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.”
Wasn’t that Jerry O’Connell (sp?) of Sliders fame in the upcoming Kangaroo Jack movie?
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!
I was thought is was “craptastic”.
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. 
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.
Well, what film are you talking about? I’ll check it out. As long as they didn’t praise Armageddon…
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:
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.
I don’t know-ee.
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 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.
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.
According to www.badastronomy.com Red Planet did get some things right. Hopefully The Bad Astronomer will review The Core
Brian
You have got to be kidding. There is much that is scientifically inaccurate about the preview alone. For example:
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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.
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.
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.
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.