10,000 BC

I remember when this movie first came out. I was intrigued that the previews didn't really give anything away, but I guess the other side of that is that I didn't really know anything about it. Anyway, this movie hit theaters with horrible reviews and an even worse opening weekend, because of that, I didn't watch it.

I have this theory that every bad movie can be made better with a bad review. Likewise, a good movie can be ruined by a good review. It's like in order to get someone to enjoy something you have to kind of hate on it a little bit. Otherwise they expect to much.

With that in mind, I really enjoyed this movie despite (though maybe I should say "because of") all the bad reviews it got back in the day. It has action, adventure, and excitement. It's not an historical movie in any way, more of an action-adventure type of film.

10,000 BC is a movie that follows the character D'leh as he fights to get his friend, Evolet back from the Egyptian slavers that stole her. He must traverse the dangers of nature other societies as he traverses from the mountains through the forest and across the desert. In order to save his bff and possibly lover someday.

As for historical accuracy, it's hard to say I think just how much of this would be true for he people living at the time. In a way, it feels more like a fantasy in a mythical world than it does being in 10,000 BC on Earth.

Overall: B. Nothing really new here, but it was fun and exciting to watch. I liked the adventure aspect of it. It does get a little harder to follow towards the end a little bit when they get to ancient Egypt, but it was still fun.

10 Years

10 Years is an interesting movie. It revolves around a 10 year high school reunion. It stars Channing Tatum, Jenna Dewan-Tatum, and Justin Long. It also stars a shit-load of other people you've probably haven't heard of.

It's about a high school reunion and it follows around a variety of people. They all have their own problems throughout the movie that they deal with in different ways, but it gets a little confusing jumping around to all these different people. This movie suffers from the problem of "who the hell is the main character anyway?" meaning that the main character isn't any one person. Instead, this movie uses the setting of a high school reunion to tell multiple stories with multiple endings.

Part of me wanted this movie to be done in a way that focused first on one group, then on the next in short-film fashion rather than this jumping from group to group in a completely confusing way. It was hard to follow in the format it was in. I mean, eventually I got used to it, but until that point it would just jump around meeting different people in different groups so fast that I'm surprised I didn't start puking from motion sickness.

If you look to my right you'll see a picture of ALL THE MAIN CHARACTERS IN THE MOVIE! I'm not even kidding. Does it get a little confusing? Yes, yes it does.

Anyway, this movie wasn't bad. There was some pretty funny stuff throughout it and some dramatic moments too, but I feel this movie really wanted to be a comedy about a high school reunion more so than anything else, but does it succeed?

The answer is: sort of. It has it's moments. I laughed. It happened. But it doesn't really fit the formula of a movie. It doesn't have much of a plot, instead just showing us these random scenes with these people. I

mean, we DO get a sense of who these people were when they were in high school just as we get a sense of who these people are 10 years later. But, what we don't get is a good story arc, or much of a conclusion outside of "oh, i guess the reunion is over." "Let's go to the bar!" And they do, and we watch that for a bit, but it doesn't give us anything more. Just more scenes with these random people doing random things randomly.

Overall: C-. It had it's moments. Made me laugh. It had people who I ended up caring for and was interested to see what most of the people in this movie were going to do next. But the problem with having so many main characters really bog this down. There were a few characters I didn't know who they were no matter how many times we came back to them. Also, not having a plot might work for a poem or a short story, but you really need that in movies, otherwise you'll end up feeling like you just wasted two hours of your life. Now, I enjoyed this movie, but it really just seemed kind of meaningless. Movies need plots, they need conclusions THEY NEED STUFF TO HAPPEN IN THEM GOD DAMMIT! Otherwise, they really aren't worth the effort.

10 Things I Hate About You

10 Things I Hate About You is a teen movie from the 90s loosely based on William Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew." It stars Heath Ledger before he was dead, Joseph Gordon Levitts before he was famous, and Juilia Stiles before she was suddenly transformed into a flesh eating alien! Okay, that last part might not be true.

10 Things I Hate About You is a movie like no other. Oh wait, actually it's a movie that's like a lot of movies made at this time. For example, every single teen movie ever made. I mean it, it has all the same tropes or whatever you want to call them, that make teen movies what they are. Yup, despite being based on one of the Bard's plays it really doesn't do a single thing original or unique to the genre.

This movie is about Heath Ledger's character, Patrick, who is hired by Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character, Cameron James (funniest name in the movie), to seduce Julia Stiles' character, Kat. The reason for this is because Cameron wants to date Kat's younger sister whose overbearing father told them that she couldn't date unless Kat did. That part I kinda liked, based on The Bard's play and a clever twist on the same old shit. However, everything else after that kinda just makes me want to break stuff!

The reason for my urge to smash is that everything about this movie is completely cliche. It doesn't try to do even one thing original. True, it is pretty funny, at least it has its moments, but that doesn't make up for how little this movie does anything even remotely original. Heath is a bad boy, Julia is a prudish girl, they meet, they hate each other, then they love each other. Heath isn't as bad as he was anymore. Julia isn't as much of a prude. They're in love and that's all that matters right?

Oh yeah, and Joseph gets his girl too... SPOILER!

OVERALL: D+. I'm only giving it the plus because it was pretty funny. It was lacking in just about every other regards though. There wasn't anything in this movie that you couldn't get from, say, watching "Another Teen Movie," and that's the god damned parody for Christ's sake.