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So are we still friends, Roland, or is 10,000 B.C. the deal breaker? Not that it’s any worse than the rest of the schlock he’s cranked out: a little of this, a little of that, a whole lotta going through the motions—to get the job done, get the damn thing marketed, brute commercial savvy being the first item of business. Which is pretty much what’s expected in any case—plus: what can be more delightful than toting up anachronisms, playing the village literalist to 10,000 B.C.‘s stupid historical uncle. Whoa, mammoths in the desert! Like, who the hell cares?
Saber-toothed cats Still lurking in the Neolithic biome, the fearsome smilodon, for one or two more millennia, in fact—but only in North and South America, not Eurasia/Africa, which is where the movie’s supposed to be taking place (though actually it’s hard to tell—see below).
Pyramids Which require organized infrastructure—cities, towns, government, etc—which requires an agriculture-based economy … which won’t be happening anytime soon, or at least for a couple thousand years.
