Armageddon had Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler and an Aerosmith theme tune and always felt like the bigger blockbuster, but Deep Impact has such an amazing cast, it doesn't pull its punches, and Tea Leoni saying "Daddy..." as the tsunami hits has its own place in my memory for life.
That's why I like Deep Impact more. Big booms are always good. But this movie had the big booms and characters you actually cared about. And that last line of Leoni's... chills, every time.
To me, *Armageddon* feels like the "Con Air" of disaster movies...which is a good thing! But in comparison, *Deep Impact* feels like the "The Godfather" of disaster films.
Armageddon was a cartoon. Deep Impact took the plot seriously. That's why the latter couldn't help but be better. I liked the way Leo, a backyard astronomer, was the first to find the comet, and the way Jenny, a junior-level, Woodward-Bernstein type reporter, first broke the story.
When you think about it it's actually Mr Perry the astronomy teacher that finds it for he picks it out and asks Leo the name of it and Leo obviously doesn't know because of what it is. Mr Perry should be pissed that it wasn't his name on there along with Wolf.
Audiences usually want the spectacle, but Deep Impact puts that in the backseat. It's very rare for a disaster movie to focus on being a character drama first, and that's what makes this movie special.
Agreed, great movie. By the way, in the same year, the wonderful Canadian movie "Last Night" also focused on the human element of the last 6 hours of Earth. In fact, its free to watch on UA-cam. Also there are no attempts to save the world - everyone has accepted their fate.
The bit where Robert Duvall says he’s coming home to the picture of his wife was so romantic; you get the impression that he’s pretty content to die anyway & he’s just waiting for a good reason to do so. He clearly believes that there’s an afterlife where he gets to be with Mary again ❤
But, yet remembers the other's intricacies like when Carly said to Cassie NOT to watch the part where the blind guy dove into the hole to retrieve the bit because she knew she was claustrophobic.
The score by James Horner in this movie is a HUGE part of why its such an emotional rollercoaster. He tapped into the humanity of the situation rather than focusing on the action and terror. This is why hes one of the greatest to ever do it
Horner's score elevates this movie in dramatic fashion. "Emotional rollercoaster", you're spot on. He's on the short list of the greatest movie composers.
I can't disagree with that! The only thing that bothers me in Horner's scores a bit is his tendency to use similar melodic or instrumental mannerisms pretty shamelessly over and over. Especially his so-called "danger jingle": ua-cam.com/video/V8KxvE6PLKs/v-deo.html
@@jcp1984againthat’s so funny one of my random core life memories i have is sitting in a theatre watching Avatar 09 for the first time and hearing that little lick in the music after the tree fell, and thinking “ooo i like that sound hope they do it again.” Little did i know versions of it had been done for decades lol. i could tell you where my seat was, that moment was so vivid for me
I originally saw this movie as part of a friend's birthday celebration in 1998. It was supposed to be a movie and then to the bar for drinks. However once we got to the bar the mood was so sombre all we wanted to do was call our Mums and tell them we loved them. Lol 😂
Ive always considered this to be a deeply thoughtful science fiction movie...beautifully conceived...impeccably acted..with a memorably simple thematic sound track that stays with you long after the film is over...deserves to be better publicised..a gem
@terencecolings486 - true, expecially considering ELE. Good approach there. For example, we know exactly what has happened 12K years ago, that most likley wiped out pretty much the whole planet (after all, this is why it is called ELE, extinction for most of us, plants, animals, whole ecosystems, humans and so on). The astronomical data is out there. And it pretty much wiped out whatever civilization that was there at that time (global or not), and plenty of data suggest that we had a high level civilization back then. In a way after that, we (as a civilization) had to start from s scratch. Go back to the "stone age". And that, the rise of civilization is not like a simple curve going just up all the time, but more like a weave (due to the external astronomical events). And that is not even going into legends/myths of the time before the "Flood", the first King after the Flood who could actually read the writing from before, old myths from Babylonia, Akkad, Epic of Atrahasis, and so on, Sumer and other around the world, and that would include Golden Age, the age of "gods" and myths regarding that... So yeah, most likely we have been wiped out few times before. Kind of: civilization as we know would have been gone (or is gone at this point), wiped out completely, but humans/humanity as such would survive here and there, and some of that can be cyclical type of event too (and that is actually scary part). Note: more info about paleolitic extinction - from the official sources can be found by reading something like: "Paleolitic Extinction and the Taurid Complex", by W.M Napier from Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology, Cardiff University (2010). But there is plenty of more data out there. Note that this is pretty much a scientific abstract, hence quite "academic" to read.
So true, this movie got nothing but depth and subtility. Yet to this day it's still often wrongly overlooked as an over the top blockbuster, just a rip off Armageddon (which I like as well for completely diferent reasons, just a very fun ride). But you said it very well, Deep Impact does stay with you long after the credits. I saw it in theater, it stayed with me for 25 years and I still rewatch it with pleasure and emotions every now and then.
The people saying goodbye to their families and loved ones by far make this the hardest disaster movie to watch, IMO. It really drives home the humanity of it. I don't think any other disaster movie really catches that aspect of it, and that makes all of them easier to watch.
The problem in this movie is that its incredibly forced. At the end she goes back to her dad and commits suicide when she didnt even need too, and then her dad just accepts that his daughter has decided to kill herself, as though its a good thing. A real father would be angry.
In the face of their own death and not being able to do anything about it, due to being unable to act or refusing to act to save themselves and have time to say goodbye like that always gets me, I blabber like a baby
@@BasketCase-rr7tx You very much missed the point. She was making up for her utter lack of restraint for the year leading up to that, where she had put herself and her career ahead of everything and everyone. She finally became fully human, and she redeemed herself by making that ultimate sacrifice to save a friend and a child. There was only so much room on the chopper, so she couldn't be on it if she gave up her seat to her friend and her daughter. And what would be the point of being angry? You are going to waste the last hour you will ever have with your daughter arguing?
@@deanroddey2881 So she made up for everything by killing herself and her dad was happy about that... and that makes sense to you? WTF? Do you have kids?
Hey, I'm in this one! In the late 90's, I did some background work for a couple of years, and this was one of the most fun ones I did. It was the going to the caves scene, where there was the big crowd. I got to see Elijah Wood act, since we kept doing the scene over and over. He was so focused, it was cool to see. Great movie, too. I really love how it came out. :)
That’s great! I was an extra on Howard the Duck (which was a blast despite its being a colossal failure) and Summer of Sam (not so fun), neither of which I expect will show up on this channel…
@@jdj830 Fun, wasn't it? I kinda miss it, even though it was so boring most of the time. Getting paid for doing almost nothing all day was pretty sweet! (Even if it was minimum wage.)
This is probably my favorite disaster movie. Tea Leoni is amazing and it was her part in this movie that made my wife and I want to watch Madam Secretary. Morgan Freeman was outstanding as usual and I would have voted him for president in a heartbeat. Hard to talk about his movie without comparing it to Armageddon. While I enjoyed Armageddon with its action and big name starts, Deep Impact is still my favorite.
Well they came out not to far apart, probably driven by the development of the other film. It's not uncommon for scripts to be passed abound before they are picked up, then someone basically steals the synopsis after reading the original and develops a film with the same theme. Everyone knows about the others film and then one group tries to release their film first to appear "original"
Armageddon was witty and action packed and had a very big budget but you never got that emotionally involved that you get in this movie. This is more plausible and true to reality and that is the big reason this is the better of those two movies. Both had great casts for the purpose of the movie but in my opinion Deep Impact wins in the end. A fantastic movie that have it all and makes you think!
I LOVE this movie! I still cry at the same places that you two did and I’m a 66 year old man. There are so many scenes that bring tears. Great reaction from you two.
Thanks, Cassie. NO ONE is reacting to this. There have been one or two the last few years...that's it. This movie touches my heart every time I see it, and that's the type of movie I like to see. But the bonus is now that I get to see you and Carly watch it, which is even better. Kudos, guys!! :)
I saw this film in theaters when it came out and was always annoyed that it got overshadowed by the more 'spectacular' Armageddon. This film works on so many more levels, has more nuance.... is such a richer experience. Thanks for watching this and maybe intriguing others into giving it a watch. It's a great film in the classic Hollywood sense in so many ways. (And yeah - I would vote for President Morgan Freeman in a heartbeat!) Thanks for watching this & giving it some visibility. I've always felt is was a forgotten/underrated gem.
I love that scene. As much as he loves his son, and would obviously prefer to keep him safe, he doesn't try to talk him out of going. Because he is a family man himself, and knows his son needs to do what he can to save the person he loves. You're absolutely correct. His son grew up right in front of him. ❤
@@spanishprisoner I also prefer Armageddon. The astronauts in this one have almost no backstory except Robert Duvall's character. They spend a bunch of time with Elijah but I never really care if he lives or not. Most of the time is with the media but it is impossible to think that they have lives worth believing in because they are just media. I WANT Harry Stamper to live and am proud that he helps his daughter, Chick to see his little boy, the Russian Lev to finally get home and Bear to ride his Harley again. And I can't quote a singe line from this but Armageddon are full of great ones. Finally, the world won with Armageddon while in Deep Impact, USA was the place most affected by the one that hit. That doesn't seem like awin.
But man that ending with the team on their way to sacrifice themselves to save the planet. My feels! Especially as the leader’s wife and baby son are coming in the last second and he can’t see them in the screen cause his sight gone. It just hits you hard.
I don't think Cassie and Carly could have watched this 2 years ago. It's taken time pushing boundaries and confidence. This is an emotional movie and to see they came out of it feeling they'd been a part of the world was just perfect.
Rightly so! I suggested another 5 Emmy Awarded made-for-TV movie "Brian's Song" (James Caan, Billy Dee Williams - 1971): ua-cam.com/video/G4SF3h9tvtk/v-deo.html to another channel, because he coaches football. He never heard of it, and by the end, he and his wife were both crying. Every time I hear that theme song, it gets me too. Great friendship movie.
Of all the "disaster films" ever made, this is the one with the biggest emotional impact. The script does such a nice job of making you love the characters and feel their pain. There was a race between this and Armageddon to get into the theaters first, and I believe Armageddon was a bigger money maker, but for me there's no contest - this is easily the better movie.
The Director of this movie, Mimi Leder, was a top-tier director on the TV show "ER" during it's early seasons and earned great acclaim and won an Emmy. Her first theatrical movie was "The Peacemaker" with George Clooney and Nicole Kidman. After that, came "Deep Impact." It was released the same year as "Armageddon", also about an asteroid hitting earth, and "Deep Impact" was overshadowed by it, despite, in my opinion, being the far superior movie. It always bothered me that she never got another shot at directing a big budget action-adventure movie after this. It's very clear from "The Peacemaker" and especially "Deep Impact" that she possessed a rare skill to make tense, well constructed action while balancing it with great character work. Great reaction!
I was so impressed by both Peacemaker and Deep Impact, I thought she would become a much better name in Cinema. I remember she did "Pay if Forward" and it bombed and she seemed to disappear afterwards. What I liked is that she balanced so well the action in her movies with genuine emotion. Peacemaker was in my opinion a prototype to the Bourne movies and the action movies that will come afterwards with the way the action scenes were shot, very raw.
I’d never seen this movie before but I immediately recognized Ron Eldard (the blind one) from “ER”! He played Shep, who dated Carol Hathaway for a time. Always liked the cut of his jib, and wished a bigger career for him. Good movie!
@@Divamarja_CA He's a great actor and has done a lot of solid work. I especially liked him in "Super 8", which if you haven't seen it, is essentially the movie version of "Stranger Things". Highly recommend.
The effects and the animation of the tidal wave are pretty accurate. And that's the small piece of the comet. The big one hitting in western Canada would be so much worse and would probably set off the Yellowstone caldera just to add a little excitement to the otherwise dull two year long, totally black night. For a more detailed story read "Lucifer's Hammer" by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
What got my attention in "Deep Impact" (1998) was Morgan Freeman as "President Tom Beck." What and how he said to a nation/world threatened by a nearly unstoppable natural disaster was just right. Another "short-but-memorable-screen-time" role. The "Ellie/E.L.E." thing showed that the End Of The World could happen when we least expect it.
This movie scares me more then any horror movie ever could. The fact that its a very strong possibility of this happening in real time is frightening. The moon comes out every night as a reminder of just how fortunate we have been thus far but I fear sooner or later our luck gonna run out.
100% chance this will absolutely happen again one day. It's not if, it's when. We just might not be here to see it. But you are correct. This is definitely more scary than any horror movie.
It is much more likely though to not getting hit by a big one but rather by a much smaller body devastating just a city. This might happen once in a couple of hundred years statistically.
When you think about it, we're here because the dinosaurs luck ran out. Here's another little thought, objects bigger than the dinosaur killer, far larger, are out in the oort cloud. And we have no idea of what goes on out there. That's a long fall, out of the cloud.
That scene of Jenny reconciling with her father has been burned into my memory for the rest of my life. Such an amazing movie. I own both the VHS and Blu-Ray version. (Yes, I have BOTH a VHS and Blu-Ray player.)
One of my favorite disaster movies. Just the humanity of the story. I LIKE that it focuses on many characters. It shows that something like this would affect everyone, not just a select few. Love your reactions, Cassie & Carly. ❤❤
when they drive off on the motorbike and the mom breaks down, that's just an emotional kick in the balls. I'm sure both parents had kinda figured at that point they weren't going to outrun the wave in traffic and had made peace with it and then suddenly in the space of a few seconds they realize their children can live and they have to say goodbye to them both. it's a stacked cast, but it wasn't at the time. Duvall and Freeman were the only real big names. This was pre-LOTR and pre-MCU and pre-Mandalorian, so Elijah and Jon weren't big names. Pretty sure Favreau's biggest thing at that point was Swingers (which you really need to watch).
Elijah Wood wasn’t yet a huge name, but he was an experienced actor, so he was a solid get. He had a great reputation in Hollywood as an extremely professional child actor, and he was mid-way through his teen film phase, after The Ice Storm and before The Faculty. (I love how he burnished that reputation-he stepped in at the last minute for the 1994 Oscars when Kit Culkin started throwing a diva fit that Macaulay had to get more than the scale pay all of the presenters got. The producers called EW’s mom/manager, he nailed the line reading on stage, and the story got around Hollywood in less than 12 hours of the ceremony.) Getting cast as Frodo at the age of 18 was the perfect timing to move him from teen actor to adult actor. When I saw the cast list for LOTR, my first reaction to his name as Frodo was, “Isn’t that the kid from Deep Impact?” This was really the only film of his I had seen at that point. It was only after seeing FOTR that I started obsessively watching all of the cast members’ previous films. (Which is how I discovered great Viggo performances like Lucifer in The Prophecy, but that’s another post…)
Oh, and also, the other two big names here are Omar Sharif and Vanessa Redgrave as Tea Leoni’s character’s parents. Those two lent big time cred to the film.
We get so involved in the story that we don't realize how big Jenny's sacrifice was: she could have taken the helicopter all the way to the caves and survived even the second impact, but she traded the rest of her life just to reconcile with her father in life and nothing more (plus saving beth and her kid)
Half of the natural disaster movies are small scale (Volcano, Dante's Peak) and the other half are world ending (Armageddon, The Core). However, Deep Impact is definitely the best of them all. The casting, the acting, the not so happy ending. These elements make this movie more realistic and enjoyable. Great reaction and I hope you start a creature feature series soon. I recommend The Relic, Nope, Jeeper Creepers, Attack The Block, Mimic, Cloverfield, The Thing and Pitch Black. Most of theses are horror thrillers but a great experience to have under your belt.
I agree about the quality of Deep Impact vs. Armageddon and the other, also, very good. Don’t forget about The Day After Tomorrow. I know it’s a bit cheesy but it is fun and it is climate-related, one of the few at is and, given the world today, it is topical.
This came out at the same time as Armageddon, but Deep Impact is the superior of the two for me. It handles the situation so seriously and so realistically, and it leaves you so emotional. I've seen this -- I don't even know how many times I've seen it, but watching you two react to Sara and Leo being given the baby and the astronauts saying goodbye to their families, it made me cry. You'll have an easier time with Volcano, I promise (even if I like Dante's Peak more).
Finally! Deep Impact is reacted to! This is the thinking man's Armageddon. So well scripted, acted and edited, it is more about the people than the mission. All these years later and I cried right along with you. Thank you!!!!
I mean it’s not exactly scientifically accurate. It’s more human than Armageddon but both Jenny & her dad would have been burnt to a crisp and blown away from the shockwave well before the tsunami hit the coast. It’s still a Hollywood movie in the end.
@@jz55859 just saying it’s not even a “thinking man’s Armageddon”. They’re both fantastic pseudoscience BS, film hipsters just love to jock this one because it’s by a comparatively unknown female director rather than a over the top guy like Michael Bay. FTR I like deep impact, but I laughed when you said it was so much smarter than Armageddon. Someone in this vid even said it was the democrat disaster movie and Armageddon was the republican one. Abject pretentious stupidity from commenters here. Reddit tier dreck
The blonde mom with the baby also played Tasha Yar on star trek TNG. When i first saw this movie as a kid, i knew the emotional family scenes were sad but they didnt really bother me. Now that im a father, they hit WAY different and i found myself tearing up watching this.
And her daughter was played by Leelee Sobieski, a very underrated young actress who is probably who you mistook for Helen Hunt in the beginning. They look very much alike.
This movie hit me like a ton of bricks when it came out. It was so emotional and so well crafted as a story. At its heart it was about people, not spectacle. This film has sat with me for 25 years now. There are so many moments in it that will stick with me for the rest of my life because they had such an effect on me. You might say it had a deep impact, if you'll pardon the pun.
It is heartwarming every time to see how much you two ladies get immersed in a movie, that is what movies are made for. But the both of you get regularly reeled in deeper than many I know. This one got you in the feels more than some others because all of the characters had to face incredible losses and you were there with them. Great reactions from you, as always.
I watched this when I was 16 years old at the theater and it’s the only movie that made me literally cry like a baby. My friends made fun of me but I don’t care. It seems real. Also James Horner score really elevates the emotional scenes.
The Twin Towers getting destroyed by the tsunami scene hits even harder watching it in 2023. What a powerful film! Another great movie reaction video, ladies.
One of the few movies to make me cry. The scene when Orin's family arrives and he speaks to his son? I can never dying without having ever seen my son. That gets me every time. Waterworks. And that alone is why I put this above Armageddon. Both were good to me. But Armageddon was fun, this was heartbreaking. My opinion, anyway.
Thank you, ladies for making me cry. THIS is why I love watching this channel. You are REAL, and you have a lot of heart...BOTH of you. Everyone needs a good cry every now and then just to "wash out the poisons" as I like to say. ❤
Our daughter would watch a movie and be just balling, and then the next day watch it all over again. I'd look at my wife and say, "your" daughter is nuts ... and my wife would just smile back :)
@@randycliff4045 My Mom and I would watch something like this, I'd have tears streaming down my cheeks, I'd look at my Mom, so would she, and call her a wimp. LOL
Deep Impact is my favorite disaster movie of all time. I’ve seen it close to 100 times and it still gets to me. I was hoping Cassie and Carly liked it as much as I do, looks like they did. Love the cast, the music, Freeman is the best movie President. I love this movie😄
This was part of the 90s disaster genre revival: Twister, Independence Day, Daylight, Dante's Peak, Volcano, Titanic, Hard Rain, Armageddon, etc... Before 09/11/2001 ended the trend.
Old Marine Corps vet here, and yes, I cried with you. I've always loved this movie, and always more than "Armageddon", even though the stories were similar. More of the human story to me in this one. I even have it on DVD. Great reaction, as always! ❤
Honestly this movie is really meh for me, the teen romance and bad effects kill it. Armageddon ending and defusing bomb always get me on the other hand.
@@CYB3R2K I think the effects actually held up pretty well with the exception of a few shots of the water rushing down the streets of NY. The shots of the asteroid flying through the sky as everyone looks up are, to me, some of the best around, it feels real. besides, this is a film grounded in people & the reactions of those on Earth, not blockbuster whambam unlike Armageddon which has better effects but focuses entirely on the drillers in space.
@CYB3R2K Effects never hold up over time, but this had decent effects for its time. I agree the teen heart throb aspect is a little much, but the overall story has more heart. I enjoy Armageddon also , it's just more of a comedy. I was half way waiting for John McLain to give us his yippee kiyaa yell as the nuke went off...
I saw that movie in cinema here in the Philippines way back in 1998. The cinema was full and I noticed there were moviegoers who shed tears as they got emotionally touched. In my view, Deep Impact was a modernized take on the Hollywood disaster film genre and its formula.
Still one of my favorite movies of all time. Not only that but you just mentioned Dante's Peak...one of my other favorites. You're going to love that one...because you love the love story too and Dante's Peak has a very cool romance in the middle of it.
Glad you liked this. It was released the same year as another asteroid heading toward earth film - Armageddon. While Armageddon got all the attention it was all bravado and bluster machismo action.This was more about self sacrifice & what kind of person would you be knowing the end is coming. You both really should watch The Poseidon Adventure from 1972. That film (after Airport) really launched the classic disaster movie genre and is also focused on strangers banding together in the face of disaster, in that case a classic old Ocean Liner being flipped over on New Years Eve.
I was 15 when this came out and I remember enjoying Armageddon more, however with age I’ve come to love this film more for being a lot more grounded, and character focused. Lots of heart.
I was older, watched this and REALLY liked it. Then I watched Armageddon and I after about the third eye roll, I walked out. Not that it was bad but after watching this a movie about cooky roughnecks, running from the cops, making crazy demands, an angry dad/boss disapproving his daughter’s relationship from a guy……JUST LIKE HIM! Yeah, I walked out.
@@dr7660 Michael bay replacing astronauts for drillers is something he would do. Brainless fun. Good soundtrack and sound design like a lot of his films, but he’s a master at making those flicks where you turn off your brain and watch things go boom
@@randycliff4045 Like arguing over two different flavors of cheese. Armageddon being pepper jack and Deep Impact being monterey jack. I liked Deep Impact when it came out. Armageddon I think wins on rewatching it over and over.
Thankfully none of the astronauts caught Space Dementia in this movie. I too am in the camp that prefers this one over Armageddon. Great reaction ladies, glad you liked it.
First off wanted to say that this is one of my favorite childhood movies. But second, you two are my Ted Lasso of reaction channels. Don’t know if either of you have watched it but you are both just so wholesome and kind! Always fun to watch you react to entertainment with with your emotions on full display.
This one really hits you in the feels. It packs an emotional punch with a top cast. Had a feeling it would pull you girls into it emotionally. I def prefer it to Armageddon. Even tho Armageddon is a rip roaring good time. This one was more emotional and realistic in what would really happen if we were faced with this sort of situation. Great reactions girls
WOW! This, I think has been the most emotional review I've been privileged in watching the two of you! Wouldn't have missed it for the world 👍👍👍👍👍. Dantes peak is one of my favorite all time!
The career of "Jimi Hendrix" reached a point whereat he was (ancient expression for artists) "Worth more dead than alive". Whoever held his contract killed the character and gave to him a new character "Morgan Freeman".
Thanks for the heartfelt reactions Cassie and Carly. This is a good movie and I get emotional everytime. Cassie I couldn't help but feel sad to hear you have nightmares about school shootings.Thats awful Sadly/unfortunately living in the US you need to worry about that. Its very disturbing. I also grow up in Canada. In Vancouver and growing up in the 80's-90's fortunately school shootings wasn't an issue I had even heard of until the tragedy at Columbine in 1999. Sorry for getting serious. On a much happier note I hope you and Carly have an incredible time at the Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning premiere. Take care
This movie is the more emotional for me of the two asteroid disaster movies of this time. Love it. I can't wait for you to see Dante's Peak. It holds a soft spot in my heart, even though it's nothing special from a narrative perspective.
I saw "Deep Impact" when it hit theaters. This movie WRECKS me. It literally makes me sore. My throat and head hurts after watching it because I cry SO MUCH. Like, there are so many emotional triggers in this film that impacts me deeply every time. Yeah, I know... it left a "Deep Impact" on me.
Another incredible movie. Love it. Great cast, great story, suspense, drama, it has it all. Elijah Wood and Leelee Sobieski were incredible in this movie. Awesome reaction ladies.
I was an astronomy major when this and Armageddon came out, my professor (head of our department) absolutely *hated* Armageddon lol but said that Deep Impact was pretty close to what we'd do in this situation and portrayed the events leading up to the comet's impact and destruction pretty well; he said instead of flying the nukes up we'd fire them out since our accuracy with them would be very high, even at great distances, and we already have a plan in place for this. I haven't watched this since I became a parent and the movie just hits different now. As hard as it was, thanks for watching this one.
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 because it makes the movie very different from the much more typical Armageddon type of movie focused more on the actual disaster and heroes. Also, for me, it's the magnificent James Horner score that makes the movie. One of his finest scores.
This one delivers a real sense of existential dread, not to mention the fact that it has the balls to actually have the thing hit! I rate it higher than Armageddon too by a long shot
Cassie and Carly, I adore you both so much. I knew this film would hit you both emotionally. Only because you both are so sincere ladies and obviously have beautiful souls. Much love ❤ Bob PS. Keep doing what you are doing and I'll keep watching. BTW: "The Legend of 1900" if you like romantic films.
I remember this came out before Armageddon. I was cab driver back then. The week after the weekend I watched Armageddon I had customers in the cab and asked me how I liked it. I said remember Deep Impact? They said "Yes". I said the amount of special effects in that movie are in the first third of Armageddon. They said "Wow"..
I'd like to acknowledge the late and truly great Composer James Horner, who's music for this film is absolutely incredible, and provides so much emotional meaning. May he rest in peace.
Like many people have said there are two camps: Deep Impact fans and Armageddon fans. I like both for different reasons. Deep Impact is a story about people dealing with the end of the world. It could have been any Extinction Level Event and the story would still work. The focus is on the people. Armageddon is about an asteroid and the team sent to destroy it. The focus is mostly on the shuttle team, and their relationships. It could be any disaster they are diverting and the story would still work. The focus is on the team sent to prevent the end of the world. I acknowledge that the films have many plot points in common, but I would put Armageddon in the 'Adventure' genre and Deep Impact in the 'Drama' genre.
Not only more scientifically accurate than Armageddon; just better made all-around. A really good movie, that happens to have an incredibly powerful disaster in it.
Sorry, but I’m gonna have to disagree *hard* The last few years have shown us that mainstream media (ie. MSNBC) absolutely will hide information from the public if they believe it’s in their best interest (!). So surprisingly enough, NASA keeping their meteor under wraps in Armageddon is more plausible than this movie simping for the purveyors of fake news.
This is one of my favorite movies, disaster or otherwise, b/c it was gripping, a very real scenario. When the mother gave her daughter the baby to save her, that is the one scene that hit home...the disaster created a young family to move on...
So eager to see your reactions to these disaster films. You’re starting with three of my favorite films in general: “Deep Impact,” “Volcano,” and “Dante’s Peak.” I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve watched these movies.
Just before I saw this when it came out, I heard Howard Stern say his wife at the time Allison saw it and cried for most of the movie. I was like “yeah whatever.” Let’s just say there were several times I thought I would have to leave to avoid embarrassment from crying.
Meteor disaster movies became very popular in the late 90s after the Shoemaker-Levy 9 event, in which multiple impacts occurred on Jupiter and the realization that a meteor strike is what actually killed the dinosaurs. I remember being fascinated by this during my youth.
this movie is such an underrated classic (because of Armageddon). i watched it alone in the cinema when i was a freshman and i was bawling my eyes out by the end. this predates the Interstellar crying meme and is more tragic.
Beat me to it. Armageddon came out before this, and it totally overshadowed this movie. People made Armageddon as the measuring tool when this came out, and it pretty much flopped this movie.
When it comes to disaster flicks, another one that's alternative to the norm to consider is Seeking a Friend for the End of the World with Steve Carell and Keira Knightley.
Dante's Peak (1997) with Pierce Brosnan and Meancholia (2011) with Kirsten Dunst are two of my fave disaster movies - having said that, it truly is one of my favourite genres of film! :-) Loved this reaction, such an emotional ending.
Melancholia was the best depiction of clinical depression I have ever seen in a movie. Kirsten Dunst gave a legendary performance. Having said that, it would probably not make for a fun reaction...
@@Johnny_Socko totally agree. Her performance throughout is stunning. Such a beautifully shot film. In terms of reacting, it's definitely a challenging one but worth it I reckon - provided the sisters have cute cat videos lined up after 🙀
Remember seeing this movie in the cinema in Thurles, Co. Tipperary Ireland. The parents baby motorbike scenes gets to me everytime, I still shed a tear and I'm a 51 year old man. Absolute brilliant and realistic, the human scenes are very touching. I watch it a couple of times every year.
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.
Armageddon had Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler and an Aerosmith theme tune and always felt like the bigger blockbuster, but Deep Impact has such an amazing cast, it doesn't pull its punches, and Tea Leoni saying "Daddy..." as the tsunami hits has its own place in my memory for life.
That's why I like Deep Impact more. Big booms are always good. But this movie had the big booms and characters you actually cared about. And that last line of Leoni's... chills, every time.
To me, *Armageddon* feels like the "Con Air" of disaster movies...which is a good thing!
But in comparison, *Deep Impact* feels like the "The Godfather" of disaster films.
Plus Armageddon was one of the dumbest movies to ever get put on film.
Besides Deep Impact has God!
Isn't this the comet section?
@@gregcorwin8316The "science" of "Armageddon" is on par with that of "The Core."
Armageddon was a cartoon. Deep Impact took the plot seriously. That's why the latter couldn't help but be better.
I liked the way Leo, a backyard astronomer, was the first to find the comet, and the way Jenny, a junior-level, Woodward-Bernstein type reporter, first broke the story.
True
Yeah... That's a great way to put it. I saw both in theaters when they came out. This one made me cry so much more. ❤
When you think about it it's actually Mr Perry the astronomy teacher that finds it for he picks it out and asks Leo the name of it and Leo obviously doesn't know because of what it is. Mr Perry should be pissed that it wasn't his name on there along with Wolf.
absolutely
"1998". Luv both movies. Armageddon is burger, bbq, and beer/soda. Deep Impact is fine-dining with a good wine.
Audiences usually want the spectacle, but Deep Impact puts that in the backseat. It's very rare for a disaster movie to focus on being a character drama first, and that's what makes this movie special.
Agreed, great movie. By the way, in the same year, the wonderful Canadian movie "Last Night" also focused on the human element of the last 6 hours of Earth. In fact, its free to watch on UA-cam. Also there are no attempts to save the world - everyone has accepted their fate.
I mean it makes sense as a disaster effects the characters.
Could have made it a little darker,as the comet drew closer it would have been an unimaginable mad house.
"It's very rare for a disaster movie to focus on being a character drama first"
Is it though
The bit where Robert Duvall says he’s coming home to the picture of his wife was so romantic; you get the impression that he’s pretty content to die anyway & he’s just waiting for a good reason to do so. He clearly believes that there’s an afterlife where he gets to be with Mary again ❤
dead right!
The part where she says goodbye to her parents and they give her the little baby to take with her ALWAYS breaks me down..
same, it hits so hard
Also when Tea Leoni gives up her seat for her mentor and her daughter.... that always gets me.
Me too, and she keeps repeating I'll see you soon
@@jumpingmanatee yes 😢😢
Awful moment but sensible
I just love how sisters are still discovering different interests out from each other like stargazing.
But, yet remembers the other's intricacies like when Carly said to Cassie NOT to watch the part where the blind guy dove into the hole to retrieve the bit because she knew she was claustrophobic.
Thats because it seems that they have both been very sheltered when it comes to movies.
The score by James Horner in this movie is a HUGE part of why its such an emotional rollercoaster. He tapped into the humanity of the situation rather than focusing on the action and terror. This is why hes one of the greatest to ever do it
Couldn't agree more. A forever legend he will always be.
Horner's score elevates this movie in dramatic fashion. "Emotional rollercoaster", you're spot on. He's on the short list of the greatest movie composers.
The score was truly great
I can't disagree with that! The only thing that bothers me in Horner's scores a bit is his tendency to use similar melodic or instrumental mannerisms pretty shamelessly over and over. Especially his so-called "danger jingle": ua-cam.com/video/V8KxvE6PLKs/v-deo.html
@@jcp1984againthat’s so funny one of my random core life memories i have is sitting in a theatre watching Avatar 09 for the first time and hearing that little lick in the music after the tree fell, and thinking “ooo i like that sound hope they do it again.” Little did i know versions of it had been done for decades lol. i could tell you where my seat was, that moment was so vivid for me
I originally saw this movie as part of a friend's birthday celebration in 1998. It was supposed to be a movie and then to the bar for drinks. However once we got to the bar the mood was so sombre all we wanted to do was call our Mums and tell them we loved them. Lol 😂
Ahhhhh,that's so-SWEET.Sometimes you have to tell your-MUMS-you love'em.
Ive always considered this to be a deeply thoughtful science fiction movie...beautifully conceived...impeccably acted..with a memorably simple thematic sound track that stays with you long after the film is over...deserves to be better publicised..a gem
@terencecolings486 - true, expecially considering ELE. Good approach there.
For example, we know exactly what has happened 12K years ago, that most likley wiped out pretty much the whole planet (after all, this is why it is called ELE, extinction for most of us, plants, animals, whole ecosystems, humans and so on). The astronomical data is out there. And it pretty much wiped out whatever civilization that was there at that time (global or not), and plenty of data suggest that we had a high level civilization back then. In a way after that, we (as a civilization) had to start from s scratch. Go back to the "stone age". And that, the rise of civilization is not like a simple curve going just up all the time, but more like a weave (due to the external astronomical events).
And that is not even going into legends/myths of the time before the "Flood", the first King after the Flood who could actually read the writing from before, old myths from Babylonia, Akkad, Epic of Atrahasis, and so on, Sumer and other around the world, and that would include Golden Age, the age of "gods" and myths regarding that...
So yeah, most likely we have been wiped out few times before. Kind of: civilization as we know would have been gone (or is gone at this point), wiped out completely, but humans/humanity as such would survive here and there, and some of that can be cyclical type of event too (and that is actually scary part).
Note: more info about paleolitic extinction - from the official sources can be found by reading something like: "Paleolitic Extinction and the Taurid Complex", by W.M Napier from Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology, Cardiff University (2010). But there is plenty of more data out there. Note that this is pretty much a scientific abstract, hence quite "academic" to read.
So true, this movie got nothing but depth and subtility. Yet to this day it's still often wrongly overlooked as an over the top blockbuster, just a rip off Armageddon (which I like as well for completely diferent reasons, just a very fun ride).
But you said it very well, Deep Impact does stay with you long after the credits. I saw it in theater, it stayed with me for 25 years and I still rewatch it with pleasure and emotions every now and then.
The people saying goodbye to their families and loved ones by far make this the hardest disaster movie to watch, IMO. It really drives home the humanity of it. I don't think any other disaster movie really catches that aspect of it, and that makes all of them easier to watch.
The problem in this movie is that its incredibly forced. At the end she goes back to her dad and commits suicide when she didnt even need too, and then her dad just accepts that his daughter has decided to kill herself, as though its a good thing. A real father would be angry.
In the face of their own death and not being able to do anything about it, due to being unable to act or refusing to act to save themselves and have time to say goodbye like that always gets me, I blabber like a baby
@@BasketCase-rr7tx You very much missed the point. She was making up for her utter lack of restraint for the year leading up to that, where she had put herself and her career ahead of everything and everyone. She finally became fully human, and she redeemed herself by making that ultimate sacrifice to save a friend and a child. There was only so much room on the chopper, so she couldn't be on it if she gave up her seat to her friend and her daughter.
And what would be the point of being angry? You are going to waste the last hour you will ever have with your daughter arguing?
@@deanroddey2881 So she made up for everything by killing herself and her dad was happy about that... and that makes sense to you? WTF? Do you have kids?
@@deanroddey2881 Exactly! She turned from a 'Reporter' back into a Human Being showing compassion towards her co-worker and her child!
Hey, I'm in this one! In the late 90's, I did some background work for a couple of years, and this was one of the most fun ones I did. It was the going to the caves scene, where there was the big crowd. I got to see Elijah Wood act, since we kept doing the scene over and over. He was so focused, it was cool to see. Great movie, too. I really love how it came out. :)
That’s great! I was an extra on Howard the Duck (which was a blast despite its being a colossal failure) and Summer of Sam (not so fun), neither of which I expect will show up on this channel…
@@jdj830 Fun, wasn't it? I kinda miss it, even though it was so boring most of the time. Getting paid for doing almost nothing all day was pretty sweet! (Even if it was minimum wage.)
This is probably my favorite disaster movie. Tea Leoni is amazing and it was her part in this movie that made my wife and I want to watch Madam Secretary. Morgan Freeman was outstanding as usual and I would have voted him for president in a heartbeat. Hard to talk about his movie without comparing it to Armageddon. While I enjoyed Armageddon with its action and big name starts, Deep Impact is still my favorite.
I became a fan of hers after this movie too. Loved Madam Secretary.
Well they came out not to far apart, probably driven by the development of the other film.
It's not uncommon for scripts to be passed abound before they are picked up, then someone basically steals the synopsis after reading the original and develops a film with the same theme. Everyone knows about the others film and then one group tries to release their film first to appear "original"
Don't ever vote for Morgan Freeman. The world always ends when he's president.
Armageddon was witty and action packed and had a very big budget but you never got that emotionally involved that you get in this movie. This is more plausible and true to reality and that is the big reason this is the better of those two movies. Both had great casts for the purpose of the movie but in my opinion Deep Impact wins in the end. A fantastic movie that have it all and makes you think!
*No joke: when this came out, the Boomers I worked with said that the ridiculous part of this movie was that it had a black President.*
I LOVE this movie! I still cry at the same places that you two did and I’m a 66 year old man. There are so many scenes that bring tears. Great reaction from you two.
Until watching this I'd forgotten what a good film this was. So underrated. Should be considered a 90s classic.
Hard agree
Thanks, Cassie. NO ONE is reacting to this. There have been one or two the last few years...that's it. This movie touches my heart every time I see it, and that's the type of movie I like to see. But the bonus is now that I get to see you and Carly watch it, which is even better. Kudos, guys!! :)
I saw this film in theaters when it came out and was always annoyed that it got overshadowed by the more 'spectacular' Armageddon. This film works on so many more levels, has more nuance.... is such a richer experience. Thanks for watching this and maybe intriguing others into giving it a watch. It's a great film in the classic Hollywood sense in so many ways. (And yeah - I would vote for President Morgan Freeman in a heartbeat!)
Thanks for watching this & giving it some visibility. I've always felt is was a forgotten/underrated gem.
Aramageddon was more fun, but this was a better film.
@@josevelajrArmageddon was better on all counts.
I still to this day, love the line about naming high schools after them. It just makes me smile a bit. Gotta find the positive in everything I guess.
This is truly one of my favorite movies. It is so human and heartfelt rather than being all about the action and destruction.
I love this film. I cry every time I see it. Mimi Leder did a brilliant job directing this film. It’s beautiful.
Superb film.
29:00, I love how Leo's dad support his son. He knows his boy just grew up right in front of him. It's a beautiful scene.
That scene is so real.
I love that scene. As much as he loves his son, and would obviously prefer to keep him safe, he doesn't try to talk him out of going. Because he is a family man himself, and knows his son needs to do what he can to save the person he loves. You're absolutely correct. His son grew up right in front of him. ❤
I liked DEEP IMPACT (1998) a lot more than ARMAGEDDON (1998). Deep Impact has a more human story, while Armageddon is over-the-top, campy action.
I like them both for different reasons. Deep Impact is objectively a better movie though - its just Armageddon is a lot of fun.
I agree
@@Huntress59 Hello Huntress, do you agree with me? or you agree with the others who are saying Armageddon's characters are more "caring"?
@@spanishprisoner I also prefer Armageddon. The astronauts in this one have almost no backstory except Robert Duvall's character. They spend a bunch of time with Elijah but I never really care if he lives or not. Most of the time is with the media but it is impossible to think that they have lives worth believing in because they are just media. I WANT Harry Stamper to live and am proud that he helps his daughter, Chick to see his little boy, the Russian Lev to finally get home and Bear to ride his Harley again. And I can't quote a singe line from this but Armageddon are full of great ones. Finally, the world won with Armageddon while in Deep Impact, USA was the place most affected by the one that hit. That doesn't seem like awin.
I still think both movies got greenlit because the world saw Shoemaker-Levy 9 smack into Jupiter in '94.
But man that ending with the team on their way to sacrifice themselves to save the planet. My feels! Especially as the leader’s wife and baby son are coming in the last second and he can’t see them in the screen cause his sight gone. It just hits you hard.
I don't think Cassie and Carly could have watched this 2 years ago. It's taken time pushing boundaries and confidence. This is an emotional movie and to see they came out of it feeling they'd been a part of the world was just perfect.
Rightly so! I suggested another 5 Emmy Awarded made-for-TV movie "Brian's Song" (James Caan, Billy Dee Williams - 1971):
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to another channel, because he coaches football. He never heard of it, and by the end, he and his wife were both crying. Every time I hear that theme song, it gets me too. Great friendship movie.
Of all the "disaster films" ever made, this is the one with the biggest emotional impact. The script does such a nice job of making you love the characters and feel their pain. There was a race between this and Armageddon to get into the theaters first, and I believe Armageddon was a bigger money maker, but for me there's no contest - this is easily the better movie.
The Director of this movie, Mimi Leder, was a top-tier director on the TV show "ER" during it's early seasons and earned great acclaim and won an Emmy. Her first theatrical movie was "The Peacemaker" with George Clooney and Nicole Kidman. After that, came "Deep Impact." It was released the same year as "Armageddon", also about an asteroid hitting earth, and "Deep Impact" was overshadowed by it, despite, in my opinion, being the far superior movie. It always bothered me that she never got another shot at directing a big budget action-adventure movie after this. It's very clear from "The Peacemaker" and especially "Deep Impact" that she possessed a rare skill to make tense, well constructed action while balancing it with great character work. Great reaction!
I was so impressed by both Peacemaker and Deep Impact, I thought she would become a much better name in Cinema. I remember she did "Pay if Forward" and it bombed and she seemed to disappear afterwards. What I liked is that she balanced so well the action in her movies with genuine emotion. Peacemaker was in my opinion a prototype to the Bourne movies and the action movies that will come afterwards with the way the action scenes were shot, very raw.
Mimi did one of the best single season shows I've ever seen in John Doe. It was a shame that FOX did not renew that one.
I’d never seen this movie before but I immediately recognized Ron Eldard (the blind one) from “ER”! He played Shep, who dated Carol Hathaway for a time. Always liked the cut of his jib, and wished a bigger career for him.
Good movie!
@@Divamarja_CA He's a great actor and has done a lot of solid work. I especially liked him in "Super 8", which if you haven't seen it, is essentially the movie version of "Stranger Things". Highly recommend.
@@Divamarja_CATea Leoni's female protégé was also on ER, playing a doc. Forgot about Ron being on there.
The effects and the animation of the tidal wave are pretty accurate. And that's the small piece of the comet. The big one hitting in western Canada would be so much worse and would probably set off the Yellowstone caldera just to add a little excitement to the otherwise dull two year long, totally black night. For a more detailed story read "Lucifer's Hammer" by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
Yeah, Lucifer's Hammer was a great read. The surfer.
What got my attention in "Deep Impact" (1998) was Morgan Freeman as "President Tom Beck." What and how he said to a nation/world threatened by a nearly unstoppable natural disaster was just right. Another "short-but-memorable-screen-time" role. The "Ellie/E.L.E." thing showed that the End Of The World could happen when we least expect it.
This movie scares me more then any horror movie ever could. The fact that its a very strong possibility of this happening in real time is frightening. The moon comes out every night as a reminder of just how fortunate we have been thus far but I fear sooner or later our luck gonna run out.
100% chance this will absolutely happen again one day. It's not if, it's when. We just might not be here to see it. But you are correct. This is definitely more scary than any horror movie.
The moon doesn't come out every night. In fact, half the time it comes out during the day.
It is much more likely though to not getting hit by a big one but rather by a much smaller body devastating just a city. This might happen once in a couple of hundred years statistically.
thank the stars for Jupiter eating 90% of those with its gravity... it's our shield in the sky
When you think about it, we're here because the dinosaurs luck ran out. Here's another little thought, objects bigger than the dinosaur killer, far larger, are out in the oort cloud. And we have no idea of what goes on out there. That's a long fall, out of the cloud.
That scene of Jenny reconciling with her father has been burned into my memory for the rest of my life. Such an amazing movie. I own both the VHS and Blu-Ray version. (Yes, I have BOTH a VHS and Blu-Ray player.)
same here, its literally the only scene i remember vividly from this movie. It's so haunting.
One of my favorite disaster movies. Just the humanity of the story. I LIKE that it focuses on many characters. It shows that something like this would affect everyone, not just a select few. Love your reactions, Cassie & Carly. ❤❤
when they drive off on the motorbike and the mom breaks down, that's just an emotional kick in the balls. I'm sure both parents had kinda figured at that point they weren't going to outrun the wave in traffic and had made peace with it and then suddenly in the space of a few seconds they realize their children can live and they have to say goodbye to them both.
it's a stacked cast, but it wasn't at the time. Duvall and Freeman were the only real big names. This was pre-LOTR and pre-MCU and pre-Mandalorian, so Elijah and Jon weren't big names. Pretty sure Favreau's biggest thing at that point was Swingers (which you really need to watch).
Rudy and PCU.. LOL
Elijah Wood wasn’t yet a huge name, but he was an experienced actor, so he was a solid get. He had a great reputation in Hollywood as an extremely professional child actor, and he was mid-way through his teen film phase, after The Ice Storm and before The Faculty. (I love how he burnished that reputation-he stepped in at the last minute for the 1994 Oscars when Kit Culkin started throwing a diva fit that Macaulay had to get more than the scale pay all of the presenters got. The producers called EW’s mom/manager, he nailed the line reading on stage, and the story got around Hollywood in less than 12 hours of the ceremony.) Getting cast as Frodo at the age of 18 was the perfect timing to move him from teen actor to adult actor.
When I saw the cast list for LOTR, my first reaction to his name as Frodo was, “Isn’t that the kid from Deep Impact?” This was really the only film of his I had seen at that point. It was only after seeing FOTR that I started obsessively watching all of the cast members’ previous films. (Which is how I discovered great Viggo performances like Lucifer in The Prophecy, but that’s another post…)
Oh, and also, the other two big names here are Omar Sharif and Vanessa Redgrave as Tea Leoni’s character’s parents. Those two lent big time cred to the film.
@@kathyastrom1315 Maximilian Schell, not Omar Sharif.
@@MarcKnight you’re right! Sorry about that, but he is just as big of a name, imo.
We get so involved in the story that we don't realize how big Jenny's sacrifice was: she could have taken the helicopter all the way to the caves and survived even the second impact, but she traded the rest of her life just to reconcile with her father in life and nothing more (plus saving beth and her kid)
The tension in the end is what makes this great. So many characters made drastic last minute self sacrifices.
Any movie that has Robert Duvall in it is always a favorite with me. Great cast.
Play Ball !
I don’t know much, but I do know one thing. Charley don’t surf.
We get Robert Duvall AND Morgan Freeman!
*He's in 3 episodes of the Route 66 TV series. One episode he plays a heroin addict and he is awesome.*
I love Gone In 60 Seconds. Because of the Mustang.
The Success of any movie is the Emotion that it leans into. Excellent Job Ladies.
Half of the natural disaster movies are small scale (Volcano, Dante's Peak) and the other half are world ending (Armageddon, The Core). However, Deep Impact is definitely the best of them all. The casting, the acting, the not so happy ending. These elements make this movie more realistic and enjoyable. Great reaction and I hope you start a creature feature series soon. I recommend The Relic, Nope, Jeeper Creepers, Attack The Block, Mimic, Cloverfield, The Thing and Pitch Black. Most of theses are horror thrillers but a great experience to have under your belt.
I agree about the quality of Deep Impact vs. Armageddon and the other, also, very good. Don’t forget about The Day After Tomorrow. I know it’s a bit cheesy but it is fun and it is climate-related, one of the few at is and, given the world today, it is topical.
This came out at the same time as Armageddon, but Deep Impact is the superior of the two for me. It handles the situation so seriously and so realistically, and it leaves you so emotional. I've seen this -- I don't even know how many times I've seen it, but watching you two react to Sara and Leo being given the baby and the astronauts saying goodbye to their families, it made me cry.
You'll have an easier time with Volcano, I promise (even if I like Dante's Peak more).
Deep Impact is so much better 100% And most definitely Dante's Peak >>>> Volcano
Hallelujah!!! A fellow moviegoer with good tastes 😁
I had no idea this movie was so similar to armageddon. I dont know if teen me would of like sobieski or liv tyler more.
Armegeddon > deep impact. Dantes Peak > 2012> Volcano
Deep Impact and Dante’s Peak are definitely the superior of each pair of disaster films.
Finally! Deep Impact is reacted to! This is the thinking man's Armageddon. So well scripted, acted and edited, it is more about the people than the mission. All these years later and I cried right along with you. Thank you!!!!
I mean it’s not exactly scientifically accurate. It’s more human than Armageddon but both Jenny & her dad would have been burnt to a crisp and blown away from the shockwave well before the tsunami hit the coast. It’s still a Hollywood movie in the end.
@@Cinerary Yeah, that's why they call it fiction. Could I maybe suggest a documentary would be more to your liking?
@@jz55859 just saying it’s not even a “thinking man’s Armageddon”. They’re both fantastic pseudoscience BS, film hipsters just love to jock this one because it’s by a comparatively unknown female director rather than a over the top guy like Michael Bay.
FTR I like deep impact, but I laughed when you said it was so much smarter than Armageddon.
Someone in this vid even said it was the democrat disaster movie and Armageddon was the republican one. Abject pretentious stupidity from commenters here. Reddit tier dreck
@@Cinerary See above comment from me since you obviously haven't yet. It's just a movie.
@@jz55859 I have, nice back pedal
The blonde mom with the baby also played Tasha Yar on star trek TNG. When i first saw this movie as a kid, i knew the emotional family scenes were sad but they didnt really bother me. Now that im a father, they hit WAY different and i found myself tearing up watching this.
She was Scary Mary on The Walking Dead, the den mother of a group of cannibals. She killed it, then they killed her.
And her daughter was played by Leelee Sobieski, a very underrated young actress who is probably who you mistook for Helen Hunt in the beginning. They look very much alike.
The mother is Denise Crosby,. One of singer Bing's daughters. Had a small role in 48hrs (Eddie Murphy/NickNolte) and yes, Star Trek.
This movie hit me like a ton of bricks when it came out. It was so emotional and so well crafted as a story. At its heart it was about people, not spectacle.
This film has sat with me for 25 years now. There are so many moments in it that will stick with me for the rest of my life because they had such an effect on me. You might say it had a deep impact, if you'll pardon the pun.
Seeking a friend for the end of the world is like an alternate version of this story. The mission fails and its about how everyone copes. Great film
It is heartwarming every time to see how much you two ladies get immersed in a movie, that is what movies are made for. But the both of you get regularly reeled in deeper than many I know. This one got you in the feels more than some others because all of the characters had to face incredible losses and you were there with them. Great reactions from you, as always.
heh heh.... 'reeled in' to movies. Nice. 😏 (Whether intentional or not)
Not just a disaster movie. A quite good movie, even without the disaster.
Agreed! it was in my top movies of the year it came out.
It's a rare feature film with no antagonist, and that's not easy to do well and keep the audience invested.
I always tear up when Sarah's parents hand over their baby to her.
I watched this when I was 16 years old at the theater and it’s the only movie that made me literally cry like a baby. My friends made fun of me but I don’t care. It seems real. Also James Horner score really elevates the emotional scenes.
The Twin Towers getting destroyed by the tsunami scene hits even harder watching it in 2023. What a powerful film! Another great movie reaction video, ladies.
Actually the Twin Towers seemed to withstand the wave, where other skyscrapers tumbled. Quite a wicked irony thinking of what happened in real life.
@@JayToGoThey're shown moments later laying horizontally on the ground.
Somehow, people miss this seconds later.
One of the few movies to make me cry. The scene when Orin's family arrives and he speaks to his son? I can never dying without having ever seen my son. That gets me every time. Waterworks. And that alone is why I put this above Armageddon. Both were good to me. But Armageddon was fun, this was heartbreaking.
My opinion, anyway.
Thank you, ladies for making me cry. THIS is why I love watching this channel. You are REAL, and you have a lot of heart...BOTH of you. Everyone needs a good cry every now and then just to "wash out the poisons" as I like to say. ❤
Our daughter would watch a movie and be just balling, and then the next day watch it all over again. I'd look at my wife and say, "your" daughter is nuts ... and my wife would just smile back :)
@@randycliff4045 My Mom and I would watch something like this, I'd have tears streaming down my cheeks, I'd look at my Mom, so would she, and call her a wimp. LOL
Another movie with the same theme that never got any attention was “Greenland.” It was well worth seeing also!
That was even better than I thought it would be.
Greenland is underrated, I agree. I almost never bothered to watch it, because usually movies like this are so stupid.
The film that made me ask: How can we be in 2020 & tv/films still can't get Diabetes right. 🤦🏼♂️
Deep Impact is my favorite disaster movie of all time. I’ve seen it close to 100 times and it still gets to me. I was hoping Cassie and Carly liked it as much as I do, looks like they did. Love the cast, the music, Freeman is the best movie President. I love this movie😄
This was part of the 90s disaster genre revival: Twister, Independence Day, Daylight, Dante's Peak, Volcano, Titanic, Hard Rain, Armageddon, etc... Before 09/11/2001 ended the trend.
Old Marine Corps vet here, and yes, I cried with you. I've always loved this movie, and always more than "Armageddon", even though the stories were similar. More of the human story to me in this one. I even have it on DVD. Great reaction, as always! ❤
Honestly this movie is really meh for me, the teen romance and bad effects kill it. Armageddon ending and defusing bomb always get me on the other hand.
Armageddon for the win Michael bay movie magic
ARMAGEDDON!! omg, this whole video I've been sitting here like... "I'm pretty sure i've seen this movie with different actors" haha
@@CYB3R2K I think the effects actually held up pretty well with the exception of a few shots of the water rushing down the streets of NY. The shots of the asteroid flying through the sky as everyone looks up are, to me, some of the best around, it feels real. besides, this is a film grounded in people & the reactions of those on Earth, not blockbuster whambam unlike Armageddon which has better effects but focuses entirely on the drillers in space.
@CYB3R2K Effects never hold up over time, but this had decent effects for its time. I agree the teen heart throb aspect is a little much, but the overall story has more heart. I enjoy Armageddon also , it's just more of a comedy. I was half way waiting for John McLain to give us his yippee kiyaa yell as the nuke went off...
I saw that movie in cinema here in the Philippines way back in 1998. The cinema was full and I noticed there were moviegoers who shed tears as they got emotionally touched. In my view, Deep Impact was a modernized take on the Hollywood disaster film genre and its formula.
Still one of my favorite movies of all time. Not only that but you just mentioned Dante's Peak...one of my other favorites. You're going to love that one...because you love the love story too and Dante's Peak has a very cool romance in the middle of it.
This film is filled with heart and soul. Great reaction! 👍🏿
Glad you liked this. It was released the same year as another asteroid heading toward earth film - Armageddon. While Armageddon got all the attention it was all bravado and bluster machismo action.This was more about self sacrifice & what kind of person would you be knowing the end is coming. You both really should watch The Poseidon Adventure from 1972. That film (after Airport) really launched the classic disaster movie genre and is also focused on strangers banding together in the face of disaster, in that case a classic old Ocean Liner being flipped over on New Years Eve.
Armageddon was a more fun movie to watch. Deep Impact was definitely more serious.
I was 15 when this came out and I remember enjoying Armageddon more, however with age I’ve come to love this film more for being a lot more grounded, and character focused. Lots of heart.
I think your feeling about Deep Impact are valid, however with Armageddon being more fun, it's much easier to watch again and again.
I was older, watched this and REALLY liked it. Then I watched Armageddon and I after about the third eye roll, I walked out. Not that it was bad but after watching this a movie about cooky roughnecks, running from the cops, making crazy demands, an angry dad/boss disapproving his daughter’s relationship from a guy……JUST LIKE HIM! Yeah, I walked out.
@@dr7660 Michael bay replacing astronauts for drillers is something he would do. Brainless fun. Good soundtrack and sound design like a lot of his films, but he’s a master at making those flicks where you turn off your brain and watch things go boom
@@randycliff4045 Like arguing over two different flavors of cheese.
Armageddon being pepper jack and Deep Impact being monterey jack.
I liked Deep Impact when it came out. Armageddon I think wins on rewatching it over and over.
Thankfully none of the astronauts caught Space Dementia in this movie. I too am in the camp that prefers this one over Armageddon. Great reaction ladies, glad you liked it.
The scene on the beech was one of the few things in any movie that got me to shed a tear. Briliant acting and a powerful film.
First off wanted to say that this is one of my favorite childhood movies. But second, you two are my Ted Lasso of reaction channels. Don’t know if either of you have watched it but you are both just so wholesome and kind! Always fun to watch you react to entertainment with with your emotions on full display.
You know it's a good movie when just watching the snippets in a reaction video still have you bawling.
This one really hits you in the feels. It packs an emotional punch with a top cast. Had a feeling it would pull you girls into it emotionally. I def prefer it to Armageddon. Even tho Armageddon is a rip roaring good time. This one was more emotional and realistic in what would really happen if we were faced with this sort of situation.
Great reactions girls
WOW!
This, I think has been the most emotional review I've been privileged in watching the two of you!
Wouldn't have missed it for the world 👍👍👍👍👍.
Dantes peak is one of my favorite all time!
Gosh...53 years old, I've seen this movie a dozen times...and I'm sobbing with you two. Sheesh 😢
The career of "Jimi Hendrix" reached a point whereat he was (ancient expression for artists) "Worth more dead than alive". Whoever held his contract killed the character and gave to him a new character "Morgan Freeman".
Meteor (1979) 108 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi - Stars: Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Brian Keith
Thanks for the heartfelt reactions Cassie and Carly.
This is a good movie and I get emotional everytime.
Cassie I couldn't help but feel sad to hear you have nightmares about school shootings.Thats awful
Sadly/unfortunately living in the US you need to worry about that. Its very disturbing.
I also grow up in Canada.
In Vancouver and growing up in the 80's-90's fortunately school shootings wasn't an issue I had even heard of until the tragedy at Columbine in 1999. Sorry for getting serious. On a much happier note I hope you and Carly have an incredible time at the Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning premiere.
Take care
This movie is the more emotional for me of the two asteroid disaster movies of this time. Love it.
I can't wait for you to see Dante's Peak. It holds a soft spot in my heart, even though it's nothing special from a narrative perspective.
I saw "Deep Impact" when it hit theaters. This movie WRECKS me. It literally makes me sore. My throat and head hurts after watching it because I cry SO MUCH. Like, there are so many emotional triggers in this film that impacts me deeply every time.
Yeah, I know... it left a "Deep Impact" on me.
If something like this were to ever happen in reality, I would much rather be standing on the beach at peace with my daughter.
Ooof yeah I remember sobbing my eyes out in the theater. The 90s had such good tearjerkers
25:18 when you said Frodo! and he pulled out two rings i lost it XD
Another incredible movie. Love it. Great cast, great story, suspense, drama, it has it all. Elijah Wood and Leelee Sobieski were incredible in this movie. Awesome reaction ladies.
21:01 - It's all cool. Favreau flew into another galaxy and just started directing the Mandalorian when he landed safely.
I find it hilarious that this is Elijah Wood's first foray into bearing rings
You picked probably the best disaster movie to watch. This movie always leaves me in a puddle of tears.
The cast for this film is absolutely insane!!! Like one after another just tons of talent in one single film
I was an astronomy major when this and Armageddon came out, my professor (head of our department) absolutely *hated* Armageddon lol but said that Deep Impact was pretty close to what we'd do in this situation and portrayed the events leading up to the comet's impact and destruction pretty well; he said instead of flying the nukes up we'd fire them out since our accuracy with them would be very high, even at great distances, and we already have a plan in place for this. I haven't watched this since I became a parent and the movie just hits different now. As hard as it was, thanks for watching this one.
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 because it makes the movie very different from the much more typical Armageddon type of movie focused more on the actual disaster and heroes.
Also, for me, it's the magnificent James Horner score that makes the movie. One of his finest scores.
Wrong
Couldn’t agree more.
This one delivers a real sense of existential dread, not to mention the fact that it has the balls to actually have the thing hit! I rate it higher than Armageddon too by a long shot
Armageddon was a good action movie, but this one has characters you actually care about.
Its more realistic and more suspenseful than armageddon. Less star power and less explosions than a Michael Bay film.
You guys never let me down with your touching reactions to every special and heartbreaking moment of each movie the reactions were unique and tender
Cassie and Carly,
I adore you both so much.
I knew this film would hit you both emotionally.
Only because you both are so sincere ladies and obviously have beautiful souls.
Much love ❤
Bob
PS.
Keep doing what you are doing and I'll keep watching.
BTW:
"The Legend of 1900"
if you like romantic films.
One of my favorites. 8 saw it in theaters when I was 12yo.... It blew my mind
That's the first time I've seen this since I was a kid, and it hits so different now, crying like a baby.
I remember this came out before Armageddon. I was cab driver back then. The week after the weekend I watched Armageddon I had customers in the cab and asked me how I liked it. I said remember Deep Impact? They said "Yes". I said the amount of special effects in that movie are in the first third of Armageddon. They said "Wow"..
After this you should watch Contact, that's a really good movie!
I'd like to acknowledge the late and truly great Composer James Horner, who's music for this film is absolutely incredible, and provides so much emotional meaning.
May he rest in peace.
Like many people have said there are two camps: Deep Impact fans and Armageddon fans. I like both for different reasons.
Deep Impact is a story about people dealing with the end of the world. It could have been any Extinction Level Event and the story would still work. The focus is on the people.
Armageddon is about an asteroid and the team sent to destroy it. The focus is mostly on the shuttle team, and their relationships. It could be any disaster they are diverting and the story would still work. The focus is on the team sent to prevent the end of the world.
I acknowledge that the films have many plot points in common, but I would put Armageddon in the 'Adventure' genre and Deep Impact in the 'Drama' genre.
You guys annoy me so much at times ! Its like watching a movie with my sisters. That's why you're my favorite reaction channel !! Thank you!
Two asteroid films came out that year, both pretty good. Deep impact, classical and armageddon, rock n roll.
Not only more scientifically accurate than Armageddon; just better made all-around. A really good movie, that happens to have an incredibly powerful disaster in it.
Exactly. Here, the asteroid is part of the background, influencing the story and establishing the setting, but it's not the whole story.
Sorry, but I’m gonna have to disagree *hard*
The last few years have shown us that mainstream media (ie. MSNBC) absolutely will hide information from the public if they believe it’s in their best interest (!). So surprisingly enough, NASA keeping their meteor under wraps in Armageddon is more plausible than this movie simping for the purveyors of fake news.
Lol no.. Armageddon 1000x better made movie who cares if it makes sense
@@RootinrPootine - To you, maybe. Just because somebody likes something more than you do, doesn't make them wrong. To each their own. ✌🏼
The science was terrible in both. But oh well, that's not the point. :)
You two are so wholesome.
Morgan is the GOAT of acting... he's stated that he's an atheist, but he's praying in this film is touching., and I'm an atheist.
This is one of my favorite movies, disaster or otherwise, b/c it was gripping, a very real scenario. When the mother gave her daughter the baby to save her, that is the one scene that hit home...the disaster created a young family to move on...
So eager to see your reactions to these disaster films. You’re starting with three of my favorite films in general: “Deep Impact,” “Volcano,” and “Dante’s Peak.” I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve watched these movies.
90s movies are the best.
Just before I saw this when it came out, I heard Howard Stern say his wife at the time Allison saw it and cried for most of the movie. I was like “yeah whatever.” Let’s just say there were several times I thought I would have to leave to avoid embarrassment from crying.
Meteor disaster movies became very popular in the late 90s after the Shoemaker-Levy 9 event, in which multiple impacts occurred on Jupiter and the realization that a meteor strike is what actually killed the dinosaurs. I remember being fascinated by this during my youth.
the husband/wife tandem that codiscovered Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 served as scientific advisors to this film
this movie is such an underrated classic (because of Armageddon). i watched it alone in the cinema when i was a freshman and i was bawling my eyes out by the end. this predates the Interstellar crying meme and is more tragic.
It was odd. You had those two, then volcano and Dante's Peak, Bugs Life and Antz. Just odd how similar movies came out at the same time
I was just going to write this
@@OneArmedRetroGamerTombstone/Wyatt Earp. There are more I just can’t think of off the top of my head
White House Down and Olympus Has Fallen
Beat me to it. Armageddon came out before this, and it totally overshadowed this movie. People made Armageddon as the measuring tool when this came out, and it pretty much flopped this movie.
When it comes to disaster flicks, another one that's alternative to the norm to consider is Seeking a Friend for the End of the World with Steve Carell and Keira Knightley.
I think both of them would really like that a lot.
@@eltorrente1021 It has an ending that will crush them like moments in this film did.
that one is definitely is one people miss out on, think I only watch it once but remember it well
Yea, that was good. I liked Knowing with Nicholas Cage better though.
You should check out the Miracle Mile
Dante's Peak (1997) with Pierce Brosnan and Meancholia (2011) with Kirsten Dunst are two of my fave disaster movies - having said that, it truly is one of my favourite genres of film! :-) Loved this reaction, such an emotional ending.
Melancholia was the best depiction of clinical depression I have ever seen in a movie. Kirsten Dunst gave a legendary performance. Having said that, it would probably not make for a fun reaction...
@@Johnny_Socko totally agree. Her performance throughout is stunning. Such a beautifully shot film. In terms of reacting, it's definitely a challenging one but worth it I reckon - provided the sisters have cute cat videos lined up after 🙀
Remember seeing this movie in the cinema in Thurles, Co. Tipperary Ireland. The parents baby motorbike scenes gets to me everytime, I still shed a tear and I'm a 51 year old man. Absolute brilliant and realistic, the human scenes are very touching. I watch it a couple of times every year.
We were kids when we saw this in the theaters. Now we’re old enough to be the parents waiting to die in the wave. Oh where does the time go?
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.
The scene when the daugther leaves with the baby on the dirt bike is rough. Gets me every time.