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When CGI Shlock Ruled The Cineplex: '10,000 B.C.' Opens To An Ice-Agey Reception
Posted by Seth at 4:50 AM on March 8, 2008
Poised to overtake Semi-Pro as the #1 comedy in America this weekend, 10,000 B.C., Roland Emmerich's hilariously bombastic homage to the dawn of CGI-man, officially opens today. Along the way, it has inspired film critics to some of their best movie-panning in recent memory, with the NY Times's A.O. Scott having dubbed this tale of a "tribe of snuffleupagus hunters" a "sublimely dunderheaded excursion into human prehistory." Here's a sampling of some of the caveman-themed headlines that contributed to its 9% Tomato-Meter score:
· '10000' reasons to avoid film [Baltimore Sun]
· '10,000 B.C.': Mammoth disappointment [Toronto Sun]
· Stone Age story doesn't rock [Columbus Dispatch]
· Even a caveman would be insulted [Minn Star Tribune]
· The mind-numbing '10,000 BC' is just one big prehistoric bore [CP]
· '10,000 B.C.' primitive in all the wrong ways [Times-Picayune]
· Don't go back to '10,000 B.C' [SF Examiner]
· Wooly Bully: '10,000 B.C.' is not a film for the ages [Detroit News]
· '10,000 B.C.' Is Artistically Extinct [ohmynews.com]
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the.munson
Posted 7:03 AM 8/3/08
THANK YOU defamer!
I've always wondered the correct spelling of Snuffleupagus but was too lazy to ever look it up.
the.munson
metroville
Posted 7:03 AM 8/3/08
You brought Roland Emmerich's undeserved career on yourselves, America, by turning out in droves for the hooey that was Independence Day.
metroville
Mark Graham
Posted 7:35 AM 8/3/08
@the.munson: I may be way off-base here (wouldn't be the first time), but does anyone else feel like there's a missing "h" in that spelling? I would've assumed the spelling would've been Snuffleuphagus. You know, like sarcophagus? Oh well.
Mark Graham
Mark Graham
Posted 8:08 AM 8/3/08
+ Watch video
Mark Graham
raincoaster
Posted 8:08 AM 8/3/08
@Mark Graham: no. You wanna pronounce the hard P, you don't get an H. That's just how it is.
Also: what do they expect without Raquel?
+ Watch video
raincoaster
Molly Friedman
Posted 8:08 AM 8/3/08
@Mark Graham: I thought the same thing until I wikipedia'd it. Apparently the Muppet's full name was, indeed, Aloysius Snuffleupagus.
Molly Friedman
el smrtmnky
Posted 9:10 AM 8/3/08
i gave up on this hack as soon as the ice began to fucking CHASE jake gyllenhall down a hallway.
el smrtmnky
raincoaster
Posted 10:12 AM 8/3/08
@el smrtmnky: oh, ALL my fantasies start out that way. Only with me instead of ice.
raincoaster
Dimo
Posted 11:11 AM 8/3/08
@el smrtmnky: Damm, you beat me to that one. Ditto!
Dimo
raincoaster
Posted 5:30 PM 8/3/08
@Mark Graham: Subtle. Happy Birthday, Mark. You should just post a link to your Amazon wish list.
raincoaster