10 Movies That Felt Instantly Out Of Date
2. The Core
Without checking, just try and guess what year sci-fi disaster film The Core came out. 1995? 1996? Maybe 1997?
Nope, 2003.
With its hilariously loony premise - of a drill team racing to detonate nuclear weapons to restart the rotation of the Earth's core - this is a film that in its very bones feels like it's riding the coattails of countless 1990s disaster flicks like Independence Day, Armageddon, Deep Impact, Daylight, Dante's Peak, Volcano, and so on.
With the most late '90s/early '00s cast imaginable - including Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Delroy Lindo, Stanley Tucci, D. J. Qualls, Richard Jenkins, Bruce Greenwood, and Alfre Woodard - accompanied by some hilariously wretched CGI even for its release year, The Core felt like a film Paramount just left in their studio vault for a few years by accident.
Though the disaster genre was still incredibly popular at this point, The Core was a colossal box office flop, its innate datedness seemingly deterring paying moviegoers from checking it out.