Armageddon (1998)

When an asteroid is headed for Earth the world's best deep core drilling team is sent to nuke the rock from the inside.
Cast and Information
Directed By: Michael Bay
Written By: J.J. Abrams, Tony Gilroy, Jonathan Hensleigh, Robert Roy Pool
Starring: Keith David, Steve Buscemi, Bruce Willis, Peter Stormare, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck, Owen Wilson, Grace Zabriskie, William Fichtner, Michael Clarke Duncan, Shawnee Smith, Liv Tyler
Genres: Drama, Sci-fi, Action, Adventure
Country: USA
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Armageddon belongs to 58 collections
1. Criterion Collection (collaborative: moderated by caffe - 165 stars)
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16 | WoozyB | 40 4th |
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A giant asteroid saves the earth from Bruce Willis!
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BeeDub | 72 22nd |
An obnoxious, brain-dead movie made even worse by that damn Aerosmith song that you couldn't escape for the next three years. The fact that this got a Criterion release will forever mystify me. Also, I'm convinced no one in Hollywood knows what "Armageddon" actually means.
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grimace98 | 0 0th |
Nuclear devices have to be detonated manually. Oil miners make awesome astronauts. There's no physics or gravity in space. Girls hug their fiances (who they thought were dead) like their weird old uncle Travis. And asteroids get to break all the rules. I'm giving it 1 point because it won't let me give it zero. Update: I can now give it zero. This is the best moment of my life.
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drumnd | 4 0th |
EXPLOSIONS! YELLING!! GO AMERICA!!! BEN AFFLECK!!!! PEARL HARBOR IN SPACE!!!!!
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Tripwyre | 19 8th |
It's hilarious to me that NASA thought it would be easier to train oil riggers to be astronauts than astronauts to be oil riggers. How do we save the world from imminent destruction? DRILL BABY, DRILL! The worst part of all this -- other than, well, all of it -- is just how many talented actors are on-board for this shitfest. A movie with this cast and this concept could be inconcievably awesome, but this script is non-stop fail. Hell, Deep Impact is better than this.
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TonythePony | 33 4th |
An extended ejaculatory blast of noise and garishness unloaded into your face. Enjoy.
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purgatos | 25 7th |
Their space ship lands on a plate of compressed iron ferrite. What?
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Magb | 30 6th |
Hello, I'm a dumb and shitty movie! Look at me! No, don't look away; look at me! Me!
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doctor7 | 6 2nd |
A member of the crew, a US Demolisions specialist, forgets how to disarm a missile with the "red or green wire" cliche during this film to create superficial tension. Keep in mind this isn't a terrorist bomb but a US made nuclear device this person was TRAINED on how to disarm. Needless to say this movie is absolutely atrocious.
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ktappe | 15 5th |
This is the epitome of everything that is wrong with Hollywood. Only see if you think loud music, screaming, and quick cuts are essential ingredients for a film. If any of these annoy you (and they should) avoid this at all costs.
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sengir | 51 6th |
The saddest thing about this Michael Bay 'masterpiece' is the fact that every actor of the stellar cast didn't have the backbone to say no to the huge paycheck they were offered to film this flimsy excuse of a screenplay. Over the top, an excess of loud MTV editing combined with little to no decent character development apart from the cliches the actors are dropped in. This film ,like most of the Michael Bay fare, looks good but feels flat out empty.
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MartinTeller | 54 10th |
Occasionally amusing, but mostly retarded. There are at least four scenes involving something being fixed at the last possible second. Very irritating. Still, if you're going to watch a huge-budget Hollywood disaster movie, this is probably the one to go with.
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Cinema_Asia | 55 19th |
Do you like implausible sci-fi scenarios involving asteroids? A lot of big name actors hamming it up? A rock soundtrack that just screams 90's? Liv Tyler? There's nothing remotely intelligent about Armageddon. The whole movie is like one big music video with plenty of the same excessive stylistic shots. This is Michael Bay doing what he does best..big, loud, and stupid.
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SlrSoapbox | 40 13th |
Spectacular special effects, and I still kind of like that Aerosmith song, but this movie is clichéd, cheesy and has huge plot holes.
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lachapelle | 37 10th |
OMG! A giant meteor is going to destroy the earth and only Harrison Ford and Aerosmith can save the world. Oh wait, that was the Robot Chicken parody. It was better than this stinker. Why? Steve Buscemi, why?
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CHIMP | 15 1st |
Why would someone mount a machine gun on a space buggy? I am still awaiting an explanation Mr. Bay.
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Alex Watkins | 3 38th |
Uh, this movie is a hilarious comedy, come on.
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Nathan S | 2 21st |
That it asks the viewer to earnestly consider the drama of this most haphazard scientific venture is absurd, but more confusing is that it actually takes itself only half-seriously. Each solemn moment of mass death, destruction, and tragedy is followed immediately by antics and quipping. If it leaned completely into comedy it might actually be good, but as stands it's a tolerable and often amusing blockbuster, one half-spent laughing with but otherwise laughing at in mordant disbelief.
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Difontaine | 30 5th |
Oh good lord. One of the largest turd sandwiches ever made, this pile of balls made Bruckhiemer yet another zintillion dollars and gave the world Ben Affleck. So why not a lower score? Because it is the funniest unintentional comedies ever made, Where. Every. Single. Thing. Is. Given. Such. Dramatic. Delays. you are sure the Earth would have been destroyed five times over before they even took off. And how many times can you say you have cheered on the Giant Metorite of Dooom, just so the destru
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Farzan | 25 14th |
I love drumnd's review.
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kubricksucks | 65 27th |
Die Hard on the moon.
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Shmendrek | 1 10th |
It's very loud.
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recklessmess | 25 13th |
I wish a Texas-sized asteroid would land on Ben Affleck.
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BillyShears | 80 77th |
I'm Juror #8 and I'm about to show you all how wrong you are about Armageddon:
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hehejaja | 35 9th |
If only Willis had screamed "Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker!" right before he sacrifices himself for humanity, it would've been an OK film.
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INDYATMN | 15 1st |
Stupid.
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2 | Hatman101 | 40 5th |
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"Regarding the film's premise, Ben Affleck asked director Michael Bay, "Wouldn't it be easier for NASA to train astronauts how to drill rather than training drillers to be astronauts?" Bay told Affleck to shut up." Nuff said.
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2 | lakefxdan | 80 34th |
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Guilty pleasure. I enjoy its everyman theme and silly pretensions. Entertaining schlock, with script-doctored characters who jump off the frame.
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overrated | 31 22nd |
No shit it's stupid, it's Michael Bay. At the same time it's kind of a glorious stupidity, like defecating out of a moving car.
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TripleSH | 30 18th |
Was I supposed to care about anyone in this film? I'll file this under "one and done," because there's absolutely no need to go back if you make it through this too-long disaster movie once.
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eveelun | 40 7th |
This movie is just so loud and abrasive. I'm not just talking about the pointless explosions (which are many), but even the dialogue feels more like each character either shouting smartass (usually lame) quips to no one or emoting in hyperbolic excess rather than an actual conversation.
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Moribunny | 15 7th |
Just as its name suggests, Armageddon is the daddy of all disaster movies. The script is a disaster, the directing is a disaster, in fact it's a disaster from start to finish.
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1 | Kerrek | 60 34th |
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Not a masterpiece, but still fun.
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TheDenizen | 30 11th |
Overblown piece of shit with lame effects and a stupid, one dimensional story. Bruce Willis and Liv Tyler are both particularly bad.
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djross | 30 13th |
Effective public health warning about the dangers of space dementia. Also, a father learns to accept his daughter's independence and the inevitability of his own mortality. Aside from that, a fantasy about some regular joes who hitch a ride into space and save the world. Loud and frenetic, but a likeable cast and occasional humour go some way to distracting attention from the formulaic narrative. Not a good film, but not really much worse than numerous other more highly-regarded blockbusters.
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lrampartl | 35 12th |
The movie where everything goes wrong, logic has no place, and dramatic longshots happen every five minutes. Ho-ly crap this was an abomination.
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Pickpocket | 4 35th |
America, fuck yeah.
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BBBD | 22 6th |
I hated this movie. Every chance something can go wrong, it does. That shit gets annoying. Also, a lot of people I know like/d this movie, and that fueled my dislike as well.
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grimsooth | 23 7th |
In a fully surround THX theater this movie is really cool. If you don't see it in that context however, it sucks.
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sdr782 | 40 18th |
Did they really have to cram the soundtrack full of Aerosmith songs just because Liv Tyler was starring in it?
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GravyMaximus | 50 31st |
Michael bay eats his own boogers
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PeaceAnarchy | 65 17th |
It's not that bad, but it tries so hard to be so much that everything comes off silly and ham fisted. The romance plot is predictable and forced, the disaster premise is nonsensical and every character is a bizarre stereotype.
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Bojangles | 25 8th |
A bunch of oil riggers make fun of Greenpeace and are then contracted to save the world by nuking an asteroid. This is one of the the most neoconservative piece of media I've ever seen.
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Grit | 16 13th |
A typical Michael Bay fair boosted by Willis and Duncan but brought quickly down to earth by the pure irritation of watching Affleck and Tyler bluff their way through the entire film. Bloody hell they're bad. As for the rest of the film, Bay takes a decent idea and once again runs away with it packing in as many explosions and incomprensible incompitence over the whole space trip as possible. Somebody tell Bay that crappy romantic melodrama and explosions don't mix when you have zero talent.
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JooJoo | 2 16th |
Cancer.
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frederic_g54 | 5 21st |
(after repeat viewings) Kneel before your movie God, slaves!
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saucyjack | 30 8th |
I WANNA GO TO SPACECAMP
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Geodacius | 30 7th |
Bruce Willis takes Steve Buscemi to an asteroid. Buscemi freaks out and starts shooting rocks and people. Good fun for the whole family.
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bellamyr | 66 32nd |
If this is the best we can do bring on the Asteroid !
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1 | buglovin | 45 11th |
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Michael Bay at his worst. It's Deep Impact with an extra hour of stupid dialog and budget inflating stars.
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Jeb | 0 2nd |
Michael Bay's masterpiece (Believe me, that's not saying anything). Plus, did it need to be that long?
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Bmunise | 25 4th |
I liked Steve Buscemi's character. And nothing else. Oh yeah, meteors don't work that way.
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Councillor | 9 4th |
As my friend MoleDMC would say: "Grab yourself another sugar sandwich..."
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1 | Wonderboy | 10 2nd |
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No. No no no. This movie is like a virus in my brain, and it HURTS. It hurts my brain when shuttles explode, in space, for no reason. It hurts when Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler spew their "acting" all over the screen. And it's just excruciating when I try to watch a high-suspense scene about an astronaut who FALLS DOWN A WELL. IN SPACE. It's not fun, it's not exciting, it's not even watchable. Ten points for Bruce Willis, who technically appears in this movie, even if no one told him that.
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freqflyer | 20 17th |
Dumb, dumb, dumb. This movie sucked. Plot was preposterous and acting was hammy. I gave it some points for F/X, which were ok.
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Gideon | 1 16th |
'MERICA F-CK YEAH!
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AndreasThau | 20 6th |
Salvation would be possible for this film if Willis and Affleck had had a love affair in outer space fucking up all possible family relations. That - and that only - would've given this any kind of edge. Bah.
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Bunken | 80 88th |
"Mommy, mommy - the salesman is on TV!" "It's not a salesman, it's your father!" I fucking love it!
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hellboy76 | 50 16th |
A piece of shit. Some of it can be enjoyed if you completey shut off your brain (it's easier to train oil workers to be astronauts than astronauts to be oil workers?!) but some parts are just so ridiculously stupid its hard to get past.
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dmarques | 24 5th |
Fuck yeah America! Fuck yeah America is the only nation capable of stopping Armageddon! Fuck yeah Russia is so shit their space station is like a floating turd! Fuck yeah Ben Affleck is a great actor! Fuck yeah lets ignore all scientific laws! Fuck yeah, all it takes to train astronauts is a goddamn montage! I could continue...
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thegreyfox | 80 74th |
A master class in pulling heart-strings, if not in Astro-physics .... but hey, who would have thought that getting decimated on an asteroid 200,000 miles from earth could be so much fun? In 1999, there was a US wide shortage of the "right stuff" as a result of this load of ol' nonsense ... but hey, Steve Buscemi is wonderful, and Liv Tyler is hard not to fall in love with. Sure, rip it apart on so many levels if you want, but just be aware if you do that you are the wrong audience for it anyway!
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jeporcher | 15 3rd |
When you think it can't get any worse, Steven Tyler sells his soul.
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CMonster | 51 28th |
I gave this movie about 30 extra points just for Bruce Willis hitting golf balls at a Green Peace boat off an oil rig.
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Paxton | 47 16th |
I've never finished it. I love WIllis, but the line, "We need the best deep sea drill team," has become a running gag in my household for absurd solutions.
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peyrin | 55 24th |
All the reviews shitting on faulty space logic and the numerous plot holes are clearly forgetting that Dudes Rock. Steve Buscemi firing a machine gun in space? Dudes rock. Ben Affleck being depressed about his girlfriend in space? Dudes rock.
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