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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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Rating:  204 reviews
Sales Rank: 218
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, Ntsc, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 109
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
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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Condition: Sealed in Plastic
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Product Description
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
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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
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 Not quite a Jurrasic Park, but . . . August 17, 2008
WANT A PREHISTORIC LOVE STORY WITH SOME INTERESTING VISUALS ? WELL THIS WILL GET YOU THERE. ALTHOUGH NOT A GREAT MOVIE, IT DEFINITELY HAS SOME CHARM. WORTH A WATCH AT LEAST.
WE'VE HAD "1,000,000 BC" (MID-1960'S) AND NOW "10,000 BC". MAYBE "100,000 BC" WILL BE A HIT AND NOT STRIKE 3.
10000 BC August 16, 2008
10,000 B.C. [Blu-ray]Movie is pretty good special effects okay Jurassic park much better, not as good as exspected.
 Great as a comedy! August 13, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was over my parent's home and they had rented this from the library (older folks are so adorable) so I figured I would watch it. I think we had more fun watching this movie than we have in a long time. We were literally hysterically laughing at times. If you go into this movie thinking of it as a comedy .. man .. what a riot. The bad guys hair .. lol .. fool looked like Dean Martin or something.
Could Have Been So Much Better August 13, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
First off, I did enjoy the movie. It wasn't fantastic by any stretch of the imagination, but it kept my attention. The special effects were well done (loved the sabretooth cat) and the costumes and score reflected the tone of the film. However, as many other reviewers have noted, the movie was almost plodding until the last 20 minutes and relied too heavily upon several convenient prophecies to propel the thin plot.
While I was hoping for something along the lines of The Scorpion King (Widescreen Collector's Edition), an action-packed sword and sandal flick, what I got was a movie where Clan of the Cave Bear meets Stargate (Ultimate Edition). We have a young girl with blue eyes taken in by a primitive tribe. They have a prophecy that she and one of their warriors will save their people. And until she is kidnapped by four legged demons (men on horses) all the viewer gets is the narrator talking and the men hunting. That's it. While "Clan" was based on a heavily researched book, with an engaging heroine and interesting historical details, "BC" is a hodgepodge of history and the narrator doesn't have anything vital to reveal. I agree with the reviewer who felt there should be more sex and violence befitting such a savage time. Normally, I don't care for gratuitous sex or violence but in this instance I heartily agree. Something needed to jump start this film. After the kidnapping, things didn't pick up much either. Our hero goes after her and we follow the three men tracking them for far too long. Along the way, our hero runs into a tribe of african people, who happily form an army for him since he fulfills one of their prophecies, and the climax is all set up. Finally, the film starts moving along, only viewers will feel like they are suddenly watching Stargate.
The hero arrives at a huge construction site by the river. Many thousands of slaves are building a pyramid for "The Almighty," a mysterious figure attended by robed men and young boys - just like Ra in Stargate. Even his building and chambers look like Ra's! And he'll face defeat from a primitive people to boot. And guess what? The Almighty has a prophecy that a Hunter with a mark will come to destroy him! Despite the total lack of originality, and yet another prophecy, the very predictable ending still managed to make the movie worth watching. A stampede of Mammoths, thousands of extras, lots of fighting, and a triumph of good over evil are always attention grabbing. And, I just love a happy ending.
Overall, this movie could have been so much better if they had cut out the boring overview of the tribe in the beginning in favor of more information about The Almighty. We never learn where he came from, how he took control, nothing. He was far more interesting a character than the hero, and he didn't get much screen time. Still, if you're looking for a movie to pass the time, this wasn't bad. But, I'd recommend renting it.
Historically inaccurate (as usual) and nothing extraordinary August 12, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
10,000 BC brings to the screen a fictional portrayal of life 12,000 years ago, where a young man embarks on a journey to free his beloved from the clutches of ruthless slavers that have ventured into his clan's icy domain. His journey will take him to foreign lands where he will meet exotic peoples, frightening creatures, and mysterious cultures. What awaits at the end of his travels, however, may be more than he bargained for...
There are slight hints of Conan, Mad Max, the Last of the Mohicans, and Jurassic Park, and strong/obvious elements of Quest for Fire, Mel Gibson's Apokalypto, and most importantly Stargate.
The major setbacks are in relation to:
1) The movie starting off slow and failing to catch the viewer's attention.
2) Very little accuracy regarding the human civilization of that era.
3) The movie should have included sex and violence for the sake of realism and not a mellowed down version of the era in order to sell more tickets.
4) The acting is mediocre and it seems as though the chemistry between the actors is not all that great.
5) To that, one has to add the poor dialogues and the bad choice of lines that the actors are given.
6) As for the characters, they are weak, bland and just plain uninteresting.
In short, the acting and the music are mediocre, the setting is great, the plot is interesting though predictable and unoriginal (could have been amazing!), while the dialogues are `below average.'
The potential for a good movie was there, however, it fails to take off.
A shame really... Nevertheless, though far from being a masterpiece, 10,000 BC may provide for an evening's entertainment if expectations are kept low. 3.3 Stars
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