The Core Review - Off The Shelf Reviews 

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Favorite part of this movie: Stanley Tucci's final scene, where he's recording his thoughts for posterity, and goes, "What the f*ck am I doing?"

Garys list near the end was hilarious. I thought he might descend into a Stanley Tucci style meltdown but he bravely kept a lid on it. (just) “You can’t get the internet at the centre of the earth!” 👏 I still love the space shuttle landing scene. Great video,guys. ✌️

The Core is so over the top it makes Armageddon seem like a scientific documentary

The most absurd movie that exists and each time I enjoy it more and more! Gracias señores!

Thanks, Gary, for the list of scientific inaccuracies, before giving your recommendation for The Core. I'm really glad you pointed out the things that were driving me crazy about this film, so it was nice to see you mention those as your way of knowing the junk science behind it, but still going, "Yes, I get it. I know these things make no sense, I know it's stupid, but it's still a fun popcorn flick and I enjoy it." You nailed my biggest problems I had with the movie, but you forgot one last important one: a single person, cannot hack the entire internet, even with a building full of supercomputers, because it's the friggin' internet. Also, Electric Magnetic waves are not like sound waves and actually can travel through air, solid objects, & even space. If that weren't possible, then the Earth's core wouldn't be able to generate our magnetosphere beyond the Earth's mantle to protect us from the Sun's UV rays, hence the point of the movie, to restore it, albeit with pseudo science.

The government ordering a computer nerd to scrub the truth from the internet...this movie was ahead of its time.

That's a cool Easter egg of the fish falling from the sky and slamming into the window.

Stanley Tucci has always been one of the highlights of this movie to me. This is a movie I immensely enjoy, so long as I don't allow myself to think about any of it. Reading what John Rogers has written about his part of writing the script, it's amazing just how much worse the science of this movie could have been.

Great choice 👌🏼... wake and bake to this one ✌🏽

Excellent review as always. I love The Core . Definitely one of my favourite disaster movies.

I don't get why the writers can't come up with something just A LITTLE BIT more believable. 10min of internet research and/or a chat with an actual scientist and you could tell the same drama but with a background that doesn't insult the intelligence of a 12 year old. It wouldn't hurt the movie, i promise!

I bloody-love terrible Films like this one. Knowing how bad they are, somehow makes them more entertaining. Not worthy of a Saturday Night viewing, but certainly worth a Sunday Afternoon chill. Ever since Meteor (Sean Connery & Natalie Wood), this has became a laughable tradition in our home.

I'm so glad you guys did this review I remember listening to the director's commentary on the DVD and I couldn't even find where the infamous trout he mentioned was in that scene, thank you for showing it, that was wild they actually did that!

This movie is a guilty pleasure of mine. It works for me because of the talent. If this movie wasn't well cast, we would not be talking about it today. It would be forgotten.

Gary never missed a beat..Literally 😆A Great movie and a great review as always guys.

"Destiny meet world, World meet Destiny" - and then that epic 30 Seconds From Mars song starts; ECHELON.

Gary, you should have a viewing party for this movie. I would love to watch it with you, some sort of stream or something.

This movie is a bit of a guilty pleasure for me. I know it’s not the best film and really unbelievable but I still like it.

The list at the end is hilarious.

Speaking of Delroy Lindo and Alfre Woodard. Have Gary and Iain ever reviewed Spike Lee's Crooklyn (1994)?

electro magnetic disruption would be so antiintense as to cause all space radition to instantly kill everyone on earth on the dayside like it's kinda funny how worse it would actually be. The entire magnetic field of the earth which deflect deadly sun radiation would just be gone instantly.

Having worked in emergency medicine for years humour, bad, good, sometimes tasteless, was the only way to deal with the serious and often devastating situations you find yourself in. Without dark humour in those even darker terrible and unimaginable times that can be the only way to keep functioning and working and hopefully maintaining a little sanity along the way. Essentially I’m saying that in a crisis world ending situation I get having the humour 🤷🏻‍♀️

Loving the Slimer teddy ❤😅

Still own the DVD of this film. Great vid guys, and to answer your "How is she flying through this?" question - The Virgil is still crawling through magma, not empty air. This movie took the liberty of giving us "lava vision" so that you could understand what was going on outside the ship. Good thing she didn't find any more geodes on the way up lol!

44:50 She nervously laughs and is immediately embarrassed and ashamed for doing so. Great moment of real acting.

Stanley Tucci AKA The Tooch 😎

A decent "End of the World" movie with pretty good SFX. Good casting, however @ times the story got a little clumpy. I was born & raised in San Francisco, right on schedule & once again "The City" & Golden Gate Bridge gets wiped out in a movie. (First time GG Bridge destroyed "It Came From Beneath The Sea" 1955). All in all... a watchable disaster flick.

I mean, even if you could sink into lava, you'd be burnt to a cinder just from the heat before getting anywhere near the lava. The science of this film is terrible, but the worst IMO, probably because most people think it's possible is when the burst of microwaves melt the Golden Gate. Not only are microwaves harmless unless concentrated in a confined space (like an oven), but they only affect water molecules. Unless the bridge is built from something with water, it wouldn't be affected by microwaves.

I've always had a soft spot for this movie too. There's just no other movie like it.

THE CORE is GARY'S HELLRAISER JUDGEMENT when IAIN had a mental breakdown

Delroy Lindo steals the show as always.

Great overlooked schlock. Love it!

All time classic from my childhood.

Love this film! It's super cheesy but it's great!

Yet another movie I'm pleased to have you lads introduce me to :)

Really pleased you guys like this film cos I look past the flaws and love the adventure.. Great review, nice to see the film get some love ❤ Edit, didn't know about the fish so that was an eye opener

Another happy morning for me as I’ll be listening to this one at work haha! Thanks lads!. Any chance maybe you could review 2012? With John Cusack..? Iv been watching that lately.

Another great review! Please review Joe Versus the Volcano, not enough people talk about this movie!

One of my absolute favourite terrible films. So many stupid, hilarious moments.

This is a childhood favorite of mine. Love the design of the subterranean vehicle

love this one, its so cheesy but good.

Core! That had a lot of errors. I'm so sorry. Fun movie anyway.

I honestly haven’t even heard of this movie. I know what I’m watching this weekend.

I still really wish you guys would review Disturbia.

Awesome!!! Loved this movie. I put it on when I need to sleep. Like a comfort movie.

May sound strange to say, but I miss the days when studios just burned piles of money on absurd shit

This movie might have more interest now that the real Earth's core has stopped spinning.

I've always had a soft spot for this movie too

shelf life!

Great movie but not as good as 'At The Earths Core' with Peter Cushing and Doug McClure.

You're reviews are always good but I really enjoy this movie because I like it. I have to disagree with Iain about Hillary Swank's reaction to Bruce Greenwood's death. I always felt she smiled as a defence mechanism to deflect the situation before it suddenly hits her that she has to face up to a situation that she is emotionally unequipped to deal with.

Your reasonable objections are adorable haha

Best line ever! See I've never seen anyone melt in lava so I wouldn't know. Laughed so hard at that!

I love The Core,but it is completely idiotically technically in real life stupid,but it is just a fantasy movie :)

i saw this in cinema when i was 19! i consider it a guilty pleasure, i watch it every few years to kill time, cant go wrong

08:18 to 09:08 WELCOME TO GROVE STREET

This was the first film I ever saw on an airplane! Flew from the USA to Sweden and other than the guy who is recording himself before he blows up, the only thing I remember is how ridiculous Kyle from Road Trip was... he not only can hack with code, he can fucking play a gum wrapper like a harmonica and unlock unlimited long distance calls.. "FOREVER"

The bird scene is amazing (trouts or not). The rest not so much.

Indeed the concept dont make sense and therefore the plot dont make sense, but this movies are about entertaining destruction and espectacular stuff and in that aspect is kind of good

I do like this film. I find it immensely rewatchable and it’s a great disaster film. So funny you guys going through the false science though 😂

The northern lights have been seen in Texas.

Another great review from the boys!! Thanks!!!

I normally save these as workout videos but had been falling behind because of some health issues, I'm on the road to recovery now though. I'll watch this one when I get home from work as this is probably my favourite disaster movie, more because of the characters than anything else. You always do great work with your reviews, giving every genre, budget and era of film your full analysis. Always interesting and such a cosy watch. Nice work.

i like this movie a lot, seen it several times

They use the Toa Terrain Crawler mixed with Rock Raiders.

Have you fellows found a copy of 'Pennywise: The Story of IT'? I can help.

Please review terror tract John Ritter and Malcolm’s in the middles Hal are great in it oh sorry I don’t know Hal’s actor name sorry

ESCAPE FROM L.A. would be cool 😎

"I'm gonna need star trek tapes and hot pockets." The only thing I remember about this movie. EDIT: The line is star trek in the theatrical trailer and was changed to Xena tapes for the film.

DOUG MC CLOURE WERE ARE YOU TO SAVE THE DAY???

Bedankt

I was right for avoiding this film. Give me Journey to the Center of the Earth with James Mason instead. 🙂🙂🙂

All these "disaster " films are just copy and paste .

This movie is in my top 5 ripoff movies. They're clearly ripping off Armageddon in not only the plot but in its characters and scenes.

Generic positive regard toward waingro and ian, shelf life etc P.s. insomnia

At the Earth"s core (1976) has better Science, And Caroline Munro !!

Fantastical bad movie Looked up the core thing, it stopped in like 2009, and is in reverse now. One theory is a 700 year cycling reversal

I think the idea was great and some scenes were good. Overall ok entertaining. But the tone is off in so many scenes. And the effects are very bad 😂 Love Tucci though 👍🏻

More disaster movies please

This is one of stupidest and the most scientifically inaccurate movies I've ever seen and I loved every stupid second of it.

Also, killer whales are not whales, they're dolphins. And, the Earth's magnetic field is constantly in flux and even flips every few hundred thousand years!

In a gentle way, you can shake the world. Mahatma Gandhi

If you want _real_ magma-related facepalming, kick back and suffer _Volcano_ (1997) sometime. The only thing in the film worse than the movie physics is the lead-handed moralizing.

Studs

Thank you guys for reviewing this film because I will never watch it.

A forgotten film

Core blimey!

Yo

Always exciting when the lads release a new review! Will you ever do Martyrs (2008)?

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Bad Boy Bubby!

Thank you Gary and Ian... ! okey..this film totally sucks!! hahaha!!

On a science related forum, a group of posters lamented the 'stupidity' of Hollywood disaster movies . . and in the end, I posted, you should write and get produced your scientifically accurate science fiction movies . . if you can make them entertaining as well as accurate. I'm sure there are plenty of such movies, but most likely not well funded to internationally theater runs. A shame. But, after seeing what passes for sci fi on SyFy, there's a so bad its good and a so bad you're dumb audience out there tilting the scales . . and the earth's core.

Love this terrible movie.

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Solid review also the guy on the left looks like James Hetfield which is never a bad thing.

Yesssssssssss🎉🎉🎉🎉 back again with some good movies 🎉🎉😂😂

Good review.