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So the military and some scientists build one of those high-tech drilling machines to go inside the Earth and fix things (it just wouldn't be as much fun if they didn't have to go somewhere like space or inside the planet).
Bad points; the writers try to do good science but it falls down in direction and production (eg, a rock drilling mole using superheated rock drilling equipment breaks surface underwater with nary a bubble or boiling cauldron to be seen), the characters are cliché's and the plot unfolding is pretty stock standard.
Trying to keep the world from plunging in ecological havoc, a crack team of scientists led by Dr. Jake Rollins(Luke Perry)take a massive earth drilling vehicle called "The Mole" to chew its way to the Earth's fiery core to avert impending doom.
According to the plot drilling a hole in the ceiling of the vault would disable the alarm system in the vault when the system was reactivated (I can't think why), according to Daltry there battery operated drill would be unable to drill through the vault ceiling however they just happened to have a hydraulic drill complete with hoses and fittings to fit the equally convenient take off points in the planes hydraulic system located above the vault.
The script seems to have been wholesale (ahem ahem, cough cough) "borrowed" from a certain other movie involving using a self-propelled manned drilling machine.
Once you subtract all of the plot ripped off from "The Core" - basically the manned drilling machine - you end up with the plot of "Crack in the World".
FBI Agents Mulder and Scully get assigned to probe the mystery of what happened to an Arctic drilling team, in this early 'X-Files' episode that David Duchovny himself considers one of their first "rockin'" episodes.
During all this time, there is no dialogue and no music, only the muted sounds of digging through the floor or drilling the safe.
How can you not like a film that has Doug McClure, Peter Cushing, silly rubber monsters, fights, (and for the guys, that woman that was the baddie's henchwoman in The Spy Who Loved Me and one of the seventies Sinbad films, not wearing very much of whom my mother said "She wasn't picked for the colour of her eyes"), lava, silly wigs and a daft Victorian drilling machine very much like the one used in the old Thunderbirds series?
I have to hold Barney drilling my head every day; well..
A central notion to this movie, that a rancher would ever resist drilling for oil on his land, is absurd, and I know this because I'm from Houston.
A man seeking oil brings a drilling crew to the plateau.
Their budget triples as their hired handyman (Kilbride) needs to buy more gravel, more this, more that, all the time drilling for water (and finding the neighbor's) - until the couple is nearly out of money.
While the husband is out "on call" usually at his place of business, the hospital, his wife Nell(played well by Angela Bettis) is left at home, usually scared by the continuous "knocking" noises and drilling.
He plays a scientist who is drilling a hole 7 miles deep in Manhattan to tap into an underground magma flow for an energy source.
Brian Goodman (Craig Sheffer) is a scientist specialized in drilling operations.
It is the story of a group of extortionists who threaten to destroy an off-shore drilling rig and production platform in the North Sea unless they are paid an exorbitant sum of money.
If Jennifer, the production platform, and Ruth, a nearby drilling platform, which Kramer has mined are destroyed, a good deal of British North Sea oil production will go up in smoke with them.
A remote drilling station with company employees waiting things out.
Similarities: Laser Gatling gun performing the drilling.
Independent environmentalists work together in a drilling base headed by the tough Ed Pollack (Ron Perlman) in a sort of agreement with the government, approving procedures and sending reports of the operation.
They also left out the Hurricane that Titanic had to survive getting to New York or the 2 Russian born spies that tried to sabotage the ship drilling holes in the bottom.
There's also supposed to be a big successful mining-company on Mars, but all we see is three man drilling outside.
I have a DVD binder called "Inside The Earth," which contains about a dozen films with the same basic plot: scientists must use "futuristic" drilling machine thingy to drive into the center of the Earth to save the planet by either a) realigning tectonic plates b) setting off nuclear bombs c) allowing volcanoes to explode, thus relieving pressure, etc. or some such babble that makes no sense at all.
It concerns a struggling painter (director Abel Ferrara) who lives with two women-one his lover who left her husband and another a druggie who's the other woman's lover and hangs with a punk band that just moved in another apartment room-as he tries to fight his demons by drilling holes into many homeless men that live below.
Its about some oil drilling corporation unit sent to some part of Iceland to drill oil.It concentrates on a white box like structure throughout.
Oil companies can immediately deduct a high percentage of their drilling costs from their tax liability, which other industries cannot do with their investments.
They did not know about seismic lines, drilling, pipelines, refineries, or tankers.
But the messages demand attention, and we simply have to keep drilling.
Moreover, because California considers itself the vanguard of green energy, state agencies have responded to Trump’s proposal to open up offshore oil drilling by threatening to ban the transportation of oil through the state, even in existing pipelines.
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