Yeah, I saw it. But, I promise, I contributed no money to this racist crapfest.
Oh boy, where to begin?? Well, how about the fact the our two main characters are the only white people in a movie, within a SEA of people of color...INCLUDING THEIR OWN TRIBE.
...Yes, you read that right. Genetic miracles happened in 10,000 B.C., apparently.
How about the fact that every person of color knows NOTHING about their own land or how to properly navigate though it? ...No, the strange white man had to figure that out for them.
Then, there's the wonder and awe at a pair of blue-eyes...Between the white woman worship, the interchangeable mass of colored-army, the prophesied "only a white guy from the land of white rain can save us" B.S., the ludicrous names (Tick-Tick?? seriously?!), and those horrid dreadlock-extensions (check the kid, especially)...I was left utterly confounded.
IN THE NAME OF LOGIC, what year is this?!! I thought it was 2008, but I MUST be mistaken.
This could have been funded by the KKK and I would not be surprised. This is the same shit, they spout...If it weren't for white people you'd still all be slaves, all men of color want to do is ravage a white woman, we are the smartest, most beautiful, important people on planet earth, etc... This was the plot of this movie. I kid you, not.
Albinos, should be pissed too. This is like the 21,345th movie where they are either strange magical creatures or crazed psychos. ...They're the former, here.
I left when the magical elder-of-color, gave her last breath to save the wondrous white woman with blue-eyes.
So, I have no idea how it ended. And I don't care.
PARENTS: Skip this and give them a book on ancient civilizations instead, lest the small chance they actually end up believing this mess.
P.S. I imagine most people would go to this movie to see the special effects...But for me, the trade-off is too much...Even if you take out all of those above racist elements, it's still a crap flick.
P.P.S. Semi-relating to the post below...How about ZERO black women in Africa except, one dead one??
Triple P.S. I realize there's a double-negative in that picture, but I was too lazy to fix it. Don't shoot me, grammar police.
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You know I hated as well. It was just dumb for more then the many reasons you gave. Your talking about +10 extra reasons I could give you...no wait...+15 reasons. Ah, hell...whatever. I actually sat through the whole movie. Did you pay to see it?
HELL NO!!
I didn't pay to see that movie...I'd be sitting here typing on my computer with that money BACK IN MY POCKET, anyway, even so.
Ohh..good you didn't pay for it. I was all set to admonish you for giving them your money.
I have no interest in this. I'm offended enough without having seen it. The fact that it's awful (from oh, everything I've heard) isn't helping, either.
I thought my review for this film was biting. Your review is very funny and insightful.I don't think they intentional took the racial elements to the lengths your suggesting (at least not on purpose) but there are some truths in what you say. One caveat though, Camilla Belle was not part of the Yagahl tribe. She was brought in at the beginning of the film so there is actually only one white person in that tribe. Also, I don't know if the remaining white tribe member,Steven Strait, is actually white. I'm getting technical, sorry. Anyway, I found your review so entertaining, I'm going to post a link to it on my website: http://film-book.com/.
@Reggie
Yeah, I checked IMDB, because I too had my suspicions about Steven Strait.
According to them, he just just looks like there's something else in the bloodline...Sorta like Catherine Zeta Jones' (Welsh?! REALLY??) Euro-self.
But then, again...That Nobel Prize winning racist who's face is in the dictionary under irony, didn't know he had some black going on with him so...
As far as Camilla goes, my point about white woman worship and ravaging still stands.
That's some old bullshit.
Personally ithought that this was perhaps the finest piece of cinematic art this year. The creatures looked fantastic in all their CGI innovation. The gripping story of not only "MAN Vs. NATURE" but "MAN vs. Himself"...Edge of my seat the entire time. Rolland Emmerich is a visionary director who should be praised and lifted up in the film world as a genius along the lines of a Shumacher or Verhoven. And all the KKK racial sludge that you sling concerning the white man is completely out of place. What this picture is depicting is Evolution in a fine 2 hour movie. I really think you should go back and re-watch this film......and pay for it.
@Anonymous
You rock. :D
That was the biggest laugh of the day.
You have earned an internet lollipop.
Even so, I don't think the film has the racial overtones you ascribe it to have.
@Reggie
Okay, let's take a page from Missy's book and flip it and reverse it.
Here's the plot.
A black African woman is brought into a tribe full of multi-ethnic whites in the north.
They are in awe of her skin, thinking it's magical. The one member who is as black as her is wearing a wig with straight hair and lighter make-up, like her (to blend in better because you know black dude, is STILL born from the white tribe), hooks up with her.
She is kidnapped by maurading white barbarians, one of which is fascinated with her black skin and immediately falls in love/ wants to ravage her.
Her black man follows her up into the cold regions of the north where many white slaves are building some kind of stone idol or something to a dark as coal giant covered in swaths of cloth.
This black man tames a wolf by saving it. White people are in awe of the black man and immediately see him as their leader.
White tribes from all over with made-up traditions (bamboo masks? seriously!?) perhaps with moss masks, follow the one black dude in the their midst.
This one black dude even knows their land better than they do, traversing the snow and showing them a navigating trick they'd never even thought of.
Given the choice between his thousands of white tribes and the life of his woman, he risks them to kill the leader and get his woman.
Obsessed white man kills black woman, but black woman comes back to life because a white mystic gives up her own.
THE END.
Lack of research = INTENTIONAL laziness/disregard for audience intelligence. Not only is it racist, but it's insulting.
They get NO PASS from me.
Now THAT is interesting. And Funny. I'm beginning to see why you were upset with the film. Keep in mind though that the movie is popcorn and shouldn't be taken seriously.
BULL. SHIT.
I know you did not just give racism a pass because of the package it comes in.
The fact that it is a popcorn movie makes it even more insidious. At least the KKK fly flags of racism, so know you what it is.
This racism is disguised as light fluffy entertainment (for the whole family, I might add) and that's what makes it fucked up.
I don't care if it comes in a box of Ho-Ho's, from Ronald McDonald, or the Easter Bunny, racism is always a shitty, fucked-up, thing, that should be taken seriously.
...Fuck, some greasy-ass popcorn movie excuse.
I say again, FUCK. IT.
Reasons not to watch 10,000 B.C.
1) Too much computer graphics.
2) White people don't have natural dreads unless they wear wigs or get it stylized.
3) "Where are all the white women at?" That's right -- they're being sacrificed to the sex gods.
After watching this, you seriously claim that there were only two white people in the entire movie? Are you insane or just racist in the opposite direction?
All the people of that tribe were made up to be tan-skinned, lightening the skin of some, darkening that of others. The majority had Caucasian facial features. Why on earth are you whining about racism? A group tribe of people with similar facial features and skin color is absolutely plausible, regardless of who the actors that played the roles were.
Here you rant about racial intolerance... but look at yourself. You're making up racism where there is none. Who is the real racist?
@Joe
I checked your profile. One of your interests is "intelligent debate".
That usually comes with knowing your subject. Or if not, asking a few questions before making assumptions.
Indigenous tribes do not come in mixed varieties that miraculously spawn important white people, that can conveniently go be the stars and do all the important stuff.
If you don't see racism here, I understand. Empathy can be a complex little emotion.
Continue to plug your ears and sing gibberish.
I don't usually bother with trying to educate folks about race when they clearly are in remedial classes and like that position just fine, but aw, what the heck?
If you're interested, you'll read. If not, you won't. Either way, no sweat off my back.
If you do, however, that particular piece is just a start.
It's just not wise to go into a debate about a subject with someone who has been an unwilling hypothesis tester from birth, with as little base knowledge as you have demonstrated having.
Now, I've published this despite the typical Racist 101 responses, you've given.
These include the "whining" comment, a.k.a. reducing racism to something less than what it is and accusing a person of color of racism, when they point it out.
If you come back with any more of that, you won't get published.
DC Movie Girl,
I saw this movie and thought it was horrible but did not pick up on any of the racist undertones until reading your review. I was too caught up in the horrible giant tiger CGI, confusing history, ridiculous geography details, and bad acting to even notice the weighter concern you have with it.
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