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Armageddon is a painful experience!!!.
I don't know what to say about this film, I decided to watch this last week since they had it on t.v. and I couldn't remmember alot of this film since the last time I watched it was 6 or 7 years ago. Now I must admit I regreted my decision to have watched this huge pile of crap, I should have known to avoid this film all those years but I didn't listen of course it was done by Michael Bay and it has one of the stupidest scripts the whole thing turned into a mess. This is just a huge Hollywood cliche that has been done many times before, all the characters were dull as hell and they were all one dimensional and completely boring. The performances ranges from halfway decent to realy bad, the film's about an asteroid the size of Texas that is quickly heading towards earth so the goverement decides to assemble a team of oil workers/drillers to help save the earth from armageddon. The film has to many problems you might enjoy this if you like big budget disaster films but I just thought that it was the dullest and the most painfull expereince of my life I wanted the 2.5 hours of my life back, I thought that it might be good since it has a few good actors and might be enjoyable but it turned out to be a total waste of time I suggest you skip this.

FOR ME: ARMAGEDDON IS STILL A VERY DIFFICULT WORD TO SPELL!
FIRST THOUGHTS -- Some people think the movie is terrific and some think it is far from terrific. Well, this film certainly had the talent to amount to something! Did it?


* THE CAST * DIRECTOR - Michael Bay & PRODUCER - Jerry Bruckheimer

Bruce Willis - Harry S. Stamper
Billy Bob Thornton - Dan Truman
Liv Tyler - Grace Stamper
Ben Affleck - A.J. Frost
Will Patton - Charles (Chick) Chapple
Peter Stormare - Lev Andropov
Keith David - Gen. Kimsey
Steve Buscemi - Rockhound
Owen Wilson - Oscar Choi

NOMINATED FOR THE FOLLOWING ACADEMY AWARDS; [tells a lot about the film]

*BEST SOUND
*BEST SOUND EFFECTS
*BEST ORIGINAL SONG
*BEST VISUAL EFFECTS


MY TAKE ON ARMAGEDDON: SOME GOOD SCENES .. BUT -

This is one of those notorious features that is a really bad film with some really good parts. Billy Bob Thornton playing NASA executive director Dan Truman turns in a believably impressive performance and leaves me wanting to see him in more scenes. Unfortunately, the melodramatic, over-the-top love subplot which begins the movie with Willis [Harry S. Stamper] literally taking shots at his daughter's [Liv Tyler] bed mate [Ben Affleck] establishes the tone for this flick. After this, my expectations were lowered to a more realistic level. Very little of what followed was believable even in a fictionalized, fantasy sort of way. The first-rate special effects were overdone to the point of inducing vertigo in me. I noticed many others in the theater wincing and/or turning away to avoid some of the dizzying special effects scenes in space, which seemed to come far too often and last far too long during the second half of this far too long 150 minute flick.

The premise of this film and the talent on hand made this a potential powerhouse epic. Well, it still did well at the box office but it was neither an epic or powerhouse of a film.

IN THE END - Armegeddon is still a very difficult word to spell!Armegeddon finally boiled down to me, to be, $150 Million in Special Effects + a 2 Cent Romance which equalled a Headache. Nevertheless, the DVD plays very well and the award nominated special effects look extremely vivid and are really in your face for a very visceral experience. I only wish the rest of the film met the same standard as the effects did.



repeatedly entertaining - fun and adrenaline
Ok, I'm and engineer and the science here makes extensive use of
poetic license. However, I find it completely entertaining and
engrossing. The special effects are fantastic (while many are
completely impossible). But I feel that the "story" is a
heart-breaker and tear-jerker. I continue to re-view for the pure
entertainment. Has some great characters. Besides, we get to look
at Liv Tyler a lot. Probably not 5 stars. Four in my book. I gave
it an extra star because I think it's been panned too severely.

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