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- Simone & George are reacting to Armageddon for the first time! Canadians React!
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What other forms of enriched flour based product would you play before the end of the world?
They were on the right track with animal crackers, but I would've used the frosted Carousel ones. But I might be so distracted by the cookies, I'd ignore the lady. Haha
Would I play?
"Out for a walk...bitch." Spike had more of a pause. Cool, a Buffy fan.
Spaghetti
Animal crackers is the onky way to go and you have 6 the monkey exclusively because monkeys are french.
Chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting. Although Im not sure how to "play" a cake. Should be interesting(?)
Btw... are yall planning on doing a M3GAN reaction vid? FUN!!!!
Bay knew what kind of film he was making. It was fun, exciting, funny, heartwarming and sad when it needed to be. On the DVD commentary, Ben Affleck said at one point he did ask Bay, "why would it be easier to train drillers to be astronauts than astronauts to drill," and he said Bay told him to "shut up."
This. A thousand times this. Lol
To be fair, all the drillers were being trained to do was drill on an asteroid - they were already experts at the task, they just had to learn to do it in a drastically different environment. And they still had a team of astronauts with them to do the harder stuff like piloting the shuttles and so forth. The astronauts knew literally nothing about oil drilling, and as Harry explains in the movie, it's much more difficult and unpredictable than it looks. So yeah, the movie strains credulity, but it does a pretty good job of justifying its own plot.
Which is the right response to such a dumb question
@@jculver1674 True, they weren't expected to do any astronaut stuff. All they needed to do was drill a hole. The real question that needed to be asked is why they were going to have 2 teams drilling at the same time. If both teams lands safely they probably don't get the hole drilled because both teams would have ran out of backup parts.
I also would have accepted the reason "because watching a montage of 'average people' going through astronaut training is infinitely more entertaining than watching astronauts go through drilling training."
Peter Stormare is a real highlight of this film, going even more ham than he usually does.
"American component, Russian component - all made in Taiwan!" Perfect line, perfect delivery!
@@7Rendar dang it you heat me to it 😂
@@aerthreepwood8021 "German Engineering in da' Haus, ja."
Lev is my spirit animal. Got a stubborn mechanical problem that won't yield to any of the "usual" solutions? Grab a wrench and pummel the absolute _hell_ out of it!
@@atraxos That is what we used to do in the US Air Force when I worked on F-15 Eagles that we didn't need fancy tool we just hit with a bigger hammer
Michael Clarke Duncan worked as a ditch digger for a gas company in Chicago before moving to LA to try and get into acting. He was mainly stuck playing bodyguard type extras, while working as a bodyguard and security to make ends meet. After several years he got his big break in Armageddon. He called his old friends from his ditch digging days to tell them the good news and they all laughed at him, assuming he was making it up. Bruce Willis got on the line, chastised them for being jerks and then complimented Duncan's performance and work ethic. The two went on to do several films together, and Willis even helped Duncan get the role in the Green Mile that would see him nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
It’s sad what happened to Bruce Willis. He was such a great actor
Only movie he did with Michael Bay , he refused to work with him again .
Yeah, it's so sad he died while filming this. They had to clone him so they could make more movies.
@@eatsmylifeYT he’s not dead
@@frozengamer3030 Yes, he is. Ask All-in Wonder.
@@eatsmylifeYT what
I saw this in Taiwan when it first came out; the audience reading the subtitles broke into laughter over the line about "American, Russian, all made in Taiwan" before the English line was spoken.
Also, this movie is used as a training film by NASA on how many mistakes in astronomy and space travel you can find.
That is one of my favorite lines of all time!
I heard that NASA training thing isn't true. I heard a NASA employee confirmed that it's just a rumor.
Keith David is a legend, even outside of Admiral Anderson. I love when he pops up in pretty much anything he does.
I always see him as Sgt.Foley in MW2
He's always had one of those awesome voices! I could just listen to him read a dictionary.
I totally forgot that this is where I knew Keith David from. My whole time playing Mass Effect, it kept bugging me where I’d heard Andersen’s voice before.
He also did the legendary "another man's fries" speech in "Men at Work" 😁
@@dodolurker lol yes that's where I first saw him, though he gets a lot of bonus points in gaming for Saint's Row.
Parallel movie for Armageddon is "Deep Impact". Came out the same year, but different feeling, more realistic. Definitely worth a watch. Consider reacting!
I see another channel reacted to both movies in one video.
the 90s was a weird time with its parallel disaster movies. in retrospect there weren't THAT many of them, but there also wasn't a whole lot of blockbusters as we have now, either.
The part that gets me is at the end, when the little boy rushes out to greet Chick. Gets me in the feels. He wasn't expecting anyone, and....
Yeah his whole storyline hits me hard everytime.
Same here.
They should have ha Buscemi's loan shark run out to meet him...🤣
@@Cheepchipsable lol in slow motion
Same here. About Chik and his son.
“What’s the space version of cabin fever?”
**me, so happy knowing the movie will tell them in one of the greatest cheesy lines of all time**
my wife and I just giggle every time that scene comes up!
space madness
space dementia is the proper term since then.
@@lionhead123 Right up there with space herpes...a symptom being when you notice the hamsters used in the experiments seem to have exploded from the rectum outward...
Poor Bruce Willis. That man is a true legend. So sad whats happening to him.
Space Dementia
Age, like all of us
@@TheLinkku77 Not everyone has to suffer through dementia though.
True. Thats why we have to keep his legacy alive. I remember Bruce on a tv show called Moonlighting back in the day. Ahh... the good ol days....
Yeah, it's tragic.
“Space really hates landmarks” 🤣🤣🤣 excellent
I know! movies always destroying statue of liberty and Paris in particular!
Fun Fact: NASA shows this movie during their management training program. New managers are given the task of trying to spot as many errors as possible. At least one hundred sixty-eight have been found.
The whole movie is an error, there are no parts of it that resemble reality. If NASA is using a fictional movie in a training programme the budget cuts have gone too far
@@4Kandlez the rocket launch is real. They recorded a real resupply take off mission for the space station at the time.
Do yourself a favor and watch it with Ben Affleck's DVD commentary.
You won't regret it.
My favorite fun fact is Bay required Affleck to get new teeth. He thought Affleck had baby teeth
Fun fact: a NASA employee has stated that this isn't true. That they don't use this film for training purposes, that it's just a rumor.
In a world where oil drillers can learn to be astronauts in 2 weeks, but astronauts can't learn how to drill in 8 months.
And sound carries in space, grass grows on an asteroid and scientists can't work that a single nuke won't split an asteroid.
A proper popcorn movie… disengage brain and enjoy 😋
Yeah, but the, astronauts don’t know jack about drillin’!
They didn't need to learn what astronauts learn, they had astronauts to do that stuff on each shuttle. The important part was if something goes wrong whilst drilling, they needed experienced people who knew what to do, or how to get round a problem. It makes total sense when you actually think about it. The astronaut bit was the easy bit, the drilling was the important part.
@@daveaglasgowAgreed....its a bit silly but the movie was pure popcorn stuff but what you said makes sense. If something goes wrong they wont be able to fix it
Ben Affleck's commentary on the DVD release is one of the funniest things I've ever heard. He just talks shit about the movie the whole time and does hilarious impressions. His commentary on the scene where Willis is looking over the drill and saying he needs his team. "I need my guys" "Why?" "Because they're the B E S T"
Affleck did an impression of Billy Bob Thorton's Sling blade character. "I reckon we drill" in the voice. It was soo funny
Did he also mention Bay made him get new teeth for the film.. Bay thought Afflecks real teeth were too small and make him get all new teeth
The dog attacking the rubber Godzilla's is because a Godzilla film came out the same summer as this I believe.
Directed by none other than Michael Bay's twin rival, Roland Emmerich.
The guy riding the nuke was actually mimicking the scene from the movie "Dr. Strangelove", where the cowboy happens to be launched with a nuke within his legs.
And perhaps the scene in "Dr. Strangelove" was mimicking Baron von Münchhausen and his ritt on a cannon ball?
Lol you realize he literally explains that in the movie, right?
Liv Tyler, daughter of Aerosmith singer Steve Tyler, was actually talking to her dad in the scene from space. They cut in Bruce Willis' face on the screens, but when filming the scene Liv was seeing and talking to her dad. They wanted real emotions for that scene. Also, the official music video for the song I Dont Want To Miss A Thing shows Aerosmith performing with military musicians. I believe Aerosmith was the first rock band to perform with the military.
Did he tell her how to walk this way ?
In the DVD commentary Steve recalls how the shooting of Liv's scene was also the deciding factor where he agreed to supply the music for the movie, too.
Incorrect. The band Leningrad Cowboys (a Finnish rock band) performed and even toured with the (Russian) Red Army Choir years before the film Armageddon…and I’m sure many other rock bands have played with military choirs or bands before.
The song "I dont want to miss a thing " was written with Celine Dion as the singer in mind.
And one wonder how such a man made such a stunningly beautiful daughter😳
7:59 Ben Affleck asked Michael Bay that same question. Michael Bays answer: "Shut the f*ck up" 🤣🤣
Simone just became my new favorite person. Quoting Spike from Buffy, "Out for a walk.."
I Love that Grace had so many dads to look out for her. 3 of them died, but she still had 3 left. Even the loan shark came to her wedding! The gratefulness was real!!
"Oh yeah we're not supposed to take it seriously"... *Simone sobs uncontrollably*
According to Wikipedia, "space dementia" is a "fictional mental disorder" mentioned in five shows/movies, including Armageddon, The Outer Limits, and Ren and Stimpy.
To answer George's question, yes that actor Keith David has done a lot of VO work, including MASS EFFECT. He's one of my favorites since he also did voices on GARGOYLES (my favorite animated series) and PRINCESS MONONOKE.
This reaction became a million times more enjoyable at the revelation that Simone is a Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan.
Spike is never at a loss for words. Even 5 of them :))
I have that buffy shirt so I'm beyond happy right now. Simone, you rock!
She mentioned Buffy in other videos
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Yes, this is indeed one of my all-time favorite "grab some popcorn & turn off your brain" flicks. Also _sounds_ incredible on a good home audio setup.
Buscemi riding the nuclear warhead was a nod to Dr. Strangelove
The counterpart to this film is Deep Impact that came out around the same time. It`s more drama less action-comedy than Armageddon and so the science is supposed to be more believable.
When I saw this in theatres, the second they opened the door to the ISS, the power went out.
It took the audience a minute to realize it wasn’t part of the movie. Lol!
"I asked Michael, why it was easier to train oil drillers to become astronauts than to train astronauts to become oil drillers. He told me to shut-shut the f*ck up"
- Ben Affleck
Ben Affleck said in the DVD commentaries that he also didnt get how training drillers to be astronauts is easier than training astronauts to be drillers.
and Michael Bay just told him to "shut the f up, it's a real plan" apparently
the audio commentary of this movie with ben affleck is hilarious, he critiques the movie like you do regarding training astronauts to drill and vice versa. a must watch along and listen
I havent seen anybody from the reaction community react to Deep Impact, which is a more serious, realistic and dramatic take on the same scenario. You should consider doing it.
Might as well wrap up the triad with Don't Look Up, the jaded 20-years-later take on the same concept.
I think it was released 6 months previous to Armageddon? Something like that, is one of those twin movies thing.
Jen Murray and her sister Tara did a reaction to both of the asteroid movies.
Jason Isaacs is a chameleon actor, so many great diverse roles: the firecracker scientist in this, Lucius Malfoy in the Potter Series, the mean British Colonel in the Patriot, many other roles. he always looks so different in each of the different roles.
I like him in Soldier and in Event Horizon, alongside the guy who played Alfred in the Gotham TV series.
Let's not forget Admiral Zhao and the Grand Inquisitor.
As Fielad Marshall Zhukov in the death of Stalin. Whats a war hero need to do to get some lubrication
As someone who works on oil and gas platforms, the shotgun scene always makes me cringe.
Pretty sure it was bird shot, but still. Discharging any firearm on a multi-billion dollar, corporately owned, gigantic machine that weighs more than an aircraft carrier, designed specifically to wrench flammable materials out of the ground - is really fucking stupid.
Every LotR fan knows EXACTLY what Simone means by 'water horses' lol. Jason Isaacs (Lucius Malfoy) was also in this, as was the guy who played John Coffee in The Green Mile. If you haven't reacted to that one yet, it's a must.
Also, even before she said what she did about dads and daughters I was like, 'oh shit, Simone is going to cry!' But she held it together better than expected 😉💖
Arwen summoning "Horse Water" is definitely an Iconic scene. Jason Isaacs was also Colonel Tavington in The Patriot. Rest In Peace Michael Clarke Duncan He was a phenomenal actor that we lost WAY too soon. I especially liked him in the TV series The Finder.
The hired grear actors for this movie to deliver intense emotions and dialogue. Will Paton is the actor who said " how do we turn it off" is soo underated actor. Thats why i like this film. The acting is very very good for an action sci fi movie
Ok, I haven’t watched the reaction yet but just wanted to say it was so cool to see you both helping out at the 2023 Poppie awards!! I love Cassie and Carly, and your presentation was stellar!!
Oh how I love this film! Made the rookie mistake of watching it for the 1st time whilst heavily pregnant and ridiculously hormonal. You'd think i would have learnt my lesson after doing the exact same thing with Titanic. Alas, no. The heartbreak was real & the sobs were ugly 🤣
And yeah, the general in this movie is Keith David, who has voiced countless animated series and video games. He was Goliath in Gargoyles, Spawn, The Arbiter in Halo, and a million other things. He has one of the most iconic voices of all time.
To me, this was always a romance and a father daughter movie first, and a space/end of the world movie second. As a little kid, the wedding scene during the credits was always my favorite part, and I would get so upset when it was playing on TV and they would fast forward through it 😢
There should be a law preventing TV channels from doing all kinds of things to speed through the end credits. For years they didn't even show the wedding coda at all.
You guys were the standout guest presenters at the Poppies this year!
80's and 90's action movies require 1 thing from viewers... suspend logic. These movies were popcorn fun movies, you just have to go into them knowing the science is wrong, the situation is overblown and there will be really cheesy moments. That' why they were great.
1:35 "If you want him, Come and claim him"
I had the honor of directing the evening local news when we had a "secret special guest" that turned out to be the legend Keith David. Didn't get to meet him, the boss wouldn't allow it, but it was neat getting to share a studio with him and direct the show. :D
That scene of Harry saying goodbye to Grace, great acting by Bruce.
I remember leaving the theater and asking the usher, "Does everyone cry?" He just nodded and went, "Yup."
In my opinion, that's the very definition of a great movie!
Johnathan, I loved your comment ABOVE ALL. THANK YOU. 😊
I'm occasionally asked "What's the worst science-violating movie ever". My answer was Disney’s "The Black Hole" (1979) - until “Armageddon" (1998) came along, which violated more laws of physics (per minute) than any other film in the universe.
~Neil deGrasse Tyson
“The override … has been overwritten.” Classic. Definitely one of those “serious” lines that are hilarious, voiced by Steven Ford, son of US President Gerald Ford-whose acted in a bunch of movies, including Transformers.
The scenes with Chet and his son were some of the most difficult to watch for me. Especially when I lived out of state for work for a year or more.
I missed my son so much, and when I was finally able to move back home, he was much older, taller and things between us were difficult, especially because of his mother's BS.
You must have been away a lot longer than a year if he was much older and taller, no wonder your wife was pissed
This one and Deep Impact are my favourite films in this genre. They have a special place in my heart, so I am super excited to see your reaction to it!
Two asteroid movie in same year May 1998 , Deep Impact , with Morgan Freeman , Armageddon was end of June .
Deep Impact is more accurate in science , inspiration for these movies was Shoemaker-Levy comet that hit Jupiter in 1994 , and to The Hammer of God , Arthur C. Clarke novel , plot "asteroid is going hit earth , need to stop it" , Spielberg had right to that , both movies are enough different that no need to mention that book .
@@pete_lind Cool, thanks for the info!
I love them both. Deep Impact you have Frodo and in Armageddon you get Arwen. These two are definately in my top 10 Disaster films with Day After Tomorrow, 2012, Independence Day, Twister and Dante´s Peak. Lot´s of fun to see huge explosions and landmarks getting Oblirated. Just leave it to Michael Bay and Rolland Emmerich. No matter how stupid the plot, film is very, very likely really good popcorn entertainment.
@@pete_lind In my own personal headcanon, both films were greenlit when the world watched Shoemaker-Levy 9 smack into Jupiter in July of '94.
Personally I like Deep Impact more. Armageddon overshadowed Deep Impact though. Armageddon is the typical hollywood american hero movie that goes a bit over the top. It's still fun to watch, but as it was said in the reaction, you shouldn't take it too serious.
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Hey George, as to your inquiry of whether it’s easy to train astronauts to drill, I present to you this amazing exchange from Ben Affleck on the Armageddon commentary.
"I asked Michael Bay why it was easier to train oil drillers to become astronauts than it was to train astronauts to become oil drillers, and he told me to shut the fuck up," Affleck said in the commentary.
The actor, Stanley Anderson, who plays the President in this movie, also played the President in Bay's earlier movie _The Rock._ I guess that means they are in the same film universe?
Glad you had fun with this one! I’ll also throw the Deep Impact suggestion out there. DI is the Contact to Armageddon’s Independence Day (in my opinion)
Yeah, DI is a real thinking man's movie 😂
"OUT FOR A WALK BI**H." I love that reference from Buffy.
that whole scene at the end when he's talking to his daughter on cam always gets me no matter how many times i've seen the movie
"the horse water" XD she is the best
😂
This is Michael Bay's 3rd feature film. Definitely check out his first two: Bad Boys (1995) & The Rock (1996).
The Cosmonaut (Peter Stormare), was actually the uncle that we see at the beginning of the Second John Wick movie. Michael Nyqvist was the Dad in the first movie (May he Rest In Peace).
George looked so proud after that raw-dog comment xD
Good work by Billy Bob Thornton, but I kept imagining him doing his lines as Karl Childers in Sling Blade. Now, that's a movie George and Simone should do a reaction on!
Mmmhmmm
Another great reaction! Loved your presentation for The Poppies as well
Most younger people don't realize that in the same year Godzilla was released. In Armageddon you see the dog in the beginning of the movie tearing up all the Godzilla toys. A little dig from Michael Bay
what I love in this movie is the good aim all the meteors have, they all go straight for the cities, no wasted effort for unimportant places on earth.
Great Buffy reference, Simone!!
Armageddon is one of Michael Bays classics for me it's the ultimate feel good epic destruction awesome disaster movie and probably the only fun space movie we'll ever see Michael Bay make I doubt he'll ever make a movie like this again also I love Steve Buscemi in this movie one of his most Iconic hilarious roles especially towards the end when he goes insane 😅
"I know that voice." Keith David. They Live. Carpenter's The Thing. And many more.
The training astronauts to drill vs training drillers to be astronauts argument has come up many time with this movie, but the answer it is easier to train the drillers. It would take months if not years to properly train people to drill. You don't just need to know how to operate the machinery, you need to know where to do it and what to do when something goes wrong. I ran a small CNC machine making relay rods for vehicles and it was a month before I was comfortable running it by myself and I was still learning how to troubleshoot it 4 years later. There are any number of things you can't train for because you have to learn as they occur and they won't occur often. An entire drill team would be much more complicated. On the other hand, they were not teaching the drillers how to be astronauts. That would include flying and navigating the ship, making repairs to the ship and to satellite and station repairs and any number of other things that would take year. All they were teaching these guys to do is to do what they already knew how to do in a low gravity environment. That would take much less time. That is why they had to send some astronauts with them, to do all the astronaut things they didn't have time to teach.
You all should watch The Rock
That quote by Colonel Sharpe at the end when he salutes Liv Tyler is probably the greatest quote in the history of movies ever
No, it's not. The greatest quote ever is "cowabunga!"
@@eatsmylifeYT False
@@heatison11 No.
@@eatsmylifeYTyes
@@heatison11 Of course, not.
OMG a Buffy reference, and a Spike line too!!! Ok I now worship this channel. ❤
The narrator at the beginning was Charlton Heston by the way
Loved the Buffy reference.
Its so sad that bruce now has demetia. he could have been cast more great movies! I miss him
Now you guys have to watch Deep Impact for comparison. I think it came out a few months before Armageddon, but it seems like one of those cases where someone in Hollywood had an idea that they shopped around to multiple studios, and two of them took the idea and put their own spin on it. So the premise is similar to Armageddon, yet the approach and the vibe is quite different. It plays things much more straight and lacks the macho bravura and goofy flourishes of Michael Bay.
The George Pal movie "When Workds Collide" did the same thing in the 1950s except that the Earth was destroyed.
Steve Buscemi sitting on a bomb is a nod to Stanley Kubrick's "DR. STRANGELOVE, OR HOW I STOPPED WORRYING AND LEARNED TO LOVE THE BOMB", where Slim Pickens falls out of a B-52 sitting on a nuclear bomb, riding it like a rodeo cowboy and yelling a final "yee-haw" to mankind.
Great reaction - now you need to see Deep Impact - the "other" space junk hiting the Earth movie. This was more action/adventure while Deep Impact is more drama, both good, but different.
George, another film on the poll, Deep Impact, is a more realistic, more scientific take on the same situation. Armageddon is fun but far too cartoonish.
Agreed! If you know much about space science… at all, this one makes suspending disbelief a bit hard. But it’s still fun! Deep Impact is more realistic scientifically, socially, geopolitically, etc. Also, Morgan Freeman haha.
All I know about this movie is that the next time I need to mine in space, I’ll definitely train miners to be astronauts as opposed to the other way around 😂
I have the opening sequence saved as a video clip and watch it often, because that deep, growly, unmistakable Charlton Heston narration (Hestonation?) sends shivers down my spine. "It happened before. It WILL happen again. It's just a question of when."
Its because of this movie that Bruce Willis spoke on Michael Clark Duncan's behalf to get him the John Coffey role in the Green Mile.
Every time she’s going to want to break up with him: “hey, your dad died so we could be together, don’t waste his sacrifice”
I love how, on Earth, the team got rid of all the unnecessary equipment on the vehicles, except the miniguns
Liv Tyler is Steven Tyler's daughter (Aerosmith), which is why there are Aerosmith songs in the movie.
Please do more Bruce Willis movies like Tears of the Sun and the Red movies. Steve Buscemi is always amazing. After 911, he returned to his former firehouse and worked the clean up with them.
Steve Buscemi is the real deal. Love that dude. Wish this channel would do a Buscemi series of reactions! He’s done so many random movies lol
I love this movie. its just stupid fun, emotional and epic. Also the cast slaps hard
You don't need to train the drillers to be astronauts. You just need to train them to survive the trip, and set the drilling equipment up while in suits. They're not flying the ships, they're not doing the astronomy and math to arrive there safely, or leave safely.
24:40 That is Keith David. And the number one place I always go to is that he is the voice of Spawn, from the 1997 HBO animated series. That and he was in There's Something About Mary and a bunch of other stuff. He's an amazing actor and has one of those great iconic voices.
Michael Bay is always extra and I love it!
And to think, the best thing he ever produced was a "Got Milk?" Commercial.
I loved this movie as a kid and will *always* cry at the scene with Bruce and Liv’s video call at the end.. especially now with what he’s experiencing - miss him 🫂
The parallel movie to this is called Deep Impact. Bruce Willis isn't in it, but Robert Duvall is & Morgan Freeman is the President.
As a second note, I live close enough to the NASA launch center here in Florida I can watch launches from my back porch. They are magnificent. Especially night launches.
We named our daughter Grace (Gracie) because of this movie. She’s 6 now and she even looks like a 6 year old Liv Tyler (I’m Asian and my wife is white). I still call her “Baby Gracie”. My wife and I loved this movie when it came out in our High School days.
Sorry but there is only one Liv😌
Smarten up lol, the fact u name someone after this corny movie is kinda weird.
Kudos for Buffy reference!
And it is easier to train profesional drillers to be an austronauts, than to train astrounauts to drill.
"American components, Russian components, ALL MADE IN TAIWAN!" 😝 Lev is so fun.
This movie caused a bunch of people to ask the question, "Wouldn't it be easier to teach astronauts to be oil drillers than oil drillers to be astronauts?"
Turns out the answer is "No, its not." These guys aren't being trained to be astronauts, they're training to be mission specialists. Their astronaut training is only sufficient to keep them from dying in space. Deep core oil drilling -- despite the blue-collar nature of the people involved -- is a very technical, very precise, very scientific process that takes years to become proficient in, and most oil drillers have advanced degrees. Rock Hound having two PhDs is not, in fact, unusual at all among oil drillers. The least educated member of an oil drill team will have *only* a Masters in Petroleum Engineering.
This movie was hugh in Alberta. Many guys were so pleased to see oil workers saving the planet. Representaion maters.
Neil Tyson said this movie was made with an "entirely different set of laws of physics."
@10:30 mark, the spikey things on the ground are foam sound insulation designed to suppress and absorb sound. It’s used here to simulate the lack of sound in space.
Yes, they do use handheld models to demonstrate things. Aircraft pilots do the same thing.
Did you catch the fact that when Liv Tyler and Ben Affleck are playing with the animal cookie, in the background the song, "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" was playing. Being sung by her real-life father.