[Ross Williams]

Saw this last night, and it's a tech geek's wet dream. The type of people that love to rip ID4, Armageddon, etc. to scientific pieces, are gonna die and go to heaven when they see The Core. I'm not that scientifically inclined, but once they got into the meat of this film, it had me saying, "Yeah right!" about every 30 seconds. I won't go into those right now, I'll save them as nuggets of laughter for you to enjoy. There's about 1000 of them, pay close attention.

I would never pay to see this in the theater, but I got a free ticket, so I went into it knowing that it would be a huge pile of junk. I managed to enjoy it on that level.

For those of you that don't know. The Core is basically a rip-off of Armageddon and Deep Impact, except they've got to go in, instead of out. The Earth's core has stopped spinning and only a couple of scientists and astronauts, with a huge nuke can "jump-start" it, before the world is destroyed.

The story is obvious. The dialouge is cliche'. The actors are simply in it for the money. The special effects range from ok to terrible. But if you enjoy 100 million dollar train wrecks, the way I do, you just might have some fun with this.

[Holadem]

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The story is obvious. The dialouge is cliche'. The actors are simply in it for the money. The special effects range from ok to terrible. But if you enjoy 100 million dollar train wrecks, the way I do, you just might have some fun with this.

I am in! Sounds like 2 hours of fun to me - the right expectation is everything

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Holadem

[Chris Lockwood]

Dang, I was hoping for Lawrence of Arabia quality cinema here.

Is it too much of a spoiler to tell us how the space shuttle fits into the story?

[Jordan_E]

Surprised to see the shuttle shots back in on TV commercials after they were pulled after the recent disaster. But with the war going on, I suppose that is considered ancient history now.

[Scott Leopold]

I'm really confused now. Where does the whole "weapon that creates earthquakes" angle fit in?

[Peter Kline]

silly season.

[Steve_Tk]

This looked like the first best picture canidate so far. I'm highly dissapointed now!

[Paul_Medenwaldt]

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I'm really confused now. Where does the whole "weapon that creates earthquakes" angle fit in?

From what i understand of the plot is that the U.S. government created a earthquake weapon to affect certain parts of the world. In other words they had a satellite in space that could point to a region and affect the earth's plates causing them to shift.

The premise then is that this manual distruption of mother nature causes the core to cease rotating.

Can someone add on to this theory of mine who has seen the film?

Paul

[Richard_D_Ramirez]

Why am I not surprised The Core ia ripoff of Armegeddon, when even their trailer (not to mention the logo!) is a ripoff of the original's trailer?

8^B