Geography and timescale don't make sense
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themanamp — 15 years ago(May 09, 2010 12:35 PM)
The film got a lot of things wrong but because it was clever and fairly mysterious, it can be interpreted in a much more accurate way.
I considered the main tribe to be Neanderthals and the blue/grey tribe to be homo sapians.
The killer apes near the start are like some form of intelligent gorilla/australopithecine.
Ok, so it's unlikely such things existed only 80,000 years ago. But c'mon, they were pretty scary weren't they? Something in that scene clicked with me, like an old primal memory of us hominids going up against a stronger and more monkey-like ancestor/neighbour. -
choatelodge — 15 years ago(May 12, 2010 03:38 PM)
Jeez guys, every now and then a piece of evidence still shows up that requires re-evaluating previously held beliefs about the timelines of the various species. The story is still being assembled, so people howling in outrage that some timeline of populations depicted in 'Quest For Fire' is unrealistic, is not only presumptive and premature, but petty in the extreme. Watch it. Have fun and enjoy it.
Insisting that you know better than the film makers just serves to help you spoil the show for yourself. -
Siats — 11 years ago(December 18, 2014 12:02 AM)
like an old primal memory of us hominids going up against a stronger and more monkey-like ancestor/neighbour.
This is a modern invention, our furry, more apelike ancestors were smaller than us and definitely physically weaker than later Homo. -
Starcraft_rules — 11 years ago(July 31, 2014 05:26 PM)
It was a bit jarring, however the film is set 80000 years back so a little artistic license is ok. There were a bunch of ice ages back then and climate is often change the way landscape look. For example in 5000 BC there was a large sea in Sahara, now it's gone. So you can't be sure what Europe looked like back then. Also they never really say it's Europe.
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Siats — 11 years ago(December 18, 2014 12:03 AM)
For example in 5000 BC there was a large sea in Sahara, now it's gone. So you can't be sure what Europe looked like back then. Also they never really say it's Europe.
That's a contradiction isn't it? we do have a good idea of Europe's climate 80,000 years ago.