Sunday, February 22, 2009

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Greg Evigan, Jennifer Renee (2008) A drill team encounters an exotic underground world while trying to rescue a group of researchers. Based on a novel by Jules Verne.

Sci-Fi Saturday movie from 2/7.

The plot of this seems to deal with a teleportation test gone horribly wrong.

And I think that the guns the "researchers" are using are airsoft. They look to just have purchased those sets of M4s where you get the M4, a silencer, red dot and flashlight all together. They've got a tube-style red dot mounted to the fore-end rails of the M4, between the carry handle and the rear sight which is mounted to it, and the front sight. Looks to be set low enough so that the dot won't co-witness with the iron sights. In fact, it looks like the body of the carry handle will block almost the entire red dot. Making it useless. Also, the actors apparently have no idea how to use the charging handle of the M4 or what to do in case of a malfunction.

And these researchers (who all happen to be females in tank-tops) are now stuck in a big open area underneath the earth's crust. Random other people are in a digging machine drilling down to rescue them. Seems like it might be a bit problematic when they get the top of the cavern area. Because it looks like you can't see the top of the cavern area from the ground. So, when they break through into the cavern, they're likely going to have quite the fall in front of them. Sucks to be them.

"Recent anthropological studies lead me to speculate that the meat would taste mostly like chicken." They're talking about eating a T-Rex. I've got a number of issues with that statement. For starters, anthropological? Pretty sure that's the study of ancient humans. Which shouldn't tell us anything about how T-Rexes taste. And for seconds: I really have no idea where I was going with that, so I'm just gonna leave it there.

And it looks like they've just realized the problem with the whole "empty space" that I noticed the first time they brought up this plan... They ended up falling in a volcano. Unfortunately for us, through some sort of Deus Ex Machina, they managed to survive being engulfed in lava. Well, since they're burying through the earth, i guess they've got to be able to deal with lava. But I'd kinda wished that the machine would just sorta be burned to a crisp.

Oh, and there are apparently spider chest-bursters in this movie.

And now random people are making out. I don't actually know if we've actually met half of the people before this moment, but I haven't actually been paying attention, and don't honestly care...

1 comment:

Su said...

They were women in tanktops. You don't actually need to know anything about the people fornicating. Just that people out there do it, so there is a chance for you as you sit alone on week nights and weekends, living with you "brother", and playing with your guns... you have a chance to make out like they do.