Where do we begin… with all the inaccurracies, in the trailers alone? I can only imagine what silliness awaits in the full movie.

We’re doing an article, “The REAL 10000 BC” on our new science blog. We just couldn’t resist.

Now, as inaccurate as it is, I’d still like to see it – as a pure fantasy movie only!

So, I do have a question.. was it a Mammoth or a Mastodon? One was a forest dweller, the other was a plains dweller. IIRC. At least both were native to the Americas – along with the Smileodon…

Another thing you never see in movies is the Dire Wolf..

And I wonder if they picked 10K BC for the movie as that was about the time (give or take a few thousand years) that the north american megafauna went extinct

Finally – of COURSE their buildings survived to the present day. BA and I (and many others) live right next to them. Of course, most of the world knows them as The Rocky Mountains, but we know better, don’t we, BA?

They do seem to have their historical periods and peoples mixed up. I wonder how much the spastic editing that goes into creating trailers accounts for this.

What I want to see is a movie adaptation of West of Eden. Murgu against ustuzou for control of a continent. Now that would be great!

Jeez, you’ve got a good memory. I can barely remember the brewery I visited last night.

Don’t know abot you, tovarisch, but I’d be more interested in watching a John Carter movie to see Thuvia and Dejah Thoris, but then I’ve still got that ‘infantile bias’ – and proud of it!

Jesus Tap Dancing Christ, I thought we were done with that back in Y2K?

We all learned one thing from that: everyone hates math geeks.

As for the movie, well, at least they used mammoths and not dinosaurs. Maybe it’ll be Atlantis or something, and all the advanced stuff sinks into the sea at the end. I’d buy that as a fantasy film premise.

now please correct me if I’m wrong but wasn’t the climate of northern africa very different in those days (I.E. temperate and not a desert)

Definitely! First thing I thought of, too.

As for why there are no remains of giant stone buildings, maybe in the Exciting Climax (TM) that all action films have, a meteorite slams into the building, obliterating it & creating Meteor Crater. (Hey, come on, that would be as much real science as ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ had!)

(yeah, yeah…12:30 eastern & pacific on NBC. Yuk, yuk.)

Really? That seems a bit silly. I think BC is a pretty secular term these days, and I don’t see how it would make much difference in the movie itself.

I saw her in the late 60’s as part of a Bob Hope show in Vietnam. She was holding up very well considering her great age at the time.

Here’s a link to her in 2003!

Other than that… well, if I see this movie, it’ll probably be alone, to avoid annoying the people around me with my muttering.

I guess this is a movie about the lost pyramid builders of the northern canadian desert (in the manner of Antarctica) who kept warm through constant intense physical activity instead of, say, wearing additional clothing.

P.S. I also liked how, in the opening sequence, as we were apparently going back in time and watching light pollution disappear, that the dense concentrations of light disappeared first and are therefore much younger than the sparsely populated outlying areas.

P.P.S. Perhaps it’s time someone registered the domain “badpaleontology.com”.