Hmm, another nitpick – those “dhows” with what look like lateen sails. There’s no recorded evidence of sailing before something like 3500 B.C. (though there’s not much record of a lot of things, going back that far*). OTOH, clearly there was human seafaring in very ancient times, as evidenced by human settlement of Australia about 40,000 or more years ago.
*by the same token, clearly humans didn’t urinate in bronze age times, since there’s no record of it.
Apparently the main character is freeing someone of somebody or several somebodies.
My first reaction, after seeing the trailer?
Spartacus with Mammoths. 
Jeez, I just realized what must wipe out the Ziggurat Bronze-Age Kingdom, so that there’s no evidence of their culture, duh.
As long as you can still enjoy it then nitpick away. From just the trailer it looks like it could really really suck or be a bit of fun. I wll not watch it looking for any kind of accuracy.
I swear to you, my first thought on seeing the commercial was “Man, I can’t wait to see the Dope thread about this one.”
I can think of 300 reasons why they made this movie.
150 buxom cuties?
I think this film’s father is Apocalypso.
Thanks Mel!
YOU MANIACS!! YOU BLEW IT UP!! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!!
It’s a Roland Emmerich film which basically means Michael Bay but not as highbrow.
Or The Doctor could drop in & save the day. (Perhaps after Torchwood had made things even worse.)
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Just for the record, Benoit’s novel “l’Atlantide” has Atlantis set in the middle of the Sahara desert. It spawned about half a dozen film versions (like Siren from Aylantis) that also had Atlantis out in the desert. It’s not beyond the bounds of possibility, but on the other hand I wouldn’t credit the filmmakers with knowing about this.
I know I’ve read stories with bits and pieces of stuff like this – Conan is filled with lost cities in the desert co-existing with prehistoric bneasts. L Sprague de Camp wrote “The Dragopn of the Ishtar Gates”, with ancient Babylonian cities and dinosaurs, and so on. But this just looks dumb.
MsSmith beat me to it, IT’S A MADHOUSE, A MADHOUSE!
Sacrilege!
I’m sorry, but just I couldn’t let this slide.
I’ve enjoyed most of Emmerich’s films, and loathed most of Bay’s. I don’t have any pretenses about Roland Emmerich’s artistic skillz. I just think his films are better than Michael Bay’s. (I think the only Bay film I enjoyed more than an Emmerich film was Transformers, and that’s only because Godzilla was such a turkey.) Emmerich’s films seem to be more fun, whereas I think Bay takes himself way too seriously.
As for the OP, I’ll go see the movie. I love stories set in the Conan mythos, and I’m willing to give this movie the same treatment.
Upon re-reading my post, I’m afraid I failed to make it clear that I think neither of these clowns could make an honestly good non-cheesy movie. They’re both in the same class, but where Bay is scraping by with Ds and low Cs, Emmerich consistently earns a solid A-.
According to Rotten Tomatoes, the answer to the OP’s question is: Not much.
Maybe it’s pining for the fjords.
And then they met Ayla and Jondalar and there was much good sex.
wow, 8% on the Tomato-meter. Ouch.
“Barney Rubble had a lot more charisma than anyone involved in this movie”
I’m glad I’m not the only one who was thinking of something like this!
Poor Camilla Belle. She was good in When a Stranger Calls, then she gets sucked into this mess. Perhaps she’ll have to get nekkid to make up for it…
She’d damned well better. I tell ya, the sex scene with her in The Quiet, looked pretty freakin’ stupid because it didn’t show us her titties! (Seriously, it was blatently obvious that the camera was being moved in all kinds of crazy directions so we wouldn’t get a glimpse of her boobage.)