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

[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>

[Imakeholesinu]

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>What about Holes?</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>BWAHAHA!</div>

[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>

[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>

[Ishamael]

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Because it'll hurt more you nitwit!</div>

[Ishamael]

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Wait. There's science in The Core?</div>

[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>

[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>

[Torgo]

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Exactly.</div>

[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>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>"twit"....get your movie lines right! =8^P</div>

[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>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Armageddon? Did you see that movie?</div>

[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>

[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>

[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>

[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>