# 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:** 18\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-really-bad-movie-coming/142671/61 "2002-12-16T16:59:57Z")
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.” ---
**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-really-bad-movie-coming/142671/62 "2002-12-16T17:04:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*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? ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-really-bad-movie-coming/142671/63 "2002-12-16T18:38:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*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!_ ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-really-bad-movie-coming/142671/64 "2002-12-16T21:04:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by unclviny \* > \*\*I beleive the proper term for these “movies” is CRAPTACULAR. > > unclviny \*\* I was thought is was “craptastic”. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2003, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-really-bad-movie-coming/142671/65 "2003-03-02T18:20:20Z")
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. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2003, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-really-bad-movie-coming/142671/66 "2003-03-02T19:29:14Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-really-bad-movie-coming/142671/67 "2003-03-03T02:23:31Z")
Well, what film are you talking about? I’ll check it out. As long as they didn’t praise _Armageddon_… ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-really-bad-movie-coming/142671/68 "2003-03-03T06:55:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*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: ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-really-bad-movie-coming/142671/69 "2003-03-03T08:12:56Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![magog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/fbc32d/32.png) [@magog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magog)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-really-bad-movie-coming/142671/70 "2003-03-03T08:37:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Robot Arm \* > Hmm, let’s see, what rhymes with “joey”? I don’t know-ee. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-really-bad-movie-coming/142671/71 "2003-03-03T14:04:16Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-really-bad-movie-coming/142671/72 "2003-03-03T14:20:39Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-really-bad-movie-coming/142671/73 "2003-03-03T14:40:31Z")
> [@](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-really-bad-movie-coming/142671/74 "2003-03-03T15:11:34Z")
According to [www.badastronomy.com](http://www.badastronomy.com) Red Planet did get some things right. Hopefully **The Bad Astronomer** will review The Core Brian ---
**Author:** ![sunfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@sunfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunfish)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-really-bad-movie-coming/142671/75 "2003-03-03T16:13:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*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: [ul] - 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?[/ul] 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. 😛 Personally, my fellow earth science grad students can’t wait to go see this one and rip it to shreds. 😃 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. ---
**Author:** ![Darwins\_Finch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darwins_finch/32/20304_2.png) [@Darwins\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwins_Finch)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-really-bad-movie-coming/142671/76 "2003-03-03T16:57:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*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. ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-really-bad-movie-coming/142671/77 "2003-03-03T18:22:27Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Raygun99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-really-bad-movie-coming/142671/78 "2003-03-03T18:23:57Z")
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. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-really-bad-movie-coming/142671.md?page=3)