10,000 Bc

13-03-2008

I think the "african capuchins" are also in Outbreak...

13-03-2008

What frustrates me is why so many absolutely SUCKING films are made and good stories are dumbed down to terrible, but many good and popular books never make it into film. For example all Pratchett's Discworld (Ook!) lots of classical Cooper animal stories etc.,

I start to believe conspiracy theory about dumbing down the population...

10,000 years B.C.
13-03-2008

That's a bummer- I quite fancied seeing this film(for similar reasons to you) but I've gone of the idea now...

13-03-2008

i honestly would say the animation is about the same standard as "walking with beasts". in fact, i think the smilodon in WWB was far superior in both animation and design.

i saw it with two old high-school mates who like me, had a penchant for sexy, violent, animal packed caveman books as teenagers (teenage boy heaven) and we just sat back and heckled the movie. so i actually had a good time.

but as far as movies go this film has so many mistakes its not funny.

in a couple of days the characters walk from the new zealand alps, to the thai jungles to the african savannah and then to the sahara desert!!

14-03-2008

did they paddle across Cook Strait in a canoe ?

10000 bc
28-04-2008

Well,
I actually thought the animation was very good on the tiger, quite realistic. Its wasnt supposed to be over emphasised or exaggerated like in the Disney movies.

02-06-2008

I saw on another thread that Rome zoo mislabeled its South American tapirs as Bairds.
A lot of people find it hard to tell the difference (which is no excuse!)

I recently saw the Mel Gibson produced movie APOCALYPTO, about the Mayans and set in Central America. (Fairly gory - intertribal battles; human sacrifices etc.) The production team were so determined to be accurate that they insisted on a genuine Bairds Tapir for the hunting scene, rather than the more easily available Sth. American tapir.

The only place that they slipped up was in the gorgeous head-dresses of the Mayan nobles which seemed to have many (Asiatic) pheasant feathers.
(Looked to me like Lady Amherst or Reeves feathers dyed green.)

02-06-2008

I think 10,000 B.C was an odd movie, the ending was strange to me Evelet died and came back alive. I though Old mother was the one who gave up her life for her but she was suffering before hand, can anyone explain this to me?

P.S A lot of things changed my attention in that cinema so i wasn't fully concentrating.

02-06-2008

@Ara: I haven't watched APOCALYPTO so far, but according to the trailer: wasn't there a Burmese python and a black leopard in it? "Accuracy"...?

02-06-2008

Maybe it was meant to be a black jaguar. But i don't know 'cos i haven't seen it either but how cool was that tribe photo on the front of Saturdays Herald Sun. A lost tribe.

03-06-2008

Sun - to my shame I never even considered that the "black jaguar" in Apocalypto might be a leopard, but you're right - it was a bit on the slim side for a jaguar, and the skull wasn't all that broad either. Clever of the makers to use a black cat rather than a spotted one - its easier to tell the difference between spotted leopards and jaguars than blacks.

I didn't notice the Burmese python - maybe a few too many people remarked on it and they edited that bit out before the Australian release.

04-06-2008

Of course it was MEANT to be a black jaguar-but take another look at the trailer, especially 2:09 (the tail!):
YouTube - Apocalypto Theatrical Trailer

Now I really have to watch the movie-for the sake of the snake...

05-06-2008

I've seen "Apocalypto", and it is so-so at best. Bloody, violent action scenes interspersed with a weak storyline. Sun Wukong is correct about the "jaguar", as it certainly appears to be a leopard. The scene with the Baird's tapir is actually quite well done.

05-06-2008

has anyone seen the new Indiana Jones movie?
What species of snake is used in that? It looks like an olive python but I'm not sure.

05-06-2008

@boof: Saw it on Monday. I think You're right-looked a lot like an olive python to me. That means two mistakes in one: false labelling and incorrect zoogeography. Well, the movies of the Indiana Jones series were never really correct when it came to animals, so that's just part of the "tradition"... Animals in the latest IJ-movie: mentioned olive python, giant (fictional) ants, a shy Turkey vulture in the background, the usual Emperor Scorpions, Tufted Capuchin (both with CGI companions) and CGI Prarie Dogs. Correct me if i missed something.