Germanic warriors depicted 200 years out-of-date

I always enjoy historical war flicks depicting Roman legionaires battling Germanic, Celtic, and Dacian warriors, even when the movie's depiction of the barbarian warriors is anachronistic.

Hollywood historically portrayed Germanic warriors as something resembling advanced Cro-Magnons, clad in furs or rough woolen garments, armed with rough, stone-tipped wooden spears and still using clubs. Often swords or other metal weapons were thrown in for good measure.

Now this depiction may have been accurate for around 200 B.C. to the time of Julius Caesar, 54 B.C., but by Emperor Marcus Aurellius' time of 180 A.D., it was no longer accurate. The Germanic tribes had centuries of contacts with Roman civilization and their weaponry, tactics, armor, even clothing had all advanced. By 180 A.D., the Germanic warrior was more sophisticated, and was beginning to roughly resemble the Saxons of 405 A.D. By the time of crisis in the empire, circa 235 A.D., when Germanic tribes started pushing in on all northern frontiers, those warriors closely resembled the Vikings of 900 A.D.

The fur-clad, club-wielding Cro-Magnon man-like Germanic warrior was long gone. The movie, FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, depicted an anachronistic version of the Germanic warrior that was two centuries out of date.

TRIVIA:
1) The northern Germanic tribes were indeed descended from Cro-Magnons. Paleolithic theory today offers that prehistoric Indo-Europeans - who had evolved from Homo Erectus in North Central Asia had - migrated into northern Europe, encountered the remnants of prehistoric Cro-Magnons and interbred with them, essentially absorbing Cro-Magnon in the human species, which accounted for the large, heavy-set, reddish-haired northwestern European Caucasians that appeared.
2) The ancient Chinese dealt with contemporary Asian nomadic enemies who early on, were clad in furs and woolen garments, the stereotype Mongol warrior who really did not look like that. It was an image one thousand years out of date. The ancient Asian Huns and Hsing-Nu warriors probably matched that image.