Comments on: Movie Review: 10,000 BC

By: Mario

Mario — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:08:25 +0000

The Worst Movie I ever seen, 10,000 BC is should have no stars

By: Sumiko Yamadori

Sumiko Yamadori — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:05:56 +0000

Maybe some dialog is a little bit silly, but the acting by the principal characters is very good. Steven Strait carried the film really well. Camille Belle was good too, even though much smaller part.
I have lived in several countries (born in Japan, lived in S. Korea, Taiwan, Italy and now with family in USA). But I have to say only in USA is habit to expect characters in movies like this to speak and and like Americans. I’ve read many comment about the “phony” accents adopted for the movie. Do you really expect people from time supposed to be 10,000 BC in a strange continent to come out of their tents speaking American style English? That would really have been stupid.
Yes, I loved the movie because I thought the scenes, sets, action, and story was awesome.
And yes, I know two people who worked behind the scenes on the crew whole time movie was being filmed, and I was introduced to some cast members briefly during press interviews/presentations.
So maybe I am alittle biased!

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:21:43 +0000

Sumiko, I take it you missed the reference there about the bible story of Moses freeing the Hebrews from Egypt. The later part of the movie is rather reminiscent of that story, albeit with a heavy dose artistic licensing.

You really seem to love this movie though, you have a hand in making it. Because come on, it really isn’t very good. Admit it, the writing and acting a very weak.

By: Sumiko Yamadori

Sumiko Yamadori — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:52:20 +0000

“So they try to incite a revolt among the slaves, and take on Egypt.”

I copied/pasted this from original editorial. I have one question.
How do you know the site in 10,000 BC with pyramids was supposed to be Egypt? This is fantasy movie genre. It could have been anywhere.
They didn’t look like ancient Egyptians. And it was a building site, not a city.
Despite all the critics, 10,000 B.C. is the #1 box office movie world wide, which is big achievement. American film like “Michael Clayton”–boring– -can’t boast such success.
Everyone I think forgets the basic premise to this film. It’s a fantasy, and in fantasies anything goes. Nothing has to be accurate.
There should be more fault tolerance(in Japan we say fo-rutotoreransu). If something you don’t like in 10,000 BC, just ignore it. They spent 100+ million to make this movie, and the actors when thru bootcamp and training just to get idea how people hunted and lived 10,000 BC. For all that, they deserve much better reaction.

By: bigpretty

bigpretty — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:27:42 +0000

I heared from friends that it is a nice movie. I cannot wait to watch it with the nice guy I hooked up at the milliionaires&hotties site MeetingRich dot c om.

By: Sumiko Yamadori

Sumiko Yamadori — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:17:04 +0000

I watched this movie 2x with some friends, and we loved it. The sets, scenery, plot, and especially the acting by Steven Strait and Camille Belle were awesome.
This film is in the classic mold of all other fantasy/sci-fi films, so I no understand what there is to criticize? The “Indiana Jones” movies, Star Trek tv series, Star Wars, Star Gate etc. were all of the same type. All were inaccurate historically, and in many other ways.
Having been to both Africa and New Zealand (and yes, done hiking around mountains there), it is very possible to go from snowy peaks to humid forest, and then to hot plains or desert in 2-3 day hiking. So for critics to assume that in 10,000 BC film they walked across continents in 3 days and to trash the movie for this unbelievable feat is ridiculous.
I don’t think it fair to nit-pick this film. So many bad reviews I’ve read, and yet it is an exciting, breathtaking and well acted movie that you can go to many times and not be bored. It also has morale of bonding with friends, and later with whole peoples to achieve a goal.
I think Steven Strait is a great actor. I’ve seen him in “SkyHigh” and “The Covenant”. He carried 10,000 BC. None of the other actors came close. He went from outcast/hunter in his tribe in the beginning, to Superhero at the end. I hope we see him in alot more movies. He’s better than Tom Cruise, who I think is overpayed and overhyped. Same about George Clooney.

By: slappy

slappy — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:12:13 +0000

Terrible movie… TERRIBLE!!! I agree with what Matt had to say… also I was a little pissed off that it turned into… well i shouldnt say turned into… it stated and was a FUCKIN LITTLE KIDS CORNY ASS LOVE STORY!

By: James Mitchell

James Mitchell — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:59:35 +0000

No problem. I probably overreacted. We just seem to get the brunt of a lot of the redneck jokes and I have no idea why. Maybe people equate country music with idiots, I dunno. But once people actually visit they realize how cool it is here. Next time you need breakfast in Nashville hit the Pancake Pantry in Hillsboro village. You’ll love it.

By: Zach Lawrence

Zach Lawrence — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:43:06 +0000

James Mitchell

Hey man, I’ve been to Nashville 6 times and it’s one of my favorite cities in the country… But I’m from Boston, and we have more made fun of accents than anyone in the entire country. I meant no offense, but that morning when I was in Waffle House eating beakfast off route 40, the woman behind me was talking about how awesome her c-section scar had faded. And my nephew was talking about how he was “fixin” to go see 10,000 BC.

So I’m wicked sorry that I caused offense. I think that Nashville is wicked pissah. I apologize for being a wicked retard.

Thank you for reading bro, I was just playing.

By: James Mitchell

James Mitchell — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:49:57 +0000

Native Nashvillian here. Love this website and most of the stories/reviews. However, there’s no need to make a stupid comment like â€œAll growned upâ€ (Sorry, Iâ€™m in Nashville). That was a tad bit disrespectful. We’re not a bunch of backwoods hicks, driving pickup trucks with shotguns in the back window, whistling through our missing teeth. This isn’t Deliverance. It’s freaking Nashville, and I dare say, it’s one of the coolest cities in the U.S. If you don’t like it here, get the hell out.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:45:48 +0000

I was surprised at how terrible this movie was. I figured it would have mediocre writing and and some decent special effects. I was also hoping for some decent action.

Well all I got was decent special effects. The writing was absolutely terrible, “clusterfucked” describes it perfectly.

And the action? Well I guess with a PG rating, Canada, you shouldn’t expect much. But for an “epic” movie I would expect something a little more…epic. But no the battle was boring. I really just found myself hoping the movie would end.

By: McLovin

McLovin — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:45:39 +0000

Hey Now DareDevil was good!!! haha

10,000 B.C. == Worst. Movie. Ever.

By: Michael Henninger

Michael Henninger — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:17:20 +0000

I need to start by saying this was not a perfect film but does it deserve to be trashed because it is historically inaccurate? I hadn’t realized it was a documentary… sorry.

By: Afa

Afa — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:53:08 +0000

I was the only one who was not all hyped about the film.. all my friends were like

“OMG 10000 BC” and stuff like that

when i first saw the trailer, im like neat, a film with alot of CG… (therefore alot of ppl are alrdy going to watch it)
but it was a real let down for me when the characters started talking..
the ppl didnt talk like cave men… it was like BRAVE HEART but topless (i was going to say 300 but that movie was too uber :D )

now im considering to even bother watching it?

By: LisaL

LisaL — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:21:39 +0000

You’ve pretty much said exactly the feeling I was getting when I watched the previews for this movie.
It’s just ridiculous… point blank.
I know the commercials were supposed to get people OOOing and AAhhing over it, but it just looked absolutely stupid to me.
Another crapfest that relies too much on CG.
I’m really glad I passed up this movie.

By: BJ Penn

BJ Penn — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:13:55 +0000

Zach,

Point taken, I just find that too many times this site gives upside down takes on movies but the more I think about it, movie reviews are always a personal opinion on how the saw the movie. Keep writing I’ll keep reading ; )

By: I.E. Cooper

I.E. Cooper — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:35:40 +0000

I was the only one of my friends who thought this might be good, but it turns out they were right. I was a little put off from the offset when I saw the mammoths with the pyramids and the jungle and desert. I was like “So…they’re traveling all around the world? Was this normal back then?” Of course the answer is no. It seems a little ridiculous that a movie this historically inaccurate is allowed by the producers and directors. This just puts it into people’s heads even further that nothing that happens in a movie is realistic or based off of reality at all, so when you base any opinion off of evidence in a movie people just immediately discredit that source and say that you’re wrong. It’s sad to me that such shitty scripts have millions of dollars thrown at them on a monthly basis. You’d think that with all the people interested in film, there would be some good writers, and they wouldn’t be ignored as often as they probably are. Ha…makes me super-psyched to go into the film industry as writer, in fact.

By: Zach Lawrence

Zach Lawrence — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:48:53 +0000

Hey BJ. How can you say its based on personal taste and I’m not biased. For example

“I think it takes genius behind the scenes to put together a movie this epically beautiful.” AND

“Iâ€™m not joking, this is how Clusterfucked this film wasâ€¦With stunning visuals.” AND

“and I will stress that while I did not hate this movie, I by no means loved it. Iâ€™m madly in like with this movie. I liked it okay.”

Now, all reviews are obvious takes on personal tastes, like yours on my article! The Fountain was one of my faves of 2006, not ever and I loved that (like Pete) because it was the rediculousness of how far someone would go for love and to save someone they loved.

Now this movie… It was just all over the place, right? The CG was excellent, but there was no substance, see what I’m getting at?

I love things like the 13th Warrior, I liked Pathfinder (don’t think anyone else saw it though), Army of Darkness… So I’m no elitist. I just think for all the hype this movie wanted to spread itself too far in too many directions and wanted to be too many things.

However. Thank you very much for reading, I’m not going to say FU on your opinion.

By: Peter Sciretta

Peter Sciretta — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:27:54 +0000

BJ: No problem, for a long time /Film was my one man show, but now with Hunter and reviews from Mel and Zach, it’s become a bit of a different animal. I’m pretty sure you’re not the only one confused. In our new design, feature articles will have a big “Who is this author” type section in the sidebar, which will help differentiate the contributors.

By: BJ Penn

BJ Penn — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:23:28 +0000

Peter,

My apologies, if I actually opened my eyes and looked who wrote the review I would have seen it wasn’t you!