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10,000 B.C.
Mar. 23rd, 2008 12:07 amGot home, bug-bombed the house, and went out to see a movie while the house fumigated. "10,000 BC" was playing at about the right time, so we went to watch it.
It was quite good. It's also very much a story straight out of Edgar Rice Burroughs; not just a Lost World Romance, but one with many elements specific to Burroughs. The director/screenwriter has admitted Robert E. Howard as an influence, but the movie has much more of an ERB feel than a Howard one.
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Naturally, most critics panned this movie. On skimming their reviews, I noticed that not one critic actually understood what kind of movie they were watching (a Burroughsian Lost World Romance), though some of the small handful that gave it good reviews almost got it. The movie is not "historically accurate". Of course not! It's not that kind of movie. Complaining that "10,000 BC" isn't historically accurate is like complaining that Godzilla isn't a realistic dinosaur.
Then there were the critics who were so ignorant, they not only didn't know the genre of the movie they were watching, but they didn't know what they were seeing on screen. Contrary to one reviewer's comments, there was not one Neanderthal or dinosaur to be seen in the movie.
It was quite good. It's also very much a story straight out of Edgar Rice Burroughs; not just a Lost World Romance, but one with many elements specific to Burroughs. The director/screenwriter has admitted Robert E. Howard as an influence, but the movie has much more of an ERB feel than a Howard one.
( Cut for spoilers )
Naturally, most critics panned this movie. On skimming their reviews, I noticed that not one critic actually understood what kind of movie they were watching (a Burroughsian Lost World Romance), though some of the small handful that gave it good reviews almost got it. The movie is not "historically accurate". Of course not! It's not that kind of movie. Complaining that "10,000 BC" isn't historically accurate is like complaining that Godzilla isn't a realistic dinosaur.
Then there were the critics who were so ignorant, they not only didn't know the genre of the movie they were watching, but they didn't know what they were seeing on screen. Contrary to one reviewer's comments, there was not one Neanderthal or dinosaur to be seen in the movie.
