The Core (2003) - Movie Review

These intrepid souls will travel to the Earth's core to save the planet!

The first time I saw Aaron Eckhart (Battle: Los Angeles), I saw him play the role of Harvey Dent/2 Face in Christopher Nolan's, The Dark Knight (2008), and I have to admit that I was impressed... Not just with the caliber of movie, but also with his performance in the movie as well!

Since then though, he has continued to give pretty solid performances in just about everything that I have seen him in, the only problem is that the movies that he has done, just have not quite cut the mustard...

Now you might be wondering why I am mentioning this, well... That is because, The Core (2003), is another one of those movies that he has done, that was good... But not quite good enough... But we will get in to that in a minute.

The movie poster for: The Core (2003). 

Written by: Cooper Layne (The Fog) & John Rogers (Transformers), Directed by: Jon Amiel (Copycat). Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank (Terror In The Family), Delroy Lindo (The Big Bang), Stanley Tucci (The Hunger Games), DJ Qualls (Z Nation), Richard Jenkins (The Cabin In The Woods), Bruce Greenwood (Star Trek), Tchéky Karyo (Vampire Party) & Alfre Woodard (Star Trek: First Contact).

"Why do you get dibs on being the hero?"

- Dr. Josh Keyes (A quote from the movie: The Core.)

This movie tells the story of how when planet Earth stops it's rotation, mankind becomes doomed due to the effects of the Earth no longer rotating... Discovering this is Dr. Josh Keyes (Aaron Eckhart), a brilliant college professor, who ends up taking his findings to the arrogant, yet brilliant Dr. Conrad Zimsky (Stanley Tucci)... Of course the good Doctor dismisses Keyes findings, that is of course until he discovers something from his own work...

Now along with the help of General Thomas Purcell (Richard Jenkins), Commander Robert Iverson (Bruce Greenwood), Major Rebecca Childs (Hilary Swank) and a team of scientists, Dr. Keyes will lead a team of scientists in a ship designed by Dr. Ed Brazzleton (Delroy Lindo) to the Earth's core in the hopes of restarting the Earth's rotation, and save humanity!

This team will prepare for the mission of a life time, as they try to save humanity!

In the end, this movie had great special effects, and a great story line, but the ending... While having some good elements, also kind of really sucked!

What I mean by this, is that I don't know if it was the writing that failed or the actors, but one right after the other, everybody just began to suck! Down to cliche's being spouted left and right, Aaron Eckhart taking a scene out of early 90s teen comedies, and Hilary Swank seeming to all of a sudden becoming dazed and confused through most of the rest of the movie... Well it just made the ending suck!

But the rest of the movie is really quite good, and worth checking out!

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The Hunger Games (2012) - Movie Review

[caption id="attachment_325" align="alignright" width="263"] Official Score = 3 Devils[/caption]

In the new millennium there has been several really fun Science Fiction and Horror movies that have come out, a few good examples of course being Rob Zombie's remake of the classic John Carpenter movie, 'Halloween', another one being, the movie, Prometheus (2012)...

There are others and the truth is, is that these movies were exciting and fun to watch, but there has been very few truly original movies that have come out in the new millennium that have been truly exciting! (I don't know if you notice this, but both of the movies that I have mentioned above happen to be connected with series that have become cinematic legends in their own right!)

With that in mind though, 2012 I have to say was a real banner year for the release of movies in general (what with having released such awesome movies as, 'Prometheus', 'The Avengers', and, 'Dark Knight Rises' (to name a few)... But there was one movie that I really wanted to see when it was in the theater, but never got to see on the big screen, (I still wish I was able to see this movie on the big screen, but am glad that I was able to catch up with it on the small screen,) that movie being, The Hunger Games (2012)!

Written by: Gary Ross (Big), Suzanne Collins (Ticket Out) and Directed by: Gary Ross. Starring: Jennifer Lawrence (X-Men: First Class), Josh Hutcherson (American Splendor), Liam Hemsworth (Knowing), Stanley Tucci (The Terminal), Wes Bentley (P2), Willow Shields (Beyond The Blackboard), Elizabeth Banks (The 40 Year Old Virgin), Woody Harrelson (Zombieland), Lenny Kravitz (Bad Boys 2) & Amandla Stenberg (Colombiana).

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) as she is kicking ass in, 'The Hunger Games' (2012)[/caption]

What was the best part of this movie? I could say that it was the acting, (the truth is, is that the purity, and love, yet shocking insurmountable strength in a particularly cruel and violently unfair world that Jennifer Lawrence brought to the role of Katniss Everdeen was to say the least, so well done, that I can honestly say that I haven't seen that level of talent in a relatively newish actress, since I saw Jennifer Love-Hewitt (Can't Hardly Wait) in the first, 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' movie, or Amy Steele in, Friday The 13th Part 2 (1981), or even Carrie Henn (Aliens) in the role of, 'Newt' in Aliens!

I could say that the special effects were the best part of the movie... (the truth is, is that even though the special effects in this movie were pretty spectacular, they actually were not the best part of the movie!)

The best part of this movie was the story! This movie was amazingly well written (it actually is based on a series of books of the same name, that was written by Suzanne Collins!) This movie tells the story of how in the future, the world will become a sort of bizarre dystopian world that is controlled by a sort of dictatorship government called, 'Panem', at one point this government was in danger when the various districts rebelled against the central government (a district appears to be the sort of heavily sectioned state/provinces of Panem.)

After the government puts down this rebellion (and what started as a way of punishing the districts), the central government created the, 'Hunger Games'
Now the hunger games is a game in which each district sends one young boy and one young girl (as tribute) to the Capitol, where they are trained to fight and then are pitted against each other in a fight to the death!

Now for this year Katniss Everdeen's little sister, 'Primrose' (Shields) is chosen as one of the tributes to which Katniss decides to volunteer to go in her stead... This bring a hunger games that will begin a change in their world permanently!

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="250"] This, 'Hunger Games' will be a Hunger Games that no one will ever forget![/caption]

In the end, this movie is freakin awesome! And it looks like Hunger Games 2 is set to be released on November 22nd of this year, (this one I won't be missing on the big screen!)

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