ARMAGEDDON miniature effects 

You can watch most of the scenes on RU-vid. I try to focus on the model makers and their stories for this documentary.

@@piercefilm also I imagine it might have been expensive to get the rights to use clips?

@@MrRandomcommentguy I think this would qualify as both transformative and educational. So, it should be free, but copyright law is complicated and I am NAL.

Yeah, I can’t remember the details of every final shot, or can’t place exact which shot they’re talking about, so it makes it hard to appreciate what they’re saying.

I said the same thing...for many movies such as the train and batmobile on the roof scenes in Batman Begins! The best miniatures are the ones that fool you into thinking its the real thing!

did you think they built a full scale shuttle and asteroid lol

You need help.

Thanks! They are all part of my ongoing Sense of Scale documentary project.

In that situation, I doubt it. You’re building something that will be immortalized in a major motion picture. The model itself will be gone, but you were never really building that. You were building a special effect and scene.

I build model airplanes and they usually crash. But that just means I can start making the next one. Its easy to become emotionally attached to your first few but your 147th not so much.

The older DVD I made years ago is sold out. It was a teaser for this RU-vid channel. I post these segments like a TV show. Must be about 20 hours worth already uploaded. And there will be more interviews or model shop docs coming up which aren't on the DVD. And it's free!

@@piercefilm thanks for your reply. Love this content, a real treasure.

The quarter scale shuttle was last seen rotting away at Disneyland, I believe. May still be there.

@@piercefilm aww that’s a shame. Would love to see them restore it for some anniversary or something

@@piercefilm I believe Disney Studios at Disneyland Paris had some of the props on display for a long time for their Armageddon attraction.

@@jaythelonelydriver The 1/4 scale is so large, it would be one of the most difficult miniatures to transport there is. The detail work looks pretty good on it thou. Rare that things like that get restored, such as the original Star Trek shuttle. Look up the photos of the Falcon after they made Empire Strikes back, it's chopped up. :(

Hollywood magic

The bigger the better and more realistic. And cheaper than the real thing...

The movie had incredible cinematography, music, model-work, VFX, and so on. But the plot was absurd, the dialogue unbearable, and the characters infuriating. I don't think the writers or actors knew what type of movie it was trying to be, and none could take any of it seriously.

One of the greatest slapstick hero movies ever made.

The scenes with the miniatures are the only ones worth watching and they still look amazing.

It's not great but it's not that bad. I would watch it over 2012 and San Andreas with The Rock any day of the week

The miniatures are all well done but... Even in the theater, I thought "What is with this stupid crap?!" It kept taking me out of the movie. One guy in a HUGE space station? Why? "Let's spin the station to make it easier?" WHY?! No, it does NOT! Trying to dock two high-speed shuttles onto a spinning space station that also has SPINNING parts?! All docking is delicate, easy to mess up. Why is all that FUEL at the station? WHY would the fuel cap BE INSIDE the shuttle?! The connectors on the shuttle are compatible with the Russian space station? Where does the fuel go? If there are tanks on the shuttle, why not include it WITH the shuttles? Not like there's all that much space compared to the external tank. No, crashing into the asteroid = all dead. Even if the rocks shatter like glass, so would the shuttle. The Astroid is 600 miles wide. A 10-mile wide asteroid would end us. They had to drill 800ft to explode a nuke to split the asteroid in half?! WHAT? 800 ft is nothing. That's like saying a flea bite on your arm will snap your arm in half! Sorry, a nuke on the surface would have done just as well. SImple go with the largest nuke that would fit on a long-range space missile, 1000x more chance of success than landing oil-drilling guys on the thing. Splitting the astroid of that size in half which misses the Earth at the last second, meaning the astroid quickly separated by 50,000+ miles in a couple of minutes? Uh, how? If it was THAT easy, nuking it to give it a nudge would have been a lot easier. The movie looked good. Sounded good. It was stupid-fun with the characters but overall too stupid to watch more than two times. Man, they hated paris.