I have to watch it again from the beginning but I changed the channel and randomly started off from just before the empty-space-crystals parts (i.e. just beyond 700 miles into the mantle). I loved it immediately! The cast included Aaron Eckhart and Hilary Swank that caught my attention first. "It must be a good movie" I thought.
The concept about sending a manned mission on-board a drilling ship to the core fascinated me.
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Do watch it from the beginning! It's awsome. I really liked the entire film.
shareI guess you've probably seen it by now, but yes, definitely worth watching. I know all about the bad science and all that, but it's really just a Great Big Adventure, and I love it for that.
It's out now on Blu-ray in the UK and Australia, so I assume it'll surface in the US and other places sometime soon. It's a pity the Blu-ray is completely barebones (not even a trailer!), but at least it looks and sounds fantastic.
You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.
I have enjoyed this movie quite a bit regardless of its vast scientific flaws.
I have also thoroughly enjoyed "Journey to the Center of the Earth" (1959), whose flaws are equally if not far more laughable and numerous.
A compelling story, good characters, believable acting...that's solid entertainment if not high philosophy. The triumph of the human spirit in the face of insurmountable odds is always a great story, any way you dice it, particularly if the story told elicits our sympathy and understanding.
Ego, pride, humility, bravado, fear, hope, competence, conflict, chance, failure and sacrifice (even sacrifice when last minute circumstances irrevocably dictate it) - it's all here.
That's the heart of movie-making, IMHO. The human condition, in all the multitude of ways to reveal it.
Indeed. Of all the scientifically-flawed movies to enjoy, this one sure beats a lot of them.
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