WARNING: Really bad movie coming

[Smeghead]

I saw Nemesis today, which was pretty good. But that's not what this thread is about. While there, I saw a preview for a movie called The Core. I think that's what it was called, anyway.

Here's the plot, as far as I could piece together (the quotes are actual lines from the trailer, as far as I can remember them): The eeeeeeeevil military create a secret project that allows them to create and aim earthquakes as The Ultimate WeaponTM. Something, naturally, goes wrong, and the earth's core stops spinning. :confused:

As a result, somehow, the earth is ravaged by "super electronic storms" and "baked by microwave radiation." In order to save the planet, some Crackpot ScientistTM develops a vessel that can go to the center of the earth, so as to "jumpstart the earth's core with 10,000 megatons of nuclear weapons".

The crew is straight off the Movie Cliche Dartboard. You have the spunky techno-savvy whiz kid who is supposed to "hack the earth's core," whatever that means. You have the beautiful-tough-and-capable female pilot. You have the male hero type. You have the French dude who's going along "not to save the world, but to save his family".

All in all, this has the potential to make Armageddon look like a peer-reviewed NASA-produced film documentary on the everyday hazards of space travel.

I think I'll stay home.

[Smeghead]

Oh, I almost forgot. There are lots and lots and lots of shots of famous Earth landmarks being destroyed in a variety of violent ways. 'Splosions! Lots and lots of 'splosions!!!

[MovieMogul]

The preview admittedly looked terrible, but what a cast they assembled!...Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Delroy Lindo, Stanley Tucci, Alfre Woodard, Bruce Greenwood

Anyway, The Core is probably 2001 compared to Kangaroo Jack (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0257568). Be very afraid.

[Mr. Blue Sky]

Damn, and MST3K is off the air....

[Garfield226]

http://www.thecoremovie.com/

Also, the plot summary from IMDB:
Scientists discover that the Earth's core is about to stop spinning. This will cause tremendous natural disasters, wiping out life as we know it. A team of scientists is recruited in a crash project to send a ship and bomb into the center of the Earth to prevent the catastrophe.

Hmm...looks...good. Yeah, that's the word...yeah.

And here's a review (http://www.aintitcoolnews.com/display.cgi?id=13535).

[TridCloudwalker]

Earthquake Weapon stolen from Under Seige II: Dark Territory.

The rest of the plot stolen from Armageddon and every other modern lame effects driven disaster movie of the past few years.

What I'm curious about is, will the general American public dumb enough to shell out $8 a piece for this movie actually want to see this kind of destruction post 9/11?

[susan]

Originally posted by ArchiveGuy
Anyway, The Core is probably 2001 compared to Kangaroo Jack (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0257568). Be very afraid.

I completely agree. And The Hot Chick.

[Pythagras]

No I have to say the Core looks worse. You have to see the trailer

[Enright3]

Wow! What a crapfest that's going to be.

The HotChick is going to be bad too. They're advertising the hell out of it. I think someone realized that the only way to make money on it is to get a big opening weekend. 'Cause once word gets out how crappy it is, that's all she wrote.

[DocCathode]

Originally posted by TridCloudwalker
Earthquake Weapon stolen from Under Seige II: Dark Territory.

The rest of the plot stolen from Armageddon and every other modern lame effects driven disaster movie of the past few years.


Actually, this is just the adaptation of the novel The Core which came out in the 90's.

Some one wrote this crap and then convinced a publisher to pay for it. Studios can at least use special effects and big names to make money from a crapfest. But what excuse does a publisher have?

[unclviny]

I beleive the proper term for these "movies" is CRAPTACULAR.

unclviny

[Angel of the Lord]

Hack. . .the earth's. . .core. . .

With what? A friggin' shovel?

[Wumpus]

Hey, this sounds like it's the spiritual successor to '60s cheese-fest, Crack in the World!

http://us.imdb.com/Plot?0059065

Who says they don't make 'em like they used to?

[Tuckerfan]

Supposedly, they started filming the movie with no real idea of what they were going to do. They ran out of money, got some more money, and kept trying to figure out what they were going to do. Then they ran out of money again, got some more, and kept trying to figure out what they were going to do. And then they ran out of money again....

Yup, it's gonna suck.

[Guinastasia]

Oh, The Hot Chick. That looks like the STUPIDEST movie ever made.

Whoever told Rob Schnieder he could act is surely burning in Hell.

[DocCathode]

Originally posted by Guinastasia
Oh, The Hot Chick. That looks like the STUPIDEST movie ever made.

Whoever told Rob Schnieder he could act is surely burning in Hell.

So close and yet so far.....

Rob Schnieder's career is due to a contract with the devil.


hmmm could The Animal be the beast of revelations?

The Hot Chick=The Whore Of Babylon?

[Cisco]

Originally posted by Smeghead
All in all, this has the potential to make Armageddon look like a peer-reviewed NASA-produced film documentary on the everyday hazards of space travel.




Admit it none of you expected to being hearing this a mere 4 years after Armageddon. I'll admit that Kangaroo Jack looks so bad that I have to close my eyes when I see the trailer comes on (no, really, I do) but at least people know that's gonna suck. Some suckers will actually go see this "The Core" suckfest.

[raisinbread]

Rob Schneider durp a durp dur dur dee durp duh durp a durp durp durp! Rated PG-13
(was re: the next to last south park)

[kasuo]

Hmm.. the core.. stopped spinning.. it spins?

I wonder if they'll see Morlocks down there, or the Mole people.

"You can't escape the wrath of the Mole people! Oh.. darn.."

[obfusciatrist]

Even the movie logo at the end fo the trailer looked liked it had been ripped off from Armageddon.

I've just been referring to it as Armageddon II.

[sturmhauke]

My wife says she could feel the waves of disdain emanating from me when we saw the trailer. My face was frozen in a rictus of pain for some time after the torment ended.

[furryman]

Another bad movie warning: I've heard that their thinking of making a movie based on Chuck Barris' (The Gong Show) "autobiography"!!!

[Daylon]

Kangaroo Jack I have to agree looks like the worst friggin movie idea ever made. (and its produced by jerry bruckheimer - what was he thinking)

Plot: A kangaroo steals drug money from two morons in Australia. Morons chase kangaroo. Kangaroo wears some sort of compton or chicago wind breaker, talks, and basically outwits them.

Wow...

The worst movie I actually SAW was Kurt Russel in "Soldier"....gawd awefull terrible flick. He looked good and buff...but movie was tripe.

D.

[Daylon]

On second thought...it could be like a Pauly Shore movie.... you know...it costs 4 million to make and makes 9 at the box office...

Still a 100% return on investment.... can't laugh at that.

D.

[Mr. Blue Sky]

Originally posted by Daylon
On second thought...it could be like a Pauly Shore movie.... you know...it costs 4 million to make and makes 9 at the box office...

Still a 100% return on investment.... can't laugh at that.

D.

Well, you certainly can't laugh at Pauly.

[Azael]

A little science in the hands of a Hollywood script writer can be a horrible horrible thing.

[Baldwin]

The molten core of the Earth does in fact spin, which generates the geomagnetic field. (I'm sure some geologist or physicist on the SDMB will correct my oversimplification.) It's possible that the magnetic field is about to reverse itself (which it's apparently done many times in the past).

This sounds like one of those moronic movies that take an interesting scientific premise and then waste it with cliches and mindless action. (See the aforementioned Armageddon, and I would add The Matrix.) I watch these movies, and I think, "Why didn't they just have a real science fiction writer do this script?"

[Sam Lowry]

Originally posted by furryman
Another bad movie warning: I've heard that their thinking of making a movie based on Chuck Barris' (The Gong Show) "autobiography"!!!


I've heard good stuff about that one. He has lived a pretty interesting life and it has some actors I like in it, like Sam Rockwell and Julia Roberts. I'll be going to see that one though I wouldn't go see any of these other movies mentioned unless someone paid me a hundred dollars per minute of movie.

[Baldwin]

Another bad movie warning: I've heard that their thinking of making a movie based on Chuck Barris' (The Gong Show) "autobiography"!!!

Already filmed; Confessions of a Dangerous Mind is slated for a January 17 release in the US. George Clooney's directorial debut.

Here's what I find funny: there's going to be a limited US release on December 31. Why? The only reason I can think of is to make it eligible for next year's Oscar consideration. Think about that.

[tracer]

Originally posted by Guinastasia
Oh, The Hot Chick. That looks like the STUPIDEST movie ever made.
Hey! I liked The Hot Chick !
Although, admittedly, the little lecturettes on "love" were a wee bit ... um ... schmaltzy. ... And the way Jessica got exonnerated at the end seemed like one of the producers stepped in at the last minute and said, "Oh yeah, we need to tie up that plot hole, don't we?"
... but overall, it was a pretty darn good movie. Not quite Shallow Hal good, to be sure -- but then again, a movie would have to be fantastically great to approach the majesty and grandeur that is Shallow Hal.

[jab1]

According to the trailer on www.rottentomatoes.com, The Core was supposed to have been released this fall. According to IMDB, (http://us.imdb.com/ReleaseDates?0298814) it will be released next March. Spring and fall are not the times one normally releases an FX-filled blockbuster. Paramount's admitting the film is crap, but they spent so much on it, they HAVE to release it to cut their losses.

[Smeghead]

I guess that explains why I've seen a little cardboard cutout display advertising it in the local theatre since this summer.

[kung fu lola]

Originally posted by Daylon
Kangaroo Jack I have to agree looks like the worst friggin movie idea ever made. (and its produced by jerry bruckheimer - what was he thinking)

Plot: A kangaroo steals drug money from two morons in Australia. Morons chase kangaroo. Kangaroo wears some sort of compton or chicago wind breaker, talks, and basically outwits them.
D.

Ooh, ooh, you forgot the best part.... the kangaroo can rap.


[Comic Book Guy] Worst. Premise. Ever. [/Comic Book Guy]

[Theobroma]

Aw, quit pickin' on Kangaroo Jack. My 8-year-old son thought it looked like a riot, so it looks like I'm gonna have to sit through it. And at least the Kangaroo wasn't rapping about slicin' da bitch...

[Tars Tarkas]

I started a thread a while ago about how the trailer made my brain explode. I saw the new trailer when i saw Nemisis. In San Francisco, so we all booed when the scenes of the Golden Gate getting destroyed showed up. But the DJ Squalls said he needed Star Trek tapes, so we all cheered. Then went right back to booing and mocking.

[TheeGrumpy]

Originally posted by Smeghead
I guess that explains why I've seen a little cardboard cutout display advertising it in the local theatre since this summer.

I still treasure my theater beverage cup emblazoned with the logo from Titanic: Summer 1997!

[Rhum Runner]

Anyone caught the promo for "Drum Line?" This could be the worst movie ever.

[Duke]

Sounds also like there's a taste of Ken Follett's The Hammer of Eden in The Core...
back cover blurb
"....the threat is real: An extreme group of eco-terrorists has the means and the know-how to set off a massive earthquake of epic proportions."
Phew, is that book ever bad.

[Equipoise]

Originally posted by Baldwin
Already filmed; Confessions of a Dangerous Mind is slated for a January 17 release in the US. George Clooney's directorial debut.

Here's what I find funny: there's going to be a limited US release on December 31. Why? The only reason I can think of is to make it eligible for next year's Oscar consideration. Think about that.

Ok...(think think think) From what I hear, Sam Rockwell, one of our best young actors, is quite good in it. If he's good enough for Oscar consideration, why deprive him of a crack at it?

I don't know why some of you are so sure that Confessions of a Dangerous Mind will be a stinker. It sounds to me like it could be a lot of very goofy fun. Clooney was very passionate about the project, and anyone who's seen both The Green Mile and Galaxy Quest knows how amazing Sam Rockwell is. I'm there, opening day!

[The Bad Astronomer]

Originally posted by Wumpus
Hey, this sounds like it's the spiritual successor to '60s cheese-fest, Crack in the World!


Hey, I liked that movie. Of course, I haven't seen it in about 15 years. I remember liking the music...

Anyway, The Core promises to be the Armageddon of 2003. I will be reviewing it on my website... if I can stand it.

The core stops spinning. yeesh.

[Achernar]

Originally posted by Smeghead
All in all, this has the potential to make Armageddon look like a peer-reviewed NASA-produced film documentary on the everyday hazards of space travel.Hey, I don't think this is very fair. Armageddon had 31 aspects that made it one of the worst movies ever. Being clichéd, over the top, and lousy vis à vis science were just three of them.

[Muad'Dib]

Hey, this movies did get mentioned in the latest Scientific American.

[Equipoise]

Originally posted by The Bad Astronomer
The core stops spinning. yeesh.

Now now, it's no less weird than giant mutant ants, and Them! is one of my favorite childhood films. Can you imagine the reviews that must've gotten from literal-minded sci-yon-tists?

It could be big, old-fashioned, good, dumb fun. I'm ready to see it, at least at a matinee, just for that killer cast alone. I'll wait for some reviews and then make up my mind.

[DSYoungEsq]

Hmmm, mention of Them! makes me think of the even more well-known Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. I think few movies can really aspire to that level of ... of ... of ... words fail me.

Interestingly enough, last night Armaggedon was on ABC. I had forgotten how truly silly it was, until the russian cosmonaut started talking... the only thing good in that movie was Aerosmith's love ballad.

[Robot Arm]

Originally posted by kung fu lola
Ooh, ooh, you forgot the best part.... the kangaroo can rap.

Hmm, let's see, what rhymes with "joey"?

[Max Carnage]

Originally posted by Equipoise
Ok...(think think think) From what I hear, Sam Rockwell, one of our best young actors, is quite good in it. If he's good enough for Oscar consideration, why deprive him of a crack at it?

I don't know why some of you are so sure that Confessions of a Dangerous Mind will be a stinker. It sounds to me like it could be a lot of very goofy fun. Clooney was very passionate about the project, and anyone who's seen both The Green Mile and Galaxy Quest knows how amazing Sam Rockwell is. I'm there, opening day!

Has anyone seen the trailer for it? The only place I have was at Best Buy, and it looks fantastic! At first I thought they were going to make a comedy out of it and I wanted to see it for that. But it appears they decided to take Barris' (possibly) insane autobiography as straight fact. It looks great and Rockwell does Barris spot on, which I'd have never thought possible.

I'll be there with gongs on.

[unclviny]

Originally posted by DSYoungEsq
Hmmm, mention of Them! makes me think of the even more well-known Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. I think few movies can really aspire to that level of ... of ... of ... words fail me.

All right now!,
That will be quite enough bashing on the pinnacle of cinematic excellence that is "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" (now part 2 WAS HORRIBLE!), but the original was so bad it was WONDERFUL! (it transcended badness to achieve a new level of cheesy greatness).
And as far as the Chuck Barris movie, I'm there dude!, Chuck is my hero! (aside from being nuttier than a fruitcake).

unclviny
(puberty, puberty love, there's nothing wrong with puberty love, it's so neat, it's so cool, we always ......)

[tanstaafl]

Also, to be fair, I think the producers of Attack of the Killer Tomatos knew they were making a ridiculous movie and did it as a parody of all the bad '50s monster attack movies.

[Cat Fight]

Confessions is going to be AMAZING. I ga-ron-tee. I just know. The chemistry between Rockwell and Clooney, as director and actor (and, briefly, as two actors) will make for one hell of a film.

As for this centre of the Earth thing- I'll only go see it if NSYNC tunnels down there on the back of a huge worm.

[Enderw24]

Originally posted by Robot Arm
Hmm, let's see, what rhymes with "joey"?
David Bowie?

[Just Some Guy]

Here's what I find funny: there's going to be a limited US release on December 31. Why? The only reason I can think of is to make it eligible for next year's Oscar consideration. Think about that.

Perhaps you haven't noticed but every single studio has doing the exact same thing for the past twenty years. That limitted release in New York and LA for two weeks before the end of the years with a wide release later for every one else is a popular method of doing films that studios considder Oscar material. It's not even a secret.

As for the Core, it could have been worse. As I understand it the original screenplay had the core stop spinning because of nuclear waste dumped into it.

[tracer]

Originally posted by Just Some Guy
As for the Core, it could have been worse. As I understand it the original screenplay had the core stop spinning because of nuclear waste dumped into it.
Which is total hogwash, because everyone knows that dumping nuclear waste would create Godzilla!

[Tangent]

Originally posted by DSYoungEsq
Interestingly enough, last night Armaggedon was on ABC. I had forgotten how truly silly it was, until the russian cosmonaut started talking... the only thing good in that movie was Aerosmith's love ballad.

Argh! I was a HUGE Aerosmith fan until that song came out. It made me hate that movie even more. :(

[Smeghead]

Originally posted by Tangent
Argh! I was a HUGE Aerosmith fan until that song came out. It made me hate that movie even more. :(

Same here. Remember back when Aerosmith was a rock group, instead of the world's oldest boy band?

[BioHazard]

This movie looks like its not even worth the hour or two it would take to DL it.

[shy guy]

And at least the Kangaroo wasn't rapping about slicin' da bitch... Actually, that might have actually improved it.

Anyone caught the promo for "Drum Line?" This could be the worst movie ever. Oh, only about 7 times every night on Cartoon Network (shut up, I die if I'm not regularly exposed to GI Joe reruns). I'm not sure what makes me want to gouge my eyes out more, the premise of the cool hip-hop marching band that no doubt causes the black protagonist to escape the ghetto (one billion dollars says a gang is involved at some point), or the fact that I know it'll be even worse than I think it is.

Hmm, let's see, what rhymes with "joey"? Corey...story...allegory...

I just felt like saying that.

[TommyTutone]

Originally posted by unclviny
All right now!,
That will be quite enough bashing on the pinnacle of cinematic excellence that is "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" (now part 2 WAS HORRIBLE!), but the original was so bad it was WONDERFUL! (it transcended badness to achieve a new level of cheesy greatness).


Hey, but don't forget that not only was Rick Rockwell from 'Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire' fame in Return of the Killer Tomatoes (the sequel you mentioned), but so was George Clooney!!!

And on that, we've come full circle.

[dorkusmalorkusmafia]

Shy Guy said
shut up, I die if I'm not regularly exposed to GI Joe reruns

(Lisa Simpson Voice) Did he just tell us to shut up? (/Lisa Simpson Voice)

Drum Line looks much worse than the Core. Marching bands can be fun to listen to but a movie about the "drama" of marching bands sounds awful. Let's go watch grass grow instead.

[Neidhart]

I'd like to see a movie where the Band of Plucky Heroes fails and the earth actually gets destroyed.

Special Effects Oscar!

[widdershins]

I'm sure the science in The Core will at least as accurate as the science in the old 1960s Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea film. The one about using a nuclear weapon to put out the aurora borealis when it catches on fire, IIRC.

[photopat]

But what happens when they penetrate the crust and learn that there's another world and aliens are actually beings who live on the inside of the earth? Huh?

Saw Harry Potter II yesterday. Quite good. Also saw the Kangaroo Jack trailer. Chris O'Donnell might as well say Goodbye Mr. Career. I can see somebody making a horrible movie and coming back to make some good ones, but, this tripe goes through horrible and out the other side. It's...it's "Anti-quality."

[kasuo]

Originally posted by photopat
.. Also saw the Kangaroo Jack trailer. Chris O'Donnell might as well say Goodbye Mr. Career..

Wasn't that Jerry O'Connell (sp?) of Sliders fame in the upcoming Kangaroo Jack movie?

[Tars Tarkas]

Originally posted by dorkusmalorkusmafia

Drum Line looks much worse than the Core. Marching bands can be fun to listen to but a movie about the "drama" of marching bands sounds awful. Let's go watch grass grow instead.

I saw Drum Line while waiting for Trek to start. Was actually pretty good, IMO. The actors were actually playing the drums. You might think "Well, Animal was really playing drums..." but they were doing spiffy choreographed drum routines. And Orlando Jones was in it, actually acting. And some kid i remembered from the Thea sitcom.


And i want to see a movie about a Kangaroo slicin' the bitch. Hop on Pop, the movie!

[elf6c]

Originally posted by unclviny
I beleive the proper term for these "movies" is CRAPTACULAR.

unclviny

I was thought is was "craptastic".


:)

[Achernar]

I'm bumping this old thread to report that the April 2003 issue of Discover magazine has a review of The Core, specifically how well they got the science. They applaud director Jon Amiel for including actual science in a sci-fi thriller, and say that they had a "real-life geophysicist" advising the film.

The rest of the article doesn't do anything to make you think that film will be any less corny, but they act like they at least got this aspect of it okay. ;)

[Smeghead]

They said the same thing about that one movie...oh, crud, I can't remember what it was...Red Mars, maybe? Anyway, the one where one crewmember's body was floating in space, and for some reason began accelerating away. I distinctly remember Discover praising that one, too.

[Achernar]

Well, what film are you talking about? I'll check it out. As long as they didn't praise Armageddon....

[Gozu Tashoya]

Originally posted by Smeghead
They said the same thing about that one movie...oh, crud, I can't remember what it was...Red Mars, maybe? Anyway, the one where one crewmember's body was floating in space, and for some reason began accelerating away. I distinctly remember Discover praising that one, too.

Red Planet?

And that still sounds better than Wing Commander, where, after pushing a wrecked fighter off the deck of the carrier - in space, mind you - it falls off. As in down. :smack:

[Smeghead]

I honestly can't remember what movie it was. I just have a vaguely Mars-centric impression. I'd forgotten about that Wing Commander moment. Heh heh heh.

[magog]

Originally posted by Robot Arm
Hmm, let's see, what rhymes with "joey"?

I don't know-ee.

[E-Sabbath]

As I said before, I know where the science advisor on this movie hangs out on the web, and he says it's all accurate. He's a gamer, and a heck of a DM, so...
BA, if you want to thrash the movie, you may want to talk with him first.

[h.sapiens]

I saw a preview of The Core on TV last night and, it doesnt' really matter whether the science is any good, or even if the movie is any good, because the preview is awful. I admit I don't usually like this kind of movie anyway, but the trailers at least make them look exciting. This one just makes it look ridiculous.

[CalMeacham]

I'm sure the science in The Core will at least as accurate as the science in the old 1960s Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea film. The one about using a nuclear weapon to put out the aurora borealis when it catches on fire, IIRC.



Not quite right -- it was the Van Allen Radiation Belt that caught fire. I always had the feeling they were mad at Universal and wanted to cast Universal's new symbol as a source of world danger.

[N9IWP]

According to www.badastronomy.com Red Planet did get some things right. Hopefully The Bad Astronomer will review The Core

Brian

[sunfish]

Originally posted by E-Sabbath
As I said before, I know where the science advisor on this movie hangs out on the web, and he says it's all accurate. He's a gamer, and a heck of a DM, so...
BA, if you want to thrash the movie, you may want to talk with him first.

You have got to be kidding. There is much that is scientifically inaccurate about the preview alone. For example:

* The Earth's magnetic field does not reverse every 700,000 years; reversals are a completely random process. (This was discussed a little while ago in GQ.)
* Magnetic reversals are not automatically accompanied by mass extinctions.
*The idea that humans could somehow manage to stop the spinning of the Earth's core (think of the necessary transfer of angular momentum!) with a weapon designed to produce earthquakes in the crust (the brittle portion of which is no more than about 15 km in thickness) is laughable. The corresponding idea that one could re-start the spinning of the Earth's core with a nuclear blast is thus also laughable.
* The deepest hole ever drilled into the Earth (in Germany, IIRC) achieved a maximum depth of about 10 km, and was stopped because the heat and temperature of the Earth's crust at that depth rendered the rock plastic, and the hole kept pinching shut. Just how is a man-made machine supposed to withstand the even greater temperatures and pressures it would encounter in the mantle and core?

I haven't seen the Discover Magazine piece... but I'm really disappointed to hear that they think that this movie would have gotten the science right. A real geophysicist as an advisor to the film, eh? Maybe, at best, for telling the producers where damaging earthquakes could occur. :p Personally, my fellow earth science grad students can't wait to go see this one and rip it to shreds. :D

IMHO, I would rate Deep Impact, Armageddon, and Volcano (in that order) in terms of scientific plausibility. I suspect that The Core will rank well below Volcano after I see it.

BTW, did anyone else see that absolutely horrible made-for-TV flick called Tidal Wave that was on ABC a few years back, starring Corbin Bersen as the hero seismologist? Someone was threatening to set off tsunamis along the California coast by inducing underwater landslides with small nuclear warheads... ugh.

[Darwin's Finch]

Originally posted by E-Sabbath
As I said before, I know where the science advisor on this movie hangs out on the web, and he says it's all accurate. He's a gamer, and a heck of a DM, so...
BA, if you want to thrash the movie, you may want to talk with him first.

I am reminded of the fact that all three Jurassic Park movies had a science advisor (Jack Horner) on staff. And all three were still scientific travesties. Just because a movie has a real, honest-to-goodness scientific advisor doesn't mean anyone involved in making the film actually listens to him/her.

[CrankyAsAnOldMan]

I just finally saw the trailer for The Core a few weeks ago, and I too stared in slack-jawed disbelief. I've seen trailers for movies which I could immediately peg as lame and unwatchable, but I don't know if I've even seen a trailer itself that was so dumb.

I'm surprised to see so many people cracking on Drum Line. I didn't see it, but I would've gladly paid the money to see a movie about black marching bands. That's what it was about, wasn't it? Marching bands at historically black colleges and universities kick ass and take names.

[Raygun99]

Leaving the ludicrousness of the premise behind, I'm still wondering why the hell the Colloseum would blow up from a lightning strike. And why not some other, random skyscraper in Rome? Those natural disasters only target landmarks, huh?

I didn't see Red Planet, but Mission to Mars had horrificly bad science. at one point, they're sitting in their tent on Mars, and the canvas is flapping in the wind! Doesn't strike me as the most sealed environment ever. Not to mention the film's complete misunderstanding of DNA and evolution. Of course, the non-science parts also sucked.