Mikefule
2008-03-31, 06:38 PM
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!:)
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.
What enjoyable codswallop!:)
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.