10,000 B.C. (2008)

The first time I saw the trailer I was worried. While the movie visually looked amazing, I had a nagging feeling the story would not measure up. It was worse then I thought, my ears actually hurt from the dialogue. But, wait – look at all the amazing special effects and CGI! Doesn’t that make up for the hole of a script? No. Not even close. The movie tries to be 300, Lord of the Rings, Apocalyto and Beaveheart all bundled together. The problem is, all of those movies have something in common, that 10,000 B.C. lacks. They were good.

10,000 B.C. takes place long, long ago and follows the life of D’Leh (Steve Straight) a mighty stone aged hunter. He’s involved in a contest with his arch rival, Ka’Ren to kill the head male in a wild pack of mammoths. The winner gets a shiny white spear, the hottest babe in the tribe, a woman named Evolet, and the status of being “the One,” Neo style.

When D’Leh finally catches the monstrous mammoth, it ends up dying by accidently landing on his spear. Uh-Oh! When the tribe folk find out about this they are ready to give him the babe and fellow him as their leader, but being the boy scout that he is, he tells the truth and admits what happened.

The film is a very predicable cookie cutter epic. The beautiful girl gets kidnapped when the tribe is raided, and coincidently enough D’Leh is off hunting at the time. He gets a posse together and they go off to find her and encounter zany adventures

Don’t waste your time with this 109 minute, PG-13 snooze fest. It get’s one out of four stars only because I liked the concept of the movie and some of the film was fun to watch.

Drew and Mike - Drew calls in Sick

101.1 FM WRIF - From September 2007 -It was in late September of 2007 when Drew first stopped coming into work at the RIFF, he actually called in sick. Here is his answering messages the guys played at the time. It was only a week or so later did we hear about Tess. He has not came into work since.

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