Armageddon (Criterion)
Director's Cut. Personally supervised by Michael Bay.
For Love. For Honor. For Mankind.
When NASA's executive director, Dan Truman (Thornton), realizes the Earth has 18 days before it's obliterated by a meteor the size of Texas, he has only one option--land a ragtag team of roughneck oil drillers on the asteroid and drop a nuclear warhead into its core. Spectacular special effects, laugh-out-loud humor, great characters, riveting storytelling and heartfelt emotion make Armageddon an exhilarating thrill ride you'll want to experience like there's no tomorrow.
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Put Your Brain on Hold and Enjoy the Adrenaline Rush if You Can - Gregg
A deep core drilling team lead by Bruce Willis and including Ben Affleck and Steve Buscemi are the Earth's only hope to prevent a massive asteroid from devastating the planet. Despite there lack of experience in space they are the only ones with the requisite skills and thus are sent to land on the aforementioned asteroid. We also have Liv Tyler as both the daughter of Bruce Willis and the love interest of Ben Affleck. While Billy Bob Thornton rounds out the all-star cast as the NASA Administrator.
Sure it’s ridiculous with plot holes as big as the 'Texas sized' meteor, and the intrepid shuttle crew is faced with one contrived potential disaster after another, not to mention a heap of incredibly obvious emotional manipulation. The scene where the Russian cosmonaut and the Russian space station are introduced is incredibly over the top. But it is still an exciting adrenaline filled summer blockbuster, though far from the best of its ilk.
On a few positive notes, the special effects are for the most part quite good for its time, the performers are likable and the emotional manipulation despite its heavy handedness can still be effective.
The shots from the second unit which feature a vast array of citizens from all over the world waiting for the oncoming disaster and for the Americans to save the day of course are so ambiguously commercial that you could slap any corporate logo in the world on top and produce a very nice looking 30 second television commercial.Don't listen to Ebert - Need_More_Cowbell
I am just baffled at how many negative things were said about this movie. It's true it will not go down in history as the second "Casablanca" but it is an outstanding action movie/comedy/thriller in it's own right. If you are looking for a complex story line and brain teasers please keep moving ahead, don't even look back once.
If solid entertainment, outstanding special effects that carry the story line and a laughing/ crying eye are what you feel like, this one's for you. The cast is about as outlandishly weird as the story and I mean this in the most positive and sincere way possible. Give this one a chance and judge for yourself.Underappreciated comic gem - Radio_Jane
I cannot understand why this movie got so much bad press. Sure it was a goofy story, but there was so much great comedy in it it deserved a little praise. Willis, Affleck and Buscemi were FUNNY, It's almost like an Ed Wood film, it's the absurdity of the whole thing that makes it worth watching. 20 years from now it will be a cult classic. wait and see
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Put Your Brain on Hold and Enjoy the Adrenaline Rush if You Can - Gregg
A deep core drilling team lead by Bruce Willis and including Ben Affleck and Steve Buscemi are the Earth's only hope to prevent a massive asteroid from devastating the planet. Despite there lack of experience in space they are the only ones with the requisite ...Don't listen to Ebert - Need_More_Cowbell
I am just baffled at how many negative things were said about this movie. It's true it will not go down in history as the second "Casablanca" but it is an outstanding action movie/comedy/thriller in it's own right. If you are looking for a complex story line ...Underappreciated comic gem - Radio_Jane
I cannot understand why this movie got so much bad press. Sure it was a goofy story, but there was so much great comedy in it it deserved a little praise. Willis, Affleck and Buscemi were FUNNY, It's almost like an Ed Wood film, it's the absurdity of the whole ...