10,000 Bc

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It’s not often I go to see a film at the cinema. I went to see 10,000 BC the other day.

What enjoyable codswallop!:slight_smile:

Stone age European men hunting woolly mammoths come into conflict with bronze age Arabs with swords (several thousand years ahead of their time!) and end up being abducted and travelling on foot over the Alps in a blizzard, through a European tropical jungle and onto the desert.

Eventually, the Arabs get off their horses (which have stirrups, several thousand years before they were invented) carry their captives on lateen rigged dhows which weren’t invented until AD, not BC.

At the head of the Nile, they find the Egyptian pyramids being built, some 7,000 years ahead of schedule - and they solve the big mystery of how those massive blocks of stone were lifted: of course, they were dragged there under the blazing desert sun by woolly mammoths!

Oh, and in true Lord Greystoke colonialist racist tradition, it takes a white man to naturally rise to a position to lead the brave but apparently stupid blacks to victory. (Of course, the desert around the Nile was famously full of Zulus wearing bamboo masks around that time.)

But if instead of calling it 10,000 BC they had called it something like “The White Spear” it would have been a reasonable fantasy film, The CGI of the mammoths is pretty amazing, and the film is fun.

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I enjoyed that movie too.

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i thought there was something amiss about those trailers lol

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I really liked it as well. Even though a lot of it is completely inaccurate it was still enjoyable. It was nice to see something different for a change.

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i really want to see that movie, just haven’t found time:(

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Is it true there is a cameo by Atouk?

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Aw man, I really enjoyed it too. Now you’ve ruined it for me. I thought it was based on a true life story :o

Was wondering how the pyramids got finished in the end.

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The movie was good… what was with all the blind people though???

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I thought the action was enjoyable, but the dialogue was terrible.

“You see that star, in the sky? It is like you, in my heart. It never moves.”

I mean come on…

When that line was said, almost the whole audience laughed.

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That movie was awesome if you’re not one of those people who go “THAT’S HISTORICLY INACCURATE!!!” and the animation was pretty good. Me and my friends laughed for like, 4 minutes when that retarded blind prophet thing started to talk and somehow a guy was able to translate it. XD

I’d give it about a 9 or 8 outta 10.

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I really want to see it. My wife has steadfastly refused.

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Then there was the Arab bloke who forgot half way through the film that he couldn’t speak “English”. :roll_eyes: Maybe he’d been listening to Parlaphone lessons on his MP3 while he was riding through the jungle.

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The movie was awesome. Made me want to get dreadlocks again:)