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Overview

User Rating:
4.7/10   2,732 votes
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Director:

Ronald Neame

Writers:

Stanley Mann (screenplay)
Edmund H. North (screenplay)
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Release Date:

19 October 1979 (USA) more

Genre:

Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller more

Tagline:

There's No Place On Earth To Hide!

Plot:

After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading towards Earth... more | add synopsis

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. more

NewsDesk:
(2 articles)

Meteor (DVD Review)
 (From Fangoria. 10 September 2009, 9:49 AM, PDT)

Karl Malden passes away
 (From Corona's Coming Attractions. 1 July 2009, 2:32 PM, PDT)

User Comments:

Armageddon It! more (69 total)

US TV Schedule:

Sat. Nov. 149:00 AMSYFY   


Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Sean Connery ... Dr. Paul Bradley

Natalie Wood ... Tatiana Nikolaevna Donskaya

Karl Malden ... Harry Sherwood, NASA
Brian Keith ... Dr. Alexei Dubov

Martin Landau ... Major General Adlon
Trevor Howard ... Sir Michael Hughes
Richard Dysart ... Secretary of Defense

Henry Fonda ... The President
Joseph Campanella ... Lt. Gen. Easton
Bo Brundin ... Rolf Manheim
Katherine De Hetre ... Jan Watson
James G. Richardson ... Alan Marshall
Roger Robinson ... Bill Hunter
Michael Zaslow ... Sam Mason
John McKinney ... Peter Watson
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Additional Details

Runtime:

107 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Russian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

4-Track Stereo


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

Brian Keith was an 11th hour casting choice replacing an actor who dropped out more

Goofs:

Factual errors: It is impossible to receive am radio reception surrounded by concrete and underground. more

Quotes:

Dr. Paul Bradley: Why don't you stick a broom up my ass? I can sweep the carpet on the way out. more

Movie Connections:

Edited from Avalanche (1978) more


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18 out of 23 people found the following comment useful.
Armageddon It!, 21 March 2005
6/10
Author: sexytail from Olympia, WA

As a person who loves disaster movies (in spite of it being a basically flawed genre), I could not hate this movie as much as most people seem to. It is a big budget disaster about a disaster and much about its construction is highly flawed, and yes the acting is mostly weak, and yes the effects are often obvious, and yes that was stock footage, but, BUT, this movie does deliver in one vital department: it blows sh*t up!

I'm sure by now most people are familiar with this as a folly for Sean Connery, and Henry Fonda, and the rest of the all star cast. It pretty much is, but that doesn't mean it isn't somewhat enjoyable. Some of the disaster and action sequences are quite good. And the special effects are really not so terrible for 1979 (not that special effects today are at all convincing by comparison). The score is really something hilarious to behold and the space photography is pretty overwrought (as if the movie were saying "holy crap, dude, look at this awesome spaceship!"). It is kind of neat to see Brian Kieth as a Russian. It's also a bit refreshing to see a movie pose a more plausible solution to meteors that landing a space shuttle full of oil drillers on one. It's also funny that a movie that precedes Reagan's Star Wars Project proposes a far better use for it. Another interesting prophetic note: the first thing destroyed in the USA in this film is the world trade center.

And if you still think this is the worst disaster movie ever, go and watch "Beyond The Posiedon Adventure" or "Raise The Titanic". Hell, even "Earthquake" was pretty damn bad in spite of it's "revolutionary" contribution to cinema. And besides, what other disaster movie has its heroes threatened by sewage? Now, I think that I could have made a better film out of this story, but that doesn't mean we can't watch this version and laugh. And besides, sh*t blows up!

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