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Summary: What do professional movie critics know? Nothing.
Review: Movie critics are so jaded ..., they don't know what a good, fun movie is anymore. This is a case where the audience is right and the critics are dead wrong."The Core" was fun to watch ... Sure the technology of drilling to the center of the Earth was far fetched in this film; it was meant to be. Why? Because it's science fantasy just like Star Wars, Jurassic Park or Independence Day was science fantasy. Anybody who expects science fantasy to follow reality doesn't have enough IQ points to watch a movie. You also care about the characters in this movie unlike "Armageddon" where you're waiting for the next character to bite the dust. The special effects in this movie were just right because they didn't hurt your eyes or give you a headache like in other films. The Core is one of the best Science-Fantasy movies to come along in quite a while. Like the Carl Sagan-esque scientist in the movie, throw that tape recorder away, laugh and have a good time.
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Summary: another nature disaster film "The Core"
Review: The Core has joined the list of movies made for the big screen Dante's Peak, Volcano, Deep Impact, and Armaggedon. I like all the movies but my favorite is Deep Impact and I thought The Core would be some what like that. However, The Core was ok it had nice special affects my husband really liked the movie and it did have it's moments sad moments. No movie isn't the same without that. Then there was this big bang disaster kind of thing. But it didn't have enough of it as it should have. I mean there were a few of them but just not enough. For a moment there were scene's that looked like it would be scary and it was but then at the same time it wasn't it was just lacking so much more it seemed to me. I believe that the people who made this movie should have put more thought into it. But it was ok. It wasn't boring it was interesting. Some parts in the movie made me a bit teary eyed but that was it. All I can say is if you like natural disaster movies like I do then by all means watch the movie. If not then don't waste your time or money at the movies just wait until it comes out on pay per view or on video to rent it. As I said before my husband liked the movie so I have a feeling that we might own it to add to our collection when it comes out on video.
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Summary: Definitely something to see!
Review: I don't know what these other reviewers are talking about--I thought this was a great movie! Yes, you have to suspend reality a little, but you have to do that for ALL movies, especially sci-fi action movies. The dialog was humurous in places, no knee-slapping jokes, but chuckles were definitely had, and delighted chuckles at that!
The special effects showing the storms and destruction on the surface were good, but I thought that the effects below the surface were more interesting. The characters were real for the most part (there was one part where, instead of explaining or defending herself, Hillary Swank's character just stared) and made the story interesting.
All in all, this movie worked for me. I'll be pre-ordering it on DVD as soon as I can.
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Summary: What and you're surprised!
Review: These debunkers are saying this was a ham and that it was really stupid, but what were they expecting when they saw the preview, that practically gave it away. I knew from the start that this would be a terrible movie and I only saw the preview. I refuse to watch this...at least until it comes on network television. Skip this, there are better movies out there.
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Summary: The Core = The [useless movie]
Review: ... The film is 2hrs 30min o [useless movie]. There are so many holes in this thing that the earth's core can fit through that I can't even begin to count them. The one star? ...I give it to Tcheky Karyo and DJ Qualls, who are the only actors in this film trying to make it "entertaining". Pure and utter [useless movie]with science that I learned if fith grade.
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Summary: CORE: Isaac Asimov Meets Jules Verne
Review: The advance reviews of Jon Amiel's CORE were terrible so I had rather low expectations that ranged from special effects, to dialogue, to plausibility. I was pleasantly surprised that CORE delivered in the critical areas that a disaster movie is supposed to. The opening scene of birds flying amuck brought back some twitching memories of Daphne Dumorier's THE BIRDS. Other vignettes of geological and meteorological minor catastrophes well prepared me for the initial premise that would destroy the earth: that the spinning core of the planet's molten center had--well--stopped spinning, thus destabilizing the earth's magnetic fields and exposing humanity to the full force of incoming cosmic radiation. Now, even though I had no previous awareness that the core rotates, I could accept that it might stop. The so-called cheesy special effects were not cheesy at all. The lightning bolts ripping apart the Colloseum in Rome looked real enough. Further, the images seen through the drill ship's camera of the earth's core reminded me in a wacky way of the sights and sounds experienced by James Mason and Pat Boone as they also headed down towards the center of the earth in the film of the same name. Having a lovely female terranaut-scientist aboard brough back an image of Raquel Welch from FANTASTIC VOYAGE. To carp over the unlikelihood of humanity's being able to build a drill ship in three months is to miss the point. As the terranauts drilled their way down to the core to restart its rotation, I found that I actually cared about their collective fates. The ability of the audience to do that is what separates impure dreck from its more pure cousin that CORE certainly is. CORE is not a great movie, nor is it even a very good one, but is is good enough to be the latest update of a colorized 1950s B movie about the end of this world.
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Summary: Rotten To THE CORE...............Nice Cliche!
Review: Was this film any good?? No. Though starting off well enough, it was pretty bad as a whole. Actually it was quite stupid, with ignorant science that was very unrealistic. The movie had way too many conveniences in it, all explained away with ridiculous scientific stupidity that wouldn't fool a ten year old. Credible, hardly! When being spoon fed dribble about indestructible materials called "unobtanium"...yes, you read it correctly...that actually gets stronger under greater pressure and can transform energy to fuel (or something ridiculous like that), we are then expected to believe that this incredible new experimental ship gets fully completed and ready to go in three months! How convenient, eh? Just when the people of Earth just HAPPEN to need a device like this made from a material like this! Perhaps it was divine intervention???? The lack of destruction scenes really annoyed me. We got a few good shots of lightning striking all over Rome culminating in the destruction of the Coliseum, then it suddenly switches to an entirely destroyed city! The same with California, the Golden Gate Bridge melts and suddenly it switches to a news report of all California being fried while showing scenes of an already destroyed city! By the way, if the sun's harmful rays could melt a bridge like the Golden Gate, why did it not harm any of the cars or the people in them. One man's arm got burned when he stuck it out the window. That is it, nothing more! The bird sequence early in the film was silly also. Since when can crazed birds (the electro-magnetic field makes them go crazy and attack people???) actually bust windows? Panes of glass are thick and birds smacking into them will not break them unless they (the birds) are literally made of stone or something! What a cop out for a supposed disaster epic! The special effects were mediocre at best. The few destruction scenes we are treated to were handled adequately, but nothing nearly as impressive as disaster films of the past have presented us with. I never got past the fact that the Space Shuttle was very computer generated looking, ruining any real sense of danger during the crash landing sequence. The shuttle soaring over the city simply never looked RIGHT at all, though the actual crash was well executed. The Earth's core was silly looking and may have WOWED me ten years ago, but not these days. I expect more in the 21st century, but actually got MORE in the 20th century!
I would have almost forgiven the movie's shortcomings when it looked like all the main characters would have to die to save the planet. But no, at the last minute they come up with a thoughtlessly mind numbing idea on how to get the surviving cast out of the Earth's core, in a fraction of the time it took them to get in to boot! Can't a film ever have the courage to sacrifice everyone to save the planet? I wanted the filmmakers behind DEEP IMPACT to have the courage to actually let the second comet strike the Earth, while mankind survived in the caves till the Earth was habitable again. They did not have the courage to do that either, but rather saved the day at the last minute! A bittersweet ending, would that shock me and make me respect the filmmaker?? Yes. Did this movie (or any of the other disaster flicks for that matter) take the chance and actually DARE to do that? Of course not! The cast did a good job with what was given to them, but even their superior acting skills could not save this mess. Every time a team member dies, there was intense emotion, followed minutes later by a casual "OK, lets get on with the mission" attitude. Unbelievable to be sure, laughable definitely! The complete lapses in logic completely ruined my enjoyment of this film. Some may accept it as "dumb fun", but I refuse to be treated as a brainless movie-goer who doesn't deserve to be treated as though I have some intelligence. Hollywood, I expect more, but you never seem to deliver anymore! CGI whales, take me away!
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Summary: POSEIDON ADVENTURE meets ARMAGEDDON.
Review: When I first saw the trailers for this picture about a year ago, I thought: this is going to be such a dumb movie. However, after several weeks of not attending a cinema and with all the heavy conflict going on in the Middle East as I write this, I wanted to go see a big dumb movie. THE CORE is a big dumb movie. Sure it has a fairly impressive cast of mostly unknowns (Hillary Swank and Stanley Tucci withstanding) who do a remarkable job given the poor dialogue and bullet-ridden script; some great scenes on disaster; and a very subtle lesson of morality. Nevertheless, it's still a big dumb movie. For most of the story, the movie feels like a miniature POSEIDON ADVENTURE beneath the Earth, with characters dying left and right to save their comrades so that they can fulfill the mission and save humanity. Of course, then the audience is reminded that it doesn't really matter if everyone dies because in this film (like in ARMAGEDDON) the crew is out to save humanity and not themselves. Therefore, the movie is best described as a cross between THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE and ARMAGEDDON. As a sidenote, believe it or not, the movie did make me think about something. I found it interesting that two cities annhilated in the movie (I'm not giving anything away that the trailers don't) are Rome and San Francisco. Rome was once the city of decadence and San Franscisco has become America's own Gomorra. Were the filmmakers trying to imply anything by that or was it just a calculated fluke? Just curious.
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Summary: This movie has gotten a bum rap
Review: This movie has gotten a bum rap lately. It is a pure piece of escapism, filled with mind blowing visual effects, a fast moving plot with several surprises, and it's done what some movies lately haven't been able to do (I'm looking in your direction, THE RECRUIT) and that is keep me awake and on the edge of my seat. It's fun to watch, you care about the characters and their journey and at the same time the gradual destruction of the world never looked better or played out more thrilling. Just go in, relax, and have fun as you journey to the Core.
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Summary: The Core: Much needed diversion
Review: The Core is a B movie with little, if any, artistic value. What it has to offer is escape from the news from the front lines of the Iraq conflict and related current events. This...poorly produced, sci-fi-techno...flick can transport us from the...sorrowful reality of life on our...little "planet of the apes" which we take all too seriously in any case. I compare The Core with the numerous flicks produced during WWII which featured "sweater girls", little plot, yet drew movie-goers attention from the war.
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