That SciFi Guy: The Core

That SciFi Guy's take on the 2003 film "The Core" infamously known for it's bad science.
(Originally published on Apr 13, 2010)
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[@Wikingking]

I "love" the core because it's so extremely silly that it's insane. It's not even serious and does not want to look like one. I think they kill the serious notes over and over again. But then again it has memorable and great characters, so it makes it ultimately better, than the Transformers movies.

[@SmrtPhonRtistCF]

Same here, according to the director, he wanted the movie to be leavity with humor and improv to make it more natural and fun, supposedly.

[@rwrunning1813]

I don't really care that it doesn't make any scientific sense. I just like the story. It's like a dream. Dreams don't have to make sense to be enjoyable.

[@wifegrant]

I loved this movie and watched it probably 10 times. I find myself making fun of it while watching it every time lol. The geek guy was the biggest cringe "I speak ones and zeros...." FFS XD

[@brajeshsingh2391]

its funny and cheesy. I liked it. It has the pairing of Aaron Eckhart and Hilary Swank, who I thought were two of the most unromantic actors in Hollywood and here you liked them together so that's a plus. But yes its really silly.

[@brajeshsingh2391]

and two face and the 2 time Oscar winner are certainly having a great time. Their acting is as bad as it gets but still they have chemistry.

[@hreader]

'The planet's healing itself' (by getting rid of all those pesky humans in one huge earthquake?) Oh. No. Anti-climax.

[@TrayTerra]

Was watching this with my wife last night, and thought “I hope there’s a debunk of this” and was almost disappointed until I finally found this video. Thanks for making this lol.

[@rubyredjewel6222]

I really really enjoyed your review for this film. I'd only come across this movie Sat afternoon when it was shown multiple times on cable. It's now a guilty pleasure for me along with "Dante's Peak" & "Volcano".

[@deeptoot1453]

@@rubyredjewel6222 now I'll have to watch those movies as well.

[@vyneshindenmc6181]

​@@rubyredjewel6222you are replying to the wrong person, he's not the one who made the video

[@rubyredjewel6222]

@@vyneshindenmc6181 ok thanks for letting me know

[@Rekreated1]

Oh come on, it was still laughably enjoyable.

[@marianpazdzioch6632]

When he said that earth's core stopped, you should not be calling dr Wiki on how EM fields work, but on where all this kinetic energy went.

[@TheSefirosu200x]

That's what I was thinking. Know where that kinetic energy probably went? To the crust. To rip it apart.

[@nogland8916]

8:04

[@marianpazdzioch6632]

@Jason McCabe Interesting theory. Rotational kinetic energy of Earth's inner core is about 2.0x10^24J (based on mass and radius from various sources). Assuming total energy conversion and skipping energy required to split turtle into pieces as it's insignificant, we can calculate that transfering this energy into 7kg (15 lbs) turtle will result in pieces traveling at speeds > 0.99999c. So child does not have piece logded in her shoulder. Child does not have shoulder at all, or probably no solid body anymore, in general. And yea, I'm drunk ...

[@marianpazdzioch6632]

On the contrary. It is only when I realized the numbers, and imagined turtle pieces scattering around with the speed of light, exploding everything the came contact with, including little girl, then the joke really started to shine :)

[@TheSefirosu200x]

Jason McCabe The joke actually got a lot funnier with what he said, the pieces of the turtle exploding outwards at light speed and nuking New York.

[@SilverSurfer166]

I hate it when they use the term "Unobtainium". It comes off as lazy screenwriting to me. Make up a name for your special metal that somehow makes electricity when heated already.

[@thebigh4752]

I have to agree here. If we are gonna use lazy metal-explanation, at least put some effort into the name. (Heck, even James Cameron used it, but maybe I can be convinced that he was being ironic. Maybe.)

[@JuriAmari]

TheBigH In the Core's case, it has a slight excuse since he did say the original name is lengthy. But the plot kills it by telling the basic metal composition from the get-go! They could've come up with something cool!

[@thebigh4752]

Indeed. They could have made up a bullshit excuse - like the thing being made out of some material which is in existence, but too expensive for his project. Just up the price from a Billion to 10 or something.

[@suddenlytitan739]

Unobtainium is a substance having the exact high test properties required for a piece of hardware or other item of use, but not obtainable either because it theoretically cannot exist or because technology is insufficiently advance to produce it. I came to this review because I watched a video from a channel could Today I Learned and people in the comment section said that this movie said it before Avatar

[@suddenlytitan739]

nevermind, I didn't watch the whole video before commenting

[@lumf5649]

like my science teacher said you get dumber watching this movie

[@rafflesiadeathcscent3507]

like my science teacher said, you dont expect to learn from an entertainment if you dont want to be disappointed

[@TheNipSnipper]

No one watches movies to become more intelligent. And they wouldnt even if they did. Same for the opposite. Just dont take the core to be a science lesson and you're good lol...

[@TheGnurgen]

18:40, just because your built something doesnt mean you know how to immidiately fix anything about it.

[@reaganjohnson4166]

TheGnurgen he wasn't trying to fix it he was attempting to overide the ejection sequence during which he eventually gave up and cried out "i don't know what to do" there's a difference my guy

[@TheGnurgen]

​@@reaganjohnson4166 Sure, but isnt that a bit pedantic and how does it change my point?

[@leiderhosen7110]

Late, but yeah, he's not even trying to "fix" it, he's actually trying to "break" it by forcing it to do something it wasn't designed to do. Clearly the override was in the command center, so pulling open a random hatch on the all and hoping for the best was likely worthless, which is what he as saying.

[@axelwulf6220]

True Pretty sure Doc Brown couldn't quite figure out why his temporal DMC - 12 was always stalling

[@hotsforyou2]

The Core is so bad that it makes Armageddon look like Titanic!

[@hotsforyou2]

Thanks!

[@HajduDIGITAL]

I find Armageddon bullcrap, the Core is just silly.

[@tecno8335]

Ill watch armageddon first

[@adrianespinel7758]

Man, this movie is stupid, but entertaining stupid, a guilty pleasure for me. One of my favorite sci-fi guilty pleasures in fact.

[@Theottselmaster]

Soon as I saw Captain Pike in this movie I knew he was a walking dead man.

[@jonacarweenie]

This is my favorite movie of all time.

[@KishaLynnElliott]

JonaCar me toooooooo!! *disaster movie that is

[@tecno8335]

Dont lie

[@garethlloyd1445]

Is that because it was the only movie you've ever seen at that point. 😂

[@hreader]

'As long as you can ignore logic, and any science you might know... you can enjoy a fun ride!" Exactly!

[@TheSefirosu200x]

Dear God, NUKES DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!!!!

[@sparthacuster]

“Harvey Dent” lol 😂

[@k1productions87]

At least with "The Core" he explains the material HAS a real name, but it is so long and complicated that HE calls it "unobtanium" to 1) make it easier to say, 2) as a joke, considering he was laughing at it, and 3) certain he would not be able to obtain much (especially with the limited funding he had at the time). Its not like how in "Avatar" they just used the word as if that is what a substance should actually be called.

[@vjpearce]

I'm still amazed that this film got a cinema release.

[@FortnotVR]

I watched this in my science class so we could spot the bad sciences, and when I saw the guy walking behind the Xray at 11:40 I was like "uhhhh that's an Xray." I'd say this movie was decent tbh

[@vjpearce]

28:35 I know they weren't technically diving, but wouldn't they have still gotten decompression sickness accending that fast?

[@LetBBB6345789]

NICE VID! Forgot two things: 1) How the heck did they make it back through the Earth crust without the laser?! They say it is a combination of riding back the exact tunnel they made earlier combined with some lucky natural pockets/tunnels.... really... They are riding a nuclear shockwave through ~2000 km of magma goo with visuals that look like lava lamp and find either the entrance to their precious made tunnel (but which previously was shown to cool down to rock again on several occasions) and/or just happen to find that convenient tunnel that leads up to a) the sea and b) that place where whales are. 2) Geek kid released news on project Destiny so the comrades could be known and celebrated as heroes. Did really no one go like "WHAT THE FUCK US! You nearly killed the planet!" and "Maybe we should somehow tell other governments of the project so they do not try the same thing (as we suspected they are trying) and we are in this mess all over again".

[@zuzoscorner]

This movie for me is a guilty pleasure. it just so goofy I love it.

[@Capjedi]

"We're not going anywhere." "Why?" "My Crystal Ball is broken! I can't predict that the tear in this giant gem bubble will fill it with molten lava, melting everything around us, thus freeing our ship! Sooooo..."

[@puppymolly123]

Honestly I have a bit of a soft spot for this movie. It also kinda helps that the producer was one of my uncle's best friends, which I honestly think is pretty cool.

[@ArahabakinoKami]

Even with the crazy physics, it´s a good movie.

[@prosperocobbler6734]

The science makes no sense on any level but still a good character driven movie with a well developed plot line. You have to heavily suspend disbelief but still well done.

[@Perciville107]

they even address it in the movie, five seconds after half of the clips used they point out the ridiculousness of it :P

[@CircuitReborn]

Technically,using the scanner they did instead of sound makes sense due to the fact the ship laser goes through nearly everything,the diamonds were literally the only problem. As for the ship compartmentsexploding in the earths core...well,it may be tight as possible on the outside,but the inside is still being held together with nuts and bolts...blow those away and the ship compartments would literally just scatter apart riding the blast wave.

[@fanghur]

Why the hell didn’t they just bring an unubtainium sledgehammer with them? That would have made a hell of a lot more sense than using whatever the hell that cutting tool was supposed to be to get rid of the crystal. 🤦‍♂️

[@Larsplatoon]

This show was so well done, I wish it had kept going.

[@stevejordan7275]

Wouldn't that have required that the MOVIE kept going? You don't want THAT, do you?

[@xxedgy_outsiderxx9978]

on twitter he told me hes working on something

[@gianmartinez8001]

Just for tge sake of entertainment, let's bend the laws of science shall we? Though the movie has a great concept I think they should've sticked on somewhat "closer to reality" science

[@Seb1l]

They should have called it "The Chamber" with the aim being to stop the Yellowstone Supervolcano magma 'chamber' from erupting. More plausible.

[@WeirdWonderful]

I find it hilarious all these super smart people never considered the possibility of there being *caverns* underground.

[@painter194]

Wow!! Thanks. I love your videos. I rewatch your stuff all the time. You have such a talent. Wish you would make more videos more often. Keep up the great work, and thank you for entertaining me for so many years.

[@MotownDubbz]

19:50 bridge melts but only car tires melts 🤣😂

[@chinareds54]

"Virgil's not designed to eject undamaged compartments" . It wasn't designed to power the impeller off its unobtainium shell either, and two people without engineering degrees were able to figure out to make that work in 5 minutes. You're the designer of the ship and you couldn't figure out a way to trick it into thinking the compartments were damaged? The only solution was a suicide mission to basically flip a switch in a hallway?

[@Capjedi]

"WHAT? I can't even get signal in an ELEVATOR!" :-P

[@peternacken4730]

One of my guilty pleasure moments ... revisiting every few years ...

[@axelwulf6220]

Yeah, I agree that the situation in the geode was easily solved if they just went back inside the ship and waited a few minutes

[@Ubermensch9240]

23:10 Missed opportunity for a Metal Gear Solid 4 reference.

[@ramsackdude]

death on lava is alot more gory than this

[@50ftFlummel]

17:51 The diamonds, MY GOD!

[@Micktaylorify]

I just realized something, a thought came to me … in ascending back to the earth’s surface FROM the earth’s core, regardless of the speed, wouldn’t the two remaining people in the “Virgil” craft get THE BENDS??(No, I don’t mean Radiohead) I mean, if scuba divers can get gaseous nitrogen bubbles to form in their bloodstream after not even going a fraction of the way down, what about them? … unless, after the closing credits, they were whisked away to a decompression chamber. P.S. I noticed your shirt, as one of the privileged few that saw the original, authentic version of Star Wars in ‘77 … Han Solo was the ONLY one who shot his blaster at “Greedo”.

[@KaosNova2]

It would depend on the pressure of the air inside the ship. Did the Craft maintain pressure?

[@hreader]

The Earth's Core WELCOMES careful drivers!

[@GRasputin91]

The director spent three years fighting science bullshit so give him a little credit. They were originally going to have dinosaurs and a windshield for the ship

[@TheJman669]

The house opener earned you a subscription and a fan.

[@chrisbroussard8335]

This movie was still a classic. It was the first of its kind.

[@edmondhung6097]

Same thought on the get back to the ship and wait for a few minutes so the lava melt the crystal or at lease allow you to reverse instead of cut them

[@brutalistkiosk]

i think i counted five legitimate criticisms, the rest was false equivalence and half jokes. there were so many things you could've talked about too

[@ylette]

An involuntary Sharknado.

[@bFix]

nah the plot and everything except the science is great :)

[@nDndAd]

You forgot "Space: Above and Beyond" in your FOX cancelled scifi list.

[@Markus22MUC]

The one thing about that movie that pisses me off the most is this whole Shuttle landing in Los Angeles River scenario. I mean it´s not like there is an airport in Los Angeles with runways longer than 10000 feet... oh wait, there is and this airport has 3 of those runways, plus one that´s 9000 feet long.

[@maxpaschke2297]

The Core was 2003! Not 2001!

[@shotgundrums]

...”But, now it’s just one car! Are you really telling me it’s pulling high speed maneuvers with a couple of screws?”

[@TheHeroBleeder]

the EM Field could have a sustainable enough Charge for it to stay in place.

[@secludedmisanthrope6388]

I don't think I've ever heard the movie Real Genius being referenced by anyone and you couldn't be more correct!!

[@ThatDangerousWolf]

One of my favorite movies and my main guilty pleasures. It was absolutely terrible, but I love it like I love the Room

[@Manta665]

3:30 - Dude! Serious BSG late season spoiler thrown in so casually!

[@TheGrandOracle]

You’d be surprised how often birds fly into windows and kill themselves

[@stef96ify]

I agree Rat's lines "The planet is healing!" and "The whales are singing for them!" are ridiculous and goofy: how can the self-proclaimed Kung Fu master of Internet hackers know how to use ""poetry""?

[@danielkoufman291]

Love the video. I have a question. Maybe you or someone can answer. In reference to the geode scene, if that giant empty space in the middle of the Earth was ruptured and then filled with the magma, wouldn't that cause I giant displacement? What would the effects of that displacement be on the Earth?

[@johnyoung5392]

The pressure would have crushed them as soon as they stepped outside. thousands of kilometers of water and rock would have had some bogglingly massive pressure of whatever gas was in that geode.

[@user-be3lq1il4t]

That disaster-o-matic bit was fantastic

[@maxpower6979]

Ok I'm glad someone finally addressed the crystal melting/cutting issue. I watched this movie in the past and I always wondered way they just didn't get back in the ship when the magma was going to solve their problem.

[@hreader]

'A trillion, TRILLION tons of hot metal'! Not just 'Holy S**t!' 'Holy Isaac [Newton]!' Whatever happened to the angular momentum of 10 power 24 tons of hot metal?

[@MrBCorp]

Dude. You forgot to mention how they are able to walk around the ship. Gravity should be pinning them into the back of their chairs and forced them to crawl up and down the ship. Apparently gravity works differently in their ship.

[@Rocking_B]

Why does everyone have to crap on something made for entertainment not education

[@garethlloyd1445]

Thought I give this movie a try when I was browsing Netflix. I got about 30 mins in around where the major randomly pressing buttons and flips switches on a device she has never seen before because the guy invented it himself. He explained to her what he had invented and she immediately knew how to improve it. That's when I said to myself "I've had enough of this crap" so I watched your vid instead which was a better watch

[@camhadland6227]

They made us watch this movie in middle school for "education". We didn't have a choice, and it was the entire school.

[@dragonrider4339]

Where did everyone go to the bathroom? 😂 maybe they had 3 seashells.. 😂

[@TheNipSnipper]

I really enjoyed this movie when I was a kid. I rewatched it last night and still really enjoyed it. Maybe its just roseglasses but oh well. This time watching through I was constantly like "that's not how that works." I thought it was a fun movie. :p

[@DreFromMaine8472]

This is definitely one of the stupidest and most poorly written disaster films of the last 25 years or so. They weren't even attempting to be scientifically accurate! It's so bad its not even a guilty pleasure for me. Thanks for sitting through it so we didn't have to!

[@winstonlee7258]

Great video SciFi Guy, I really liked your analysis and your good observations! The movie really is pretty over the top, and you do have to suspend your disbelief to go along with it. I wonder if the producers consulted any scientific experts in making this movie. One thing you didn't talk about is the intense heat at the core of the planet. Even if their ship was made of the magic metal, it would not be able to keep out the heat, so there's no way they would not die of the heat half way into their journey. But I liked the movie a lot overall, it did something new and explored a planetary disaster that I think hadn't ever been explored before.

[@pandakso3365]

12:50 Yesss, I LOVE disaster-o-matic, played it all the time as a kid

[@ShrekWallBee]

3:55 he also had hes own tv series "Carl Sagan's Cosmos"

[@chinareds54]

$50 billion dollars to get it done in 3 months... how do they keep it a secret? This isn't a computer game; you don't just magically convert money into the desired product. The money pays for raw materials and for labor. To get the same work done in a shorter amount of time, you have to pay more people to work on it. So to get something like Virgil built in 3 months even with unlimited money, you have to have thousands of people working on it.... in absolute secrecy?

[@103035icle]

the romans might not of invented reebar. but they did invent cement.

[@nicholasselvaggi54]

Real Genius and Weird Science. 2 of my 80s favorites off all time 😆

[@axelwulf6220]

The Core is one of those movies that does and doesn't take itself seriously Our MC is a genius goofball, which is a bit of a counter productive combination, but he pulls it off Our second MC is an experienced copilot who only wants to prove she can handle it We have a number of other characters who have just as important, but are in no way forgettable And a bitchin' set of wheels we all want to have

[@HalifaxHercules]

Due to slab graveyards and crustal recycling, its impossible that subterranean mountains and "Crystal Grand Canyons" may exist in the lower mantle area.

[@9897431]

this movie just started playing after rich & jay's carpenter movie list video i can kinda see the relation. SO glad this video response is here

[@jeanlucdiscard]

@11:00 "Yes, yes, and what if the core is made out of cheese?" Foreshadowing: It IS made out of cheese

[@MrMAC8964]

its an ok disaster movie but ! At one point when crash landing the shuttle the Capt says "unlock your harnesses , its outa my hands" . So wtf does that mean ? would they do that?

[@MrKnight19971]

I saw this on Netflix about two weeks ago and i honestly liked it. I really did. Yes, it's a stupid plot with just as stupid CGI. but i liked it because of it's characters. With that said, the acting and budget was wasted on a dumb plot. I also like that South Park referenced this movie when making that one episode where Stan joined a hippy wood stock thing so they build a giant drill to get to the stage and play death metal. This movie had an average budget of $100 million.

[@hreader]

Love it! (The review, that is). The Core must rate as one of the silliest movies ever made from the point of view of realistic science. I'd be waving that 'Suspension of Disbelief' flag practically all the time! 'The Birds'? The 'lightning superstorm'?? (Was there someone in the scriptwriting team who'd had a bad experience in Italy, I wonder). The natural (?!?) maser (ultra-short radio wave equivalent of a laser) which destroyed the Golden Gate Bridge? Perhaps that bit was actually aliens controlling the Sun's output, taking advantage of Earth's electromagnetic shield being down! 'Unobtainium'? Pull the other one! Still, I'll admit The Core was fun to watch - as long as one remembers the science is total tosh!

[@TheForsakenEagle]

I gave this review a thumbs up just for that House gag.

[@Kuunmorsian]

this movie made my brain hurt in a way that i didn't think was possible. it was filled with so much stupid that just couldn't handle it. awesome review by the way :D always enjoyed watching your videos.

[@Capjedi]

I've met Carl Sagan. He (RIP) never belittled people, was a true fan, and spoke in a deep, southern drawl. Nothing, even remotely, like Zimpsky. So, what I don't get, is why you dragged him into this? Oh! That joke in the film, later on? "Are you going to be doing this Carl Sagan narration, all the way to the Core?" Yeah.

[@thegogglehero3629]

"The trademark “Earth Day” was originally registered by Earth Day Canada, BC Branch in 1989."

[@scottydu81]

TheGoggleHero and then ira einhorn composted his girlfriend

[@Fenris77]

And as per usual every majour historical/religious site in the world is affected EXCEPT a certain "holy site" in the Middleeast...

[@DuckiestBoat959]

I suggest watching the Core and Congo back 2 back

[@TheOnlyToblin]

Strange, I never saw Zimsky as a Carl Sagan reference. But I guess it makes sense.

[@thegreatveritas]

I really like your work. I hope you make more videos sooner or later.

[@jeanlucdiscard]

If the core "stopped" spinning, the atmosphere, including most of our oxygen, would drift into space. So yeah, it is slowing, not stopping, Harvey.

[@evertonporter7887]

Mars is a good case in point. That planet's core cooled down millions of years ago, and most if its magnetic field disappeared.

[@frankthespank]

So the Captain dies and Swank is all “he’d want us to complete the mission…” …..REALLY?! 🙄 The entire planet is about to melt or crack in half or whatever BS scenario and he’d want them to complete the mission?!?! I’d hope so since not finishing means all life dies on planet earth! UGGGHHHHH! THESE F’ING MOVIES!!! 🤬

[@danthefan28]

Bizzaro Segan.

[@Jacob6443]

If you think of this movie a parody played straight, it's pretty funny.

[@gdgamerphosphate7238]

My first time watching your channel... 1:04 I know I'm gonna love it 😂

[@damonrennick2448]

Always kind of curious about the fact it's been discovered that the Earth's magnetic field weakens, dissapears for about, maybe a couple of hundred years, and reverses, never found any theories as to why...Our Great grandchildren may have to buy new compasses!

[@DonEBrooke32]

and i've been thinking about this for a while, but... if they're seeing static representing empty space, then news flash: IT'S READING EMPTY SPACE! -__-

[@yankozlatanov]

At 18:39 the breadboard in the panel jusk kills me. Multi billion ship have prototype board in the door controll panel. WTF?

[@Rockybalboarules25]

"infamously known for it's bad science" Science- fiction movies DO NOT need to be realistic! Anybody who criticises Sci-fi movies for "not being realistic" is stupid- Sci-fi is not bound by the laws of reality.

[@prehistorichero2755]

Ian Robinson Uh, don’t you mean ‘suspension of disbelief’, or ‘artistic license’?

[@jesschristiansen2523]

All fiction is bound by the laws of plausibility. Science fiction that contradicts elementary science is not plausible. Q.E.D.

[@UnovanEmperorArcanine89]

Two of This Movie's Actors are goin to play POTUSes: Aaron Eckhart and Bruce Greenwood respectively

[@brianfuller5868]

I thought it pretty well done.

[@shymickey6]

Omg! It is made of cheese! Lol