![]() The audience meets the politically incorrect Stamper hitting golf balls off his oil rig at a Green Peace protest boat crew. The only man for the job is Harry Stamper, played by Bruce Willis, a guy with a bad attitude and a big heart. ![]() NASA realizes that it needs the best driller in the world to teach the astronauts. When the director of NASA, Dan Truman (Billy Bob Thornton), is asked by the President why NASA hadn’t noticed this asteroid before, he quips that Congress only appropriated a meager million dollar space surveillance budget - and space is a big place.Īfter some haggling, NASA decides to send a crew up in two new space shuttles to drill into the asteroid and plant a nuclear bomb. According to some quick calculations, the asteroid is going to decimate the earth in 20 days. ![]() However, going back to the beginning of the movie, when the meteor shower hits, NASA finds out that there is a giant asteroid the size of Texas headed straight for earth. These intense opening disaster sequences set up the audience for the final spectacular nuclear explosion. The next bang is a meteor shower, which wipes out a space shuttle crew and then rains havoc on New York, damaging impressive buildings, cars and some all-too-vulnerable Godzilla dolls. However, this anti-biblical preface passes very quickly, after giving the audience a pseudo-scientific set-up so they can anticipate what might happen if a bigger asteroid hit the earth. This preface purports to show that sixty-five million years ago (if you believe these fatally flawed estimates of prehistory) an asteroid hit the earth causing so much dust and pollution that it wiped out the dinosaurs. ![]() First, there is a brief preface to the movie which is beautifully produced but scientifically suspect. It is no surprise that the male, action-oriented director of ARMAGEDDON crafted THE ROCK, which was a blur of adrenaline, and the producer of ARMAGEDDON commanded both THE ROCK and CON AIR, two-pumped up action films.ĪRMAGEDDON starts with several bangs - a telltale sign that the filmmaker wants to capture his audience. It is difficult not to compare ARMAGEDDON with DEEP IMPACT - so, let’s just get it out in the open: both are huge science fiction disaster flicks with ARMAGEDDON possessing a few more hormones, steroids and attitude and less of the philosophic musings of DEEP IMPACT.
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