10,000 BC

trinityFri 22/02/08 10:28

Sorry if this is a repeat posting, but I couldn't find anything under the film title.

Has anyone seen the trailers for Roland Emmerich's 10,000 BC?


Looks very interesting...but can't imagine there would be much dialogue..

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809724938/video/6522761


What do you think?

discoheathenFri 22/02/08 10:35

I watched the first trailer which had no dialogue and thought the film could be amazing.

I then watched the second trailer which has dialogue and now the film doesn't look so good. Is that Lindsey Lohan as well playing the female lead?

discoheathenFri 22/02/08 10:36

Just looked at IMdb and it isn't Lindsay Lohan. Thats a relief.

ajwoodyFri 22/02/08 10:41

looks bloody awesome from the clip above. def one i'm going to see.

think.upFri 22/02/08 10:42

It looks like some of the most appalling shite Hollywood has ever churned out, if you ask me.

For kids who think the scenarios in Xbox games are true.

ajwoodyFri 22/02/08 10:47

yes on on a huge screen in a cinema would be fantastic !!!

discoheathenFri 22/02/08 10:48

'For kids who think the scenarios in Xbox games are true.'

There is nothing wrong with a bit of fantasy, as long as you know thats what it is.

Some scenarios you get on the Xbox/PS3/PS2 can be quite imaginative, a lot better than most Hollywood films.

trinityFri 22/02/08 10:50

quoting > "yes on on a huge screen in a cinema would be fantastic !!!"

I think the only place to watch an Emmerich movie is on the big screen.

I might drag some poor victim along to watch it with me :)

think.upFri 22/02/08 10:55

quoting > "There is nothing wrong with a bit of fantasy, as long as you know thats what it is."

My concern is that, with so many Hollywood films (Dan Brown tales incl), the under-educated gullible often seem to imagine there is some degree of historical accuracy underlying some part of the fantasy. To hear some interviews with American teenagers terrifies me - and I should imagine a lot of UK ones aren't that much smarter.

I think it's going to be very violent, too - Hm. Please don't take it as an objective truth that there's 'nothing wrong' with that, because I'm far from being the only person who believes it's not a good thing.

informer_ukFri 22/02/08 11:04

It looks fantastic. The kind of stuff that couldn't be made pre-CGI.

And I bet there's some nice bare arses in it.

think.upFri 22/02/08 11:06

lol mammoths arses, for sure...
http://www.10000bcmovie.com/

trinityFri 22/02/08 11:09

quoting > "And I bet there's some nice bare arses in it."

Something i'd look for in a movie :)

discoheathenFri 22/02/08 11:16

quoting > "My concern is that, with so many Hollywood films (Dan Brown tales incl), the under-educated gullible often seem to imagine there is some degree of historical accuracy underlying some part of the fantasy. To hear some interviews with American teenagers terrifies me - and I should imagine a lot of UK ones aren't that much smarter.

I think it's going to be very violent, too - Hm. Please don't take it as an objective truth that there's 'nothing wrong' with that, because I'm far from being the only person who believes it's not a good thing."

I can understand what you are saying and agree with you to a certain extent but I don't think thats a good enough reason for not making a film like this. For every gullible person/teenager/child who may watch this film and see it as historically accurate, you may get someone else who will start tuning in to the History/Discovery channel or go to the library and pick up some books about archeology.

I think it would be a shame if filmmakers went into a project thinking, 'What would the gullible make of this film? How could we protect the uneducated from mistaking a good yarn for a documentary.'

think.upFri 22/02/08 11:21

Well, I know you're right and that balance is called for.
But I wish that, if they did it, they could do it better! The budgets they have, after all....