Nel passato preistorico, D'Leh è un cacciatore di mammut che si lega al bellissimo Evolet. Quando i guerrieri a cavallo catturano Evolet e gli uomini della tribù, D'Leh deve imbarcarsi in un... Leggi tuttoNel passato preistorico, D'Leh è un cacciatore di mammut che si lega al bellissimo Evolet. Quando i guerrieri a cavallo catturano Evolet e gli uomini della tribù, D'Leh deve imbarcarsi in un'odissea per salvare il suo vero amore.Nel passato preistorico, D'Leh è un cacciatore di mammut che si lega al bellissimo Evolet. Quando i guerrieri a cavallo catturano Evolet e gli uomini della tribù, D'Leh deve imbarcarsi in un'odissea per salvare il suo vero amore.
- Warlord
- (as Ben Badra)
- Narrator
- (voce)
- High Priest
- (as Fahruq Ismail Valley-Omar)
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- Quiz(at around 1h 10 mins) The film includes a glimpse of a map showing Atlantis off the coast of Spain. It's a reference to Plato's theory that the construction techniques used in Egypt were imported from the ancient lost civilization of Atlantis. This would be the second time that director Roland Emmerich makes this suggestion, as in his previous film Stargate (1994), someone jokingly asked whether "men from Atlantis" were responsible for the ancient Egyptian pyramids.
- BlooperThe film features Smilodon, a genus of sabre-toothed cat that only existed in the Americas.
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Tic'Tic: A good man draws a circle around himself and cares for those within. His woman, his children.
Tic'Tic: Other men draw a larger circle and bring within their brothers and sisters.
Tic'Tic: But some men have a great destiny. They must draw around themselves a circle that includes many, many more.
Tic'Tic: Your father was one of those men. You must decide for yourself whether you are, as well.
But who cares, right? No one in his right mind would watch a Roland Emmerich movie for the plot. The man brought us Godzilla, Independence Day, and The Day after Tomorrow, after all. No, your focus here is supposed to be on the prehistoric-ness of the thing, like the wild, carnivorous birds, or the mastodons, or the sabre-tooth tigers. Oh, and the smoldering hotness of lurve that Our Hero and His Love can barely contain.
Your first clue that this won’t be much more than a silly bore is the simple fact that our noble hunters speak perfect, inflectionless English. No idea why. I’m not the biggest fan of subtitles, granted, but I think here they at least would have made sense. Instead, we have these perfectly coiffed young people with gleaming white teeth - as any prehistoric hunter would have - speaking the Queen’s English to each other. It’s bizarre and off-putting. These cool kids look like they fell out of a Gap commercial; they’d be dead in minutes if they actually had to fend for themselves on a tundra or in the jungle. They’re as believable as Ed Begley, Jr. at a biker rally. Which is not very believable.
And it’s not as if they get clever, intelligent dialog to mouth. D’Leh (heh, sounds like Delay) tells a vicious, trapped sabre-tooth tiger, “Do not eat me when I set you free!” See, because he doesn’t want to be eaten, and he figures that reasoning with the beast will do the trick. D’Leh, played by newcomer Steven Strait, is sort of a poor man’s Colin Farrell, complete with otherworldly eyebrows. He wants you to think he’s earnest and sincere, but instead you think he’s vapid and vain. Crazy! (”Do not eat me when I set you free!” That’s hilarious right there. Why, it’s right up there with “Throw me the whip, and I’ll throw you the idol!”) Besides, this whole pursuing-the-savages-who-stole-our-people thing was done much better only a few years ago in Mel Gibson’s Apocalpyto. Now, you might not buy into the notion of using an ancient Mayan dialect in a movie, but at least it made some sense. Using that dialect, with subtitles, there was a real sense of adventure and tragedy; here, the fluid English feels woefully inept and completely anachronistic.
Unlike Apocalypto, there’s scant fighting and mayhem here. The tribe (like that in Apocalypto) is a hunting tribe, so that explains why for much of the movie they run and hide and duck and cover. I will find you! What’s his name cries. And then he finds her and then loses her again, and he says, I’ll come back! And then he spends the next hour or so trying to find her. His One True Love is like a set of pretty car keys.
Back to that tiger, which makes a couple of appearances. Now, I like CGI as much as the next guy. It can very easily enhance a scene, make the unrealistic seem obvious and believable. But this tiger reminded me of the cyclops and other fantastical creatures you’d see in those old fifties Greek-epic movies, the ones featuring the work of the great Ray Harryhausen - basically, essentially, stop-motion animation. And that looks crappy here in good ol’ 2008.
10,000 BC isn’t meant to be a historical epic - the year 10,000 BC is used here merely to connote a Long Time Ago - which is fine in and of itself, but really isn’t anything compelling about it other than its setting. It’s predictable pap without much of a heart, instilling no compassion or feeling from its audience.
- dfranzen70
- 27 lug 2008
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- 9 mar 2008
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