10,000 BC
Starring: Steven Strait, Camilla Belle, Cliff Curtis, Omar Shariff, Timothy Barlow
Director: Roland Emmerich
Writer(s): Roland Emmerich, Harald Kloser, John Orloff (rewrite), Matthew Sand (rewrite)
Studio: Warner Bros.
Rating: PG-13
Official Bar Score: 
A young hunter long abandoned by his father discovers he is the key in an age old prophecy foretold by the village clairvoyant. The prophecy tells a tale of true love w/ a blue eyed girl, a constellation, four legged demons and a journey to the edge of the known world. His quest begins as he leads a group of hunters into the unknown wild to slay the mighty mammoth in attempt to free his people of hunger and starvation. What he finds is much bigger than anything he has ever known. He is a chosen one and the fate of his people weighs heavy on his shoulders. The journey is riddled w/ many trials and tribulations from savage beasts to barbaric warlords from another land to the “mighty gods”. The young hunter must keep his faith, the love of his girl and sheer determination to succeed at such a monumental responsibility.
Roland Emmerich to no surprise delivers us yet another visually stunning achievement. However, this film lacks some genuine fibers. This is a period film of course set in 10,000 B.C. yet all the “cavemen” have pearly white teeth and very well groomed perfectly manicured facial hair and are very fluent in the English language. When I think of cavemen I think of drawings on the wall, creating fire and the wheel. These cavemen are obviously evolved a bit more than the text book cave man you may have expected to see in this movie. They have seemingly mastered the arts of dentistry and beauty school. This took away from the realness of the mood and setting which ultimately killed this film for me. It was entertaining yes but more so on the scale of a children’s movie than the epic film I was hoping for. It was hard for me to look over such modern details laid out in a primitive world. The movie would have been much more appealing had it taken the same route as Mel Gibson’s Apocolypto.
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One look at the preview told me this was going to be awful. Then again I hate epic movies, so I was biased. But I find it funny that this being universal trashed by critics and viewers alike.
more hopes dashed on the rocks fuck the world sucks hollywood is killing us with perfection that is unatainable through the resources of the avrage man this in turn will be the down fall of man or the game halo wich ever i shall survive
umm… huh?
[...] 10,000 B.C. - $8,660,000 ($76,100,000 - 3 week total) [...]
[...] 10,000 B.C. - $35,730,000 ($35,730,000 - 1 week total) [...]
[...] 10,000 B.C. - $16,773,312 ($61,577,423 - 2 week total) [...]
DESTROY US ALL DESTROY US ALL DESTROY US ALL DESTROY US ALL
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the first thing that all humans should know grim clowns will destroy us all
Woah dude, put down the mushrooms and call 911, you are losing it man.
nah just random if you dont know the grim adventures of billy and mandy you are missing out im still gonna see this flick but ill wait till its in red box just figured id have some fun fucking with your head man can you blame me
and there is a video on the net about how halo the x-box game is the rise and downfall of man you should check it out its funny as hell
[...] 10,000 B.C. - $2,770,000 ($89,323,000 - 5 week total) [...]
ok i watched this and for an epic movie it was not that bad every tribe had its own language and stuff and they were trying to tie atlantis, greeks, eygpt, and the theory that man came from space all together was a little cool but yes cave men probably did not look like that and the plot was more about the north star in the orion constolation than anything else but it wasnt that bad i’d say two and a half would have been three if the blue eyed chick had died or if there had been no script just grunts and facial expretions