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Grummer · 08-13-2008, 07:52 AM

just saw it tonight, it wasn't bad, story bit simplistic though, but given its 'mystery' air about the prehistoric times i thought it was good as an attempt to answer smoe questions of lost civilisations, and in a way they purposefully left some to imagination.
Like if a movie is made to say adapt "chariots of the gods" type book which the book is excellent however it would be fair to say translation would be a flop, so its not surprising to see what Chase said above. But for entertainment value, and if you can entertain some 'armchair anthropology study' you would find it was stimulating and fun, even some magical quality is throw in, just for to show how in the olden times when people actually DID came to believe and explained things in terms of magic. it all kind of boil down to how you take it, and how you want to elaborate what you percieve from the film. I liked it. It wasn't the best, but surely doubt its a potential to be the worst 10 movies, special effects, the way they take viewers with the travellers on a journey to rescue the eslaved villagers/hunters to me was damn good, well done. I think it had a good underlying messages like fate of civlisation, that comes and goes (the features was particularly educational) and yeah I have always pondered on that sort of thing, I would like to see some sort of story written up on a large scale mega-narrative on the 'story of the human race' but hmmmm little chance of successful story to be conjured up, except only one i can think of is the the old arthur C. clark film -2001 Space odyessy that made a good attempt to connect ape to man and space and machine.... but do it with civilisation and technology and society is quite another challenge
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08-13-2008, 07:52 AM	#20 (permalink)
Grummer Burn fat off your soul Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: North Island in the South Posts: 1,188	just saw it tonight, it wasn't bad, story bit simplistic though, but given its 'mystery' air about the prehistoric times i thought it was good as an attempt to answer smoe questions of lost civilisations, and in a way they purposefully left some to imagination. Like if a movie is made to say adapt "chariots of the gods" type book which the book is excellent however it would be fair to say translation would be a flop, so its not surprising to see what Chase said above. But for entertainment value, and if you can entertain some 'armchair anthropology study' you would find it was stimulating and fun, even some magical quality is throw in, just for to show how in the olden times when people actually DID came to believe and explained things in terms of magic. it all kind of boil down to how you take it, and how you want to elaborate what you percieve from the film. I liked it. It wasn't the best, but surely doubt its a potential to be the worst 10 movies, special effects, the way they take viewers with the travellers on a journey to rescue the eslaved villagers/hunters to me was damn good, well done. I think it had a good underlying messages like fate of civlisation, that comes and goes (the features was particularly educational) and yeah I have always pondered on that sort of thing, I would like to see some sort of story written up on a large scale mega-narrative on the 'story of the human race' but hmmmm little chance of successful story to be conjured up, except only one i can think of is the the old arthur C. clark film -2001 Space odyessy that made a good attempt to connect ape to man and space and machine.... but do it with civilisation and technology and society is quite another challenge hmmm __________________ It's like you go to the beach. It's a little cold. You're not sure you want to go in. There's a pretty girl standing next to you. She doesn't want to go in either. She sees you, and you know that if you just asked her her name, you would leave with her. Forget your life, whoever you came with, and leave the beach with her. And after that day, you remember. Not every day, every week... she comes back to you. It's the memory of another life you could have had. Today is that girl.