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prillalar ([personal profile] prillalar) wrote2003-04-09 02:57 pm
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The Core

I went to see The Core at the weekend and meant to write a little review, but never got around to it. So here it is. This is a little spoilery, I guess, but no more so than the trailers. And it wasn't exactly Magnolia.

So, the earth's core stops spinning (does it actually spin?) and a bunch of scientists and astronauts have to ride a rock-burrowing ship down into all that liquid hot magma and set off a bunch of nuclear bombs. The movie's tagline is "Earth has a deadline" but I'm thinking it should be "Earth gets fucked."

This was a fun summer movie with many over-the-top action sequences, gruesome deaths, and unbelievable solutions to hokey problems. Which was just what I went to see. But I thought it took itself a little too seriously for what it was. And the character scenes always felt cut-off to me, like syndicated Simpsons episodes or something. Even so, the movie was about half an hour too long.

Plus there was this scene where someone is trying to divert power from an installation in Alaska so he re-routes it to New York. And it just seemed like, hey, Canada doesn't even exist. Well, maybe we don't.

On the upside, I thought Josh and Serge were kind of slashy.

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[identity profile] izzybeth.livejournal.com 2003-04-09 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)
the earth's core stops spinning (does it actually spin?)

Yeah, it does. Which is why north is north and south is south. Earth's polarity has flipped around (north to south and vice versa) a bunch of times since it formed because the core switches the way it spins (if I remember correctly), and (according to my geology prof) we're due for another flip pretty soon.
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[personal profile] prillalar 2003-04-09 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I got off my clicky mouse-potato thumbs and typed some search terms into Google. It was only in 96 that they verified the core rotates a little bit faster than the rest of the Earth. It's nifty. :)

I remain skeptical about the ship that can travel through crushing pressure and liquid hot magma though. *g* (I only keep typing "liquid hot magma" so I can hear the Dr Evil voice in my head.)

I wonder how the flipping magnetic poles will affect instrumentation and stuff.
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