and if so what's it called?
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raptor birds surviving the ice age?Lady give your head a shake.This movie takes place in the ice age mountins,The tropical jungle,& in Egypt.What?near cave people with english accents?Oh & culturally diverse people..all in the same region,& villains that strangley resemble Arabs (US War on terror)I can forgive historic inaccuracies if the plot were more original,but I can't forgive plagerism.Too many obvious scenes from other movies: The Ten commandments,300, Clan of the Cave bear, Jurasic Park,Appocalypto,to name just a few.This movie took me to a different place, & that place was the Gong show. ANYONE WHO HASN'T VIEW THIS MOVIE:DON'T.Save your money for a better movie.Sure go on leave history to the professors and the thinking public,& leave cheezy movies like this shiny,yet empty attenmpt at a blockbuster epic to the air heads.I can do slap stick,I can handle cheeze just not in this saturation.These up & comers eh?..up & comers as guest stars on celeb squares,& Surreal Lifeposted 93 days ago -
Sessyranger, & SuperRed, I am not talking through my rear end, I think it is important look at the over all quality of the movie. Any given movie should contain a mix of the following ingredients: ORIGINALITY, a good plot, and some degree of logic, & yes, entertainment value plays a key role. When there is cheesy, & blantantly obvious plagerized sections from a variety of movies, a movie then becomes a formula. successful movie + successful movie= SUPER SUCCESSFUL MOVIE..we the buying public then become pons, blind, mindless sheep, fish biting at the shiny thing being shown to us. I won't let that happen to me. I stand by my review. Sessyranger, I don't think you are one to dictate who is talking through their rear ends, since it seems as though you can barely spell.Trying to make us critical thinkers seem intellectually insufficient holds less water when you can't spell. SuperRed, your arguments have some valid points, however it appears to me that you have given into sensationalism
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