The Clan of the Cave Bear (1986)

Wow! Such a good movie.

hyped garbage

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

The acting in this movie is really good.

I remembered some of the titles from my childhood and watched them in the recent times. Seems it is a long list and this film was one of those I came to know when I accidentally saw a poster of the film online. The experience is different when you watched in your childhood compared to watching the same film as a grown up. This is the story of a small Neanderthan clan that takes place around 35 thousand years ago in the Eurasian region. When they are finding a new home, they rescue a young girl named Ayla from another clan who lost her way after her mother died in the earthquake. The rest of the film is to focus her life as she's being different from the group, how she struggles to survive and the life ahead.The film was based on the first book in the 'Earth's Children' series. Sadly, no other sequels were made. I hope somebody to reboot this, because it seems so good story. The problem with this film was, it is not as rich as it should have been. I mean from the performances to the locations, all were average. If you compare it with the recent film '10,000 BC', we got technology now and I feel this is the right time to adapt the books to the screen. It should be very grand production, I hope my wish comes true in the near future.Maybe it was how the characters were designed, that's why the performances looked so dull. Particularly, the film characters do not need to express excessively. Because it might ruin the natural appeal like how the humans behaved at that time. So watching this film is like watching a documentary film and visiting the ancient cave sites, except there's a story in it. Less talking, but largely depended on sign language. So the subtitle helps us to understand the events. This is one of the rare kind and not that great, but definitely not a bad film as it was rated. I suggest it, but for the selected people.7/10

Very Good --------- Inventive 'sign language' (although some viewers may consider this a 'very bad' aspect of the movie)Good ---- Music (but it is a little repetitive), Darryl (needed far more nudity)Bad --- Story pace, Voice over, Brow ridgesVery Bad -------- Teeth, No T-RexNot a bad film, quite enjoyable. Often more like watching a National Geographic doc about some lost tribe. Some intelligent use of sign language - very consistently used and plausible. Apparently, the woman who wrote the book sued the production company because the film bombed and slurred the good name of her novel. It was a cave-man adventure book, for heaven's sake, with hot sex scenes every other chapter. The sort of book you buy at an airport, read on a beach, then leave in a hotel room. If anything, we should be suing her.

I am one of those who absolutely adore the stories of Ayla written by Jean Auel. I've read them all several times and am still waiting for the upcoming parts to the story. However, not until now have I seen this movie... and what a disappointment..There is just too many holes in this story that there's no end to it. I mean, I understand that in -86 there was some things you couldn't make as perfect as you can in modern film - like the looks of the so called Neanderthals of this movie, or the small variations in the clan way of behaving.. But you could at least keep to the story. If you can't make a long enough movie, so you could include all the important details instead of making your own "short version", then why even bother?I mean just for example: First of all, the way Ayla lost her family and when she saw Iza for the first time. Why change those small things? The way Creb learned her how to speak the Clan way - was it so hard to show more of that, to express how hard that was for her? The way Ayla got her totem, and when! Iza would never have asked Creb to find a totem for her, and why the long time? Uba wasn't supposed to be born! When Iza started training her to become a medicine woman.. It was way earlier in the story than that. Why Ayla decided to hunt even though it was forbidden, and why she learned to throw two stones. When Broud raped her, and why. When Ayla got pregnant, and why she wanted to keep it so badly. Why Broud separates Ayla from Durc when he gets leader.. That Ayla would use her weapon against Broud... that's insane.And the fact that she would give birth to Durc alone in her cave is just WHAAAT?! Complete mix-up. And that Ayla and Uba would have met one of the Others in the middle of nowhere?! (Jondalar?) I mean that doesn't fit into anywhere.It's mostly small stuff that I don't understand WHY they would change, but I could have lived with small differences as long as they could've kept to the true story and not cutting it short because of budget or whatever. The relationships between all the characters was never told the way it should, it feels like more than half of it was left out.If i hadn't read the books beforehand I'm sure I could have appreciated it better, but this simply pisses me off.It's a shame that such a great story never will be told the way it deserves, because of this.

Lacking some of the minor details. And changing it slightly. As in that she hadn't seen her mother fall into the pit. She was playing in the river. And she doesn't learn to speak until quite a bit later. Or that in the beginning, she never touched a weapon. Of course, Book to video always changes. So that much was already expected. The progression of the movie, compared to the book was startling. And Why was there a flock of doves or pigeons living in the cave? They completely forgot the whole ceremony for the cave, and the feast. and the whole reason broud hates her. I find them very important aspects of the story. But they held some accuracy at least. It wasn't completely all there, but it wasn't a bad movie, overall.