WHY ISNT CAVEMAN ADVENTURES A REAL LIVING GENRE?
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henrimaine — 12 years ago(July 10, 2013 08:52 AM)
Another very good prehistoric movie is Ten Canoes (2006). It does not have mammoths, cave bears or any of the typical prehistoric beasts, but otherwise it is highly realistic, which is its strength.
But I agree that movies about primitive humans are hard to come by. Yes, Hollywood recently made an attempt in that genre with 10,000 BC (2008). But that came out rather ridiculous. I would gladly watch something as realistic as Quest For Fire. It does not necessarily have to have mammoths and such stuff, although with CGI these should be relatively easy to generate today. -
Ricardo-36 — 12 years ago(July 10, 2013 09:38 AM)
Because it is not interesting drama. First, it cannot have dialogue, or at least proper dialogue in a modern language, without it being parody. Second, what did cavemen did that was so interesting apart from fighting and hunting for food?
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psychocosmic-1 — 12 years ago(July 29, 2013 12:46 AM)
As in most films about contemporary people doing usual things (drama, feel good films, comedies), cave man movies could show similar ordinary things which in any sense is more interesting than what people do nowadays, because its a matter of survival, survival for the day, against the elements, animals, partnership etc. I see no limits.
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henrimaine — 12 years ago(August 14, 2013 06:58 AM)
A film about primitive humans can easily have dialogue. The more developed humans in Quest for Fire had a sophisticated language, if they had been the center of this film, then we would have had quite a lot of dialogue. Only the primitive Neanderthals didn't have much of a language.
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Clemencedane — 12 years ago(October 06, 2013 11:29 PM)
They didn't show any coordinated hunts in this one - that would have been possible with the mammoths and the deer-like animals. That alone would be interesting - watching people learn how to hunt as a group. Also, they painted cave paintings, often to commemorate these hunts. They probably had rituals as well surrounding the hunt.
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choatelodge — 12 years ago(October 08, 2013 08:40 PM)
Have you seen Windwalker?
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karawolf — 11 years ago(September 28, 2014 10:59 AM)
You could also buy Auroras model kits that you could build (I have an Allosaur and two horned dinosaurs on top of my video shelf!)
Were they called "Prehistoric Scenes"? If so, I, too, had an Allosauralso a mammoth, sabre tooth tiger, cave bear and Neanderthal man. I sooo wanted a T rex, but it never came to pass
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psychocosmic-1 — 11 years ago(October 27, 2014 12:29 PM)
Yes they were! My wooly mammoth has one crooked tusk but stands between my speakers! No actually, and seeing it all from this Tyrannosaur fixed age, The Tyrannosaur was never represented in this modelkit series. They were very much inspired by the success of the film One Million Years B.C. from 1966, which featured an Allosaur.
I also have the Styracosaurus, Triceratops and the Pteranodin, the flying reptile that took Raquel Welch for a ride in the air. Seen it? -
xenophile2002 — 9 years ago(February 07, 2017 09:46 PM)
There was a short-lived series in 1974 called
Korg: 70,000 B.C.
I don't know if it's available anywhere, but I've seen some clips on YouTube.
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