In response for your post telling me to **** off, I respond to your thread with this. It is completely possible to say with a STRONG amount of confidence that something, say 10,000BC, will ultimately suck, even before the finished product is out in all of it's glory for us to see and then review. How is this possible, you ask? How can a regular Joe determine the suckitude of a movie before he's seen it? Easy! It's like a 'Science-MadLib' Just fill in the blanks and do the math. Story+Director+Cast+Trailers=TOTAL, then take your TOTAL and add or subtract points for quality affiliation to said film(i.e.-Visuals done by ILM, gets a PLUS! Music by Danny Elfman, that's a minus!) That will give you a pretty sure idea of what your getting into. SO. If I told you that there is a new movie coming out, being portrayed as a blockbuster, set in 10,000BC about some caveman who is leading his fellow cavemen to defeat some bad Egyptian-esque guys who stole his girl and enslaved his buddies, and told you it was being helmed by the guy who directed 'The Day after Tomorrow' and Independence Day(ID4). Then told you that cast is a bunch of relative unknowns, who in the trailers are messin' with mammoths, and getting pounced on by sabretooth tiger's(that look a lot like they were digitally rendered by the same house that gave us the 'rock-dogs' from the Chronicles of Riddick). Oh yeah, there are also Reptila-Ostriches! In this day and age when movies of this ilk hit they generally do all right in the numbers, but not because the movie is any good but because the hype machine has us regular folks all whipped up into a frothy mass of drooling idiots, who will pay $10 to see a movie we will leave hating ourselves a little bit for wasting our time! Don't get me wrong. I love movies, even BAD ones. I am one of the drooling masses, give me a great trailer and I'm there. But, I also call it like I see it, and just like most adults, we can smell BS a mile away, can tell you that there is BS close and we can do that without stepping into it.
