Armageddon

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Summary: awesome special effects
Review: This is one of the first movies I got when I got a DVD player and got my surround sound set up. I turned everything way up and played this movie and felt like I was in the theatre. It's a rush.

The problem is when there are no asteroids hitting the earth, this movie drags. there's no character development nor a drop of decent acting. Then again, that's not the point of the movie. So you may FF to get to the action sequences which are amazing, but as an audio and visual experience on DVD, this is a movie to have in your collection!

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Summary: there's a lot worse movies out there then this one people
Review: it was a flop at the box office but I liked it because I like Bruce Willis and he's great in this. certain people will find some of the story without logic but there's great fun with the supporters like, Will Patton, Michael Clarke Duncan, Liv Tyler, Billy Bob Thornton, Keith David, William Fichtner, Peter Stormare, Ben Affleck, Steve Buscemi, Ken Campbell and Owen Wilson(especially Wilson, but did he have to die, huh). some of the effects are good but then again not so good. the end sure brought tears to my eyes when Willis died instead of Affleck.

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Summary: Bad Bad Bad Bad movie
Review: no good ideas, dumb plot, predictable, unintelligent and not entertaining at all.

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Summary: Faulty logic
Review: The story would like to tell us that it's easier to train a group of oil driller about outerspace instead of training astronauts on how to drill.
Is the story writer an oil driller and would like to lift the status of an oil driller? or just another way to twist around logic so that it will make an interesting story? sigh..

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Summary: It packs a whollop!!!
Review: In one of the most realistic and enjoyable films in some time, "Armageddon" ranks right up there as a nail-biter of a film. With Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, and one of the first roles for Liv Tyler (Lord of the Rings), it follows the story of a meteor the size of Texas, which is threatening the Earth, and there's only 18 days before the Earth is finished. Willis heads up a ragtag team of roughneck oil drillers to be transported to an asteroid and drop a nuclear warhead into the core of the meteor.

Great stuff, and the special effects are great. It's a stand-up and cheer kind of film. Recommended!!

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Summary: Eye-candy for easy-to-please movie-goers
Review: This movie is perhaps one of the purest examples of producers knowing exactly what formula will draw in huge box-office activity from mainstream movie-goers.... A big budget, big names, and big explosions. The fact that the creators of Amageddon weren't "big" on the actual story or the characters doesn't seem to matter.

And why should they care? It's obviously much easier to make a bad movie than it is to make a good one. Why subject themselves to the extra stress? Just throw in some popular good-looking actors, and make sure the camera captures sweat running down the sides of their faces while the American flag is blowing in slow-motion behind them. Mix in a lot of pyro and loud music and you have yourselves a winner!

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Summary: The Dumbest Story Ever Told
Review: This is the stupidest big budget movie ever made!

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Summary: great actors and effects as well as story
Review: this movie put those three factors together and made a great movie this was the first Ben Aflek movie I ever saw and he is a great actor the story was very interesting and it came out at about the same time as Deep Impact Deep Impact wasn't a very good movie but this one was mainly due to its great story who cares if some of the stuff isn't scientific

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Summary: "Armageddon" has come!
Review: One of the biggest box office smash hits of 1998, "Armageddon" was a well-deserved box office hit and sometimes one of the most unfairly criticized movies of recent years. I'm surprised at the negative reviews that I've been reading on here and the low rating of 3.3 (as of writing this review) stars. This movie deserves at least a 4.3 on the rating!

Starring Bruce Willis as the disgruntled, often excessively strict drilling expert Harry Stamper, "Armageddon" is a chilling but at the same time, fun film about a giant asteroid around the size of the state of Texas hurtling straight towards earth, threatening to destroy all life and possibly the planet itself in approximately 18 days and mankind, under threat of extinction, looks up to the expert drilling knowledge of Harry Stamper and his crew of grouchy disgruntled drillers to drill a large hole in the asteroid, send a powerful nuke down the hole and blast the asteroid apart by detonating the nuke. It all begins on an oil rig in the middle of the Pacific Ocean or somewhere around there with the outrageous Harry Stamper playing golf against a Greenpeace ship, and the Greenpeace guys ducking for cover to avoid getting hit by the flying golf balls. It's actually quite funny to watch even though I would lean more towards the Greenpeace people and also Harry laughing at and ridiculing them. However the laughs are instantly ended when a team of government officials arrive on Stamper's oil rig and bring him to NASA headquarters to tell him about the crisis of the approaching asteroid.

While Bruce Willis' character Harry Stamper is the main character in the movie, my favorite character is the odd goofball Russian astronaut Lev Andropov (Played by Swedish actor Peter Stormare). His funny personality adds quite a bit to this movie. My other favorite is Rock Hound, with his bumbling and highly eccentric personality and watching him mess up or goof off provides some good laughs. Most of the rest range from good to excellent to downright annoying.

The romance between Grace Stamper (Liv Tyler) and A.J. Frost is pretty contrived and could've been left out but that's just my opinion. Most of the negativities are negated by the pros of this movie. "Armageddon" is an extremely adrenaline-pumping action flick with a highly intense visual assault (in a good way), and a good amount of comic humor occasionally in parts of the movie. Many seem to dismiss this as more Hollywood pap but I beg to differ. "Armageddon" is just plain fun but also it is rather unsettling because the possibility of being hit by a global killer asteroid is always present but also there is the possibility of being able to prevent such a disaster from occurring. It's for these things that to me, makes this movie so awesome yet scary at the same time. No wonder it was a smash hit at the box office. I wouldn't necessarily say that I highly recommend buying this movie but "Armageddon" is definitely worth checking out for those who missed it when it was on the big screen. This is just my opinion but man this movie was a brutal, thrilling ride when seeing it on the big screen and when it came to the small screen, the punch was greatly reduced but still, it's an awesome popcorn movie. Just sit back and enjoy the ride. Doomsday has never sounded like so much fun.

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Summary: If you want the best, get criterion!
Review: I bought the criterion version of this movie a while ago, and I have to say it was worth the money. I can't say picture wise if it's better, but it has some really cool extras. I really liked the gag reel. Most people seem to hate it, but it has some really funny stuff in it. The movie to me is one of the best you'll find. I doubt there are many people out there that haven't seen it, but if you are one of those select few....GO SEE IT!!! I had to admit that the plot seemed a bit wierd for my liking, but having Michael Bay directing and Jerry Bruckheimer producing just gives you a movie that is so action packed and testosterone filled, that you don't care about the plot! There is hardly a dull moment in this movie and it is one that I highly recommend. One of my favorites of all time. Oh, and get the criterion one! If you like to watch special features, this is the one to buy!