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The Core (2003)
Rate:
3
Viewed:
11/25
11/25:
Watching The Core is akin to rearranging pieces of my brain.
No wonder why it was voted the worst sci-fi picture by scientists. Even Dustin Hoffman went so far to lead a
campaign in 2009 to get more real science into them. Ha! That has been going on since
the beginning of cinema. He even did a rubbish piece of work called Sphere.
No matter how much crap the pseudo-intellectuals were coming up with, I kept laughing at them. Why is it that
nuclear weapons are the answer to everything? Since there are so many inaccuracies, I still can't move past
several on top of the fake cinematography. They are reaching the core, temperature, and pressure.
Located in Russia, the Kola Superdeep Borehole is the deepest man-made hole in the world: 7.6 miles. Started
as a big project in 1970, the drillers could only do nine inches in diameter and embarked on the third hole
in 1986 for the world record, having taken three years in all. And in The Core, the characters can
make to the center, which is almost 4,000 miles in distance, in several days because of "unobtainium." Wow!
The closer a person is to the Earth's core, the hotter it becomes. How hot? 9,000 degrees
Fahrenheit. And it's no big deal in The Core because of "unobtainium." Wow! I wonder what the
melting point is because the metal will have to be reshaped in order to build the drilling ship. In other
words, it just can't be done. Plus, where did they find the element, and how much are there of it worldwide?
Remember those submarine movies like Das Boot and
The Hunt for Red October? Then, you surely
can't forget why depth level is important or the ship will implode, hence the term "crush depth."
That's Boyle's Law at work. And it's completely disregarded in The Core because of "unobtainium."
Wow! Yet the characters have glass in their masks while down there? Why...it's going to shatter immediately.
Meanwhile, the acting shown by Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Delroy Lindo, and Stanley Tucci is fine, but no
thanks to the idea of a black woman as the mission leader. The cast should've been mostly Asian since they
tend to be the smartest people in the world.
All in all, The Core gives the sci-fi genre a bad name.