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What this movie lacks in the pizazz that Michael Bay brought to his disaster movie three months later, Deep Impact makes up for it with one of the most realistic plans of handling the whole "the world is probably going to get destroyed" premise. Although it's the lesser known of the two disaster films to come out that year, Deep Impact boasts an impressive cast of actors like Morgan Freeman, Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, and Elijah Wood, and brought in $349 million at the global box office. The rest of the movie features some of the most inventive and eye-catching special effects shots of the decade, which adds a level of the gravitas to the whole feature.Ī little less than two months before Armageddon hit theaters, the Mimi Leder-directed Deep Impact arrived in theaters on May 8, 1998. Cooper fame) and it's not hard to mistake it for something you'd see in 2020, not 1998. Just watch the New York City meteor shower scene (yes, the one with Eddie Griffin, Godzilla toys, and Mark Curry of Hangin' With Mr.
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And although Bay's direction is questionable at times, he sure does know how to shoot explosive action sequences and give his movies a distinct look. There's no doubt about it, Armageddon is a Michael Baby movie, perhaps even the most Michael Bay of all of the director's movies from the 1990s (sorry, The Rock). And even though the shot of Grace crying against the monitor as her dad said goodbye was used in an Aerosmith video, it's a sappy, predictable mess. back into the ship and calls him the son he never had, you knew what was about to go down. When the big switcheroo goes down and Harry forces A.J. Frost (Ben Affleck) draws the short straw when the bomb's remote trigger is damaged beyond repair.
Going into the movie there was no doubt that Harry Stamper wouldn't be coming back home to see his daughter Grace (Liv Tyler), but Michael Bay toyed with audiences throughout the movie and tried to make them believe that the absent father would complete his redemption story and see his only child again, especially when A.J. Points: +3 (Despite the plan being laughable, it works) The planet, and the billions of its inhabitants live to see another day after the two smaller pieces of the asteroid pass by Earth and back into the darkness of space. And the plan miraculously works and all but a few members of the crew, Harry included (more on that later as well), make it back home safe and sound. In case you forgot, or were distracted by all the special effects (more on that later), NASA's plan is to drill a hole in the center of the asteroid, plant a nuclear bomb, and blow the sucker into two smaller pieces that would, hypothetically, miss the planet entirely. Points: +5 (That's some of the best humor in a disaster movie) The section of the movie that comes to mind is the whole training montage before the Harry and the rest of the drillers can go into space, especially the bit where Harry Stamper (Bruce Willis) goes over a few of the not so reasonable requests made by the crew, which include gems like bringing back eight-track tapes, the identity of JFK's assassin, and not having to pay taxes again, ever… And that doesn't even touch on the scientific inaccuracies of the whole mess.Īlthough the concept of forcing trained astronauts to stay back on Earth while a group of undertrained and ill-suited oilmen goes up to save the day is a far stretch of epic proportions, the concept did lend itself to a great deal of humor, which happens to be the movie's strong suit. And while the "fish out of water" concept of transplanting a dozen or so grunts from an off-shore rig to the vacuum of space made for some funny moments, it just doesn't make a lot of sense. Roland Emmerich's Godzilla came out that year. From the jump, the idea of NASA agreeing to send a group of oil drillers - albeit the best damn drillers you'll ever see - to space to drill deep below the surface of an asteroid the size of Texas and insert a nuclear bomb that they will then set off is one of the most ridiculous things anyone had ever heard of when the movie came out.
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