Did anyone really expect 10,000 BC to be scientifically accurate? The reviews of the critically-condemned movie are fun to peruse, but the ones focused on the science are especially entertaining. Because, well, the science (as we all should have guessed) is way, way off.
I am not disputing the movies quality ( it wasn't great) but as far as factuality is concerned I don't believe they ever intended it to be considered Egyptian. the movie made blatant remarks to suggest that the "gods" in the movie were survivor's of the lost city of atlantis. ( as noted in the movie when the main charter asked where they came from and someone responded " the came from the water when there land's sank into the sea, and when the woman was in the map room and it showed a land mass not now present in the Mediterranean) so i believe there goal, though not well achieved. was to maybe allude to the fact that the survivors of atlantis helped set the pace for civilization around 10,000 BC
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