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[apocalypsos]

Am now watching "The Core," which is gleefully full of things that blow up and/or die, but if it has any real science in it, I'll sell my firstborn child to circus midgets.

You know how in the Jonny Quest cartoons, when Dr. Quest would start talking about science stuff, Bandit would run off and eat poisonous tree frogs or something? I feel like doing that every time one of these characters so much as hints at something my old earth science teacher told me.

But hey, as long as shit blows up, I'm a happy camper. *user bounces up and down happily*

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Yay "The Core"!

[tenebris.livejournal.com]

That movie is just great, from the insane amounts of psuedoscience to perpetrating geek stereotypes...yay "The Core"! And it has so much fun with itself, too. :) "Unobtanium"? *snerk*

"Give me a cigarette."--Jerk Dr. Guy

Re: Yay "The Core"!

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Did you ever see "Overboard," where everybody sits around the kitchen and tries to come up with the Seven Wonders of the World for the mini-golf course?

I have this mental image of twenty screenwriters sitting around a room playing "Let's Blow Up That Place We Went on The Trip to That Thing That Time."

Hee. They cooked San Franciso. Weeeeee.

[herewiss13.livejournal.com]

Actually, as SF movies go, it was pretty good science-wise.

You have your one gimmee: the unobtanium. It's just a fiat decree and you can do that in SF if you don't do it too often (like the old "hyperspace" engines, etc.)

The geology was pretty accurate, though (as far as year-old memories of Geo 101-103 are concerned). Maybe no gigantic geodes, but there could well be diamonds the size of Cape-Cod way down below.

...so I guess you'd better start calling up circus midgets and finding a mate;-)