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10,000 BC (2008)
Wonderful Sci-Fi Movie
I love this movie. No it is not really as good as True Grit or I Remember Mamma, but I thoroughly enjoyed myself this evening. It is not a historical narrative of the world as we know it. Neither is Star Wars and everyone loves that. I don't think it aspired to be anything more than a sci-fi movie. It is unfortunate that they named it 10,000 BC because of the implication that this was earth - for all we know it supposedly took place somewhere else 12,000 years ago. So, for a family flick (older kids because of the blood and violence) I thought it was pretty dang good. Really, there were no major holes in the plot, no OMG moments... but I liked Battle Star Galactica (the first series) and Star Trek so sue me. I recommend this for any like minded viewers with imaginations. But if you are a stuffed shirt and everything has to be 'like, real' stay away.
Posse (1993)
Shoot me now - I cant believe I watched the whole thing
This move is bad on so many levels I don't even know where to start. OK - the good points - Peebles is beautiful as a dirty outlaw in black leather. Some of the landscape photography was stunning. That's about it. Oh, and it was a nice touch having the buffalo head above the bar door in Freemanville, I figure it was a nod to the Buffalo Soldiers. The movie starts sort of OK but the characters are so flat, so comic book, so 'much', the bad guys are just over the top bad, I choke trying to describe them further. The Spanish-Cuban-American war was 1895-1898 with America being involved only in April to August of '98. I think the movie said it took place in 1893 (I could be wrong but I don't want to look at it again to check). A big part of this movie hinged on the KKK killing Jessie's daddy. Well boys, the original KKK started in 1865 and was destroyed by President Andrew Johnson in 1871. The Klan wasn't even around during the time period of this movie. Of course the nasty bas**rds got busy again in 1915 and we know the rest of that. BUT for the purpose of the movie it is historically incorrect and that was a major part of the plot. I think I could make myself crazy going into it a lot more so here a few jabs and I'm done. I didn't know that Boyz2Men and other bands like that got their inspiration from New Orleans street singers from the 1890's. I also didn't know that fetish necklaces were all the rage for Sioux women in the 1890's...but then I was surprised to see a bar singer doing jazz while wearing acrylic 1" nails... We just about died laughing and I like a cheesy western more than most people do. Such a waste of talent and money - this really had the chance to show a part of American history that isn't well known. http://www.coax.net/people/lwf/bkcwboy2.htm for some more information. This could have been so good but it was just....bad from 1-10 this gets a 1 instead of a zero because Mario looks good in his hat and there was an Appaloosa horse in the film.