Review: The Core

The Core (2003)

Plot: The core of the earth has stopped spinning, oh noes, and chaos ensues. The earth is heading for disaster and only a special team of scientists and military personnel can save us. Join the world’s first terranauts as they drill to the center of the earth to blow up some nukes to jump start the earth. Nukes, what can’t they do.

Dude WTF Core Scale: 1.0 The plot is terrible, the dialogue is so bad its funny and the science is so bad that it makes your head hurt. Somehow though, it all comes together in the perfect way. We can only hope that this was what they were hoping for. If you haven’t seen this before, go rent it, buy it or Netflix it. I recommend watching it with friends and a few alcoholic drinks. Best bits, spoiler free: Everything that Rat says and does Unobtanium Ridiculous unnecessary “heroic” sacrifices Science metaphors and pyrotechnic demonstrations

d12 Core Scale: 1.0 1.0 you say? Well yeah! This movie is what makes people who like bad science movies go "whoa." It is what little bad science movies aspire to grow up to be ("Mommy, can I have nukes too?"). It has everything -- plot, nukes, impossible materials, impossible science, hilariously bad dialogue, and some decent acting too (Oscar-winner, anyone?) The characters are standard, the hotshot pilot, the cool captian, the crazy copilot, the mad-with-popularity scientist and his pissed-off former partner, and the Rat. Also, you can't beat Tchéky Karyo for a crazy French guy. The only thing that could have made this movie better is people melting in lava... oh wait is has that too. Final point: Watch this movie. Now.

The Core Scale: an explanation

The Core Scale is a rating system that d12 and I use to rate movies. However, it is specifically used for rating how great a terrible movie is.

"Shenigans," you cry! "WTF do you mean 'how great a terrible movie is?'"

We all know that there are movies out there that we love despite being terrible. The core is perhaps the ultimate version of that for d12 and I. It is a movie that is so rife with bad acting, terrible plot holes, cheesey dialogue and horrid horrid science that one would expect that it would be nothing but excrement, human or otherwise. Yet out of this metaphoric crap a single rose of awesomeness has bloomed.

The Core scale is a decimal scale with 0 being the lowest and 1 being the theoretical highest. A rating of 1 means that the movie is both terrible and awesome for its terribleness.

-Dude WTF