The Core

[DrPizza]

I think The Core actually won a physics award - for being the WORST example of bad physics of all the movies ever made which pretends to be using real science. The Day After Tomorrow was in 2nd or 3rd place. (Or do I have those two movies reversed?)

Either way, the science is so blatantly bad that it's near impossible to ignore. For someone good in science, it's like pouring acid in their eyes, but in an almost entertaining way it's so bad. It would be like forcing a grammar nazi to read a book with too, two, and to; there, they're, their; etc., screwed up in every other sentence, except 10 times worse than that.

Spoilers with explanations of bad physics: http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/core.html

 

[Rachael]

Originally posted by: IsLNdbOi

Originally posted by: Rachael
Heh, The Core is one of my top favorite ridiculous movies. I love it. Right up there with The Day After Tomorrow.

Gonna see 2012?

Oh absolutely, definitely excited for that one.

 

[AstroManLuca]

Originally posted by: HN
Hillary Swank, hot or not?

butterface

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Originally posted by: HN
Hillary Swank, hot or not?

I call her Hillary Skank for a reason. Not Hot.

 

[Mo0o]

Question about teh geode they crashed into, either the geode itself should have imploded (assuming it wasn't equalized or they would have been crushed the moment they stepped out right?

 

[evident]

how about godzilla. godzilla is able to chase down a helicopter but at the end of the movie, the taxi outruns it. ROFL

 

[Glitchny]

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.

no no no, tell us how you really feel.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: sjwaste
I hope this is free on fios on demand. Sounds like I have a movie for the afternoon.

You can't even find this movie on torrents anymore. Believe me, it's a good watch regardless.

 

[manowar821]

DOUBLE THE DATA FORCE

 

[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.

 

[Babbles]

The SciFi movies I dislike the most are those that do try to pass off movie science as real science. I like it more when it's something like Star Wars where there really isn't a sense of them even trying to make the science seem plausible.
Star Trek seems to walk more of a fine line, but even then the trekkie world is set far enough in the future nobody can genuinely mistake it for plausible science.

Shit like the core which is made to look like it can happen tomorrow and they try to use real and contemporary science to further the plot just makes me sick to my stomach.

 

[Rubycon]

This part really got to me near the ending...

After removing the reactor's fuel rods, the remaining terranauts are stranded with no power source, only 12 minutes from certain death due to the blast wave, but don't worry. The unobtainium hull of the ship conveniently converts heat to energy. In the remaining 12 minutes they pull the ship's power wires loose and solde r (?) them to the ship's inner hull. The ship magically powers up and the terranauts surf the blast wave to safety.

... this is not just a disaster movie. It's a disaster.

We're left with many questions. First where's the circuit? To produce power, current has to flow and this requires a voltage drop. If one wire is hooked to the ship's hull which supposedly acts as a high-voltage source, then where is the ground wire connected? Even if the circuit did exist, how could the unobtainium possibly produce exactly the right kind of power (AC verses DC) at the correct voltage just by dumb luck? If it's so easily done then why wasn't the ship designed with unobtainium backup power in the first place?

Yeah let's grab two thick random wires and solder them to the hull. You have to be effin' kidding me! They should have just wrapped the wires around their necks and hung themselves.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Originally posted by: Rubycon
This part really got to me near the ending...

After removing the reactor's fuel rods, the remaining terranauts are stranded with no power source, only 12 minutes from certain death due to the blast wave, but don't worry. The unobtainium hull of the ship conveniently converts heat to energy. In the remaining 12 minutes they pull the ship's power wires loose and solde r (?) them to the ship's inner hull. The ship magically powers up and the terranauts surf the blast wave to safety.

... this is not just a disaster movie. It's a disaster.

We're left with many questions. First where's the circuit? To produce power, current has to flow and this requires a voltage drop. If one wire is hooked to the ship's hull which supposedly acts as a high-voltage source, then where is the ground wire connected? Even if the circuit did exist, how could the unobtainium possibly produce exactly the right kind of power (AC verses DC) at the correct voltage just by dumb luck? If it's so easily done then why wasn't the ship designed with unobtainium backup power in the first place?

Yeah let's grab two thick random wires and solder them to the hull. You have to be effin' kidding me! They should have just wrapped the wires around their necks and hung themselves.

Yeah, the wiring schematics are bad, but the unobtainium doesn't even raise an eyebrow?

If a ship is made of something that doesn't exist is it all that big a leap of logic to believe that electrical circuits work differently when connected to mythical material?

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
I think The Core actually won a physics award - for being the WORST example of bad physics of all the movies ever made which pretends to be using real science. The Day After Tomorrow was in 2nd or 3rd place. (Or do I have those two movies reversed?)

Either way, the science is so blatantly bad that it's near impossible to ignore. For someone good in science, it's like pouring acid in their eyes, but in an almost entertaining way it's so bad. It would be like forcing a grammar nazi to read a book with too, two, and to; there, they're, their; etc., screwed up in every other sentence, except 10 times worse than that.

Spoilers with explanations of bad physics: http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/core.html

That was the general consensus in the physics department at school/work. I never saw the core, but I did see the day after tomorrow and yeah, it was pretty terrible from a science standpoint.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Degaussing the HDDs when the feds came knockin' was good though. So it has THAT going for it

 

[Kirby]

I don't know anything about physics and I noticed all the bullshit.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

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.

The movie came out when I was taking AP Physics. My teacher mocked it when we hit our rotational kinematics chapter.

 

[eplebnista]

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

 

[DangerAardvark]

Originally posted by: HN
Hillary Swank, hot or not?

Big titties, nice ass... but kinda looks like Gary Busey when she smiles. That's 2 in the pro coulmn, 1 in the con column... but I'm a Gary Busey fan so I giver her 3 pts in the pro column.

 

[Epic Fail]

Originally posted by: Rachael
Heh, The Core is one of my top favorite ridiculous movies. I love it. Right up there with The Day After Tomorrow.

LOL

FX showed The Day After Tomorrow then followed up with The Core, bad science movie night.

 

[zinfamous]

Like all the left-handed DNA models you see in movies and in media images.

The FOOLS!!!!!

 

[NikolaeVarius]

The main reason I like it was just because it had a giant laser drill going to the core of the earth. That was awesome. The rest? Pidgeons still have eyes you know..why would screwing with their GPS do anything.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Yeah, the wiring schematics are bad, but the unobtainium doesn't even raise an eyebrow?

If a ship is made of something that doesn't exist is it all that big a leap of logic to believe that electrical circuits work differently when connected to mythical material?

Yeah...unobtanium was used in the hull.

When I first heard that, I was wondering then if the movie was going to be extremely bad, or else it was intended as some kind of humorous comedy. One prediction turned out to be accurate.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

So I read this thread and sometime later was reading the wikipedia article for Flash Gorden for an unrelated reason, it got me thinking... Everyone pans the core for being scientifically unrealistic, but why does Flash Gorden get free pass? It takes place in our time and has that scientist guy that tries to explain stuff.

 

[acheron]

I think the writers were in on the joke. Come on, "unobtanium"?