We rented 10,000 BC because, well, just look at the cover. A dude's facing down a sabre tooth tiger with a spear made out of some other animal's spine AND the tiger has the high ground! Muy macho!!
To sweeten the deal, it was directed by the guy who brought us Independence Day (ya know, where Jeff Goldblum dooms a super-advanced civilization who've traveled light years across galaxies with a computer virus hosted on his Mac Book), and The Day After Tomorrow (where extreme global climate change and a massive new ice age comes, literally, two days from now)!!! How could it miss?!I jest...
I do enjoy a good popcorn flick (yes, I enjoyed the aforementioned movies), and while I can see why this didn't win any Oscars, it was fun to watch. The effects were impressive and it had a pretty grand scale about it. The critters were large, and the people didn't have much for weaponry ("Thak, go, hit mammoth on head with rock!"). Everybody loves a good underdog story. ;-)
The story was as old as time, and the setting made it interesting just the same. Boy meets girl, boy and girl fall in love, marauding hordes steal girl away, boy goes after girl. It's a sweeping story of love and devotion, a man rising to claim the role of supreme leadership from a life of toil and trouble, and heroism in the face of adversity.
It's fun to watch if you don't set your expectations too high, settle in with some popcorn, and set your critical thinking adrift for a couple hours.
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