10,000 B.C. [Blu-ray]

10,000 B.C. [Blu-ray]
by Roland Emmerich

10,000 B.C. [Blu-ray]

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Actor: Camilla Belle, Steven Strait
Director: Roland Emmerich
Brand: Warner Brothers
Blu-ray: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 109 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2008-06-24
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Model: 1000023985
Studio: Warner Home Video
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From Roland Emmerich, director of Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow, comes a awesome new adventure about a time when mammoths shook the earth and mystical spirits shaped human fates. This special-effects spectacle is an eye-filling tale of the first hero (Steven Strait), who sets out on a bold trek to rescue his kidnapped beloved (Camilla Belle) and to fulfill his prophetic destiny. Batt

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Movie Review: Great Mythology
Summary: 5 Stars

10,000 BC is an imaginative interpretation of the past that connects us to who we are today. It is timeless mythology that could be told to hunter and gathers around a camp fire, and also touch our human yearning for mythology today. Our need for mythology has not changed in 12,000 years. We are basically the same humans.

10,000 BC celebrates the beautiful social bonding humans have with each other, and says this quality is really what makes us civilized. It completely made me rethink what we typically call an "advanced" civilization. Does "advanced" mean technology, mathematics, and great architectural achievements? Or is what truly makes us advanced is how we love our families, friends, and villagers, and how we can work together, using this social bonding to give us meaning? It made me rethink respect for the Egyptian civilization and the great pyramids. If you think about it, the pyramids are great accomplishment of human stupidity. What "great" civilization would expend huge amounts of human effort to build enormous, pointless structures? Was the Egyptian civilization really a totalitarian social structure that relied on huge amounts of slaves to carry out the religious wishes of the minority? The next time you think "wow" about the Egyptian civilization, think about the probable human rights vialoations needed to build the pyramids, then your "wow" might change to "yuk".

D,Ley grows into the hero in this epic story. At first, he really just wants to save his girl. Romantic love is his basic drive. As his journey unfolds, he learns of his father. He learns his father was a great man that allowed his people to believe he was a coward just so he could keep his struggling tribe together. D,Ley's first attempt to rescue his girl Evolet shows lack of experience and impatience. Tic'Tic, an older and wiser hunter, and friend of D,Ley's father, takes the time to pass his wisdom to D,Ley. He teaches D,Ley some men take on a circle of responsibility that encloses many people. When D,Ley has achieved full hero status, he leads thousands from various cultures to "take them down". Joseph Campbell would have loved it.

There is also something about 10,000 BC that is genius. 10,000 BC turns mythology inside out and shows how myth is intertwined with prophecy. Tic'Tic teaches prophecy can be fulfilled in many ways. Prophecy is what aids our hero. Without the prophecy, D,Ley could not have gathered such an army, and could not have exploited the weakness of the Almighty. D'Ley fulfills these prophecies because people want to see them fulfilled. When you watch 10,000 BC, you are watching the mythology unfold in all its accidental luck but ultimately fueled by our greater human qualities. Qualities such as love, friendship, loyalty, courage, respect, and honor is the real driving force, not prophecy. These qualities are really what makes our hero and his people the more advanced civilization. When you watch 10,000 BC, you may not realize it, but you become a participant of mythology. Your very own yearning for great, meaningful story telling is awakened. The alternate ending shows the narator concluding the story to a future generation. I'm thinking they should have stuck with that ending to bring home the fact you are watching a fictionalized story packaged as a handed down myth. This would have helped some people "get" this movie. It justifies why the saber-tooth tiger was so big. It's a story. Stories exaggerate for effect.

Many people have criticized 10,000 BC as being historically a farce. Well, watch the bonus material on the blu-ray about the book "Fingerprints of the Gods" by Graham Hancock. Hancock is interviewed and talks about maps found showing land mass before the ice age in their predicted location given continental drift. This is a complete unaddressed mystery. It suggests there were advanced civilizations way earlier than 2,500 BC. So "10,000 BC" takes some liberty on a possibility for this mystery. We don't know everything about our past. But what makes "10,000 BC" so great is that it helps us realize to understand the value of our current civilization, we need to understand our fundamental nature as hunter and gathers. Our basic social instincts come from living in small groups. A civilization that drifts too far from our social origins will eventually fall, as many "advanced" civilization in the past have.

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Summary of 10,000 B.C. [Blu-ray]

The filmmaker who launched a UFO invasion in Independence Day and unleashed the forces of global warming in The Day After Tomorrow now unveils a new day of adventure, a time when mammoths shake the earth and mystical spirits shape human fates. Roland Emmerich directs 10,000 BC, the eye-filling tale of the first hero. That hero is young hunter D?Leh (Steven Strait), set out on a bold trek to rescue his kidnapped beloved (Camilla Belle) and fulfill his prophetic destiny. He?ll face an awesome saber-toothed tiger. Cross uncharted realms. Form an army. And uncover an advanced but corrupt Lost Civilization. There, he will lead a fight for liberation ? and become the champion of the time when legend began.

To anyone who has ever yearned to see woolly mammoths in full stampede across the Alps, 10,000 BC can be heartily recommended. There's also a flock of "terror birds"--lethal ostriches on steroids--in a steaming jungle only a splice away from the heroes' snow-dusted alpine habitat. And lo, somewhere in the vastness of the North African desert lies a city whose slave inhabitants alternately teem like the crowds in Quo Vadis during the burning of Rome and trudge in hieratically menacing formations like the workers in Metropolis. That's pretty much it for the cool stuff. Setting movies in prehistoric times is dicey. Apart from the "Dawn of Man" sequence in 2001: A Space Odyssey, only Quest for Fire makes the grade, and its creators had the good sense to limit the dialogue to grunts and moans. 10,000 BC boasts a quasi-biblical narrator (Omar Sharif) and characters who speak in formed, albeit uninteresting, sentences--including a New Age?y "I understand your pain." But let no one say the storytelling isn't primitive. The narrator speaks of "the legend of the child with the blue eyes" and bingo, here's the kid now. When, grown up to be Camilla Belle, she's carried off by "four-legged demons"--guys on horseback to you--the neighbor boy (Steven Strait) who hankers to make myth with her leads a rescue mission into the great unknown world beyond their mountaintop. His name is D'Leh, which is Held, the German for "knight," spelled backward. So yes, there is some hidden meaning after all.

10,000 BC is the latest triumph of the ersatz from writer-director Roland Emmerich. Like Stargate (1994), Independence Day (1996), and The Day After Tomorrow (2004) before it, it's shamelessly cobbled together out of every movie Emmerich can remember to pilfer from (though to be fair, the section in pre-ancient Egypt harks back to his own Stargate). Emmerich's saving grace is that his films' cheesiness is so flagrant, his narratives so geared for instant gratification, he can seem like a kid simultaneously improvising and acting out a story in his backyard: "P'tend there's this alien ... p'tend maybe he came from Atlantis or something...." Just don't p'tend it has anything to do with real moviemaking. --Richard T. Jameson

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