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Well let's just say that I love this movie. The humor, the drama, the love story, and the action! What a great combination when it can be effectively pulled off. Starring Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck (this actually made him a hearththrob), Liv Tyler, Steve Buscemi, Michael Clarke Duncan, Billy Bob Thornton,Owen Wilson and many more.
A group of oil drillers must race against the clock for NASA and get into space and destroy a huge meteor before it crashes into the earth and kills everything.
What are your fond memories of this action classic?
My fav scenes are when Ben and Liv's characters are spending there last night together before the launch and he is playing animal crackers on her tummy. So sweet!
I also love it when they tell all of the oil drillers what they expect them to do for them and then they come back with their list of demands. Absolutely priceless--none of them wants to pay taxes again...ever!!
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I liked it except for Bennifer Affleck. The dude is just talentless in my opinion. Everyone else (Billy Bob, Bruce Willis, etc...) did a great job. Overall a great movie...
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I doubt NASA would ever consciousciously try something of this nature in a real emergency (why seriously endanger human life when all you really need to do is detonate a major warhead just above the asteroid, the shockwave of which should push it just enough off course?), but in the strange logical world that is Hollywood, it works well enough to entertain. Funny how we always seem to come up with the brilliant ideas, even though European and Oriental space agencies are no doubt working on the same crises. Still, choosing to self-sacrifice to save the entire planet should never be considered cliched (although something in my gut tells me Bruce somehow survived the meg-blast and is floating up there somewhere waiting for someone to pull him in...).
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Great movie, sometimes goes way over the top (but its Bay & Bruckheimer so whadda expect?).
Stunning effects and amusing one-liners; I thought Ben Affleck did quite well here (very convincing in the last scene between him and Bruce on the Asteroid). This is probably one of the few big-action movies from the Bruckheimer stable that garnered a fair bit of critical acclaim, so much so, that 'Criterion' (usually high-brow film buff DVD distributors) released a collector’s edition (which was much better than the theatrical version; as Bay extends some scenes and cut out Bruce’s ridiculous, unintentionally hilarious God bless America speech whilst clutching old glory on the Asteroid).
In the battle of the late 90s asteroid movies (‘Armageddon’ and ‘Deep Impact’) this emerged as the undisputed victor (though ‘Deep Impact’ had a rather surprising ending, along with some fine performances from a heavyweight cast). Good title track by Aerosmith too.
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Laugh all you want...I like this movie. Corny yes, but action packed and fun. I wanted one of those Mission Patches when I was kid.
Steve Buscemi was hilarious....wait I remember this one! This is one where the coyote sat his tassh in a slingshot then strapped himself to an ACME rocket. Is that what we're doing here?
No really, cos it didn't work out too well for the Coyote!
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