| 1 | * AllStarCast: Nearly everyone is someone recognizable - Creator/AaronEckhart, Creator/HilarySwank, Creator/StanleyTucci, [[Film/RomeoMustDie Delroy Lindo]], Creator/BruceGreenwood, Creator/RichardJenkins, Creator/TchekyKaryo, Creator/DJQualls, Creator/AlfreWoodard, Creator/GlennMorshower. |
| 2 | * BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $60 million. Box office, $31,186,986 (domestic), $73,498,611 (worldwide). |
| 3 | * CreatorKiller: Director Creator/JonAmiel didn't make another movie until the end of the decade. |
| 4 | * CreatorsApathy: In an interview with Hilary Swank she actually said: "Since ''no one knows'' what the center of the Earth ''really'' looks like, we can make up all sorts of stuff." At least the writer managed to reject the ExecutiveMeddling calling for dinosaurs BeneathTheEarth. |
| 5 | * CreatorBacklash: Creator/AaronEckhart isn't particularly proud of this movie. |
| 6 | * ExecutiveMeddling: In the comments to [[http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2006/02/watch-my-other-awful-movie-adaptation.html a rant by David Brin about the movie]], one of the six writers, John Rogers, [[http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2006/02/watch-my-other-awful-movie-adaptation.html?showComment=1141100340000#c114110036853202234 tells the sordid tale]]. For the sake of those who don't want to bother, it's basically summed up with this: "... This, by the way, is why screenwriting pays so well. They don't pay me to write. I'd write for free. They pay me '''NOT to punch people in the neck.'''" To give an example of a thing the executives said to him: "John, we really like this last draft, but one thing bugs us. The whole idea of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal the north and south pole switching places]] -- [[RealityIsUnrealistic it's WAY over the top and unbelievable.]]" |
| 7 | * FollowTheLeader: Described in some promotions as ''Film/Armageddon1998'', [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace but]] "down". |
| 8 | * FromEntertainmentToEducation: The film is allegedly used as viewing material by UsefulNotes/{{NASA}} with instructions for trainees to note down as much of the HollywoodScience used by the movie as possible. |
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