http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/10000-bc-tops-box-office/ thinking film Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:03:26 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/10000-bc-tops-box-office/#comment-467915 carroll Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:12:44 +0000 http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/10000-bc-tops-box-office/#comment-467915 this post should read BOX OFFICE HITS BOTTOM WITH 10,000 BC. this post should read BOX OFFICE HITS BOTTOM WITH 10,000 BC.

]]> http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/10000-bc-tops-box-office/#comment-323147 Hidrolik Presler Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:19:29 +0000 http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/10000-bc-tops-box-office/#comment-323147 Director and co-writer, Roland Emmerich is no stranger to brainless spectacles. This is the guy who brought us Independence Day and 1998's Hollywood take on Godzilla, after all. There's a very fine line between brainless and just plain brain dead, unfortunately. 10,000 B.C. is short on spectacle, short on plot, and short on just about anything that people go to the movies for. There are characters and a love story to drive the bare bones plot, but this seems to be added in as an afterthought. I got the impression that Emmerich and fellow screenwriter, Harald Kloser (a film score composer making his first screenplay credit), had the idea for a couple cool scenes, then tried to add a bunch of filler material between them. They threw in some sketchy characters that hardly reach two dimensions to inhabit this filler, and called it a screenplay. In order for spectacle to work, even the cheese-filled variety such as this, there has to be something for the audience to get excited about. This movie is just one big tease. Director and co-writer, Roland Emmerich is no stranger to brainless spectacles. This is the guy who brought us Independence Day and 1998’s Hollywood take on Godzilla, after all. There’s a very fine line between brainless and just plain brain dead, unfortunately. 10,000 B.C. is short on spectacle, short on plot, and short on just about anything that people go to the movies for. There are characters and a love story to drive the bare bones plot, but this seems to be added in as an afterthought. I got the impression that Emmerich and fellow screenwriter, Harald Kloser (a film score composer making his first screenplay credit), had the idea for a couple cool scenes, then tried to add a bunch of filler material between them. They threw in some sketchy characters that hardly reach two dimensions to inhabit this filler, and called it a screenplay. In order for spectacle to work, even the cheese-filled variety such as this, there has to be something for the audience to get excited about. This movie is just one big tease.

]]> http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/10000-bc-tops-box-office/#comment-321115 Carl Lew Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:18:55 +0000 http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/10000-bc-tops-box-office/#comment-321115 Is 10000 bc the worst movie ever made? Someone should have a vote on that Is 10000 bc the worst movie ever made? Someone should have a vote on that

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