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Summary: Good plot, saaad science
Review: Those of you who complain about a lack of science in Hollywood shouldn't really be complaining. Movies are all about fantasy. But if you want to complain, Armageddon has to be the flagship of anti-science. Whilst pieces of rock and giant vehicles can float across canyons and fly through the air, a pole tossed from the air will land with exactly the same force as it would on earth...on an asteroid. There was a great plot though - reminds me of the old film "Meteor". Good humor, especially when Bruce Willis tries to shoot Ben Affleck for sleeping with Liv Tyler...not to mention my fav charectar, the Russian cosmonaut. Still - how many of you think a nuke explosion in space would look that way. And how come the guys only saved the world in the nick of time - I would like to see them do it with half an hour to spare sometimes. And they seemed very unlucky. Good acting, good effects, bad science. 3 stars. And watch out for Liv Tyler in 2001 where she'll be staring as the beautiful Arwen in "Lord of the Rings". Whoohoo! I can't wait!
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Summary: Why on earth?
Review: Criterion usually releases special versions of CLASSICS. For the most part the films they release are wonderful, and have stood the test of time. Why this one? Come on folks, even you who enjoy this movie...is it a classic? No way!
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Summary: The space operette
Review: Another stupid movie like Independance Day where the gratuitous action seems to attract a lot of people. What can be said about this Hollywood product ? First, you see that movie like you eat a hamburger at Mac-Donald : another Bruce Willis movie, oh excuse-me i mean Big mac. Seriously, the movie is very weak, when i see it i didn't understand anything. Bruce Willis acts like he does in a lot of movie, that is to say like a true American hero who wants to save the world. The "plot" itself is a nonsense : a group of true stupid heroes want to save the world and destroy a big rock coming to earth. Don't expect to see any scientific data in the movie, there is only horrible acting, story, bad special effects.
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Summary: Disbelief
Review: I wasn't able to suspend my disbelief during this movie. Nor did I care about the characters. Impressive special effects. That was the only thing that impressed me about this movie. They should have let the asteroid destroy the earth and put us all out of our misery if this is the type of film we are left to watch.
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Summary: Armageddon Rocks!
Review: This is a good action movie yes a little dumb but has great effects, great action scenes don't think only enjoy this is a fun movie that was made for the general public. For one of the reviews down maybe they needed the gattling gun for protection against any aliens or something.
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Summary: Swill
Review: Anyone who cried at the end of the movie is an emotional cripple who I wish I could manipulate in some way.
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Summary: Wanna good space movie? Watch Appollo 13
Review: Even for an escapism movie, Armageddon is just plain bad. Do this date, I can't figure out why oh why if you're gonna blow up a asteroid the size of Texas would you need a gattling gun? The film made no sense, to say the acting and dialog made no sense. Horrible film to watch. If you want a space adventure that is gripping and tense, then I'd suggest buying Appollo 13.
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Summary: WOW! Ultimate Armageddon!
Review: If anybody is planning to make a "Special Edition" of a movie, this is a perfect example.Can you believe it? Those guys at Criterion put together eight 30 seconds TV ads... seven 15 seconds TV ads... the teathrical trailer... the theatrical teaser... a reel of lost gags... a load of deletes scenes... and much more... the clip of the main song ("I Don't Want To Miss a Thing", by Aerosmith)... comments from Aerosmith... a BIG documentary about the special effects... (and, believe it or not, they even put a second disc with a Director's Cut version of the movie... amazing)
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Summary: Oh, boy...
Review: I'm not one of those annoying twerps who watch STAR WARS and then complain because "there ain't no sound in space!" but when it comes to scientific implausibility, ARMAGEDDON achieves some sort of nadir. What were the makers of this movie thinking? The science in this movie is SOOOOOOOOO bad and SOOOOOOOOO stupid that it boggles the mind. Space shuttles that move like Navy jet fighters in the vacuum of space. An astroid the size of Texas has gravity equal to Earth's...sometimes...but then...sometimes not. A space shuttle crash lands on the astroid, impacting at thousands of miles per hour...and the heroes SURVIVE IT! The heroes deem it necessary to bring a Gatling gun with them to the surface of the astroid for no better reason than to provide Steve Buscemi with a really dumb "comedy" scene toward the end (what would you need a machine gun for anyway?). NASA manages to mount the entire, multinational Earth-rescue operation from set-up to launch, in 9 DAYS (if an astroid is on a collision course toward Earth, 9 MONTHS isn't going to be enough time!). A Russian space-station (obviously meant to be MIR) has it's own gravity and is so spacious it makes my house look like a rabbit-warren. I could go on, but why? Suffice to say that this is one idiotic movie. I usually like brainless action films but this one takes the cake. It's nicely photographed and the actors do what they can but, in the end, there's very little that would have helped this one except maybe throwing away the script and starting over. Now, allow me to completely contradict myself and say that the Criterion Collection DVD of this moron movie almost makes it worth getting. Criterion is known for the quality of the supplements they produce but they've surpassed themselves with ARMAGEDDON. Really great stuff. The commentary from the film's scientific advisors is worth it all by itself. If you insist on purchasing this movie get the Criterion version.
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Summary: You gotta be kidding me
Review: Just what the world needed was another dumb, thin, multi-million, big-name actor, huge visual fx epic extravaganza to satisfy our brain-dead needs. The problem with this one is that the plot, which involves, get this, sending average blue-collar oil diggers to go into space and, get this, to blow a comet up and save the world, is what keeps this from being the least bit exciting. And really, who would put the fate of the world in Bruce Willis' hands? Only the President of the United States, played by the sadly miscast, normally respectable Billy Bob Thornton. In some parts of the movie, I couldn't help but notice that there was flying debris that mysteriously came from nowhere, and had absolutely no significance to anything that was happening. The only purpose of these scenes was to increase the already insanely high decibel level. Add in some sappy romance, some buffoons, last-second timing, and shameless flag waving, and you have the most unoriginal movie in the history of mankind. That the movie made millions just proves the end of the world is coming.
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