10,000 B.C. | 
| Director: Roland Emmerich
Actors: Camilla Belle, Steven Strait, Cliff Curtis, Joel Virgel, Mo Zinal
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Format: Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC, Color, Closed-captioned
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 109 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 1000023986
UPC: 085391139683
EAN: 0085391139683
ASIN: B0012Q732O
Theatrical Release Date: March 7, 2008
Release Date: June 24, 2008
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| • | From Roland Emmerich, director of Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow, comes a awesome new adventure about a time when mammoths shook the earth and mystical spirits shaped human fates. This special-effects spectacle is an eye-filling tale of the first hero (Steven Strait), who sets out on a bold trek to rescue his kidnapped beloved (Camilla Belle) and to fulfill his prophetic destiny. Batt |
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To anyone who has ever yearned to see woolly mammoths in full stampede across the Alps, 10,000 BC can be heartily recommended. There's also a flock of "terror birds"--lethal ostriches on steroids--in a steaming jungle only a splice away from the heroes' snow-dusted alpine habitat. And lo, somewhere in the vastness of the North African desert lies a city whose slave inhabitants alternately teem like the crowds in Quo Vadis during the burning of Rome and trudge in hieratically menacing formations like the workers in Metropolis. That's pretty much it for the cool stuff. Setting movies in prehistoric times is dicey. Apart from the "Dawn of Man" sequence in 2001: A Space Odyssey, only Quest for Fire makes the grade, and its creators had the good sense to limit the dialogue to grunts and moans. 10,000 BC boasts a quasi-biblical narrator (Omar Sharif) and characters who speak in formed, albeit uninteresting, sentences--including a New Age-y "I understand your pain." But let no one say the storytelling isn't primitive. The narrator speaks of "the legend of the child with the blue eyes" and bingo, here's the kid now. When, grown up to be Camilla Belle, she's carried off by "four-legged demons"--guys on horseback to you--the neighbor boy (Steven Strait) who hankers to make myth with her leads a rescue mission into the great unknown world beyond their mountaintop. His name is D'Leh, which is Held, the German for "knight," spelled backward. So yes, there is some hidden meaning after all. 10,000 BC is the latest triumph of the ersatz from writer-director Roland Emmerich. Like Stargate (1994), Independence Day (1996), and The Day After Tomorrow (2004) before it, it's shamelessly cobbled together out of every movie Emmerich can remember to pilfer from (though to be fair, the section in pre-ancient Egypt harks back to his own Stargate). Emmerich's saving grace is that his films' cheesiness is so flagrant, his narratives so geared for instant gratification, he can seem like a kid simultaneously improvising and acting out a story in his backyard: "P'tend there's this alien ... p'tend maybe he came from Atlantis or something...." Just don't p'tend it has anything to do with real moviemaking. --Richard T. Jameson
Product Description
From director Roland Emmerich comes a sweeping odyssey into a mythical age of prophesies and gods, when spirits rule the land and mighty mammoths shake the earth. In a remote mountain tribe, the young hunter, D'Leh (Steven Strait), has found his heart's passion - the beautiful Evolet (Camilla Belle). When a band of mysterious warlords raid his village and kidnap Evolet, D'Leh is forced to lead a small group of hunters to pursue the warlords to the end of the world to save her. Driven by destiny, the unlikely band of warriors must battle saber-tooth tigers and prehistoric predators and, at their heroic journey's end, they uncover a Lost Civilization. Their ultimate fate lies in an empire beyond imagination, where great pyramids reach into the skies. Here they will take their stand against a powerful god who has brutally enslaved their people.
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 Reminded Me Of Stargate February 27, 2010
beck
Not what I expected. Looked more like "Stargate" (Kurt Russell)
than a prehistoric caveman movie.
Unfortunately, not as entertaining as "Stargate". And not as
entertaining as prehistoric movies like "Qwest For Fire" or
"Clan Of The Cavebear".
3 stars may be a little generous for this dud, but you have
to give some credit for the scenery and special effects.
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 Complete Fluff February 10, 2010
Kari (SF Bay Area, CA)
This was rated 2-stars only because the scenery and visual effects kept my attention to the end.
The plot is exceptionally trite: Woman stolen by raiders as sex object (Evolet) and chased after by amorous male (D'Le). The ending falls apart when Evolet is gratuitously killed and brought back to life. The viewer is constantly asked to suspend disbelief when confronted with totally inaccurate representations: slave traders on horseback with saddles and rope stirrups (but then, in the absence of discretely hidden saddle horns and rope stirrups, how could the slavers drag a line of people behind them, let alone one person, without being jerked off their horse), having to travel from Northern Europe, across Africa and the Sahara Dessert to arrive at the Nile from the West (How did they ever walk across the Mediterranean Sea?), having an advanced civilization with a full command of navigation, textiles and metallurgy exist only within the construction sited of the pyramids, having the pyramids at Giza being build by slaves and Woolly Mammoths (there has never been any evidence of slave labor, and, I doubt that Wooly Mammoth bones have never been found at the site), having the pyramids of Giza left unfinished after the slaves destroy the advanced civilization, and, having the Sahara exist as it does today (desert) rather than as it did 12,000 years ago (tropical forest). One must also ask the question, Why did a small band of slavers travel thousands of mile to the glacial peaks of Northern Europe to capture a handful of slaves when they had all of the Near East and North Africa at their door step? How could a small band of men walk all the way to Giza and back in such a short period of time?
Fun, if you let it be January 12, 2010
Jesse Boyd (US)
I was pleasantly surprised by this movie and rather enjoyed it. A little taste of ancient in a new time and place with a fat dose of fiction to make it something unique.
My biggest complaint, easily, is that the plot was lamesauce. Whoever wrote the script totally copped out with the "prophecy says this prophecy says that" card, leaving it way cheesier than it had to be. Big penalty points for that, next time try something less lazy and hackneyed.
The action swayed from weak to good. Some lame camera tricks kept humans outrunning much faster critters an awful lot. On the other extreme I recall giggling with glee as mammoths went nuts and started stampeding bad guys. Hit and miss, but enjoyable overall.
I've seen a lot of complaints about historical accuracy. As a history nerd I say, "huh?" I didn't hear any one claiming this was a documentary, nor does anything presented push the limits of believability THAT much. Slightly advanced society operating at 10,000 BC that fell apart and was lost to time? We're talking bronze and stone cutting, not lazers and steam engines. Dino birds? Like there couldn't have been a few critters still running around at 10,000ish that we still don't know about? God knows if there were such dangerous animals running around humans would have wiped them out before writing even existed. It's like complaining about Stargate because aliens probably didn't actually build the pyramids. Well, duh.
The movie had some decent action, a solid (if poorly supported) progression, and an interesting concept. With the plot cleaned up it could have been amazing; as is, a fun watch.
 10,000 B.C. January 4, 2010
Arnita D. Brown (USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
In a remote mountain tribe, the young hunter, D'Leh, has found his heart's passion - the beautiful Evolet. When a band of mysterious warlords raid his village and kidnap Evolet, D'Leh is forced to lead a small group of hunters to pursue the warlords to the end of the world to save her. Driven by destiny, the unlikely band of warriors must battle saber-tooth tigers and prehistoric predators and, at their heroic journey's end, they uncover a Lost Civilization. Their ultimate fate lies in an empire beyond imagination, where great pyramids reach into the skies. Here they will take their stand against a powerful god who has brutally enslaved their people. 10,000 BC, is a great ride that takes you through a sweeping landscape of honor, pride and standing up for one's self and each other. The movies message is a good one. See it...enjoy it for what it is worth.
PQ on Blu-Ray stellar, story a trainwreck December 28, 2009
:::DIGITAL BABE::: (East Coast)
I just saw this film for the first time, as I am generally a fan of Emmerich's films (I liked Independence Day and loved 2012). The PQ and AQ on the Blu-Ray were stellar-close to a 5/5 for me. However the story was so preposterous and the pace so irritating that the film had few redeeming qualities aside from this. Though I am not a history scholar, I was a little unnerved by the total confusion along the timeline. I don't know if Emmerich intended to explain history on his own terms, but why horses and Mammoths and Sabertooth Tigers existed at the same time, as "regular-looking" horses was a bit strange. I was also a little put off by the smidgeons of humor interjected (the lead character speaking to the Tiger in the pit?). There were numerous stellar shots that panned over the Egyptian pyramid scenes, and several sweeping shots over the journey of the combined tribes but the story had so many holes in it, I felt like I was watching a parody/ Not recommended. If you wish to see this, rent it first.
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