The Core

I love this movie.

This movie is one of my guilty pleasures and why I got it in 4K. Keeping in mind this "IS" science fiction and the absurdity of the premise of being able to travel so easily to the earths core it's a cool fun movie to watch. It looks great in 4K and HDR. I hade no defects in the disk and playback.

I love this movie and I do not care who knows it!This movie has been blasted for its scientific inaccuracies.Clearly all too many people don't understand what the word FICTION stands for in SCIENCE FICTION.(It means the story is going to be made up).And THIS story is High Adventure in the Grand Style.The stars (including Academy Award Winner Hilary Swank...who has come a long way since the early '90s when she used to advertise herself as "Buffy's best friend" which she was, in the movie...not the TV series) are all fantastic in their roles.Okay, the digging machine they all ride down in wouldn't work...so what? Did you think the machine used in UNKNOWN WORLD (1951) would work? The "Cyclotram" (as it was called---meaning the drill in front (which was probably made from unobtanium) whirled around while the rest followed behind like a "tram") wouldn't have worked either. It was supposed to be under 2500 miles of water at one point, which would have crushed it and everyone on board).But in 1951 nobody cared. It was good escapist entertainment and enjoyed as such.Just as THE CORE can and should be.If you want completely accurate science take a science course at a University (you won't get it there, either, but you'll at least get the current version of completely accurate science until new discoveries change it. I have lived through a 9 planet solar system vs. the current model of 8. I have watched the battle between Steady-State and the Big Bang Theories. I was 15 in 1965 when it finally became clear that the Big Bang Theory was going to win. And win it did. And for a long time we understood that when a star collapses it forms a black hole, at the center of that is a core or "singularity" which MAY get hit by a boson from the Higgs field causing it to expand and creating a whole new universe!Until Stephen Hawking revealed that Black Holes don't do that and that the "Initial Singularity" was NOT from a Black Hole after all. This initial singularity was a gravitational singularity of infinite density that contained all of the mass and spacetime of the universe until quantum fluctuations caused it to rapidly expand in the Big Bang* and subsequent inflation. (The universe is not heading for a "Big Crunch" as the previous model showed because it just keeps on expanding).All of these ten dollar words probably mean something to Dr Hawking and his fellow boffins but I don't care. What I get from all this is that scientific accuracy is very much a "work in progress" and I am not going to let it ruin my enjoyment of a really action-packed and exciting movie.And that is MY Kung-Fu!* Actually, the term "Big Bang" is something of a misnomer. Firstly because what came from the Initial Singularity was basically a stream of hot gases what you had was more of a Big Pfffft and, secondly, even if it had been a Bang an external observer could not have heard it...no atmosphere for the energy waves to use to vibrate the observer's eardrum in order to create the electrical signal that would then travel to our hypothetical observer's "hearing center" in their brain and be registered as a "bang."This is because everything, matter, energy, EVERYTHING was IN the Singularity.Secondly because there could not have been a hypothetical external observer for the same reason there could not have been a bang.And, thirdly, yes...I am aware of the sound the body makes when it emits a stream of hot gases and, yes, this DOES mean that Stephen Hawking has turned the creation of everything into a Cosmic Fart Joke which millions of nerds (including the college professors who teach this stuff) giggle over as they watch STAR TREK reruns in their parents' basements after work,

Why would anyone expect a film like this to be scientically sound? I am an engineer/scientist and I love films like this! This is science FICTION, already--a little bit of science and lots of fiction. 'The Core' is no less scientific than the Star Wars or Star Trek sagas.Anyway, it is puzzling why this film did not do better at the box office. It has most of the right elements: Great acting--good casting (especially that cyber-nerd hacker (he was perfect!) and Hillary Swank (who is always good)--first-rate special effects--fantastic machines and gadgets--apparently a big budget--and an interesting plot (military vs academia, competing egos in the scientific world, saving the planet earth) with just enough twists to keep you engaged. The result is a very entertaining, engaging and highly imaginative science fiction gem.The only thing missing (perhaps, depending on your point of view) is romance--there is no soap opera going on in the background--but who has time for romance when you are trying to save the world? There are, however, rivalries between the scientists and between military officers and subordinates to keep things interesting.The DVD: Superb transfer to DVD of this 2003 film--one of the best I have ever seen. Anamorphic widescreen, enhanced for 16 x 9 TVs. I viewed this on a large-screen, high-definition LCD TV, played on a Toshiba 1080p HD DVD player--and the picture and sound were stunning--as good as any of my HD DVDs. Highly recommended!

Good geology and a lot of imagination makes a good movie.

Great Movie

Do you remember back in High School when you have a paper due at the end of the semester, given to you on the first week of class? You go home and spend a week or two on it before setting it aside. Then a week or two before it is due, you are doing the all nighters to get it done. Well, this is that movie. Some of the characters, they go into great lengths to give them backgrounds and others, well....you figure it out because the character development came from another movie. This movie could of been much better than it is, if they only took the time to think things through.

People always like to poke fun at the science behind The Core, as if that's its one defining factor, but this movie is solid for reasons BEYOND the hokey science. The acting is outstanding, and more importantly the philosophical meat of the story - the social science - is what sells it. There are plenty of "oh no, the world might be ending if we don't save it" movies out there, but The Core remains one of my favorites because it exposes more of the inner struggle, the common man worries, that ordinary heroes thrust into this situation might have. An older mentor just wondering if he'll be able to save his family. An ambitious young officer who has to learn how leading means being responsible for the losses as well as the wins. A good-natured scientist trying to shoulder the burden of leading a team to save 7 billion lives. The idea of sacrificing for the greater good.You don't watch "The Core" for the science. You watch it for the people at the heart of that science.

Bought for a friend and highly recommend

Ok

Far fetched but , just go along with the flow with some semi believable story telling, not a bad movie though.

Uno dei disastrerei movie più belli,avvincente e con una buona cura degli effetti visivi e un ottimo cast,peccato manchi traccia audio italiana,per ora da noi è disponibile solo in dvd,merita.

Era da una vita che cercavo questo film, sono super felice di averlo trovato. Audio e video ottimi, prezzo adeguato, grande soddisfazione