I can’t read the title “Armageddon” without thinking of the disaster movie promo in “Kentucky Fried Movie,” “That’s Armageddon!” Which looked like a lot more fun that “Armageddon.”
I love The Core. Yes, it’s filled to bursting with stupid, and it seems like I notice a new piece of stupid every time I watch it, but I’m still thoroughly entertained by it.
The really depressing part is that, as such things go, that premise does not even represent a high point in stupid.
My favorite part was when the electromagnetic pulse from the atomic blasts made the RIVER RUN BACKWARDS.
Yeah, baby!
Oh, me too. I’ll take 'em any way I can get 'em. I always wish that Hollywood would make some effort to make good global disaster/post-apocalyptic movies, but I’ll still watch all of 'em.
What movie was it with the Golden Gate Bridge getting all bucked and broken up? Was that “The Core?” I loved that scene. Sheer genius. (Heh - see what I did there?) And “The Day After Tomorrow” with that tanker floating down some avenue in Manhattan - loved that, too.
I’m picturing someone near a beach who has to run away from the rising tides that swallow their house, then mysteriously get launched into the air during a period of temporary weightlessness (how the hell does that work?). The person keeps their cool during all of this despite the utterly bizarre nature of it.
When they get back on the ground, they pull out their cell phone to call someone about what just happened, and upon finding out that cell phones don’t work, they flip the hell out and become hysterical.
No no!! The BEST part of 10.5 was all of the people running from the giant crack opening up and splitting the refuge camp in two with the ocean!!!
Are they going to upload virus into the moon?
Hey, as long as the 12 year-old can find the proper file in UNIX via some bizarro graphical representation that nobody in their chemically-addled mind would create, the Earth will be saved.
Assuming you’re speaking of Jurassic Park, someone on this board confirmed that the interface was indeed a real one - an obscure variant of a graphical unix interface.
Really?
Naaaaawwwww! You’re just pulling my leg! 
I wouldn’t exactly call IRIX an obscure variant of Unix. It was the OS for Silicon Graphics (now SGI) computers, which were used to render the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park. There was indeed a 3D navigator for the filesystem, called FSN, that used to be available on the SGI website. Unfortunately the link is now defunct. You can, however, download a clone for Linux called FSV.
Even if someone weren’t familiar with the exact 3D interface, any Unix user worth her salt would recognize the directory structure: /etc, /home, /usr, /dev, and /var are unmistakable.
I meant that the interface was fairly obscure, not the OS. I should’ve been more clear.
What Terminus Est said – Irix and SGI interfaces weren’t all that unknown at the time Jurassic Park came out. I was still amused to hear that teen girl go "its a Unix system! (squeee!) " as though the SGI interface was the acme of a commonplace *nix front end.
I would have loved the scene if she’d said, “Why the hell are they using a high-end graphics station as an admin box?”
Or even, “Why are they using this crap?” before exiting to a CLI.
I really, really love you guys.
That would have been awesome. That was entirely my reaction when I saw that scene.
I must object to the Armagedon bashing. The second I saw that NASA scientist walking around the model of the earth with two space shuttles on a stick, I recognied comedy gold.
Meteor showers consist of material that is in the solar system. There is no degenerate matter from white dwarf stars in the solar system.
I don’t even think it would take that. I think the earthquakes would be rather noticeable even if you couldn’t see the sky.
I have to give it up for Armageddon too. True the plots holes can swallow the moon. Now there’s a disaster movie for you. I’m also supremely annoyed by the way they devolve Liv Tyler from powerful self directed hottie to helpless left behind hottie. But Billy Bob Thortons scenery chewing is fun and the psych eval sessions with Udo Kier are worth the price of admission.