Journey to the Center of the Earth

1993
3.2| 1h30m| en| More Info
Released: 01 July 1993 Released
Producted By: NBC
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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This made-for-TV film version uses the title and general premise of Jules Verne's novel, but had its heroes carry out the journey in an earth-penetrating machine. A television series was supposed to follow, but was never produced. Cast includes John Neville, F. Murray Abraham and Kim Miyori.

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JinRoz For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!
InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.
qmtv One of the Worst Movies Ever Made. Plane and simple Crap.Crappy acting, plot, dialogue, costumes, set designs, music, color, lighting, cinematography. Simply boring crap. I watched the first 10 minutes and couldn't take it any further. I started skipping and fast forwarding and wherever I landed it was the same rotten quality garbage up until the end. The best part of the movie is at the end. Why was this produced? Even for a TV movie, there must be a standard of quality. This does not meet that standard. Pure crap.One of the Worst Movies Ever Made. Plane and simple Crap.Crappy acting, plot, dialogue, costumes, set designs, music, color, lighting, cinematography. Simply boring crap. I watched the first 10 minutes and couldn't take it any further. I started skipping and fast forwarding and wherever I landed it was the same rotten quality garbage up until the end. The best part of the movie is at the end. Why was this produced? Even for a TV movie, there must be a standard of quality. This does not meet that standard. Pure crap.
oftend Since the early 80s, it seems the only way to convey a "bad guy" in a sci-fi movie is to use a guttural, speaking-while-burping, type voice most commonly associated with Dr. Claw in the cartoon version of "Inspector Gadget". That voice is SO PLAYED now that I literally have to just stop whatever is using it and walk away because I find it so annoying and irritating. This movie had a chance, albeit a tiny one, for me as I enjoy sci-fi with a good larf to it but that chance evaporated as soon as the "bad guy" made his appearance and sounded like Dr. Claw. It's weak, stupid, trite, LAZY and awful. NO MORE DOCTOR CLAW PLEASE!!!! Please, God, PLEASE!! LOL What a star studded cast too. Justina Evans, who's been associated with all things silly, was a nice add. Poor John Neville, who must have rued the day he signed the contract for this A-Bomb, could have saved this. And my favorite, Tim Russ from "Star Trek: Voyager" - who also could have saved this.Why did this potential serial fail? First, because they went with a script that had no ending! Even if you plan on sequels or an entire TV series, the big "crisis" that draws the audience in has to have some kind of resolution with an obvious hint that more such adventures are to come. This movie just dead-ended with plot holes everywhere you could drive a truck through. Second, the special effects were just god-awful. "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" was out at this exact same time and even with a different nose prosthesis for each species separating out the various space characters (Note to Star Trek, be more creative please! Tentacles shouldn't be out of the question), the special effects in DS9 were infinitely better than this piece of dog doo! Honestly - drooling, fanged-manta-ray puppets?! C'MON! Last, BORING! This was so god awful boring and silly and hokey and just inspidly stupid it never should have seen a millisecond on air. Worst movie EVER! (And I sat through all of "Howard the Duck" - IN THE THEATRE!) You know what's really sad? To date, the 1959 version of this title still sets the high bar. Even the most recent production wasn't as interesting to me as the original. Sad.I gladly give this a 1. They got it the old fashioned way, they EARNED it. *grin*
Reiss Ferlance What is this movie, its so-called "Journey to the Centre (Center) of the Earth. I've seen the 1959 adaptation of Jules Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth, I watched on BBC2 on a Saturday, and I liked it. But this- What's this???? I can't compare this adaptation to the book since I've not read the book, but I can compare it to the 1959 adaptation. This movie will definitely not be in my top 250 movies.It's an unexciting adventure with only fair acting, The special effects are almost bad and this probably bears little resemblance to the novel, it definitely bears little resemblance to the 1959 movie. Let's compare this movie to a movie completely different "Carnival Of Souls" (1998) that movie I would choose over this.
jameskg Sucked.Two good looking women are the only reasons to watch this. Well, not really. Don't watch it.Worst special effects EVER! Remember Land of The Lost series with the dinosaurs and all? Worse effects than the sleestacks. Don't bother.No, really - just turn it off! I tried to watch it just because I was interested in the subject, but jeezz! I fell asleep right before the end. I just couldn't make it. I watched the end on TiVo the next day. Not any better!