Armageddon v Deep Impact

[Tonyblack]

In 1998 two movies with a similar theme came out. The theme was a large object from space on a collision course with Earth. In both cases a team is sent into space to land on the object, drill into it and blow it to pieces before it hits the Earth and wipes out humanity.

Now Deep Impact has long been one of my favourite movies. It never ceases to move me and the special effects, acting etc. are first rate.

I watched both movies when they came out and thought it was unfair of me at the time to think Armageddon was a pile of poo compared to Deep Impact.

All these years later, I found a copy of Armageddon at a car boot sale and decided to give it a second chance.

It's still a pile of poo. I only got to 55 minutes of the DVD and switched it off.

Did you see the two movies? What do you think of them?

 

[DaveC]

I think at the time I like Deep Impact more because it's a better film but I am more likely to re-watch Armageddon more for the spectacle, then skip the talking + it had that theme song!

I have only seen each of them once, well, Armageddon maybe a bit more, its a guilty pleasure but nowhere near is awesome as some of Michael Bays other films:

2011 Transformers: Dark of the Moon : Will see in a few months.

2009 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

2007 Transformers

2005 The Island

2003 Bad Boys II

2001 Pearl Harbor

1998 Armageddon

1996 The Rock

1995 Bad Boys

 

[Sjoerd3000]

Been a while since I've seen them. I do remember Armageddon is a bit silly

It does seem that when a natural disater threatens the earth a nuclear bomb is the solution

A comet is on collision course with the earth, nuke it! (Deep Impact and Armageddon)
The core of the earth has stopped rotating, nuke it! (the core)
The sun is dying out, nuke it! (sunshine)

 

[Tonyblack]

Yeah - "This movie has been sponsered by Lockheed Martin - Nuking the world since 1945".

I suddenly feel much better about all the nuclear stockpiles around the world.

 

[Sjoerd3000]

 

[Dotsie]

I'd feel better if they actually worked on meteorites With any luck we won't see if coming.

Anyway - Armageddon, yes, pile of poo. Deep Impact good. Cried at the ending on the beach. Bad Boys, pile of poo with Will Smith (yum) in. Transformers, one medium pile of poo, one pile of poo big enough to fill the Pacific basin (do I exaggerate?).

 

[deldaisy]

I had one really really really BIG problem with Deep Impact....

There is a scene where people are pushing and shoving to get into the shelter under the mountain.... Now I know this is a movie... and they require extras.... I also know that when they do a crowd scene they place "big bouncers" around the main stars so that although it LOOKS like a frantic crowd scene the stars are buffered and safe.

In that scene there is a baby.... now I am a Mum... and I know pure terror and panic in a baby when I see it.... this baby is being held by its "mother" and it is SCREAMING!!!! That poor little tot is in the worse situation....

And then they put the disclaimer on the end of the movie saying that "No animals were harmed in the making of this movie"..... hmmmmm

I love appol... eppelip....apocol.... "end of the world" movies. LOVE big special effects. But SO over the comet V bomb ones.... give me a reasonable story at least!

 

[DaveC]

I love appol... eppelip....apocol.... "end of the world" movies.

Apocalyptic?

 

[deldaisy]

Dats it!

I always tell people I love epileptic movies.....

..."So... is that anything like ZOMBIE movies?"......

 

[Penfold]

So I take it no one wants to comment on Space Cowboys?

 

[Tonyblack]

My favourite 'end-of-the-world' movie is probably On The Beach.

 

[Quatermass]

I'm not really that fond of post-apocalyptic films per se (unless you count The Matrix trilogy), but I have read a number of books (Survivors by Terry Nation, the first three Dark Tower books, Nation by Terry Pratchett, to a degree, and I am currently a third of the way through The Stand) and watched some TV stories, too many to name at the moment...

 

[DaveC]

So I take it no one wants to comment on Space Cowboys?

Haven't seen it, don't think I want to, looks too cheesey!

 

[deldaisy]

On The Beach is brilliant..... very played down.... real.

The scene with them going all that way to find the curtain (blind?) pull setting off the signals..... !!!!

 

[Tonyblack]

On The Beach is brilliant..... very played down.... real.

The scene with them going all that way to find the curtain (blind?) pull setting off the signals..... !!!!

Have you read the book, Del? It's an Aussie classic!


Q, have you read Day of the Triffids? It's one of my favourites and no one has really done it justice on the large or small screen.

 

[deldaisy]

On The Beach is brilliant..... very played down.... real.

The scene with them going all that way to find the curtain (blind?) pull setting off the signals..... !!!!

Have you read the book, Del? It's an Aussie classic!


Q, have you read Day of the Triffids? It's one of my favourites and no one has really done it justice on the large or small screen.

Read it? I HAD it!

Yeah... how come they haven't made a remake of that.... that book, that movie... they scared the heck out of me as a kid.

Strange what you take for granted. My 23 yr old told me only a few weeks ago that she had only just read the book and booked the movie out. I naturally thought she had seen it years ago.

The group that do the Rocky HPS stage shows also show classic movies (1950 horror movies etc) every few weeks on the big screen. they are always booked out solid... and any excuse for a dress up huh? I mean how good is that... all those old movies as they were MEANT to be seen.. on the big screen! She has since DEMANDED that Christian show Day of the Triffids!

btw.... even as a KID I knew it was obvious that seawater was the killer!

 

[Tonyblack]

The sea water thing in the movie of Day of the Triffids is a big cop out. That doesn't happen at all in the book. I think they added it because horror movies and SciFi in those days usually had a positive ending.

Which was one of the reasons On The Beach was so powerful - because it doesn't.

 

[Penfold]

Read it? I HAD it!

Yeah... how come they haven't made a remake of that.... that book, that movie... they scared the heck out of me as a kid.

The BBC did a pretty good job of the remake a couple of years back with Eddie Izzard as one of the main characters (well I enjoyed anyway).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B9xPcdI__8

 

[BatrickPatrick]

Armageddon has Bruce Willis in it.

It's also the only movie with Ben Afflec in it that doesn't make me fall alseep. I don't have anything against him, I just always fall asleep for some reason...

 

[poohcarrot]

Dogma had Ben in and that was OK.

Armageddon has Liv Tyler in it.