One Million Years B.C. [DVD]

like the story and the experience that it gave you

Now days we are a little spoilt by Jurassic Park. The idea was good and Raquel Welsh was drop dead gorgeous. The story was rather lacking. Alright for an afternoon matinee I suppose but apart from a nostalgia trip, it is not ground-breaking.

near perfect make up with dinosaurs roaming over 1 million years BC. Difficult to take seriously

I watched this film with genuine pleasure and I am glad that I finally discovered this great classic - even if objectively speaking this is a very silly movie. Below, more of my impressions with some very limited SPOILERS.This adventure film about prehistoric people doesn't even try to stick to any kind of realism - in the year 1 000 000 BC modern humans didn't exist yet and as for the sex appeal of proto-human "Homo erectus" chicks, well, I definitely don't even want to go there... Dinosaurs of course were also extinct in those times, already since 64 million years - and the bikini worn by Ms Welch (even if it is supposedly made in deer-skin) wouldn't appear before XXth century... But all of this has of course no importance - this is just an adventure film, having absolutely no other pretensions that to entertain.The story is basically about an exile from one tribe of prehistoric people who finds refuge with another, more advanced tribe and obtains there a bride - actually, now that I think of it, it becomes clear that Jean-Jacques Annaud copied this general story line into his own (much better) "Quest of fire" film. Of course there will be some further complications, but really, the story doesn't really matter. The two things that make all the interest of this film are the chicks and the dinos.Being a terminal screen junkie and having watched uncounted thousands of films in my life, I already saw a great lot of beautiful actresses - but few films can equal this one in which we can admire not one but TWO incredibly hot and sexy beauties: Raquel Welch as gentle Loana and Martine Beswick as bitchy hellcat Nupondi, both of them wearing little clothes. Even better, at one moment they get into a nasty catfight... Every scene in which even one of them appears is a splendor - and if you think that Raquel Welch is THE star in this film, well, wait until you see Nupondi dancing!The dinosaurs in this film are amongst the best creations of the great Ray Harryhausen and anybody who liked his creatures in Sinbad films will be delighted to discover here the same kind of stop-motion magic.Chicks in bikinis vs. dinos in stop motion film - can it get any better? A film without any pretension other than to give good time to its public, more suitable for watching amongst guys, with a mandatory consumption of beer a condition to appreciate it more. Enjoy!

I was a 10 year old when I first watched this, I marvelled at the realistic dinosaurs and the glamor of Raquel Welch, it was pure magic to a kid who loved dinosaurs and I'm still a kid at heart now and still love the rather outdated special effects but I'd prefer them any day to the over used CGI you now get in almost any sci-fi/horror movie. The story is literally non existent and basically a love story between our cave girl warrior Raquel and John Richardsons cave man mixed with fighting off maruading dinosaurs. Of course not scientifically correct regarding man coexisting with his scaly neighbours but its an out an out fantasy movie and I still love it, it has a charm about it that you don't get with today's modern movies.

ONE MILLION YEARS BC is definitely not historically accurate but is brilliant and awful at the same time. Obviously most of the brilliance comes from Harryhausen's stellar work; the young allosaurus attacking the shell people's camp is an obvious highlight as is Martine Beswick's bonkers dance routine. But if there are lessons to be learned from this dialogue free piece of sixties hokum it's that more films should show not tell and that more films should have Raquel Welch.

1 million years BC, not a time Before Colour nor a time before scene selection but when DVDs only had special features of a trailer and interviews by Raquel Welch and Ray Harryhausen, It was also 'a time when the world was young and just beginning.' At least that's what the intro voice over says. Opening onto shots of volcanic eruptions and meg-storms, This 1966 effort features two distinct warring tribes [not the USA & USSR] but the blondes and the brunettes and yeah, there are a few hunky men too. It's basically a Romeo and Juliet set in a bizarre vision of the stone age where people act like violent apes [not much has changed then]. It's all highly implausible but it is entertaining in a strange bizzaro way. In reality the dinosaurs died out 60 million years before man appeared so its all fiction all the way down the line and even the makers admitted this at the time of release.In a bleak desert landscape. Tumak (John Richardson) is expelled from his violent and ape like stone tribe [the Brunettes] and is rescued by Loana (Raquel Welch) and taken in by the more sociable and advanced beach tribe. [The blondes]. Threatened by a range of enlarged real life creatures ]like a giant turtle!] it's easy to mock this film. The effects are jerky, picture quality sometimes grainy, but its all part of the atmosphere.It may be a classic for the wrong reasons [Miss Welch in a fur bikini] but its still a jolly good jaunt and as they don't speak proper language, its really easy to follow. The music can be annoying in places as it Is reminiscent of someone banging two sticks together in a clickity click manner, but that's part of the charm -its primitive. Dated it may be -well it is a Million Years BC, but definitely a film to see, unless you actually want gratuitous sex, violence and foul language that is.