# 10,000 B.C. - The Movie: What are they THINKING? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 20, 2008, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-b-c-the-movie-what-are-they-thinking/434299 "2008-01-20T22:21:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-b-c-the-movie-what-are-they-thinking/434299/1 "2008-01-20T22:21:48Z")
Ok, someone with better hookins than I can figure out, please tell me what the premise is with this movie _10,000 B.C._? It seems to make absolutely no sense, with prehistoric pyramids, woolly mammoths, and a whole lot of stuff that doesn’t seem to go together… 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-b-c-the-movie-what-are-they-thinking/434299/2 "2008-01-20T22:24:56Z")
They’re thinking lots of people will pay to see it. Unfortunately, they’re probably right. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-b-c-the-movie-what-are-they-thinking/434299/3 "2008-01-20T22:25:52Z")
Sounds like fun to me. The Hyperborean Age, indeed! ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-b-c-the-movie-what-are-they-thinking/434299/4 "2008-01-20T22:31:10Z")
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-b-c-the-movie-what-are-they-thinking/434299/5 "2008-01-20T22:36:48Z")
They were thinking _Jurassic Park_, but you know, _different_, fer shur. Totally. :rolleyes: Damn Hollywood. California sun bakes brains. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-b-c-the-movie-what-are-they-thinking/434299/6 "2008-01-20T22:42:17Z")
I guess my point is, does anyone know more about the plot? ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-b-c-the-movie-what-are-they-thinking/434299/7 "2008-01-20T22:47:06Z")
According to [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10%2C000_BC_%28film%29): > [@](#): > > As a member of a primitive tribe during the dawn of man, 21-year-old mammoth hunter D’Leh (Steven Strait) travels through unknown lands on a quest to rescue his people from extinction. D’Leh, leading an army, uncovers a lost civilization while in pursuit of a warlord who kidnapped his love, Evolet (Camilla Belle). D’Leh and his army encounter saber-toothed cats, mammoths and other prehistoric creatures in the journey to save his tribe. Well, it can’t be any worse than _Caveman_. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-b-c-the-movie-what-are-they-thinking/434299/8 "2008-01-20T22:47:55Z")
Didn’t you see the trailer? > [@](#): > > One Man > > Will Find > > The Courage > > To Be > > The First Hero In other words, a completely generic action film storyline. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-b-c-the-movie-what-are-they-thinking/434299/9 "2008-01-20T22:51:23Z")
[QUOTE=DSYoungEsq] I guess my point is, does anyone know more about the plot? [/QUOTE] As I stated in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=448724), it will have a depressing lack of exposed boobies. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-b-c-the-movie-what-are-they-thinking/434299/10 "2008-01-20T23:15:00Z")
[QUOTE=friedo] According to [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10%2C000_BC_%28film%29): Well, it can’t be any worse than _Caveman_. [/QUOTE] Oh, you better hope those words don’t come back to haunt you. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Risha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@Risha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Risha)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-b-c-the-movie-what-are-they-thinking/434299/11 "2008-01-20T23:19:25Z")
On the upside, the lead guy is totally smokin’ hot. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-b-c-the-movie-what-are-they-thinking/434299/12 "2008-01-20T23:20:16Z")
Journey to the Center of the Earth had dinos. King Kong had dinos. Hollywood has done this lots of times. Just now with the creationist museum types around ,it has political and educational ramifications that it did not have before. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-b-c-the-movie-what-are-they-thinking/434299/13 "2008-01-20T23:25:53Z")
The trailers show the bad guys riding horses. Domesticated horses, not the wild ass/ steppe pony type creatures typical of genus _Equus_ of 12,000 years ago. I don’t suppose they also have steel knives and swords? :smack: ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-b-c-the-movie-what-are-they-thinking/434299/14 "2008-01-20T23:31:21Z")
[QUOTE=friedo] According to [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10%2C000_BC_%28film%29): > [@](#): > > As a member of a primitive tribe during the dawn of man, 21-year-old mammoth hunter D’Leh (Steven Strait) travels through unknown lands on a quest to rescue his people from extinction. D’Leh, leading an army, uncovers a lost civilization while in pursuit of a warlord who kidnapped his love, Evolet (Camilla Belle). D’Leh and his army encounter saber-toothed cats, mammoths and other prehistoric creatures in the journey to save his tribe. [/QUOTE] I’ve only seen the commercials but it looks like there’ll be more cheese in this movie than what the state of Wisconsin produces in a year. Incidentally, from the plot description, did anybody notice the name of the heroine? How much do you want to bet that at the end it will turn out that “Evolet=Eve.” ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-b-c-the-movie-what-are-they-thinking/434299/15 "2008-01-20T23:32:54Z")
[QUOTE=Lumpy] I don’t suppose they also have steel knives and swords? :smack: [/QUOTE] They shouldn’t, ideally, have metal articles of any kind, except for some gold. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-b-c-the-movie-what-are-they-thinking/434299/16 "2008-01-20T23:33:26Z")
[QUOTE=NDP] I’ve only seen the commercials but it looks like there’ll be more cheese in this movie than what the state of Wisconsin produces in a year. Incidentally, from the plot description, did anybody notice the name of the heroine? How much do you want to bet that at the end it will turn out that “Evolet=Eve.” [/QUOTE] Along those linesThe ancient city can only be Atlantis. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-b-c-the-movie-what-are-they-thinking/434299/17 "2008-01-20T23:33:49Z")
What were they thinking, you ask? Perhaps they were thinking of Raquel Welch in a [fur bikini](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Raquel_welch_1millionyearsbc.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-b-c-the-movie-what-are-they-thinking/434299/18 "2008-01-20T23:43:57Z")
[QUOTE=friedo] Well, it can’t be any worse than _Caveman_. [/QUOTE] _Caveman_ was _supposed_ to be ridiculous. ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-b-c-the-movie-what-are-they-thinking/434299/19 "2008-01-20T23:59:28Z")
[QUOTE=ElvisL1ves] What were they thinking, you ask? Perhaps they were thinking of Raquel Welch in a [fur bikini](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Raquel_welch_1millionyearsbc.jpg). [/QUOTE] You know, I knew exactly what you were talking about, but for some reason I clicked on that link anyway. I regret nothing. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2008, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-b-c-the-movie-what-are-they-thinking/434299/20 "2008-01-21T00:08:56Z")
[QUOTE=Baldwin] _Caveman_ was _supposed_ to be ridiculous. [/QUOTE] I know, but it was mostly just incredibly boring with the occasional gag. Lana! Ooool! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-b-c-the-movie-what-are-they-thinking/434299.md?page=2)