Upon finishing the book, I watched the movie Journey to the Center of the Earth (the new one). I must admit, it's a good movie, but is very different from the book. In the movie, it's a professor and his 13-year old nephew that go to Iceland. They go there because the professor has geologic sensors in several locations, and one in Iceland has been showing lots of activity. He is continuing the work of his brother, his nephew's father. Their guide is female, and they each "call dibs on the mountain guide," until she tells them there are no dibs on the mountain guide. They enter a passage, and instead of going down voluntarily, they are trapped inside the mountain and their only choice is to go down. While they are down there, they find some tools which they believe belonged to the first person who descended there, as described in Verne's book. They later realise that the tools belonged to his brother, who had gone missing several years ago. The only part exactly accurate to the book was when they were spit out of the volcano.
Once again, a good, funny movie, but not exactly following the book in the accurate way possible.
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