Image Credit: Rob McEwanThe world is ending – according to the news.
It snowed in Los Angeles on Monday after raining for a week straight in December. Thousands of dead fish and crabs are washing up on beaches in Florida and England. Birds are dropping dead from the sky in several states, and soon, a film about Justin Bieber will see wide release in 3D. What is going on?
Let’s ask Aaron Eckhart. Before delivering an Oscar-worthy performance last year in Rabbit Hole that Dave Karger calls “emotionally affecting,” Eckhart starred as a geophysicist in a wonderfully bad Armageddon-meets-The-Day-After-Tomorrow film called The Core, a film which skews heavily towards the fiction part of sci-fi genre. In the film, birds do in fact drop from the sky, fish wash up on the beach, and strange storms appear suddenly all around the world.
Is this coincidence, or is The Core actually happening? That depends on whether or not you believe the government has concocted an earthquake weapon by drilling deep into the earth and zapping the core with a massive laser. Yeah, this movie is awesome. Check out the trailer below:
In The Core, the US government commissions a secret program codenamed DESTINI (stands for Deep Earth Seismic Trigger INItiative – doesn’t this sound great already?), which turns out to be an earthquake weapon. The experiments cause the earth’s core to stop spinning, which screws with the earth’s magnetic field and other science things, which causes birds to go crazy and drop out of the sky and weird storms to appear everywhere.
What’s the logical response here? Drill through the planet in a snakelike vehicle made of magically heat-resistant metals mounted with lasers and bomb the core until it starts moving again?
Of course. Now, if the science of The Core holds true, we can expect the Aurora Borealis to appear in the sky on a regular basis, the Golden Gate bridge to collapse as a result of a massive space-bound ray of microwave energy, and all of our electronics to stop working. Are you freaking out? I’m freaking out.
For the record, early news reports say that the birds were startled from their nests by fireworks and died from stress, which seems rather dubious to me. Too many pretty colorful lights, or the Earth’s core ceasing to rotate? I’m not sure which explanation I believe less.
What do you think, PopWatchers? Is the world ending? More importantly, are you going to add The Core to your Netflix queue?
I am surprised I don’t see this movie on cable reruns more often! Especially since Deep Impact is still on all the time. Totally the same caliber.
Love the awesomely badness.
Don’t dis Deep Impact. Tea Leoni is the sh**!
The Core was a great popcorn movie. Silly fun with some great special effects (the Shuttle crash landing in LA was especially impressive). The same can be said for Deep Impact but it had a little more of an emotional backbone that I really appreciated.
What’s funny is, NASA just named 2012, The Core and Armageddon as the three least-plausible futuristic films. Gattaca, Jurassic Park and Contact were named as the most plausible.
A good possible blog entry, no?
I love that NASA spends time thinking about that.
Love the NASA…and their apparent love for Jurassic Park! I knew it!!!
Love The Core for it’s bad use of science. Actually got extra credit in a geology class for seeing this movie when it came out.
Hmm, maybe I need to watch The Core now! My husband once killed a flock of crows when they flew into his fireworks display so it is possible.
When I heard about the birds dropping from the sky I automatically thought of Flash Forward. It’s too weird.
I thought of Flash Forward as well.
My first thought too.
I had the same thought
Thank you! No one has been mentioning FlashForward with the bird deaths!
I didn’t see the movie but have been wondering if the world is ending too! Whales and dolphins got lost in the Irish sea, and we had thunder and lightening storms in December (along with freakish artic weather). Very odd, I’m worried!
very well , tkx
4 of the 6 Lost numbers won the lottery this week.
I thought the same thing when I heard them announce the numbers. I was just passing by the tv, and I thought they were talking about Lost. Then when I realized it was winning lottery numbers, I thought, “Whoa.” Like Keaunu Reeves’ “Whoa.”
Maybe it is that machine that they have in Europe that was experimenting with Black Holes
Kynne, can you talk a little bit more about that …please?
If you’re referring to the The Large Hadron Collider and the ignorant and ridiculous theory that it will create black holes that will destroy the world, I strongly suspect it isn’t the reason birds are falling out of the sky. Though I’m sure some idiot is already writing a syfy movie about it.
This was the EXACT thing I thought of when I heard about the birds falling from the sky dead. Maybe the Mayan Calendar was off a year or two for Doomsday???
Don’t say that im scare
You must be talking about the Hadron Super Collider.
I believe a lot of the birds falling from the sky is from the effect the oil spill will have on the ecosystem the fish will suffer andthe birds that eat fish will suffer.
That’s very plausibe.
Well, the most recent news on the birds is that they died from blunt force trauma. My sister lives about 45 minutes from where this occurred. Also, here in the south, every fall some rednecks shoot propane cannons off all around town to scare birds away and we don’t have birds dying en masse. A small town like Beebe wouldn’t have enough fireworks going off on New Years to kill that many birds anyway.
What about the kills in Japan, Brazil, Thailaand, Sweden, Britian, etc.????
You do know that the mayan calendar is a long calendar? Its similiar to our standard 12 month calendar, meaning when one ends, another begins. Also present Mayans would deny that there is any truth behind the mayan calendar being the cause of the end of the world.
LOL present Mayans? They have been gone a long time without a trace.
Not even close. The civilization may be gone, but there are currently around seven million Maya living in southern Mexico & Central America.
Lol Justin beaber i know i spell his last name wrong n i think its the government
dec 21 2012 all planets will line up for first time since dinos died. the weird weater,and everything else is just a warning in 2 years will all be dead.
everything is pure conciousness why do we have to scare those of us that do not understand this.There are children that could read this and you could scare them, plus unless you are a time traveler how do you really know what happened in the past?
Best part of The Core: “This is my Kung-Fu, and it is strong.”