4) The Core (2003)
What happens when the Earth’s core stops rotating? Well, after enough time, the Earth’s magnetic field would collapse, and we’d all be in a proper pickle until a quick, untimely death. Sounds like just the situation for a heroic group of scientists and astronauts to drill into the Earth’s core and give our planet a proper jolt of adrenaline so she’ll keep on spinning! That’s the gist of The Core, which surprisingly enough is one of the better movies on this list. Not sure if that’s an insult or a compliment…
Assembling a cast including Hilary Swank, Aaron Eckhart, Stanely Tucci, and a few other notable faces, our heroes travel in a craft made from Unobtanium, the only material that could keep them safe from the core’s tremendous heat. This renegade team goes in gun’s blazing, but encounters numerous hardships and miscalculations along the way – your typical disaster film fodder – until finally saving the day at the very last minute.
We’ve seen humans sacrifice themselves to save the planet before, be it in space (Armageddon) or on land (so many examples), but we’ve never really seen a successful venture into the inner workings of our own planet. For that reason, The Core gets a special place on this list of wackadoo natural disasters.
