10,000 B.C. (2008)

An Astoundingly Awful Movie

I am a fan of the science fiction genre but there is no amount of lipstick you could put on this pig to make it palatable. This is a truly terrible movie. December 2, 2008

Good price Great Movie !!

A Great Adventure Movie at an Excellent Price !!

Thank You -JS !! December 1, 2008

one of the worst movies of 2008

I have to be fair... I categorize the worst movies of this year based on how much emphasis is put on them before they are released. 10,000 B.C. certainly wouldn't be a worse movie than any of the B rated horror films put out recently such as "Side Sho", but it is close. The only thing making it a better film is a bigger budget.

10,000 B.C. is a lousy attempt at making a somewhat prehistoric setting realistic. What we have instead is a cartoon style CGI festival coupled with corny, and at times stupid, voice over narrative. The movie lacks a few major components to making a movie worth it's budget:

1. Decent Screenplay: A bad script will never be made into a good movie. No amount of good acting or directing will make it that way. This leads me to number 2..

2. Decent Directing: Roland Emmerich is possibly my least favorite director of all time. Granted, when I was 12 years old the day Independence Day came out, I loved that movie. Looking back on that movie and others such as The Day After Tomorrow, I realize that he possibly sets the standard for bad movies.

3. Time setting matches the dialogue: Mel Gibson is constantly criticized for his movies, but the man knows how to build a story. In Apocalypto and The Passion, the dialogue (including the language) matches the era for which the story is told. This film on the other hand makes it seem like 21st century minds were put in prehistoric bodies. It is reminicent of Battlefield Earth, when post apocalyptic humans turned neo-neanderthal said phrases such as "Get the Hell outta here!" thousands of years after the human race was all but extinct.

Overall, as stated before, this movie can be classified as one of the worst movies of the year. In fact, this movie has inspired me to start a list of the worst movies of this year. 10,000 B.C., welcome to the list at #4.

Top 5 Worst Movies of 2008

1. "to be announced"
2. "to be announced"
3. "to be announced"
4. 10,000 B.C.
5. The Hulk November 24, 2008

Quest For Fire it ain't!!!

I am pretty open to all types of movies and I even liked Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. This movie is so laden with WTFs it can't even be called entertaining. It would do much better as a comedy but the stage is set for a serious production.
The opens in a snowy land where the guys are too stupid to wear shirts and coat themselves with mud. The girls though have been smart enough to invent bras. They also invented mascara, eyeliner, rouge and lipstick and in the beginning of the movie they have apparently been working under cars as they are greasy smudged as opposed to the mud smeared men.
"Native" dialects soon give way to strong modern accents including more than a few who have apparently invented British inflections and the 'broken' language of 'primitives' becomes intermixed with complete grammatically correct sentences bearing $10 words.
I love the part where our hero falls into a pit trap containing a Saber-toothed tiger who apparently fell in, recovered the hole then pinned himself under a log so he couldn't move.
I still can't figure out the reasoning behind stampeding the mammoths and chasing them miles for a kill. I would have dropped one where he stood grazing so I wouldn't have to carry it all so far back home, I guess I'm just a spoiled lazy movie buff.

The graphics were excellent but the writing and directing were pathetic. Quest For Fire gets my vote hands down. November 23, 2008

It's Not Bad

Okay, so this movie may not be the blockbuster hit of the year, but I actually thought it was halfway decent. First off, I love Stargate so I thought the not-so-surprising resemblance in certain areas extremely amusing. Also, the story itself is not so bad. Love conquers all, good vs evil, man vs nature, conincedence vs fate--they pretty much have it all.

As for historical inaccuracies... well, really, who cares? Can we say '300'? Or any of the other hundreds of movies set in prehistoric/ancient/classical times that swerves so far from reality as to be completely unrelated? If it really bothers viewers so much, just do what I do: pretend it's somewhere else. Pretty easy, really.

I will say that the best part of this movie had nothing to do with special effects (which I thought were fairly impressive) or the acting (which... did leave something to the imagination) or the plot (yeah...), but with the music. Harold Kloser did an amazing job with this music, even if parts of it do sound strangely similar to 'The Day After Tomorrow'. Eh, who cares? There are times when I can't tell the 'Independence Day' and 'Stargate' soundtracks apart, but they are both very good.

Anyway, the movie was good and even if it isn't a I-must-have-this-movie flick, it's still good fun when your in the mood for a movie that's filled with beautiful scenery and cool prehistoric animals and Egyptian/Stargate-style sets. November 21, 2008

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