The Core (Widescreen Edition) |  | Director: Jon Amiel
Actors: Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Delroy Lindo, Bruce Greenwood, Stanley Tucci
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  190 reviews
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 135 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: PARD334674D
ISBN: 0792183576
UPC: 097363346746
EAN: 9780792183570
Theatrical Release Date: March 28, 2003
Release Date: September 9, 2003
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Product Description
AFTER A GEOPHYSICIST DISCOVERS THAT THE EARTH'S INNER CORE HASSTOPPED ROTATING, AN ELITE TEAM OF SCIENTISTS HAS ONE LASTCHANCE TO SAVE THE WORLD - BY JOURNEYING INTO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH!
Smarter than Armageddon and equally extreme, The Core is high-tech Hollywood hokum at its finest. It's scientifically ridiculous, but this variant of Fantastic Voyage at least tries to be credible as it plunges deep into the earth's inner core, where a formulaic team of experts pilot an earth-boring ship to jump-start the planet's spinning molten interior, now stalled by a military secret that could seal the fate of all humankind. It's a geophysicist's wet dream that only a fine ensemble cast could rescue from absurdity, and director Jon Amiel (Entrapment, Copycat) draws excellent work (and plenty of humorous interplay) from Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Stanley Tucci, Delroy Lindo, and a host of memorable supporting players, especially The New Guy's D.J. Qualls as the world's greatest cyber-nerd. With enough digital F/X disasters to satisfy anyone's apocalyptic fantasies, this is a popcorn thriller with all the bells and whistles that its genre demands. Sit back, pump up the volume, and enjoy the dazzling ride. --Jeff Shannon
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 Research on remote sensing techniques used in "The Core". March 5, 2010
Carol Winham (MS, USA)
I was very fortunate to have been able to acquire this movie from this seller. I needed to watch the movie a number of times to compile enough information for my report. I am grateful for the quality and the timeliness in receiving my order...I wish to thank you kindly for all of theses things!
 TOP 10 WORST EVER! March 1, 2010
Movieskinny (Chico,CA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This movie epitomizes the literary phrase "Suspension of Disbelief", which means absolutely preposterous. That doesn't always mean terrible. This movie has the craziest and most implausible plot point in movie history. They get good actors to sound excited about the perils and pitfalls of drilling into magma. Coring to the center of the earth!!
This was my number #1 bad movie of all time until I rented a wacky space drama with NO movie stars at the Red Box machine, and the previous renter even wrote "This is the worst movie ever" right on it, it was. Without really good actors here, I guarantee you that no one would ever have given The Core more than one star. Reviewers and fans hate giving movies bad reviews that have good actors being caught in bad movies, because they have done good or great movies. Swank and Eckhart are the only thing buoying this movie from sinking to the center of the earth without a drill.
The number three worst ever, I'm watching it right now, until something better jumps out, Day After Tomorrow. Fun scenes of diaster in 5.1 sound, but ridiculously unbelieveable. Armageddon, on last night, could be tied with Day After Tomorrow for third place. In fact, you can't give any movie a "NO STARS" review at Amazon, and this one deserves it too. The sequel to The Core might as well be Core 2; Mission to the Sun, LOL.
The Core... Good God don't disasters hit the non-tourist areas November 5, 2009
Julian Kennedy (St Pete Florida)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Core: 5 out of 10: Disaster movies always seem to do better when the disaster is local in scope. A city threatened by avalanche, a tower threatened by an inferno, a Poseidon threatened by an adventure, that kind of thing. Earth killer movies are always a harder road.
You have your 4 standard horseman of the earth disaster; nuclear war, space invaders, plagues (esp. those that create zombies), and meteors. Lately earth killing movies have gotten creative and lets face it stupid, global warming (The Day after Tomorrow), President George W Bush (Fahrenheit 911) and now The Core with it's well I'm still not sure what broke.
The core of the earth stopped spinning (not the earth itself mind you) which is causing the electromagnetic field to dissipate. Okay, that sounds serious. So that would cause what exactly? Apparently the movie wasn't all that sure so we get scenes of some the lamest and implausible disasters ever. Lets put two under the scientific microphone shall we.
One involves birds going all Hitchcock in London due to their inability to navigate using the magnetic field. Okay that may effect the birds ability to fly south (Oh my god the pigeons they're going east!), but even the Mr. Magoo of the avian world wouldn't start flying into statues and buses.
In another of the all too short montages of disaster a lightning storm destroys the Roman Coliseum. I'm not sure which are more unlikely, lighting striking relatively short rock structure, or the granite exploding when it does. Lightning, last time I checked, was attracted to metal.
But what would you expect from a movie that puts a giant windshield in a rock-drilling machine (Made with that magic metal Unobtainium). Keep in mind I've only scratched the surface of the silliness.
Acting wise Stanley Tucci is a joy, Hillary Swank still kind of looks like a guy, and everyone else is forgettable. The Core is enjoyable in that bad 50's sci-fi kind of way. But they needed more (and more plausible) disasters, and much less well everything else.
So bad it's awesome! October 30, 2009
One-Line Film Reviews (Easton, MD)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Bottom Line:
An utterly terrible film about a bunch of astronauts and scientists who have to dive down to the core of the earth--which is in danger of ceasing to spin and thus destroying life as we know it through means that the audience never understands at all--The Core is awful on pretty much every level (writing, acting, sense-making, etc.) and is so stupid it almost (but not quite) comes around full circle and becomes smart again; however, the film manages to reach that fabled plateau of "so bad they're good" throughly enjoyable trash movies and you should definitely rent it if you want a laugh.
2/4
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Fun, but Riddled with Cliche September 27, 2009
Ana Mardoll (United States)
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I tend to enjoy a good disaster movie, and I don't even mind the soft science that almost inevitably accompanies them - most truly exciting threats (like, say, the earth rapidly slowing its rotation) pretty much aren't plausible no matter how you slice it, so just make up some technobabble and I'll go with it.
"The Core" is fun enough for a first viewing, but usually what will keep me coming back is the characters in a disaster movie. Fun, interesting, and amusing characters are good; clichéd, annoying, irritating characters are not. Let's just get right down to the aspect that really turned me off to this movie, and that is Hillary Swank, or rather how this movie treats her. She starts off as a clichéd Renaissance Woman who can do anything and everything (one character even asks her if there's anything she can't do and she replies that there's nothing she knows of), including land spacecraft by eyesight (and mad math skills) on narrow, improvised landing strips. As part of her "character development" (and I use the term loosely) she walks up to newly invented and malfunctioning things and jiggles wires and - viola - they work. I would find this annoying enough, but what *really* gets on my nerves is that the movie thinks this is a bad thing, and a huge amount of time is spent beating her about the head for thinking she knows too much. I hate to pull the 'sexism' card, but compared to all the actual jerks in the movie who *don't* get a dressing-down talk, it's just flat-out irritating.
The other major thing that turns me off to "The Core" is that the characters die off so predictably that it feels like they have numbers on the backs of their jerseys. I realize that the Alpha Nerd and the Obligatory Girl have to survive to the end (it's Hollywood Law), but would it be so much to ask that the other characters not line up and take a number on the movie wheel-of-death? One death in particular is so ridiculous and unnecessary that the only "excuse" offered is that the laughably bad ship design was due to the rushed building period, which is particularly funny because you'd think with *every Nobel prize winner ever* on the job, SOMEONE would have pointed out the rather glaring design flaw. Then again, maybe the problem is that pesky "no Nobel prize for mathematicians" thing - oh, the delicious irony.
In all seriousness, I liked the plot of "The Core" just fine, I just wish that there'd been a bit more polish on the script and pacing. There are a lot of genuinely scary moments and a lot of really funny lines, and if they'd just shaken out the clichés and put a little more originality into the movie, I think it couldn't be very good - as it is, it's pretty much standard disaster movie fare with nothing to really stand out as unique or interesting.
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