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Mandarinaranja

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I'm a movie lover and this one was hilarious, I laughed a lot and it's not even a comedy. Maybe it wolud have worked better if they hadn't been so serious about it. The acting wasn't good, the premonition thing didn't make too much sense, the...
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I'm a movie lover and this one was hilarious, I laughed a lot and it's not even a comedy. Maybe it wolud have worked better if they hadn't been so serious about it. The acting wasn't good, the premonition thing didn't make too much sense, the whole thing was historically wrong (let's also consider the animals, the civilizations, the environment).
I'm one of those that justifies all the stupid things that happen in films by saying "don't be so serious, it's just a movie, have fun", but not even I believed the ending.
I'm not saying "don't see it", because I enjoyed it, but it's not good if you are objective.

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Posted jan 27, 2009 12:07 pm pt

CTUBauer24

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i know this movie is not ment to be a comedy but this really cheezy movie was very funny i have to say it is good.

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Posted aug 15, 2008 12:23 pm pt

A_Q_T_MATO

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its a no no!!! what a @#$% sh#$% movie!!!!
i get out of the movie theater it wasent worth my time.

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Posted aug 13, 2008 4:14 am pt

vamp-luvr

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Good movie. Don't really understand the storyline. Some humor was good, the scene with the sabretooth was hilarious. The whole premonition thing didn't make any sense.

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Posted aug 10, 2008 5:14 am pt

FireWolf787

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The whole point of this movie is pretty bad. I mean, a man running across the world at inhuman speeds to save the one he loves and get to a 2000 bc kingdom while encountering 10000 bc creatures is just stupid. They were not really going at inhuman...
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The whole point of this movie is pretty bad. I mean, a man running across the world at inhuman speeds to save the one he loves and get to a 2000 bc kingdom while encountering 10000 bc creatures is just stupid. They were not really going at inhuman speeds, but going from the mountains to the jungle to the fields to the desert through the dunes in that time is just impossible. Another immpossible feature was the river at the end. How does he plant crops and suddenly there's a river. I mean, global warmings not that fast and they didn't have Al Gore there to show it. I can't say the acting was bad but it wasn't good either. The poor dialouge and bad timing just made it worst. The visuals were nice but not as good as it could have been. When there is one 10000 bc creature its great, but when there are multible ones they look the same, in the bad way. You know what I mean. The movie was bad. Bad names for people and tribes were included. Also, there were no bow and arrows in 10000 bc and the creatures in the movie were all in the americas but they were in a european cultural enviroment. There is almost no place on earth where you can match all this up.

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Posted jul 21, 2008 1:45 pm pt

maruschk

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Note: the peps below me are clearly not movie lovers.

This is a fantastic film. Well-done, innovative, intriguing/interesting.
And I KNOW that its incorrect from a historical point of view.
Dude, it's a movie.

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Posted jul 12, 2008 2:25 pm pt

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As others have pointed out...this was a good mix of a bunch of very popular movies. If you like CGI and recycled action sequences, this is for u.

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Posted jul 9, 2008 6:18 pm pt

supermiller

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If you like the trailers on this movie then you best tivo them, to watch later. The rest of the movie was a big let down for me. This whole movie is just wrong. "Waterworld" anyone?

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Posted jun 30, 2008 9:55 am pt

KingKrap

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This film is like Stargate, Apocalypto, and 300 all wrapped into one. As cool as that sounds, it really isn't. 10,000 BC had a really good plot, but didn't execute it fairly well. It's about the first hero ever (I mean EVER), but the perspective...
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This film is like Stargate, Apocalypto, and 300 all wrapped into one. As cool as that sounds, it really isn't. 10,000 BC had a really good plot, but didn't execute it fairly well. It's about the first hero ever (I mean EVER), but the perspective of the first hero ever was like there were many other heroes before the supposedly "first hero ever", or in this case, O'Leh. I was excited about this movie and wanted to see it the first day it came out, but wasn't able to see it in theatres at all. So, I rented it, nearly bought it (thank the Lord I didn't), and I was happy that I rented it. In 10,000 BC, you don't get what you expect, and what you don't expect isn't really that entertaining. The only thing that saves this two-star movie from becoming a one-star is the fact that the plot was brilliant, but, like I said, it was executed very poorly. Hopefully, we'll see better out of Roland Emmerich.

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Posted jun 26, 2008 3:35 am pt

dennetje

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Same as Sheep .. I was so excited about the trailers but after ive seen the movie, not at all impressed. I can say that the movie is bad.
Story is to classic, nope didn't enjoyed :D. Dont have anything more to say haha

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Posted jun 22, 2008 3:34 am pt

• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
  75
  Emmerich has no time for poetry or magic, even when the director and his digital wizards (here doing wildly variable work) are trying to dazzle. He's a taskmaster and a field marshall, not a visionary. But I enjoyed 10,000 B.C. more and more, and more than just about anything Emmerich's done before.

  by Michael Phillips | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Hollywood Reporter
  
  70
  As one might expect, there are campy moments and far too much reliance on God-like interventions in the affairs of early man. Less expected is that 10,000 BC works just fine as an action Western with handsome actors in striking costumes and a few CG predators, which are giddy fun.

  by Kirk Honeycutt | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  70
  10,000 BC is as crazy as it wants to be, plundering the past and other movies with that peculiar Hollywood combination of the earnest and the preposterous that can result in the guiltiest of guilty pleasures.

  by Kenneth Turan | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  63
  Too dumb to take seriously, but just silly enough to be sort of fun.

  by Ken Fox | Read Full Review »
• [+] Empire
  
  60
  The mammoths aren't all that is wild and woolly in this innocent, old-fashioned, amusingly self-important, entertainingly mad, rip-snorting throwback to vintage Saturday matinee fare, with all the swell set piece thrills state-of-the-art technology can throw at it.

  by Angie Errigo | Read Full Review »
• [+] LA Weekly
  
  50
  Director Roland Emmerich (Godzilla, Independence Day) knows his money shots: any time he throws some mastodons or giant dodos on the screen for a little beast-battlin' action, he has our attention. But his lack of skill with actors really shows during the long moments of downtime in-between.

  by Luke Y. Thompson | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
  50
  The big, climactic fight, complete with an epic snuffleupagus rampage, is decent action-movie fun. And as a history lesson, 10,000 BC has its value. It explains just how we came to be the tolerant, peace-loving farmers we are today, and why the pyramids were never finished.

  by A.O. Scott | Read Full Review »
• [+] Christian Science Monitor
  
  50
  This is the kind of movie where a character can't just say "the fire's not out yet," they have to say "the fire still lives in these stones." It made me yearn to see "Caveman" again. At least that was INTENTIONALLY funny.

  by Peter Rainer | Read Full Review »
• [+] Miami Herald
  
  50
  Essentially a rip-off of "Apocalypto" for audience members too young or squeamish to endure graphic human sacrifice and jaguar face-eating.

  by Connie Ogle | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Onion (A.V. Club)
  
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  "The Day After Tomorrow" was kind of stupidly fun, and 10,000 B.C. might be too, if it weren't so stupidly dull.

  by Keith Phipps | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  40
  Conventional where it should be bold and mild where it should be wild, 10,000 BC reps a missed opportunity to present an imaginative vision of a prehistoric moment.

  by Todd McCarthy | Read Full Review »
• [+] Film Threat
  
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  What chaps my hide more is that I've seen 10,000 BC. I've seen it three times in the last year and a half. Except in the one that I saw, it centered instead on Mayans, was mostly historically accurate, and was called "Apocalypto."

  by Felix Vasques Jr. | Read Full Review »
• [+] Philadelphia Inquirer
  
  38
  Tedious, ludicrous and harmless glimpse of the dawn of civilization.

  by Carrie Rickey | Read Full Review »
• [+] Premiere
  
  38
  A nonsensical vision of pre-history that lurches randomly between "caveman vs. jungle beast" encounters -- Roland Emmerich's Shlockalypto -- and a rococo Stargate spin-off involving pyramids, slave uprisings and oracles.

  by Ryan Stewart | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  
  38
  If you thought "300" was silly, think of 10,000 BC as 33.333 times sillier.

  by Liam Lacey | Read Full Review »