Sci-Fi The Core (2003)

What do you think of The Core?

  • 0- What a waste of time

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  • 1- That was soo bad

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  • 2- It was bad, but there are movies that were worse

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  • 3- That was a good movie

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  • 4- I want to see it again!

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Title: The Core

Tagline: Earth has a deadline.

Genre: Action, Thriller, Adventure, Science Fiction

Director: Jon Amiel

Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Delroy Lindo, Stanley Tucci, Tchéky Karyo, DJ Qualls, Richard Jenkins, Bruce Greenwood, Christopher Shyer, Ray Galletti, Eileen Pedde, Rekha Sharma, Tom Scholte, Glenn Morshower, Anthony Harrison, Alfre Woodard, Fred Keating, Bart Anderson, Nicole Leroux, Justin Callan, Chris Humphreys, Dion Johnstone, Fred Ewanuick, Hrothgar Mathews, Ming-Tzong Hong, Jennifer Spence, Michael St. John Smith, John Shaw, Nickolas Baric, Rosa Di Brigida, Roberto Roberto, Ermanno De Biagi, Marcello Laurentis, Matt Winston, Claire Riley, Marke Driesschen, Laurie Murdoch, Costa Spanos, Monique Martel, Lenie Scoffié, Nathaniel DeVeaux, Robert Manitopyes, Alejandro Abellan, Benjamin Barton, Angelica Hayden, Robert Paul Lewis, Alec Medlock, Alonso Oyarzun, Priscilla Poland, Shawn Green, Greg Bennett, Jeffrey Gold, Rick Kain, Pamela Martin

Release: 2003-03-28

Runtime: 136

Plot: Geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes discovers that an unknown force has caused the earth's inner core to stop rotating. With the planet's magnetic field rapidly deteriorating, our atmosphere literally starts to come apart at the seams with catastrophic consequences. To resolve the crisis, Keyes, along with a team of the world's most gifted scientists, travel into the earth's core. Their mission: detonate a device that will reactivate the core.
The Core (2003)

 
Vaughn_Lovah said:
Im not gonna waste my time to go see that. It looks horrible and very cheesy. Its the movie that wants to be Armageddon.

-VL
i just got back from the movie and its actually better than Armageddon. at first it was like, "what the heck is going on?" but then ur like, "o, i see". i liked it. the only thing that was cheesy was the fact that they go to the center of the Earth, which is impossible.
 
Vaughn_Lovah said:
Im not gonna waste my time to go see that. It looks horrible and very cheesy. Its the movie that wants to be Armageddon.

-VL
I agree!! I know I shouldn't be making judgements since I haven't seen the movie, but it looks like an Armageddon wannabe. I love Armageddon and I was really mad that The Core seem to have copied a lot of the movie, even though they changed it around a little in order for it to fit in the plot.
 
the_alliance said:
i'm gonna go see it in about an hour. hopefully it'll be good. and the thing is supposed to say "4- I want to see it again!" there shouldn't be a "do" in there.
Poll edited to change typo
 
ya it wasn't good at all. it was fo sho an armegeddon wanna be. it was just stupid and boring. did it just come out for you guys? we had it come out like a LONG time ago like 3 months ago!!


lauren vartan :surf:
 
I've seen this movie yesterday and it was ok. I think Armageddon is a little bit better but you're not wasting your time with watching The Core, because its another thing to bring the core to turn again than to stop a meteorit from destroying our planet.
 
Film: The Core (2003)

This is one disaster movie that I missed when it first came around. It begins with various mysterious events connected with electromagnetic disturbances. It is eventually realised that these events are all connected to one occurrence: the Earth's core has stopped rotating, so the electromagnetic shield which protects our planet from most of the solar radiation is dissipating. Before long, this will lead to the end of life on Earth.

Not to worry, we just visit the core and kick-start the thing. Cue a solitary scientist and inventor who just happens to have devised a machine with a laser cutting device which can drill its own tunnel through rock at high speed, and who also happens to have developed an almost indestructible material capable of resisting the enormous pressure and heat close to the core. He dubs the substance "unobtainium", although "impossibilium" would have been closer. So five intrepid explorers set off in his machine on a trip to the core, armed with a handful of 200 megaton fusion bombs to persuade the planet to behave.

It is fair to say that accepting this scenario involves a truly heroic suspension of disbelief, and most of us won't make it. It is almost as bad as swallowing the Mayan "end-of-the-world predictions" in 2012. However, having said that, in other respects the film isn't as bad as it might have been. The rest of this review contains some spoilers.

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So what's good about the film? Thankfully, there are no broken marriages to be repaired, or cute, screaming children who need to be rescued (we see a photo of one of the characters' family, which is bearable); the characters basically get on with the job rather than wasting time emoting; the obligatory attractive female on the crew (Hilary Swank) is the very tough and capable pilot; the hero (Aaron Eckhart) is a charismatic college science teacher (imagine that!); there are some grim tragedies as the team members are killed one by one but, despite this, the mood is lightened by frequent flashes of humour in the reasonably adult dialogue; and at the end of the film the male and female survivors do not form a romantic liaison but plan to return to their previous jobs. Which all makes a pleasant change from Hollywood routine.

I gather that The Core had mixed reviews and turned out to be a commercial flop, which is no great surprise. However, it is not bad entertainment as long as you can swallow the initial impossibilities; the acting is fine, with Swank and Eckhart in particular carrying off their roles well enough. Not an entirely wasted couple of hours.


(This entry is cross-posted from my science-fiction & fantasy blog.)
 

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