Awesome / The Core

• Instead of just simply explaining what would happen, our heroes use an improvised flamethrower on a peach to show the message loud and clear.
  Zimsky: Three months, gentlemen, and we're back in the Stone Age. A year, the field goes, and that.
  Keyes: (drops the torched peach in a pitcher of water) Feel free to throw up, I know I did.
• Iverson and Beck successfully landing the Space Shuttle Endeavor right in the middle of Los Angeles. They accomplish this with no civilian casualties and with minimal damage to the crippled spacecraft.
• This exchange:
  General Purcell: What would it take to get your ship in the ground within three months?
  Braz: (Stifling a laugh) .....Fifty billion dollars!
  General Purcell: Will you take a check?
  • The demonstrations of the components of Virgil, from the laser strong enough to incinerate steel and concrete to the unobtanium shell protecting a mouse from said laser.
• Rat's dismantling of Zimsky's snobbishness toward him.
  Zimsky: (about Rat) Excuse me, but is this really the best we could do?
  Rat: How many languages do you speak?
  Zimsky: Five actually.
  Rat: Well I speak one – 10100. With that, I could steal your money, your secrets, your sexual fantasies, your whole life; any country, any place, any time I want. We multitask like you breathe. I couldn't think as slow as you if I tried.
  • Moments later he lifehacks Keyes' cellphone giving him free long distance...forever.
• Just the entire CONCEPT of the Virgil is one of the most inventive craft in all of science fiction, and deserves to be ranked among the Cool Ships of the genre. I mean, it's a DRILL TRAIN with LASERS!!! How can you NOT love it?!?
• After holding his dismay in about the team's plan, or lack thereof, Zimsky reaches a Rage Breaking Point and aggressively tells off everyone, even reaching levels of hostility. When Braz tries to calm him down, he receives a Big "SHUT UP!" from Zimsky...to which he responds by right-hooking in the jaw, instantly rendering him unconscious.
  • Zimsky's breakdown in and of itself is pretty glorious to watch, considering it's pretty saturated with narm.
• The Heroic Sacrifices of Braz and Leveque.
  • Even Zimsky goes out like the hero he never wanted to be, furiously ordering Keyes to leave him rather than risk the ship and the mission, then using his last moments of video feed to give him the bright idea of using Virgil's fuel core to augment the final bomb.
• Credit must be given to Keyes near the end, when he takes the fuel rods, to complete the last bomb. The things were basically red-hot, enough to snap metal chains in under a second's exposure (even protective gloves weren't enough)... then he grabs them anyway, continuously holding on despite the sizzling sounds of fabric and flesh, pulling/dragging the things across what's left of the ship (including up a vertical ladder, at that).
• Although trashing the Golden Gate Bridge is pretty much the low-hanging fruit for a Disaster Movie, the novelty value of roasting it merits a few kudos in this case.

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