3) 10,000 B.C.
I should know better than to look for holes in Roland Emmerich blockbusters, but even by his standards, this one’s a doozy.
Woolly mammoths living happily (well, as happy as abused beasts of burden can be) in the hot desert, building pyramids that wouldn’t have existed until 8,000 years after the film’s setting? I’ll let that sink in for a moment. Putting aside the fact that woolly mammoths would have overheated very quickly in the desert sun, the creatures were certainly on the verge of extinction, not flourishing, around the time that the Egyptians would have begun construction of the pyramids (which they did in around 2,500 B.C.). 10,000 B.C. is filled with other, equally ridiculous anachronisms and inaccuracies.
Saber-toothed tigers hunt protagonist D’Leh (Stephen Strait), defying logic which dictates that they died out shortly after the last Ice Age. The same goes for those freaky bird creatures D’Leh encounters in the jungle. Called terror birds, they died out long before 10,000 B.C rolled around. In Emmerich’s movie, there’s more wrong than right in the film’s setting. From oversized creatures to the out-of-place quasi-Egyptian civilization to languages so ridiculous that any linguist could lose their lunch over them, 10,000 B.C. would be more accurately called 10,000 B.S.
Published: Feb 20, 2014 12:24 pm