Audiences Travel Back to 10,000 B.C

I'm not surprised that it won the weekend derby but I am surprised it made so much with the way it was panned by most critics and movie goers. It should drop like a rock next weekend IMO.
The comparisons to Apocalypto are dead on, except not as good, believable nor entertaining. Using the people's actual language (even with subtitles) help give some authenticity to Apocalypto while using English here for the lead tribe had the opposite effect.
This film tries to straddle the line between fantasy anf reality without straying too far either way. They should've committed to one or the other. Go fantasy add creatures, over the top action and just make it a roller coaster ride. But by towing the line it makes you want to cry bullshit when stuff happens that you just know wouldn't. I won't bother giving you examples, but I'll finish by agreeing with the C and only recommending it if you have two hours open in your day and you could use some mild entertainment.

The only thing I liked about 10,000 B.C. were the wooly mammoths; I thought they looked pretty good. The movie was just one bad cliche after another and the acting was less than stellar. I don't think I'd even recommend this as a rental. Wait for it on HBO.

I'm not a Martin Lawrence fan, so I stayed away from the road trip movie, but I did see The Bank Job and thought it was a fun movie; some laughs, some action and a couple dramatic moments. I'm a Statham fan and I love Saffron Burrows (she's not in enough movies), so I'm probably a little partial in my judgement of the movie.

The kids can't wait to see Horton this weekend. I'm not a Dr. Suess fan, but the animation looks terrific, and I know the kids will love it so it'll be a fun afternoon at the movies for us. I want to see Doomsday, although I doubt it's going to be any good. Looks like an Escape from New York/Resident Evil crossbreed, but it might be fun and it's got Rhona Mitra. I'm sure it'll be the movie the gang takes in Friday night.

I reviewed this once on Friday. This is what I said:
Apacalypto it was not. It was no where near as good. Yet I liked it.

The narration was annoying, but maybe necessary since the story itself wouldn't have been enough. Plus it's real simple, almost too simple, and yet the creatures are cool and the action is fun, and I never felt bored. Visually it's top notch. The acting is sub par, but not horrible. Overall if you want to see a completely fantastical journey that's a rip off of several other movies, but with great special effects this is the movie for you.

Oh yeah and the girl is very hot.

I'll add to this that some scenes were grainy. Not sure why the picture quality was bad. Wonder if it was for everyone or just my theater.
Now I'll argue with you WISEGUY, in no way could this story be believable. I mean there's North American animals in Egypt. The whole idea is rediculous. And since the whole thing is just fantasy to begin with, why not just have them talk English. There's no way subtitles would have made this authentic. It's just an eighties style journey movie with modern special effects. But at least they used real creatures and not sci-fi and fantasy creatures, cause then it shouldn't be called 10,000 BC, but 10,000 AD or something. But at least we agree that the movie was rediculous. Still all in all, I had fun, and I don't feel like I threw my money away. But I nearly didn't go, thinking it wouldn't be any good. Maybe that's the key, keep your expectations low, and it won't be too bad.
I still think it's a movie for kids though. I'm thinking about taking my son. I'm not even sure why it's PG-13.

Haven't been able to catch this movie because the Mideast got slammed pretty hard by the snow over the past 3 days which may or may not have shorten the movie's box office take by maybe a good couple of million, but I should be able to catch it during the week as we plow our way back onto the streets.

The new Speed Racer Trailers are up at aintitcool.com...it looks much better than the first trailer, but, it still all looks like a Skittles candy commercial to me, and I a big fan of the cartoon, but the movie, I don't think so???!!!

Nice analogy metalwater and I agree. The new Speed Racer trailer was attached to 10,000 B.C. at my theater. I know trailers are choppy because they want to give audiences a small peek, but between the quick cuts and the splashes of colors, I didn't know which end was up. I will probably see this though, because I like the W bros' films.

The box office continues to surprise me this year. Jumper far passed what I thought it would do and thanks for oversea sales you people who wanted a sequel will probably get it.

Did anyone else see Semi-Pro bombing like it did? I thought for sure this was another 100 mil movie by Ferrel. One of you guys mentioned on another posting that everyone is sick of the same Wil Ferrel movies...well, you would seem to be correct. It happens to all those SNL cast members. I'm even more impressed with Sandler and his streak now that I've seen Wil drop off as quickly as he did. Though Sandler's time will come too, maybe this year? He plays the same character in all his movies too...though I admit to liking them.

10,000 B.C. wow...nice numbers. Did Emmerich reputation have anything to do with those numbers? He does make movies fun to watch but I agree with Wiseguy, I didn't think it would make what it did.

I liked 10k. It was a good visual movie. I like journey movies also. It will look really good in HD. Unlike 300 guy this lead guy actually hit the mark in a small spoiler.

I called it Hobbs. Last Sunday I said it would make 2-3 what the #1 was that week. I got the 2 part right anyway.
I'm usually dead wrong about $, but every once and a while even I get one right.