| ok, who actually still uses xanga? i do, somtimes mike z, occasionally arlyn d. thought i'd use it to critique these plethora of movies ive seen. don't expect some insightful, or even accurate depictions like some ebert/roeper nonsense, this is just for my sheer enjoyment. 
10,000 BC. we saw this, and a lot of critics gave it a lot of bad marks. rotten tomatoes and alla that. what i was feelin: i think the main character's name was D'Lai or something, but imma call him Duleng. first off, how you going to get Johnny Drama from like 15 years ago to play him, but anyways Duleng transferred a white boy rastafarian UC Berkley attending caveman (by way of Encino man influence) into this pseudo, caveman's champ. this kat killed a wooly mammoth by himself (sorta) and can talk to sabretooth tigers (go trini!). plus his pops was down with the "peoples" and taught him their ancient caveman dialect of, "perfect american english" what i wasn't feelin: he had his girl, a white girl with blue eyes played by i think Lindsay Lohan covered in mud and crud, with bad rastafarian extensions, and named Evelyn. to think in the ancient tribes of the cro-magnon man they could come up with a germanic name of Evelyn in their broken speak "perfect american english." plus, these caveman had teeth whiter than hollywood kats who use Crest White Strips. also, how you going to jack the fact that the White Spear can turn into a pseudo sword, and Duleng can talk to SabreTooth Tigers. i know a BeastMaster rip when I see it. plus in the jungle scene, they had these un-named monsters chasing them, and eating the persians and horses, and i thought, oh shit...they got dinosaurs up in this piece, take that Darwin! turns out it was really large ostriches, eating them. Ostriches?! Really!? If I'm running from this un-named terror and I look back and see an ostrich chasing me, i'll be on some, "thats some ol bullshit." before the ostrich eats my head. at least in Lost, they had a black cloud chasing you, no one's afraid of ostriches! They even rode ostriches in Swiss Family Robinson. but i digress. another scene stealer was when Duleng threw his white spear at the God, and hit him. i smell 300 rip. the movie was too CGI to be believable, but not not enough CGI'd to be blockbuster worthy. all in all, I give 10,000BC a C, for Can't come up with anything else better to do then dreaming up scenes of killer ostriches. tik'tik, get @ me. |