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Summary: Disengage brain, then sit back & enjoy
Review: Hey, I can't give this more than three stars. The plot is predictable, laughable, and implausible. Except for Billy Bob Thornton, the acting is negligible. It's about 30 minutes too long, for a piece of fluff.But I found it rather fun to watch. There was some way out humor. I enjoyed the repetition of the main song, Diane Warren's "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing". And I like the "Leaving On A Jet Plane" sequence. I guess that what it is, well you can watch it with absolute no mental effort at all. It's rather loud, but you can adjust to that. What can I say. It's not really a good picture. You're liable to think you wasted a good 150 minutes of your life on this. But it does move, and it did have some sort of a hypnotic effect. So if you don't expect anything deep or even sensible, and enjoy just drifting along with this, you just might like it. But don't say that I recommended it, because I might get sued!
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Summary: Excellent movie.
Review: Total complete fun from beginning to end! Bruce Willis is at his best in this movie. If you have not seen this movie, you should. So come on. What are you waiting for? There's even a bonus feature at the end of this movie. It includes: Aerosmith's Award-winnig Music video: "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing". So watch it all the way through. It's excellent and fun! But, think before letting the kids see it though. Rating: PG-13 for Language and Violence.
Running Time: 151 Minutes
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Summary: Excellent DVD collector's edition.
Review: First of all i would like to say this movie is one of my all time favorite movies. This Michael Bay/ Jerry Bruckheimer Sci-fi adventure is about an asteroid the size of Texas about to crash into the Earth, a group of Oil-Drillers led by Harry Stamper ( Bruce Willis) go on the asteroid and must save mankind. This movie has it all: suspense, humor, tears, bravery, patriotism, action and anything that makes this such a perfect movie, it also has the most intense destruction of a city since September 11th of 2001. The collector's edition here has unseen footage, music video, commentary, Trailers, TV Spots, Photo gallery, and everything that would make a Bruckeheimer fan's dream come true. love it or hate it, this is a movie that should be seen by every true patriotic american cause we all have to be patriotic ever since the attacks on september 11th, a must see! Similar movies recommended: Independence Day, The Rock, Con Air, Titanic, The Matrix, The Fifth Element, Pearl Harbor, Men in Black, Stargate, Star Wars, Earthquake, Starship Troopers, Total Recall, Transformers: The Movie, Jurassic Park, Saving Private Ryan, and Face/Off.
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Summary: These people just don't get it - It's a great movie
Review: The other reviewers just don't get it. Armageddon is a hilarious and completely epic movie if you look at it in the right light. Scientifically ridiculous? Of course it is - so what. This is an ACTION movie with an excellent cast of quality action movie actors and a variety of interesting and fun characters. It's totally classic. The visuals and soundtrack are very well crafted. The first 30 minutes is like one long music video. Turn off your brain and just enjoy it - or turn on your brain and enjoy the excellent cinematography, editing, visual effects, sound effects, sound editing, etc. I liked this movie OK when I saw it in the theatre but with repeat viewings, I like it even better.
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Summary: Shame on you Criterion.
Review: Why this [bad] of a movie for The Criterion Collection? I know people are out there saying "Yeah but it fits under the mega-blockbuster action genre" so do many other movies that are better than this insulting piece ...that calls itself a film.
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Summary: Really bad
Review: The government finds out that a huge meteor the size of Texas is going to crash into the earth. The government decides it's a better choice to train alcoholic oil drillers to become astronauts in 2 weeks than to use the 2 weeks to train astronauts to drill a hole????????????????? Yippee Kiyaah Meteor Flyer!
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Summary: WORST Film in human history!!
Review: In my life I have seen many a bad film but this is without question the absolute biggest load of garbage of film I have ever witnessed. Only a bunch of scientifically ignorant ignoramuses would be entertained by this nonsense. I cannot even begin to describe how bad this film is. The producers should be thrown into exile.
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Summary: Action packed and entertaining!
Review: ARMAGEDDON is about a group of oil drillers run by Harry Stamper (Willis) faced with a big challenge: to save the Earth from total destruction. ARMAGEDDON is great film which makes you think quite a bit about the film's main topic which is the end of the world. This film has a great cast and crew, and a good story. That helps a lot when you have a film with just the right amount of action, drama, and comedy, and truth to keep the audience watching. This is another film from brilliant director, Michael Bay. It is action packed and entertaining! ARMAGEDDON is what I think one of the greatest films of all time.
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Summary: A new opinion on "Armageddon"
Review: I am walking a thin line here. Contrary to my previous review, "Armageddon" has been a personal favorite action movie of mine for some years. But even I admit that it has as much intelligence as a pop-up book. However, I will try to avoid being a serious critic in my review and I will also avoid patronizing. The story is set in the present day (Or in Summer 1998. You decide). A giant asteroid the size of Texas has been spotted coming towards Earth. NASA, led by Dan Truman (Billy Bob Thornton) is totally unprepared for such a thing. Worse, they have only 18 days to stop it. The only hope for Earth is to send the world's best deep core oil driller Harry Stamper (Bruce Willis) and a team of his drillers to combat the threat. If you don't spend too much time laughing at the improbabilities, you might find some of the dialogue (Intentionally) hilarious. Steve Buscemi is particularly likable as "Rockhound", a horny geologist ("Do you think we'll hazard pay out of this"). However, General Kimsey (Keith David) is pretty much correct when he states "The fate of the planet is in the hands of a bunch of retards I wouldn't trust with a potato gun". The problem with "Armageddon" is lack of focus. Apparently, the screenwriters think that by putting a romance story into the plot that a larger audience will be attracted to the film. So, a subplot between Stamper's daughter Grace (Liv Tyler) and one of his top drillers A.J (Ben Affleck) is put into place. This only drags the film's length and, to add insult to injury, variations of Aerosmith's "I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing" are played during these scenes. I also never felt much for the A.J and Grace characters, since the only signs that they ever love one another are shown by using pretty close ups. I, for one, try to relax when I watch popcorn flicks like this. However, even I noticed how phony this film is. And I am not talking about the plot either. I mean, if you thought "2001" was unrealistic in it's space travel depiction, check this film out. The sets look like that; Wood and cement, rather than rock and iron. So where did that budget of $100 million or so go? Must have been the bill given to McDonald's for all that merchandising. In my previous review, I mentioned that the military is shown negatively in this film. While the depiction isn't always positive towards them (The higher ranking leaders attempt to detonate the nuclear device on the asteroid's surface and they don't put much faith in NASA's plan to use drillers), the producers had to have military cooperation in this movie. Thus, most of the scenes showing the training have expensive, high tech military gear and planes as props or in the background shots. Come on, your going to have a briefing in the same hanger that is also occupied by a B-2 stealth bomber and two SR-71 Blackbirds? These civilians (Both on and off the screen) have more opportunity to admire these advanced warplanes than do many of the same military servicemen training them. But, like I said earlier, it would be moronic to take this movie seriously. Like "North by Northwest", "Star Wars" and The James Bond Series, this is one movie not to be treated in the same class as "The Godfather". It's a disaster flick, like "The Poseidon Adventure" or "The Towering Inferno" and if you take it as fun, pointless and overall escapist entertainment, you will do fine and probably even get a kick out of it. Now as to whether this film deserved treatment from the Criterion Collection. No doubt, this is a great special edition set, with two audio commentary tracks, a special director's cut and various documentaries on the movie's making. I am just surprised that it is preserved by such a brand name company. But it's satisfying and worth shelling out the dough for.
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Summary: What a gigantic waste of time & money
Review: When I saw this movie, I wasn't expecting Oscar quality material. It's just I'd like to see SOME quality come out of the story/script. I like some mindless 'splosions just as much as the next guy but is it too much to ask for something more. 1. The only quality performance came from Bruce Willis and it was an uphill battle to make his character 3 dimensional, handicapped with the script and some really cringingly bad (funny) speechs he had to make. Most of the oilworkers were so stereotypical it defied belief. "Let's see... we need a big biker guy, and a new age mellow guy, and a guy who loves to hang out with stripers. That was the extent of their personalities. I felt like I was watching card board cutouts. I don't need to mention how awful Afleck was. 2. Everyone else has pointed out the scientific and story plot blunders, inaccuracies, and problems so nuff ced. 3. Obviously Bruckheimer/Bay et al have no concept of the phrase, "Less is more". Does everything have to be loud? Can you they go more than 3 seconds without an edit? I felt like the had about 15 minutes of a movie and threw everything else in a blender until they got the 2 hours + 4. The most glaring problem: The script. I would have laughed if I wasn't in so much pain from this reallllly bad dialogue. Professionally, I felt bad for the actors. Of course they were well compensated financially. To sum it all up, What a waste of what could have been to good action flic. What we got was a hack job with quality effects.
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