Films You Can Dig: "Scientific" Cinema on the Rocks

Disaster movies. They evoke love/hate responses from many who watch them, relying on action rather than science to move the story along. If you want to explore the science behind the action, then this class is for you. We’ll watch a series of movies, most with geological themes, over the course of the semester. More recent films like The Core and The Day After Tomorrow plus classics like Them! and Earthquake will be examined.

Sunday, October 01, 2006

The Core (2003)



The Core. is definitely one of my favorite movies that we get to watch this semester. Oh, that wascally American government. Always screwing around...

Since this movie is so ridiculous, there are a lot of good links (which we apologize for being so late in providing):

Feasibility of Drilling to the Center of the Earth. This article was written by one of the film's consultants and originally appeared in the journal Nature. Note: If you have difficulty accessing this article, it can be reached via OBIS (The Oberlin College Library network).

Intuitor.com's review of The Core. Thanks David for mentioning this site. In depth doesn't even begin to describe it.

And be sure to check out the movie errors section on IMDb.

There will probably be at least one more update. Sorry again for the delay.

posted by Mike @ 6:27 PM  1 comments