I agree. The story isn't Oscar worthy, but everything else about this movie was pretty damn good and memorable even 20 years later. Deep Impact was trash in comparison. Boring story, crappy music and nothing particularly memorable after all these years.
UzuMaki NaRuto I love movies of this type that do it right probably as much as I love movies with deep, powerful and inspiring plot. I mean sure, it’s very over the top and comedic, while dramatic and heartbreaking at the same time but the plot isn’t a lot which is why the movie is so good. If it had a deep plot like other very good movies it wouldn’t have been as good because of the fact that “hey there’s a big space rock and we have to stop it” is the main goal and it works both for the movie and the viewer.
@@UzumakiNaruto_ The impact scene in Deep Impact was epic though and totally made up for it. I think you're giving it a hard time, DI had some great scenes man.
The coffee cup shattering and the music change is definitely a strong indicator of the intensity. When he’s not ruining classic franchises, Michael Bay certainly knows what he’s doing.
The special effects hold up fairly well and are hands down the best thing about this movie. I didn't like it but had a good time watching it anyway, just because scenes like this are so exhilarating.
The part where Harry (Bruce Willis) catches a glimpse of the out of control remains of the Independence and doesn't even recognize it immediately followed by Colonel Davis' body bouncing off the windshield hit me just as much as the quotes "Good luck Freedom" and "Oh my God this is it!"
When Harry asks "What the hell is that, is that the Independence--?!" and gets his question answered in the most brutal way as a crewmate's lifeless body slams briefly against the glass like nothing more than passing debris. :' (
I might be the only one that feels this way but the coffee mug bit around 1:09 was such a dramatic emotional part for me, really just set the scene up for what was coming, the way the music changed the sound of the guy shouting mayday and billy bobs face in disbelief and shock, amazing film!
You know when that mug comes down crashing that the end result would be catastrophic to Truman, the shuttle, the astronauts and the mission. Very emotional and resonated with me two decades later!
I love the USAF/NASA pilot calling for everyone to put on their own lifesupport and lock themselves in the cargo bay, giving them the highest chance of survival while disregarding their own.
In the Air Force you are taught to sacrifice ur life for the safety of the passengers, my grandpa told me this he is a ww2 101st airborne veteran on D Day
envelope91 thats nice to hear, because everyone is always complaining about how this movie sucks and so on. Just finished watching it again literally one minute ago, my favourite movie of all time
Just imagine the ultimate horror if that situation were real. To lose most of the crew as it goes down, but to survive the crash and find yourself stranded on a rock heading for the Earth at 30 miles a second. I know it's just an action film, and the idea of sending a shuttle around the moon is ludicrous. But to imagine surviving that and having to carry on.
I don't know why many people cannot see this is 1 of the greatest movie of all time. From the plot, acting, emotions displayed, time the movie was released, soundtrack, graphics, visual effects & all? It has been one of the top 3 best Hollywood movies i have seen since 1998.
RIP to the two pilots who instructed for everything to lock in the cargo bay. As they risked their lives to ensure the safety of the drillers of mankind. I still sing this song at Karoake in Ktown.
@@johnhey4138 Oh nevermind. They said “Go for throttle up”, which means all systems are go for throttle up. But they don’t throttle up until max q has been breached.
@@Top10soon it's a Michael Bay movie! So of course we have the obvious people don't act intelligently at all. (Often times they don't even act like people) Things explode because apparently everything is built with TNT as the binder. Shake the camera so much that it's impossible to know what is happening, the lighting makes everything look like everything is covered in mud to the point I honestly don't know what is supposed to be happening.
yeah it would just shatter into a cloud of debris that would likely destroy the shuttle behind it too. the expanse explains things like this realistically. For example if a ship gets destroyed it becomes shrapnel that is dangerous to anything hat fly's by, even armored ships. The issue is, the shuttle was hit and "went down" as if it was with an atmosphere. Losing it's main engine wouldn't make it spiral out of control seeing that space shuttles have thrusters than can correct that roll rather easily, and it made no sense for the shuttle to lose all of it's ARC thrusters after just having one of it's main engines hit. It would of been more realistic for that rock to have just shattered the entire shuttle because at what was it? mach 30?., hitting that rock would be like being hit by a bomb.
@@WaveForceful Shouldn't the giganteous mass of the Asteroid create it's own gravity field? If a shuttle is going directly at it's direction at enough speed, then there's no way for the manuever thrusters to stop the chaotic trajectory from crashing in the asteroid, plus, shuttle's thrusters are attached very closed to the main engine, so it is not impossible that some of the thrusters were damaged, causing a total failure of the emergency manuevering engine.
But it wasn't zero gravity. Considering the size of the asteroid, it was basically the equivalent of a small planet with it's own atmosphere and gravitational pull. The gravity is obviously less than on earth but it would definitely have enough allow a crash landing.
Hey big troll, im 2 years late but i accept your challenge lol... Stupid shit ass comment......nobody gave a fuck lol... You probably kept going back to see too. Right?
AJ escaped death five times in this film. The first one was when Harry shoot his leg but luckily AJ didn't get seriously harmed. The second one was when the space station exploded however AJ barely escaped it just before it exploded. The third one was when the Independence crashed but he survived the crash. The fourth one was when AJ's rover almost "fell into space" but thanks to Lev's efforts the rover was saved. The fifth one was when Harry bravely sacrificed his life to save AJ by volunteering himself to detonate the bomb instead of AJ.
ah u missed one....when he had to cut the pipe in the hole and he got launched into space but Harry grabbed the rope just in time and brought him back down
When I saw this in the theater 23 years ago, this scene scared the crap out of me. Especially when Col. Davis & Pilot Tucker were ejected through the windows. I knew it wasn't going to end well when that coffee cup shattered and the music changed abruptly.
The shot of Oscar trying to get his helmet on in the final moments reminds me of the Columbia disaster. The investigation board said some of the astronauts weren't properly strapped in during the re-entry phase, which may have caused premature fatal injuries when the spacecraft lost control. I wonder also whether Rick Husband, commander of Columbia when she broke up, mirrored the film scene and ordered the crew in the final moments to try to protect themselves in an ultimately futile attempt to survive when they realised the ship was disintegrating. For all its scientific inaccuracy this scene reminds me a lot of the disaster. RIP Rick, Willy, KC, Michael, David, Laurel and Ilan.
Every commander in those situations has a hope that just maybe there’s a slim chance they’ll stay alive or the ship will hold up just long enough for the crew to attempt a bail out. Had Columbia’s left wing held up a bit longer it’s possible the crew might have been able to bail out. But once they hit the denser atmosphere the RCS became ineffective and without one wing the orbiter went into a 360 spin that tore the vehicle apart. Had they implemented the crew cabin ejection system the crew might have been able to cut away the fatally crippled orbiter and fall into denser atmo which would have allowed them to bail out
@@matthewcaughey8898 columbia lost the wing during reentry.. look at challenger disaster,the crew cabin did separate from orbiter after it disintegrated,crew did not die instantly,there was evidence that some buttons on the panel could not be pushed by explosion or impact with water and there was emergency air supply thingy used by atleast three crew members. but most likely these emergency air supply were useless at that height,it would not save crew from losing consciousness... in case of columbia crew cabin disintegrated during shuttle break up,there was no way for anyone to be conscious for even few seconds,it was instant depressurization.
It breaks my heart thinking of his final moments. The commander has the overall responsibility of getting his crew up and back down safely. I really hope he didnt die thinking he had failed them and that there was a mistake that he made. Theres nothing he could have done and i pray he died. Knowing that none of it was his fault.
This movie was a rollercoaster of emotions and that's why it will forever be remembered fondly by people who didn't watch this for the realism aspect of it.
Fun fact: the Captain of the Shuttle, that crashes, is actor Marshall Teague. He was the lead henchman who squared off with Patrick Swayze in “Roadhouse”.
No matter what you think about Michael Bay movies, this crash of the Independence definitely gets some tears building. Those flight crews went out like the men they were trained to be. Although…maybe, put your helmets on and strap in next time.
There's no strap in the world that saves from decompression and they're not wearing suits or have helmets because they need visibility and mobility to pilot the craft and suits hinder that.
The pilot sacrificed themselves to save the drilling crew. Told them to lock themselves away. They realized the drilling crew is the important factor to save the world.
2:11 Among the many things that'll probably flash through my mind, this one particular part will probably be one of them. It's always stuck with me, even in those dreams you die in, I always say it to myself.
Sadly, this is probably what was going though the minds of the crew of the Challenger. They survived the explosion, but crashed and died upon landing in the ocean at high speed Also, that’s pretty much what goes though people’s minds when they’re actually seconds from dying or nearly dying in a disaster. Lots of 9/11 survivors recalled genuinely thinking they were going to die from the building
RW:when i saw this movie with my dad when i was was young i was crying my eyes out,just the feeling when the shuttle crashed didn't made me feel confident that they ever make it .😔 it was like one scary rollercoaster ride.😫
Carnal Sharp @ 1:42 says ''We're gonna hit!!'' Always get goosebumps at that part cause from his point of view he thought they were probably dead as well but justttt managed to dodge it if he didnt that would have been game over for earth right there
When you think its just a movie, there's a real event is more worst than this... he is Columbia space shuttle in 2003, burning in the atmosphere when back to earth
I remember I was so sad when Owen Wilson died !! Am I the only that feels that the late 90’s , early 2000’s was the time Owen Wilson’s character died a lot?
Matti2609 screw grace she was the worst character in the movie. Only about 5 or 6 scenes she was in were good, and most of the time not because of her acting but the dialogue/actions in general.
Bruce Willis, Billy Bob, young Aflek, Fichtner, Liv Tyler, Owen Wilson (I was so bummed to see him go), as well as some of the other classic people for these types of movies (the NASA and gov dudes). Such an awesome movie!
I think the scene where Harry says goodbye to his daughter, breaking probably the first promise he ever broke in his life to her is absolutely hands on the saddest and most dramatic scene in the movie and one of the most heartbreaking scenes in cinema in general.
Alejandro Cabrera at 2:27 he was sucked out of the shuttle. He was the one behind AJ’s seat. Luckily AJ run for his floating helmet at the back I think halsey was fragged by the window glass as it is seen here also.
I've watched 1000s of movies, and I know that this movie is not accurate to the laws of physics but this scene gets to me man... seeing half of my favorite actors die like this is so freaking tragic man... 😭😭😭 I wanna cry
I first watched this on the evening of 19th march 2001, it was on tv. I remember the day because it's a traditional holyday for my town and I had been outside with my friends the entire afternoon for the town feast. I got home precisely when this scene was playing out. My mom was recording a VHS, saying "you must watch this, you'll love it". I was just 15 at the time and these moments remained in my mind ever since. Today this movie is a guilty pleasure to me, I watch it sometimes just for the feels and for some of the cues of the OST that, to me, are remarkable (I know quite a lot of people would disagree with me, but this Zimmerish "generic soundscape" has its own identity). Scientifically absurd, but so many moments I love that I can't say "the movie sucks". I just can't.
I don’t know why but when I watched this scene as a boy I started crying I don’t know why I cried but I felt extremely heart broken 💔 when I saw the the other plane flew by and whirl passed the other one. Everyone in the theater started to feel shocked and baffled. My dad got emotional too. Felt so patriotic ❤
Michael Bay was such a good director at that time! The action scenes, that, in his recent movies, are known for being bad and confusing, were so good earlier! Fast-paced, but still thilling and dramatic.. Michael, if you ever happen to read this, I ask you: Remember the way you were earlier, and become that way again! You still can do good movies, instead of being doomed to make b-movies for the rest of your career!
jason994 You do realize that nothing you said is actually accurate. Movies that people "hate" don't go on to be the #1 in box office on four different continents, and become one of the first action-dramas to gross over a half-billion dollars. Try not to confuse your opinion, with actual fact. ;)
+ImmortalSynn By that definition, Bay's recent movies aren't movies that people "hate" either, because they're some of the highest grossing movies of all time. Strangely, this movie was criticized (initially) for many of the same things Transformers was. Confusing action scenes, poor taste in humor, racial sterotyping and a total disregard for reality and physics. Funny that. Personally I just think that in today's (social media interconnected) world it is much easier for initial negativity to be blown into full on bandwagoning hatred, where the actual facts matter little. Today's audiences can hardly tell the difference between good, bad or no CGI for example. I've seen comments of people panning Terminator for its "unrealistic CGI" unskinned Terminator that was actually a puppet, not CGI, or sequences in Pirates of the Caribbean that were done using practical effects but were also called "CGI" by audiences. And acting and writing? The interpretation of that is probably worse, considering the average internet critic can barely follow a conversation that doesn't consist of one-liners or memes.
