10,000 BC

Posted by james on Mar 8, 3:09 PM

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After seeing the previews, I really wanted to see this one solely due to the visuals. The reviews were mixed, stating that the visuals and animals were great, but the people dragged the movie down. I realized that in the entire preview, there wasn't any dialog or even narration. Still, I couldn't help but want to see this one since it reminded of Stargate. No surprise there; both written/directed by Roland Emmerich.

I was fully prepared for a visually fun movie with painfully awful dialog and plot. The dialog did get pretty bad at certain points, with ancient characters marred by high-school level chewed over wrote dialog. But thankfully most of the dialog did not get in the way (though none of it was outstanding) and the characters themselves were only about 30% bad. The visuals were pretty good, with the CG animals taking a backseat to incredible vistas and environments. But the most surprising was the plot. It was a pretty standard story with cheesy narration ("The prophecies foretold, yah yah yah hero hero") but it still managed to be interesting.

The movie was nothing like Stargate, which stood out as a very unique story and presentation with an interesting concept to build with, and visuals that complemented the story. I'd say 10,000 BC was interesting, fun, great scenery, and not as painful as I expected.