# 10,000 BC on "Billboard of Doom". **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 10, 2008, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-bc-on-billboard-of-doom/437020 "2008-02-10T09:26:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stan\_Shmenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Stan\_Shmenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stan_Shmenge)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2008, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-bc-on-billboard-of-doom/437020/1 "2008-02-10T09:26:59Z")
There is a billboard on a Warner office building in Burbank that I have come to call the “Billboard of Doom”. The billboard is in a poor location, in deep shade much of the day. Every movie ever put there has turned out to be a low box-office stinker. I think it has something to do with the fact that it doesn’t cost them anything, because they own the building, and it helps them fulfill their promotional commitment for outdoor advertising. When the studio realizes a feature is utter crap, they put it there. So this does not bode well for a film that already looks beyond stupid. It will probably make millions, though. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![ChrisBooth12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@ChrisBooth12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisBooth12)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2008, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-bc-on-billboard-of-doom/437020/2 "2008-02-10T21:34:07Z")
I think it looks good. Everyone complains on the historical inaccuracies but no movie is historically accurate. ---
**Author:** ![Stan\_Shmenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Stan\_Shmenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stan_Shmenge)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-bc-on-billboard-of-doom/437020/3 "2008-02-11T00:29:53Z")
[QUOTE=ChrisBooth12] I think it looks good. Everyone complains on the historical inaccuracies but no movie is historically accurate. [/QUOTE] Dude, it’s on the billboard. Just you wait and see. 😉 ---
**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:** [February 11, 2008, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-bc-on-billboard-of-doom/437020/4 "2008-02-11T00:49:04Z")
[QUOTE=ChrisBooth12] Everyone complains on the historical inaccuracies but no movie is historically accurate. [/QUOTE] There’s a significant difference between “contains historical inaccuracies” and “entirely pulled out of someone’s ass.” From what I’ve seen of this film thus far, it falls squarely into the latter category. It does _looki_ good, though. I’ll probably rent it when it’s released on vid. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-bc-on-billboard-of-doom/437020/5 "2008-02-12T06:09:12Z")
Trailer [here](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443649/trailers-me60817648). I’m leaning toward “bomb”. Oh, and no way I’m paying to see it in a theater. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-bc-on-billboard-of-doom/437020/6 "2008-02-12T06:26:04Z")
An instant Hit. It will be big. Got a feeling this one has a little bit for everyone. I think the story will be much better than many suspect, and the Mastadons are painstakingly authentic in scale, representation, and action. I think the same could be said of the Giant Moa and the Sabre Tooth Tiger, from what little we have seenof the trailer. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-bc-on-billboard-of-doom/437020/7 "2008-02-12T06:30:08Z")
Unless it has [Quetzalcoatl](http://imdb.com/title/tt0084556/) nesting in the Chrysler building I’m going to avoid it. ---
**Author:** ![rainy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@rainy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rainy)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-bc-on-billboard-of-doom/437020/8 "2008-02-12T16:24:45Z")
[QUOTE=Oslo Ostragoth] Oh, and no way I’m paying to see it in a theater. [/QUOTE] Yes probably cheese, but definitely big screen cheese, with a sound system to do the Mammoth stampede justice. 🙂 -rainy ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-bc-on-billboard-of-doom/437020/9 "2008-02-12T17:28:32Z")
[QUOTE=Oslo Ostragoth] Oh, and no way I’m paying to see it in a theater. [/QUOTE] Go to a multiplex, buy a ticket for _Persepolis_ or something that needs the help, and theaterhop. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-bc-on-billboard-of-doom/437020/10 "2008-02-12T17:37:07Z")
Did they put I am Legend on that billboard? ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-bc-on-billboard-of-doom/437020/11 "2008-02-12T20:23:01Z")
[QUOTE=ChrisBooth12] I think it looks good. Everyone complains on the historical inaccuracies but no movie is historically accurate. [/QUOTE] True, but there is a difference between the wrong sort of sails on Nelson’s ships, and Wellington strafing Napoleon with jet fighters at Waterloo. The preview I saw made this movie look like the latter. ---
**Author:** ![ChrisBooth12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@ChrisBooth12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisBooth12)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-bc-on-billboard-of-doom/437020/12 "2008-02-12T20:39:26Z")
[QUOTE=Voyager] True, but there is a difference between the wrong sort of sails on Nelson’s ships, and Wellington strafing Napoleon with jet fighters at Waterloo. The preview I saw made this movie look like the latter. [/QUOTE] Whats wrong with that though it makes it more interesting. This isnt a documentary. Its a movie and movies are fiction. It doenst have to follow are history and our fossil record. ---
**Author:** ![Will\_Repair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a698b9/32.png) [@Will\_Repair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Will_Repair)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-bc-on-billboard-of-doom/437020/13 "2008-02-12T21:26:02Z")
Just 10,000? Couldn’t possibly be as good to watch as “One Million Years BC”. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-bc-on-billboard-of-doom/437020/14 "2008-02-12T22:15:47Z")
> [@](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > : > > Originally Posted by ChrisBooth12 > > I think it looks good. Everyone complains on the historical inaccuracies but no movie is historically accurate. > > True, but there is a difference between the wrong sort of sails on Nelson’s ships, and Wellington strafing Napoleon with jet fighters at Waterloo. The preview I saw made this movie look like the latter. Or like in **The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad** , where Sinbad’s Arabian _dhow_ inexplicably changes into a Napoleonic-era frigate in some long shots. I figure poor Ray Harryhausen musta been light on cash by the final stages of editing, and used whatever stock clips he could get. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-bc-on-billboard-of-doom/437020/15 "2008-02-12T22:20:08Z")
[QUOTE=ChrisBooth12] Whats wrong with that though it makes it more interesting. This isnt a documentary. Its a movie and movies are fiction. It doenst have to follow are history and our fossil record. [/QUOTE] It makes my willing suspension of disbelief unwilling. I don’t mind it in a comedy, like Ringo’s **Caveman** , but for any movie purporting to be serious, it bothers me. Though it might be, like Ed Wood said, “no one will notice.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-bc-on-billboard-of-doom/437020/16 "2008-02-12T22:21:09Z")
[QUOTE=Will Repair] Just 10,000? Couldn’t possibly be as good to watch as “One Million Years BC”. [/QUOTE] For two major reasons. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-bc-on-billboard-of-doom/437020/17 "2008-02-12T22:36:13Z")
[QUOTE=Voyager] It makes my willing suspension of disbelief unwilling. I don’t mind it in a comedy, like Ringo’s **Caveman** , but for any movie purporting to be serious, it bothers me. Though it might be, like Ed Wood said, “no one will notice.” 🙂 [/QUOTE] LOTR was supposed to take place in an ancient version of Earth as well, but no one complained that the fossil record doesn’t support the existence of Orcs. 10,000 B.C. looks like its supposed to be a similar form of fantasy, not even remotely supposed to be based on reality. Also I would totally watch that movie where Wellington and Napoleon had jet-fighters. ---
**Author:** ![Iggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Iggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggins)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-bc-on-billboard-of-doom/437020/18 "2008-02-12T23:21:02Z")
I dunno. I get a “Stargate” sort of vibe from it. It looks fun. And Camilla Belle looks hot enough! ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-bc-on-billboard-of-doom/437020/19 "2008-02-12T23:49:32Z")
[QUOTE=Iggins] I dunno. I get a “Stargate” sort of vibe from it. It looks fun. [/QUOTE] That vibe is because it’s the same director. His movies are always very, very stupid (Stargate included), but some of them have been very popular. ---
**Author:** ![Ro\_Carter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7feea3/32.png) [@Ro\_Carter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ro_Carter)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-bc-on-billboard-of-doom/437020/20 "2008-02-13T01:19:48Z")
That movie looks like it would fall into “Nothing on TV, not even reruns of shows I like or something I don’t hate on HGTV or Animal Planet. Well, I guess I could turn this on in the background while I wander in and out of the room or take a nap.” Of course, I’d end up staying on the couch and making fun of it. It looks like someone caught the trailer for Wild Women of Wongo and decided to make a “serious” movie out of it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-bc-on-billboard-of-doom/437020.md?page=2)