Okay, so I'm fmiliar with "Journey to the Center of the Earth" and am willing to go along with the idea of a large subterranean area with dinosaurs. Strangely I have more trouble believing Brendan Fraser as an adventurer. Because of that I didn't watch the 2008 incarnation of this title. Luckily (or unluckily) for me, there are actually 3 versions of this movie released in 2008. One for the big screen, one for TV and one went straight to video. Since I'm camping on the couch with a stomach bug, it seemed like a good time for bad TV and the Sci-Fi channel didn't dissapoint with not the movie version, not the TV version, but the straight-to-video version of "Journey to the Center of the Earth." I even had trouble finding it on IMDB (you can find it's glorious 2.7 rating here.) Some of the highlights of the film include:

• A "Military Detail" just happens to be all women.
• That same detail makes a point that they need "'full combat attire" which means tank tops.
• While creating a transporter may be a multi-million dollar project, all of their communication equipment has the quality if old AM radio.
  
• The secret code that saves the day is 867-5309.
• Any scenes of animation are a few frames long, on repeat, so you pass the same things over & over.
• They are able to drill 600km down, but never address what happens to the material they drill.
• They build a drilling rig meant for going 600km through the earth, but don't design it for subsurface voids(air pockets.)
• 600km below the surface, they have sunlight.
• Major plot points (what happened to the drilling rig, where did the laser come from, what is that machine falling from the sky, how does typing Jenny's phone number make oxygen) are never mentioned in the dialogue.

So yeah, it's a true bad sci-fi. Since I'm sick I apparently don't have the brain power for good sci-fi considering I somehow managed to mess up microwaving soup.

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