I went to see "10,000 B.C." under the theory that despite its terrible reviews, there would be enough cool special effects that I would enjoy the movie. As it turned out, there were just enough fun effects (mostly of humans hunting mammoths) that I didn't think the movie sucked, but just barely. This movie is about as close as you can get to getting a "This movie sucked" grade without doing so.
Unfortunately, everything other than the special effects in the movie is a mess. There are lots of those "Are you kidding me?" moments. It's hard to do voice over narration in a movie well. "10,000 B.C." does it terribly. I pretty much winced whenever Omar Sharif's voice started. The movie also can't seem to decide whether to go historic or fantasy. It mostly tries to stay within the realm of reality, but occasionally embraces some light magic. Since the scenes involving the magic (mostly through a character called Old Mother) universally sucked, I guess they should have stuck with complete realism. I can't recommend this movie to even the most die hard CGI effects fan.
Final Grade: C
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
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Yeah, I guess I agree. I thought it was more a "B" level children's story, kind of like a comic. Good guys vs. bad guys, quest, quest challenges, happy ending.
OK, now I guess I'm more in the "C" camp. If the saber toothed tiger could have just mauled the guy maybe I could go "B."
- Pete
The saber toothed tiger scenes were all really bad, sadly. They were part of what I was referring to when I said all the scenes that had hints of magic were really terrible.
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