Yes, I was sucked in by the thought of seeing a movie about cavemen fighting smilodons, giant ground sloths and all kinds of Marx playset prehistoric creatures.
Saw this last and now fully understand the title stands for: "10,000 Better Choices". No time to go into this now but if anyone wants to discuss this in detail I will be happy to later this evening.
Ugh, we went to see it also. Honestly, 1,000,000 BC was better. Quite a bit better. And it's not very good.
On the plus side, I laughed out loud several times. On the minus side, it wasn't supposed to be funny.
Paul and Bobby, The creatures had me interested, and I was weakening--thanks for saving me from this one!
I was going to see this on a whim yesterday, but the movie had started ten minutes before, so I didn't. Thanks for the info. I would like to know what about it you disliked. I have pretty low expectations except a couple entertaining caveman/prehistoric beast battles.
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Did you know that Mammoths with their tusks cut off hauled stones up and down the Great Pyramid of Giza in 10,000 BC, in service to an Alien "God" from Atlantis, who ruled Egypt?
Aside from the mammoths, the only other "creatures" were some great big flightless birds that climb trees and hunt in packs through the marshes...
You can implant a great hunk of ivory into your chin without any vocal impairment or scarring.
Arab horsemen were employed by the alien to sail up the Nile in great slave ships with huge red cloth sails to capture and enslave mud men tribes to use as pyramid building slaves.
Horses were just like ours today. There were no camels, and no other animals aside from those mentioned. Not even weird bugs.
12,000 years ago, human honor and values were much as they are now.
A tribe wore birdhouses on their heads.
I could go on....
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LOL ok perhaps not even a good choice for a video rental
QuoteI could go on....
and I will go on later on this evening, for "the sheer enjoyment of the mock"
a kind of therapy to prevent bad dreams.
Ok I don't need to go on really. I knew I was in trouble within about three minutes, first upon hearing the narrator who sounded like Raj from Camp Lazlo , alot of those "in the time of the"...and "when the great" and so on, ...turned out to be Omar Sharif, then seeing the young mudhut lads at spear practice and actually primitive HIGH-FIVEING after one of them made a good shot! Granted - they used their forearms but literally said "That was a good shot" as they all bumped arms. Maybe it was "the time when the Great YMCA came to the clan". Then there was the whole giant saber toothed kitty cat thing Suffice it to say there were no cool battles. No tiger battles at all. They only worked the cat into the plot to sell tickets, I'm convinced of this. Oh well maybe someday I'll make my own "Marx Playset Creatures Come Alive!" movie...until then my plastic cavemen will have to do. But man, sure woulda been nice to see a Giant Ground Sloth ripping guys up with those huge claws, all bloody with spears sticking out or something...and to top it off when I walked outside - the parking lot had turned to a tarpit and my Neon was sinking! Ok I made that part up for the movie 10,000 AD! Bet you'd buy a ticket wouldn't you?
What did you expect? It's Roland Emmerich. ::)
The guy has a knack for involving himself as writer, director, or producer (or, as in this case, all three) in some of filmdom's most overhyped, oversaturated and underachieving projects, along with his sometime partner in film crime, Dean Devlin.
I NEVER begrudge a guy his ability to earn a buck in a tough business, but in cases like these dimwits I make a point of assuring that as few of those bucks as possible come from my wallet.
Mike C.
Quote from: mike c on March 11, 2008, 03:16:25 AM
What did you expect? It's Roland Emmerich. ::)
The guy has a knack for involving himself as writer, director, or producer (or, as in this case, all three) in some of filmdom's most overhyped, oversaturated and underachieving projects, along with his sometime partner in film crime, Dean Devlin.
I NEVER begrudge a guy his ability to earn a buck in a tough business, but in cases like these dimwits I make a point of assuring that as few of those bucks as possible come from my wallet.
Mike C.
Well, I stumbled into it because my son lost his glasses and we had to wait for LensCrafters to make him so new ones so we were at the mall and walked over to the theater and decided to see it. I didn't have any idea of what to expect. I did notice that Roland Emmerich was the director and frankly I thought that Independence Day and Stargate and even that Godzilla flick were fun movies to watch, even if they didn't have much in the way of "I want to buy this DVD and watch it again" appeal... I had no regrets about killing a couple hours watching them.. Generally speaking, I'm not very demanding of a movie as long as it entertains on some level, I'll hang with them. There are a lot of movies I've seen that honestly I cannot remember ever having watched, but those 3 Emmerich movies I remember watching and enjoying, even if they weren't iconic classic films. Not so, here.
So the add was the best part of the show? It figures.......
I'll put this on my, only if someone else rents it list. lol
Dale