Armageddon (1998)

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Directed by Michael Bay.

Starring Ben Affleck, Will Patton, Billy Bob Thornton, Bruce Willis, Liv Tyler.

Michael Bay (The Rock) directed this science fiction action thriller in the When Worlds Collide tradition. After astronomy students discover a comet-asteroid collision, an asteroid fragment "the size of the Super Dome" threatens. It's destroyed by a secret USA defense in space, but a large chunk veers off toward Singapore. With another asteroid "the size of Texas" en route, a plan is devised to send oil drillers to land on the asteroid and drop a nuclear device down a 1000-foot shaft, a scheme calculated to crack the asteroid into two halves, saving Earth. NASA begins a crash program to train beer-besotted oil roughnecks for the mission. During a stopover to refuel at the Mir Station, the space station is accidentally destroyed, so a Russian cosmonaut also joins the team. Produced by Bay, Jerry Bruckheimer (Con Air), and Gale Anne Hurd (The Relic, The Abyss). ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide

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10 Movies, 10 Years: NYC in the ...
by SpoutBlog in SpoutBlog on spout.com

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"Jonathan Levine’s crowd-pleasing (in terms of audience awards at festivals, not in terms of uplifting Hollywood endings) film The Wackness opens in limited release tomorrow. In case you haven’t noticed from the ads and the soundtrack, it takes place in the New York City of 1994, a special time for the place because Rudy Giuliani had just become mayor and was beginning to clean up the city, Goldie Wilson-stylee (OK, not really Goldie Wilson-stylee, but who doesn’t love a good BTTF reference?). NYC in the ’90s was quite special for me. It’s when I moved here. And moved here a second time (I’ve since moved here a third time), and watching The Wackness made me nostalgic for the decade. It also made me think of some of the other films from or set in that period, a number of which kind of define my experience with the city. 1990: Quick Change - It’s a bit ironic that this comedy, which features Bill Murray putting down the city non-stop, is the movie that really represents NYC on film ... " [More]

I Dream of Better Effects. Clip ...
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"Last week it was announced that yet another screenwriter has been hired to pen a draft of the I Dream of Jeannie movie. This time it’s Rita Hsiao, who worked on Disney’s Mulan, Toy Story 2 and Enchanted. Reportedly there’s already been at least five writers on board, but apparently producer Sid Ganis (Duece Bigalow: Male Gigalo) wants the thing to be perfect. Well, how hard could it be to come up with a plot for the thing? Just combine the storylines from the TV movies I Dream of Jeannie: 15 Years Later and I Still Dream of Jeannie, both of which opened the series up to more drama and thrills, such as the tense outer space sequence from 15 Years Later seen in the video above. Just budget for some better effects, and that sequence could make the Jeannie movie a blockbuster comparable to Armageddon. OK, I’m joking, but only a little. The Jeannie movie really should venture into the space travel angle, putting Major Nelson and Jeannie in danger (in I Still Dream, with Nelson long gon ... " [More]

Re:Sci-Fi Movies, A-Z
by leeroy711 in Movie Games

lost interest.

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Sci-Fi Movies, A-Z
by lopezdash in Movie Games

liked it.

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BlogNosh 01/10/08
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"Annalee Newitz looks at the five most prevalent themes in Clinton-era sci-fi. I would have thrown in a shout-out to strippers, who appear prominently in both Armageddon and Independence Day. But then, I’m usually on the lookout for chances to throw shout-outs to strippers. LIBERTAS accuses “millionaire filmmaker” Morgan Spurlock of ?????? SPOILER ALERT!! ?????? being too chicken shit to actually hunt down Osama Bin Laden and put a stake through his heart. Bob Rehak contemplates the impact the HD format wars will have/are already having on the porn industry. “How will viewers respond to the pathos and suffering at the industry???s core ??? of capitalism???s antihumanism writ large across the bodies offered up for consumers??? pleasure-at-a-distance ??? when those excesses are rendered in resolutions of 1920??1080?” NBC has decided that Access Hollywood will be the “news” division to cover the Golden Globes. Defamer mocks the ensuing outrage: “If the network had any interests but its ... " [More]

BlogNosh 01/10/08
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The Landlord: Criterion Edition
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"The Landlord: Criterion Edition on FunnyOrDie.com For years, Armageddon was certainly the most surprising movie to receive admission into the prestigious Criterion Collection. Technically it hasn’t been supplanted, but what if Criterion really did put out a special edition DVD of Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s The Landlord – you know, that hilarious little sketch that put Funnyordie.com on the internerd map. I’m not sure if the whole company is endorsing it, but on the Criterion blog (”On Five”), there’s at??least acknowledgement and support for the recent “Criterion Edition” clip of The Landlord, featuring a commentary track (and video) from Ferrell and McKay. The??video itself??is pretty funny,??though it goes on way too long. They really should have stopped commenting when the short ends. Instead, they ramble on about Ferrell’s ego and then ultimately get serious and thank the fans for making it so popular. Also, it would have been more interesting or appropriate to the Criterion ... " [More]

SUNSHINE
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"SUNSHINE is one of those films that had me hooked for most of its length, but then during the last act almost completely lost me; although not entirely in this case, thankfully. I was slightly disappointed that Danny Boyle, the director the film (also TRAINSPOTTING and 28 DAYS LATER), went for the conventional mainstream plot devices that he threw into the last act of film. I won’t say what they were… you’ll just have to see the film, and we can talk about it afterwards if anyone wants to… but anyway… I really liked the film overall – it’s one of those apocalyptic, end of the world scenarios that we’re presented with: in a nutshell, the sun is dying, and world governments assemble a team of scientists and astronauts to go on what is essentially on a suicide mission, into space, in a ship armed with a nuclear weapon meant to be launched into the sun’s core, where it will explode and reignite the sun… a scenario which we ... " [More]

Re: strange coincidences
by Risselada in Philosophy of Film

lost interest.

"Well I might be talking about strange coincidences between movies and life, if somehow our life is influencing us to watch certain movies.But I don't find it that fascinating that someone would have written a scenario that forshadowed 9/11. The fact that they were able to pull it off may have been a surprise. Terrorism is nothing new and anyone aware of the situations around the world could have conceived of the scenario. The trade center had just been bombed a few years earlier as well.I also remember the same time The Matrix came out there was a movie called The Thirteenth Floor. I've never seen it but I remember thinking it looked almost identical in theme as well. Might have been a lot more well known if The Matrix didn't have the impressive bullet time effects to draw people in.But it's not all that surprising to me that movies of the exact same type come out at the same time either. Usually companies are aware of eachother's projects and trying to ou ... " [More]

Humiliating Movie Deaths
by marymcilwain in Dollar Video Curator

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"The power of film. You recognize it when you see it. Or feel it. Quotes that stick with you, or a glistening tear rolling down a beautiful cheek. A soaring score that tugs at your heart strings, or a heroic death, a sacrifice that was made for the good of all humankind. Eh. What of the overlooked? The filler parts of the film, meant to amuse, move the story’s plot or suspense along, or to act as comic relief? For every poignant film death forever memorialized on the big screen, an extra, a bad guy or some other lesser character has to take one for the team. The yang to the hero’s yin. The black to the white of your starlet’s blank, emotionless eye. Let us look at some of the unfortunate sacrifices that have been made for the good of the plot, and share a moment of silence for these unfortunates. Raiders of the Lost Ark - The Egyptian guy with the sword. He comes out swinging with the biggest, shiniest, sharpest sword any of you fools have ever seen. Poor guy. For all ... " [More]

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