The Core/Wall Banger

The scene in Rome where lightning chases people down the middle of a city street.
The premise. If the Earth's magnetic field fails—and it has many times in Earth's history and will do it again in the near future when it changes polarity—then the atmosphere would ionise through solar winds grating on it and create a new magnetic field, which would protect the Earth from further solar winds and similar things. That whole mission was unnecessary.
A thorough listing of its scientific grievances makes this reviewer proclaim that the film's So Bad It's Good.
The writers thinking that a mass email would be taken seriously.
- Considering people forward chain emails to this day, and that various news outlets the world over thought Jeff Goldblum died after falling off of a cliff in New Zealand—word of which originally came from Twitter—that idea isn't unrealistic.
At one point, a protagonist asks why drilling down through the earth's crust would be any more difficult than space travel; a scientist replies, "Because space is empty." Er, no. No, it isn't.
The destruction of the Colosseum by lightning. It's made of marble and concrete, neither of which conduct electricity.
The lightning never produces thunder, only static.
The lightning uses a computer to redirect the entire U.S. power supply to Coney Island.
Some of the character deaths—most notably, Serge's death was pointless and could have been avoided.

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