10,000 B.C.

I'm not going to talk about the ridiculous dearth of historical inaccuracies in this movie. That's basically what drew me to it in the first place. "A movie where cavemen fight egyptians, dinosaurs, sabre-tooth tigers, wooly mammoths, and (fingers crossed) possibly robots? Sign me up!" It looked fun. Then I realized it was directed by Roland Emmerich, the genius behind such classic travesties such as Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow. Still, I remained undeterred. CAVEMEN! DINOSAURS! Finally untethered from the shackles of fact, they were going to do glorious battle! How can you possibly mess that up? That's a question only Mr. Emmerich can answer, because he messed it up like a professional disaster. In the end, the movie was too long and ACTUALLY BORING. When you have no real intentions on making a quality movie about real characters, please don't spend time trying to developing. That's like planting a rock in a ground and watering it and telling people it's going to grow into a beautiful tree.
As he loves to make disaster movies, perhaps next time ol' Rolie should make a movie about the making of any of his films.

I just love to tag the idiots who think they're so smooth panning a movie because they're above it all. Get a life! If you wrote a review you must have seen, or heard others comment. It was good, clean fun, not action packed idiocy throughout - some just don't get that. The film is reminiscent of Gibsons 'Apocalypto', not much acting, but a story line that wasn't lost in the telling, and an ending worthy of good fantasy - three and a half stars.

10,000 BC is the greatest movie ever made. It is an imaginative interpretation of the past that connects us to who we are today. It is timeless mythology that could be told to hunter and gathers around a camp fire, and also touch our human yearning for mythology today. Our need for mythology has not changed in 12,000 years. We are basically the same humans.

10,000 BC celebrates the beautiful social bonding humans have with each other, and says this quality is really what makes us civilized. It completely made me rethink what we typically call an "advanced" civilization. Does "advanced" mean technology, mathematics, and great architectural achievements? Or is what truly makes us advanced is how we love our families, friends, and villagers, and how we can work together, using this social bonding to give us meaning? It made me rethink respect for the Egyptian civilization and the great pyramids. If you think about it, the pyramids are great accomplishment of human stupidity. What "great" civilization would expend huge amounts of human effort to build enormous, pointless structures? Was the Egyptian civilization really a totalitarian social structure that relied on huge amounts of slaves to carry out the religious wishes of the minority? The truth is, we just don't know.

D,Ley grows into the hero in this epic story. At first, he really just wants to save his girl. Romantic love is his basic drive. As his journey unfolds, he learns of his father. He learns his father was a great man that allowed his people to believe he was a coward just so he could keep his struggling tribe together. D,Ley's first attempt to rescue his girl Evolet shows lack of experience and impatience. Tic'Tic, an older and wiser hunter, and friend of D,Ley's father, takes the time to pass his wisdom to D,Ley. He teaches D,Ley some men take on a circle of responsibility that encloses many people. When D,Ley has achieved full hero status, he leads thousands from various cultures to "take them down". Joseph Campbell would have loved it.

There is also something about 10,000 BC that is genius. 10,000 BC turns mythology inside out and shows how myth is intertwined with prophecy. Tic'Tic teaches prophecy can be fulfilled in many ways. Prophecy is what aids our hero. Without the prophecy, D,Ley could not have gathered such an army, and could not have exploited the weakness of the Almighty. D'Ley fulfills these prophecies because people want to see them fulfilled. When you watch 10,000 BC, you are watching the mythology unfold in all its accidental luck but ultimately fueled by our greater human qualities. Qualities such as love, friendship, loyalty, courage, respect, and honor is the real driving force, not prophecy. These qualities are really what makes our hero and his people the more advanced civilization. When you watch 10,000 BC, you may not realize it, but you become a participant of mythology. Your very own yearning for great, meaningful story telling is awakened. The alternate ending shows the narator concluding the story to a future generation. I'm thinking they should have stuck with that ending to bring home the fact you are watching a fictionalized story packaged as a handed down myth. This would have helped some people "get" this movie. It justifies why the saber-tooth tiger was so big. It's a story. Stories exaggerate for effect.

Many people have criticized 10,000 BC as being historically a farce. Well, watch the bonus material on the blu-ray about the book "Fingerprints of the Gods" by Graham Hancock. Hancock is interviewed and talks about maps found showing land mass before the ice age in their predicted location given continental drift. This is a complete unaddressed mystery. It suggests there were advanced civilizations way earlier than 2,500 BC. So "10,000 BC" takes some liberty on a possibility for this mystery. We don't know everything about our past. But what makes "10,000 BC" so great is that it helps us realize to understand the value of our current civilization, we need to understand our fundamental nature as hunter and gathers. Our basic social instincts come from living in small groups. A civilization that drifts too far from our social origins will eventually fall, as many "advanced" civilization in the past have.

Very slow and not interesting at all, i had to shut it off halfway through...

My daughter (15 yrs old) wanted this, so I purchased the DVD, thinking it would be a typical teens' adventure film, long on action and short on sense. I was pleasantly surprised..... the plot is limited, and more than little free with the geographical locations of historical events, but the filmed settings and scenery are spectacular, the acting more than credible, and there is nice story line with a satisfactory "good guys win" ending. It kept me entertained throughout, even on the second viweing. So if you are looking for a film both the adults and kids will like, its a great choice.