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A slave riot is giving you a woody? You are twisted and preverted, and I can totally relate.

Posted by left coast | March 21, 2008 12:30 PM
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Mammoths R001!

Posted by Will in Seattle | March 21, 2008 12:36 PM
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I reviewed the film. It's a piece of shit. It doesn't work as history or fantasy.


Posted by Jay | March 21, 2008 12:39 PM
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Emmerich's movies are so willfully mentally retarded that I would have to be paid to ever sit through another one. I think I felt brain cells being killed while viewing "Day After Tomorrow". Never, ever again.

Posted by Peter F | March 21, 2008 12:39 PM
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I am not entirely surprised to learn that Mudede identifies with cave-dwellers.

Posted by mattymatt | March 21, 2008 12:44 PM
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charles, i am with you 100%. i loved this movie.

Posted by angela garbes | March 21, 2008 12:46 PM
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#4 10,000 BC actually outdoes them all for pure unmitigated stupidity. It's kind of grand in its epic retardation.

Posted by Jay | March 21, 2008 12:54 PM
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#5: Charles fails to mention that the people don't live in caves in the film. I think there's one cave in Africa, but other than that everyone's living in huts. But since Charles doesn't care about historical accuracy, I suppose expecting accuracy in his film review is probably a pointless endeavor.

For the record, I just like being entertained, and it's on this basic level, the film falls on its face.

Posted by Jay | March 21, 2008 12:58 PM
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Um, Charles, didn't you think the ending was a tad predictable? That ruined the movie for me even more than the terrible science and history.

Posted by julia | March 21, 2008 1:02 PM
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I AM SPARTICUS!!!

Posted by COMTE | March 21, 2008 1:08 PM
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@7, Epic Retardation is the perfect description for this movie. It was so ridiculous and corny but I think it was supposed to be taken seriously?

Posted by D | March 21, 2008 1:09 PM
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It's absolutely a critique of global capitalism, Charles, and you're one of the few people to say so. A pyramid with a gold cap, a white guy theocracy, references to "the Almighty": it reverse-concretizes the power of the dollar. The plight of disparate populations losing members to economic slavery, then joining together, is going to play fairly well in worldwide release. It's a fairytale, sure. It's historically inept. But it's got a critical eye trained on globalism's backlash.

Posted by MvB | March 21, 2008 1:31 PM
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Remember when Charles recommended Bratz: The Movie?

Posted by Postureduck | March 21, 2008 1:39 PM
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charles
did they pay you to sit through this ? i made it through 17 minutes of it - the scene where they were eating fresh mammouth ribs was the straw that broke the back - before we exited asking for and
recieving our 18 dollars back. it was a waste of an otherwise lovely rain soaked and pot soddened afternoon. but maybe your pot is better than my pot.

Posted by reverend dr dj riz | March 21, 2008 2:12 PM
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Hang on, hang on.

They ate mammoths, lived in caves, and built the pyramids by 10,000 B.C.?

Posted by NapoleonXIV | March 21, 2008 2:24 PM
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Historical inaccuracies to be sure! Everyone knows they didn't use slaves and ramps to build the pyramids, it was our alien progenetor's high technology that built them.

I scoff at the manpower theory!

*scoffs wildly*

Posted by DjUtopia | March 21, 2008 3:03 PM
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Well they certainly didn't build pyramids in 10,000 BC with mammoths.

Posted by Jay | March 21, 2008 3:20 PM
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11: I think on some level Emmerich really thought he was creating something entertaining and worthwhile. Or at the very least, profitable.

Posted by Jay | March 21, 2008 3:22 PM
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So if Neanderthal man was enslaved to build the pyramids, does this make him Jewish?

Posted by NapoleonXIV | March 21, 2008 3:48 PM
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@18, well he failed miserably. Except for the profit part from what I've heard, which I also sadly contributed to.

Posted by D | March 21, 2008 4:07 PM
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HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A CGI MAMMOTH BEFORE
worth it.

Posted by hazel zone | March 21, 2008 5:39 PM
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Slave drivers getting trampled by hairy, prehistoric elephants; evil masters losing their lily-livered lives to truth-driven slave warriors. WONDERFUL.
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How about Silky Johnson travelling back in time to shoot a slavedriver with his Luger? I'd like to see that again, but in a movie.

"How's about ... nowish?"

Posted by CP | March 22, 2008 10:25 AM

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