Armageddon -- Criterion Collection

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Summary: I know it seems impossible--but Deep Impact was better.
Review: This is one of the worst movies ever to come out of hollywood. Hype. Nothing but hype. The plot is cliche-ridden and completely predictable. Like, "Which wire do we cut to diffuse to the bomb?" How many millions of times has that been used??? There a few rare scenes with the minor characters that are kind of funny, but other than that this film has nothing. The stupid girl is the most annoying person I can imagine. Her ego was big enough to stop the stupid asteroid. Why were the asteroid landers equipped with chain guns? Why were ROCKS exploding in HUGE FIREBALLS over 400 miles out of the Earth's atmosphere? The movie is hindered by long pointless scenes, like the Mir space station. The scene on the asteroid could have cut by about half an hour. This is so awful, don't waste your time and money. At least I didn't pay for it...

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Summary: This movie was worth watching!!!!!
Review: I absolutely love this movie. Sure there are a lot of people who were critics of this movie, but I personaly thought this was one of the best! The best part was when Bruce Willis gave his life for Ben Afflect, so he could stay with Bruce's daughter. It was true love for his daughter when he did that. He could have let Ben die, but he knew that they were in love. Of course it is Hollywood, and he didn't die , but that is what made the movie so great! I started crying when Bruce died, but I was happy when Ben returned to Liz. So I can say this movie is a tear jerker and a spectacular romance movie.

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Summary: Success of this movie makes me doubt if world's worth saving
Review: How can anyone say this was the "best movie of all time?" What other movies have you seen, Cool as Ice? Please, watch a good movie or meet some people. Then you will see that this movie is very, very bad.

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Summary: Probably the worst movie ever made
Review: This is the very worst movie that I have seen in at least 10 years. It is one of those rare movies where not even one redeeming quality can be found. The story is simplistic, stupid and worst of all is about as believable as your average national enquire story. The special effects are big, loud but they move from scene to scene so quickly that you end up seing next to nothing of what they are trying to show you. I fully understand that the movie was intended for a younger audience but it is insulting even to them. It is as if hollywood was saying that the newest generation of kids is brain dead and is unable to distinguish a good movie from a loud one. Hollywood should know by now that a good movie always starts with a good story. If a story is good, the special effects are not even necessary. Personally I consider that 2 hours and 30 minutes of my life have been wasted and I hope that it will be a long time before such garbage spills out of hollywood's bin again.

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Summary: Nice entertainment for a boring evening
Review: A film that combines both action, and romantic scenes. Suitable for all family members bigger than 10 years old.

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Summary: Criterion Collection Great: Very entertaining
Review: While not the best movie I've ever seen, it's definitley one of the most entertaining. The audio commentary is fantastic, with tons of extra content to give the viewer a little more insight into the workings of the movie, as well as the movie business and production process. The gag reel is hilarious, enough said. Even if this wasn't your favorite movie, this release should bring to light a little more of why Michael Bay did the things he did.

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Summary: Plot holes the size of the meteor.
Review: Oddly enough, most of those plot holes could have been elliminated with some decent editing. Extremely stupid, Bay & Bruckheimer try to hide the flaws by cranking up the noise level and jazz up their usual formula by ripping off the improbable Titanic love story plot. As it is, turn down the volume and those guys at Mystery Science Theater 3000 have their next feature film.

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Summary: Lots of extras
Review: The biggest blockbuster of the summer has the reason why DVD was invented. All the frills are here. 2, count them, 2 commentaries. Both are engaging and informative. It has a gag reel with plenty of laughs, trailers, Aerosmith video, etc. I don't know why they decided to go with 2 DVDs as the material only takes up one side of each. Probably just so they could sell the cool box. I was impressed with all the material. If you were to buy a set like this on Laserdisc. Oh yeah, the movie is cool too. It has emotional impact, although not quite on the intimacy level of Deep Impact. The special effects are extraordinary.

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Summary: typical, yet exciting
Review: The plot is nothing new, obviously they aren't going to let the meteor slam into the earth, but it's still exciting. The romance between Ben and Liv is corny, yet sweet. I loved the movie, but it wasn't the best I've seen. P.S. I LOVE BEN AFFLECK!

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Summary: Not a disaster movie, a disaster of a movie.
Review: Armageddon manages to do the near impossible, it takes a fun premise, a promising cast, and some state of the art special effects, and warp it into a stupid, messy, and boring action filled dud. Funny though, it starts of with a great scene with New York City getting pulverised by little meteors, but you can practicaly see the fun and energy slowly seep out of it, and boy do I mean slowly. The film's 2 and a 1/2 hour running time had me checking the time whenever I wasn't yawning.The films story,(which you probably already by now), is not only unrealistic, but runs on for so long that the writers are forced to add a series of half baked sub-plots that are so familiar they feel like there plucked straight out of Ron Howard's Apollo 13,(a film that is far better in every catergory ). Well, I say, I'll let it slip if they're are a few interesting characters thrown in. WRONG! The film's "characters" are no more than a few cliches straight off of director Jerry Bruckheimer mossy action cliche checklist. The only signs of life seem to be Billy Bob Thorton, who manages to squeeze out a good performance out of the awful material, and Steve Buscemi's cynical wisecracks. But the film doesn't care, it'll ride on their special effects, which are good, but they care so much about the FX that it forgets about the story and characters. As the film moves towards it's predictable conclusion, I just want the big rock to hit, because I stopped caring, and frankly, so has the movie.