# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![rainy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@rainy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rainy)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-bc-on-billboard-of-doom/437020/21 "2008-02-13T01:41:38Z")
Oh come one people. Let your inner child, the one who loved to play with a toy tank in one hand and a toy T-Rex in the other, have a day at the movies. Fossil record be damned! ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-bc-on-billboard-of-doom/437020/22 "2008-02-13T14:34:39Z")
[QUOTE=ChrisBooth12] I think it looks good. Everyone complains on the historical inaccuracies but no movie is historically accurate. [/QUOTE] This movie promises to be prehistorically inaccurate. I have to see it out of a sense of civic pride; It was developed from an earlier property, _10,000 B.C. Hippies._ Okay, maybe that’s not strictly true, but it _will_ take more than half of our province’s annual indoor agricultural output to make it watchable. Gotta be good for the economy. ---
**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:** [March 9, 2008, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-bc-on-billboard-of-doom/437020/23 "2008-03-09T01:44:23Z")
[Vindication](http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/10000-bc-gets-clubbed-at-box-office/). The Billboard of Doom ™ does not lie. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-bc-on-billboard-of-doom/437020/24 "2008-03-09T03:08:18Z")
[QUOTE=Happy Wanderer] [Vindication](http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/10000-bc-gets-clubbed-at-box-office/). The Billboard of Doom ™ does not lie. [/QUOTE] [Nor does the Tomatometer, with an 8% rating.](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10000_bc/) ---
**Author:** ![Manatee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@Manatee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manatee)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-bc-on-billboard-of-doom/437020/25 "2008-03-09T08:22:12Z")
Total Effin’ Highjack: **HW** , I’m glad I’m not the only one familiar with the “Billboard of Doom.” I thought I was the only Burbankian posting here. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-bc-on-billboard-of-doom/437020/26 "2008-03-09T11:41:25Z")
[QUOTE=Happy Wanderer] [Vindication](http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/10000-bc-gets-clubbed-at-box-office/). The Billboard of Doom ™ does not lie. [/QUOTE] That article says 10,000 BC will “only” made $35 million this weekend instead of the predicted $40 million. It also says that the reason for that could be bad reviews… or the terrible weather that half the country got that shut down many movie theaters on Saturday night of its opening weekend. Maybe there’s something to your theory (which I think is interesting), but this movie appears to be the exception. ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-bc-on-billboard-of-doom/437020/27 "2008-03-09T14:59:16Z")
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.] 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. [/QUOTE] I started to wonder if this reflects the director’s being a “young earth” advocate. I don’t know if it does, but that is a slight variation on “entirely pulled out of someone’s ass.” ---
**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:** [March 9, 2008, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-bc-on-billboard-of-doom/437020/28 "2008-03-09T22:20:26Z")
[QUOTE=Justin\_Bailey] That article says 10,000 BC will “only” made $35 million this weekend instead of the predicted $40 million. It also says that the reason for that could be bad reviews… or the terrible weather that half the country got that shut down many movie theaters on Saturday night of its opening weekend. Maybe there’s something to your theory (which I think is interesting), but this movie appears to be the exception. [/QUOTE] They are predicting a huge dropoff in the second week. First week B. O. is a minor part of the story. Will this film have “legs”? I don’t think so. /may go see it //fx nerd ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-bc-on-billboard-of-doom/437020/29 "2008-03-09T23:19:28Z")
[QUOTE=ChrisBooth12] I think it looks good. Everyone complains on the historical inaccuracies but no movie is historically accurate. [/QUOTE] Further, it doesn’t look to me as though the movie is _trying_ to be historically accurate. -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-bc-on-billboard-of-doom/437020/30 "2008-03-10T00:30:34Z")
I saw it today. It obviously wasn’t making the slightest attempt to be historically accurate. It’s a fantasy along the lines of Conan the Barbarian or Xena, Warrior Princess. The plot is ripped off from _Apocalypto_. It’s almost cheesy and silly enough to be stupid fun but even on the MST 3000 level, it’s hampered by too many long, static scenes of warriors trudging across tundra or deserts and a completely useless subplot involving the shamanistic “Old Mother” character. The sabre tooth tiger scene is silly and doesn’t pay off later the way it should. The most preposterous scene is the one with the man eating ostriches. If there was more of that kind of thing, it might be a good stoner flick but it doesn’t really take flight enough to even be so bad it’s good. it’s a shame because it _almost_ gets to SBIG status. A lot of the elemnts are there. The baddie with the long fingernails, the dopey Atlantean stuff, the killer ostriches, that off the wall scene with the blind dwarf under the floor – Emmerich just doesn’t quite manage to pay it all off. I think it needed an even worse director (like a Uwe Boll maybe) to use those elements to their goofiest effect. The movie also desperately needed boobies. At least the Conan movies gave us boobies. Camilla Belle stays covered from head to toe for the whole movie. A naked Camilla Belle would have gone a long way towards saving this movie. ---
**Author:** ![rainy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@rainy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rainy)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-bc-on-billboard-of-doom/437020/31 "2008-04-04T05:30:01Z")
Let me apologize for my earlier optimism. I was hoping for cheese, but this was stinky, viscous milk. ☹ don’t waste the $8 -rainy [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-000-bc-on-billboard-of-doom/437020.md?page=1)