GWJ Movie Thread: 10,000 BC
Sunday, January 20th, 2008 - 6:23pm
Ok, so I understand the commercials during the Chargers New England game are meant to create a buzz, but I am all in after seeing Mammoths, Saber tooth tigers and smokin' hot pre-history babes being abducted by the hideous civilized folk.
Links:
- Official Movie Site with trailer
- IMDB Listing
- [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10,000_BC_(film)]Wikipedia Entry[/url]
So, I know there will be a very high risk of this movie not being worth my time, but after the pain and anguish of Children of Men, I feel I am owed at least a little opportunity to geek out on a bunch of guys hunting CG mammoths.
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The CG looks really fake.
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So they not only spoke english 10,000 years ago, but they spoke it in vaguely English accents? Sure. And what's with the retarded kid 3/4 of the way through the trailer?
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That's been SOP for Hollywood for years now though, hasn't it? If they don't know or feel like trying to replicate anything even resembling the accent or language, go with English.
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But what's wrong with just having them "speak" in grunts, and have all their feelings and motivations portrayed through actions? Or even just make up a fictional language? Is Hollywood so afraid of doing something different? It's not like it hasn't been [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clan_of_the_Cave_Bear_(film)]done[/url] [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quest_for_Fire_(film)]before[/url].
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Who would want to watch a movie with just grunts? People should realize that the people really are speaking their own language but we HEAR it as English. I guess every movie should go the Hunt for Red October route to stave off that type of criticism.
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Well played, sir.
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So, lets just assume that this sucker won't be in the Golden Globe's running for '08 and look at it from a true 'popcorn' entertainment approach.
Am I the only one who liked the trailer?
Not to split hairs, but how did the CG look fake?
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I missed this... how did it CoM cause pain and anguish?
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I plan on passing on this flick. It doesn't look at all interesting to me.
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The retarded kid is staring at the hot chicks boobs!
As for this movie I think its a total Apocalypto Ripoff. This is how I see the entire movie
1. The are hunting Elephants
2. Evil pseudo-Egyption people come and take people away slave style!
3. Hero gets away! But follows hot chick
4. Hero Attack said pseudo-Egyption people!
5. Hero gets a beer and sits down with a job well done.
But what the hell I will go as it will more then likely be fun. But thats after I watch, Hellboy 2, Ironman, The new star trek and other movies I want to see this year.
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It looks as historically accurate as it's possible to get with an afternoon of research in the Malibu library prior to writing the screenplay.
And I may be the only person in America other than Pharacon who saw apocalypto, a movie notable for serving up the most laughable scene ever of a jaguar chasing down a character. Granted, there's not a lot of competition in that category of scene, but maybe this 10,000 BC movie will give it some competition with the sabertooth.
This like a re-imagining of the Flintstones?
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I saw the trailer for this and was simply floored. What would actually be cool is if someone actually went about re-imagining (because that's really all we can do) ancient Sumerian and possibly Babylonian or Assyrian cultures based around a movie. This looks like a lot of movie cliches tossed together, fried up with sufficient battle scenes so that you overlook every possible historical anachronism presented while making the white "pseudo-Christian" look good fighting the "pseudo-Muslim" Egyptian bad guy. Lovely.
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I'd like to suggest some modifications to your insightful yet uninspired movie summary ...
1. They are hunting giant wolly mammoth twice the size of any mammoth skeleton ever discovered. No, wait, three times the size.
Perfect.
3. Hero gets away but his love for hot chick forces him to return in a desperate attempt to rescue her.
4. Hero attacks speudo-egyptian people with an army of mammoth, saber-tooth tigers and, um, giant sloths. No wait, giant crocodiles.
5. Hero has sex with hot chick. On a bed of wolly mammoth furs.
I'm there!
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Didn't see any reference to christianity or Islam. Only thing I noticed was egyption style Architechture but could be something else. I thought it would be cool if it was the Tower of Babel.
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Tempest says: "A team hat doe snot communicate and talk to each other about what the next move will be is going to lose."
Mex is my hero = "f*ck it, I'll do it. WE'LL DO IT LIVE."
Ok. Add that as yet another reason to see this one.
Wasn't the mammoth the kitchen sink?
Well, add one more to the freakin' list.
Oh, come on now. We don't want this thread tossed into the P&C forum. There are some cliches and stereotypes but this is Hollywood we're talking about. They can't make a movie with out at least one of the two tossed in. Both are preferred.
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The retarded kid speaks the truth that the wise are too learned to see. Also, he want gumdrop.
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Be honest. It's the thought of wooly mammoth firm that gets you excited rather than the hot chick, right?
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Tempest says: "A team hat doe snot communicate and talk to each other about what the next move will be is going to lose."
Mex is my hero = "f*ck it, I'll do it. WE'LL DO IT LIVE."
He's the world's first recorded Quato.
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It looks really really bad.
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Does nobody remember Ron Perlman in "Quest for Fire"? Or "Clan of the Cave Bear"? Or "One Million Years B.C"? Every now and then Hollywood likes to pull out the bear rugs and toss around a few spears. It's all part of the great cycle of movie making.
Ok the best ugg type movie was hands down Caveman with tvat loveable Beatle Ringo Star! Lik the scene when they discover the word sh*t while playing in the giant dino plop. Or the asian caveman who is the smartest translating caveman into english.
My fav line, ringo starts to air hump and says "zug zug" the asian caveman throws up his hands and say "ok you got me there!"
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Tempest says: "A team hat doe snot communicate and talk to each other about what the next move will be is going to lose."
Mex is my hero = "f*ck it, I'll do it. WE'LL DO IT LIVE."