I tell everyone that The Core is the science community's most derided movie, and yet it is in fact an excellent science movie for an important reason, which is simply that it puts science and scientists on a world-saving pedestal. The fact that just about everything that is in the film is in fact unscientific doesn't detract for a moment for the deep implicit respect for the value of science to humanity that the film promotes. This script would likely never have been given the kind of budget it got when it was made and so we need to count ourselves lucky that something so entertaining also offers so much to those looking for a scientific stick with which to beat the Hollywood studio system.