With Bruce Willis as your project manager and Michael Bay as the director, of COURSE it’s possible to stop an asteroid hurtling towards earth by using massive explosives and a team of deep-core drillers!
@@nordicrepresentative3125 Jehovah's Witness version of Armageddon is the real Armageddon not this Hollywood version with all these sexually immoral actors.
If asteroid really comes for earth first thing politicians would do is dig a hole using the countries budget and try to save theirselves. Theres just no way govt would act fast. Look at covid a country needs some people to be tested positive before they close airlines.
I mean, the actual meat of the movie was cheesy, but the build-up? It's pretty significant. Like, who really knows if or when this might actually happen, because right now, we really don't have any sort of contingency.
@@daystar73 Yeah, but at least he knows _what_ he is saying, even if it's uncouth. It's better to have a plan and be moving and learning, than to have no plan at all and just parking your cheeks in a seat to be there and ready with the bowl when they're doling out the general Tragedy of Commons-Tokens. Hello from Sweden, by the way. We can see it from the outside, and weren't surprised by this debate; If your last prez was a clown? Then this one's a tragedy. Doesn't even have the merit of being funny. Get a reality check, dumbo.
Actually, a nuke would do the trick, it would change its trajectory. But you don't need a nuke, NASA has already proven that just hitting the object with enough force will change its trajectory just enough. But a bunch of nukes would provide more certainty.
well you know a real asteroid is coming that will hit the earth is the 2030s so take it down and you to can skip out on paying taxes for the rest of your life for being a hero to man I am serious because someone's got to do it
@@bizzyizzy9526 Honestly I'm not convinced. To re-emphasize the quote, is in fact a big a** sky and we have only so many tools to keep watch. An asteroid can come from any direction, and if it's coming from the direction of the sun, it's almost impossible to see.
he wasn't mad they stole his patent design, he was mad they screwed up the drill and didn't read the plans correctly and as a result Earth could be screwed. that's why the guy told Quincy to shut up.
@@pethrosuriahson6156 ohh I hadn't thought of that, I thought it was just because the patents legal stuff didn't matter in that moment, all that mattered was getting the drill to work to save the Earth.
The drillers sent there aren't exactly "astronauts", they are only going to drill, all the space related stuff is in charge of the nasa staff sent with them. All nasa cared about the drillers was if they could phisically survive the journey.
And guess who saves the day once again??? JOHN McCLANE BABY! When I heard the news the other day about Bruce Willis’s condition it really broke my heart. He’s the tough good guy we all want to be like. I really hope he can beat this thing and live out the rest of his days in peace. He truly deserves too. He’s done so much good for so many of us. My prayers and thoughts are with him and his family. If anyone out there can beat this thing that he has it’s John McClane!!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻
7:04 you gotta love that smirk Grace gives, knowing the thorough dress-down her dad is giving to them. Despite their rocky relationship, TOTAL reverence and respect for her dad. A subtlety that goes unnoticed in a lot of Michael Bay movies
Fun movie and explains everything wrong with the USA for 50 years. The fate of the planet is at stake, scientists are idiots ( the people who literally make the difference between typing into this computer and sitting naked on a rock dying from a tooth infection at 22) so quick, call Joe 6 pack. In a movie, it's fun. Problem is too many people actually think this way.
Great script, solid acting, great direction, taking full use of dept of field, wide lenses and visual dynamics. Think what you want about Bay, and I'm not even a fan, but Armageddon is a film master class.
Except when you look at the science they're basing this whole film on... There's something wrong or completely wrong with about every aspect of it. Nonetheless I love this movie also.
Back then, it would be common for two blockbuster films made by two different companies about the same story competing in the same summer season. "Armageddon" was competing against "Deep Impact" that year, 1998 and these two were probably the last two films to have such a battle. I saw both films that year in the cinemas and "Deep Impact" was released first. "Deep Impact" was the lower budget but much more thoughtful one and the ending was a real tearjerker. Critics at the time said that "Armageddon" had more action in its first 10 minutes than the whole of "Deep Impact" which is very true. For me though, "Armageddon" is the bigger budget, more brash, more popcorn of a film compared to "Deep Impact". It had Michael Bay pulling out all his signature shots - slow motion, gorgeous lighting, ginormous explosions from the start but in terms of deep story telling and realistic characters, "Deep Impact" is the better film. If you want a slower burning film with a tearjerker finale, watch "Deep Impact". If you want bombastic action, watch "Armageddon". Or watch both for their own merits.
Similar to Chinese Light Novels10 years ago, then government happened. More rules, more political, more of what should and shouldn't be allow to be written. Once the government and people in the government involves to spread new rules, new messages, it kills ideas and creativity.
I remember watching this movie back then. There was this feeling maybe because we were in the 90s but this movie just felt like it really represented the 90s at least to me. Will always love this movie and will always go back and watch it.
@@LucianDevine 3 trillion dollars tax payers with the funds and authorization from the private business we can easily send in a research team along with a drill construction team to the moon.
Of all the things ridiculous in this film, the idea that nasa can't figure out a drill system is probably the worst. I'm sure it's a fine engineering but it's not exactly, well, rocket science. You take it apart and you reverse engineer it. Some shady Chinese copycat firm probably could do it.
@@r6-AgentScorpionParkerKRider23 "Don't worry, I will be." That by the way was a improv by Daniel. He originally wasn't supposed to say anything. That got Jason's attention.
@@JnEricsonx I’m actually one of those people that, if I’m bored enough I’ll watch the DVD with commentary because I learn just as much, if not more, by watching the movie that way. It shocks the hell out of people to learn that the “Armageddon Nerd” is also Lucious Malfoy(they never see it until I point it out).
@@HooyahPeacock lol people at NASA who design these things are engineers. They are the type of people who design the drills, while the drillers just point the drill at the ground and sit around.
@@josephk1342 riiiight. Well your comment is proved inaccurate later in the movie when these nasa engineers couldn't put his drill together properly because they couldn't read the prints. So try again.
Can you believe this same man is Lucius Malfoy? Who knew he'd go from helping to plan on saving the muggle world to waging war on it, guess you never can tell with some people, eh? XD
Never realized Michael Bay cast himself as a rocket scientist in these scenes, which is hilarious because from everything I've ever seen by him, that man is the definition of the phrase "he's not a rocket scientist."
I saw this movie shortly after watching Slingblade. Billy Bob was so convincing in Slingblade, I had a hard time believing this was the same actor. I hadn't seen him in anything before Slingblade, so to me, he acted much like Carl in real life. He is a tremendous actor and very underrated.
All the silliness aside, this was a terrifying movie. The possibility is there, albeit exceedingly rare, that something like this could happen...again.
4:42 ‘Mr. Truman it’s extremely important to the plot that my daughter understands the situation. She won’t end up doing anything remotely useful but fuck it- it’s Hollywood’
02:05 "I need somebody, who had less caffeine this morning" Made my 'caffeine' go all over my keyboard. Completely forgot this movie had many comedic moments.
6:37 - 9:31 Such a solid focused scene throughout to its end. It hits every emotion, good camera work, physical location work and story focus. Its scenes like this in movies that you do not see often anymore
Even though I prefer Deep Impact and Greenland this is still a decent disaster, the cast is pretty solid especially Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton!
A silly overdramatic movie, but still very much enjoyable. I love the scenes showing the asteroid in space, the music is so chilling. They did a good job giving a mere rock in space such personality.
as a kid obviously my favorite parts were the action and explosions. now as an adult; i can hilariously relate to 8:26 when he finds out the people you assumed higher up than you are smarter but your literally the best person they got.
This is one of the most underrated movies of all time. This movie is GREAT!!! it is funny, it has a good storyline, it is full of dramatic scenes, and for God's sake, IT IS about saving THE WORLD. I own this movie and I watch it a few times a year.
At 2:05, I would love that guy to be in our friend's group. He seem so smart, humble & the kind of a guy will just be ok to do anything or go anywhere with his mates ; ONLY after he gives you: the rundown, the stats, the figures, the risk, the probabilities, the history & the facts speech in less than a minute.
The General is well versed in military tactics; not astrophysics. This is the reason why Dr Quincy had to simplify his analysis of the situation. The asteroid was the size of Texas, composed of rock and iron ferrite, travelling at over 20,000 miles an hour. Hitting it with warheads from the outside would be useless. Drilling a hole and putting a warhead in makes the structure weaker and easier to destroy.
That's true except you'd have to drill A LOT deeper than 800 feet. If the asteroid were indeed 'the size of Texas', you'd have to drill more like 250 miles to get near the center.
I rather have a General sending a bunch of nukes into space instead of this new age hippie sun sail guy who always for some reason pops up with this idea in these discussions.
@@Perserra for real bro that’s like me digging 1 ft hole at the top of Mt Everest, then putting a hand grenade in it expecting it to destroy the whole mountain 😑
What's interesting is that composition and mass understandings of comets and asteroids have changed significantly in almost 30 years. A simple probe was able to change the trajectory of an asteroid way more than they thought it would. Sending 150 nukes would have probably done the trick, now that we know kinetic impacts work.
@@DragonLatinVIC Your analogy is flawed because it's attached to the earth. You know how like in water, you can essentially move larger floating objects, like a tug boat? Space is like that, in that the lack of gravity is like buoyancy, in that a small push can deliver a large output against the mass. We tested a kinetic impactor recently and it worked way better than we thought it would.
That's why it HAD to be drillers and not astronauts. With all the stuff that went wrong up there, astronauts would have failed miserably. They would have tried to play it safe, likely trying to drive to the original drilling site instead of drilling where they landed or something like that. Though that's assuming they also make it off of the space station, which also isn't a guarantee. Every decision the astronauts would have made up there would have been based off of their 8.5 months of training. Every decision Harry made up there was based off of 30 years of experience and whatever else he'd learned from his father and/or grandfather.
3:19 - 3:36 Thank you!! Finally a moment that shows the importance of the people you should and shouldn't listen to...and these guys are the "advisors." And yes I've read the other comments about how the guy couldn't put the drill together.....Well I wouldn't hire a foot-doctor to work on my heart. They are both smart...so what. Plus the drill wasn't some handheld. It was a sophisticated, one-of-a-kind machine for drilling through material that can't be drilled through. So please stop comparing the two. I have a B.S. in programming systems. As a result, I have to know *a little* bit of engineering through trial and error. But a company wouldn't come to me and ask me to build them a system. Sure, I could "build" the programming aspect of it, but not the hardware. To say one last thing....just my opinion. But if I'm President of the US and I'm searching for my Scientific Adviser, I'm picking someone who excels in ALL aspects of science; and when I say *ALL* I'm talking about the area's of study they did to graduate....and in this case, a C- in the field astrophysics is not something the scientific adviser should have in his/her portfolio. President to his adviser:: We have an asteroid headed here that will destroy the planet Adviser:: Well, this is what we should do..... President to adviser:: Ok, let's do that. While the missile is just moments away from impact, the president, who never looked at his adviser's college history, decides to look through it as he watches updates on the missile about to hit the asteroid. As he finishes reading the part of the astrophysics, he looks up at the tv just in time to see the missile explode. After the flash, all he see's for the next few minutes is a rock. He ponders what he's thought throughout his life and what was important. Finally, he regrets only one thing; he says to himself, "I guess all those people, over the years, who told me that college wasn't that important...just might have been wrong."
I Salute to Mr. Bay for this outstanding movie...he is a true Gem....wether ita Armageddon or Transformer series..he put emotions which is unmatchable.....❤ ur the Best Mr. Bay 🙏
Bruce Willis had three phases to his career: Young Asshole, Balls to the Wall, and Phoning It In. This movie is the peak of his Balls to the Wall phase. I hated young Bruce, and low-effort Bruce makes me sad, but he really shines in this one.
After all these years I now realize how ridiculous it is that they thought learning to drill would be more difficult for the astronauts to learn even after 8 months of training than it would be for drillers to become astronauts in 10 days..
Isn't it just as ridiculous to trust these guys up there with what will be 8.5 months of training, as opposed to Harry's 30 years of experience plus whatever else he picked up from his father/grandfather?
@@kj6axk Except that even the experienced drillers being led by the man who designed the machine in question barely made it in time. How do you think the astronauts would have done? Even if we assume that from a drilling perspective the astronauts would have done the exact same thing as the experienced drillers, would they have stopped Sharp from dropping off the bomb and thus dooming the entire planet?
And after 8 months of training they never managed to realize that they did a piss poor job of putting the thing together? I'd rather have guys who understand the machinery than guys who only understand the journey up to where they need to use the machinery.
Can you imagine how all this would be in the modern age of social media and all that and how much earlier and more easily word of this could break out? And the way the World Trade Center hit (which the spots the towers were hit weren't all that off from where they were hit on 9/11) was beyond scary :(
Affleck is a great driller, he can drill everywhere,anytime... In fact he drill the most dangerous place on mother earth and survive it (with a shotgun's shrapnel in the leg actually). If you understand what i mean.....
Between The Rock and Armageddon Michael Bay should of kept making these kind of movies. I get the Transformers are a cash cow but with a solid script he could make some epic action movies.
