A couple of questions

1. When the ship (Virgil) first encounters the "empty space" (vacuum) within the core, everyone straps on to their seats because they expect that the ship will accelerate greatly (which it does) since the empty space offers no resistance. However, when the ship is actually accelerating, why is everyone thrown "forward"? Shouldn't they be thrwon "back" into their seat? Just like when a car speeds off, the passenger is sucked back into his seat. The only time a passenger would be thrown forward would be when the car stopped suddenly?

2. Can the earth's core REALLY stop moving? I'm no scientist but isn't the motion of the core brought about by the rotation of the earth? So the only way the core would stop moving is if the earth stopped rotating. This movie is trying to say that you can swirl a glass of water but only the glass will swirl while the water inside remains static. That's a bit far-fetched, isn't it?

I understand that it is a work of fiction and all movies take some liberties with the actual facts. I'm totally for that. But you can't take liberties with basic stuff and expect that people will buy that. Like people have criticized "Armageddon" for being scientifically inaccurate. But within the context of movie-making, I wouldn't bother too much about those flaws. However, if they had shown Bruce Willis and his team walking on the asteroid WITHOUT their space suits, then that would be ridiculous.

"I'm the dude playin' the dude, disguised as another dude!"