The Core

[nitrousninja]

At no point was Falsh Gordon trying to take itself seriously and it's way awesome.


You need to check your angular vector.

 

[JTsyo]

I DVR'd last night. Will watch it over the weekend. Seems like mindless fun.

 

[krylon]

Originally posted by: MrMatt

Originally posted by: irishScott
So I just watched this 21st century revamp of a 50s sci fi movie, and I have to admit it's fun if nothing else. I don't regret those two hours. Suffice to say they're trying to figure out how to start Earth's core turning again (this isn't really a spoiler) and apparently this is all on a level any high school physics student could understand.

1. They're sitting there discussing the issue and Aaron Eckhart says "Torque equals r cross f" about 3 times for no reason. Then the other genius comes into play and says "it's like basic fluid dynamics". Lol.

2. Aaron Eckhart: "Then we hot-wire the nukes.. as one does and..." :laugh:


Don't expect much, but turn down the brain and it's a fun predictable adventure-thriller. Never gets dull.

DO NOT GET ME STARTED ON THIS MOVIE...aaaaaaaaaaaaaarg. This was my least favorite movie of all time. It was right after Columbia blew up. So what do these asswipes do? They start the movie with a 10 minute scene of a spaceship crashing into a city. Good job asswipes. I've never been in a more uncomfortable theater in my life. The movie itself is just shit. Awful shit. There was NO reason for this movie to be put out. The plot sucked, the acting was pure putrid filth, and the ending?? "ooooh unsungheroes.wps" or whatever horse-shit they showed the retard computer kid uploading. If this is the shit that made it into the movie I don't want to see what ended up on the cutting room floor. Seriously, this is the ONLY movie I have ever asked for my money back after. And I got it back too.

WAAAAAAAHHHHHHH

 

[LordMorpheus]

Originally posted by: irishScott
So I just watched this 21st century revamp of a 50s sci fi movie, and I have to admit it's fun if nothing else. I don't regret those two hours. Suffice to say they're trying to figure out how to start Earth's core turning again (this isn't really a spoiler) and apparently this is all on a level any high school physics student could understand.

1. They're sitting there discussing the issue and Aaron Eckhart says "Torque equals r cross f" about 3 times for no reason. Then the other genius comes into play and says "it's like basic fluid dynamics". Lol.

2. Aaron Eckhart: "Then we hot-wire the nukes.. as one does and..." :laugh:


Don't expect much, but turn down the brain and it's a fun predictable adventure-thriller. Never gets dull.

It's way more fun if you're familiar with real physics and whatnot. We'd get drunk and watch this movie all the time at Rice.

You can guess whether any given character will live or die withing 5 seconds, and you'd be right about every single one except the nerdy hacker.

 

[sjwaste]

I saw this last night on FX. I missed the first 30 minutes, but that didn't seem too important to the plot, other than I didn't quite know what they intended to do other than drop some nukes in the core. Apparently, that was exactly the plot.

I love that everything is made out of unobtanium. I get the feeling this movie was made to be somewhat stupid, and it delivered. I'd watch it again.

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: eplebnista
It's just a movie and not intended to be an example of total scientific accuracy with educational uses.

"total" scientific accuracy? No, it's science fiction like Star Wars that doesn't try for "total" scientific accuracy. The fighters make sound while zooming around in space, etc. That's overlookable; it's understandable that they add effects like that because it's what the audience expects. (The first few episodes of the original Star Trek were accurate in this regard, but people were bothered by the fact that there was no noise from explosions.) However, even with things that are scientifically unrealistic (light sabers for example), the plot didn't dwell on the bad science. "I see you've constructed a new light saber. You're skills are complete. Indeed you are powerful as the emperor has foreseen." Had Luke and his light saber been in The Core, the dialog would have been, "I see you've constructed a new light saber." "Yeah, I went to radio shack and picked up some parts. By cross coupling the resistor with the transistor, I was able to obtain a different capacitance. Then, by junctioning the diode with the RF phase oscillator, I was able to create a different color than your saber." Jibberish.

Or to put it another way and use a different genre for an analogy, war movies don't always aim to be 100% accurate, and shouldn't really be criticized for dramatizing certain events (or making them less dramatic), or slightly re-writing history. However, The Core was to science and science fiction as the following scenario would be to a Civil War movie:

Okay, it's the American Civil War. The North, led by Stonewall Lincoln, mounted a brilliant attack against the South. Stonewall Lincoln led the charge himself, on his chariot pulled by 2 gophers. During the battle, the hero was wounded by a SCUD missile that landed near his camp. The South would have won, but their newly developed railguns overheated while trying to shoot down the North's helicopters, and their Stealth bombers were diverted off course after the North successfully hacked into the South's satellite navigation system and sent the Stealth bombers off course. The hero was treated at the mobile clinic by their specially built robots. By carefully clipping his toenails, his arm wound was healed.

 

[NaOH]

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: eplebnista
It's just a movie and not intended to be an example of total scientific accuracy with educational uses.

"total" scientific accuracy? No, it's science fiction like Star Wars that doesn't try for "total" scientific accuracy. The fighters make sound while zooming around in space, etc. That's overlookable; it's understandable that they add effects like that because it's what the audience expects. (The first few episodes of the original Star Trek were accurate in this regard, but people were bothered by the fact that there was no noise from explosions.) However, even with things that are scientifically unrealistic (light sabers for example), the plot didn't dwell on the bad science. "I see you've constructed a new light saber. You're skills are complete. Indeed you are powerful as the emperor has foreseen." Had Luke and his light saber been in The Core, the dialog would have been, "I see you've constructed a new light saber." "Yeah, I went to radio shack and picked up some parts. By cross coupling the resistor with the transistor, I was able to obtain a different capacitance. Then, by junctioning the diode with the RF phase oscillator, I was able to create a different color than your saber." Jibberish.

Or to put it another way and use a different genre for an analogy, war movies don't always aim to be 100% accurate, and shouldn't really be criticized for dramatizing certain events (or making them less dramatic), or slightly re-writing history. However, The Core was to science and science fiction as the following scenario would be to a Civil War movie:

Okay, it's the American Civil War. The North, led by Stonewall Lincoln, mounted a brilliant attack against the South. Stonewall Lincoln led the charge himself, on his chariot pulled by 2 gophers. During the battle, the hero was wounded by a SCUD missile that landed near his camp. The South would have won, but their newly developed railguns overheated while trying to shoot down the North's helicopters, and their Stealth bombers were diverted off course after the North successfully hacked into the South's satellite navigation system and sent the Stealth bombers off course. The hero was treated at the mobile clinic by their specially built robots. By carefully clipping his toenails, his arm wound was healed.

The difference is though, star wars is meant to be a fantasy movie as well. There was no intention to make a movie that would try to stay as realistic as possible. I think the problem people have with the core is that it attempts to keep a realistic tone, but spends little effort into getting at least the basics down.

 

[LordMorpheus]

you people are overlooking what is by far the worst "science" scene in the movie.

So the space shuttle is crashing in LA for some hocus-pocus reason. They mention it's speed over the radio as being 300 knots (around mach 0.5).

Then it flies over a dodgers game. It is preceded by a sonic boom. Two things - sonic booms can't be ahead of what's causing them, no matter how hard they try, and two, no sonic boom at the speed the shuttle was traveling.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: LordMorpheus
you people are overlooking what is by far the worst "science" scene in the movie.

So the space shuttle is crashing in LA for some hocus-pocus reason. They mention it's speed over the radio as being 300 knots (around mach 0.5).

Then it flies over a dodgers game. It is preceded by a sonic boom. Two things - sonic booms can't be ahead of what's causing them, no matter how hard they try, and two, no sonic boom at the speed the shuttle was traveling.

In reality there is always a double boom, always. I live very close, and it is extremely loud and percussive. So while the speed indicated in the movie is inadequate to produce one, there would have been one.

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER

Originally posted by: LordMorpheus
you people are overlooking what is by far the worst "science" scene in the movie.

So the space shuttle is crashing in LA for some hocus-pocus reason. They mention it's speed over the radio as being 300 knots (around mach 0.5).

Then it flies over a dodgers game. It is preceded by a sonic boom. Two things - sonic booms can't be ahead of what's causing them, no matter how hard they try, and two, no sonic boom at the speed the shuttle was traveling.

In reality there is always a double boom, always. I live very close, and it is extremely loud and percussive. So while the speed indicated in the movie is inadequate to produce one, there would have been one.

He didn't say there weren't. He said that the sonic boom occurred before it went over. Do you sit in your house, hear a sonic boom, and think "oh gee, here comes the shuttle, I'll go outside and watch it pass over."

 

[PimpJuice]

Originally posted by: Modelworks
I have never been able to get past how super heroes can stand in the middle of a street and a car hit them, the car crumples and they never flinch. I didn't realize they had the ability to increase their mass 1000x then decrease all while not damaging the pavement. Or how can they pick up a car in one hand and lean forward without falling over. Must have super velcro in those shoes !


Another one from a movie I just worked on , I was told to ignore obvious problems with the plot, just do the work. A man with a bionic arm can pick up and throw huge objects. But only his arm is bionic, the rest of him is normal. He really drank his milk to have all those other normal bones in his body supporting the weight.

I think you're stretching a bit. You sound pretty anal about every little detail.....try to not use your brain so much and just enjoy it for what it is.