# WARNING: Really bad movie coming **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 14, 2002, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-really-bad-movie-coming/142671 "2002-12-14T02:15:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-really-bad-movie-coming/142671/1 "2002-12-14T02:15:13Z")
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 Weapon[sup]TM[/sup]. Something, naturally, goes wrong, and the earth’s core stops spinning. 😕 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 Scientist[sup]TM[/sup] 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. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-really-bad-movie-coming/142671/2 "2002-12-14T02:16:42Z")
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!!! ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-really-bad-movie-coming/142671/3 "2002-12-14T02:28:54Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-really-bad-movie-coming/142671/4 "2002-12-14T02:34:22Z")
Damn, and MST3K is off the air… ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-really-bad-movie-coming/142671/5 "2002-12-14T02:38:47Z")
[http://www.thecoremovie.com/](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). ---
**Author:** ![TridCloudwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@TridCloudwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TridCloudwalker)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-really-bad-movie-coming/142671/6 "2002-12-14T06:24:45Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-really-bad-movie-coming/142671/7 "2002-12-14T06:27:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*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**. ---
**Author:** ![Pythagras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/45deac/32.png) [@Pythagras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pythagras)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-really-bad-movie-coming/142671/8 "2002-12-14T06:53:25Z")
No I have to say the Core looks worse. You have to see the trailer ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-really-bad-movie-coming/142671/9 "2002-12-14T12:05:53Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-really-bad-movie-coming/142671/10 "2002-12-14T18:06:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*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? ---
**Author:** ![unclviny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e274bd/32.png) [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-really-bad-movie-coming/142671/11 "2002-12-14T18:41:13Z")
I beleive the proper term for these “movies” is CRAPTACULAR. unclviny ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-really-bad-movie-coming/142671/12 "2002-12-14T19:12:16Z")
Hack. . .the earth’s. . .core. . . With what? A friggin’ shovel? ---
**Author:** ![Wumpus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8c91f0/32.png) [@Wumpus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wumpus)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-really-bad-movie-coming/142671/13 "2002-12-14T19:32:01Z")
Hey, this sounds like it’s the spiritual successor to '60s cheese-fest, Crack in the World! [http://us.imdb.com/Plot?0059065](http://us.imdb.com/Plot?0059065) Who says they don’t make 'em like they used to? ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-really-bad-movie-coming/142671/14 "2002-12-14T19:33:50Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-really-bad-movie-coming/142671/15 "2002-12-14T19:46:00Z")
Oh, _The Hot Chick_. That looks like the STUPIDEST movie ever made. Whoever told Rob Schnieder he could act is surely burning in Hell. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-really-bad-movie-coming/142671/16 "2002-12-14T19:54:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*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? ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-really-bad-movie-coming/142671/17 "2002-12-14T19:55:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*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. ---
**Author:** ![raisinbread](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8491ac/32.png) [@raisinbread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raisinbread)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-really-bad-movie-coming/142671/18 "2002-12-14T19:57:01Z")
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) ---
**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-really-bad-movie-coming/142671/19 "2002-12-14T20:33:21Z")
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…” ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-really-bad-movie-coming/142671/20 "2002-12-14T20:49:40Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-really-bad-movie-coming/142671.md?page=2)