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| | | :: Sunday, March 30, 2003 :: |
Somebody leave the light on
Alright, it's time for the first ever "You Must Fight The Bear" movie review. We went and saw "The Core" last night, so here's my thoughts.
First, a personal note. After 9/11, I was one of those that said that movies filmed before then that featured the World Trade Center should be left as is, rather than removing the towers from the film. I thought it a poor tribute to pretend they had never existed.
Going in to see this movie, I agreed with the director's decision to leave the Shuttle scene in its original form. And I guess I still do. That said, I thought I was ready to watch it. I wasn't. For most of the people reading my blog, it shouldn't be a problem. For my co-workers, I might advise waiting a little while, or at least steeling themselves a little more than I did (Watching San Francisco be blown away, on the other hand, was fine. Nothing personal, S.F.)
That said, it was kind of cool seeing a movie where NASA is so instrumental in saving the world. It wasn't even a big deal, it was sort of subtle, kind of a "Well, of course NASA would be involved" sort of thing.
Anyway, back to the movie. It was exactly as good as you would think it would be from the trailers and commercials. I couldn't name any significant flaws with it, but neither was there anything transcendent about it. All in all, is was a pretty decent popcorn movie. The science was, to a liberal arts major, surprisingly non-problematic, compared to, oh, say, um, Armageddon, for example (remind me sometime to write in here about the "Goodnight, Moon" movie idea that Lain and I developed). The only major science problem I had was the extent to which things early on were written simply to solve problems at the end... there were several times when they were building the ship that I thought, why would they want it to do that, only to have that question answered at the end. But it was the sort of thing that probably wouldn't bother 98 percent of the audience, including Richie (though other things might).
So, there you go. A movie review with no useful information. And to think, I used to get paid to do this.
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