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The Core by Paul Preuss. It concerns a team who have to drill to the center of the Earth and set off a series of nuclear explosions in order to start the Earth's core spinning again. was directed by Jon Amiel, and starred Aaron Eckhart, Delroy Lindo, Hilary Swank, DJ Qualls, and Stanley Tucci.

The film received low critical reviews, and did very poorly at the box-office.

table with a pacemaker drops dead at once within a 10-block radius in Boston. The pigeons in London's Trafalgar Square lose their internal navigational ability and start smashing into windscreens and breaking panes of glass.

The world soon realises the cause of these anomalies: Earth's core has stopped rotating. Within a year, the Earth will lose its electromagnetic shield and will be fried by solar radiation.

A team of "terranauts" is recruited to drill down to Earth's core and set off a series of nuclear explosions hopefully to restart the core's rotation. To aid their $15 billion journey, they use a newly-developed "sonic laser" that can cut through rock and an indestructible metal called "Unobtainium".

While they are underground, the world is struck by more disasters. Huge blasts of microwave radiation from the sun break through the atmosphere, melting the Golden Gate Bridge and frying San Francisco. Gigantic lightning bolts tear up the streets of Rome and blast the Colosseum to smithereens.

The base of the drilling experiments is in the Utah desert. The government also has a secret facility in Alaska with which they can start earthquakes anywhere on the planet; this weapon, called While the movie may have been based on junk science, the reference to the secret government facility in Alaska is real. Project D.E.S.T.I.N.I. is a parody of the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, or HAARP, that some believe uses the Earth's magnetic field to manipulate weather and earthquakes, broadcast signals, and even control minds.Dr. Josh Keyes, played by Aaron Eckhart. In one scene, Dr. Keyes needs data on why the Earth's core is suddenly changing. He frantically shouts out instructions to his assistants to immediately research all recent, unnatural physical occurrences. Acker replies, "That is going to be one huge search." Dr. Keyes, "You can use our T1 line to look up Sailor Moon crap, you're up to this!"

Keyes is probably referring to Acker's use of the T1 Internet line for personal uses (like looking up paraphenelia for the cartoon Sailor Moon) not shown in the movie. The novelization also says that Acker is a conspiracy theorist and often researches such topics.

The only wholly liquid layer of the Earth's interior is the outer core - everything else is solid. Magma is contained in "pockets" within the lithosphere.The magma would have filled the giant geode in much less time because of the extreme pressures that are present at that depth.Although the terranaut's ship is repeatedly shown to be diving nose down toward the core, the terranauts walk horizontally through the ship, instead of climbing vertically as they should be.