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| Director: Roland Emmerich
Actors: Camilla Belle, Steven Strait, Cliff Curtis, Joel Virgel, Mo Zinal
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  227 reviews
Sales Rank: 673
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, Ntsc, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 109
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 1000023986
UPC: 085391139683
EAN: 0085391139683
ASIN: B0012Q732O
Theatrical Release Date: March 7, 2008
Release Date: June 24, 2008
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Condition: Disc has a few faint scratches. Case has minor shelfwear. DVD has been TESTED & PLAYS FINE. 100% guaranteed against defects. Contact us within 7 days if there is any defect, and we will gladly refund your purchase. Our standard shipping method is
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To anyone who has ever yearned to see woolly mammoths in full stampede across the Alps, 10,000 BC can be heartily recommended. There's also a flock of "terror birds"--lethal ostriches on steroids--in a steaming jungle only a splice away from the heroes' snow-dusted alpine habitat. And lo, somewhere in the vastness of the North African desert lies a city whose slave inhabitants alternately teem like the crowds in Quo Vadis during the burning of Rome and trudge in hieratically menacing formations like the workers in Metropolis. That's pretty much it for the cool stuff. Setting movies in prehistoric times is dicey. Apart from the "Dawn of Man" sequence in 2001: A Space Odyssey, only Quest for Fire makes the grade, and its creators had the good sense to limit the dialogue to grunts and moans. 10,000 BC boasts a quasi-biblical narrator (Omar Sharif) and characters who speak in formed, albeit uninteresting, sentences--including a New Age-y "I understand your pain." But let no one say the storytelling isn't primitive. The narrator speaks of "the legend of the child with the blue eyes" and bingo, here's the kid now. When, grown up to be Camilla Belle, she's carried off by "four-legged demons"--guys on horseback to you--the neighbor boy (Steven Strait) who hankers to make myth with her leads a rescue mission into the great unknown world beyond their mountaintop. His name is D'Leh, which is Held, the German for "knight," spelled backward. So yes, there is some hidden meaning after all. 10,000 BC is the latest triumph of the ersatz from writer-director Roland Emmerich. Like Stargate (1994), Independence Day (1996), and The Day After Tomorrow (2004) before it, it's shamelessly cobbled together out of every movie Emmerich can remember to pilfer from (though to be fair, the section in pre-ancient Egypt harks back to his own Stargate). Emmerich's saving grace is that his films' cheesiness is so flagrant, his narratives so geared for instant gratification, he can seem like a kid simultaneously improvising and acting out a story in his backyard: "P'tend there's this alien ... p'tend maybe he came from Atlantis or something...." Just don't p'tend it has anything to do with real moviemaking. --Richard T. Jameson
Product Description
The filmmaker who launched a UFO invasion in Independence Day and unleashed the forces of global warming in The Day After Tomorrow now unveils a new day of adventure a time when mammoths shake the earth and mystical spirits shape human fates. Roland Emmerich directs 10000 BC the eye-filling tale of the first hero. That hero is young hunter D?Leh (Steven Strait) set out on a bold trek to rescue his kidnapped beloved (Camilla Belle) and fulfill his prophetic destiny. He?ll face an awesome saber-toothed tiger. Cross uncharted realms. Form an army. And uncover an advanced but corrupt Lost Civilization. There he will lead a fight for liberation ? and become the champion of the time when legend began.Running Time: 109 min.System Requirements:Running Time: 109 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/HEROES Rating: PG-13 UPC: 085391139683 Manufacturer No: 1000023986
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 Nonsensical October 12, 2008
I had not expected much but this was even worst than I feared. Basically, it's a "Last of the Mohicans" wanna-be movie but the script is nonsensical. It's based on the borderline crackpot theory espoused by some that there were advanced human civilizations before the last Ice Age, spawned by refugees from Atlantis. Too many things defy a suspension of disbelief, however; I won't go through them all.
To cut to the point: while not the worst movie I've ever seen, this is a bad film. I would have been pissed if I would have paid full price to see it in the theater (or to buy this DVD).
Not recommended.
 10,000 BC? October 11, 2008
dub the language, install subtitles but do not make people sit through this crap. the conversations in this movie had "gooder" vocab skills than myself. raise the rating, lose the talk, lose the clothes, up the violence and call me back. only the mammoths get three stars!!!!
Fun if you are younger than 9 October 6, 2008
Truly a mishmash of misinformation and adventure, but I knew that before ordering. It's a gift for a
little boy. But the business end of the transaction was excellent.
 Excellent Movie October 5, 2008
I saw this movie when it first came out at the movie theater. This is an amazing film. Lots of action, and excellent graphics. I dont know why people rated this movie so badly.
 Didn't any of you ever see Robinson Crusoe on Mars as a Kid? October 3, 2008
I rented 10,000 BC when it first arrived on DVD, and I, without embarrassment, really enjoyed it! I had a couple of free coupons for Previously Viewed Movies at Blockbuster, so while browsing I came across this DVD at the local store and pounced on it like a big woolly mammoth! Upon checkout, the clerk asked me, "Have you seen this film?" I answered, "Yes, and I really liked it." She shook her head and said, "I have to agree with all the bad reviews; it's not even historically accurate." I don't know about the rest of you, but I grew up in the 60's and 70's and caught sci-fi movies from the 50's and 60's en masse, as well as King Kong, Godzilla and monster movies! None of those could ever be deemed historically accurate, but that's not why I watched them. They were entertaining as anything offered today, and my friends and I still engage in our memories of watching Saturday B movies back then! What FUN! Does anyone here remember "Robinson Crusoe on Mars?" An astronaut, crash lands on Mars, befriends a runaway slave whom he teaches English. Along the way they eat and drink from Mars surface (and breathe as well) along with their pet Monkey, Mona. Eventually, all three are rescued from the melting polar ice cap. It was a suspended fun journey of disbelief, and to this day I remember that film fondly. Ironically, I was reminded of the same fun journey of disbelief with "10,000 BC." I'll watch it again and again with all those other fun B movies I own. That's why I enjoy films!
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