I heard that an alternative version (“2 Hours in Silent Darkness”) will be shown here. 
From the trailer, it looks like someone read several history-related books while drunk and/or high, then made the movie from what stuck in their brain when they sobered up. I think they are pulling the pyramids from the “Pyramids are 15,000 years old” theory, and then remembered how they though woolly mammoths were cool…
The commercial put me in mind of what one might end up with if you watched Lord of the Rings and one of those prehistoric Discovery Channel movies back to back, then said “Hey, let’s do BOTH! But worse!”
I don’t know about that. That city in the trailer looks like it’s in the middle of the desert.
Since it’s made by the same film-makers, I wonder if they’re going for a link to Stargate. :rolleyes:
Followed quickly by a series that is better than Stargate: Atlantis? Could we be so lucky?
Saw a trailer for it earlier today. It looked they were in the ruins of a modern city. Contemporary building overgrown with vegatation…was I seeing things?
One of those “They bombed us back to to the stone age!” things?
Are you sure you aren’t getting this mixed up with The Ruins? They have both trailers before a few films out now (e.g. Cloverfield)
The Ruins - Attractive twentysomething tourists visit ancient South American ruins, encounter creepy beasties and (presumably) die horribly.
10,000 BC - Attractive twentysomething cavepeople visit lost desert civilization, encounter prehistoric beasties and (presumably) triumph over adversity to a bombastic music score.
And reset the calendar to 10,000 years ago?
You know, they could make this movie really ridiculous/awesome if it turned out, in an homage/parody to Battlefield Earth, we find out that this primitive society is actually future society after aliens took over (they built the pyramids, see). So then we have sabretooth tigers and woolly mammoths battling alien spaceships and robots. And hey, as long as chronology doesn’t matter, how about some medieval ninjas show up? And then Jesus rides in on a T-rex and saves the day.
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I just re-checked the trailer. They do indeed refer specifically to 10,000 years ago. :rolleyes: And there was some… thing that dropped onto a stone floor that made a distinctly metallic sound. :rolleyes: Great.
Well, the CGI sabre-toothed kitty looked cute.
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.
The “dinosaurs” in the trailer look like they could actually be some sort of Terror Bird, which makes it a little less implausible. There used to be speculation (since disputed) that some kinds of Terror Birds survived into holocene times.
Apparently, there’s a serious effort Down Under to look for a surviving colony of moas thought to be in some forgotten nook and cranny. Maybe they’ll find a thylacine while they’re at it.
Ah, but they didn’t say what planet it took place on, did they?
Righto. C’mon, people, what’s the ragging on what are the conventional trappings of every “lost civilization from prediluvian time” fantasy story (architecture and technology 5K years off period), only with early-holocene fauna? Next you’ll be telling me there are no hot naked babes on Mars… :smack:
Oh, that a whole bunch of the public are idiots who can’t tell fiction when they see it and this will reinforce their wack beliefs in said prediluvian civilizations? Heh, oh, go tell it to Dan Brown’s banker 
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Get Hiro Nakamora driving on to the battlefield in a Nissan Versa and we got ourselves a winner.
How hilarious would it be if some wheels-off director worked on a serious big-budget extravaganza like this for two years, then said “eff it” at the last minute and slapped on the Jesus-on-a-dinosaur ending? Sadly, I don’t think it’ll ever happen. They’d be too afraid that everyone would hear about the twist, think it’s hilarious, but not bother seeing the movie. Like what happened with Snakes On A Plane. Funny title, but I didn’t bother.
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.
I imagine this film featuring Dr. McNinja. (Okay, he’s not Jesus, and it’s a raptor, not a T-rex. Still…)
My take on this movie was that they wanted to remake 1,000,000 B.C. and, realizing how ludicrous that was, moved the decimal places over a bit. Sure, they’re off by a bit on some things, but 4721 B.C. doesn’t have that catchy round tone to it. It’ll be a mostly dumb movie, that might actually be fun to watch if you can set aside the pedantic quibblings for a bit. If not, don’t go see it. I know I won’t.
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