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| Director: Roland Emmerich
Actors: Camilla Belle, Steven Strait, Cliff Curtis, Joel Virgel, Mo Zinal
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  252 reviews
Sales Rank: 2164
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, Ntsc, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 109
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: WARD023986D
UPC: 085391139683
EAN: 0085391139683
ASIN: B0012Q732O
Theatrical Release Date: March 7, 2008
Release Date: June 24, 2008
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Condition: Complete with original case, artwork, and disc. In stock and ships right now.
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 Don't expect much... and you'll be pleased. March 14, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I didn't have any high expectations for this film, so enjoyed it. There are plenty of worse ways to spend a couple of hours. The special effects were satisfactory. (Excepting the sabre-tooth tiger, of course - I have to agree with another reviewer that CGI just cannot do cats yet, much less large cats. Still, acceptable though.)
I did like to velociraptor-like giant chickens / dodoes / whatever - very large man-eating birds are scary AND cool!
The non-specific geographic location and lack of time orientation were disappointing, though. Another reviewer remarked that they weren't sure if it took days, weeks, months, or years. From what I could tell, the whole story only took, like, four or five days! That's a lot of hiking, man!
Overall - okay. I'll buy it when on clearance next year :)
 Except for a couple of scenes, it's a MAMMOTH bore! March 13, 2008
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
10,000 B.C. is a sprawling, messy, jaw-dropping, silly, enjoyable bit of forgettable fun. It's the most disposable epic movie I've ever seen. Roland Emmerich, who has brought us fluffy epic fun before with INDEPENDENCE DAY and DAY AFTER TOMORROW, certainly has a grasp on how to bring moments to film that will stick with the viewer. Long after forgetting the details of these former blockbusters, I still remember the image of the White House being blasted to bits or Manhattan encrusted in ice. With this latest effort, I suppose I might remember the stampeding wooly mammoths. Or I might not. It's been 5 days since I saw the movie, and I can barely remember half of what happened.
It tells the story of a tribe of early humans who survive by hunting mammoths. They live in the foothills of a giant mountain range, and are pretty isolated from the rest of the world. But when another tribe invades and snags many of their best hunters, presumably to enslave them...our intrepid hero and his older mentor head off into unknown lands to save their fellow tribesmen. Naturally, one of the prisoners is also the love interest for our hero.
As this little band of travelers moves, they go from the blistering cold of the high mountains to the grassy lowlands where they meet a friendly tribe who join them on their quest. What began as a tiny group determined to win the freedom of some friends turns into a guerilla army comprised of members of several tribes...all eager to free their comrades and bring down an empire that is enslaving all these folks in order to build what looks suspiciously like the Egyptian pyramids...thousands of years before they were really built, of course.
It became almost laughable to see the climactic changes these men went through. As I said, from foothills to snowcapped mountains, to savannahs, to grasslands, to marshy country to a Saharan desert to a fertile river valley. We get no sense of how long they have traveled. Heck, it might have been a journey of two years or two weeks for all we can tell. And each climate has its own distinctive group of indigenous peoples...so we end up with a truly multi-racial and multi-cultural army. But instead of sending a message about unity...I was mostly perplexed in trying to figure out just where in the world this story was taking place. Probably Africa...but some of the geography felt more like the Andes mountains of South America. So it all ended up feeling very generic.
There were a few impressive scenes. Early on, we see a mammoth hunt, and the scenes of grazing mammoths, turned into stampeding mammoths was well done. The CGI effects were credible and for about 2 minutes, you can really believe you're getting a sense of how our early ancestors behaved. (Later CGI of a saber tooth tiger is NOT very believable at all...I have yet to see a large cat done convincingly via CG...just think of Aslan in NARNIA). Towards the end, the scenes at the city where thousands of slaves and hundreds of mammoths are toiling to build a series of pyramids is nothing short of impressive. Again, the CG is first-rate, and briefly a sense of awe IS inspired. I emphasize the word "briefly." Most of the movie is incredibly generic questing stuff, done far better in many movies that have come before...mostly notably in Mel Gibson's brilliant and very exciting APOCALYPTO.
The generic feel is not much helped by the average performances. The only truly recognizable face is that of Camilla Belle (BALLAD OF JACK & ROSE), who plays the love interest. She is striking to look at and absolutely, 100% boring. Everyone else is bland. An Omar Sharif provides grating narration in a voice that is so filled with silkiness and wonder that it bordered on camp.
I had a decent time watching this film, but I doubt if it will recoup its budget. I sensed no true enthusiasm for it from the audience I sat with. Yes, we all came to see the big epic in a very dutiful manner...sheep trained to attend all things where a giant wide-screen is advised. But we also filed out in a dutiful manner, and no voices were overheard saying, "that was fun." You've certainly seen worse movies, but probably never a movie this big yet forgettable.
 Give your brain the night off March 12, 2008
4 out of 11 found this review helpful
For someone like me who enjoys the Zorro movies and the Tomb Raider movies, I have to say... 10,000 BC is just pathetic. Unlikeable characters, terribly inconsistent accents, lame script, GOD AWFUL acting... it's all here. True the effects are good but this viewer needs more. This script needs about 10,000 more years to evolve into something watchable.
A reason this is a bad movie? March 12, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
How about there being Egyptian Nile boats that weren't
invented until 5000 years ago? Or there being horses
in the movie which seems to take place in Africa?
They weren't domesticated until about 4000 years ago?
How about that Mammoths were pretty much a "northern" European,
American and Asian prey animal and not really hunted in Africa?
So before we get to the climate change idea this movie
is at the level an old B movie of the Tarzan type; fake natives,
costumes and plot... not really sci fi,
because it has completely ignored both history and science.
 A Very Enjoyable Fantasy Flick! March 11, 2008
21 out of 30 found this review helpful
If you can shut off the critic inside your head you will enjoy 10,000 B. C.! I have a background in anthropology, history, linguistics, geography and biology. And I could spend all day picking this film apart - BUT IT"S A FANTASY STORY! HELLO! Remember: FANTASY! That's what I paid my money for! Not a documentary or historical fiction, but a FANTASTIC, DREAM-LIKE story.
Nor do you have to be a genius to figure this out!
The movie works on many levels. First, as an adventure story, a saga, like Lord of the Rings. I felt swept away. It's also an enjoyable love story. The chemistry between the actors is excellent. I cared about the characters. In addition to being erotic! - Its been a long time since I've seen so many good looking men and women on the Big Screen all at one time!
Very little of the violence is graphic or gratuitous. You can tell a fantastic story without blood and guts flying everywhere. It's also a movie suitable for older children.
Tribal people and people of color are shown with respect. Their rich variety of physical features, skin colors, dress, languages and architecture are shown in all its glory. Before the White Man came, and ruined everything, there was mind boggling cultural diversity on this planet!
What is most striking to me is the very moving and insightful portrayal of a Medicine Women performing profound acts of shamanism in order to help protect her people as best as she can. This is the very first time I seen such a pivotal role for tribal spiritual beliefs in a big Hollywood fantasy film! My hats off to the whomever wrote the screenplay! You did your homework!
Granted the ending did bother me a bit. It begs the question: Did the ancient Egyptians actually treat their workers that poorly? If only the Egyptians didn't use slaves, and treated their workers well. And what a metaphor for the year 2008, where most workers in the world are treated like dirt and instead of whips, the fear of dire poverty is used to keep most of the world's workers in line.
But I digress, this is a great movie. At the end a tear rolled down my cheek, and I felt good when I left the theater. That's all I can ask of a story. My money was well spent, for a change!
The World of Shamanism: New Views of an Ancient Tradition
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