Zachary Zulkowski wrote:
> Very dissapointing, more like "Journey to the Center of the Very Big
> Underground Cave".
>
> After all, a journey to the...ahem... "center" of the Eath would take
weeks
> of climbing, or spelunkingl, or whatever, and can't possibly be reached
in a
> few hours.
>
> What dangers did they find? A few birds, a dinosaur and some ice-agers.
big
> whoop.
>
> This journey to the core was a real bore.
I considered writing a review, but I did not want to watch it enough
to have enough to say. It had little to do with the Verne. It
basically was a lost race story set in Alaska. But then nobody has
done a very accurate version of the Verne that I know of because there
is really very little story there. There is some story there but it
is mostly a "we went places and we saw things" sort of story. There
is not much material there from the Verne in my opinion. I really
like the 1959 version, but it is not really the story Verne wrote.
And this TV version was not even the worst adaptation I have seen. It
was better than ALIEN FROM L.A.
As for did they really go to the center of the earth, I have to defend
the film on a technicality. The center of an M&M starts very near the
surface. They seemed to pass some sort of barrier so that they had a
different sun (like Burroughs's Pelucidar) so they had reached the
outer edges of the center. Mathematically the center is a single
point and no version makes clear that the explorers got to that
point. But center can mean "central region." And they did get to a
central region.
--Mark
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