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If these are Neardenthals I'm The Bear.

posted 20 years ago by TangoFeroz
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I think the worst aspect of the movie, the most unbelievable, was the appearence of the Neardenthals, they look like modern people for God's Sake, Nearthentals where shorter, wider, bigger bones, big eyebrow bones, wide and big noses in order to warm the extremelly cold air of the glaciars age (the first time that Neardenthal bones were found in Germany cientifics believed that they were bones from a kind of bear...), those "theorically" Neardenthals from this movie are absolutly Homo Sapiens looking, slim and tall and the face exactly like ours, I can look like that after three days with no shower, come on, it's a movie from 1986, they had plenty of resources to make actors look like Neardenthals...

[–] faestar22 20 years ago

The movie likely had a low budget...most of it spent on Daryl Hannah if you ask me since she was a big name in the 80s. That aside, seriously? They probably didn't have that big a budget. They got Pamela Reed and Daryl Hannah to do this flick, and they filmed it in National Parkland in British Columbia. After all that, how much do you think they had left for everything else? They probably decided that they had enough budget to get enough difference in the chracters to show how different Ayla was than the people who raised her. Certainly did the job for me.

As for the Neanderthals in the movie....take a closer look at the make up job sometime. The chracter of Iza, looked to be what was a very pronounced brow, as did Broud and Uba. Uba in particular looked like what a Neanderthal might have looked like since her brow was pronounced and she did have a larger nose and was noticeably shorter than Ayla was. The make up on Daryl Hannah was likely very minimal so she would look more like us instead of them.

[–] minx423 19 years ago

Please keep in mind that this movie was filmed in 1986... special effects and costumes have come a long way since then. I'm not saying this movie was good, but there's other things that are less explainable.

[–] Fedorevsky 15 years ago

"Please keep in mind that this movie was filmed in 1986... special effects and costumes have come a long way since then. I'm not saying this movie was good, but there's other things that are less explainable. "

Judging by this idiotic statement I'm assuming you weren't born yet in 1986?
Prostethic effects were more or less the same as now at the time. We have seen some progress since then but nothing revolutenary like what took place in the late 70's/early 80's. By 1986 most anything possible now was doable with the right budgett and effects crew.

Have you ever seen the Alien movies or the Predator? The Predator was shot in 1986 as well and in my opinion no one has bettered the original Predator mask for realism. It looks a lot better than the Predator masks and cgi used in Aliens vs. Predator for example.

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities.Virtues can be faked.Depravities are real.Kinski

[–] Blueghost 12 years ago

The movie was done to showcase Darryl Hannah as a main stay star of her own film, and also meant to ride the tide of Jane M. Auel's work which was still on the best seller list. The film therefore has a kind of rushed feel to it, as opposed to something like "Quest for Fire".

This wasn't a low budget production in the tradition sense, but it was a mid tier film neant as a test market vehicle.

That, and we know a bit more about Neandertals now than back then.

[–] chocolatepiazza 16 years ago

They tried to get real Neanderthals for the movie but they wanted too much money.

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[–] CGSailor 16 years ago

"They tried to get real Neanderthals for the movie but they wanted too much money"

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[–] Caprica_Tonks 14 years ago

You beat me to it, you butt.

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[–] justin-243 16 years ago

The entire $1.9 milion budget was spent wooing Booger to join the cast.

[–] viewsonthenet 15 years ago

I think people should try and remember these type of movies are mostly meant to be fantasy adventure style movies rather than movies with some kind of nat geo kind of adherence to historical and scientific fact

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[–] Voting_for_a_Ficus 12 years ago

"Haven't you ever heard of suspension of belief?" - Johnny Depp (as Ed Wood)

[–] mldardar 8 years ago

He-ey Boo Boo! Actually, they are actors portraying Neanderthals, which no one has actually seen, EVER, unless they lived in that time. Don't confuse theories with facts then pretend to be an expert.