10000 BC

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• PG-13
• jazzed
• extinction
• rated R

• woolly mammoth
• loin cloth
• saber-toothed tiger
• caveman

• historical fiction
• dated

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What better way to impress the cavegirl of your dreams than hunting a woolly mammoth? You can chase it through ice and snow, all while wearing a sexy loin cloth and fighting saber-toothed tigers.

Yes, this is the dating ritual of the caveman of 10000 BC. OK, he’s not really a caveman. He’s a member of a tribe of some sort. But it probably doesn’t matter since one of the main reasons 91% of critics gave 10000 BC a bad review is that the plot is not only boring, but historically inaccurate.

But no one, including Amanda, denies that it looks cool.

Dialog

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Jason

Amanda

Jason:  Oh, so I was looking at this list of the most historically inaccurate movies of all time and this movie 10,000 BC was on it which I haven’t seen and I don’t know anything about. But I was like, “How much do we really know about 10,000 BC?” How inaccurate could it be? Have you seen it?

Amanda:  Exactly. That makes sense. 10,000 years before Christ. How much evidence is actually there for us to base a movie on?

Jason:  Have you seen it?

Amanda:  I haven’t but I’m kind of excited to see it because it’s the director, Roland Emmerich, am I pronouncing that right?

Jason:  I think so. Independence Day?

Amanda:  Yeah, and The Day After Tomorrow and the total triple threat, like he wrote, directed and produced.

Jason:  Oh. Did he do it for those movies too, like, Independence Day?

Amanda:  I don’t know if he did. I’ll check on that and get back to you, but over $100 million to produce this movie. And that’s just crazy money to me. Like, this movie has to got to be phenomenal to be $100 million.

Jason:  It’s true. I saw some of the animation and it looks good now, but I had the sense that it’s one of those movies that’s going to look dated in about 15 minutes. You know what I mean?

Amanda:  It could. And it’s PG-13, so the target’s definitely kids. I don’t know if we’re really going to appreciate it, because I think the kids are going to be pretty jazzed about woolly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers. I mean, how often do you really talk about those today? You don’t see them in a zoo, so it’s got that factor there. But for adults, I don’t know if you and I would dig it very much.

Jason:  Is it…Are there people in it?

Amanda:  Yeah, it’s a story. The main dude is a young mammoth hunter and the whole story line is he’s trying to protect the future of his tribe. So there is a story line. And there’s a girl, his love interest. There’s his whole family. So yeah…

Jason:  Right on.

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