Comments on: 10,000 BC and Terror Birds

By: dambert

dambert — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:19:36 +0000

Since when are Hollywood films historically accurate? Movies made on recorded times, like the world wars and European events are strife with errors. My father, who grew up in the second world war, can hardly watch a movie on second world war as it full of errors to glamorize an event or character. There was a movie on American bombing a Japanese Radar facility. Guess what, the Japanese did NOT have radar at that time.

Even my favorite movie, Braveheart, is filled with gapping historical errors. Some of the he major characters in that movie, apparently were not alive at the same time, and thus could not have killed or slept with each other as portrayed in the move.

So its amusing that critics blast a fantasy movie again, while ignoring movies portraying events which are not PRE-historic.

By: Mnynames

Mnynames — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:11:18 +0000

Overall, I rather liked it, although I thought it was very awkwardly edited, and the narration didn’t work well, IMO. I felt the animals were a bit “super-sized” for the film, but then, there’s a lot we don’t know (certainly enough hedge-way for fantasists), and Ligers do get as big as the Saber-Tooth in the film. As for the Terror Birds, I rather assumed they were meant to be Elephant Birds, or more likely a close relative.

As even Loren noted earlier, I also spotted several references to “Stargate”, enough that this could be seen by some as a prequel of sorts. Was the God-King Ra really overthrown by a northern tribe of mammoth-hunters? What was with the guy speaking like a Goa’Uld?

By: Craig York

Craig York — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:18:56 +0000

It didn’t stink, but I kept my expectations firmly in neutral. The geography (and geographical distribution-weren’t the Terror birds confined to the Americas?) are a little strange, but it was fun way to spend a couple of hours.

By: maxthecrystalskull

maxthecrystalskull — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:41:24 +0000

Shill: I go to movies for entertainment, and to be bludgeoned with creative license, not historical accuracy. I doubt that Xerxes was 14 feet tall (300) or that Tesla (regardless of his brilliance) created an elsctrostatic (albeit random) human clone machine, or for that matter, that we have a national cadre of Bourne-like super killers under tenuous government control. I agree with Loren, in that this is a beautifully rendered tale that requires zero strife or struggle on my part, and that Burroughs would find deeply engaging and satisfying. I think the critics need to spend a great deal of effort in “lightening up.” Long live Barsoom!

By: shill

shill — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:47:55 +0000

Loren: Your positive review conflicts with most others that panned the movie as downright awful. While you and others might view it as you would a live action comic, most people view entertainment as “accurate” and the historic view portrayed in the movie is much nonsense.