Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0085391139683
Format: Closed-captioned
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2008-06-24
Running Time: 109
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2008-03-07
MPN: 1000023986

The filmmaker who launched a UFO invasion in Independence Day and unleashed the forces of global warming in The Day After Tomorrow now unveils a new day of adventure a time when mammoths shake the earth and mystical spirits shape human fates. Roland Emmerich directs 10000 BC the eye-filling tale of the first hero. That hero is young hunter D?Leh (Steven Strait) set out on a bold trek to rescue his kidnapped beloved (Camilla Belle) and fulfill his prophetic destiny. He?ll face an awesome saber-toothed tiger. Cross uncharted realms. Form an army. And uncover an advanced but corrupt Lost Civilization. There he will lead a fight for liberation ? and become the champion of the time when legend began.System Requirements:Running Time: 109 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/HEROES Rating: PG-13 UPC: 085391139683 Manufacturer No: 1000023986

Customer Rating:
Summary: Hey, it's a fun movie, really.
Comment: 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.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Mythology
Comment: 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.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: SLOW
Comment: Very slow and not interesting at all, i had to shut it off halfway through...

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Customer Rating:
Summary: a surprise hit
Comment: 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.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: 10000 BC - An Extra Star For The Effects, But Too Many Holes
Comment: 10,000 B.C. was a movie I looked forward to for a long time. I really had high hopes for this one. I love fantasy cinema of the past as much as science fiction. Conan - The Complete Quest is one of my favorite series of movies. And that cool tiger on the poster had me expecting some great special effects.

Well, the special effects were very good. And the score was good at times too, though it did seem over-done after a while with very few softer parts. But that's where the good ends.

For starters, this movie really made me resent the over-use of narration in movies. When you watch the deleted scenes and alternate ending, it's clear the narrator was telling the story to the next generation. Yet the final cut of this movie doesn't let you see that. It didn't really matter though, because I found myself alternately wondering "is this just a little over-dramatic" and "they spoke english with a British accent in 10000 BC?"

And of course the historical inaccuracies were unavoidable. I understand some want to give them a pass on that, but then they shouldn't have named this after a year. Apparantly, all white people had dreadlocks 10000 BC. And all the races of the world were within a few days walk of each other too. Still, I can accept a movie as a work of fantasy except when the story is weak. And the story is very weak.

The movie starts off with cheesy prophecies and the young hero speaking way more seriously than a kid could about "eternal love" in his heart. Never mind, everything that happens was in a prophecy. And oh yeah, no matter where this guy walks everybody knew his father. In fact, the entire story line is unbelievable even as a fantasy movie because it's inconsistent with itself. It gets funny fast.

Other than the aforementioned deleted scenes and alternate ending, there's no special features to speak of. Some of those scenes have some incomplete CG sequences that made me laugh too.

If you are not too critical, sure you can enjoy this. But there are just too many better movies to watch to really go out of your way to see this. Wait for it to play on cable.

Avoid.

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