It was pretty funny. I kept expecting to see a Goa’uld mothership fly down, but didn’t have much problems suspending disbelief. Except for one detail;
They had chili peppers & corn :eek: ! I don’t know why, but I had a much harder time swallowing that than I did mammoths being used to construct the pyramids or everyone having perfect teeth. Speaking of the pyramids. Was the “Almighty” an Atlantean or a alien? We never had a clear look at his face, but he looked sorta human. But how could just 3 of them enslave enough people to build a city like that? What about the blind albinos? What was that giant black tent thing in the temple covering?
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They pretty much do this in Aguirre, The Wrath of God, too. That thought actually popped into my head while the scene was rolling.
ETA: Although, if one is going to be unutterably tedious and insist on fitting this puppy into the adult world’s matrix of, like, actual history and geography, they do go directly from the Himalayas to Sub-Saharan Africa, which is a pretty neat trick.
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Do we know they were in the Himalayas? I assumed they were in Israel or some such. They have snow covered mountains and lush areas in close proximity. It wouldn’t be out of line for someone over the course of many months making it to the nile from there.
…who’s paying for all this construction? There’s gotta be, like, an economy somewhere, but nothing’s in evidence.
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That isn’t a fair criticism. Do you need to be explicitly shown something in order to presume it’s there? Maybe the town proper is ten miles from the construction site?
I didn’t see any spear makers, so where did they get all those spears? :dubious:
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Makes sense to me. But I would think most movie goers would have been expecting mammoths. Then again, maybe there are there folks going to this movie blind, thinking it’s a Johnny Hart animated feature.
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I suspect Hart doesn’t believe human history goes much farther back than 6000 BC. :dubious: And DDG, this:
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Do we know they were in the Himalayas? I assumed they were in Israel or some such. They have snow covered mountains and lush areas in close proximity. It wouldn’t be out of line for someone over the course of many months making it to the nile from there.
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Yeah, but the mountains they were using were big, humongous, Hindu Kush-type mountain ranges. I’ve seen pix of Israel’s “Bedtime Bible Story” mountains --this wasn’t it.
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Yeah, but the mountains they were using were big, humongous, Hindu Kush-type mountain ranges. I’ve seen pix of Israel’s “Bedtime Bible Story” mountains --this wasn’t it.
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You’re clearly not factoring in 12 thousand years of erosion… it’s amazing there are any mountains left after all that time.
And it could still be someplace in the middle east.
Like:
And I’m too lazy to look for any more.
All I’m saying, is that this film is the best researched movie in the history of cinema. And to decry it is to embrace folly.
Ok, well, after four pages of response to my original question, I’ve reached a decision:
This turkey gets a pass until I can watch it for $2 on matinee in May. Then I’m going with friends to have a good time, preferably after having already had a couple drinks to dull/turn off the active brain…
I saw the movie today and yes, it’s a bad movie. However, it was beautifully shot and the scenery was breathtaking. As I recall, there was only one sabretooth tiger and it was the same one that D’Leh saved. I would have like to have had some backstory on the Almighty, but I’m just glad Cliff Curtis was in the movie. I saw it for the 6 buck matinee showing, so not a huge waste.
Despite all the warnings and rotten reviews, we went to see it this weekend.
It was a decent popcorn film - suspend your disbelief at the door.
Still, they must have had one hell of a dental plan back in those days…sometimes close-ups of their teeth were amazing.
And we were chuckling aloud when suddenly the woman was held at the top of the pyramid and threatened with death, and every slave who had been beaten for months/years/decades held their breath to decide whether or not to gp back to becoming a slave or having her killed. Gee…wonder what I would have decided if it came down to either murdering some dude’s girlfriend who I have never met in my life, or saving my own life…what a quandary that must have been for those slaves…
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Gee…wonder what I would have decided if it came down to either murdering some dude’s girlfriend who I have never met in my life, or saving my own life…what a quandary that must have been for those slaves…
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Well, obviously, D’Leh made his Charisma roll. The good teeth helped.
--this wasn’t it.