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SUNDAY AM: All those cool CGI effects were nearly sunk by cruel reviews and even worse winter weather in midwest and southeast parts of the United States yet Warner Bros' 10,000 BC easily finished the weekend No. 1 with $35.7 million in box office gross. But as good as that haul is, it's still not the great $40+ million which Hollywood first expected. Playing in a very wide 3,410 venues, the prehistoric extravaganza from extravagant Roland Emmerich opened to a $12.6 million Friday, $14 million Saturday, and an estimated $9.3 million Sunday thanks to an exciting TV ad campaign. 
But its total was just half the studio's similar-looking 300 opening of $71 mil for the same weekend last year. And 10,000 BC has a PG-13 rating which should have attracted a wider audience than 300's R-rating. But the caveman movie's early matinees were "good but not great" amid reports that theaters weren't selling out. That caused box office gurus by Friday evening to lower their projections for weekend box office to low $30sM. As one marketing analyst explained to me, "The movie is no good at all. But there hasn't been much in the marketplace for the last few weeks, and exhibition is desperate to keep it on screens." The movie picked up more steam as the weekend wore on. Yet all expectations are for attendance to fall off steeply by next weekend because of bad watercooler talk. Moviegoers especially found the manicured look of the caveman and cavewoman absurdly out of place in the pic -- even though Emmerich spent north of $150 mil (not including P&A, of course) to transport audiences back to the time when wooly mammoths and sabretooth tigers walked the earth. The film should make most of its money overseas because of the minimum of dialogue. (See my previous, Wkd Predictions: Big '10,000 BC' Despite Brutal Reviews)
Exit polling showed that 65% of the audience for Walt Disney's College Road Trip was made up of families. With a paucity of fresh family fare in the marketplace right now, little wonder the pic placed #2 with $3.5 million Friday, $6.4 million Saturday, and an estimated $4.1 million Sunday from 2,706 dates for what was a solid $14 million opening weekend. Not even rival studios bet against a Disney G-rated family pic with a running time of only 1 hour, 23 minutes. As expected, Saturday had big Saturday matinees since Raven-Symoné is a tween icon and consumer brand thanks to the Disney Channel. But Martin Lawrence in a Disney flick is still a street cred stretch.
Holdover Vantage Point, the popular thriller from Sony, dropped only 41% its 3rd weekend out, showing its continued playability in a market with a lot of new competition. 
The drama added $7.5 mil to its $51.6 mil cume for 3rd place. But newcomer The Bank Job moved up a notch to No. 4 from No. 5 during its first weekend -- and could have scored a higher ranking if only Lionsgate had opened it in more than just 1,603 venues. Seen as a very satisfying pic by audiences, it took in $1.7 mil Friday, $2.5 mil Saturday, and an estimated $1.6 mil Sunday for a $5.9 mil weekend. Even though the pic's stick-up name implies kick-ass car chases and kickboxing, reliable British tough guy Jason Statham as a husband and father didn't disappoint hardcore action audiences who may have balked at too much tender character development. Meanwhile, New Line's flopping Semi-Pro will yield one of Will Ferrell's worst box office results as the comedy fell to 5th with only $5.8 mil this weekend despite playing in a wide 3,121 theaters its 2nd weekend for a paltry $24.7 mil cume.
The rest of the Top 10 were holdovers. Here's the chart (cume includes Sunday estimates):
- 1. 10,000 BC/Warner Bros $12.6M Fri, $14M Sat (cume $35.7M)
- 2. College Road Trip/Disney $3.5M Fri, $6.4M Sat ($14.0M)
- 3. Vantage Point/Sony $2.2M Fri, $3.4M Sat ($51.6M)
- 4. The Bank Job/Lionsgate $1.7M Fri, $2.5M Sat ($5.9M)
- 5. Semi-Pro/New Line $1.8M Fri, $2.4M Sat ($24.7M)
- 6. The Spiderwick Chronicles/Paramount $1.0M Fri, $2.2M Sat ($61.7M)
- 7. The Other Boleyn Girl/Sony $1.2M Fri, $1.6M Sat ($14.5M)
- 8. Jumper/Fox $1.1M Fri, $1.6M Sat ($72.5M)
- 9. Step Up 2/Disney $1.oM Fri, $1.3M Sat ($53.0M)
- 10. Fool's Gold/Warner Bros $865K Fri, $1.3M Sat ($62.8M)
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I have seen “10,000 BC” and I can tell you that this is the worst piece of shit since “Battlefield Earth”… Proof, once again, that you can’t sail a ship with CGI alone.
TOLDJA!
movie looks like a turd
The problem with this film is that all the actors look like models and actors. They are not convincing as a prehistoric man struggling to survive. I’m certain that men in those days didn’t sport sculpted abs and arm like these actors do. And dig those crazy babe cave girls! It would have been better if it was more realistic.
Advertising 10,000B.C. as “from the man who brought you “The Day After Tomorrow” GUARANTEED that the Red State Americans would boycott the film. We don’t like fake “Global Warming” propaganda shoved down our throats and will not pad the wallet of those who do so. Had this movie’s marketing been divorced from “The Day After Tomorrow” I probably would have taken my family to see it this weekend. What dummies; the marketing directors should be fired.
They should have had dinosaurs in it. Dinos are gold with the public.
And the movie is hideously and flagrantly not historically accurate. I’m not talking about minor details: in 10,000 BC there was no metal objects, no stone cutting knowledge, no textiles. Heck, POTTERY was not invented until around 8,000 BC.
Jackson – Dude, you gotta branch your horizons past am radio. You’re making yourself look kinda dumb.
I just can’t see why anyone would be interested in seeing this.
naked chicks. when you know the movie is a flop, best to reveal some nice round and plump breasts to boost the receipts. horny caveman babes would have brought home the bacon.
yes, dinosaurs…or robots, people like robots too.
I haven’t seen the movie, only the promos, but I don’t think it is fair to discourage others from watching it based upon a few opinions.
The fact is that our economy sucks. The number of people who are willing to fork out $50.00 to see a new movie with their family is falling fast. It doesn’t surprise me in the least that the numbers are low. After all, one cannot blame low turnout on a movie that hasn’t even been viewed yet, right?
Don’t anybody here read economic reports?
…or, if they’d had some cave humping it would have pushed it to an R, but at least it would have been more humorous.
yeah except it was 10,000 bc and not 65 million bc retart
I didn’t know prehistoric men wore well manicured dreds. You learn something new every day.
So, Jackson…You obviously thought the movie, as advertised, was decent family fare that you would have enjoyed. That means the horrid reviews didn’t bother you, but instead you held a grudge because of a disaster movie from three years ago? That would be like boycotting “The Towering Inferno” because it was ant-skyscraper, or “The Swarm” because you like honey on your pancakes.
The marketing directors did a great job at putting enough lipstick on this pig to earn $30 Mil, when it shouldn’t have earned $30K.
Where is that hot Raquel Welch poster?
I’m with Jackson on this one. Us red stater’s need to save our money for Micheal Bay & Bruce Willis movies.
Or better yet, Robotic Dinsosaurs…..or robotic cavemen sent from the future to kill the pre-historic ancestors of Sarah Connor.
Jackson,
They got you to accept some propaganda if you are using the term “Red State” anything to describe anything other than communists. Where did this come from – some band of megalomaniac media types who think they can dumb down the American party system to colors because THEY chose to arbitrarily color states that way during the results of the 2004 election. Never heard it before that.
This serves to also give the false impression there is a difference in the parties. It is clear this time there is not. They are both globalist elitists who are doing everything in their power to bring about the One World system of feudalism. Why is Greenspan talking down the dollar? Why is the Fed causing inflation? Why is our government allowing an invasion of this country and the export of our jobs? Wake up.
Jackson- You’re 100% correct. I drew the same conclusion when I heard “Day After Tomorrow”. Now, I won’t even rent this piece o’ crap when it’s at Blockbuster next week.
And the fact “Rob” called you dumb is further proof you’re spot-on in boycotting it. (Libs do love their name-calling, don’t they? LOL)
Jackson is right, pushing a flagrantly anti-red or anti-blue state agenda matters. I’ll never watch another Sean Penn movie again, not because he has strongly held views I disagree with, but because he’s an arrogant, self-righteous, holier-than-thou prick with condescending turds dripping out of his mouth every time he opens it.
Day after Tomorrow was the same kind of psuedo-pious, patronizing sermon one hears from the Sean Penn people. No matter how much money they make, they could have made more had they not associated 10,000 BC with the “my-farts-smell-good” industry.
when the past two “number one” movies underperform in the box office or make less in one weekend than Will Ferrel gets paid for one movie….the industry is in TROUBLE!
No one cares for or watches their awards shows anymore, they either make overproduced/expensive pieces of shit or “independent” movies that only 12 people in both L.A. and Manhattan want to see. And now maybe a threat of yet ANOTHER strike
way to go Hollywood! LOL the current generation ef executives, actors, writers, directors, agents, etc who were entrusted with the keys to the kingdom have proceeded to kill the golden goose.
with the shitty economy, overpriced tickets, competition for the entertainment dollar, Hollywood’s disdain for the so-called red states and flyover country—you have the makings of a pefect storm of the death of Hollywood….how sad
Used to be a fan of the product, but there isn’t any movie out there right now that I can’t download for free or want to shell out $10-$14 a seat for
and the smug arrogance of people running the industry will be the final nail in the coffin….this is just a little comment in cyberspace here, but I’m tellin ya this is going to be what’ll happen…SOON!
Hollywood in ten—heck—-5 years will be in danger of irrelevance. Steven Spielberg or Peter Jackson can’t make EVERY movie out there
I thought the promo looked cool.
Rob,
You’re a dumbass if you believe in global warming. Don’t know how old you are but I’m 38 and I remember my 8th grade teacher assuring me we were in the beginning stages of a new Ice Age. Why did he think that? Oh I don’t know…maybe because that’s what all the top scientists of the day were saying.
25 years later….global warming! That’s why meteorologists can’t tell us the weather more than a week in advance…if that. People like you are the reason why this country will basically drop to 3rd world status within 10 years. Have fun standing in line for bread, buddy. Me? I’m making plans to get the hell outta Dodge!
To me sounds like you are an idiot if you will not watch a movie because the plot is “upsetting” or you don’t like what it is based on. Day After Tomorrow was a good movie and got a lot of attention to people to take notice to Global Warming. So whatever the movie was about, the end result was good so deal with it. Damn Liberals lmfao
I agree with anon and Rob. I’m always up for a really terribly bad movie…sometimes they get so bad they entertain. I kind of notched this one up in that category. Then they did the “From the makers of Day After Tomorrow…” Idiots. That cost them 4 ticket sales right here.
I agree with Jackson that I thought twice when I heard that it was made by a Global Warming kook. Total goof ball pseudoscience. But I like Dinosaurs and big CGI so I will likely see this tomorrow.
WHAT A PIECE OF CRAP
I think red staters will love this movie. It tells the story of a typical republican voter who cares about nothing and is no better than an animal. Vote democrat to put these people in the cages they belong.
Jackson is absolutely right – I don’t want to see any liberal propaganda garbage thrown at people by those idiots with political agendas!
I happen to agree with Jackson. Michael Moore could produce the most patriotic movie possible, but because of the drudge he put out over the years, no way in hell would I support his project. All that POS would do is take the money he makes from that patriotic film, and make more anti-American, socialist propaganda. Actors are paid to act, not preach politics or push their political views. Al Gore may have not invented the internet, but he sure the hell invented global warming!
Not only that, but this movie looks horrible. This looks like Pathfinder met 300 on the other side of the Star gate. Hollywood needs to learn that the public cannot be bought off by cgi alone. It’s not just the economy. This does not look like a movie I would want to pay $5 to go see.
Jason Statham is very cool. Hopefully he starts to get more roles that allow him to actually “act.”
Hey Scott, you may want to pay a bit more attention to accuracy of your comments – Greenspan is no longer the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. Greenspan was succeeded by Ben Bernanke in 2006. Nevertheless, I completely agree with your other points. Can we all say “I pledge allegiance to the United Nations…” It’s all for the advancement of Global Socialism with Global Warming leading the charge.
Back on topic…this movie is a turd!
the lib vs con arguement even makes it into movie reviews amazing you ass clowns….
There is a saying “that no body sets out to make a lousy movie…”. But isn’t it interesting that Hollywood does so with such astounding regularity. And then they actually have the guts to complain about piracy causing them revenue. Here’s a hint guys…stop making stupid movies, re-making 60’s and 70’s TV shows and actually put something on the screen that is interesting, adult and isn’t written by committee. Or hope that some computer hack can CGI your way out of a hole that was self created by everyone involved in the movie. Meanwhile I’m going to go see Bank Job.
They got this all wrong. They needed to do this as soft core or a comedy. What good is a loincloth if you don’t see some loins? I can watch “Land of the Lost” on Youtube and least get my fill of those nutt (yet pesistent)sleestaks and dinosaurs.
I enjoyed it. Reviews seem to be trying to prove a point that they are much smarter than this movie. They probably are but, I just came to be entertained and I was. Great visuals, pretty girl, and story that was at least enought to hold my interest. Not No Country for Old Men, but a lot better than the recent crop of action movies. I will buy the Blue Ray
Christ did not even come to earth for another 10,000 years how could anything interesting have happened yet?
Keep buying into that red state/blue state shite, Jackson.
Keep that bag over your head, and really do us all a favor – use that red/blue, white/black, gay/straight, Demo/Repub mindset, and keep us all in the 19th century.
Given the fact that most of the folks who vote Republican over and over are the same folks the Repub’s keep screwing over in the Middle States – if they’re not smart enough to stop voting for criminals who don’t give a crap about them, do you really think MOST are able to put RE’s name to a past film about global warming, and boycott the new one?
Scott – You’re a moron. I don’t even feel like explaining why.
I want to see it regardless, but I’m in the target audience. (Young, male)
And really, some people are WAY too political if you find a message in “The Day After Tomorrow.” lol
Believe the hype; 10,000 B.C. is a dud. I went to it expecting to be disappointed by the storyline and acting, but delighted with the special effects. Unfortunately, I was terribly disappointed with the story and acting (even by Camilla Belle) and not very impressed with the special effects. The movie makes a good rental on a large screen TV.
I hope Jackson O’Neill’s post is a troll. Otherwise, he truly is a single-helixed moron.
Anyone C the bank Job?
I agree that the media term “red state” is an insult and just shows their bias. Jackson O’Neill is right about the “Day after Tomorrow”. I was watching the commercial and thought this looks kinda cool but as soon as they said it was from the same people that brought you Al Gore propaganda I just rolled my eyes. I could just imagine another two hour film lecturing me for not adopting some flavor of the week left wing agenda. I know Hollywood doesn’t care much for capitalism but the reality is that people vote with dollars and maybe Hollywierd should hold their nose and try making a film for the purpose of making money. And I don’t mean some brain dead fluff that just further shows their lack of respect for people outside their little circle of ‘creative’ inbreeding .
Wow dude! What a great documentary…..
(sarcasm intended)
Why are you guys talking about Global Warming? The consensus now is we are heading back into another Ice Age!
The Bank Job was a really good movie. Too bad no one went. No over the top acting, effects, or any of that crap. Just a good movie.
just wait for the director’s cut… algore will make a cameo…
I liked this movie alot. But then Im coming fresh off “Jumpers” so maybe anything would look good.
the chick is major rump roast, no?
Al Gore is the Anti-Christ!
Al “the Beast” Gore is using global warming as his tool to bring the world order under his submission.
Sean Penn is a low level demon from hell. He signed a pact with the Dark Prince after “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” his reward was an Academy Award. He has worked well for the Prince of Darkness to mold the minds of the liberals into his warped beliefs.
Critics? Crap. Critics hated “Tombstone”, “Stargate” and damn near every other movie I liked in the last thirty years. The movie looks like fun and nobody in his right mind expects it to be fine art. I’ll rent the DVD and I won’t mind the $4 worth of entertainment.
Why does Drudge readers spoiler everything with this political red state blue state crap? The movie just looked like crap. The day after tomorow was just as bad. It ain’t political. It’s just bad.
I haven’t seen this movie, but looking at the “hot” actors and their “cool” dreadlocks makes me laugh. It reminds me of when I was watching 3:10 to Yuma, a Russell Crowe “western.” I had a real hard time getting into it, because all the cowboys looked like they were fresh off a Details Magazine cover shoot, rather than ugly rugged saddle riders who don’t hardly ever get a bath, and spend all their time in the sun. The movie would have probably been good 10-15 years ago, but it’s a different day, and Hollywood hasn’t adjusted to the fact that we want “reality” in our programming – and that means ugly actors where ugly actors should be.
I’ll rent this movie when it comes through Netflix. The cavegirl with the eye shadow and the perfect dreads is a bunch of crap. Kinda makes me want to see Clan of the cave Bear again for something a little more real.
It’s funny how people say they don’t want any liberal propaganda forced down their throats, but what you don’t realize is that you have the normal brainwashing propaganda pounded at you day after day. You just don’t notice. Even though The Day After Tomorrow wasn’t great, it was trying to make you look at things in a different light than what you look at everyday. The difference is you are content to be fed the propaganda that comes at you everyday. And that’s how they want you to be. They don’t want you to think. They don’t want you to question. Just do as they tell you and you will be fine.
If you can’t go see a movie with your family because gas prices are too high, maybe it’s time to stop and question why? Do you see the problem? If you do, then maye there’s a glimmer of hope for you. If you don’t, then you are who they want you to be.
The state of economy has nothing to do with it … who is going to shell out $50 for something you can see in the comfort of your home for $5? Times are changing. When my wife and I, along with our two boys, can sit in our comfortable family room eating our own popcorn and drinking our own soda, all for under $10, why would I go out to a movie.
Don’t get me wrong … there are movies you want to see in the threatre, and I’ll go to those. But the reviews generally tell me which ones.
At least it made $32 mil. Not very many movies can say that this year on their first weekend. Congrats to Roland Emmerich! My kids loved the movie. I took a nap.
Roland Emerich is the worst director/screenwriter on earth. He constantly gets epic subjects and demolishes them. Independence Day had the worst dialog imaginable yet the hype was incredible. Godzilla sucked raw schlong as does everything he does. This no talent jerkoff just got Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea!! Who does he have compromising video on to get this work. It’s incredible.
If there wasn’t CGI he’d be an egg chef at Denny’s. Oops his old man was in the business before him so maybe he’d be a grip.
South Park should do an episode peopled w/ the morons posting on thisl
The cast would have it all…..self-righteous blowhards, apocalyptic idiots, Lou Dobbs ’save our country’ imbeciles, Genesis fundamentalist ostriches, talk-radio pinheads, even Jesus himself, all debating a stupid movie about cavemen (think Geico). Beam me up, Scotty, this country is too stupid.
The Jeb Bush remark is hilarious. But seriously folks, this is a bad, bad movie. Completely senseless. I can’t express my disappointment strongly enough. I could deal with the CG mammoths but when they brought out the saber-tooth tiger and worked in the Aesop’s fable storyline I knew all hope was lost. Why can’t producers just tell a story without preaching?
I’m pretty sure that the red state / blue state reference came from the back page of USA Today.
They used contrasting colors to show who won the specific state.
Then the media picked up on the visual and they became the guiding colors.
Just tell yourself that it’s a comedy. Quite watchable that way. In fact, I thought that’s what it was supposed to be.
Worldwide box office for “The Day After Tomorrow” is over 500 million dollars.
http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=dayaftertomorrow.htm
Nobody is “boycotting” 10,000. It’s just a crappy movie. As we all know, the sheep in the red states will go to a mediocre movie, just not a really crappy movie. They’ll put up with a “C” but not and F or D.
As for the end of Hollywood: Did you see Jackson’s “King Kong?” I love the LOTRs but nobody is perfect. Spielberg? Munich was okay, “Private Ryan” was decent in ‘98 but his last really good film was “Schindler” in ‘93.
Besides, you’re all over the map. If Hollywood is dead in five years then I’ll gladly take over the billion dollar hole that will be left.
10,000 BC, almost as bad as No Country for Old Men. Will it get nominated for best picture too?
Wait, I’m confused…where does Greenspan and the NWO play into this film about life after global warming? What did Zionist bankers have to do with killing wooly mammoths?
As for the weather, I’m pro-ice age. Maybe if we caused a piece of the moon to break off, strike the planet, then raise zillions of tons of dust into the sky, darken the earth, but that would kill the trees that process carbon dioxide into oxygen, so … that would make for a cool post-apocalyptic movie, like Thundar the Barbarian.
Regardless of politics, Hollywood can not seem to make a decent film with a engaging plot and real acting telling an original and interesting story not borrowed from a prior flick. Brits still seem to have a knack for it.
Not many people are going to the movie theaters today due to the winter blizzard conditions on the roads. Level three emergencies in most counties in Ohio are keeping people off the roads and letting the snow-plowing trucks work around the clock.
It’s too early to declare a movie a success or failure in box office this season. Permissible weather and economic conditions would determine the success or failure of a movie like “10,000 BC”. Maybe less people are going to the theaters because of weak economic concerns and higher gasoline prices. We got 30 cents jump on per gallon of gas two days ago! That can put a real crimp on personal budgets and spending abilities. Who wanted to spend $9 for a movie at the theaters when you’re paying more money to spend on fueling your vehicle?
I would rather spend $3 to rent a movie for one night in the comfort of my home than to waste $9 at the theaters with everybody else there. Less noisy and distraction.
Only dumbasses get into a political argument over a box office results story.
The perverts in hollyweird have turned everything they make into PC propaganda. Everything. I’ve been boycotting their trash for 7 or 8 years now. Once in a great while I’ll watch a few scenes of something that my wife is watching just to see how bad things are and it’s staggering to see the degree of PC bigotry that they continune to spew. I’ve since rediscovered great movies from previous decades so my boycott has been rewarding in several ways.
10,000 BC is not that bad. Effects are not perfect but I think the story and ending were better than 300. The truth is there will never be a historically accurate film because none of us were around 10,000 years ago. Nobody knows for sure what it was like. Just like nobody knows for sure about global warming/climate change or if god created life or if it just happened by accident. Science has too many changing variables that it is more about the observance of how things are rather than why they are.
Why can’t we just say, 300 was great. And 10,000 B.C. was never going to be great. I’ve seen previews for this movie for the last 6 months at least, and every time, I’ve said aloud, “This movie is going to suck” It’s not about the economy, it’s not about anything other than a crap movie built on a crap premise doing badly at the box office. Just wait for next week when The Disney college trip movie passes it for first place.
Matthew -
I never said Greenspan was the current chairman – you assumed I was saying that. At least TWICE since he left the Fed he has made public statements disparaging the dollar.
We know Chertoff has dual citizenship with Israel. Does Bernanke, too? What is the loyalty of these people?
Dan,
I agree – this isn’t a political issue – while I’m sure that some people ban movies from actors/directors they dislike – which is fine – this film just looked boring. The only reason it did any business was because the marketing showed VERY LITTLE of the film and told you NOTHING of what it was about.
If a film looks great, people see it, regardless of politics. Everyone should just relax about the whole Blue State/Red State. It’s not like the people in Hollywood spend millions on films that can only be seen in 1/10 of the country. Get real – that is ridiculous.
While they make dumb entertainment, they still want to make entertainment that everyone can see. 30 million people keep watching and voting on American Idol – no one cares about anyone’s politics from that show and it’s not like it’s Casablanca.
This was just a lousy movie that no one wanted to see – not even in Hollywood, I’m sure.
Hey, I saw the movie with a pack house last night at 9pm in West Palm. The house had a blast….it got so funny with all the tribes and tounges that eventually everyone started to make their own caveman lang. IT was too funny. With the crowd…my best $8 I have spent. If I saw it in a an empty theater or home on dvd…I would have been dissapointed.
I had the same sentiments as Jackson.
The Democrats have been crapping on everything we hold dear and blaming us for not having any toilet paper and The View has the potential to do more damage to women than Oprah does. Good Lord, it’s insulting! There have to be executives at ABC that understand the literal ignorance that’s being broadcast on their network; I guess they know their audience.
I remember when VCRs first came out and people were pirating movies. People actually thought the movies were so good that they wanted to watch them over and over at home. I don’ think they have to worry much about that now. I liked the movie about Howard Hughes, at least Twenty Below made me cry when the dog died, but there is not much around in movies that move you anymore. I remember movies from the 50’s like On the Waterfront. Relatively low budget pics but great stories and fantastic acting.
Even in the supposedly-great movie “300″ they had to make sure they put their feminist crap in it. Just before the Spartan king killed the emissary, he had to look over to his wife for permission. She nodded approval and he killed the guy. Hollyweird perverts just can’t pass up any opportunity to push their PC garbage. The real Spartan king Leonidas did NOT need permission from his wife to do anything.
It’s amazing that a meaningless film will inevitably result in partisan bickering. Global Warming is fact. Not pseudo science, but provable science, and I’m not sorry if it scares the bejeez out of people. It should. We all need to change the way we live, and consume. Maybe ‘I need a Rush’ Limbaugh and “loofah” Bill O’Reilly have a bridge to sell those who don’t want to believe in GW, because then it would mean getting rid of the Humvee, or second or third home or the addiction to plastics and be bad for our consumer economy. If we ain’t consumin’, the country ain’t winnin’, ain’t that right?
I agree with me, and I am right dammit. This movie looks like crap from the promo all -right, and if you couldn’t tell it was crap from the promo and the fact that it was made by the Day After Tomorrow wack-jobs then you probably believe everything the lying crap pushed out of Hollywood and TV media. Go vote for Obama and take all the redistributed income from the producers of wealth in this nation and go see the next intellectually bankrupt piece of crap movie that these self-righteous filthy rich vermin make. Maybe you’ll end up believeing there was no Hitler and you live in the sorriest nation on earth and the only way you can cope with the guilt of living is giving it all away to third world nations who are third world because they are 10 times as corrupt as any piece of shit government we ever put out there – including the Clintons.
Thanks to ya all for posting. This was one of the most amusing critics I’ve ever read!
[quote]It’s funny how people say they don’t want any liberal propaganda forced down their throats, but what you don’t realize is that you have the normal brainwashing propaganda pounded at you day after day.[/quote]
Right. We get lib propaganda forced down our throats every day. We aren’t going to pay to see it. But they were dumb enough to mention Day After. Everyone rolled their eyes and said “pass”. It’s not politics. Its that if you make one movie that bad stupid, you will likely make another. And they did. And we were right.
[quote]it was trying to make you look at things in a different light than what you look at everyday. The difference is you are content to be fed the propaganda that comes at you everyday.[/quote]
Oh please. Al Gore with CGI. That’s all it was. Nothing different. No challenge to the typical BS. Certainly not even a hint that Hollywood was challenging itself or it’s tired old cliches.
Rupert Murdoch paid for The Day After Tomorrow – how can it be anti-red state if Mr. Fox News put up the budget? or is Rupes secretly Al Gore’s Boston Bride?
This film failed cause it looked like Apocolypto Part 2.
The movie failed for a bunch of reasons. I think the main reason is that the advertisements tell you nothing about the story.
I agree, this was extremely entertaining to read. My expectations for 10K BC were never high, but to hear that it is truly epic in its awfulness is something that makes me kind of want to see it. But probably not…
biggest piece of crap i’ve ever seen. I walked out after 15 minutes. absolute garbage
this is what happens when you make an educational film. No one wants to see it.
When I heard “from the makers of The Day After Tomorrow”, I immediately knew that whatever expectations I may have had probably should be lowered considerably. Global warming or not, The Day After Tomorrow was a horribly written movie which was saved somewhat by pretty good special effects.
I could have told you this would be a piece of shit. The fact it was from the Day After Tomorrow idiots is just icing on the cake.
Penelope, global warming is fact eh? It’s also a fact that this winter was the coldest in 35 years. But why let pesky “facts” get in the way of a good liberal PR campaign?
Jackson is spot on.
As has already been pointed out, the big boogey-man in the 70’s was Global Cooling and the Next Ice Age. Time Magazine articles from that era read just like the drool that we read today. Simply replace the word “cool” with the word “warm”, and there you have it. We all need to take 10 steps back and catch our breath. Once the science is settled one way or the other, that will be the time to make annoying preachy movies and environmental law. Not before. Look at the British government, for a good example. They jumped prematurely on the “plastic bags need to be banned because they kill 100,000 animals every year” bandwagon – only to be made to look like idiots later when it was revealed that the “100,000″ figure was based on a misquote from a scientific article. Even with this revelation, though, the Eco-warriors are still tilting at their windmills – still raging inexplicably against the evil plastic bag.
Get the facts straight, first. Then act.
Most red staters like myself save their hard earned cash, not to see films that sport a blatant (and scientifically and historically inaccurate to boot) political agenda, but to see films that actually seek to entertain us. If you want to buy gas for Michael Moore’s private jet, be our guest. That said, I’m saving my money for Iron Man. The new trailer looks exquisite.
Actually, it’s always Hollywood and the lefty directors that are interjecting their left-leaning out of touch with real American’s slant into everything. When was the last movie about Iraq or the Military that showed them in a positive light? Nada.. I won’t pay to see this preposterous drivel.
piece of shit
Wow! How does a guilty pleasure eye-feast become a political agenda? First of all, This movie has NOTHING to do with politics. Anyone who was expecting substance here is out of touch with filmmaking. It’s bad and stupid on purpose. It is 100% about the visuals, no pretense.
Secondly, “The Day After Tomorrow” is not political propaganda any more than “Deep Impact” or “Volcano” are. It’s just a disater movie. The science in the movie is absurd and exaggerated, again on purpose, and by the writer/director’s own admission.
Finally, humanly caused global warming is real and has real effects. It is not a quesstion of whether or not the Earth is in a global warming or cooling phase on its own. It is a matter of how our massive overpopulation has altered the environment enough to cause measurable warming over the entire Earth over a long period of time. These are the keys that seem to be ignorantly dismissed by some. This isn’t some new “liberal” concept: everyone learned about it in elementary school. Remember the “greenhouse effect?”
If you don’t want to see the movie, fine. I doubt it is theatrical history in the making, but I’ll probably enjoy it. But don’t chalk it up to politics. And if you “Red Staters” wonder why people think you are “stupid”, it is becuase you choose to remain ignorant about scientific fact. The fact is, conservative middle America is less educated than those “Libs” in the Northeast, which is why we understand such complex subjects. By the way, humans and dinosaurs didn’t coexist, evolution is fact, feel free to argue amongst yourselves.
Hollyweird just doesn’t get it. This movie would have been just fine without hollywooding it up. As much as I appreciate gorgeous “cavehoes”, the cave folk didn’t look like models and have nice little dreadlocks. Geography lessons aside, this is just pure crap. Questfor fire is a cult classic and there was no hollywooding. The best movie I’ve seen lately was a plain, no grand CGI, no models movie called “No Country for Old Men”. Save you money folks…
If this ain’t Democrat Underground can someone give me directions?
“I’ll never watch another Sean Penn movie again, not because he has strongly held views I disagree with, but because he’s an arrogant, self-righteous, holier-than-thou prick with condescending turds dripping out of his mouth every time he opens it.”
Right on, Dude. Perfectly concise analysis. I haven’t paid for a sean penn movie for years. Saw mystic river at a friend’s house. An interesting movie, but I can’t believe the hollywood ass-kissers thought it was a great performance by penn. He was the “sucks” part of the movie, totally over-acting and histronic, just like in public.
He was a good actor when coming up, but is a real ass now, and it shines through on in his arrogant acting style. Move on folks, nothing to see here…..
As for 10,000 BC, when Raquel Welch was in a potboiler like this you could at least ogle her. The fellow tribe-people looked pretty ratty, which was a big plus in the authenticity department. The pterodactyl and volcano scenes weren’t bad either, as I recall. But it was Raquel Welch that carried the movie. Jeeesus! You definitely need a great rack bouncing around if your flick is a dog. Arrrffff!
JJ
Sorry to single you out, but this is a prefect example of what I was saying. This winter may have been the coldest on record where YOU live, but the OVERALL temperature of the entire wrold is RISING. Hence the term GLOBAL wraming, not Uneducatedrednecktown warming. One of the effects of global warming is more extreme weather on all fronts. This means hotter summers, colder winters, bigger floods, more precipitation, more severe droughts. Your extremely cold, snowy winter is a symptom and therefore further proof of the fact that is global warming. You have personified ignorance.
I saw it last night and it was PAINFUL! “Cavemen” who speak the Queen’s English perfectly. Dreads, make-up, man-eating Turkeys, an affectionate and intelligent Sabre-Tooth Tiger that saves people rather than eat them, and lastly, the Mongoloid mutant defectives that supervised the building of the Great Pyramids! It was about as realistic as the 1960’s era TV caveman sitcom, “It’s About Time.” Your 7 year old will love it though!
Drudge ruins everything with his links. I’m sure he provides a lot of hits but is it worth putting up with red-state retards who politicize everything? (his readers undoubtedly think breathing is Liberal propaganda.)I have a sudden urge to waste my money and go see this piece of crap just to shut them up.
By the way, “The Day After Tomorrow” was ridiculous (we’re not going to enter the next ice age in under a week like in the film) and Emmerich’s always made crap but it’s always been fun, campy, over-the-top crap (which my friends and I always went to see in the theatre.) Looks like that sense of fun and size is missing from this movie based on your reviews.
Christ, can we leave politics out of this? We are talking about a movie here, and a very bad one. My 10 year old son wanted to see it, so I took him. He said to me “Dad, that sucked”. That pretty much sums it up. I wanted to get that in before the claims of Obama saw it and hated it, but Hillary loved it start to fly.
The movie was absolutely awesome. I will be going to the theater a second time to see it, and I will buy the DVD when it comes out. Highly recommended!!!
“Rupert Murdoch paid for The Day After Tomorrow – how can it be anti-red state if Mr. Fox News put up the budget? or is Rupes secretly Al Gore’s Boston Bride?”
It’s not anti-red state, it’s anti-brain. Blue states tend not to use them so they didn’t notice. Rupert Murdoch had a fund raiser for Hillary. I just so love how the far left hates fox news so much and thinks it is so biased yet loves Al Gore and Moore. I just laugh my ass off at the irony. I can even watch Bill Maher and Rosie for at least five minutes before the first hint of vomit in the back of my throat. But don’t expect the “open minded” lefties to breath in any air other than from their own paper bag.
Hey,
I think people are getting a little off-track trying to explain BC’s BO results. BC is a poor quality film on many levels, and that should be explanation enough.
That said, my entertainment standards are low enough that I can be kept amused by even *very* poor industry professionalism. I do, however, find that an overt political preachiness can keep me from enjoying even that sort of fare.
Bad movies can still = good entertainment.
Bad PAC recruiting films = just plain bad.
Playa
BOOOO! BOOOO!
For a bunch of guys that supposedly don’t believe in the “fairy tale” version of the Bible, they sure have a lot of spiritual (non Biblical) crap in this horrendous film. So I guess it’s just the Christian “God” everyone’s afraid of.
It’s just a movie. Anyone looking for ‘highbrow’ drama should look elsewhere. Anyone looking for ‘accuracy’ should watch the Science Channel. Whatever happened to just having fun? Whatever happened to just going to a movie and having to disengage the brain?
I hardly go to movies any more. And I’m not that interested in renting them either. And I’m only 34. The reason why is I’m fed up with all the PC, diversity, multicultural propaganda these movies spout. Besides that, the story lines, dialog and plots aren’t well thought out. The propaganda is so bad, that’s what most of the PBS kid shows are about – Seasme Street especially. I’m now sticking to movies from my parents and grand parents generation.
It wasn’t just the “Red Staters” comrade Jackson. I think the real culprit behind this flick’s box-office mediocrity are those of us “basement dwellers” that will always remember that it was Roland Emmerich who made 1998’s “Godzilla”. A cinematic abortion on it’s own merits, it defiled the name of a revered cultural and cinematic icon, committing a crime that cannot and certainly has not been forgiven.
Emmerich’s films are cast into hell in this life, just as Emmerich himself will be cast into hell in the next.
Why is it that these directors use people who can’t act and look like they stepped out of a Tommy Hilfiger ad? Do they expect us to believe that these characters really live 12,000 years ago in the hardships, weather, malnutrition, lost teeth, and death at a young age? A little realism folks huh? We may as well watch Raquel Welch pose and grunt. Oh, who cares! The special effects are all that counts, right?
Thanks, everybody, now I can forget about going to this one; these reviews were a lot more entertaining than the movie, I’m sure. Anyway, Id’d rather sit in front of my PC all weekend and listen to the MySpace “ca-ching” noise announcing a new “friend”…
Jackson, I couldn’t agree with you more. Stop global whining now! LOL. Hard to find a movie or actors that I like any more. They are all politicians except that they are worse because 99% of them have not moved beyond a high school education.
Right on Jackson! An another good post by Drew. at which I stopped reading.
I could not find the MONOLITH …and I never heard a single word from HAL
Signed – 2001
This movie would have been much better with robots. Yeah, that’s it.
I loved the movie. It fits my agenda to a T. And whats wrong with special affects? w/o makeup my face would look like the backside of a dog
Penelope –
Global Warming theory has not been proven by science. Science is based on controlled experiments and that is not is what is being done. At BEST the Global Warming theorists have observation. But we can observe the polar ice caps melting….on Mars. Can’t blame that on man.
Global Warming adherents practice something closer to religion than science.
Maybe the movies producers should have released it on a weekend when all the 14-yr old boys who watch these special effects ho-hummers got their allowances. I just don’t understand how the characters in this movie have time for body-waxes, hair stylists and health clubs with all those tigers around to menace them.
Hey.. How come everyone is defending Jackson? You poor suckers were taken for your hard earned benjamins and went to a piece of crap movie. Didn’t P.T. Barnum say it best? “There IS A sucker bork every minute!”
I believe that the Movie industry and Casino’s are there for ONE reason..
To seperate you from your money..
As FAST and as OFTEN as possible.. (Truck Stops fall in there somewhere too!)
… talking animals are very popular with the kids, too. I’d like to see that. And since it’s by the director of the “Day After Tomorrow” he could have thrown in a tornado and it wouldn’t have cost any more money. A talking animal, disaster, caveman film!
Global warming isn’t happening just look at all the scientific research that proves that it is! You ignorant “red state” folks are the reason it’s almost embarrassing to tell people I’m American when I travel abroad.
This string was so entertaining that they should put this to film and call it 10000 BS.
Jackson … you rule. I think your name was mentioned at least 47 times.
Chris … quit drinkin’ the Kool-Aid dude.
All you other “Blue Staters” … the word Blue says it all. Nothing more needed.
Hollywood puts out nothing BUT PC, Blue State, LIBERAL (with all caps), Gore-is-a-God, Bullshit and they have for years.
And, based upon how poorly movie rate of returns have been, there must be a WHOLE LOT of conservative, red staters out there that are tired of the brainwashing and just enough blue staters to keep their business afloat. You know, guys like Chris and the such. Peace out.
Red State wannabe who hopes to move to one soon.
RJ
I enjoyed this movie. It was never meant to be a documentary—it’s a sci-fi fantasy. For a couple of hours, just let yourself believe in an alternate history. The special effects alone are worth the price of admission.
Idiocracy. The movie, and most of the folks posting comments about it.
Right on, Jackson. Man-made global warming is a scam and the people who fall for it are fools.
two things going on here:
1) Hollywood and the media conglomerates have given us MANY avenues to watch their product…but, their product SUCKS!!!
Hollywood insiders are only interested in impressing other Hollywood insiders….us unwashed masses, they don’t give two shits about(be it red, blue, green, purple, yellow states)
you wanna see what I mean—come her when Nikki’s comments sections aren’t linked through Drudge—lotta smug, hollywood “insiders” who have forgotten that they have to please the customer: US!
the industry banks everything on their pieces of shite “tent-pole” movies and are aghast when they don’t do well
2) establishment (liberal) Hollywood does not care that their palpable disdain for middle class values (again, not even a red-blue state thing, more like Hollywood jut thinks they’re BETTER than you)
heck i eventually really don’t give a fuck if they want to left wing propagandize all day long—just MAKE FUCKIN MOVIES AND TV SHOWS PEOPLE WANT TO SEE!!!
as for “Day After Tomorrow” what made me mad was the scene where Americans were fleeing to SOUTH OF THE BORDER making a not so subtle comment about how we as a nation are sick of illegals overrunning our borders—that was just plain blatant left wing bullshit! let’s not even go there with the golbal warming horsehit
speaking of shit: I know it’s harder than it sounds…but would it kill these hollywood fucks to make some decent product once in a while
so…
arrogance + bad product + disdain for their customer base + intense competition for the entertainment dollar + access to their product for free via internet = hollywood’s imminent demise
signs are there—they thought the ratings were low for this year’s Oscars…LOL
Wow, you morons are actually getting all fired up over a freakin CAVEMAN Movie! Its a movie guys! Mindless Entertainment (or lack of)! Thats all, a movie! The fate of the world dosen’t depend on if it makes money, and if you don’t go see it, you won’t change the course of human history! You people actually boycott movies and actors based on their political views? ITS A MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!
movie looked horrible. will do well overseas. no wonder the world hates us – we keep sending ‘em crap.
can’t wait to see warner’s nxt big bad epic – troy, 10,000, 300 was rad but c’mon – wb sucks:)
They should have had giant ants in “10,000 B.C.” Like in “Them.” Giant ants are cool and would have eaten the tigers, and probably would have changed the course of history.
I have to agree with both Jackson O’Neill and Kristofer Lief Hamrick III. Jackson is correct when he says that at least 50% of the public will avoid the movie as soon as The Day After Tomorrow was mentioned. For people who are attacking Jackson for his political belief, you just made his case for him. He disagrees with the issue of global warming so he’s not willing to pay to sit through a movie that will support that political cause. This is makes more sense than people who are anti-war that don’t want to see Rambo, but I don’t see a problem with anyone not wanting to spend money on ideas that they don’t agree with.
As for Kristofer, he’s absolutely correct about Emmerich. Let’s look at his last few movies. ID4 was a decent big budget action flick, but had too much PC shoved into it. There was no redeeming value for Godzilla (and it’s blasphemy in Japan–the second largest market in the world). Surprisingly he still works after that with Patriot, a completely historically incorrect movie that purposely portrayed British soldiers as Nazis (the true actions of British troops during the war would have been sufficient without the hamfisted inaccurate actions). The Day After Tomorrow was a horrible 2-dimensional movie (and global warming scientist even attacked it for being scientifically incorrect).
Now he’s made 10000BC, a movie about barbarians filled with super pretty faces. This movie needed a Conan type feel to it, and pretty boys don’t fill the gap. Actually, this is not unique to this movie. Look at most of the top Hollywood men in the past and you will find most were not pretty boys: John Wayne, James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Clint Eastwood, Charles Bronson, Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Harrison Ford. Once Hollywood stops casting Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, James Franco and the hordes of other pretty boy with pouty lips, then maybe the male audience might return in larger numbers to the theatres.
Finally, to add to Kristofer comments, Emmerich is set to direct an unnecessary remake of Fantastic Voyage. The original is a classic that doesn’t need to be remade (and I am feeling flashbacks of Pyscho coming to me). So get ready in a few years for the box office failure from Emmerich. Attention Hollywood: The only thing worse than a remake of a TV show is a remake of a classic movie. Go back to making original movies, please.
Jackson:
Yup, you are absolutely right with your left wing conspiricies.
Let’s see – Earth is Flat, you never have to pay taxes, there is a free lunch, and oh yes, THERE IS NO GLOBAL WARMING! and finally, EVOLUTION IS NOT TRUE. I wonder, who the REAL caveman is?????
Geez..
It’s just a friggin stupid movie and nothing more. No hidden agenda there.
I’m a Republican, but that doesn’t mean anything when it comes to move. Day After Tomorrow was just a stupid, dumb movie, like 10K BC.
People like Jackson who see liberal propaganda everywhere just give the normal Republicans a bad name. They should try getting out more and shutting off the Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage.
go rent caveman and stay home and watch crap
Gee here in Ohio we had record snow fall for March. Level 3 conditions and the Police NOT wanting anyone to drive or be out. So guess NO ONE took this into consideration when talking about why the movie didn’t make any money. It has nothing to do with me paying $50 for a movie, it has to do with the bad weather. Can’t go out, if the Police don’t want you to drive and HEY the Mall’s closed.
Plus I don’t care about the promos as they sucked. It is hard to get anyone out whne the promos suck.
Too bad the earth is only 4,000 years old. Read the Bible folks. It does matter and it is just as “scientifically” feasbile.
me like me dem0krat
“If you’re 20 and not a liberal, you don’t have a heart. If you’re 30 and not a Conservative, you don’t have a brain.”
When no WMD’s were found in Iraq, Bush retroactively changed the reason for the war to “bringing democracy to Iraq”. Anyone who is lame enough to buy that bit of flip flopping won’t even remember what The Day After Tomorrow was about.
Shiny thing….they should have had more shiny things…and loud noises that go POP! That would have really brought the viewing public in.
Well, the way I see it, either one of two things is true:
1) I’m a genius and most of you are idiots for the reasons you find to trash each other; although I must thank you for the cheapest entertainment there is: watching retards type insults to each other. OR
2) EVERYONE’S a retard (yes, less than 70IQ) for blogging anything that isn’t a review of the movie. Only retards post inappropriate blogs and type insults to strangers. I should know, because I am one. I give in. Let’s all have 10 kids a piece and blog more often. We need to hurry, cuz I perceive that some of you already have a head start.
and let those who say the most hurtful insults and declare knowledge on global warming donate the most sperm (if you can’t get laid and you’re angry cuz you’re lonely).
Hey Rob your the dumb ass not Jackson. It’s inflexible nitwits like you who think it’s a-ok to attack anyone who doesn’t believe in and mindlessly follow your cause-celeb. This year it’s global warming. Sorry if we all don’t drop in the lemming line along with you and your weak minded and highly impressionable friends.
You might want to consider getting a spine and maybe thinking for yourself. Stay out of the far left chat rooms and move out of mommy’s basement. Maybe even add some am radio to your diet also.
Oh by the way the movie stinks with a capital S!
Beckster:
Sure, Anything is possible. There is .000000000000000000000001% probability that Earth is flat, same probability is that you are a woman or have a brain, or we can walk on water!!!! But why get confused with facts? Rush said it on the radio, good enough for me! There you go. You may not have evolved from a monkey, but surely from a sheep – as in a sheep mentality! Dare we remind you that its 2008? and your bible thumping jerks killed Galeleo for saying scientific statement, and percecuted how many other scientists?. Like I said, why get confused with facts.
Gotta love comments like those from “open minded”. He’s too much of freaking coward to even post his name. LOL! I swear half of the lefty attacks on reality here are that first fruitcake rob just signing in under different names.
You gotta love the lefty lunies! ROFLMAO!
I find humor in the fact that no one on this page has said it’s a good movie. Can’t we get along at all on anything? Come on everybody, con/lib, red/blue, can we all just agree that this film sucks or are we so bitter that people will spend their saturdays at each other’s throats online over something that they AGREE about?
Chris,
Uh, believe it or not, some Red Staters and Bible-Belters acutally DO have an education beyond the high school level. Last time I checked, North Carolina was a Red State (ever heard of Jesse Helms?) and it is the home of one of the premier educational institutions in the country: Duke University. So, please, don’t diminish your arguments by tying to buttress your points with clear hyperbole. Just make your point and leave the insults out of it.
Oh, and by the way, there was a time when a heliocentric solar system was “settled science” and Galileo was branded a heretic (in today’s lingo, that would be “global warming denier”). There are far too many respected scientists (including some who used to subscribe to the global warming theory) who are questioning the basic tenants of global warming for ANY of us to believe that the issue is settled. All I’m saying is: Wait until the science settles out. Then, if it’s true, it’s true. But if it’s not, then I don’t have to drive an ugly little Prius to work everyday.
Oh Dennis Dennis Dennis, its idiocy like your comment about banning movies from artist Sean Penn that causes you repug’s the shutting out and close-mindedness that comes from your beliefs….I speak only to the fact by banning Sean Penn movies, you will NEVER get to see Into The Wild. That movie is so moving and so well done, its a shame you’d let your childish petty little battles cause you to miss such an amazing movie….but hey, you repug’s do this to yourselves all thew time….”such is life ” ??
I was watching a discussion the other night on one of the news channels, and now, with this winter being the coldest in decades, the term “climate change” has replaced “global warming” – seems the greenhouse gasses can cause drastic changes either way – hot or cold…umm, right. Anything to try and keep the myth alive. Keep your eyes and ears open for “Global Change” the next exciting movie from Al Gore!
Its to bad that everything we see or hear is tainted with political opinions. I personally wish that I could go to a movie without having to worry about the true intentions or motives for making the movie. I just want to be entertained, not fed propaganda. If I wanted to see propaganda I would turn on the news or watch a music video.
By the way: Before I get a tidal wave of nasty response posts, replace “heliocentrism” with “geocentrism” in my previous post.
The polar ice caps are melting and there is nothing we Earthlings can do about it. Why? Well, that is because the ice caps are on Mars.
I saw Raquel Welch in 10,000 BC. Not much coming out of Hollywood interests my hubby and me.
Forget the prices for unbelievably horrid movies. It’s the concession that keep me away anymore. $6.00 for burnt popcorn. $4.00 for an awful tasting Coke.
The only time I venture to the movie theater anymore is something that requires a big screen, and even then I wait until the kids are gone.
And as a conservative, I sure do wish libs would try to put me in a cage. I’m waiting for them to make their move so we can end the needless chatter and get down to business. I predict a real quick ending…
I’ll keep my 8 bucks rather than giving to someone who plays “make believe” and wants to tell me that the earth is warming or that large corporations are evil or the white man is scum – no thanks -
When I watched the previews I started to excited to see this. After not seeing too many folks on here that really loved 10,000 BC I don’t know. I’ll prolly still see it,….maybe.
I thought Day After Tomorrow was a sermon rather than a movie. The science in it was more like science fiction based on some liberal fantasy than anything credible. It was predictable and lame despite having decent talent available to sell its stupid plot. I like the part were there is selective freezing and they burn books in the library. Very telling, I even predicted which books they burned too.
Once I found out that 10K BC was directed by the same moron I could tell that the movie would be a poor story. I could see on the commercial the cheesy CGI. I’m waiting for the video.
Global warming—I have a carbon remover that I can sell for a very reasonable price. Just go to eBay and get one while supplies last.
I predict hollywood will disappear before so called global warming, LOL
If someone made a movie of what living in 10,000BC was really like (to the best of our knowledge), you’d be amazed at just how smart and inovative the “cave men” really were. These guys would hike hundreds of miles just to find the right types of rock to make superior spear points. Try making a surgically sharp meat cutter out of a piece of stone!
I recall a little-known movie put out 15-20 years ago called “Carrying The Fire”. Not sure of the title but it was a fantastic story depicting paleolithic man as he really was. It was about this small tribe who lost their source of fire and had to send 3 guys on this trek to find a new source. I think they finally ran into a tribe who taught them how to make it. Anyone remember that flick? Well worth watching if you can find it. Had some brief heavy R-rated scenes not appropriate for the kiddies. Good flick, almost like a documentary.
Actually, Jackson nailed it. I won’t see it specifically because the Day after Tomorrow was such crap and so political…AND WRONG. I won’t see 10,000 B.C. because think what you want about me, I hope the director never works again. He SUCKS.
Hey “Open Minded” you may be the dumbest person breathing. Global Warming is a HOAX! Anyone who can read and doesn’t depend on Al Gore to tell them fairy tales knows it. Sorry. I’m an educated man who believes the earth is millions of years old, and climate change is a natural occurance that we do ot and can not control.
10,000 BC WAS AWESOME. Forget those who are ignorant of prehistory and say that it was not like that in 10,000 BC. I have studied ancient history for almost thirty years. It doesnt really matter if it was scientifically accurate, because the scientists/archeologists dont really know what it was like back then anyway. Its all guessing…. whats important is that some important prehistory-themes were brought out.
No stupid sex scenes, no bad language, good pure themes, a fine film: excellent costumes, male hero, great action. Alot of folk would prefer movies like “no country for old men” or “there will be blood” because it justifies there own corrupt morality.
Seens more people commented on this film than actually saw it.
FACE IT THE SABRETOOTH LOOKED FAKE IN THE PROMOS
LIBERALISM IS DEAD AND FADING
WAKE UP AMERICA
OH IT LOOKS LIKE WE ARE
HULK SMASH
IRON MAN RULES
BATMAN
NOW THOSE ARE HITS A COMING
The reason this movie is not doing well is because The Day After Tomorrow did so well that it enabled Al Gore to save the world and stop global warming which caused the 12 inches of snow I see out my window that kept a lot of the mid-west (e.g. red states) from being able to go to see 10000BC. Otherwise it would have ruled!!!!
Now that’s some logic the libs can actually understand.
I think we need another planet of the apes — that’s probably closer to what it was like in 10,000BC
Yeah, gotta agree with the comment above. A little puss-SAY would being a few more people in. And, yeah, some dinosaurs.
this movie blows
I’m wicked Libertarian/Conservative and I shelled out ten bucks to see the movie. I knew my sons, 12 & 15, would like to go, so I previewed it. They can go but the movie, much to my disappointment, sucked. It was just so unrealistic (yes, I know it was fictional). I am always willing to suspend reality for a good yarn, but this was too much. Walking a few days from the steppes type enviroment, through what could be the Alps, then at the base of the Alps is a jungle, then a day or two later moving through scrub brush, then to a savanah, then across the desert to Giza all in about 10 days? Just too much for the sensibilities. You had to love the evil white European dude with the fantastic overhead view map of the Mediterrainian Sea area. How he managed to enslave all of the Africans and mideastern types with his fat eunoch servants was just silly.
After looking these reviews I’m right,the good old USA is on it’s way to full stupid…the Dem’s for sure.
I was on the edge of my seat, hoping Marshall, Will, and Holly would emerge unharmed from all those ghastly beasts. Oh, and was that Ron Howard’s brother, Clint, playing Cha-Ka?
Overall, I’d give 10,000 B.C. a thumbs up. In fact, I love the opening theme song about “Marshall, Will, and Holly on a routine expedition…”
Oh, by the way, Dittoheads, atmospheric CO2 has risen 30% since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, and with China and India rapidly industrializing, the rate is going up at an increasing rate.
Of course, you think that all the Nobel Laureates who’ve, in near-unanimous numbers, warned about the adverse consequences of this are part of some grand conspiracy to subjugate the United States.
Read up on greenhouse gases and how they affect the atmosphere.
Times have changed since Hollywood gave us “1 Million Years B.C.” with Raquel Welch.
Even reality TV has changed viewers’ expectations of what people in primitive environments look like. On CBS’s “Survivor,” the players are dirty, unkempt, sweaty, with armpit hair growing from the women’s armpits, and bug bites and scars on their legs. And nobody is wearing makeup. Heck, even on ABC’s “Lost,” a scripted drama, the castaways’ clothing is dirty, sweaty, and they are often bruised and dirty. That’s what people look like in hot tropical and desert climates when they’re not bathing and grooming regularly.
If Emmerich shows “cavemen” that look bathed and groomed like they just stepped out of a photoshoot, even youngsters who are fans of “Survivor” and “Lost” are going to be laughing.
10,000 BC was good.
I saw the movie on premiere night and I liked it just fine. While I am generally hard on lame Hollywood garbage, I can’t say that I didn’t like this movie. I went for entertainment and I was entertained. What more is there? I thought the CGI was just fine and well used where needed. Don’t go looking for an epic masterpiece and you’ll probably enjoy it.
By the way, CG will often “look fake” when seen on a TV trailer as compared to a big movie screen. It’s much easier to detect flaws in movement and realism when looking at a relatively small TV screen when compared to the big screen. I was highly impressed with the technical savvy it takes to animate an extinct animal with all of its big cat movement, musculature, and facial features, not to mention the water scene.
So, if you think you would enjoy a folklore-ish story about early man then you will probably enjoy this movie.
First off, to “Rob” for bashing Jackson: You are making yourself look like the idiot, Rob, for dismissing what Jackson said. If you choose to believe in fairytales, then have at pal. At the same time, you can continue to play with your dollies as well, but people who actually think for themselves tend to not believe the hype of “global warming” Oh and by the way Rob, since you believe in such tripe, how’s that “Global Cooling” scam that you and your ilk tried to perpetrate on us awhile back, huh?
Now as for the movie, I had no interest in seeing as I didn’t know that the cavemen even knew how to talk back then.
Typical pile of steaming Hollywood dogshit.
But evidently people like “Rob” eat that shit up. No wonder people say that all liberals have “shit for brains”.
Cheers!!
OK.. Let’s sum upthe Vox Populi. The next Hollywood blockbuster in have giant talking robot animals.Have them fighting zombies and we’ll pull Titanic-like numbers at the box office. And just to make people happy, one of the animals can eat Al Gore.
Now I know why I thoroughly enjoyed “Rat Pfink A Boo Boo” on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) last night.
It’s obviously better than “10,000 B.C.”
The movie was “Quest for Fire”, one of my personal favorites. No PC, just good stuff.
Yea, “Global Warming” is probably the reason we are having the “Worst Winter” in 20 years.
I love it when people politicize B grade movies and talk about boycotts! It shows what great thinkers they are!
BC is a glossy turd. Cavegirls with contact lenses. Cavemen – white cavemen – with dreadlocks. Phuk dat. This director is a barrel of poison, killing everything he touches.
Hey, Red Staters, I got a heads up for ya’ll.
America The Beautiful just so happens to be a LIBERAL Country and you so called “conservatives” just happen to be in the *minority* in this country.
By a 2 to 1 margin.
Don’t believe it?
Consider this…
In 2006 we elected a Democratic House and Senate, and this year we’re going to finish the job.
You can thank George W. Busch for that.
Wanna know how John McCain is going to do in the Election this fall?
I’ll tell ya.
Take whatever Busch’s highest approval ratings were from when Katrina happened to today, add a full 10% to that and that’s the best that McCain will do, no matter who the Democrats run.
Even if it’s the most liberal person in the Senate. Well, actually that’s why Obama is doing so well, because he *is* a liberal.
Get a clue.
~Nyc
Like I said I preferred this to The Passion.
Good to see the boxoffice articles return. I missed them during the writer’s strike and I’m glad your great takes on the box office have come back for good.
As for this week, not much of a shocker. 10,000 Bc was destined to tank. And it looked rather cheesy. It’ll die a gradual death ala Golden Compass.
As I’m typing this, SNL had for the 3rd straight week, a Pro-Hilary cold opening that stunk. I’m sure some of the higher-ups on the show contributed to Hilary’s campaign.
I thought this was the best movie I have ever seen in my life! I suspect it will garner a truck load of Oscars and other tributes as well. If you miss this movie you will live to regret it.
Bigmoney – the movie you’re referring to is Quest for Fire. And by the way, man-made global warming is a joke.
This is America and you are free to have an opinion about global warming or any other subject, but a decent respect for the truth should require you to become educated in the field of Atmospheric Science before you expect anyone to defer to you on the matter. Researchers in ancillary fields, such as Geophysics, or distantly related fields, like Physical Chemistry, would never dream of holding themselves forth as a substantive critic of the consensus opinion of Atmospheric Science because it takes the work of one’s life to maintain working knowledge of the current state the peer reviewed literature and generate reproducible findings within a scientific discipline. That’s why, on matters of science, it is usually best to listen carefully to the findings of experts, even if those findings contravene your own settled opinions. This is only rational. Salt of the earth types might find my comments elitist or off-putting, but the absolute disregard for authority among right wing simpletons is the opposite of conservative, reflecting a relativism more decadent than the most libertine brand of post-structuralism.
I highly recommend seeing this movie, but only after paying to see another matinée on Saturday, then another, and then if your brain hasn’t turned to poo, check this one out. That way you get more bang for your buck when you see the plot my 2yr. old nephew could have written unfold. Some people would say this is dishonest, but if director’s get a very liberal dramatic license, I like to grant myself a very liberal economic license. It’s a sabretooth eat mammoth world out there, and only the extremely good looking survive.
Somebody said one thing really interesting here-why do people who wear their liberalism on their sleeve, who consider themselves smarter than the average bear, progressive and all that, always resort to name-calling? Do they really think we in the middle will just accept their unwarranted trashing of a human being? They justify their attitude with smugness that is just about the most distasteful thing I have seen. Seriously, I know this is supposed to be about this movie, but that is the most salient point about politics I have seen in a long time. I am sure someone can something similarly lacking in character about conservatives, but probably nothing quite as disappointing as people who consider themselves the more compassionate people denigrating others with complete abandon. Oh…Sorry the movies sucks, bros…
this movie has a deeper meaning. the “god” character is a white guy, probably an old white guy w/ gray hair, enslaving the world, then the mountain tribe got captured. the main caveman is like bin laden.
the movie was crap
there is no such thing as global warming
there is climate change, there always has been.
The earth go through cycles, and the suckers that fell for global warming still by all sorts of worthless crap from china pushing even more pollution into the skies
good luck when you lose you jobs and the world ends up with even more pollution from india and china
riovista: If you liked Rat Pfink a Boo Boo, then you’ve got to see The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?, also directed by & starring Ray Dennis Steckler, as Cash Flagg.
Creatures has what may be the only time the Angel’s Flight funicular was used in a movie & Angel’s Flight may never operate again due to its reconstruction being fatally flawed.
Nikki, since you have to approve comments for them to be posted, I wish you would end all the comments from the wing-nuts that link from Drudge.
Most of them are ridiculous beyond belief!
Just stick to why the movie flopped, not their politics.
The freepers, lgf’s & pajamas can go back there & kvetch!
why is one of the cavemen wearing a watch?
Meanwhile … let’s take a jab at the #2 film: How is it that Martin Lawrence keeps getting work? He’s long been an Eddie Murphy wanna-be (when Murphy was good), and Murphy at least never threatened female co-stars to the point where their scenes had to be in separate rooms.
Lawrence, like Will Farrell, Adam Sandler, and Jim Carry all have no talent beyond acting like 8-year-olds with ADD on sugar highs.
pure shit, i would have left if my kid wasnt with me, remake of moses, except with hairy elephants
Jackson, don’t worry. Rob & some of these other idiots who are mocking you just don’t get it. They are just too dumb to comprehend what you are really alluding to & they probably bought into the hoax. I also saw Vantage Point & that was another waste of time & money. The underlying problem is Hollywood cannot make a decent movie if their existence depended on it. It is a cesspool of talentless, self-absorbed drug addicts and that is why they cannot make a halfway enjoyable movie. These airhead actors and actresses forgot what their real job is supposed to be, which is acting, instead, they have self-appointed themselves as heads of state, senators, congressman/woman, and even wannabe president and they keep shoving down their opinions down our throat.
The only good movie I’ve seen in theaters the past year has been Ratatouille.
Thank you everyone for a very entertaining 15 minutes spent reading your comments!
Re the global warming argument, the question is not whether the world is warming – it is, a little bit (less than 1 degree in the last 100 years) – but whether there is enough evidence that this is due to the activities of man, rather than other factors such as solar cycles or variations in sub-crust convective currents. While it is an interesting exercise to model environmental changes based on atmospheric gas changes, what troubles many of the skeptical of the man-made global warming hypothesis is that its supporters seem to be abandoning the scientific method to jump aboard a band wagon that clearly has significant political overlay. The fact is that the slight temperature change over the last century is mild compared to larger temperature swings documented over the last 5,000+ years based on European dendritic (tree annual ring) records and Antarctic ice core data, not to mention the Medieval warm period which occurred during the more recent past and is well documented by historical records. It is difficult to agree to make the drastic alterations in industry and the economy recommended by many in the Green movement when we have quite good documentation that much larger temperature variations occurred in the past long before there was any meaningful human production of hydrocarbons and greenhouse gas.
Something that might be impacting year-to-year comparisons is gasoline costs. I know a number of people who have begun to severely limit their discretionary trips in the car…that includes trips to movie theatres. People are also taking more time to plan and group their errands on a single trip. That can delay or even eliminate a trip to the theatre.
Did they have Victoria’s Secret 10,000 years ago?
This movie would have been critically acclaimed if there had been more gay cavemen. A good caveman humping scene could have gotten this an OSCAR
They should have called it Brokeback 10,000 BC then all the liberals would have paid to go see it.
Didn’t see it, won’t see it.
There’s a good reason Hollywood doesn’t care if all of the red-state rednecks boycott their movies… The hicks don’t have two nickels to rub together, let alone $10 for a movie ticket.
unindicted co-conspirator: TCM had “The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?” on late Friday night–right before “Rat Pfink A Boo Boo”!
Wonder how long it’ll take for “10,000 B.C.” to get riffed by the folks at Rifftrax or Cinematic Titanic (both featuring “Mystery Science Theatre 3000″ alumni)?
NYC La Brets,
It’s Bush not Busch…Dumbass
re:Comment by wetzel — March 8, 2008 @ 8:55 pm
Scientists not from the “atmospheric sciences” can in fact have opinions about science performed in that science, or claims and conclusions based on that science.
One can criticize the scientific methodology used without understanding the specific science. Poor method yields invalid results.
One can criticize the statistical method used without understanding the specific science. Improperly applied statistics algorithms and assumptions yields invalid results.
And one can criticize the credentials of a specific scientist without understanding the specific science. A known plagiarist, scam-artist, etc. can yield invalid papers, and scientists are not immune to the influence of money (on both sides of the issue).
In short, there are many ways someone not versed ina specific science can contribute to authenticating or disputing the claims of another scientist.
Hey Jackson I guess you “Red State” people can’t go to a movie called 10,000 BC because you “believe” the world is only 6000 years old. The industry is doing just fine. Maybe you should take pride in the last American export other than war.
Can it be any worse than “The Last Legion”?
We’ll go see it this afternoon. Munch some buttered popcorn – the only reason I go to movies – and enjoy the show.
yes, dinosaurs…or robots, people like robots too.
Folks, some are getting overly excited. Its just
a movie to entertain, nothing more, nothing less.
I saw 10,000 BC last night, it blows. It’s a rip off of Apocalypto in a different setting. The movie is Grossly unrealistic [such as when he falls into a pit, saves a saber tooth tiger from drowning and then out of know where 30 minutes later, the tiger saves him] and at times, unintentionally funny [like when the mother of the tribe spits on each of them before they go on their journey, as part of her blessing].
The movie’s lack of historical accuracy and realism coupled with a stupid story is what made it so bad. I got sold on the trailers, shame on me.
After reading all the critics who have and have not seen the movie, I can at least say I won’t see it.
I don’t like the subtle underlying liberal mindset propaganda which obviously is imbedded in this supposed enetrtainment.
Look Hollywood has released some good flicks lately. I thought Into the Wild, No Country for Old Men and Robert Ford were all good. While they still had undertones in them at least they were enetrtaining.
Into the Wild was sad , if you are a father, you can see how liberalism has seriously confused and damaged our youth by distilling their guilt at coming from a well to do background to a serious level, No Country for Old Men clearly shows how liberalism has affected our culture and created supervillians bereft of any remorse and Robert ford, while very accurate, still showed how sypathetic liberalism is to the criminal.
But all in all they wer good movies and I would see them again, unfortunately, Hollywood produces five times the crap with subtle underpinnings of their latest fad.
So go see the movies you want, boycott those you think are too PC or pure propaganda, but do it because of your convictions.
Remember, Conservatives Think, Liberals Feel, and the twain shall never meet.
If an when society falls all Conservatives can chain the survining Liberals up in the fields for crop work.
“10,000 B.C.” was very bad! I’m glad that I went to see “The Bank Job” first. Now that was a really good movie! Jason Statham really rocked in this movie.
You all missed the boat. The Bank Job was the best movie released this weekend. Saw it yesterday afternoon in a packed house and everyone loved it.
Someday the perverts in hollyweird will die off and we’ll have a chance to watch real movies again. In the meantime, I hope a 2nd movie capital forms somewhere else that will produce quality entertainment instead of fascist PC propaganda.
The real question was whether the cavemen were smart enough to save up to 15% on their car insurance.
Hey libs, the “day after tomorrow” was a propaganda film, how do I know that? When I came out of the movie there were global warming alarmists out there trying to sell me on that idea. Gave them some facts and they resorted to name-calling, however, when it came down to brass tacks they backed down….came away from that exchange with the idea that someone stole their stones.
10,000 BC? I thought it was changed to BCE. Well, I guess that lib trick didn’t fool anyone. Good to see we’ve evolved beyond PC, too.
Anyone see “Idiocracy”? That movie’s premise is coming true on this board.
They should have stuck with the current formula. Super hot babe who can kick ass of 30 bad guys (white of course), inferior stupid white man love interest for super hot ass kicking babe, Black man as boss, lesbian as the superhot chick’s sidekick. Asian as technical assistant, goofy hippy as second technical assistant.
The best part of this movie was when I got up to take a leak. Biggest waste of money/time ever!
Stop bothering the libs with facts-don’t you know it makes them crazy. I’m one of those redstate people without 2 nickles to rub together-I use my credit card. Going to see Spiderwick today-the kids choice. Won’t bother with 10k BC. Sounds bluestate-stupid to me. Hey Global Warming freaks-check out the History Channel sometime and see how REAL and DRASTIC Global Climate changed many times before recorded history. What fools you libs are.
If anyone cares “The Bank Job” IS a good movie. Go see it.
“Liberalism is dead and fading.”
Yeah, that must be why Obama is doing so well.
well, I enjoyed my Pop Corn, thats about all I have to say on the subject.
I like robots. And boobs.
To the “global warming” and “Day After Tomorrow” “red-staters” (god what sophomoric nonsense): If any of you could read you would know that what is happening meteorologically worldwide at this moment and all this winter is exactly what Art Bell and Whitley Streiber predicted in their book “The Coming Global Superstorm”, upon which the movie was loosely (and badly, except for the CGI) based. Global climate destabilization, an increase in extreme weather events, and, yes, a possible acceleration of the world into another Ice Age, and, yes, human activity is contributing to it. That’s what’s happening, and the science does support it, if it’s not paid by for by oil companies and other multinational corporate energy-suckers who of course sponsor Rish Lamebug and his sycophantic supporters. Again, knowing this is largely dependent upon knowing how to read, and do research.
saw first 15 minutes, asked for my money back
really really sucked
Parkman, I read Whitley’s book and the cause of climate instability according to Whitley Streiber is continental drift that connected Central America to South America thus disrupting vital water flow. Humans had nothing to do with it in Whitley’s original scenario. Of course, Whitley Streiber has NO scientific training of any kind whatsoever so it holds no more significance than any other form of “non-fiction”. Whitley himself has become a cool-aid drinking global warming fanatic who blaims absolutely everything on it. I actually enjoyed his book but he’s become a global warming kook in recent years.
What we need is more Soros funded scare mongering to take down capitalist nations. Then they can’t make these crap movies. Climate changes and weather is always weird. In the old days, they would accuse women as being witches and kill them when ‘extreme’ weather events occurred. Now we are civilized enough to just tax everyone to death. There is no organized boycott of this movie. It is just that if you created “Day After” and are proud of it then you’ll probably create another crap movie and everyone is smart enough to say “fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.”
Hey Parkman -
So global warming causes an Ice Age….because Whitley Strieber wrote about it. I see. Same guy who was abducted by aliens…
Your theory is a tautology. No matter what happens, it’s global warming. If the temperature goes up, it’s global warming. If the temperature goes down, it’s global warming. Actually, the earth has been cooling for the past 4-5 years. And now you’re predicting an “ice age”?
I see. Just like in the 70s.
And you end your post with an ad hominem attack about “oil companies”. Maybe you didn’t get the memo. Oil companies are not fudning Rush Limbaugh, they’re funding Al Gore. Oil companies want to get into the carbon trading business, which is worth 100s of billions. Oil companies are totally on board with all the global warming propoganda. It’s money, it’s so money.
You probably think you’re smart, but I wanna point out that you don’t know how to argue. You do what all leftwingers do:
1. appeal to authority (Whitley Streiber)
2. attack motives (evil oil companies!)
You probably think you’re smart……
General rules:
If a movie advertises a lot before it releases… it sucks!
If a movie opens on Mon-Thurs, it tends to be better.
10,000 BC was the worst movie ever. I walked out after half the show.
The only thing more retarded than this movie is this message board.
while the movie had trouble with the dialouge. the movie it self was great. i am sure most noticed. the non egyptions building the sphynx and the great pyramind. also the coexitinse of pre ice age and ice age animals and fauna. very cool movie showing these things, which had to of happened. the sphynz anigma. was the best no way the egytions built that. they added the head not the body. that was a lions head and body before they got there. it shows that a advanced race could have predated of the true age of modern man
I really liked the movie. I wa a little worried about the PG-13 rating, but I took my young sons and we really enjoyed it. Great father and son movie.
Great teeth! Worth the money just for the laughs. Could be called
“Spear Wars”, for the way it steals from that movie. See this in a theater that has few people, then you can make comments with your companion that are funnier then the script. We saw it for free, so we got a deal.
I took my family to see this over the weekend and we all thought it was great. It’s nice to have a movie you can take the whole family to see it. Who cares if it isn’t completely historically accurate? It is a movie! It is supposed to be a fun story about love and heroism. This movie delivers without all the trash that hollywood usually throws in. Awesome effects, and a great love story make this one of the best movies I have seen in a long time. We will be hoping for more movies like this!
From the creator of “The Day After Tomorrow” should have told everyone the film was going to be a piece of shit! Anyone stupid enough to fork out $14.00 a ticket deserves to be out $14.00!
First time I’ve read the comments…and will most likely be the last time I bother. I personally liked the movie, even knowing it was historically inaccurate. It was a quick escape. How can anyone turn this into a political debate is beyond me! I still go to movies to be entertained, not to be educated or politicised.
I don’t know why a fan of science fiction movies, would pass up 10,000 bc because of bad reviews. Most Sci-fi fans go to these movies to get there sight and sound kicks first and hope the rest is interesting. So many sci-fi movies have been waterboarded by “critics”, that i myself dont even listen to them. It’s called “entertainment” and all the best movies are not rated R. I would’nt dream of going into todays theater with such an anal critical attitude as ive seen from so many posts here. Im going to go see it, (lucky me i have a free pass) and hope im entertained. I like bad sci fi movies, at least if ur not entertained u can laugh at how bad it is.(alien vs predator 2 was unwatchable bad) I hope my mind is taken off waterboarding and the one party system everyone seems so flusterd about. global warming? yea its march and its cold as hell here!.lol
I’ll agree maybe a few dinosuars would have been nice. But, it was a good movie and a needed change from all the cookie cutter movies that are normally put out by Hollywood.
Children, can’t you stay focused for a few. You’re comments are more about yourself than the topic. It’s just another suckie movie, been plenty before, be plenty more.
I don’t understand people saying that the trailer “tricked them” into seeing it because it was so good. I’ve seen way too many trailers over the years, and I thought 10,000 BCs trailer was pretty weak. I haven’t seen the movie, but honestly the trailers were not that good for the movie anyway.
If you’re going to make an action flick, you ignore reality and go for flash. If you’re going to make an historical drama, you make your actors look the part. Never try to combine the two.
Quest for Fire was the quintescenal historical drama about cavemen. More historically accurate than any other caveman film in history, it was applauded by audeiences and film critics alike. 1,000,000 BC was probably the most inaccurate “historical” drama ever made but it was full of action and Raquel Welch in a fur bikini. While film critics panned it audiences loved it. 10,000BC tried to be both an action flick and a historical drama and falied miserably with audiences and film critics.
Did that slimy Drudge guy link to this site again?
Looks like the lunatics have been let out of the asylum again.
Holy Zombie Jesus, this is why I will only live on the coasts. Why are all you wingnuts commenting on an entertainment industry blog if you’re disgusted with “liberal propaganda” and “hollywood PC”?
I’m sick and tired of having right wing bullshit stuffed down my throat. According to all you slack jawed idiots, women should be barefoot and pregnant, movies should only show how perfect and blessed their country is, science should be replaced by religious teachings, and if anybody doesn’t like it, they should be round up and shot.
That’s fucking Saudi Arabia, jerkoffs, not the US. And do you jackasses even know what the world fascist means? Look it up and then tell me again liberals want a fascist state. Fascism is the right wing wetdream.
Oh, and I’m a liberal, feminist, non-religious lawyer who lives in Los Angeles. Your worst fucking nightmare come true.
Well, just got back from the flick. Took the two girls. We all thought it was an OK movie, good popcorn cruncher and it killed an afternoon.
Sure not as bad as all the hype is making it out to be.
Scott,
Are you a teenager. The term Red State, Blue State was used before the 2004 election.
I hated day after tomorrow too. It made it look like George Bush deep down actually had the country’s best interest at heart and that Dick Cheney actually had a soul! What a load of bleeding heart liberal tripe is that was! And to think I voted for them once! Fool me once, shame on me; Fool me twice… uh, I can’t get fooled again.
Yes, Drudge linked to this page.
BTW, I just need to note that I have seen plenty of trailers in my day, and the best ones don’t give much away. Case in point is the main Simpsons trailer for that movie. All the movie trailers never quite revealed the main plot for the movie. In contrast, FOX pretty much gives away the plot of almost every Simpsons episode.
What I am getting at, for the most part, is that most good trailers don’t give away the plot at all. Most trailers I seen pretty much give away the plot of the movie and to the point that you know everything that happens in that movie without paying for it.
It seems as though most folks are running past the reason why this film is a disappointment so they can pick up their weapons of words and start fighting.
That reason in your rear-view mirror, is story. What’s this film about? Apparently from the trailer, it’s about wooly mammoths and some folks from back in the day, having a bad day.
From a story perspective, there’s no hero we care enough to root for, nor a problem compelling enough to overcome. The consequence of which is; that looks pretty, but who cares really.
With Independence Day ($817M WW gross), we enjoyed a variety of characters overcoming an exciting, interesting, and visually entertaining problem, with plenty of wit along the way.
Can the audience expect wit and entertaining characters in 10k BC? Doesn’t look like it to me, unless Will Smith makes a cameo.
In the Day After Tomorrow ($542M WW gross), we got to enjoy a wild roller-coaster ride of environmental disasters, again with some humor along the way.
Can the audience expect any surprises visually other than what is already in the trailer for 10k BC? I doubt it.
It’s one thing to set your story in a certain time period. It’s a whole other thing entirely to write a story with a compelling enough setup beyond where and when the story exists. All I see in this story is a where and a when, nothing more. Nothing to care about. Not even in full digital projection.
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By the way, I’m a conservative. I think, I read, and I write. And while it’s easy to be critical, it’s much more challenging to create. I admire this writer/director’s successes, even if not every one of his films have succeeded. He’s far more gifted than anyone on this message board, including myself, will ever be. If you don’t believe me, try it sometime. I’ve been working on writing one scene in particular for almost a week. Trust me, it’s not easy. And that’s just the first step.
I saw the movie on wednesday at the regular preview in munich/germany. I was surprised as it was not sold out at all. I knew I would see an Emmerich movie, that means popcorn cinema, something that entertains you, nothing more and nothing less. Emmerich was never a big storyteller but he knows how to entertain you so I saw a simple story nice scenes, great cgi mammoths and not such a great cgi sabretooth tiger. I had fun and the flick was worth its money. Was this his best movie ? nope ! Was this something new ? nope, (it reminded me of stargate sometimes). Can i recommend it ? YES. If you like Troy, Kingdom and Heaven and so on go and watch it, if you dont like movies like that, well than better do something else with your money.
Jackson is exactly right and dead on. Jackson’s saying that it doesn’t even occur to the Hollywood marketing idiots that most people who buy movie tickets don’t agree with them.
So the primary reason the marketing idiots gave for us to see this movie was that it was “done by the man who brought us the leftist ‘Day After Tomorrow’. No wonder it failed.
Yes, those marketing idiots should be fired. If not, their enemy, capitalism, will take care of them anyway.
What a BORING movie, dont waste your time.
The wife and I see 300-400 movies a year. About 20 a year rate wish we had stayed home. 10,000 BC made us wish hollywood had run out of film. Painfully inept, artifical, historically wrong from any direction, CGI animal/human placement unrealistic, preposterous and stupid. They sould leave the “1″ off, this movie is a dead ZERO. On our 1-4 stars, this gets a puke it out in the bathroom rating.
When you go to see a movie like 10,000 BC and are going to see an oscar movie then the issue is with that person. It was a decent movie with a slim plot line but was much better than some of the movies I have seen over the past few months.
I didn’t care for the movie just by the look of the promos. Didn’t this guy ever see Quest for Fire.
Linking this to The Day After Tomorrow certainly didn,t help.
Just from the trailers and commercials alone this looked incredibly stupid and lacking any depth whatsoever.
My girlfriend and I call it “10,000 White Teeth”.
Supposedly “dirty” looking cave-peoples apparent doesn’t extend far enough to include dental implants, whitening treatments and shiny new veneers.
Ohh, come on. They spent like 150mil to do the CGI! Does it really matter on how the actors looked? ITS ALL IN THE SPECIAL EFFECTS!
I don’t consciously join a boycott but I do vote with my dollar. I would not spend a dollar on this film because I would never want these guys to entertain the illusion that I agree with them. I would never spend a dollar on a George Clooney movie. (By the way, Why would that Clooney movie be nominated by the Academy and not “American Gangster?” People who saw both scratched their heads on that. I am guessing that they could not reward Clooney for his anti-US films so they pushed this Lawyer film as a substitute.
OH MY GOD, everyone, I’m from a Red State and I think 10,000 BC was clearly an attempt by HOLLYWEIRD to pervert our children’s historical understanding insomuch as denying the obvious truth of Intelligent Design by dangling carrots of hot cavemen/women and action-packed CGI danger sequences. HOLLYWEIRD needs to start making good movies again, because at this rate, they won’t be around in five years, even though they made millions upon millions of dollars last year with movies like PIRATES 3, TRANSFORMERS, SPIDER-MAN 3, JUNO … actually, come to think of it, I’m just a friggin’ tool who doesn’t understand anything. I talk out of my ass about political agendas and accuse everything of being propagandistic without ever realizing that doing so is a result of openly accepting other forms of propaganda – like the politicalization of entertainment, so that instead of being able to go out and enjoy a movie, I have to see it through the lens of idiotic, simplified politics. I have no one to blame but myself … but that’s the last thing I’ll do. Instead, I’ll spew borderline hatespeech at a major American industry – one of the few we can still claim global supremacy in – and stupidly regurgitate the vomitous crap I take in as gospel on whatever ridiculous news source I think isn’t driven by the Almighty – that is, the good ole’ American dollar. I’m so blind and undereducated I don’t realize about 8 companies control virtually everything in the world, including news sources (i.e. NewsCorp, folks), and thus their distribution of information/news relies solely on sensationalism and profit. I’ve never realized I’m buying into a system that ensures I stay ignorant and outraged. Time to BLOW MY FUCKING BRAINS OUT.
Sometimes a movie is just a movie. I thought it was quite fascinating. Just because you didn’t enjoy the movie doesn’t mean that you should put other people down for enjoying it. Movies don’t always have to be about reality. As a matter of fact, that ’s what they used to be advertised as, a way to escape reality. Superman was about a man that’s supposed to be able to fly. However, we all know that’s not “realistic” at least not yet.
“Yes, those marketing idiots should be fired. If not, their enemy, capitalism, will take care of them anyway.”
Well, you’re clearly a much more intelligent person than they … I’m sure that’s why you’re sitting your fat ass in front of computer screen typing out an angry message board response, damning someone who will never read it.
And explain to me how marketing execs have an enemy in capitalism … isn’t the foundation of marketing selling a product in a way so as to make it appear better than competing products so as to make money? Isn’t that pretty much the basis of capitalism? Sorry, you’re an idiot, and trying to mindbend logic to fit some idiotic pseudo-political agenda won’t work with just about anyone with a college education.
OK, you’re right. This movie will not be on any “Ten Best Lists”. Rightfully so. There were plenty of things wrong with it. The only thing about it that I would give a “thumbs up” for is some dialog near the end. In it, someone asked where “the almighty” came from. An answer was that he/she possibly came from “a continent that sank into the sea” (Atlantis), or possibly he came “from the stars”.
These are paradigms that powerful people do NOT want given ANY credibility. It was vaguely reminiscent of the premise of the movie “Stargate”. And notice that the “almighty” was obviously VERY tall…possibly like the Nephilim of Genesis 6. I like it when filmmakers go against the grain.
Enough with the politics. It’s just a movie…and it’s a good, entertaining allegory about how if people unite they can topple religion, business, and the system(s) that oppresses them.
So what if the saber-toothed tiger looked fake.
Of COURSE there’s no such thing as “The Day After Tomorrow.” You’d be crazy to think there’s any kind of weird weather patterns occurring in the real world.
That’s like saying there would be a record snowfall in Ohio in March.
Oh wait…. oooooops.
Hey lefty lawyer in LA, people want to go to a movie to be entertained, not have some pervert’s politics shoved down their throat. It would be bad enough to have to sit through irrelevant scenes that were at least factually correct but to have to sit through leftist lies and bigotry is pure fascism. The left owns the word because that’s what they practice with their smoking bans, their gun bans, their wealth confiscation, their attacks on private property and personal rights. They worship thugs like Chavez and Castro. Yeah, leftists are fascists in every sense of the word.
Interesting. New Line has fallen, and the audience for movies is dropping. Yet, when an earlier poster requested that Hollywood respect the ideas of “Red State republicans” he got scoffed at.
Newspapers are suffering from a lack of advertising these days as well, and most of the commenters here want to antagonize their audience? The people they expect to pay for all the front end fees?
As a Conservative with a Liberterian streak who used to be a Democrat who watches Hollywood from the ground up, let me help here:
1) Republicans money is as good as a democrat — deny their funds at your peril. Republicans are friends and family of people who go to the movies. Instead of playing the always pissed off feminist girl in PCU, how about Hollywood writers, actors and directors start playing nice? First weekend monies might go up.
2) On the Westside, Liberals speak to Liberals about other Liberals. How many folks on the Westside know any activist GOP? I see no hands raised. The best writers and movies required other views. Especially American movies. Go out and make friends with us activist Republicans. We won’t bite, it you don’t spit on us.
3) Stop it with the continual Left wing propaganda. You cannot say America is tired of Iraq movies, if all you offer is anti-Iraq war movies. Woodrow Wilson pushed the idea of spreading democracy, so did the Clinton administration. If a movie is not entertaining, people will not buy tickets.
Now, how long before the first insult goes forth rather than a serious debate on these issues?
This site always gets moronic arguments when it gets linked over to Drudge. Im a republican (tho I didn’t vote for Bush the second time and wont be voting for McCain) and I didn’t not see 10k BC because DAY was a moronic attempt to shove more global warming BS down our throats, I didnt go see 10k BC because the actors spoke with moronic accents and were ridiculously over styled. That and because Emmerich is a bigger hack than Rattner.
Carl @ 10:57 AM:
If you were to get geologists & hydrologists together, they will agree on one thing & disagree with the archaeologists on the following: That the Sphinx is at least 10,000 years old, based on the erosion of it’s rock!
They all say the archaeologists are totally wrong saying that the Sphinx is 5,000 years old!
There is a book about that from a few years ago.
It might be the only thing the movie got somewhat correct. Maybe one of the writers ripped off the hydrologist’s book.
Saw Bank Job yesterday and it was great, definitely earned the R in spots but I’d strongly recommend it.
To those of you lamenting to death of good film, relax. Guys like Darren Aronofsky, Christopher Nolan, Paul Thomas Anderson, Fincher, Tony Gilroy, Rodriguez, Tarantino and Michel Gondry will make it all better for you for years to come.
I can’t believe the nuts this site attracts! As a canadian I hope this isn’t representative of how the general american public thinks and decides (or my worst fears are true!).
You shouldn’t stay away from a film because it doesn’t conform to what you believe. That makes you closed minded. If anything “from the director of ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ and ‘Independance Day’” should make you want to stay away because those were stupid movies, which this one looks to be as well.
I have never read such stupid remarks in my life and that coming from people from the greatest nation on earth !!! HAAAA what a joke
I liked the movie. I found the political commentary, but it wasn’t where anyone on this forum saw it. Chariots of the Gods, anyone?
I just came from seeing the movie myself, it was OK, and it was a bit different than what I expected…and someone said that there was no metal etc that far back, which is true, but who cares….I found it an entertaining movie, and the effects were great. SO what if the actors looked like models….they usally do in all movies don’t they? And one other thing…why don’t you produce a movie then if you think you can do better……..I say to the directors and actors…GOOD JOB…it won’t win any awards I don’t think but GOOD JOB….who was that HUGE man with the bald head and big nose that was travelling on the horses..