# 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:** 3
**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 21, 2008, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-b-c-the-movie-what-are-they-thinking/434299/41 "2008-01-21T18:08:25Z")
[QUOTE=DJ Motorbike] Humans did co-exist with woolly mammoths and saber tooth tigers. I didn’t see any dinosaurs in the trailer. Looks like a fun movie to me. Oh, I’m sorry, I forgot that everything is supposed to be inaccessible and difficult to understand. My bad. [/QUOTE] What do you mean? I really don’t know. ---
**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 21, 2008, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-b-c-the-movie-what-are-they-thinking/434299/42 "2008-01-21T18:09:31Z")
[QUOTE=squeegee] The “dinosaurs” in the trailer look like they could actually be some sort of [Terror Bird](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phorusrhacidae), which makes it a little less implausible. There used to be speculation (since disputed) that some kinds of Terror Birds survived into holocene times. [/QUOTE] I thought of that, but those birds were native to South America. (Is it possible the movie’s supposed to be set there? Nothing would surprise me.) ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2008, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-b-c-the-movie-what-are-they-thinking/434299/43 "2008-01-21T18:11:44Z")
In all but a few places Mammoths died out at the end of the last Ice Age in 8,000 BC. The first pyramids where constructed around 2,500 BC. It’s not like this is the Flintstones or anything. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2008, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-b-c-the-movie-what-are-they-thinking/434299/44 "2008-01-21T18:21:54Z")
Visit Beautiful Wrangle Island Mammoth Sanctuary… ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2008, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-b-c-the-movie-what-are-they-thinking/434299/45 "2008-01-21T19:11:58Z")
[QUOTE=Sitnam] In all but a few places Mammoths died out at the end of the last Ice Age in 8,000 BC. [/quote] Okay, so we’re good on the Mammoths > [@](#): > > The first pyramids where constructed around 2,500 BC. It’s not like this is the Flintstones or anything. I saw no pyramids (taking your meaning as Egyptian pyramids) in the trailer. I did see a rather improbable [ziggurat](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziggurat), however. Ziggurats were built much earlier than classic (Egyptian) pyramids, although not 10k years ago to anyone’s knowledge. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2008, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-b-c-the-movie-what-are-they-thinking/434299/46 "2008-01-21T19:13:45Z")
[QUOTE=Baldwin] I thought of that, but those birds were native to South America. [/QUOTE] Yes. There were terror-bird equivalents (yes, unrelated) in Australia and surroundings. So its not that huge a leap, what the heck. ---
**Author:** ![SCSimmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2008, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-b-c-the-movie-what-are-they-thinking/434299/47 "2008-01-21T20:47:50Z")
[QUOTE=Swallowed My Cellphone] I just re-checked the trailer. They do indeed refer specifically to 10,000 years ago. [/QUOTE] Well, wait a minute. Wouldn’t that be circa 8,000 B.C.? Freaking lying titles! (Although I expect that this will rank 4,612th on the list of logical/historical problems for this movie.) ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2008, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-b-c-the-movie-what-are-they-thinking/434299/48 "2008-01-21T21:03:37Z")
When I saw wooly mamoths and pyramid construction in the same movie, I thought of Graham Hancock. ---
**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2008, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-b-c-the-movie-what-are-they-thinking/434299/49 "2008-01-21T22:30:04Z")
[QUOTE=friedo Well, it can’t be any worse than _Caveman_.[/QUOTE] Wha-aat? “_worse_ than _Caveman_”? _Caveman_ is one of the funniest movies ever **made** , I’ll have you know! ---
**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 21, 2008, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-b-c-the-movie-what-are-they-thinking/434299/50 "2008-01-21T23:56:08Z")
[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) [/QUOTE] Does he do so while he’s been [turned into a monkey by an evil sorcerer?](http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=10133) ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2008, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-b-c-the-movie-what-are-they-thinking/434299/51 "2008-01-22T01:16:52Z")
[QUOTE=squeegee] I have some sympathy for this view, but maybe they could have called it something other than “10,000 BC”, and not have the trailer not showing lights on the planet going off as we travel back in time (“invites you to journey back”), and all that stuff. The Lord of the Rings was apparently also in a fictional past, but they didn’t say what date or anything specific, other than calling it “Middle Earth”, which could be any time or place (or planet). OTOH, a lot of the stuff in that trailer looks explicable, right up to where we get a stone city (and metal), which is a stretch. Maybe in the end the whole settlement gets Wrath of God thrown at it in such a way that the stone remains would never be found. [/QUOTE] I think it is a rather conspicuous display of what this message board is so good at. Throwing up artificially clear delineations of time. They believe they can pin everything in time, but truly all that the archaeologists and anthroplogists can pin down is when metal was widespread. Surely there werr some hundreds, maybe thousands of years of mettalurgy and experimentation before the generally accepted diaspora,with that temporal proximity and delineation of dated metal tools. It’s likely the first blades split from the earth, geo heat and a metal deposit. People might have had the knowledge in pockets of progress, and the technology might have been lost and reinvented many times. Was that a “special person” (DS), that was shown in the original ? Or was it an Alien? ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2008, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-b-c-the-movie-what-are-they-thinking/434299/52 "2008-01-22T01:45:36Z")
[QUOTE=devilsknew] I think it is a rather conspicuous display of what this message board is so good at. [/quote] I’m not sure if that’s damning or praise. I’ll hope for the best. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2008, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-b-c-the-movie-what-are-they-thinking/434299/53 "2008-01-22T01:55:03Z")
It’s praise. I agree, in other words. I believe many of the so-called “scientists” around here are much too rigid in imagination. Why are you threatened by the next Jurrassic Park? This could be your time to shine. Lots of people don’t know that the animals depicted in this Fantasy did all actually coexist with man. It’s the Jesusmammoth. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2008, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-b-c-the-movie-what-are-they-thinking/434299/54 "2008-01-22T01:55:58Z")
[QUOTE=devilsknew] Was that a “special person” (DS), that was shown in the original ? Or was it an Alien? [/QUOTE] Do you mean in the trailer? I noticed a really odd looking fellow (humanish, but no hair, bug eyed), and was wondering what his story was (alien? forerunner of some sort? bronze vendor? 🙂 ). I’m not sure what DS means. ETA: Down’s Syndrome? ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2008, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-b-c-the-movie-what-are-they-thinking/434299/55 "2008-01-22T02:44:54Z")
When did every one around here turn into Comicbook Guy? Used to be at least some people could suspend disbelief and enjoy an action movie. It’s a movie, not a history textbook. ---
**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 22, 2008, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-b-c-the-movie-what-are-they-thinking/434299/56 "2008-01-22T02:46:56Z")
It is entirely possible to suspend disbelief and enjoy a film for what it is…and still nitpick the _hell_ out it. I, for one, intend to do both. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2008, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-b-c-the-movie-what-are-they-thinking/434299/57 "2008-01-22T02:47:45Z")
> [@Q.E.D](#): > > It is entirely possible to suspend disbelief and enjoy a film for what it is…and still nitpick the hell out it. I, for one, intend to do both. Hear, hear. ---
**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 22, 2008, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-b-c-the-movie-what-are-they-thinking/434299/58 "2008-01-22T02:48:43Z")
[QUOTE=squeegee] Hear, hear. [/QUOTE] Was that for me, or **Loach**? ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2008, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-b-c-the-movie-what-are-they-thinking/434299/59 "2008-01-22T02:51:20Z")
You. I added your quote to clarify. ---
**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 22, 2008, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-b-c-the-movie-what-are-they-thinking/434299/60 "2008-01-22T02:53:23Z")
[QUOTE=squeegee] You. I added your quote to clarify. [/QUOTE] Great, now I look illiterate. 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-b-c-the-movie-what-are-they-thinking/434299.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-b-c-the-movie-what-are-they-thinking/434299.md?page=4)