*DEEP IMPACT & ARMAGEDDON* Movie Reaction 

After my wife and I got home after we went to see this movie in the theater, we woke our two year old son up just to give him a giant hug.

We honor them with every brick we lay, with every field we sow, With every child we comfort, and then teach to rejoice in what we have been re-given. Our planet. Our home. So now, let us begin.

I prefer this one over Armageddon. Standing on the shore while a giant wave comes in is both horrifying and badass at the same time. This movie connects more with me on that level.

Morgan Freeman is fire. He's so good at poignant moments. "I wish. No wishing is wrong. I believe in God, even if many of you don't. I still want to offer a prayer... God hears all prayers even if the answer is NO." Whoa. I always get chills for sure.

This will always be one of the greats. The human connections and emotions were so clearly and beautifully displayed. I love the scene with the CPT reading the book to Oren. A tragic event has brought the characters together. A wonderful character arc.

Of the two, I prefer "Deep Impact". The more serious and factual of the two. "Armageddon" isn't bad, just the usually Michael Bay silliness. Like enjoying a Twinkie. I like this idea of the two of you reacting to similar films back-to-back. I think it would be great doing it with remakes as well. Another two films I'd love to see you two react to are "Dr. Strangelove" and "Fail-Safe". Both from 1964 and involving a possible, accidental start to WWIII. On is a satire, the other serious.

This is a great movie. One of the things I love about it is the focus on human stories and relationships of normal people in light of the impending doom, which I think is due to having a female director. It makes it very different from the much more typical Armageddon type of movie focused more on the actual disaster and heroes.

I remember I enjoyed Deep Impact more than Armageddon when they hit the big screen. It just seems to be a more nuanced, thoughtful story, no awful characters to root against, and no forced conflict. I think I actually groaned when Willis made his sacrifice play (I figured it would happen). The Michael Bay-isms just rubbed me the wrong way. And Morgan Freeman's VOICE is a potent weapon! 😉

Loved your sister's input on this movie! It gave you someone to bounce your thoughts off of, and vice versa. Please have her back again.

Such an underrated film. Can't believe anyone would pick that Michael Bay abomination "Armageddon" over this.

I remember watching this at the cinema, by the end there were no dry eyes among the audience, everyone was weeping. One couple sitting behind my sisters and I were sobbing loudly like it was a funeral lol 🤣 I definitely prefer this over 'Armageddon' but that one was entertaining in its own way.

I love this movie. I think this is the beginning of my infatuation with Tea Leoni. She is criminally underrated as an actress.

17:41 He would die from asphyxiation long before he died of dehydration. Those suits only carry about 8 hours of air, and they'd been out for about 5 hours at that point. He'd probably be dead within 3 hours at most, even if he took slow breaths to conserve air, which is very unlikely when you're sailing at 1,000 feet per second into the dark. Horrific way to die, alone and in space, but at least it would be over relatively quickly, and he'd likely pass out about an hour before he actually died as his body shut down to conserve as much oxygen as possible.

There was a little wave of disaster movies at that time of this one with various success. I've always liked this one, it has a very grounded and natural approach to the subject than a lot of the other disaster movies around that time. I watched a very similar movie (a new one) around christmas called Don't Look Up. Was surprisingly good.

Thanks for this retrospective. I enjoyed both of these in their cinematic release, but prefer Deep Impact because it is a serious exploration of what could happen.

“All these people are going to spend their last moments on Earth in traffic.” 😂😂. 😢

You need to do Dante's Peak and Volcano! Both great volcano movies from the 90's! The 90's had some great disaster films!! :)

With Deep Impact I think they both forgot you’d run out of oxygen long before you’d starve haha!

For me, it's the magnificent James Horner score that makes the movie. One of his finest scores.

I cry every time I see this film. We now know that something similiar happened about 12,000 years ago and traumatized the world.

For me, Deep Impact far surpasses Armageddon, I tear up every time

See this movie in the theaters with my parents and it's pretty impressive! Neil Degrasse Tyson, famed physicist, named this the most scientifically accurate disaster movie ever made.

Did anyone else notice that today is the same day as the meteor that hits (August 16) 8:55

Asteroid is those who is in space, and a meteor, is those who are within the atmospheres of the earth, and meteorites is those who already hit the ground of the earth, and is then later found.

Hi Jen,this should be fun. Loved your Planet of the Apes reaction! The look on your face at the final reveal was priceless. Here's another si fi pick from the late 60s and early 70s. The Andromeda Strain. It's about a deadly virus that comes from deep space. Another groundbreaking film of its time. P.S. hello Jens sister,I'm sorry I don't know your name.

Tara's comment made me laugh out loud touching everything with pizza fingers, sounds exactly like my sister.

A small part of this movie takes place in the basement kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Thats the spot where Bobby Kennedy (John F Kennedy's brother and his Attorney General) was assassinated in the 1960s.

Hey Jen, I watched this as a pay-per-view in a shady cabin, at a resort in Furnace Creek CA IN 1998! I was on holiday with my wife and we needed to wyle-away the afternnon while it was 104F outside!! Enjoyed your joint reaction with your sister. Great stuff x

The scene with Tea Leoni on beach with her father waiting for the wave has stuck with me since seeing this in the theater. For a great film with Robert Duvall, watch the 1970 movie M*A*S*H where he plays Major Frank Burns.

Really really enjoyed that it's always extra special to see you Jen and Tara collaborate you are so wholesome together and it's always a great fun time and you both cried bless you both 🫂 hard to imagine what one would do in those circumstances I mean what can you do right 😬 . As it's valentine's day I thought I'd pick to watch this because it's clear to see the love you both share for each other true wonderful sisters 💙 cheers Jen and cheers Tara this was great

As an astronomy buff, I always liked/preferred _"Deep Impact"_ over _"Armageddon"_ - the science is more accurate, the characters seem more real & believable, and the way things unfold feels more like the way it might really happen (except the beginning sequence; there'd be back-ups for everything including data/communications lines, and the crash sequence ... come on!). In _"Armageddon"_ - the only part that really 'grabbed' me was the guy sitting on the Moon, back against the boulder, looking at Earth as he dies. Personally, IMO, it is - by far! - the *most* powerful scene in the whole movie! To me this movie should have won at *least* 2 or 3 Oscars©! Personally, I believe that the Academy's bias against anything that's in *any* way 'science fiction' robs too many *great* movies of their appropriate recognition! And this wasn't *really* s.f. anyway ... it was a current-day adventure/drama with science elements driving the over-arching narrative!

I worked at Siding Spring Observatory in outback Australia for years, the drive off the mountain was definitely dangerous. Heavy fog, tiny winding road. The rest of the science is a bit dodgy, after the large comet exploded all that mass entering the atmosphere would have released the same amount of energy. The sky would burn and being on the ground would be like being under a griller. Everything would burn, hundreds of degrees Celsius for hours.

Deep Impact was the far better movie for me. The dialog, the story, the characters, AND, let's not forget the FILM SCORE, composed and conducted by James Horner. Film scores are so often swept under the rug, but wow, it can absolutely highlight and bring out the strongest emotions when married to picture.

"Deep Impact" is on my list of favorite disaster movies. I've always had a love for these kinds of movies thanks to the imaginative mind of producer/director Irwin Allen, the legendary "Master of Disaster". Allen has created some of the best 60s & 70s disaster movies ever. There are also other great disaster movies before "Armageddon", "Deep Impact", "Volcano", "The Day After Tomorrow" and "2012" to name a few. You have to put the following films on a poll to watch. They are: "The Lost World" (1960); "The Andromeda Strain" (1971); the "Airport" movies: "Airport" (1970]), "Airport '75" (1974), "Airport '77 (1977), Airport '79"]; "The Poseidon Adventure" (1972 - an ABSOLUTE must-see!); "The Towering Inferno" (another ABSOLUTE must-see!); "Earthquake" (1974); "Flood!" (1976); "Rollercoaster" (1977); "Kingdom of the Spiders" (1977); "The Swarm" (1978); "Meteor" (1979); "When Time Ran Out" (1980); "The Night the Bridge Fell Down" (1980); and "Snakes on a Plane" (2006). It's very nice to see you reacting to a movie with your sister. 📽❤

I love how when the tidal wave hits Central Park there's a guy just sitting there reading a newspaper.

James Horner's music makes the scenes of the movie so emotional !! When the blind astronaut touches the screen hearing his baby boy's voice, the musical piece of Horner just sends the emotional quotient of that moment to reach the heaven.

Even in age and in small roles, Robert Duvall will always steal the movie.

I found your sisters channel a week or so ago, didn't put it together at first. You are sooooo sisters 😀This should be a fun one to watch!

I saw this and Armageddon in theaters when I was in 11th or 12th grade. I remember thinking Armageddon was just pretty good but absolutely LOVING this film upon first view. Just way more dramatic and more lovable characters. They really hammed up the emotion and I'm just a big softy so I fell for it. Over time I grew to enjoy Armageddon more and more the older i got, mostly for it's more intense and well-directed action. Still, this film holds a special place in my heart bc it really brings me back to my high school years.

Hi ladies. The basic difference between an asteroid and comet is: Asteroid - made mostly of rock and metal. Comet - made mostly of ice. Basically a snowball in space, consisting of frozen gases.

8:55 Impact on August 16. Is Jen the new Nostradamus for uploading this the day the impact takes place? 😧

11:57 "He's probably got more experience than all of them _combined."_ Yeah. And I can't speak from experience, but I'll just bet the astronaut corps has a tradition of _respecting_ its veterans, if for nothing other than their _experience._ They've actually _been_ there.

29:21 This actress is Denise Crosby. She's _Star Trek_ famous.

This is a movie I was reluctant to admit I cried at as a teen. Can still make me cry.

Deep Impact is so much better than Armageddon, but they each have their own appeal.

My friends went to Armageddon in the cinema while we went to Deep Impact. At the time I regretted my choice but now I feel DI has held up better.

Had to do your double feature!

13:15 Nuclear weapons safety protocols. A nuclear warhead is, in fact, extremely difficult to detonate. There are safety interlocks numbering in the tens, if not hundreds, of failpoints that must all be cleared for the warhead to even arm itself. The very first of those safety failpoints is keeping the fission/fusion materials separated during transport. Even when the core of the warhead, as seen here, is inserted, the weapon is still not even close to being armed, but it does make the warhead "live." The reason they separate the core and the warhead for transport is so that if someone drops something on the warhead, or it gets shaken loose during acceleration or deceleration, at most you'd get a small conventional explosion and some radioactive material scattered about. You only make a warhead live when it is close to use. That is why every nuclear weapon, at some point in its preparation or deployment, encounters "the two man rule." Two humans with separate keys/codes/access must assess if the release of nuclear weapons is genuine and authentic, then must assemble the weapon, program the targeting information (air burst or ground impact, multiple warheads to different targets or all warheads to a single target), and finally release the final human interlock safety that effectively arms the warhead. If you want to see this in practice, look up "LGM 30 Minuteman" and there is a 5 minute video that runs through every step of what is needed to lauch, and how the missile works.

My 2 favorite asteroid movies, since 98. Great reaction, much love to you guys!

17:32 - Gus most likely has a few hours of oxygen remaining so he'll die from running out of oxygen before starving or dehydration, however there is an option for a "quick exit". Depending on the design of their suits, astronauts can expose themselves to the vacuum of space by detachment or depressurization of their suits. The intense pressure change combined with the severe depletion of oxygen will cause them to lose consciousness in about 9 to 12 seconds and then they'll die about a minute or 2 later from asphyxiation and hypothermia. It would actually be pretty quick and painless.

Asteroids are rock and comets are frozen gas. The tail from comets is from stars heating them and causing sublimation, turning the solid comet into a gas.

I love this movie! Saw it when it came out and it was like Christmas for me. Love the score, too. A lot of people complain about this because the flashy FX is only at the end. That’s not the point, it’s a character-driven story. And one of the saddest movies I’ve ever seen. Criminally underrated.

Ok, I haven't seen Deep Impact in many years, even though I own it. (I own Armageddon too, but really just to showcase them side-by-side to demonstrate how superior DI is. ;) ) But only relatively recently have I been a father. And seeing the toddler being held up outside the Missouri caves, or the reporter stay in the tower with her daughter....ug, I barely held it together.

Jen! I came and watched this again because I like this movie and I like watching your reactions. But, that is not what this comment is about. Just a note on something you said about secret meetings being held in restaurant basements. My mom and dad once had the opportunity to take a vacation at The Greenbrier, which currently serves as a resort. How that pertains to this movie (and your comment) is that my impression of that scene in the "restaurant basement" is that it may have been The Greenbrier. It was built as a continuity-of-government bunker near Washington DC, in the case of a national emergency. Remember how the scene had some shots of food supplies in boxes? They told me about how they toured the bunker as part of their trip. I thought it was a neat idea to incorporate the bunker tour into the panoply of other normal activities one would have at a resort. Now it's just a guess. Maybe the restaurant basement was simply the lower depths below the White House or somesuch. I just thought you might find that interesting because you seem to have a lot of knowledge about a lot of things. Love the channel! :)

Armageddon is more hollywood like. it focus on the stars the individual astronauts, while deep impact doesnt. I like them both for different reasons.

I think I watched Deep Impact a bit too young. I was 10 in 2002 and Jon Favreau being jettisoned out into space with no way back did some existential damage to my brain. lol. The bit that always chokes me up a bit is the Moby Dick scene and also the end where the astronauts are doing video calls with their families and the newly-blind astronaut is introduced to his baby whilst his wife doesn't know about his ailment so the other astronauts whisper descriptions of what is on screen for him so that he can pretend he's ok and not upset his wife in his final moments.

Lovely to see your reaction with your sister. Its a nice touch and you should react to more movies together. It looks like you have a nice close bond 😊

In the words of my passed grandpa : "how many bullshits"

12:33 5 Months won't even get you to Mars.

So good...I like you pairing with your sister very much. A double great reaction!!!!

I call this one “Art-Mageddon”

Double Trouble! Great Reaction Ladies! And as someone else mentioned, please have her back again!

Also watch "Don't Look Up." More powerful and terrifying by far, with horrifically accurate satire and well-acted fear.

They should make a movie about the Goodyear blimp crashing and call it "Deep Blimp-pact."

I was in Times Square when they were setting up the extras for the NY shots. I was walking to Grand Central, and had no idea what was going on at the time.

I don't know where you are in Canada, but you can look through a large telescope like that in Richmond Hill, ON at the Dunlap Observatory

11:32 - 'A little happy' - looking at Happy

Have I ever mentioned that I live on a tsunami evacuation route? There's a sign that says so just west of my house.

"Deep Impact": The movie that made "Extinction Level Event" a cool phrase. "President Tom Beck" doesn't have much screen time, but he's almost as iconic as "Hannibal Lechter" in this movie. 17:38 Re: "Firefly," episode 8, "Out of Gas"...He'd freeze to death before running out of air/food/food. 34:40 In Robert Duvall's first movie, he had no spoken lines, but conveyed dignity, courage, and Love as "Arthur 'Boo' Radley" in "To Kill A Mockingbird" (1962), an amazing movie about childhood, a small town and "Atticus Finch.";) Get in the Wayback machine sometime, "Scout," "Jem," and "Dill" will be waiting for you.;)

Comets are rocks full of water (and other volatiles but mostly water) Asteroids have much less water. Really the difference is comets have tails close to the sun. Asteroids come in a wide variety of compositions from chucks of solid iron to to lose piles of powder (mostly carbon). Most are a combination of the two, and they vary greatly in how solid they are. It is thought that the lose piles of powder are extinct comets. Comets that have made so many orbits around the sun they no longer get a tail close to the sun.

Charles Martin Smith is pizza fingers. He’s great in American Graffiti as Toad. Never Cry Wolf is the only film I’ve seen where he’s the star.

Dante’s Peak and Volcano next please 😎

Its really interesting that only some 20 something years after the movie was made, we already know that we dont have to nuke the asteroids or comets at all. We just have to ram them with a missile very very fast, early and hard, and they´ll miss the Earth completely. Space is gigantic, and Earth in comparison is really tiny. It does not take a lot to make the asteroid miss the planet. The laws of physics and the conservation of momentum really saved us in this way, because a small 1 ton object going 10 kilometers per second has the same momentum as a 100 000 000 ton object going 1 meter per second.

Gotta say I really enjoyed watching you and your sister Tara reacting together. It was a lot of fun. I saw both Deep Impact and Armageddon when they came out and, like you two, I found Deep Impact to be the better of the two. I think it's no secret the double entendre suggested by the title is an intentional reference to both the catastrophic events playing out and the emotional reactions as a result of them. Thanks for the reaction!

The difference between a comet and and asteroid is that asteroids are rock and, in general, come from the asteroid belt or Jupiter. Comets are made of various ices and come from deep space way way out past all the planets. Only comets have tails -- mostly -- and they in fact have TWO tails. One is gas and the other is dust. The gas tail always points directly away from the sun while the dust tail always points directly behind it in its path. As comets get closer to the sun more of the ice melts and turns to gas, and it's the ice holding everything together so bits of dust and rock bound within them come loose and trail behind while the released gas is blown by the solar wind.

I fell in love tea Leoni in this movie... there were some teary-eyed moments in this movie 😢

Jen, yes you can look through one of those giant telescopes. I think it's Mount Wilson in California that has a 60" and a 100" telescope available to view through. (For reference, the Hubble Space Telescope is 92".) You make a reservation and rent the scope for a night or a half night. The cost used to be something like $900 for a night on the 60", and it's probably higher now, so you get a group of friends together and you split the cost. Unfortunately, if it's cloudy or raining, the dome stays closed and you're SoL - no refunds. I think there are a couple of other observatories in the southwest US that also do this. I've never done it myself but it sounds like fun.

12:53 "This is a _comet_ instead of an _asteroid._ I don't really know the difference." Ah. Well you've actually caught part of it. See, comets _develop_ tails as they approach the Sun, because they're made up mostly of ice, and in space, there's no atmosphere, so the moment ice reaches its melting point, it evaporates, and that's where the tail comes from. Asteroids, though, are entirely rock. That's why they develop no tail.

I just checked out both reactions and LOVED them both!! I also just subbed to both channels. I can't wait to see more reactions, both solo and collaborations. This was FUN!!!!

The music scores at certain parts of this movie is really emotional and powerful. Very underrated movie. Maybe my favorite disaster movie. The relationships focus is great

In Deep Impact, the guy floating in space will only have about 16 hours before his oxygen runs out. Also explosions do not propagate in space so the space ship would not have been hit.

You practically watched Deep Impact on the same in movie day as the comet would be doing just that- August 16th!😮 How did THAT happen??😅 Now you both now need to follow it up with “DON’T LOOK UP” to laugh the baggage of those others off together!😄

Did you notice Jon Favreau, ten years before directing "Iron Man," as one of the astronauts?

I wasn't certain that I had already seen this reaction until I saw my two previous comments.

I know that road! Theyy filmed that "traffic jam"on Prince William Parkway, after they completed the road but before they opened it to the public

great movie

6.2 on imdb is really underrated, deserves at least a 7.

I wasn't going to cry until you guys started to :(

Saw them both when they came out which was close to the same time. Deep Impact is probably the better movie but I have since watched Armageddon a lot more times. It is just fun to watch.

Comet vs Asteroid, oversimplified: A asteroid is a solid rock, a comet is a dense snowball filled with rocks. There are exceptions, but that's fairly close.

I definitely prefer this one over Armageddon. I was in college when this came out and my astronomy professor at the time was an advisor on the film. He even actually had a small onscreen role as one of the NASA technicians which was pretty cool.

There was a 3rd movie Space Cowboys with Tommy Lee Jones

Difference between asteroid and comet: asteroid is mostly rock/metal, and comet is mostly ice

it is called a "disaster movie", in 1970-90th disaster movies were quite popular. if you didnt see it, watch The Towering inferno btw, deep impact/armageddon was not the only similar theme pair of movies released same year, year before it was Volcano and Dante's Peak

I also prefer this one before Armageddon...Armageddon is typical Bay...action, explosions and fun. This movie has heart....it is emotional and mainly about relationships.

Jen! Do you know you're the only reactor to do this one in a couple years. There was one guy who did one a couple years ago, and that was it. I LOVE this movie because it's poignant and shows how different people would be affected by the upcoming loss. Armageddon is on cable about once a week; there's this cable station that plays it all the time. It's loud, with joke-cracking characters. Deep Impact makes me cry every time. (I didn't know Tara was your sister. She doesn't post as frequently as you, but you're both bookmarked and I check both daily.) This was fun.

Love your Sibling reaction x

Jen, you have a knack for editing in the right parts. I have seen this movie so many times and you nailed it. I teared up. Good stuff!! =)

There already is a place to house people in a case like this, we just don't know about it. What we do know is there is a place where thousands of different species of seeds and DNA are stored called the Fort Collins Seed Vault in the USA. There is another in Norway called the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

I assert that any movie with Robert Duvall is well worth watching. You two have tough sister competition with Cassie and Carly of Popcorn in Bed, another pair of Canadians. Are all Canadians eventually becoming movie reactors? Well, I have to check out Tara’s channel now…