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Basic had potential, but they decided to add so many plot twists that it left a lot of plot holes. It's only an hour and a half, but it felt much longer than that, even though I slept through 15 minutes of it. Somehow I think I would have been better off
PostPosted:Fri Mar 28, 2003 1:00 pm
by Torgo
<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Basic had potential, but they decided to add so many plot twists that it left a lot of plot holes. It's only an hour and a half, but it felt much longer than that, even though I slept through 15 minutes of it. Somehow I think I would have been better off watching Core.</div>
PostPosted:Fri Mar 28, 2003 1:31 pm
by Imakeholesinu
<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>What about Holes?</div>
PostPosted:Fri Mar 28, 2003 1:34 pm
by G-man Joe
<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>BWAHAHA!</div>
PostPosted:Fri Mar 28, 2003 2:57 pm
by Kupek
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Considering the impression I have of the "science" in The Core, you're probably better off scraping out your frontal lobes with a rusty clothes hanger.</div>
PostPosted:Fri Mar 28, 2003 3:08 pm
by G-man Joe
<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>*grumbles* Why a rusty clothes hanger? Why not a sword, Kupek? =8^)</div>
PostPosted:Fri Mar 28, 2003 4:44 pm
by Ishamael
<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Because it'll hurt more you nitwit!</div>
PostPosted:Fri Mar 28, 2003 4:45 pm
by Ishamael
<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Wait. There's science in The Core?</div>
PostPosted:Fri Mar 28, 2003 4:47 pm
by Tessian
<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>I don't think movies can get away with outlandish science backing. They claim that all this would happen if the EM field around the core stopped spinning.</div>
PostPosted:Fri Mar 28, 2003 5:44 pm
by Kupek
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/movies/ ... ex.html</a>
They do all the time.</div>
PostPosted:Fri Mar 28, 2003 8:30 pm
by Torgo
<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Exactly.</div>
PostPosted:Fri Mar 28, 2003 10:04 pm
by Tessian
<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>gah, 80% of what he bitches about is horrible knitpicking...the only one I saw worth mentioning was the seismic bombs in Ep 2 and the stupid ending to Signs</div>
PostPosted:Sat Mar 29, 2003 12:46 am
by G-man Joe
<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>"twit"....get your movie lines right! =8^P</div>
PostPosted:Sat Mar 29, 2003 12:41 pm
by Imakeholesinu
<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>I knew someone would pick up on that, and I figured it would be you.</div>
PostPosted:Sat Mar 29, 2003 4:49 pm
by Kupek
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Armageddon? Did you see that movie?</div>
PostPosted:Sat Mar 29, 2003 9:16 pm
by Tessian
<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>lol actually I think everyone knew Armageddon broke a lot of rules so I didn't read that one yet :P</div>
PostPosted:Sun Mar 30, 2003 12:34 pm
by Kupek
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/ar ... 00.html</a>
Here.</div>
PostPosted:Sun Mar 30, 2003 12:57 pm
by Tessian
<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>I think they missed the whole reason they say it stops spinning, but otherwise the rest is sound</div>
PostPosted:Sun Mar 30, 2003 1:08 pm
by Kupek
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I think you missed the part where they say the atmosphere protects us from more radiation than the magnetic field - a very big point. Not to mention they flipped the causality relationship of the spinning core and the magnetic field.</div>