For some days I was pending with excitement for the release of a movie named 10,000 B.C. why? Well, the trailers showed a promising movie full of action and prehistorical animals! There was even a guy facing a saber teeth tiger in the edge of a cliff with solely a white bone spiked spear! I saw some short trailers on tv about a guy (maybe the same one in the poster) trapped in some sort of cave with the huge cat! a win win movie!In the other hand I really like movies to surprise me by not documenting myself previously so I can enjoy them at the cinema, with pop corn and cola. After the movie I digest them outside while getting a drink. Thinking and discussing key scenes, speculating about actors destiny, director's hand, and this amateur observations we make ourselves. I'm one of these.
C'mon, this is 2008 we have hollywood movies with enough technology and budget as to display in front of our eyes, whatever ( I really mean whatever) story, flawlessly, full of details, sounds, great actors, impossible camera angles and all that sort of stuff that makes the 2 hours of a movie feel like just a couple of minutes! Ok, enough preamble, let's get to the point: 10,000 B.C.
The movie started with a great story about hunters and the mammoths that weren't returning to their valley, the starving tribe was worried. Then a cheesy prophesy came along with a little blue eyed girl that came suddenly after her tribe was owned by some sort of demons ( I thought, the tigers! maybe a horned t-Rex! I couldn't wait to find out who/what was a demon) even I managed to forget that the girl would be the true love of the hero (damn, a pinky taste). The mammoths chase scene was ok, but
something wasn't ok... there wasn't blood, broken bones, smashed people, so I deduced it was clearly a 12+ rated movie. Later one the movie got quickly more cheesy and pink! The story was a bad remaking of the far better movie apocalypto of Mel Gibson. The worst is maybe that there is not such a scene of the guy in the edge of the cliff!!! what the hell? The demons were, finally, some guys with masks that takes people from tribes and sell them as slaves (as apocalypto) in an area with a sacrifice pyramid (as in apocalypto). I don't want to spoil you the story but there are plenty and plenty of clichés in this movie and at the end the guy became an Independence day's style hero (everybody cheering up, and reunited to face evil and war yelling and world is safe an stuff like that).
Ok, I have to recognize, maybe I'm too old to enjoy such a movies. If I had 13 to 15 years less I would have enjoyed it to the bone, but to the sake of my money, at least I found it a bit entertaining.
C'mon, this is 2008 we have hollywood movies with enough technology and budget as to display in front of our eyes, whatever ( I really mean whatever) story, flawlessly, full of details, sounds, great actors, impossible camera angles and all that sort of stuff that makes the 2 hours of a movie feel like just a couple of minutes! Ok, enough preamble, let's get to the point: 10,000 B.C.
The movie started with a great story about hunters and the mammoths that weren't returning to their valley, the starving tribe was worried. Then a cheesy prophesy came along with a little blue eyed girl that came suddenly after her tribe was owned by some sort of demons ( I thought, the tigers! maybe a horned t-Rex! I couldn't wait to find out who/what was a demon) even I managed to forget that the girl would be the true love of the hero (damn, a pinky taste). The mammoths chase scene was ok, but
something wasn't ok... there wasn't blood, broken bones, smashed people, so I deduced it was clearly a 12+ rated movie. Later one the movie got quickly more cheesy and pink! The story was a bad remaking of the far better movie apocalypto of Mel Gibson. The worst is maybe that there is not such a scene of the guy in the edge of the cliff!!! what the hell? The demons were, finally, some guys with masks that takes people from tribes and sell them as slaves (as apocalypto) in an area with a sacrifice pyramid (as in apocalypto). I don't want to spoil you the story but there are plenty and plenty of clichés in this movie and at the end the guy became an Independence day's style hero (everybody cheering up, and reunited to face evil and war yelling and world is safe an stuff like that).Ok, I have to recognize, maybe I'm too old to enjoy such a movies. If I had 13 to 15 years less I would have enjoyed it to the bone, but to the sake of my money, at least I found it a bit entertaining.
