Armageddon

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Summary: armageddon
Review: the pic is absolutely awesome when watched on a full fledged surround sound home teatre system...as for the movie itself, well Bruce boy was his usual macho man and all in all it was a entertaining hour and a half. I ve read a few comments from other reviewers and i think they have been unfair to critise Bruce's acting. The script calls for a type a character and I think Bruce carried it off pretty well! Regards George Menon, Goa India

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Summary: Bad
Review: Unrelentingly stupid. Appallingly devoid of merit. It is unfortunate that Steve Buscemi would be in such a worthless movie. I'd rather watch a test of the emergency broacast system.

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Summary: It Made My Brain Hurt
Review: This movie may have been enjoyable to watch if it were possible to turn off one's brain before sitting down to view it. Since I was unable to do so, the most common phrases passing through my mind while watching this were "that can't happen", "oh please", and "someone teach Bruce Willis how to act". Willis has never been better than a serviceable actor, so you can't expect him to pull together an Olivier like performance out of thin air. But in Armageddon his performance was lacking even more than usual. It fell below the serviceable level into sheer mediocrity.

The plot of this movie is that a team of deep sea oil rig drillers has been enlisted by the United States to land on an asteroid that is hurtling toward Earth and drill a hole in it to plant explosives. Naturally the drillers are a bunch of sociopathic misfits that are the all too familiar heroes of a film like this. (How come normal people never get to save the world?)

Anyway, they land on the asteroid, drill the hole, plant the bomb, blow it up, and save the world. I'm not really ruining the ending because if anyone watched this thing expecting that it could turn out another way must have been able to turn off their brain.

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Summary: Destruction Apocalyptic Overload. Oh, and a story, too.
Review: I suppose it could have been much, much worse. Given enough money, Hollywood producers tend to believe that big bucks equals big movie equals big payoff - wrong, in too many counts to recall. The thing is, Armageddon is definetely, not a bad movie. Is stretches plausible fiction to the edge, rips it apart, chews on it for a while and then spits it out matter-of-fact way, everybody-will-believe-this style.It's not deep as the rather underrated Deep Impact, which belies a story, a purpose and 3 dimensionality to the plot - for once, America stands defeated - other than Mars Attacks! it's largely unprecedented in box office blockbusters! Back to the movie, it's wonderfully scripted, tightly following the best Hollywood has to offer, the soundtrack is rather excellent and image quality, specially in this DVD outing is superb. Bruce Willis plays himself, as usual, the quiet, sarcastic, my-way-or-the-highway type, and pulls it off with the usual savvy. Will Patton is underused but still manages to impress by his serenity, Buscemi goes bonkers (again) Liv Tyler goes for the attitude-child approach and nearly falls flat in her(admittedly pretty) face, Ben Affleck is the I'm-so-cute-you'll-puke rebel, vaguely remembering his lines, but pulling his act together in the last 15 minutes. It's not Capra, Hudson, DeMille or Spielberg, it's not Cameron or Tarentino (or Rodriguez, for that matter), but it is a splendid way to spend a couple of hours, surrounded by Dolby Digital sound, facing a 50 inch screen, with some popcorns and some lovely company. It's what movies should be (chewing gum), and not films (food for the brain). Enjoy, live the moments, cherrish the feelings and sensory overload, forget the inconsistences and plot-nots, then go on living. If you want something to chew on for quite some time to come, try "Deep Impact" - less spectacular, but far better actorship and plot.

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Summary: Time to invent the NO STARS symbol just for this film!
Review: Ok... Where can I start?..... How about WHY? Why is there a critereon edition of this film? Did Michael Bay pay somebody to give it the criterion edition? I thought that was for special films... Ones that we may remember ten minutes after we have seen it! The film itself is full of (no offense) all American smultz, I can stomache the first half of the film.. then I have to go and watch Appolo13 to remind myself that good space films are still made. Quality of the DVD is good, but then I've seen DVDs with ten times worse quality, and enjoyed them more. I think Aerosmith should write a new song, titled..'' You're not going to miss a thing'' and play it to people who have decided not to buy this DVD! Saying that, the DVD makes a good drinks coaster in my lounge, and a great frisby for the kids in the park.

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Summary: Testosterone Overdose
Review: Absolutely one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Should have been titled Dumb, dumber, dumber, dumber and dumber. Plotless, overblown, offensive, and probably even too macho for professional baseball athletes. Deep Impact is far better "rock hits earth" entertainment.

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Summary: i thought it was a great movie
Review: i thought this movie was great, it had it all drama action and comedy. it was a great great movie.

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Summary: 1 reason why we should be struck by a meteor!
Review: I actually enjoyed the first half of this film. The quirky characters and the humour put me in mind of James Cameron's The Abyss, and that's no bad thing. But then we have the Shuttle launches, and everything goes to pot. We see Liv Tyler, flanked by Marines in full dress uniform, standing before a hundred foot high American flag, and all of a sudden we're into yee-haw, burger chomping, gum chewing, apple pie eating, American's-are-the-only-worth-while-people-on-the-planet, Independence Day nonsense. Every scene that follows contains an American flag. An American performs every heroic action. Every laugh it at the expense of a stereotypical Russian Cosmonaut. Some one should tell Jerry Bruckheimer that propaganda doesn't need to be quit this blatant! A full-scale Star-Spangled invasion would be subtler. (Although Iraq, Panama, Libya, Grenada, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Korea, the Philippines, Haiti, Guatemala and Cuba might disagree.)

If you do decide to watch this film I would suggest you slap yourself around the head. Failing that, rent it and then take it back after the first hour, and simply assume that the "Good Guys" win. Oh and of coarse the boy gets the girl. COMPLETE TRIPE!

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Summary: Entertaining... but it's still a bad movie
Review: The problem with this film was that it had a lot of action, way to much of it, it doesn't give you time to "asimilate the action" you reach a point in which you say "hey, everything this guys do goes wrong that's unbelievable" it's lowest point is the scientifical aspect (how can the common people become astronauts in less than 18 days! , how can there be surviviors in an space shuttle crash carring a nuclear warhead?) For the sentimental aspects many scenes look more like a Coca Cola TV commertial. So I'm only saying that this one, is one of the worst examples of the popcorn B films.

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Summary: Major disappointment
Review: "Armageddon" stars Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, Steve Buscemi and many other likeable and capable actors. It is not their fault that the movie is a disappointment. It's not that I don't like films that have no ambition except being great fun, because I believe that this is a very high ambition. Only few recent pictues succeeded in being just that and "Armageddon" is definitely not one of them. It has great special effects, yes, but it has no real momentum. The editing is the worst thing of this film. Michael Bay mistakenly believes that the more cuts I have per minute the more exhilerating and relentless is the action. A fatal error. He should study the action scenes of films like "The Terminator" or "Face/Off" frame by frame. What's more, the screenplay gives us no characters to root for. The wisecracks of the squad is alternately stupid, unfunny or both. All this ends up to a rather boring film that also seems to go on forever because you feel already sleepy halfway through.