21-01-2003 11:27									#1
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Basically I want to use this thread to discuss how bad Armageddon sucked. I just can't get over it. Even though many years have passed. Mainly becase my brother was watching it on television the other day. Microgravity my ass . The gravity judging from the action sequences looked amazingly equal to Earth's gravity.

I prefer Deep Impact.

	21-01-2003 11:32									#2
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i was expecting the made for tv one to suck. But i was harshly dissapointed by both Deep Impact and Armeggedon... I guess thats what happenes when you get carried away by hype... shoulda learned my lesson by the time SW: episode I came out, but i didnt.

	21-01-2003 12:37									#3
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Can't remember which one is which to be honest?

I they would have dropped that stupid kid, I would take that one, which ever it was

	21-01-2003 13:00									#4
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This is like a "what's better, dr. pepper, mr. pibb, or mountain dew" poll.
Yech.

	21-01-2003 14:20									#5
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I'm surprised you forgot the film Meteor, starring Sean Connery. What a classic.

	21-01-2003 14:29									#6
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Yeah -- a classic 'no real science was harmed in this movie' natural disaster flick.

The science of Deep Impact was excellent, although it certainly suffered in the scripting department.

Armegeddon, on the other hand, was a complete travesty, especially in regard to the science.

...and why the hell would you need a vehicle-mounted chaingun on a 'nuke the asteroid' mission?

	21-01-2003 15:01									#7
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so that a guy with space dimensia could shoot at you

	21-01-2003 20:44									#8
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I actually saw a pretty good asteroid film. It was about a group of travellers who turn up one day at a bed-n-breakfast with a nice view of a small Oregon town. Turns out they are disaster-groupie time tourists from the future (fresh from the Hindenburg disaster). These are not people you want to have arrive at your inn. In fact, they came to watch an asteroid wipe out the town.

Although a modest made-for-tv flick, it wasn't half bad. At least as far as asteroid films go.

The best asteroid fuilm would have to be the 50's War of the Worlds.

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	21-01-2003 20:47									#9
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident Basically I want to use this thread to discuss how bad Armageddon sucked. I just can't get over it. Even though many years have passed. Mainly becase my brother was watching it on television the other day. Microgravity my ass . The gravity judging from the action sequences looked amazingly equal to Earth's gravity. I prefer Deep Impact.

Though it isn't exactly an asteroid movie, we now have a tough new challenger in the "dumbest scientific premise ever" category, in The Core. Could the old champ be toppled? We'll find out come this summer!

	21-01-2003 21:42									#10
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I preferred Deep Impact simply because we didn't "win"...that is, the asteroid actually hit. Arma got way too mushy...ick.

	21-01-2003 21:50									#11
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quote: Originally posted by The Mad Monk Yeah -- a classic 'no real science was harmed in this movie' natural disaster flick. The science of Deep Impact was excellent, although it certainly suffered in the scripting department. Armegeddon, on the other hand, was a complete travesty, especially in regard to the science. ...and why the hell would you need a vehicle-mounted chaingun on a 'nuke the asteroid' mission?

best line in the movie though by far is when the psycho is riding the nuke like a mechanical bull...

"Get off...the nuclear...warhead"

	22-01-2003 04:53									#12
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Yeah I saw the previews for the Core when I went to see Nemesis.

Looks like another movie with snazzy special effects and a terrible story.

	22-01-2003 06:13									#13
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I once saw a nice low-budget film of that sort, with virtually no special effects. The film was strongly based on the plot.

There is a professor who has discovered some cave paintings suppsedly made long ago by an indian tribe. They had predicted all major events in history, but oddly enough the paintings stopped somewhere near our time and the last painting was that of an asteroid closing on earth. A couple of years before the events, his followers had made a big fuss about an asteroid that came close to earth by had eventually not hit it. Now another asteroid is coming close to earth and scientists predict it won't hit either. The guy' s followers decide that, since nobody will listen to them, they have to take matters on their own hands and hijack a nuclear silo, taking some hostages in the process. Their plan is to use the nukes to deflect the asteroid. Alot of fun stuff happens, but the best comes at the end. The daughter of said professor is convinced that the asteroid will not hit and is asked to persuade the hijackers, but at the last moment she deciphers her father's schematics and realises that the asteroid will not cross the Earth's orbit, but that it is going to split and that the one half of it is going to crash into the moon, shattering it to pieces (or chopping a large chunk of it, I can't remeber) and THEN the debris will devastate the planet. When the asteroid actually splits, the hijacker's nukes are launched in time, the chunk misses the moon and the girl saves the day.

Or something like that...

Is Deep Impact the film where, at the end, they run up into the Appalachians to get away from a rising tidal wave and when they reach the mountaintop they turn around and see the ocean having covered all the eastern seabord?

	22-01-2003 07:06									#14
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yes that is the one. The kid was driving his bike up the hills to get away from the tidal wave.

I think it was Chris rock (or was it the daily show?) who had a bit about Morgans Freeman's character. They say they finally get a black guy as president of the U.S. and what does he do? Is partially responsible for the destruction of the eastern seaboard. . It's funnier the way they put it.

	22-01-2003 07:20									#15
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The movie I mentioned, I searched for it, but I can't find it anywhere...

I wonder if there are any non-US asteroid films made...

	22-01-2003 07:39									#16
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they're prolly the ones where the asteroid is allowed to hit the US or the ones where the US doesn't save the world....again

	22-01-2003 07:56									#17
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All my bags are packed I'm ready to go
I'm standin' here outside your door
I hate to wake you up to say goodbye
But the dawn is breakin' it's early morn
The taxi's waitin' he's blowin' his horn
Already I'm so lonesome I could die

So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you'll wait for me
Hold me like you'll never let me go
Cause I'm leavin' on a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again
Oh babe, I hate to go





Armageddon this!

	22-01-2003 10:31									#18
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great song, bad movie.

Anyway, I dont like armaggedon cause its typical hooray~ good guy saved the world everything is fine and dandy.. aww self sacrifice, how noble bull crap. And even worse, I hate that Mod squad, Triple XXX and other crappy movie theme of "in order to get the best... we get the most unprofessional like" crappy plot. You call out a team of redneck oil drillers? meh~

Deep impact is lot better in that its not exactly all so happy go lucky. And whenever you can witness characters preparing for death, its worth it. I find it facinating to see people embracing death and facing them. They really did a pretty good job of displaying different kinds of people reacting to imminent doom. In addition, I find it appealing when they can give the ambiguity of letting the audience witness something beautiful while tragedy is occuring around them. The two teenagers did ended up surviving together, and we are left to conclude its a happy ending for them, but many people died and they have lost their parents. I kinda like that. Its real.

Though movie as whole wasnt too good.

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	22-01-2003 11:45									#19
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Armageddon, grrr. Makes me want to kill Liv Tyler. All she does is cry and WTF is up with the animal crackers?

So far it looks like the bananaroid is pulling away. Doesn't say much for the other movies.

	22-01-2003 13:15									#20
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exactly my sentiments Calc II

I did love how Deep Impact showed them preparing for death. A bit more dramatic than the emotionless Armageddon (well it pretended to have emotion, but it didn't). And I like the story of the teenagers. And Tea Leoni or whatever her name was facing death was kind of cool.

That's the thing about these disaster movies recently. Most of them don't really show how these events would actually unfold. Independence Day is another one. You have billions of people dying, and yet very little emotion is showed. That movie is so horrible.

and who voted for Armageddon!