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January 26, 2009, 4:36am
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From another thread
The Core . Why do people hate this movie? All you have to do is that old “suspension of disbelief” thing … I mean, why do people think that elves and gnomes and Darth Vader are believable, but tunneling through molten lava is implausible? Or landing a space shuttle in a drainage canal? Or restarting the rotation of the planet’s molten core with a few nukes? Hmm; I’m not helping my case much. Suffice to say, pay no attention to that physicist behind the curtain; just focus on the characters.
A Knight’s Tale First off, it’s just a good movie (‘change your stars’ and all that). Second, the DVD commentary is good.
I second and third The Fifth Element, Joe vs the Volcano and Enemy of the State .
And another thread
Note that in this documentary , they showed how it’s possible to use strategically placed nukes throughout the liquid hot magma of the earth’s core to inject enough angular momentum that it can resume its rotation. Presumably, we could just use a little more energy to stop the rotation and subsequently start it back up in the opposite direction. We should be able to test this theory in just a few days, but we’d have to get more than $100 billion (2003 dollars) of unobtanium which, obviously, we won’t be able to do until we get the economy back in shape.
Welcome! Now, let me tell you why they had to pretend that Buckaroo Banzai and the Hong Kong Cavaliers were some sort of “fictional” characters …
ETA: In The Core, an intelligent, high-performing person learns that she must experience failure spectacularly before she can get an accurate measure of herself. That is a very good point, and for some reason, not a point made too often in movies.