There are few places Hollywood can go where the intrepid Victorian writer Jules Verne didn't leave his footprints. Such is the case with The Core and its story about a fantastic adventure.

Verne's 1865 novel, A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, and the 1959 film that followed were considerably more innocent than The Core, opening in town today.
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On one hand, the distributors of the sci-fi popcorn film The Core were right not to succumb to kneejerk pressure and yank their film in the wake of the Columbia disaster.

On the other, it's disingenuous to imply -- as the studio did -- that the shuttle crash scene is a bit player in this utterly preposterous (but fun) tectonic version of Fantastic Voyage.
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