Stupidest film plot ever
Stupid big-budget film has plot that requires a bunch of people to travel to the centre of the Earth with a large amount of nukes to "jump-start the planet" after a new weapon goes horribly wrong. Basic physics doesn't even get a look in.
The Core’s plot is simple: stupid US military fuckwits have developed a weapon that stops the Earth’s core spinning. This switches off the Earth’s magnetic field, so they have to send a ship into the centre of the Earth with loads of nukes, and start the core spinning again before microwaves and electrical storms kill everyone on the planet.
Er, except that the magnetic field is caused by convection in the Earth’s molten core (molten iron and nickel, I believe, at stupidly high pressures), which I would have thought was pretty damn difficult to stop. Oh, and I look forward to them explaining how they can drill a hole into the centre of the Earth and keep it open, or do anything useful at the sort of temperatures they’ll encounter.
Or, for that matter, and this is the killer, why the damn craft needs to be manned.
But, hey, they have a cool shot of the Coliseum being blown to smithereens, and the Golden Gate being smashed, so that’s OK, right? And nobody in the US knows basic science any more, so nobody will care.
Feh.