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The Core (2003) - 57 corrections

Directed by Jon Amiel, starring Aaron Eckhart, Bruce Greenwood, Delroy Lindo, DJ Qualls, Hilary Swank, Richard Jenkins, Stanley Tucci, Tchéky Karyo (add more)

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-fi, Thriller

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When the crew are entering the geode, we can see the blue/purple crystals on screen and the empty space is shown as black. A minute earlier we were informed that empty space showed up as static and black patches were what they could not pass through. Apparently empty space is too dense to travel through? [It's not actually that empty space is too dense to pass through. When Dr. Keyes said that "I never taught the computer how to read empty space.", he may be implying that he did not program the computer to detect empty spaces, thus the computer does not know about empty spaces and probably mistook them as solid.]
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When Drs. Keyes and Zimsky are explaining to the military guys at the Pentagon what is going to happen, Zimsky is wearing a wedding ring (or at least, a ring on his wedding finger). There is no reference to him being married anywhere in the movie, nor is he wearing a ring in any of the other scenes. (The ring is probably Stanley Tuccis since he still was married at the time of the making of "The Core") [There is also no mention of him being single that would cause this to be a mistake. Just because a wife (or ex-wife, some people still wear their rings) is not mentioned, doesn't mean she doesn't exist. Also, because he seems to be somewhat of a womanizer, he would be less likely to mention his wife.]
Edit Corrected by LorgSkyegon
When the vessel entered the geode (the great big empty hole), the crew was forced forward by the falling of the ship. They should have felt weightless - the ship was in free fall just like the "Vomit Comet" used by the Air Force to train astronauts and by Ron Howard to film Apollo 13. [They were not in free fall, they still had velocity from traveling through the mantle and geode wall.]
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When the ship first launches, they switch on the headlights. They use a special device to see outside the ship, and the ship has no windows, so why does the ship have lights? [Because the ship uses cameras, and the cameras probably use visible light to function. They were first entering water and you can see the light projected from the headlights lite up the water around them and on there screens, that light is what the cameras pick up.]
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In the scene where Serge and Dr. Keyes first walk into the room with all the dead bodies, you can see that the number on the HMMWV says 69. Not only are these placards rarely ever used in the military, you'll never see one that says 69 unless a soldier is playing a joke. [None of which makes it a mistake. One of the 5-ton trucks here on base has the same numbers on it, and although I'm certain it is a joke that doesn't make it a movie mistake as it is possible for someone to have put those numbers on it.]
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When Braz is showing the thing with the mouse in the box, the laser cuts a hole in the concrete, the steel plate and the wall. When the lasers reach the wall, a small plate falls from the wall, revealing another hole with the shape of a bottle. Where does that come from. If he tried the experiment before (explaining the second hole), wouldn't the bottle be vaporized as well? [Not if the bottle was made of Unobtainium too. Maybe Braz was experimenting to see if he could mold the material into different shapes; useful to know if you plan to build something like Virgil, no?]
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When the UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter is landing in front of the hangar at Brazz's hanger, you can see sand on the wheels. Its as if the part of the Blackhawk you see is a model and they've practiced the landing numerous times, because any sand on the wheels would certainly have gotten blown off in flight. [I'm a US Army UH-60 Blackhawk crewchief, and have been for 8 years. You're wrong. You'd be surprised by how much sand, mud, dirt, etc,. sticks to the landing gear during and after flight. If that was a model they were jumping out of, it was -extremely- detailed as far as the gear itself and the aircraft underbody. Far beyond what would be expected of any movie budget.]
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While in the geode, you can see that the giant crystals are twinkling and there is a definite source of natural looking light. Being as light has trouble penetrating through a few hundred metres of sea water, it would be fairly unlikely (impossible) for light to reach inside a sealed geode a few thousand miles beneath the surface of the earth. [The light came from the external lights on the "Virgil". Light reflected from the original source to one crystal then another and so on.]
Edit Corrected by dablues7 Time
After the "Zimsky" bomb explodes, we see the mission control, there the core is fully rotating again, and everybody is cheering. But the 30% bigger bomb hasn't even detonated yet, the one that is definitely needed to "restart" the core. [The 30% larger bomb detonates about the same time as Zimsky's bomb. After both detonate, the core starts turning again.]
Edit Corrected by Brad Time
At the very end of the movie, Rat goes to an Internet cafe to disseminate information via the web. As the upload starts from his laptop, his screen says "On it's way". It should be "its" (without apostrophe). [Programmer error. It happens. "You've got mail" isn't grammatically correct either.]
Edit Corrected by Guy
In the scene near the end where we see the ships looking for the Virgil in the ocean, the ships are close together in a nice, tight, circular formation. If they were on a search mission, shouldn't they have been spread out more? [It is known that the Virgil is near or around that spot were they are searching because of the whales swimming around the Virgil.]
Edit Corrected by The-Immortal
There should have been a significantly reduced force of gravity experienced in the ship when it approached the core because there would have been a large mass of the earth above the ship as well as below the ship, and both sides would be exerting gravitational pulls. [We can safely assume Braz significantly modified his ship to counter gravitational pulls as you are suggesting.]
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In the crystal chamber, they said the suits can hold the pressure. Therefore, the suits must be really hard. So how can a piece of rock go through Iverson's helmet? [It goes through Iverson's helmet for the same reason a knife passes through your skin but a fist doesn't even if the exact same amount of force is used. The suits are able to resist pressure because the pressure is relatively consistent accross the whole outer surface of the suit, the impact of the small fragment however wasn't consistent, it was a large force applied to a very small area.]
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At the end when Josh and Rebbecca are at the bottom of the ocean, she says they could be 800 miles deep. Being a geologist, Joshua must have known that the deepest point in the ocean is about 6.8 miles deep and therefore had to correct her. And that would be the Marianas trench. The place where they entered the crust. [Character choice not to correct her.]
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In the EM tear scene, our first shot is a beam coming from the sun onto the earth's surface, and, as anyone can easily see, it is fairly wide. But, after that, when we see a tree dying, it first has an affection area of about 15 feet. 15 feet is invisible from space. [When we see an outer space shot of the beam, you can see the beam getting through the atmosphere. So it's natural that the beam on the earth's surface has to grow too as soon as the hole in the atmosphere is big enough.]
Edit Corrected by Dragon Time
When the Golden Gate Bridge is being destroyed by microwaves, we see a guy get 'sunburnt'. When he's looking at the sunburn, you can see that no one is in the car next to him. You may only be able to see it, if you're using the widescreen version. [From the camera's point of view, you can only see the passenger's seat. So there's no way to tell if someone is in the driver's seat.]
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Towards the end of the movie, when Dr. Keyes and Beck were going back through the earth towards the surface, they said they were going twice as fast as they were going when they went into the core. Now, judging from the speed Virgil was going when they were headed for the core and how the pressure on your body lessens the farther you go up, the lack of pressure should have caused the veins in their bodies to burst, causing them to die almost instantly. [They are also in a specially designed ship to take them there. It is conceivable that they stayed at core pressure all the way up and had to go through decompression after they reached the surface, similar to deep sea divers.]
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When they are telling Rebeccah that she has exceptional navigational skills and is reassigned to the team they keep calling her "Major" but prior to that when the Army General is talking to her about how her crew crashed the space shuttle she has a silver leaf on her epaulette. Silver is Lieutenant Colonel, major would be a gold leaf. Major (Gold Leaf) is a step down from Lieutenant Colonel (Silver Leaf). Major is an 0-4, LTCol is an 0-5. Demoting an officer is a congressional act and it wouldn't have been done until the investigation was completed; she wouldn't have been demoted out of simple suspicion of the crash being her fault. [She was a Major the whole time, she was never wearing Lieutenant Colonel rank. I watched that scene as well as other scenes where she was in her dress uniform in slow-mo just to make sure her leaves were gold and not silver.]
Edit Corrected by AD
How was the crane attached to Virgil at the bottom of the ocean? The scuba divers are only shown down about ten feet, and they wouldn't be able to walk the ocean floor in standard suits anyway. [They are in the area of Hawaii where the waters are pretty shallow. If you listen to the pilot in the chopper, after he sees the whales, he says that the whales are circling something, and that they are getting a strong echo at about 800 feet (243m). Not too big a problem attaching a crane at that depth.]
Edit Corrected by Ronnie Bischof
Don't you find it weird that one of the most secret projects in the United States, that no one should ever know about, is marked "Secret", and not "Top Secret"? [We don't know exactly what information is in that file. It could just be info on the 6 scientists plus some details he got about Destiny. It is unlikely that he'd be in possession of the original Destiny file.]
Edit Corrected by Ronnie Bischof

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