History YMMV / QuestForFire

%% * UncannyValley: Some of the cavemen's makeup can induce this.

%% * SpecialEffectsFailure: The mammoths have not aged well.

* CultClassic

* SpecialEffectsFailure: The mammoths have not aged well.

* UncannyValley: Some of the cavemen's makeup can induce this.

* * FairForItsDay: Paleolithic hunter-gatherers are called "savage" in the novel but are still portrayed much more complexly and humanly than most depictions at the time.

* UncannyValley: Some of the cavemen's makeup can induce this.

* {{Squick}}: [[spoiler:When they get it on.]]
** Ron Perlman has explained this several times: "There's not a lot of foreplay, it's just (''*obscene grunting*'')."

* TheWoobie: Poor Ika gets put through so much by the end, you kind of want to wrap her in a blanket. First, she and her mate get captured by cannibals, who eat his arm. They are freed, only for the male to die of his injuries. She gains the trust of three primitive men who give her protection, but use her for sex then abandon her when she wants to go home. When she returns home, we see that she is something of a social outcast who is abused for not conforming to her tribe's narrow (or rather [[BigBeautifulWoman thick]]) beauty standards, inbparticular, loudly rebuked for trying to initiate sex with Noah. At least she is able to take charge of her situation and earn her happy ending, but still.

* * {{Moe}}: Ika is a petite woman with big soulful eyes, a high voice and a generally cheerful and carefree nature which makes her pretty adorable, next to all the rough cavemen she interacts with.

* TheWoobie: Poor Ika gets put through so much by the end, you kind of want to wrap her in a blanket. First, she and her mate get captured by cannibals, who eat his arm. They escape, only for the male to die of his injuries. She gains the trust of three primitive men who give her protection, but use her for sex then abandon her when she wants to go home. When she returns home, we see that she is something of a social outcast who is abused for not conforming to her tribe's narrow (or rather [[BigBeautifulWoman thick]]) beauty standards, inbparticular, loudly rebuked for trying to initiate sex with Noah. At least she is able to take charge of her situation and earn her happy ending, but still.

* TheWoobie: Poor Ika gets put through so much by the end, you kind of want to wrap her in a blanket. First, she and her mate get captured by cannibals, who eat his arm. They escape, only for the male to die of his injuries. She gains the trust of three primitive men who give her protection, but use her for sex then abandon her when she wants to go home. When she returns home, we see that she is something of a social outcast who is abused for not conforming to her tribe's narrow (or rather [[BigBeautifulWoman thick]]) beauty standards, inbparticular, loudly rebuked for trying to initiate sex with Noah. At least she isable to take charge of her situation and earn her happy ending, but still.

* TheWoobie: Poor Ika gets put through so much by the end, you kind of want to wrap her in a blanket. First, she and her mate get captured by cannibals, who eat his arm. They escape, only for the male to die of his injuries. She gains the trust of three primitive men who give her protection, but use her for sex then abandon her when she wants to go home. When she returns home, we see that she is something of a social outcast who is abused for not conforming to her tribe's narrow (or rather [[BigBeautifulWoman thick]]) beauty standards, inparticular, loudly rebuked for trying to initiate sex with Noah. At least she isable to take charge of her situation and earn her happy ending, but still.

* VindicatedByHistory: It's not a famous film, but compared to recent prehistoric films like ''Film/TheFlintstones'' and ''Film/TenThousandBC'', it's one of the best in its genre, if not the best.
** Perhaps by movie critics. It's watched in anthropological classes, too... [[ScienceMarchesOn in order to pick apart just how much it got wrong.]]

* * ScienceMarchesOn: The film was accurate according to the knowledge of the time, but has become somewhat dated now. Notably, neanderthals and other primitive humans were probably much more advanced than how they are depicted here. See HumansAreSpecial on the main page for details.

** Perhaps by movie critics. It's watched in anthropological classes, too... [[ScienceMarchesOn in order to pick a part just how much it got wrong.]]

* DudeNotFunny: In one scene a guy gets hit on the head. Ika laughs hysterically for over a minute; the others glare at her. This is because [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove the concept of laughter is unknown to them]]. [[spoiler:Later, however, they have a healthy dose of it.]]
* FridgeHorror: Done in universe when the boys find what they initially think is a well cooked meal... and are then horrified to discover they've been [[spoiler:eating people. It's like SoylentGreen all over again.]]
* GenreKiller: Of the "One Million BC" referenced below. The movie set the bar so high that nobody's dared try to compete with it.
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[TwinPeaks Big Ed Hurley]] (who also happens to be Stilgar from the DavidLynch version of ''Dune'') and [[Creator/RonPerlman Hellboy]] are cavemen now! And Ika is played by [[TheColorPurple Squeak]] (who also happens to be Cindy the stewardess from ''Commando'').
** The primitive language the people use was devised by Creator/AnthonyBurgess.

* ScienceMarchesOn: It was done with the knowledge of its time. Many aspects displayed by the film are wrong, but nobody knew back then.

* VindicatedByHistory: It's not a famous film, but compared to recent prehistoric films like [[TheFlintstones The Flintstones]] and [[TenThousandBC 10,000 BC]], it's one of the best in its genre, if not the best.

** Perhaps by movie critics. It's watched in anthropological classes, too... in order to pick a part just how much it got wrong.

* VindicatedByHistory: It's not a famous film, but compared to recent prehistoric films like [[TheFlintstones The Flintstones]] and [[TenThousandBC 10,000 BC]], it's one of the best in its genre, if not the best.

* VindicatedByHistory: It's not a really famous film, but compared to recent prehistoric films like [[TheFlintstones The Flintstones]] and [[TenThousandBC 10,000 BC]], it's one of the best in its genre - if not the best.

* DudeNotFunny: In one scene a guy gets hit on the head. Ika laughs hysterically for over a minute; the others glare at her. This is because [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove the concept of laughter is unknown to them]]. [[spoiler:Later, however, [[IGotBetter they have a healthy dose of it]].]]

** Ron Perlman has explained this several times: "There's not a lot of foreplay, it's just )''*obscene grunting*'')."