Some films are remembered for their outstanding quality, others for their outstanding stupidity. The Core – The inner core managed this feat. The sci-fi disaster film is actually trivial. Nevertheless, even 20 years after its theatrical release, it manages not to fall into oblivion. Although the fame is questionable.
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What is The Core about?
After a risky experiment upsets the Earth’s delicate balance, catastrophe is unstoppable. However, there is one last chance: Six “Terranauts” from a special unit of NASA penetrate to the center of the earth. There should Dr. Josh Keyes (Aaron Eckhart) and his crew around pilot Hilary Swank den immediate collapse of the earth by nuclear detonation stop to save the earth and with it all mankind.
The Core – Trailer (German)
The Core’s stupidity is legendary and had consequences
The Core is quite enjoyable to watch, and that’s not just because of the weirdly crappy effects and weird scientific derivations. The Core is Armageddon in reverse. He almost obsessively works through the same plot points. Only those in the interior of the earth make less sense than in space (where Michael Bay was already not so precise with physical laws). This formulaic spectacle with its Windows 95 special effects it is always a great pleasure to look at.
However, The Core owes its growing cult factor to the outrageous stupidity of its concept: According to Salon, it made Hollywood films more accurate in their scientific claims.
Here we explain in more detail the full extent of The Core’s scientific inaccuracy.
A big budget and big stars didn’t help the sci-fi blockbuster
It doesn’t look like it, but The Core has cost up to $85 million, The Numbers writes. That’s not a monumental budget, certainly not in the traditionally pricey sci-fi/disaster genre. But something more than this trash look would have been possible.
The cast is also in stark contrast to the rest of the presentation. Oscar winner Hilary Swank, Aaron Eckkart, Stanley Tucci and many other well-known faces star in supporting roles. In the end, a tremendous effort was made just so that The Core is remembered today as arguably the dumbest sci-fi film of the last 20 years.
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