When I'm Around You I'm Predictable
I've written a few pieces for the sci-fi flash fiction website 365 Tomorrows. Some of them made it up there, some of them got rejected. The reason I was given for one of them being rejected was that it was a 'tell', not a 'show'. I was pointing things out for the reader rather than letting them work it out for themselves, and when you've only got 500 words to play with that rather detracts from the story. I absolutely agree it was a good call on their part not to put up that piece. If only Roland Emmerich and Harald Kloser - screenwriters of 10,000 BC - had submitted similar stories, maybe they would have been given the same advice and not written such a massive piece of crap.
This film epitomises the phrase "dumbed down." The audience are never for a second allowed to think for themselves. The dialogue has as much subtlety as the badly CGI'd mammoths. You remember the Oliphaunts of Lord of the Rings? They set the benchmark. They were six years ago which is, I think, a pretty long time in special effects terms. Okay, so I'm guessing 10,000 BC wasn't given the budget that LotR was, but it's six years on and they clearly didn't fritter the money away on trivial things like script doctors or talented actors so how could they fall so far short?
The world of the film - a loose collection of prehistoric tribes and an invading advanced civilisation - is something I'd be willing to accept as part of the premise of the film despite it's anachronisms, yet it is so poorly thought out you have to wonder if the writers' research for the film began and ended with The Fintstones.
In short this movie is a horrible waste of celluloid with some pretty landscapes as its only redeeming feature.
This film epitomises the phrase "dumbed down." The audience are never for a second allowed to think for themselves. The dialogue has as much subtlety as the badly CGI'd mammoths. You remember the Oliphaunts of Lord of the Rings? They set the benchmark. They were six years ago which is, I think, a pretty long time in special effects terms. Okay, so I'm guessing 10,000 BC wasn't given the budget that LotR was, but it's six years on and they clearly didn't fritter the money away on trivial things like script doctors or talented actors so how could they fall so far short?
The world of the film - a loose collection of prehistoric tribes and an invading advanced civilisation - is something I'd be willing to accept as part of the premise of the film despite it's anachronisms, yet it is so poorly thought out you have to wonder if the writers' research for the film began and ended with The Fintstones.
In short this movie is a horrible waste of celluloid with some pretty landscapes as its only redeeming feature.