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- A huge Comet is headed for earth. As it does not consist of one big piece, but of a cloud of rather small pieces plus a main rock the size of Texas, little impacts are recorded long before the big one is scheduled for collision with earth. Harry S. Stamper and his drill team are selected to land on the main comet as they are the only ones who can work the special drill Harry developed. Their mission is to drill 800 ft. into the comet to place a nuclear explosive device. The explosion of the bomb will break the comet in two, and the two pieces will pass earth on both sides. This task has to be accomplished before a certain "dead" line, or the comet parts will not fly by, but hit earth.
- It is just another day at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), a few astronauts were repairing a satellite until, out of nowhere, a series of asteroids came crashing into the shuttle, destroying it. These asteroids also decimated New York soon thereafter. Then, NASA discovered that there is an asteroid roughly the size of Texas heading towards the Earth, and when it does hit the Earth, the planet itself and all of its inhabitants will be obliterated, worse, the asteroid will hit the Earth in 18 days. Unfortunately, NASA's plans to destroy the asteroid are irrelevant. That is when the U.S. military decides to use a nuclear warhead to blow the asteroid to pieces. Then, scientists decide to blow the asteroid with the warhead inside the asteroid itself. The only man to do it, is an oil driller named Harry Stamper and his group of misfit drillers and geologists. As he and his drill team prepare for space excavation, the asteroid is still heading towards the Earth. When the crew are launched into outer space, they are determined to destroy this asteroid.
- Since this movie and DEEP IMPACT used essentially the same scenario, and appeared at almost the same time, one has to suspect they were out to compete with each other. After watching both, I felt ARMAGEDDON was more fun, more entertaining, and more upbeat, but I'm afraid I still found it the less satisfying of the two.<br/><br/>After a meteor shower makes mince meat out of Manhattan, NASA discovers that's only a preview of coming attractions. An asteroid is heading for Earth, and if something isn't done, it's the end of the world as we know it. NASA decides to blow it up from inside, and asks oil drilling expert Harry Stamper to go into space and guide the astronauts who'll be drilling the hole to put the bomb in. Stamper agrees, but on one condition. He doesn't trust the astronauts to do it right, and wants to take his own crew instead. The problem is, these guys have never been trained for space flight, much less logged any actual time up there, and they're not exactly prime astronaut material. Okay, this shaky crew does make for a lot of genuine humor that actually enhances the suspense, because it increases the doubt as to whether they're really gonna be able to save the Earth. At the same time, you start to like these guys, so you can work up a vested interest in their fate the doesn't depend on the Earth being in danger.<br/><br/>But whatever might have been good about taking the plot in this direction, I thought it created two major problems. First, the mood of light-hearted adventure that was perfectly fine for a movie like STAR WARS seemed royally inappropriate for a movie hat dealt with something as serious as the impending destruction of the Earth. Granted, STAR TREK IV went for the same mood and dealt with the impending destruction of the Earth, but that was a hypothetical future Earth, threatened by something that was pure science fiction. In this case, we have a present-day Earth, threatened by something definitely within the bounds of possibility. The movie even begins by telling you it has happened before. Perhaps if ARMAGEDDON had been done as an out-an-out dark comedy, along the lines of DR. STRANGELOVE which is actually alluded to in this movie it would have worked for me. DR. STRANGELOVE showed deliberate, calculated contempt, but ARMAGEDDON just shows poor judgment.<br/><br/>And that poor judgment involves not only mood but credibility. I find it hard to believe that NASA would have taken the pretty-please- with-sugar-on-it approach with Stamper. Rather, I think they would have MADE him cooperate in whatever way the military MAKES people cooperate when there's no time to argue. And if they didn't MAKE him forget about taking his own crew instead of their astronauts, they would have at least MADE him forget about that night on the town right before the mission.<br/><br/>Still, ARMAGEDDON does give you a lot of cool mayhem and destruction right at the beginning, rather than making you wait through three quarters of the movie, and it is more uplifting. I also thought its view of how the general public would react was more believable. And ARMAGEDDON got one fact right that DEEP IMPACT got wrong. If something that big hit the ocean that hard, it wouldn't just make a tidal wave. It would flash-boil the water and make it rain. But I'm afraid those selling points weren't strong enough to make me feel this was the better of the two movies.<br/><br/>Now if only someone would make a movie out of the definitive novel on the subject, LUCIFER'S HAMMER.
- But this really was the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back. What a steaming pile of manure this film is. To think that I paid money to watch it. I squirmed at the stupidity, poor plotting, wooden acting, and oh-so-obvious events.<br/><br/>Were it not for the fact that I watched this with friends, I would have walked out after ten minutes. Godzilla was better than this!
- Director Michael Bay's filmmaking style is so frantic and frenetic that it's often impossible to figure out exactly what is happening.
- An asteroid the size of Texas is on a collision course with Earth. NASA puts together a team of oil drillers, lead by Harry Stamper (<a href="/name/nm0000246/">Bruce Willis</a>), considered to be the best deep core driller in the world, and plans to send them up to the asteroid in order to plant a nuclear warhead 800 feet deep inside of it. The hope is that the warhead will blow the asteroid into two pieces, both of which will safely fly past the earth. Armageddon is based on a screenplay by American screenwriters Jonathan Hensleigh, J.J. Abrams, and Robert Pool. The movie was subsequently novelized as Armageddon (1998) by M. C. Bolin. There is evidence that Earth was hit roughly 65 million years ago by a stellar object that was at least 6 miles wide. The impact location was in the Gulf of Mexico, just above the Yucatan peninsula (Chicxulub crater). This event would have caused giant tidal waves (tsunamis) and clouds of superheated vapor and dust, causing direct destruction. Moreover, the impact would have caused a chain reaction of global earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Indirect effects would be the mass production of carbon monoxide, causing a dramatic greenhouse effect, and the ejection of dust into the atmosphere, which would have seriously affected plantlife and the entire foodchain. This event is widely believed to be the cause of the massive extinction on Earth in that period. That said, not all life was obliterated; that is why we exist. There are, however, scientists who claim that the impact alone was not enough to create a total extinction. Some theories postulate that climate changes had already caused many species of dinosaurs to disappear, and that the meteor was yet another cause; other theories state that there were multiple impacts on other places and that the combined effect caused the extinction. Harry says no and explains that he has drilled all over the world for thirty years but still doesn't know everything. He calls drilling "an art", probably meaning that it is a profession that requires experience and instinct; not an exact science that can be simply taught in 12 days. Teaching drillers to be astronauts in 12 days would be easier, provided that they don't have to fly a shuttle or repair NASA machinery; they already have the physical build to survive the trip (at least most of them do), they are used to rough conditions, and they only need to learn to work in zero-g environments. The song is titled "Leaving on a Jet Plane". It was written by John Denver in 1966 and recorded by various artists, including the Chad Mitchell Trio, Spanky and Our Gang, and Peter, Paul and Mary. It's not entirely far-fetched. First off, Harry runs his own drilling company. He is in charge of an entire oil rig with dozens of employees, so he's likely got his hands full most of the time with managing his crew, the actual logistics of the well-drilling, dealing with AJ's insubordination and meeting his clients' needs. Also, there are likely rotating shifts on the rigs, so AJ (<a href="/name/nm0000255/">Ben Affleck</a>) and Grace (<a href="/name/nm0000239/">Liv Tyler</a>) wouldn't be on the rig 100% of their lives. Harry would likely spend more time on the rig than either of them. Thus, AJ and Grace may have started seeing each other off the rig and continued on and off. It's entirely possible that, when Harry catches them, it was the first time they had been on the rig at the same time while in a relationship or they simply stopped being so careful to hide their relationship from Harry himself. Some of the other workers on the rig also knew about Grace and AJ, and they could have helped the couple keep their relationship secret as well. There's a bit of fleeting dialog when Stamper's roughnecks are going through their NASA training: Harry says that they have to "split the asteroid on the fault line", meaning that there was a gigantic geographical crack already present in the asteroid—it was likely discovered by NASA while they were monitoring the asteroid's approach. By drilling deep enough to expose or come within a short distance of the fault, the explosion would be sufficient enough to crack the asteroid the rest of the way. It's a quick moment in the film, easy to miss. When Independence crashes, Oscar's (<a href="/name/nm0005562/">Owen Wilson</a>) faceplate on his helmet gets smashed while he's strapped into his chair. Noonan (<a href="/name/nm0111272/">Clark Heathcliff Brolly</a>), munition specialist Halsey (<a href="/name/nm0172333/">Greg Collins</a>) and the two pilots are killed, seemingly all getting sucked out the window of the ship when it gets smashed (though only the pilots are shown). A.J.(<a href="/name/nm0000255/">Ben Affleck</a>), Bear (<a href="/name/nm0003817/">Michael Clarke Duncan</a>), and Lev Andropov (<a href="/name/nm0001780/">Peter Stormare</a>) survive. All of the crew on Freedom survive with the exception of Max (<a href="/name/nm0132637/">Ken Hudson Campbell</a>) who dies when the Armadillo hits a gas pocket while drilling, destroying the vehicle and sending it floating into space with Max still inside. Munitions specialist Gruber (<a href="/name/nm0566651/">Grayson McCouch</a>) gets killed during a violent meteor shower, and Harry Stamper (<a href="/name/nm0000246/">Bruce Willis</a>) voluntarily stays behind to self-detonate the nuke and destroys the asteroid. Given the fact that the loan shark was present at A.J. & Grace's wedding, and the fact that Rockhound was one of the people who saved the world, it's likely the loan shark forgave the debt with no hard feelings. AJ draws the short straw designating him as the one who must stay behind on the asteroid in order to detonate the bomb. Harry offers to take AJ to the airlock. As they prepare to exit, Harry tears his mission patch from his suit, rips AJ's airhose from his spacesuit and pushes him back into the airlock, taking AJ's place as the detonator. "You're gonna take care of my little girl now," Harry tells him above his protests. "I always thought of you as a son...I'd be damn proud to have you marry Grace." He requests that AJ give his mission patch to Truman. As pilots Sharpe (<a href="/name/nm0001209/">William Fichtner</a>) and Watts (<a href="/name/nm0824763/">Jessica Steen</a>) prepare the ship for liftoff, Harry makes a final tearful call to Grace in order to say goodbye. When the ship's thrusters refuse to start, Watts attempt to fix them without success. Obviously tired of Watts' take charge attitude, Lev pushes her aside and bangs the thrusters with a pipe wrench, getting them to start. With Freedom at a safe distance and only seconds left until the asteroid hits zero barrier, Harry detonates the bomb while his life passes before his eyes. The asteroid breaks in two and passes the earth as expected. People all over the world begin coming out of their hiding places. When Freedom lands, the survivors are given a heroes' welcome. In the final scene, Sharpe asks to shake Grace's hand, "the hand of the daughter of the bravest man I ever met." Truman congratulates AJ with the mission. AJ gives him the mission patch that Harry wanted him to have, which Truman fondly receives. A group of jets fly through the air, one breaking off to symbolize the crew members who perished. During the credits, we see Super 8 footage of Grace and AJ's wedding, with all the drillers including Lev celebrating happily. Four pictures of team mates that died during the mission are proudly displayed inside the church during the ceremony. Only minor changes were made for the Director's Cut. The most striking scene is probably the one where Harry is visiting his father. There are also several other extensions and sometimes some lines of dialogue were added but overall these scenes aren't worth mentioning. Yes, even though both the DVD and Blu-ray versions feature the theatrical cut of the movie and not the Director's Cut. There is a minor difference between these versions. A shot of the radio telescopes at the beginning has been replaced by another one. <a href="/name/nm0027454/">Stanley Anderson</a>, who plays the President in this film is also uncredited as the President in <a href="/title/tt0117500/">The Rock (1996)</a> (1996), anothe Bay-Bruckheimer film. In both films, there is a scene where he stands in silhouette against a bright window while contemplating a decision that would doom the heroes. This has led many to believe that the two films are connected. However, other actors are in both films but play different roles, so a connection is unlikely. a5c7b9f00b
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