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From the blockbuster-making team who produced and directed The Rock comes the biggest movie of 1998 - Armageddon! Starring the explosive talents of Bruce Willis, Academy Award winners Ben Affleck and Billy Bob Thornton, Liv Tyler, Steve Buscemi and Will Patton, Armageddon is a meteor storm of action-adventure moviemaking that has you on the edge of your seat forgetting to breathe!

When NASA's executive director, Dan Trauman (Thornton), realizes the Earth has 18 days before it's obliterated by a meteor the size of Texas, he has only one option - land a ragtag team of roughneck oil drillers on the asteroid and drop a nuclear warhead into its core. Spectacular special effects, laugh-out-loud humor, great characters, riveting storytelling and heartfelt emotion make Armageddon an exhilarating thrill ride you'll want to experience like there's no tomorrow.

The disc includes Aerosmith's MTV award-winning music video, "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing."

A Great Action Movie With a Good Script
Armageddon, I thought, was one of my top 10's of 1998. It has it all, a superb cast, a great story, superb special effects, and without a doub the best sound editing to date. With a cast of Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, Steve Buscemi, Will Patton, Liv Tyler,
Peter Stormare, Michael Clark Duncan Jr, Owen Wilson, and of course, Billy Bob Thorton.

The movie is about a meteor the size of Texas is on a collision course with the earth. Now the fate of the world rests in the hands of an oil drilling team, to go into outerspace, and drill a hole, drop a nuke and get out of there.

With Aerosmith's hit song "I Don't Want To Miss A Thang", you wont want to miss Armageddon!

DVD Special Features Included:

• Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
• Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby
• Theatrical trailer(s), TV spot(s)
• Michael Bay's gag reel
• Deleted scenes, compiled by Michael Bay
• Storyboards and production design drawings
• Analysis of the special effects by visual effects supervisors Richard Hoover, Pat McClung and Hoyt Yeatman
• Music video "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" by Aerosmith, plus interviews with the band
• Widescreen anamorphic format (2:35:1)
• Number of discs: 2

Get the criterion collection!
I first bought the original DVD and was very dissapointed. Now the Criterion collection compensates this lack of specials of the original DVD... You've got outtakes, commentaries, trailers and behind the scenes footage. The movie has been remastered for optimal Dolby Digital 5.1 quality and is presented in the director's cut! The picture and sound quality of this DVD are awesome!

Now the movie itself is an eye-popping but still character-driven fun ride that'll have you laughing, screaming and crying. When the world is threatened by a asteroid the size of Texas, NASA comes up with a plan to send a team of oil drillers, led by Harry Stamper(Bruce Willis), into space to blow it up from the inside by drilling a hole and detonate a nuclear bomb in it before the asteroid hits earth. Now this team isn't prepared to travel through space but it sure as hell is prepared for drilling.

Now this movie is a calculated blockbuster: There's humour for the funny Theres action for adrenaline junkies And there's a love story for romantics

Now, this movie could have been much much worse. But there are so many people involved who made the flawed script into a great entertainig movie:

The cast: Bruce Willis is pretty much the coolest guy in the universe. Who else is gonna save the world? Ben Affleck... well he's good lookin' and a fine actor. There's Billy Bob Thornton who is one hell of a charismatic guy. Liv Tyler, Michael Clarke Duncan, Owen Wilson and Will Patton.... Steve Buscemi: The perfect freak.. what can I say.... The music:Trevor Rabin has written an emotional theme, that will never get out of your ears and I guess I don't have to mention Diane Warren's "I don't want to miss a thing", performed by Aerosmith. Director: Michael Bay (The Rock, Bad Boys)and his collaboration with Jerry Bruckheimer is unique in many ways. He tells the story with so much energy and those brilliant images. There are so many colour tones in this movie, that enrich the emotions and there's an irony to all the patriotism but still you want to stand up and sing the U.S. National Hymn.

There are some lenghts in this movie but it's entertaining from start to finish. I would rate the movie four stars and that extra star for this incredible disc.....