By Ryan Parsons | Image property of Warner Bros. Pictures.
10,000 B.C.
Though I saw this coming, I really had hoped that 10,000 B.C. would be this year's big March tentpole. The only problem was the Warner Bros. looked absolutely terrified to show any dialogue or story in the film's massive marketing campaign, and that lack of confidence spreads quickly.
10,000 B.C. Screening Reports
It looks like Warner Bros. had reason to be weary, as the latest screening reports to appear for 10,000 B.C. at AICN (here and here) absolutely blast it.
Review 1
Well, I saw 10,000 B.C. today at a free preview screening, and I have to say, it's pretty awful. I don't think Roland Emmerich is a genius or anything, but I'll admit that I enjoyed The Day After Tomorrow and Independence Day as much as the next guy.
This flick should have been entertaining as hell; I mean, come on, woolly mammoths, sabre-tooth tigers, giant ostrich-monsters. How could these things not be entertaining? Well, I guess it was entertaining, but not in the way it was meant to be. After the box office success of The Day After Tomorrow, I'm kind of surprised that Emmerich would be relegated to a second-tier blockbuster such as this one, but hey, that's the way things are.
Review 2
There is an important message in this film, and I'd be being unfair to it if I didn't acknowledge it. It's quite pertinent to our time, and I think Emmerich was really commenting on our society with the film's central message: black people and white people can come together to kill Arabs. Seriously, I'm welling up with its inherent beauty.
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