Armageddon

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Summary: beuatifully shot, horribly directed
Review: Micheal Bay is a great cinematographer, but leaves much to be desired in terms of story direction and substance. Lets also not leave out the fact that he has no shame is manipulating the audience emotions to the point where its laughable. I actually went to school with this guy, but sorry go back to directing music videos and commercials Micheal.

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Summary: Big Mistake Criterion!
Review: Ok, so i'm browsing through all the cool really good other movies in the Criterion Collection when suddenly I see Armageddon and i i'm like "what!!!!???" This movie was pure hollywood, a big budget film perfectly targeted to make money off of the current audiences and that's precisely what it did. Deep Impact at least had some sort of emotional conflict in it. However, I'm not giving one star to the movie itself, some people love this stuff and its beside me to criticize them, but really I have to give it to the Criterion Collection. I'm sorry Criterion, I usually love your movies and have a whole bunch at home and plan to order many more, but this was not a good choice for an addition to the collection. Many of your other movies are little-known, or "art-house", or simply clever and original in some way, little adjectives I refuse to assign to this.

P.S. I have to thank the reviewer Fat Jon or whoever, I hadn't realized the "metaphor" of "space cowboys" before! J/K

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Summary: Entertaining but unbelievable
Review: This being a Bruce Willis comebacker movie, obviously makes a hero out of him. Well, a group of oil drillers being chosen to save the world is quite impossible & the circumstances that followed were quite unbelievable, but the film & its set had its fine moments. The drillers were funny at times & of course, the brewing romance between Bruce's daughter & his drilling colleague adds a little spark. They try to make it a tearjerker at the end by making the great father/hero of the world sacrifice his own life to (1) save the earth & (2) be a martyr & take the place of Ben Afleck who was supposed to be the one to press the stuck button & die on the surface of the meteor. Hhhmmm, again, there's the Hollywoodish commercialism head leering again giving the viewers a blow in their common sense. Anyway, it's entertaining just the same. Oh & yeah, great soundtrack.

If you want a more serious version of this similar theme, stick to Deep Impact.

Rating:
Summary: Ugh
Review: This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen.

Anybody who admits to enjoying it should be regarded with deep suspicion.

I'm used to having to "Suspend my Disbelief" when watching a movie, but this is ridiculous. It is totally implausible, has no plot to speak of, incredibly inept direction (what's with the zooming so close to someone's face that it cuts the top of their head off IN EVERY SCENE), wooden acting, forgettable throwaway lines, not to mention the fact that a comet or asteroid would be mostly eroded flat and not look like some piece of abstract Waterford crystal.

Please stop Michael Bay before he directs again.

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Summary: An appalling ¿RIP-OFF¿ of ¿Deep Impact¿
Review: The makers of this movie thought that they could make a good movie just by using an infinite budget, excessive advertising campaign, employing fat, lazy, aging over-paid actors (not mentioning any names - Bruce Willis), and by totally copying and ripping-off a movie - "Deep Impact".
Well they have failed miserably; they forgot that it takes - originality and imagination too. Also, very shallow, superficial and tacky.
The 1 star goes to the Aerosmith soundtrack & Aerosmith's frontman's daughter - Liv Tyler.

A shamefull rip-off...

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Summary: Plan 9 is actually kinda cool...
Review: This movie is probably the dividing line between the sheep and everone else. People with flock mentalities like "Armageddon" because Liv is sooo cute, things go boom and make big yellow explosions, and every character has some sort of vocal handicap that limits their speech to cheesy one-liners. To say this film is bad is to insult truly bad films, which are campy because the filmmakers were trying to make something good and just didn't know what they were doing or have the money to put it on the screen. But this IS exactly the movie Michael Bay set out to make--The Gone With The Wind for stupid people. And stupid people love it! I know, I work in a video store. It's scary.

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Summary: Made me want to bludgeon myself unconscious!!
Review: It stank... I thought the theater smelt bad, but it turned out to be the movie!!

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Summary: Bruce Willis being Mr Cool again.
Review: Armageddon is a stupit movie without a doubt, I saw this in the movie theater and I was expecting a classic the way everyone was raving about it was everything but that. This movie does not really center around average people like alot of other movies do instead its all about these egotistical guys trying to kill this asteroid in space and people like Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck being real cool about everything I did not laugh the whole time and I thought the script was corny. And there were way to many explosions and they really get on your nerves after a while the explosions get so dull even you'll start to get dopey after a while all of the people in the theatre looked bored to while watching this movie and when watching this movie where some ear plugs the explosions may cause some people to become hearing impaired. I don't ever think I have ever seen anything that has to do with asteroids as dull as this movie ever. It looks like the writers and anyone having to do with this movie poured all of there energy into the special effects and sound but then failed to write up a good script and find some real actors who really can act and that is the outcome of what most people saw in theaters one big BOMB!

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Summary: Amazon needs a DOG rating! WOOF WOOF
Review: Let me begin by saying that I originally went to see this movie with my husband at his request. Within 30 minutes we walked out of the thing with my husband uttering more apologies than I believe he would give me if he cheated on me! This is the only movie I have ever walked out on! Liv Tyler is no more than eye candy, completely void of any real talent other than looking pouty and vulnerable.This is an overly dramatic, poorly acted and all around terrible movie. Shame on Steve Buschemi! This movie encompasses all that is wrong with modern movie making. It also demonstrates the power of advertising perfectly. It's so hyped it HAS to be good, right? WRONG!!!

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Summary: The Worst Movie EVER made!!! See DEEP IMPACT!!!
Review: Yes, this movie is the worst film to date (next to men of honor). First of all, Armageddon is a movie about what would happen if MTV was hit by an astroid. Micheal Bay is also the worst Director teamed with the worst producer Jerry Bruckheimer to creat a movie so superficial and MTV flashy (very particular of their style of film making) that only the dull-minded really enjoy this movie. Several reasons why this movie was bad other than the forementioned people/ideas: 1: Wouldn't it be easier to train astronauts to drill vs. drillers to be astronauts? 2: The OVER-dramatic scene where the "drillers" are walking to the space shuttle cutting back (flashy, MTV style, mind you) to Liv Tyler and Billy Bob Thorton looking toward the sky each in a different pose behind an American flag ALL while an Aerosmith song is playing in the background... 'nuff said. 3: The bad dialogue and ... one-liners including stereotype comic-reliefs (or would that be relieves???) 4: a Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer film. 5: Phantom's Ben Affleck (though awesome in Kevin Smith films). If you want Superfical, unrealistic, MTV, Aerosmith, One-liner after One-liner see: ...-a-geddon. If you want a realistic movie about cometary evolution (which armageddon is supposed to be about) see: Deep Impact. In Deep Impact: 1: Almost all the main characters die (unusal and original for a modern film) 2: viewed through the media which is the way we would really live through such an event. 3: the ASTRONAUTS drill the astroid, not some oil drillers. 4: A scientific approach to cometary evolution not an MTV one. 5: Morgan Freeman. 6: Steven Speilberg. 7: Not Micheal Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer. 8: I had a chance to think. Armageddon is a big Aerosmith music video.