I recently crawled through the current B-Movie Boss flix, “Journey to the Center of the Earth” and “100 Million BC.”  The stories were clever, but the effects by The Asylum uses the infamous Tiny Juggernaut company for their visual effects, and they do need to tighten it up a bit, but the idea is still good.  I’ve seen other films by this company and, all in all, I do like the product.

“Journey to the Center of the Earth” claims to be based upon the Jules Verne novel, but I find it to be more along the lines of E. R. Burroughs’ works involving Pellucidar.  Utilizing an unexplained matter transfer device, we transmit people and cargo in a straight line, directly through the planet Earth, to prearranged receiver stations.  The most recent attempt to shoot a group from LA to Germany ends with the team being stranded 600 kilometers below the Earth’s surface.  I can only assume this means 600 kilometers below LA, for this is where the experimental Deep Digger resides, and from where the rescue attempt is launched.

“100 Million BC” is like “The Philadelphia Experiment,” Book II, where we find that the U.S. Navy destroyer escort USS Eldridge did not merely disappear to another dimension, but actually moved 8 hours back in Time.  From there, we come up with the invention of and experimentation in Time Travel, and to alleviate fears of human interaction and paradox, we don’t go a mere 100 years to the past, but rather 100 million years.  That would be the first major error in the flick, as our genetic strain can be mapped all the way back to the sponge, let alone through the tiny mammals that already existed with the late-period dinosaurs.

As I stated, both films need some work, but they are still both enjoyably interesting.