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Big Flaw

posted 22 years ago by mavmaramis
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Ok so I know this is animation (cartoon) and as such disbelief should be suspended - but suspended how far?

Scientifically this film is ludicrous, mixing two distinctly different geological time zones and creatures into one all encompasing umbrella labelled "Ice Age"

The Ice Age as most scientist define it is a period known as the Pleistocene - the last 2 million years of history up to 10,000 years ago when it changed to the Holocene.

Smilodon (Sabre Tooth Tigers) were primarilly Mesozoic creatures that became extinct along with the rest of the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous.

Woolly mammoth - Mammuthus primigenius (Blumenbach, 1799), were primarilly Pleistocene creatures. And yes they were around at the same time as humans.

Yada yada - can't have an extinct creature roaming around in a later time frame.

And as for sloths being around where there was permafrost - again dubious.

[–] pinayxlov3 20 years ago

OH MY GOSH! this movie is the BEST! its funny & hilairious! who cares if they got their facts mixed up?

[–] hickemtwiddle 20 years ago

Hey, it's a movie. And it's a kids' movie.
Superman isn't real either, but, a lot of us love watching Superman movies.
So, just because these animals don't fit the time period, doesn't make it a bad movie. That is called "fantasy", and well, a lot of us like it.

[–] redeemshawshank 20 years ago

The biggest idiots i've seen are those that cant distinguish fact from fiction. No number of Phds, or readings of Science can compensate for this. I feel sorry them actually. Poor retards.

[–] oobie32 20 years ago

Ummm i think you read a bit too much into this dude, who really cares? its a family movie thats perfect for children.

[–] peachykeenamh 20 years ago

Um you basically just overanalyzed a children's movie, and completely missed the point. Children are young impressionable creatures and they are not going to care either way. The people who made this movie are filmmakers. They most likely know the historical innacurracy and chose to use it anyway due to the fact that it improves the movie.

That's a box.

[–] R-Taco 19 years ago

"Smilodon (Sabre Tooth Tigers) were primarilly Mesozoic creatures that became extinct along with the rest of the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous. "

Where did you get that information from?

The largest mammals around during the mesozoic were about the size of racoons.

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[–] Rocky63215 19 years ago

The first drawings seen in the cave (before entering the giant area with the mammoth drawings) are replicas of the earliest known cave drawings, found in Lascaux, France. They have been dated at somewhere between 15,000 and 17,000 years old.

[–] harajuku_irrashaimase 19 years ago

I KNOW that half of these creatures didn't co-exist. I feel the same about The Grudge with the director's major mistake in a certain scene, involving plain, simple year 8 Biology. But heck! It's a kids animated movie! And who says animals can't talk? Maybe they can onyl we don't understand them. I won't go further into that argument, just that Japanese animals speak and think in Japanese, and thats that.

[–] EugeneandSasha 19 years ago

Saber-tooths didn't live in the Mesozoic! The Mesozoic was the age of the dinosaurs (the Triassic, Jurasic, and Cretaceous periods). The only mammals alive in the mesozoic were less than a meter (3 feet) long!

Plus how is that a flaw? That's like saying mammoths, sloths, and saber-tooths couldn't talk!

[–] paper_plane 19 years ago

WHO THE *beep* CARES??????!!!! It's a goddamn family movie!! Nobody is looking for when those animals are gonna be extinct or if they're living! All they want to do is watch it, and come here to rate it on a scale from 1- 10!!!!!

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[–] bjbrjf 19 years ago

ok. I kinda agree with the "Blessing in Disguise". ya'll are wied. just watch a movie and have fun. that's why I watch movies. but, there is also nothing wrong with criticizing a movie's plot or characters. I made up my mind a long time ago. I was going to watch a movie for fun. Did you have fun at this movie? then don't complain. end of story.

[–] zerohunter222 19 years ago

i just read the first post and i'm like, that dude misses the point. It's a COMEDY!!!!! who cares about the scientific mumbo-jumbo. IT"S ENTERTAINMENT!!!

The courageous may not live long

but the cautious do not live at all.

[–] sportzfreek8 19 years ago

Who's gonna notice anyway? And the earth's only about 10,000 years old.

Taylor from American Idol looks like Jay Leno.

[–] Lothar_gr 19 years ago

The Earth is estimated to be around 4.5 billions years old ... Humans ( or more correctly the "homo genus", the genus that we also belong ) exists for around 2-2.5 million years.

The "father of history" ( although this is disputed nowdays ) Herodotus lived in the 5th century BC, so recorded human history is around 2-3000 years old

As i have read somewhere, if the whole history of the earth was equal to one day, human history would be equal to the last second of that day.

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