Dr. Josh Keyes: So what's this about then?
FBI Agent: We don't know. You have higher security clearance than us.
Dr. Josh Keyes: I have security clearance??
FBI Agent: Yes sir, we're just here to take you to your jet.
Dr. Josh Keyes: I have a jet?!
When Victor and the crew are 2600 miles below the surface and Rat is trying to let Dr. Keyes know that Project Destiny is going to happen, he contacts the ship via radio and even transfers computer data to the ship. This would be completely impossible because the ground would block any radio signals from reaching the ship. By the time the ship had reached about a mile down, there would be no radio contact whatsoever, no matter how powerful their transmitter was. Audio communication would be unfeasible too....the ship would make too much noise cutting through the earth to allow for any communications to be transmitted through solid rock. See more...
If you look closely with time-frame advance during the pigeon scene you will see a fish "flying" into a window instead of a pigeon. See more...
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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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.]
Corrected by Guy Brigman
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.]
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.]
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.]
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.]
Corrected by shortdanzr
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.]
Corrected by Dragon
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.]
Corrected by Dragon
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.]
Corrected by shortdanzr
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.]
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.]
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.]
Virgil's cockpit operates on a gyroscopic mechanism, which would level the cockpit, making it parallel with the earth's surface. This means that no matter what way Virgil tilts, the passengers inside would not feel anything, because it would feel as if they are sitting still. However, in the scene where Virgil hits "empty space", the ship falls vertically, and the passengers are pushed forward, as if they are going to fly off their seats (just like what happens when you ride a roller coaster) and the only thing holding them in their seats are the seat belts. [They mention that the gyroscopes only work to 45dgrees maximum.]
Corrected by Rlvlk
When Brazzleton steps outside to unlock the master hydraulic gear, an ax melts in his hand. Don't you think that an expert on things like that would know that it would happen, and not even bother to bring it outside with him? [He probably did know it would melt but he wanted to at least try to use the axe before it melted.]
In the scene where Josh & Serge are called in because of the 32 people who collapsed from pacemakers failing, they are shown one of the bodies with their pacemaker scar. The general complements him on getting it right without seeing the body or the scar. The problem is the scar shown goes down the sternum. The correct scar for a pacemaker would be a small scar under the collarbone. [The body has an open-heart surgery scar so it's possibly the pacemaker was implanted at the same time rather through a separate incision.]
Corrected by Myridon
When Dr. Brazzleton is going out into the impeller shaft to open the hydraulic door, he opens the door to expose himself to heat that is supposedly 2000 degrees above the limit of his suit. However, the incredible heat would melt everything in the room behind him. [The Dr climbs down a small lader and into a small airlock. You never see the condition of the airlock and it is never seen again. So it may well be damaged in the brief moment it was opened.]
When Virgil is approaching the crystal thing or the "empty space" Dr. Kieves says he never told the computer how to read empty space but earlier in the film when he is trying to fine tune his navigation device there is lots of empty space between it and the lead plate and everything else around it, yet, no static. [The space during testing isn't empty - it's filled with gases, such as oxygen and carbon dioxide. The static is caused by true empty space, i.e. a vacuum.]
In the sequence where they launch the Virgil into the Marianas Trench, they hit bottom and fire the lasers at 30,000 feet, when in reality the trench is around 7 miles deep, or about 36,960 feet deep [The whole trench is not the same depth, they may have picked this particular spot for some other reason.]
Corrected by Myridon
In the scene where the black shows up on the screen someone I think Aaron Eckhart says that he had never taught the computer how to read crystals (I think it was). So if the computer doesn't know how to read them then why would they even show up? [The computer recognised the crystals as black. It was the empty space of the cavern which the computer couldn't read, and it showed up on the screen as static (background noise)]
Dr. Zimsky is explaining to everyone else that 'Wave Interference' will allow the core to be re-started after the first plan failed. This is Constructive interference, and is basic A-Level Physics, although it took 3 highly trained people to work this out, as well as one Physicist. [Constructive interference is basic A-level physics, yes, but applying it to planetary core dynamics takes rather more than a standard secondary school education - it's reasonable that it would take experts to figure out the details.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
The Commander of the "ship", Rebecca, must have a VERY high threshhold for heat as whilst they are inside the Planet all of her fellow "Earthonauts" sweat like crazy and she keeps cool. [This is nothing more than an observation, not a mistake. In real life, some people DO sweat much less than others.]
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