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10,000 B.C. [Blu-ray] | ![10,000 B.C. [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51tkaDIGwXL._SL160_.jpg)
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| Director: Roland Emmerich
Actors: Camilla Belle, Steven Strait
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $35.99
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Rating:  238 reviews
Sales Rank: 2504
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Blu-ray
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 109
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 5.3 x 0.5
MPN: WARBR23985
UPC: 085391139676
EAN: 0085391139676
ASIN: B0017U7PT6
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: June 24, 2008
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Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 06/24/2008 Rating: Pg13
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To anyone who has ever yearned to see woolly mammoths in full stampede across the Alps, 10,000 BC can be heartily recommended. There's also a flock of "terror birds"--lethal ostriches on steroids--in a steaming jungle only a splice away from the heroes' snow-dusted alpine habitat. And lo, somewhere in the vastness of the North African desert lies a city whose slave inhabitants alternately teem like the crowds in Quo Vadis during the burning of Rome and trudge in hieratically menacing formations like the workers in Metropolis. That's pretty much it for the cool stuff. Setting movies in prehistoric times is dicey. Apart from the "Dawn of Man" sequence in 2001: A Space Odyssey, only Quest for Fire makes the grade, and its creators had the good sense to limit the dialogue to grunts and moans. 10,000 BC boasts a quasi-biblical narrator (Omar Sharif) and characters who speak in formed, albeit uninteresting, sentences--including a New Age-y "I understand your pain." But let no one say the storytelling isn't primitive. The narrator speaks of "the legend of the child with the blue eyes" and bingo, here's the kid now. When, grown up to be Camilla Belle, she's carried off by "four-legged demons"--guys on horseback to you--the neighbor boy (Steven Strait) who hankers to make myth with her leads a rescue mission into the great unknown world beyond their mountaintop. His name is D'Leh, which is Held, the German for "knight," spelled backward. So yes, there is some hidden meaning after all. 10,000 BC is the latest triumph of the ersatz from writer-director Roland Emmerich. Like Stargate (1994), Independence Day (1996), and The Day After Tomorrow (2004) before it, it's shamelessly cobbled together out of every movie Emmerich can remember to pilfer from (though to be fair, the section in pre-ancient Egypt harks back to his own Stargate). Emmerich's saving grace is that his films' cheesiness is so flagrant, his narratives so geared for instant gratification, he can seem like a kid simultaneously improvising and acting out a story in his backyard: "P'tend there's this alien ... p'tend maybe he came from Atlantis or something...." Just don't p'tend it has anything to do with real moviemaking. --Richard T. Jameson
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 Good price Great Movie !! December 1, 2008
A Great Adventure Movie at an Excellent Price !!
Thank You -JS !!
 one of the worst movies of 2008 November 24, 2008
I have to be fair... I categorize the worst movies of this year based on how much emphasis is put on them before they are released. 10,000 B.C. certainly wouldn't be a worse movie than any of the B rated horror films put out recently such as "Side Sho", but it is close. The only thing making it a better film is a bigger budget.
10,000 B.C. is a lousy attempt at making a somewhat prehistoric setting realistic. What we have instead is a cartoon style CGI festival coupled with corny, and at times stupid, voice over narrative. The movie lacks a few major components to making a movie worth it's budget:
1. Decent Screenplay: A bad script will never be made into a good movie. No amount of good acting or directing will make it that way. This leads me to number 2..
2. Decent Directing: Roland Emmerich is possibly my least favorite director of all time. Granted, when I was 12 years old the day Independence Day came out, I loved that movie. Looking back on that movie and others such as The Day After Tomorrow, I realize that he possibly sets the standard for bad movies.
3. Time setting matches the dialogue: Mel Gibson is constantly criticized for his movies, but the man knows how to build a story. In Apocalypto and The Passion, the dialogue (including the language) matches the era for which the story is told. This film on the other hand makes it seem like 21st century minds were put in prehistoric bodies. It is reminicent of Battlefield Earth, when post apocalyptic humans turned neo-neanderthal said phrases such as "Get the Hell outta here!" thousands of years after the human race was all but extinct.
Overall, as stated before, this movie can be classified as one of the worst movies of the year. In fact, this movie has inspired me to start a list of the worst movies of this year. 10,000 B.C., welcome to the list at #4.
Top 5 Worst Movies of 2008
1. "to be announced"
2. "to be announced"
3. "to be announced"
4. 10,000 B.C.
5. The Hulk
 Quest For Fire it ain't!!! November 23, 2008
I am pretty open to all types of movies and I even liked Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. This movie is so laden with WTFs it can't even be called entertaining. It would do much better as a comedy but the stage is set for a serious production.
The opens in a snowy land where the guys are too stupid to wear shirts and coat themselves with mud. The girls though have been smart enough to invent bras. They also invented mascara, eyeliner, rouge and lipstick and in the beginning of the movie they have apparently been working under cars as they are greasy smudged as opposed to the mud smeared men.
"Native" dialects soon give way to strong modern accents including more than a few who have apparently invented British inflections and the 'broken' language of 'primitives' becomes intermixed with complete grammatically correct sentences bearing $10 words.
I love the part where our hero falls into a pit trap containing a Saber-toothed tiger who apparently fell in, recovered the hole then pinned himself under a log so he couldn't move.
I still can't figure out the reasoning behind stampeding the mammoths and chasing them miles for a kill. I would have dropped one where he stood grazing so I wouldn't have to carry it all so far back home, I guess I'm just a spoiled lazy movie buff.
The graphics were excellent but the writing and directing were pathetic. Quest For Fire gets my vote hands down.
It's Not Bad November 21, 2008
Okay, so this movie may not be the blockbuster hit of the year, but I actually thought it was halfway decent. First off, I love Stargate so I thought the not-so-surprising resemblance in certain areas extremely amusing. Also, the story itself is not so bad. Love conquers all, good vs evil, man vs nature, conincedence vs fate--they pretty much have it all.
As for historical inaccuracies... well, really, who cares? Can we say '300'? Or any of the other hundreds of movies set in prehistoric/ancient/classical times that swerves so far from reality as to be completely unrelated? If it really bothers viewers so much, just do what I do: pretend it's somewhere else. Pretty easy, really.
I will say that the best part of this movie had nothing to do with special effects (which I thought were fairly impressive) or the acting (which... did leave something to the imagination) or the plot (yeah...), but with the music. Harold Kloser did an amazing job with this music, even if parts of it do sound strangely similar to 'The Day After Tomorrow'. Eh, who cares? There are times when I can't tell the 'Independence Day' and 'Stargate' soundtracks apart, but they are both very good.
Anyway, the movie was good and even if it isn't a I-must-have-this-movie flick, it's still good fun when your in the mood for a movie that's filled with beautiful scenery and cool prehistoric animals and Egyptian/Stargate-style sets.
 not quite "fulfilling" November 13, 2008
*10,000 B.C.* just couldn't quite be THE movie, although there were quite some interesting elements in it.
This movie focuses on a clan during a time when mammoths and sabertooths roam the earth. D'leh is isolated from his peers because his father, the clan's leader, had forsaken them. Also in the clan is the adopted blue-eyed girl.
When the girl is taken hostage in a land faraway, which you assume to be Egypt, D'leh and a few men go after them. And, along the way, they encounter little adventures.
Simple story with minimal dialogues. It's a simple damsel-in-distress plot that works just about every time. While there were cool special effects, there were misses here and there. I think what really hurt this film was that the story moved at a slow pace. Slow pace + minimal dialoge = not good.
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