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Armageddon

  • 19981998
  • PG-13PG-13
  • 2h 31m
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Liv Tyler, Bruce Willis, and Ben Affleck in Armageddon (1998)
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After discovering that an asteroid the size of Texas will impact Earth in less than a month, NASA recruits a misfit team of deep-core drillers to save the planet.After discovering that an asteroid the size of Texas will impact Earth in less than a month, NASA recruits a misfit team of deep-core drillers to save the planet.After discovering that an asteroid the size of Texas will impact Earth in less than a month, NASA recruits a misfit team of deep-core drillers to save the planet.
IMDb RATING
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    • Michael Bay
  • Writers
    • Jonathan Hensleigh(screenplay)
    • J.J. Abrams(screenplay)
    • Tony Gilroy(adaptation)
  • Stars
    • Bruce Willis
    • Billy Bob Thornton
    • Ben Affleck
    • Michael Bay
  • Writers
    • Jonathan Hensleigh(screenplay)
    • J.J. Abrams(screenplay)
    • Tony Gilroy(adaptation)
  • Stars
    • Bruce Willis
    • Billy Bob Thornton
    • Ben Affleck
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 1.3KUser reviews
    • 168Critic reviews
    • 42Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 4 Oscars

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    Bruce Willis and Will Patton in Armageddon (1998)
    Liv Tyler, Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Keith David, and Chris Ellis in Armageddon (1998)
    Ben Affleck, Michael Clarke Duncan, Owen Wilson, and Greg Collins in Armageddon (1998)
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    Bruce Willis in Armageddon (1998)
    Liv Tyler and Bruce Willis in Armageddon (1998)
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    Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck in Armageddon (1998)
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    Bruce Willis
    Bruce Willis
    • Harry S. Stamper
    Billy Bob Thornton
    Billy Bob Thornton
    • Dan Truman
    Ben Affleck
    Ben Affleck
    • A.J. Frost
    Liv Tyler
    Liv Tyler
    • Grace Stamper
    Will Patton
    Will Patton
    • Chick
    Steve Buscemi
    Steve Buscemi
    • Rockhound
    William Fichtner
    William Fichtner
    • Colonel Willie Sharp
    Owen Wilson
    Owen Wilson
    • Oscar
    Michael Clarke Duncan
    Michael Clarke Duncan
    • Bear
    Peter Stormare
    Peter Stormare
    • Lev Andropov
    Ken Hudson Campbell
    Ken Hudson Campbell
    • Max
    • (as Ken Campbell)
    Jessica Steen
    Jessica Steen
    • Co-Pilot Jennifer Watts
    Keith David
    Keith David
    • General Kimsey
    Chris Ellis
    Chris Ellis
    • Flight Director Clark
    Jason Isaacs
    Jason Isaacs
    • Ronald Quincy
    Grayson McCouch
    Grayson McCouch
    • Gruber
    Clark Heathcliff Brolly
    Clark Heathcliff Brolly
    • Noonan
    • (as Clark Brolly)
    Marshall R. Teague
    Marshall R. Teague
    • Colonel Davis
    • (as Marshall Teague)
      • Michael Bay
    • Writers
      • Jonathan Hensleigh(screenplay) (story)
      • J.J. Abrams(screenplay)
      • Tony Gilroy(adaptation)
    • All cast & crew
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    • Trivia
      NASA shows this film during their management training program. New managers are given the task of trying to spot as many errors as possible. At least 168 have been found.
    • Goofs
      Drillers would never use steel cutters on pipe in a hole with known gas pocket/gas residue. Instead, in a situation with known gas pocket/gas residue, brass cutters are used because they don't spark and therefore wouldn't run the risk of igniting the residual gas from gas pocket.
    • Quotes

      Lev Andropov: It's stuck, yes?

      Watts: Back off! You don't know the components!

      Lev Andropov: [annoyed] Components. American components, Russian Components, ALL MADE IN TAIWAN!

    • Crazy credits
      Portions of the video of Grace Stamper and A.J. Frost's wedding are shown during the final credits.
    • Alternate versions
      Criterion's two-DVDs version features the longer director's cut with added dialogue and footage, including a scene between Harry Stamper and his father (played by Lawrence Tierney.) A second DVD with supplemental material is included, with additional deleted scenes, outtakes and bloopers.
    • Connections
      Featured in Meat Loaf: Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are (1994)
    • Soundtracks
      I Don't Want to Miss a Thing
      Written by Diane Warren

      Performed by Aerosmith

      Courtesy of Columbia Records

    User reviews1.3K

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    The Good & Bad Of 'Armageddon'
    This could have been super but, as with the case of most modern action films, the action is way overdone. Still, it had its moments.....

    THE BAD -One word describes a lot of scenes in here: chaos. Things are blown up all over the place, people are shouting everywhere. It gets to be too much, especially in the last hour which gets ludicrous. You practically have a headache when you're finished watching the 150 minutes of mayhem.

    Half of the disasters that happen to the astronauts were not needed, and many of them come one after the other. It wound up muddling the story. Do today's filmmakers think you have to have something dramatic and loud every two minutes to keep their audiences? And talk about loud.....holy eardrums, Bataman, you could be deaf listening to this movie which includes a lot of loud heavy-metal "music." It's too noisy.

    There are touches of "Independence Day" mentality with very unrealistic with a veteran astronaut smuggling a gun on board a ship; the daughter of the one of the astronauts barging into the command center and shoving the center's leader in the middle of a crisis (in reality, she wouldn't be allowed in the room to begin with); and the usual last-second impossible heroics. I mean, sometimes I swear I was watching a movie made specifically for morons. Speaking of stupid, what was that goofy cosmonaut character (Peter Stormare) all about. That's just another example of what I was just talking about - totally unrealistic people. Why does Hollywood like to portray astronauts - some of the classiest, most educated and reserved people in the world - in such a negative light? Just another of its sicknesses, I guess where good is bad and bad is good.

    THE GOOD - What was great to watch in this film were the special-effects, especially the disaster scenes with the meteors hitting the earth. They were spectacular. A few of the panoramic scenes in here were beautiful, too. (This is a must for widescreen DVD.)

    There is a good mix of humor in this adventure thriller. That humor makes some of the characters likable, even though they are still unrealistically sleazy heroes. Steve Buscemi had most of the good comedic lines. I liked Billy Bob Thornton as the NASA boss. He's very interesting to watch. Bruce Willis plays his normal macho-hero role. His heroic effort in the end is nicely sentimental. The special-effects, as mentioned earlier, were perhaps the best right in the first 5-10 minutes of the film - a real attention-grabber right off the bat. Actually, the first half of this film is far better than the second half.
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    FAQ20

    • Why did Colonel Sharp salute Colonel Davis at the orbital station meeting and Davis didn't? Was that because he's older?
    • Why couldn't the "smartest man on the planet" figure out that the cams were backwards?
    • Does Carl have his own observatory?

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    • Release date
      • July 1, 1998 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
      • Russian
      • Indonesian
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    • Filming locations
      • Houston, Texas, USA
    • Production companies
      • Touchstone Pictures
      • Jerry Bruckheimer Films
      • Valhalla Motion Pictures
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    • 2 hours 31 minutes
      • Color
      • DTS
      • Dolby Digital
      • SDDS
      • D-Cinema 48kHz 5.1

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