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The New 10,000 BC Trailer Has Mammoths, Loin Cloths, Sabertooth Kitties, And People Speaking Almost Perfect English!!
Merrick here...
Last night, the folks over at G4 TV rolled out a new trailer for Roland Emmerich's 10,000 BC.
In the meantime, CHUD.COM has the online premiere, although you can see a far inferior version if you want to watch it on G4's site for some reason. It was CHUD's Devin Faraci who actually intro'd it last night on G4, so for the best version, follow this link.
There's one benefit if you do decide to see it HERE. If you let the video continue past the trailer, you can spend a few moments gawking at host lady Olivia Munn; lordy she's hot.
Or, you can check out the trailer via the embed below:
I...don't know what to say. Like many Roland Emmerich movies, there are some really nice visuals here & the film seems a lot more promising before folks start talking. Is it just me, or do most of the people in this trailer sound like Christopher Lambert?
I love the mammoth hunt at the beginning of the trailer, and am still struggling to make sense out of those super-fast attack ostriches.
What do you think?
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i sortof partly remember that trailer in the summer, and i remember forgetting it right after i saw it. Looks pointless to me. on another note, i hated apocalypto
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I hate everything he's ever done.I shall avoid this film with great effort.
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I'm shocked by the number of people looking forward to this movie.10,000 Blows chunks(B.C.)
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PWNS the original. http://www.omelete.com.br/images/galerias/thedarkknight/posterexclusivoomelete.jpg delete the spaces
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Much better than I thought it would be...Then again it was kinda like StarGate (the movie) without the sci-fi stuff
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it's a caveman movie of the type that has model-perfect cave ladies in it.
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Looks Average
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Dec. 13, 2007, 7:03 p.m. CST
I think we beat this mammoth to death in the X-files thread.
by Orionsangels
OMG that cavegirl is hot. I love her tan skin and makeup, whoa nice white shiney teeth and manicure cavegirl. Wanna go on a hot date baby?
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G4's caveman-era servers are makin it hard as nuts to see this anachronistic nonsense.
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Dec. 13, 2007, 7:08 p.m. CST
If they had just gotten Mel Gibson's dialect coaches
by Reynard Muldrake
and grunted their way through this, the visuals and action would speak for themselves and it'd be a lot more believable in spite of the Next Top Model contestants. Instead ya got motherfuckin' John Gielgud and Lawrence Olivier droppin' sonnets for all they know given the time period. And that kid with down syndrome? Don't buy it. What's he doing there? Cuz they had a similar weird lookin' guy in 300? Epic of the year? P.S. Merrick how come you're more game to this than "X-Files"?
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Wow, that really blows it for me. Mel Gibson does entire movies in dead languages. They couldn't be a little more creative than this?!
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Is he just chillin' in costume at the top of Wayne Enterprises? Great Gotham look though...
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Does this mean the Enh were the first civilization in the world since these cavemen speak better english than most Americans?
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I'd say he was in his penthouse. Bruce Wayne lives in the city after his mansion burned down in BB.
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Apparently there was a caveman in my keyboard.
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Ooh, good call. They're still workin' on buildin' up the cave. Do you think this one has that tube under the desk that Val Kilmer slid all the way down in 'Forever'? Hahaha.
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Looks like Braveheart meets Caveman meets the guy behind Stargate. Looks like Emmerich may be trying to mix archaeology with Biblical references as the referenced "mountain of gods" seems to be the Tower of Babel. He did kind of the same thing of incorporating history and legend in "Stargate" and "Independence Day." Those fast attack ostriches are most likely Phorusrhacids or "terror birds". They were also featured in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow and the classic "Mysterious Island" film. And the mammoths look like a Discovery Channel special, that is, fake.
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Haha. No, that was the G4 supersonic internet speedsters crashing your hard drive. But they have dreads and perfect teeth also.
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...this story is set in prehistoric times; but... the guy's arrival was foretold in...<p> history? does that not add up for anyone else? ...<p> ...really, this guy has never lived up to his Independence Day hype...
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Echoes of Jurassic Park, PJ's King Kong, Alien 3, Apocalypto, 300, Conan... the list goes on.
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Damn.
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I know because a dreadlocked Esquimeax told me.
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I think they're more likely to be either the Elephant Bird or the Giant Moa.
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How stupid does this guy think we are?? Visual Effects look great though...
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Only...worse.
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http://tinyurl.com/3797yz
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I wasn't on board for this movie, even up till half way through the trailer. As soon as they got to the desert though, I'm in. That' looks sweet!
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It's a trailer for a Roland Hemaroid movie which means it will be a very nice looking pile of shite!<P>If it were anyone else directing I might be a bit more interested but Roland could fuck up an orgy in a brothel so I'll remain a sceptic.<P>Nice big furry wet pussy though!
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Fuck it's historical inaccuracies, poor plot, and raping of a good concept. Fuck Emmerich, fuck him up his stupid assh...well you get the idea.
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Assuming you're looking for more authenticity, what language would you suggest they speak? No culture even remotely that old left behind any trace of their language. Would you feel better if they made up a phony language and provided English subtitles? I would bet that idea was on the table, but it's a lot more work for something that's no less phony than just having the actors speak English directly, and subtitled movies still lose a certain percentage of your potential audience automatically.
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It is unfair that one woman can be so hot. What the hell is she doing on G4?
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but that's about where the compliments stop. He's guilty of making some of the dumbest high budget Science Fiction (minus the science) films ever made. I'll wait to see this when it's airing on Free TV.
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Dec. 13, 2007, 8:07 p.m. CST
The perfect English in this film makes about as much sense as...
by Uncle Bobo
...all those idiots in the Star Wars movies speaking perfect English. Seems like ye ole British Empire stuck one of its bloody colonies everywhere...
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Just to keeps it reals, yo. <br><br> No, but seriously, this looks fucking retarded.
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Dec. 13, 2007, 8:37 p.m. CST
Prehistoric animals = the only draw this film has goin for it
by Canada's King
It'd be kind of cool to see ancient North American creatures rendered in near-CG realism...unfortunatley, the creatures' performances will be vastly superior to their human counterparts.
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shouldn't cavemen be black?<P>atleast in an african area..
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you mean the torah,<P>hey look! he said something about jews!<P>lets make sure he never works in hollywood!
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...are probably supposed to be diatrymas or something. (And no, they didn't co-exist with humans, but I want to see them anyway.)
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Me Grimlock say this movie gay. Me Grimlock clarify statement -- him mean "gay" as in silly, him not mean "gay" as in contemporary slang for homosexuals. Grimlock apologizes for any confusion. Grimlock also say Rarrrrgh!
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That looks fucking terrible.
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"lordy she's hot" indeed Merrick.<p>as for the movie; looks crap, but might make for a worthwhile $4.00 at&t uverse on-demand rental in three to six months. what? this is what married men watch!
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Heeee asssss msuuuukiiiirooooochhh. It wouldn't make any difference if the actors made ...let's say... animal noises. I'm with Merrick...the hunt at the beginning got me excited ...the rest looks like your usual generic and boring piece of shit wrapped into the coaxing "fade in" and "little glimpses" trailer package. Well...they question may be: Can Harald Kloser ...write words?
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Fun looking movie for a boring winter's day.
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This is a reboot of the Scorpion King.
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if it is like his other movies he will say, hey screw anthing like an interesting story, and then throw a bunch of effects at it. What was that dino movie with Ringo in it?
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Hence, Ostriraptor.
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Is that you Conan?
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This shit looks just as lame...and at least MAMMOTH knew it was stupid.
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It looks like cheesy b-movie fun, ala Stargate, but I agree that it does seem to be taking itself rather serious, like The Day After Tommorow did, the one Roland Em movie i really hated!
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as both a Lambert and Burroughs fan, I surely wish they'd made a sequal to Greystoke. Best Tarzan Ever
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What the fuck other language are they supposed to speak? Doesn't Tom Cruise speak perfect english in his new film, VALKYRIE? For that matter, I'm fairly sure Charlton Heston spoke english in BEN HUR. As long as no one says "my bad," who really gives a shit? Really, just unclench a little bit, geeks.
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Tell me that's not a take on Exedous. They are slaves building something similar to a pyramid for a ruler who claims to be a god and waiting for deliverer who arrives and shows them that the ruler isn't a god. The only difference: Mammoths.
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In my above post, I said that big pyramid thing is probably the Tower of Babel from Genesis. Yes, I think Emmerich is doing some kind of take on Biblical history, kind of the way he uses Egyptian mythology in Stargate and the Roswell conspiracy in Independence Day.
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One thing you have to hand to the guy, his movies are alot of fun... even if they do kinda suck. This is gonna be cool.
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Roland Emerick is very much like michael bay,all spectacle and ZERO substance.Stargate was as good as he's ever gonna get and even that is mediocre sci-fi at its best.
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Ooga wooga boo. Grrrrrr argh mooga wom? hehe! Err mmm ah boo (grrrgh rah jooga rowl Blu-Ray)... <P> Yogaa bum tah nee. Rah mooga booga Olivia Munn ena boom boom!!! Oogaa neh bah boogaaaa oh yaaaa!!!
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Article on here about Marc Caro Jean-Pierre Jeunet being a team and Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale. I am pretty sure the same rule (if not more so) applies to Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich.
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Only in Meerich's world, I guess.
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Nee mooga rargh womsa booga Camilla Belle, Olivia Munn, Natalie Portman, Shia LeBeouf ena puchee ahn ena boca wah booma teh!!! Nah wooga raarrrrhhrr ...
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isn't this like year old news? The trailer for this movie has been out since the AD times. Wheres the global globes bitch fest!!!!!!!!!!!
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He's still a hack though.
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I'm convinced that's what it is. And if so, that makes the movie a little more interesting I think...
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...when the ST-tiger goes right up to his face and sniffs him is frame for frame exactly how Alien goes up to Ripley and sniffs her. Sounds like a porno lol.
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looks utterly retarded. The characters look like super-models having a bad hair day. The cgi creatures look like cgi creatures. And everyone speaks perfect English.
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I'm so sick of this shit.
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without the Stargates.
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The darkness overtaking the world at the beginning of these trailers is a pretty awesome introduction.
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Why do you have to be all hatin'? Cavemen used Babel Fish. Asses.
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In the Tower of Babel story, everyone speaks the same language, but because humans build the tower and get to close to Heaven, the gods scatter mankind across the planet and make them speak different languages so as to divide them. So maybe that explains why they all speak English.
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Apocalypto, but with english speakers and anachronistic animals.
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Looks crap! Probably is crap.
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Dec. 14, 2007, 3:44 a.m. CST
I'm a historical pedant myself but jeez some of you are uptight.
by Valin Kenobi
Anyhoo. It looks very derivative of Stargate, Scorpion King, Conan, Troy, 300, Kong, et al ... but those are some of my favorite films so I'm on board by default. <p>If nothing else, the visuals are a solid 10. Should be really nice to see on the big screen.
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Dec. 14, 2007, 3:53 a.m. CST
For I am Lothar of the Anachronsitics...behold my hot chica!
by KillaKane
Joking aside this Prehistoric Shitsletown Behemoth looks like it could be entertaining, slicker than whale snot and worth a cineplex visit. Damn you Roland, you can shoot that's for sure!
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Dec. 14, 2007, 3:54 a.m. CST
Lothar make mistake he belong to Anachronistics (Kane can't type
by KillaKane
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But, hey, it is their scoop.
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A lot of pulp movies: This Edgar Rice Burroughsresque film, Indiana Jones, The Mummy 3. I´m glad, i love pulp.
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back in the concept stage, before hollywhore put all the window dressing on it. and made this into a 90 minute soulless piece of cgi crap.
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Dec. 14, 2007, 5:50 a.m. CST
They speak better English than people in my neighborhood.
by Uncle Stan
I guess things haven't gotten better since the stone age.
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...but I still won't see this movie. It looks like something I would have loved 22 years ago, but now I know better.
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disclaimer, but even so I always feel dirty after watching them. Like I should have been reading Proust or something instead of wasting my time watching a B-movie with an overstuffed budget. Maybe it's the fact that he goes for some great, albeit obvious, concepts, but then completely drops the ball. Every one of his films are missed opportunities.
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...They spoke perfect English, but without using contractions. Everybody knows that!
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..."Uwe Boll with a budget." Actually he's more like Uwe Boll with a budget and some visual chops. He directs the stupidest f***in' movies imaginable, but they at least look nice.
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...kicked some Egyptian ass if he had a mammoth! Anyway, Moses was really the son of the heretical Aten-worshipping pharoah Aknaten, not some cavedude.
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The first teaser was crap. Somebody finally got their act together for the trailer.
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Why does the lead look like a fag off the cover of gq? Don't think cavemen had neatly trimmed d-bag beards. Way to blow it Emmerich!
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At least they were funny
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lol. that probably covers it
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Y'mean Peter Noone cares about this film????<p>In that case I'm definitely in. Any film Herman's Hermits endorse has gotta be great.
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No scientist today uses "BC" because it has developed religious attachments. The correct terminology is Before Common Era, or BCE. <p> I *was* looking forward to this, but now it just looks like "300" or "Alexander" in a different time period. I was expecting a great, arty, non-wordy show about humans surviving in a hostile world. Instead what we're getting is a war movie that wants to be part "Return of the King" and part "Scorpion King" apparently. So to use an oft-used term: Meh.
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I wish this had of been that film after they enter the gate. like all rolan Emmerick films, they look good, but damn they are unwatchable on repeat viewings.
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No one had a problem with the dialogue of 300 not being Ancient Greek... I don't see the difference. It's not Apocalypto or The Passion... Movie looks like fun.
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Basically take any movie set in ancient or mythical times (LoTR) and question the use of modern English (even with the required British accent).
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Your idea of silence or a made-up language of grunts would work well for a different movie (& did for _Quest For Fire_)set a million years ago; but this is set 12,000 years ago, and we know the languages spoken then were as complex as the ones spoken now. Linguists agree all existent languges are of the same level of complexity & have been since we left Africa 70 to 50,000 years ago, if not long before that. (See Pinker's _The Language Instinct_.)If it's as complex as English, the film's language might as well be translated into English (unless you feel _Spartacus_ copped out by not using subtitles). This comment, though, should not be taken as any sort of support for Emmerich's talent or interest in seeing the film; there'll be lots of things to bitch about, just not well-spoken Neolithics. (Ironically, the one thing I like about _Stargate_ is the aliens not speaking English; makes them seem more alien, and the plotting less convenient.)And by the way, no one believes cavemen communicated solely by cave painting,even "fucking morons".
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Tried to be all sweetness and light there till the end, but then I went back & read Node32744's comment again. Got a little ticked, seeing him call Ye Not Guilty a twelve year old & a fucking moron for not knowing something that isn't true, & making a perfectly valid point. Node, there's enough genuine Hollywood bullshit to rail against; don't attack someone who understands that,outside of silents, either translation, dubbing or subtitles are necessary international conventions, not "Hollywood bullshit".
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Dec. 14, 2007, 1:09 p.m. CST
Anytime I see a movie where they're speaking English
by Reel American Hero
And they really shouldn't I just tell myself that the movie is 'translated from..' whatever language it's supposed to be like how they do it comic books when someone's speaking a foreign language. And I'm cool with that.
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"Challenged an Empire!" for just a bit?
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when i was 12, 16, 20... up to the 35 i am now i have alwats loved prehistoric set movies, and anything that includes extinct creatures is fine with me. cgi looks good to me... come on, does it really look that fake? so what if they all speak english. if i'm going to watch a big dumb action movie i don't wanna be reading subtitles all the way through, and i've never had a problem with subtittles, even as a kid when my big bro used to show me wierd foreign horror films. personally i think it looks fun, the guy is fit, the girl's gorgeous, and i can suspend disbelief for two hours if i'm gonna have some fun. go emmerich! lol
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brain dead stupidity? wh yis this film so brain dead. surely it's just there to have a bit of fun for a couple of hours. i don't mind laughing at the daft bits, and the dodgy acting. it's better than 99% of any low budget stuff put out by the sci fi channel. how people com[pare i do not know. at least big budget stuff like this is a little interesting!
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and that's all I have on this issue.
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...lies a legend...of a completely forgettable movie.
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or it ain't be gettin' my bucks
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you wrote "sounds like the bible!"<P>as in old testament, as in torah..<P>I know you are still in recovery..<P>simon wiesenthal, is watching you..
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and we already had the same in THE RELIC and half a dozen other movies. IT'S NOT THRILLING ANY MORE. That said, let's take a look at the board: The chick looks cute, but the rest of the scenes didn't overwhelm me too much.
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To Memories-of-Murder: I meant to indicate a hypothetical movie a million years old, but it came out as if I meant Quest For Fire; sorry, of course you're right. And reconstucted Nostratic for a film would be cool. Node: I agree, this movie is going to be dumbed-down horseshit, but as long as the characters speak their language as well as Bushmen (which is not more primitive than English), regular English still sounds fine to me.
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When did he grow man boobs? Sadly, I wish he was in Sky High 2 or a Sky High TV show rather than this. Not to judge it too harshly, this looks like a lot of nice visuals, but there's also kind of a generic 'meh' feeling to it too. Sounds like they're using a script that was written as a prequel to the Scorpion King. I like the suggestion this is the tale of the Tower of Babel. That or it's a build up to Noah and the ark. But Gibson already did something like that with Apocalypto (action hero fighting to survive in a pre-civilization that goes unrecorded by history). Can't they just fucking make CONAN or even HE-MAN already?
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First of all, they are not "ostriches" OR Diatryma[which are supposedly herbivorous]. if anything, they are phrorusrhacids which actually lived in SOUTH, not even north, AMERICA - they were NEVER in Africa. And unless they're in the pre-desert Sahara, none of those temples should exist...
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