234: The Only Way Out Is In

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.7 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2015

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Introducing a new recurring segment on The Incomparable that we call Rocket Surgery, in which we watch an unappreciated science fiction movie from the past and then talk about it. For our first installment, we watched the 2003 film “The Core,” starring Hilary Swank, Aaron Eckhart, Stanley Tucci, Delroy Lindo, and Bruce Greenwood. Yes, this is a movie about people riding a spaceship (of a sort) down into the core of the Earth in order to blow it up with nuclear bombs because reasons. Our discussion topics include the science of birds, peaches as metaphors for the Earth, friendly whales, the destruction of the Golden Gate Bridge, and the powers of computer hackers.

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0:00.0	It's not brain science. It's rocket surgery. We're talking about the core.
0:04.3	The incomparable. Number 234. February 2015.
0:12.4	I'm Jason Snell. I'm Dan Moran. I'm Tony Sindler.
0:17.0	And I continue to be John Syracuse.
0:20.7	Oh, you know, Joe Steele asked us, suggested to us that we should watch the core.
0:25.8	He's dead to all of us now.
0:27.5	Which I'd like to say, according to Wikipedia, is a 2003 American science fiction disaster film.
0:34.9	And that is literally all we can say about that.
0:37.0	I'm going to make an
0:37.6	edit because disaster's in the wrong place in that sense hey yeah you can't really tell it's like
0:41.9	german you can't really tell what uh part of the thing that what part of the sentence the disaster is
0:46.2	modifying well so because science fiction is one thing and disaster film is another so that's where
0:50.6	they're going with that yeah well this film is a. Do I have to speak in defense of the core?
0:55.3	Is this, are we, are we, are we, you'll have your time.
0:58.0	Are we at that point yet?
0:58.8	Are we at that point yet?
0:58.8	A closing statement.
1:01.2	Uh, speaking of which, John, any opening statements, Dan?
1:03.4	Anybody got an opening statement?
1:05.1	No.
1:05.6	No. that I'm shocked that neither Roland Emmerich or Dean Devlin was involved with this movie in any way.
1:11.6	It is Emerick-Emmastic.
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