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10,000 B.C. [Blu-ray] | List Price: $35.99
Discount Price: $12.75
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Brand: Warner Brothers
Binding: Blu-ray
Release Date: 2008-06-24
"10,000 B.C." is visually stunning, but lacks substance. [Posted on 2008-12-23]
This film is breath-taking one moment and dang near laughable the next as we see a stampede of mammoths and then go to a blue-eyed caveman who is far more intelligent than any caveman would ever have been.
I really enjoyed the magnificent visuals of this film, but the sum of its parts simply doesn't add up to an overall satisfying experience. I think Amazon's review is dead on accurate and I really can't add much to it. The images by themselves are stirring, but most audiences need far more than that alone. I'm not looking for Shakespeare here and I understand the intention of the film is to perhaps show how we progressed out the stone age a bit which is symbolically represented with the blue-eyed caveman, but the writers here just miss the mark and become over indulgent in their efforts.
The film tries desperately, too desperately, to be "important," but it simply is too silly when attempting to be so. Now, it's not a bad film, but it is uneven and depending on how much you like this kind of movie you can walk away very satisfied or feeling let down. I was somewhere in between, but leaning more toward let down.
Defines Hollywoodized Crap [Posted on 2008-12-25]
Definitely one of the worst movies of 2008. Crtitics described this as a dumbed down Apocalypta. That is an exageration. It is way worse than a dumbed down Apocalypta. It is absolutely terrible. It lacks a story. What it does have is a crew of very good special effects artists. Other than that this is non-stop violence. This type of movie would mostly be appealing to a red-neck crowd, because all they care about is violence, and could care less if there was a story.
B**A**D [Posted on 2008-12-27]
This movie was terrible im so glad I did not buy it but rather watched it through someone else. It didnt do much with the special effects.. I almost fell asleep. It could have been so much better with a better producer. It almost looks like a low budget film. And whats with the cast having their eyebrows "done"??? Whats up with that? I thought it was called 10,000 BC?
About as DIRE as movies get! [Posted on 2008-12-28]
10,000BC? The story could've been set any time any place - and has been, and has been told far, far better in many other movies. Guy loses girl; guy fights to get girl back; guy gets girl. And that's probably all the script itself said, considering the quality of acting and dialogue.
But my biggest problem with this pile of garbage is the marketing. When you look at the packaging, you see a guy going up against a monstrous saber-tooth tiger. And again on the back of the case they show this creature. You think, wow, this must be man battling the hellish monsters of old. With today's CGI that could've been so cool. Instead, the tiger is in the movie for about 60 seconds - there's no battle, the thing doesn't even bloody its claws.
Oh, there's a few mammoths that stampede, yeah. But when you compare that to the similar elements in the climax battle of Return of the King, it's an absolutely pitiful scene.
The only saving grace is the giant bird scene. If the movie could have developed along similar lines it could really have been a great movie. It's this few minutes that give it the one star, otherwise I'd have complained about not having a zero star option!
The marketing is a con. Don't be suckered. Let this garbage rot then maybe the producers will get the message and give us something decent to watch next time out.
Boring! [Posted on 2008-12-29]
I kept thinking to myself in the first 5-10 minutes, I should just turn this off. I really should have. It doesn't get any better as you keep watching. Save yourself the time and watch something else.
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