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Topic reminds of film The Core in which the core has stopped rotating initiating a series of apocalyptic phenomena. (And in a Hollywoodian fashion the solution
by forgotpwd16 4y ago
Topic reminds of film The Core in which the core has stopped rotating initiating a series of apocalyptic phenomena. (And in a Hollywoodian fashion the solution is to release a few nukes in it to restart it.)
- amelius 4y agoThat was a really bad movie.
- ChuckMcM 4y agoYes, but I know a group of geologists that made a drinking game out of everything the movie got wrong about geology. They are always quite drunk by the end!
- pchristensen 4y agoSounds dangerous!
- wilg 4y agoIt’s absolutely amazing though.
- dylan604 4y agoabsolutely amazingly bad though. i recently (within a few weeks) watched this from beginning to end, and holy cow was i not impressed. to have so many actors of high report to end up such a horrible movie.
- amelius 4y agoThey wanted to make a disaster movie, and the movie indeed turned out to be a disaster :)
- bob1029 4y agoReally bad, but I absolutely love trash like this for some reason. I can watch movies like The Core over and over.
- telman17 4y agoSame, my wife is a geologist and one of my favorite things is to make her watch cheesy disaster movies with me. The commentary is hilarious.
- belthesar 4y agoI wish my wife appreciated my commentary whenever there's an obligatory hacking/software related bit on TV, haha.
- snapcaster 4y agoCan relate to this, "they apparently wrote their nuclear control software in HTML" haha
- partiallypro 4y agoTrash disaster movies have their place, 2012, Day After Tomorrow, The Core, Deep Impact, Armageddon, Moonfall, etc. They are all entertaining in their own right, and are usually very self-aware of how stupid they are. Ben Affleck's commentary on Armageddon is gold. Though, I think that film was a higher tier than most of the list here, the Aerosmith song made for that film dominated the summer radio that year and the soundtrack flew off the shelves. I wish things like that still happened, you'll get a bump on Spotify but its cultural impact is much less.
- mbg721 4y agoHeck, my parents and I still get great comedy mileage from Poseidon Adventure memes.
- coderenegade 4y agoIf there's anything I know about 1998, it's that Steven Tyler was dreaming of me, and didn't want to miss a thing. I can't think of the last time a movie moved the cultural dial the way they used to in the 90s. I guess Frozen? It seems to be a lot rarer nowadays. For me at least, a movie just isn't a spectacle the way it used to be. Going out to see Top Gun: Maverick, and seeing The Batman at a drive-in cinema is probably the closest I've been to that feeling since the original Avatar. Maybe I'm not giving enough credit to the Avengers movies.
- greenbit 4y agoWhat are you talking about, that movie is a National Treasure.
- rapnie 4y agoIt made a Deep Impact on me.
- 867-5309 4y agoSandworms gotta live somewhere
- SahAssar 4y agoIt really made me think about what might happen The Day After Tomorrow.
- bob1029 4y agoI almost feel targeted at this point. Why are all of my favorite movies like this?
- uoaei 4y agoIt appears you may have made "irony" into a personality trait.
- hasmanean 4y agoWatching the movie I felt like I had Journeyed to the Center of the Earth.
- teh_klev 4y agoWe'll be hanging in there by a few Threads.
- chungy 4y agoSometimes all it takes is a film to be entertaining enough, regardless of how dumb it may be.
- hammock 4y agoIs there a global-scale natural disaster movie that is any good?
- jacobsenscott 4y agoI thought Shaun of the Dead was good. Also liked A Quiet Place. I don't know if they qualify as "natural disasters", but neither zombie viruses nor aliens are "human made" (depending on the type of zombie virus of course).
- atombender 4y agoContagion is a very realistic depiction of a global pandemic.
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- helloworld11 4y agoSecond this recommendation. I loved Contagion, and watching it during the early days of our own very real recent pandemic put a whole new spin to an already great film.
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- glennonymous 4y agoGreenland is surprisingly good, and scandalously overlooked: https://www.google.com/search?q=greenland+movie&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari https://www.google.com/search?q=greenland+movie&ie=UTF-8&oe=...
- wilg 4y agoI've always wanted a zombie/apocalypse/disaster movie where everyone works together and rebuilds civilization and the struggles therein, instead of it being about how humans are really evil when the shit hits the fan. So cynical!
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- rolenthedeep 4y agoIt's absolutely atrocious but I've watched it dozens of times and I still love it
- deltarholamda 4y agoSame. The sciencey bits are deliciously absurd, but they all kind of hang together in their ridiculousness. Unobtanium that gets stronger under pressure and can also generate power, and to tap that power you just need to weld conductors to the hull and plug that into the engine and it goes, just awesome nonsense. Also it's great to watch Stanley Tucci be sniffy and pert nonstop.
- xeromal 4y agoI have a facination with disaster movies. 2012 and The Day after tomorrow are other faves of mine. The holy grail of those movies for me though is Children of Men.
- mrexroad 4y agoOne of these is not like the other…
- tsujamin 4y agoDid you mean: _that was a really good movie_? But actually, I can rewatch that movie endlessly on repeat
- treeman79 4y agoOpinions on Sharknado movies? If your going to ditch science, may as well go all in.
- tablespoon 4y ago> Topic reminds of film The Core in which the core has stopped rotating initiating a series of apocalyptic phenomena. (And in a Hollywoodian fashion the solution is to release a few nukes in it to restart it.) They should use it in public schools to teach earth science.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 4y agoNaturally, the only way to get to The Core is with a vehicle made from a metal[0] which gets sturdier (rather than... melt) as it gets hotter. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtainium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtainium
- donpdonp 4y agoGeneral Thomas Percell: How do we fix it? Dr. Josh Keyes: We can't. General Thomas Percell: Not in my vocabulary. (possibly the greatest burn in movie history) Dr. Josh Keyes: Then you might want to get one of those word-a-day calendars, General, because it's impossible. The core is the size of Mars. You're talking about jump-starting a planet. This is a superheated hyper-fluid of molten iron and nickel at 9,000 degrees Fahrenheit. And the deepest we've ever been is... 7 miles, with a two-inch drill bit. General Thomas Percell: If we can go into space, we certainly... Dr. Josh Keyes: Space is easy. It's empty. We're talking about millions of pounds of pressure per square inch. Even if we somehow came up with a brilliant plan to fix the core, we just can't get there.
- TMWNN 4y ago>(possibly the greatest burn in movie history) But it's not a great burn, because the general turns out to be right and the scientist is wrong! Further, Percell is clearly being characterized as believing that raw effort—spend as much money,[1] throw as much resources at a problem as it needs—always wins out. And, again, he turns out to be right. [1] Leading to the best single line of the film, far better than your choice
- andrew_shay 4y ago"It seems Destini may have caught up with us"
- mrexroad 4y agoOr for another fun “the core has stopped!” disaster film: Sunshine. A warning however, it takes a sharp left turn towards horror at one point.