With Bruce Willis as your project manager and Michael Bay as the director, of COURSE it’s possible to stop an asteroid hurtling towards earth by using massive explosives and a team of deep-core drillers!
@@nordicrepresentative3125 Jehovah's Witness version of Armageddon is the real Armageddon not this Hollywood version with all these sexually immoral actors.
If asteroid really comes for earth first thing politicians would do is dig a hole using the countries budget and try to save theirselves. Theres just no way govt would act fast. Look at covid a country needs some people to be tested positive before they close airlines.
I mean, the actual meat of the movie was cheesy, but the build-up? It's pretty significant. Like, who really knows if or when this might actually happen, because right now, we really don't have any sort of contingency.
@@bizzyizzy9526 Honestly I'm not convinced. To re-emphasize the quote, is in fact a big a** sky and we have only so many tools to keep watch. An asteroid can come from any direction, and if it's coming from the direction of the sun, it's almost impossible to see.
@@HooyahPeacock lol people at NASA who design these things are engineers. They are the type of people who design the drills, while the drillers just point the drill at the ground and sit around.
@@josephk1342 riiiight. Well your comment is proved inaccurate later in the movie when these nasa engineers couldn't put his drill together properly because they couldn't read the prints. So try again.
The drillers sent there aren't exactly "astronauts", they are only going to drill, all the space related stuff is in charge of the nasa staff sent with them. All nasa cared about the drillers was if they could phisically survive the journey.
he wasn't mad they stole his patent design, he was mad they screwed up the drill and didn't read the plans correctly and as a result Earth could be screwed. that's why the guy told Quincy to shut up.
@@pethrosuriahson6156 ohh I hadn't thought of that, I thought it was just because the patents legal stuff didn't matter in that moment, all that mattered was getting the drill to work to save the Earth.
7:04 you gotta love that smirk Grace gives, knowing the thorough dress-down her dad is giving to them. Despite their rocky relationship, TOTAL reverence and respect for her dad. A subtlety that goes unnoticed in a lot of Michael Bay movies
Fun movie and explains everything wrong with the USA for 50 years. The fate of the planet is at stake, scientists are idiots ( the people who literally make the difference between typing into this computer and sitting naked on a rock dying from a tooth infection at 22) so quick, call Joe 6 pack. In a movie, it's fun. Problem is too many people actually think this way.
Similar to Chinese Light Novels10 years ago, then government happened. More rules, more political, more of what should and shouldn't be allow to be written. Once the government and people in the government involves to spread new rules, new messages, it kills ideas and creativity.
Great script, solid acting, great direction, taking full use of dept of field, wide lenses and visual dynamics. Think what you want about Bay, and I'm not even a fan, but Armageddon is a film master class.
Except when you look at the science they're basing this whole film on... There's something wrong or completely wrong with about every aspect of it. Nonetheless I love this movie also.
Back then, it would be common for two blockbuster films made by two different companies about the same story competing in the same summer season. "Armageddon" was competing against "Deep Impact" that year, 1998 and these two were probably the last two films to have such a battle. I saw both films that year in the cinemas and "Deep Impact" was released first. "Deep Impact" was the lower budget but much more thoughtful one and the ending was a real tearjerker. Critics at the time said that "Armageddon" had more action in its first 10 minutes than the whole of "Deep Impact" which is very true. For me though, "Armageddon" is the bigger budget, more brash, more popcorn of a film compared to "Deep Impact". It had Michael Bay pulling out all his signature shots - slow motion, gorgeous lighting, ginormous explosions from the start but in terms of deep story telling and realistic characters, "Deep Impact" is the better film. If you want a slower burning film with a tearjerker finale, watch "Deep Impact". If you want bombastic action, watch "Armageddon". Or watch both for their own merits.
And guess who saves the day once again??? JOHN McCLANE BABY! When I heard the news the other day about Bruce Willis’s condition it really broke my heart. He’s the tough good guy we all want to be like. I really hope he can beat this thing and live out the rest of his days in peace. He truly deserves too. He’s done so much good for so many of us. My prayers and thoughts are with him and his family. If anyone out there can beat this thing that he has it’s John McClane!!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻
I remember watching this movie back then. There was this feeling maybe because we were in the 90s but this movie just felt like it really represented the 90s at least to me. Will always love this movie and will always go back and watch it.
@@LucianDevine 3 trillion dollars tax payers with the funds and authorization from the private business we can easily send in a research team along with a drill construction team to the moon.
Of all the things ridiculous in this film, the idea that nasa can't figure out a drill system is probably the worst. I'm sure it's a fine engineering but it's not exactly, well, rocket science. You take it apart and you reverse engineer it. Some shady Chinese copycat firm probably could do it.
Can you believe this same man is Lucius Malfoy? Who knew he'd go from helping to plan on saving the muggle world to waging war on it, guess you never can tell with some people, eh? XD
@@r6-AgentScorpionParkerKRider23 "Don't worry, I will be." That by the way was a improv by Daniel. He originally wasn't supposed to say anything. That got Jason's attention.
@@JnEricsonx I’m actually one of those people that, if I’m bored enough I’ll watch the DVD with commentary because I learn just as much, if not more, by watching the movie that way. It shocks the hell out of people to learn that the “Armageddon Nerd” is also Lucious Malfoy(they never see it until I point it out).
That's why it HAD to be drillers and not astronauts. With all the stuff that went wrong up there, astronauts would have failed miserably. They would have tried to play it safe, likely trying to drive to the original drilling site instead of drilling where they landed or something like that. Though that's assuming they also make it off of the space station, which also isn't a guarantee. Every decision the astronauts would have made up there would have been based off of their 8.5 months of training. Every decision Harry made up there was based off of 30 years of experience and whatever else he'd learned from his father and/or grandfather.
I saw this movie shortly after watching Slingblade. Billy Bob was so convincing in Slingblade, I had a hard time believing this was the same actor. I hadn't seen him in anything before Slingblade, so to me, he acted much like Carl in real life. He is a tremendous actor and very underrated.
4:42 ‘Mr. Truman it’s extremely important to the plot that my daughter understands the situation. She won’t end up doing anything remotely useful but fuck it- it’s Hollywood’
02:05 "I need somebody, who had less caffeine this morning" Made my 'caffeine' go all over my keyboard. Completely forgot this movie had many comedic moments.
Even though I prefer Deep Impact and Greenland this is still a decent disaster, the cast is pretty solid especially Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton!
6:37 - 9:31 Such a solid focused scene throughout to its end. It hits every emotion, good camera work, physical location work and story focus. Its scenes like this in movies that you do not see often anymore
Bruce Willis had three phases to his career: Young Asshole, Balls to the Wall, and Phoning It In. This movie is the peak of his Balls to the Wall phase. I hated young Bruce, and low-effort Bruce makes me sad, but he really shines in this one.
The General is well versed in military tactics; not astrophysics. This is the reason why Dr Quincy had to simplify his analysis of the situation. The asteroid was the size of Texas, composed of rock and iron ferrite, travelling at over 20,000 miles an hour. Hitting it with warheads from the outside would be useless. Drilling a hole and putting a warhead in makes the structure weaker and easier to destroy.
That's true except you'd have to drill A LOT deeper than 800 feet. If the asteroid were indeed 'the size of Texas', you'd have to drill more like 250 miles to get near the center.
I rather have a General sending a bunch of nukes into space instead of this new age hippie sun sail guy who always for some reason pops up with this idea in these discussions.
@@Perserra for real bro that’s like me digging 1 ft hole at the top of Mt Everest, then putting a hand grenade in it expecting it to destroy the whole mountain 😑
What's interesting is that composition and mass understandings of comets and asteroids have changed significantly in almost 30 years. A simple probe was able to change the trajectory of an asteroid way more than they thought it would. Sending 150 nukes would have probably done the trick, now that we know kinetic impacts work.
@@DragonLatinVIC Your analogy is flawed because it's attached to the earth. You know how like in water, you can essentially move larger floating objects, like a tug boat? Space is like that, in that the lack of gravity is like buoyancy, in that a small push can deliver a large output against the mass. We tested a kinetic impactor recently and it worked way better than we thought it would.
A silly overdramatic movie, but still very much enjoyable. I love the scenes showing the asteroid in space, the music is so chilling. They did a good job giving a mere rock in space such personality.
Between The Rock and Armageddon Michael Bay should of kept making these kind of movies. I get the Transformers are a cash cow but with a solid script he could make some epic action movies.
This is one of the most underrated movies of all time. This movie is GREAT!!! it is funny, it has a good storyline, it is full of dramatic scenes, and for God's sake, IT IS about saving THE WORLD. I own this movie and I watch it a few times a year.
At 2:05, I would love that guy to be in our friend's group. He seem so smart, humble & the kind of a guy will just be ok to do anything or go anywhere with his mates ; ONLY after he gives you: the rundown, the stats, the figures, the risk, the probabilities, the history & the facts speech in less than a minute.
After all these years I now realize how ridiculous it is that they thought learning to drill would be more difficult for the astronauts to learn even after 8 months of training than it would be for drillers to become astronauts in 10 days..
Isn't it just as ridiculous to trust these guys up there with what will be 8.5 months of training, as opposed to Harry's 30 years of experience plus whatever else he picked up from his father/grandfather?
@@kj6axk Except that even the experienced drillers being led by the man who designed the machine in question barely made it in time. How do you think the astronauts would have done? Even if we assume that from a drilling perspective the astronauts would have done the exact same thing as the experienced drillers, would they have stopped Sharp from dropping off the bomb and thus dooming the entire planet?
And after 8 months of training they never managed to realize that they did a piss poor job of putting the thing together? I'd rather have guys who understand the machinery than guys who only understand the journey up to where they need to use the machinery.
A Michael Bay masterpiece. Everyone’s emotions, especially those of Liv Tyler, sells the intensity and weight of one of the most gravest possibilities of human history. You can just feel the anger and fear through her facial expressions, when her father (Bruce Willis) volunteered to go in space. How it ended, though heroic, proved to be just as tragic through her beautiful eyes. Gonna have to watch this again now and I’m not even mad about it. God bless🙏💯
Can you imagine how all this would be in the modern age of social media and all that and how much earlier and more easily word of this could break out? And the way the World Trade Center hit (which the spots the towers were hit weren't all that off from where they were hit on 9/11) was beyond scary :(
3:19 - 3:36 Thank you!! Finally a moment that shows the importance of the people you should and shouldn't listen to...and these guys are the "advisors." And yes I've read the other comments about how the guy couldn't put the drill together.....Well I wouldn't hire a foot-doctor to work on my heart. They are both smart...so what. Plus the drill wasn't some handheld. It was a sophisticated, one-of-a-kind machine for drilling through material that can't be drilled through. So please stop comparing the two. I have a B.S. in programming systems. As a result, I have to know *a little* bit of engineering through trial and error. But a company wouldn't come to me and ask me to build them a system. Sure, I could "build" the programming aspect of it, but not the hardware. To say one last thing....just my opinion. But if I'm President of the US and I'm searching for my Scientific Adviser, I'm picking someone who excels in ALL aspects of science; and when I say *ALL* I'm talking about the area's of study they did to graduate....and in this case, a C- in the field astrophysics is not something the scientific adviser should have in his/her portfolio. President to his adviser:: We have an asteroid headed here that will destroy the planet Adviser:: Well, this is what we should do..... President to adviser:: Ok, let's do that. While the missile is just moments away from impact, the president, who never looked at his adviser's college history, decides to look through it as he watches updates on the missile about to hit the asteroid. As he finishes reading the part of the astrophysics, he looks up at the tv just in time to see the missile explode. After the flash, all he see's for the next few minutes is a rock. He ponders what he's thought throughout his life and what was important. Finally, he regrets only one thing; he says to himself, "I guess all those people, over the years, who told me that college wasn't that important...just might have been wrong."
Affleck is a great driller, he can drill everywhere,anytime... In fact he drill the most dangerous place on mother earth and survive it (with a shotgun's shrapnel in the leg actually). If you understand what i mean.....
Harry: (to Quincy) That's because you got all cams wrong, Mr. Wizard. Me: He predicted future. (reference to Jason Isaacs playing Lucius Malfoy in HP movies afterwards)
All the silliness aside, this was a terrifying movie. The possibility is there, albeit exceedingly rare, that something like this could happen...again.
People diss this movie because of its inaccuracies, they also diss Pearl Harbor but between the action and the romance songs these are perfect movies for a young couple to start dates with. Whatever happened to movies like this??
Never realized Michael Bay cast himself as a rocket scientist in these scenes, which is hilarious because from everything I've ever seen by him, that man is the definition of the phrase "he's not a rocket scientist."
I Salute to Mr. Bay for this outstanding movie...he is a true Gem....wether ita Armageddon or Transformer series..he put emotions which is unmatchable.....❤ ur the Best Mr. Bay 🙏
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This movie is 24 years old and yet it looks very modern and never fails to amaze me.
There's nothing true about this movie it's all a lie.
@@archangeljesus4369 that’s why it’s commentary.
@@nordicrepresentative3125 Jehovah's Witness version of Armageddon is the real Armageddon not this Hollywood version with all these sexually immoral actors.
That's Michael bay cinematography for ya
If asteroid really comes for earth first thing politicians would do is dig a hole using the countries budget and try to save theirselves. Theres just no way govt would act fast. Look at covid a country needs some people to be tested positive before they close airlines.
You know what? This film is cheesey as hell. And I absolutely bloody love it.
I mean, the actual meat of the movie was cheesy, but the build-up? It's pretty significant. Like, who really knows if or when this might actually happen, because right now, we really don't have any sort of contingency.
I enjoyed it as well
I love this stupid movie, too, can't help myself. Never could resist cheese.
High-end B movies are freaking awesome.
@Anita Blackhawk Haha, for sure. I am a total sucker for big-budget, emotional cheese
If I learned anything from Hollywood it’s that people with British accents tend to know everything
and that bad guys in the movies usually have Slavic accents
What else do you expect? That's a Death Eater, Lucius Malfoy 😂
And ancient Romans and Greeks spokes with British accents.
It's been my experience that people with a British accents are jerks and that a good smack in the mouth makes the needed attitude adjustment.
Just living up to the stereotype that Americans are dumb, selfish assholes until the world needs them to step up and save the day!😉
This is the only Michael Bay movie I'll give a pass to. It's the ultimate guilty pleasure.
Nothing guilty about that
surely you enjoyed transformers 1/2? they are beautiful visually
What about 13 hours?
@@snypa-ck7hn No, I can't stand Shia LaBeouf in those movies, Megan Fox is barely a character, and the list goes on.
Bad boys? The Island? Pearl Harbor?
"There's 6 billion people on this planet, why'd you call me?"
"Because you're Bruce Willis."
Michael Bay: "Liv, just be gorgeous"
Liv: "Ok, got it"
Enchanting that one.
@@aperson2943 Arwen ♡
She was heart-stopping as Arwen. Just perfect.
Gorgeous doesn't have duck-bill lip deformation surgery. Sorry.
@@robertstephson7455 WUH?
"Begging your pardon sir, but it's a big ass sky......."
Even so a meteor of that size would have been detected decades ahead of time
@@bizzyizzy9526 Honestly I'm not convinced. To re-emphasize the quote, is in fact a big a** sky and we have only so many tools to keep watch. An asteroid can come from any direction, and if it's coming from the direction of the sun, it's almost impossible to see.
@@bizzyizzy9526 💯
"Why don't we just send 150 nuclear warheads and blast the rock apart" one of the most american sentence of the movie.
It's called the Trump Strategy today.
This guy is "the smartest man on the planet", yet he couldn't read directions on how to put a drill together? Sounds legit.
No one can be smart at everything on Earth. With the aid of computers and the power of the internet it is possible just not today.
This is why IQ is not a measure of intelligence rather cognitive ability. One may understand astrophysics but can't change a tire.
@@HooyahPeacock lol people at NASA who design these things are engineers. They are the type of people who design the drills, while the drillers just point the drill at the ground and sit around.
@@josephk1342 riiiight. Well your comment is proved inaccurate later in the movie when these nasa engineers couldn't put his drill together properly because they couldn't read the prints. So try again.
@@HooyahPeacock Yeah, it's a fucking movie, not real life, that's my point. The movie is stupid.
8 months isn't enough to learn drilling, but somehow 1 week is enough to be astronauts.
Didn’t you hear, drilling is an art
@@Stillreal312LoL
@@Stillreal312*AND a science* 😎
Nerdonauts don't know jack about drillin'.
The drillers sent there aren't exactly "astronauts", they are only going to drill, all the space related stuff is in charge of the nasa staff sent with them. All nasa cared about the drillers was if they could phisically survive the journey.
"I'm sure you've got a team of men sitting around somewhere right now, just thinking shit up!" Hahaha thats great
Best line in the movie! Next of course is NO Nukes NO Nukes!!!
@@nanais007 S.B. at his finest @
And somebody backing them up.
IKR.....too funny.
IMHO best part was the “We DON”T WANT TO PAY TAXES EVER AGAIN!”
Simple. File a revocation of election claiming "non resident alien" status. It's legit. They're crooks
Only Billy Bob can contribute in such a way. Small role but so well played.
Small role? He was pretty much a second lead.
The fuck u mean small??? He was on screen half the time!
And two years earlier he was Karl from Sling Blade. Really versatile and underrated actor.
7:15
"Patents don't apply in outer space"
"Shut up Quincy"
lol xD
he wasn't mad they stole his patent design, he was mad they screwed up the drill and didn't read the plans correctly and as a result Earth could be screwed. that's why the guy told Quincy to shut up.
@@pethrosuriahson6156 ohh I hadn't thought of that, I thought it was just because the patents legal stuff didn't matter in that moment, all that mattered was getting the drill to work to save the Earth.
7:04 you gotta love that smirk Grace gives, knowing the thorough dress-down her dad is giving to them. Despite their rocky relationship, TOTAL reverence and respect for her dad. A subtlety that goes unnoticed in a lot of Michael Bay movies
You could see that with Mikaela in Transformers as well.
@@danielmoorefield4891 when Sam was mocking her boyfriend by the lake. I saw that too 👍
Fun movie and explains everything wrong with the USA for 50 years. The fate of the planet is at stake, scientists are idiots ( the people who literally make the difference between typing into this computer and sitting naked on a rock dying from a tooth infection at 22) so quick, call Joe 6 pack. In a movie, it's fun. Problem is too many people actually think this way.
i like how Harry is direct, no bullshit, straight-to-the-point.
Yeah and so is the nasa chief
Movies were so much better in the 90's then they are today.
The 80s and 90s were the best decades for science fiction movies
Were they? Or do we remember the absolute bangers ,whilst forgetting we watched Speed 2 fourteen times, because there was no Peaky Blinders?
Similar to Chinese Light Novels10 years ago, then government happened. More rules, more political, more of what should and shouldn't be allow to be written.
Once the government and people in the government involves to spread new rules, new messages, it kills ideas and creativity.
Dude forreal, movies are such trash now a days it seems and have been. Only movie I’m looking forward to is Deadpool Wolverine.
@@colloquialsoliloquy6391there’s been trash movies but some amazing best ever shows for sure.
7:40 he calls him Mr. wizard and 4 years later bam he's Lucius Malfoy.
Bruce Willis must have been head of Slytherin when Lucius Malfoy went to school
Damn, never realized that. This dude is so variable. And this movie has a helluva cast. But this I knew before.
7:40
Admiral Zhao's here!
And captain Lorca
Colonel Tavington
Great script, solid acting, great direction, taking full use of dept of field, wide lenses and visual dynamics. Think what you want about Bay, and I'm not even a fan, but Armageddon is a film master class.
True masterpiece
Well, it was a different world back then
I love this movie
Except when you look at the science they're basing this whole film on...
There's something wrong or completely wrong with about every aspect of it.
Nonetheless I love this movie also.
Back then, it would be common for two blockbuster films made by two different companies about the same story competing in the same summer season. "Armageddon" was competing against "Deep Impact" that year, 1998 and these two were probably the last two films to have such a battle.
I saw both films that year in the cinemas and "Deep Impact" was released first. "Deep Impact" was the lower budget but much more thoughtful one and the ending was a real tearjerker.
Critics at the time said that "Armageddon" had more action in its first 10 minutes than the whole of "Deep Impact" which is very true.
For me though, "Armageddon" is the bigger budget, more brash, more popcorn of a film compared to "Deep Impact". It had Michael Bay pulling out all his signature shots - slow motion, gorgeous lighting, ginormous explosions from the start but in terms of deep story telling and realistic characters, "Deep Impact" is the better film.
If you want a slower burning film with a tearjerker finale, watch "Deep Impact". If you want bombastic action, watch "Armageddon". Or watch both for their own merits.
Billy Bob Thornton just elevates every movie he’s in.
Even in "Tombstone" when he got sonned by Wyatt👍
And guess who saves the day once again???
JOHN McCLANE BABY!
When I heard the news the other day about Bruce Willis’s condition it really broke my heart. He’s the tough good guy we all want to be like. I really hope he can beat this thing and live out the rest of his days in peace. He truly deserves too. He’s done so much good for so many of us. My prayers and thoughts are with him and his family. If anyone out there can beat this thing that he has it’s John McClane!!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻
I remember watching this movie back then. There was this feeling maybe because we were in the 90s but this movie just felt like it really represented the 90s at least to me. Will always love this movie and will always go back and watch it.
The amount of uppers you'd need to give the technicians to get them to put two shuttles together in less than 18 days would be legendary.
More like impossible. I think they had the shuttles already, because they were going to use them initially to send Harry's drilling rig to Mars.
@@LucianDevine 3 trillion dollars tax payers with the funds and authorization from the private business we can easily send in a research team along with a drill construction team to the moon.
The Chinese would have this covered.
Of all the things ridiculous in this film, the idea that nasa can't figure out a drill system is probably the worst. I'm sure it's a fine engineering but it's not exactly, well, rocket science. You take it apart and you reverse engineer it. Some shady Chinese copycat firm probably could do it.
Make it 30 years and ile do it myself 💪
"You really don't want to take the advice of a man who got a C minus in astrophysics".
Question : was it Jason Isaacs's goal to be hated ? He plays an asshole in that movie and in '"the patriot" too.
@@gargouenzene Armageddon: He just put someone in their place.
The Patriot: He was the villain
@@trajan231same with Harry Potter
Lines like this stick with me. How did the presidents advisor get the job?
@@dadada486 Connections and contributions, most likely.
"im only best, because i worked
with the best" best damn line
in the movie
The fat guy that proposes the "solar sail" also plays a mission control guy in APOLLO 13.
The guy sitting next to Billy Bob Thornton in that scene was also in Apollo 13. He played Deke Slayton
Cinemasins pointed out how many people in this movie were in other space movies
Looking back this was pretty much a perfect movie. Great Script Great Acting
I'm a retired vet. Pretty much any movie emphasizing teamwork is always fun to watch.
Michael Bay executed that chair slide with perfection
I can watch any twenty minutes of this movie and be entertained.
"My God, what do we do..." So suddenly all wars stop and enemies join hands to stop this and resourses combine, amazing.
"I'm sure you got a team of men sittin' around somewhere just thinking shit up!" LOL!
The conversation that begins at 3:00 is when I fell for Jason Issacs. He was so cool and confident. Definitely drew me in 🥰
@Elemental Entity what r u talking about dude?
Can you believe this same man is Lucius Malfoy? Who knew he'd go from helping to plan on saving the muggle world to waging war on it, guess you never can tell with some people, eh? XD
Same❤❤
“ I am only the best because I work with the best, if you don’t trust the men you working with, you good as died” best line is this movie
Dead?
That intellectual eyes of Jason Issacs is amazing!
. . . Are you a closeted homosexual, son? #ComingOut
“Let’s just hope Mister Potter will always be there to save the day.”
@@r6-AgentScorpionParkerKRider23 "Don't worry, I will be." That by the way was a improv by Daniel. He originally wasn't supposed to say anything. That got Jason's attention.
@@JnEricsonx oh yeah I’ve seen both being interviewed about those lines. Jason said he knew Daniel would be okay in the industry(acting) after that.
@@JnEricsonx I’m actually one of those people that, if I’m bored enough I’ll watch the DVD with commentary because I learn just as much, if not more, by watching the movie that way. It shocks the hell out of people to learn that the “Armageddon Nerd” is also Lucious Malfoy(they never see it until I point it out).
"I need someone who has had a little less caffeine" 🤣🤣🤣Loved this movie, everyone killed their roles.
Without his cocky confidence, the drilling plan would not be realised. He is a hero
That's why it HAD to be drillers and not astronauts. With all the stuff that went wrong up there, astronauts would have failed miserably. They would have tried to play it safe, likely trying to drive to the original drilling site instead of drilling where they landed or something like that. Though that's assuming they also make it off of the space station, which also isn't a guarantee. Every decision the astronauts would have made up there would have been based off of their 8.5 months of training.
Every decision Harry made up there was based off of 30 years of experience and whatever else he'd learned from his father and/or grandfather.
My Favorite Scene "What's Your Contingency Plan?" , I can watch this scene a 1000 Times.
one of the best movies of the 90s
This and Titanic
This is the first movie I fell asleep to in the theater.
I saw this movie shortly after watching Slingblade. Billy Bob was so convincing in Slingblade, I had a hard time believing this was the same actor. I hadn't seen him in anything before Slingblade, so to me, he acted much like Carl in real life. He is a tremendous actor and very underrated.
Billy Bob had also done a small part in Tombstone as the bully that Wyatt Earp has to kicks out of the casino.
7:43 I love how those guys only role in the whole movie was to just stand there with their arms crossed.
4:42 ‘Mr. Truman it’s extremely important to the plot that my daughter understands the situation. She won’t end up doing anything remotely useful but fuck it- it’s Hollywood’
She brings the the biggest duck-bill lip deformation this side of the Mississippi to the table. Watchoo talkin' about?
02:05
"I need somebody, who had less caffeine this morning"
Made my 'caffeine' go all over my keyboard. Completely forgot this movie had many comedic moments.
Even though I prefer Deep Impact and Greenland this is still a decent disaster, the cast is pretty solid especially Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton!
Deep impact is amazing as well. I give it a slight edge over Armageddon due to it being more believable.
7:38 "Well, that's because your cans are all wrong Mr. Wizard"
Lol, not for another four years.
but harry....
cams. a rotating or sliding piece in linkage to change motion
6:37 - 9:31 Such a solid focused scene throughout to its end. It hits every emotion, good camera work, physical location work and story focus. Its scenes like this in movies that you do not see often anymore
Bruce Willis had three phases to his career: Young Asshole, Balls to the Wall, and Phoning It In. This movie is the peak of his Balls to the Wall phase. I hated young Bruce, and low-effort Bruce makes me sad, but he really shines in this one.
The General is well versed in military tactics; not astrophysics. This is the reason why Dr Quincy had to simplify his analysis of the situation. The asteroid was the size of Texas, composed of rock and iron ferrite, travelling at over 20,000 miles an hour. Hitting it with warheads from the outside would be useless. Drilling a hole and putting a warhead in makes the structure weaker and easier to destroy.
That's true except you'd have to drill A LOT deeper than 800 feet. If the asteroid were indeed 'the size of Texas', you'd have to drill more like 250 miles to get near the center.
I rather have a General sending a bunch of nukes into space instead of this new age hippie sun sail guy who always for some reason pops up with this idea in these discussions.
@@Perserra for real bro that’s like me digging 1 ft hole at the top of Mt Everest, then putting a hand grenade in it expecting it to destroy the whole mountain 😑
What's interesting is that composition and mass understandings of comets and asteroids have changed significantly in almost 30 years. A simple probe was able to change the trajectory of an asteroid way more than they thought it would. Sending 150 nukes would have probably done the trick, now that we know kinetic impacts work.
@@DragonLatinVIC Your analogy is flawed because it's attached to the earth. You know how like in water, you can essentially move larger floating objects, like a tug boat? Space is like that, in that the lack of gravity is like buoyancy, in that a small push can deliver a large output against the mass. We tested a kinetic impactor recently and it worked way better than we thought it would.
"they dont know jack about drilling"
what does that mean ?
meteor they don’t know how to drill.
@@meteor8076 play on words, Jack hammers can be used to drill and or chisel
Double entendre
This movie came out in 1998, it looks like it's from 2010
A silly overdramatic movie, but still very much enjoyable. I love the scenes showing the asteroid in space, the music is so chilling. They did a good job giving a mere rock in space such personality.
While I agree with the silly part, I'm not sure you can be overdramatic when we're talking end of the world.
I hope its size is the only thing it has in common with Texas.
Between The Rock and Armageddon Michael Bay should of kept making these kind of movies. I get the Transformers are a cash cow but with a solid script he could make some epic action movies.
2:54 Lucius Malfoy Schooling General Kimsey Like a G!
I watched this movie like a hundred times back in the day
me too
I still watch regularly
That is what our office looks like. Clear decisions, clear communications between high level technical experts and decision makers.
Are you advertising your company via UA-cam comments section?
@@borntogazeintonightskies Yes I am.
@@cristianoneto7133 Oooooooookay.
The movie that turned me head over heels for Liv Tyler.
I love that guy with the solar sheet thing mumbling lmao
Harry: What's your contingency plan?
Truman: Solar winds ... either that or lasers.
Harry: ?????
This is one of the most underrated movies of all time. This movie is GREAT!!! it is funny, it has a good storyline, it is full of dramatic scenes, and for God's sake, IT IS about saving THE WORLD. I own this movie and I watch it a few times a year.
Because its a Disney movie
LOL are u stupid or what?
This movie was the highest grossing film of 1998 and you have the stupidity to call it uNdErRaTed?
Harry Stamper is my hero
Any man who shoots Ben Affleck in the leg is my hero too...
At 2:05, I would love that guy to be in our friend's group. He seem so smart, humble & the kind of a guy will just be ok to do anything or go anywhere with his mates ; ONLY after he gives you: the rundown, the stats, the figures, the risk, the probabilities, the history & the facts speech in less than a minute.
"Enough with this anomaly horse shit"
After all these years I now realize how ridiculous it is that they thought learning to drill would be more difficult for the astronauts to learn even after 8 months of training than it would be for drillers to become astronauts in 10 days..
well astronaut are mossly nacy guys, and the drillers all days face the death
Isn't it just as ridiculous to trust these guys up there with what will be 8.5 months of training, as opposed to Harry's 30 years of experience plus whatever else he picked up from his father/grandfather?
@@LucianDevine it's drilling a hole, not rocket science. I think the astronauts could easily learn how to do that. Movie's plot is dumb.
@@kj6axk Except that even the experienced drillers being led by the man who designed the machine in question barely made it in time. How do you think the astronauts would have done?
Even if we assume that from a drilling perspective the astronauts would have done the exact same thing as the experienced drillers, would they have stopped Sharp from dropping off the bomb and thus dooming the entire planet?
And after 8 months of training they never managed to realize that they did a piss poor job of putting the thing together? I'd rather have guys who understand the machinery than guys who only understand the journey up to where they need to use the machinery.
This was and still is the most entertaining comedy - action - drama’s I’ve ever seen when it came out.
Doesn't get any more real than, "Nothing will survive, not even bacteria".
Why do I always tear up? It’s so earnest 🥺 I miss these pure times.
3:00
Voldemort may be evil, but he knows damn well how to blow an asteroid apart.
you mean lucius malfoy lol, so this is what he's been up to.
This has always been one of my favorite movies that always makes my eyes water. So good. You're the man Harry!
A Michael Bay masterpiece. Everyone’s emotions, especially those of Liv Tyler, sells the intensity and weight of one of the most gravest possibilities of human history. You can just feel the anger and fear through her facial expressions, when her father (Bruce Willis) volunteered to go in space. How it ended, though heroic, proved to be just as tragic through her beautiful eyes. Gonna have to watch this again now and I’m not even mad about it. God bless🙏💯
Billy Bob killed this role
I keep coming back to this clip.Such a great movie.
I love how the President for this movie was the same as the Rock. Talk about a stressful term!
Can you imagine how all this would be in the modern age of social media and all that and how much earlier and more easily word of this could break out?
And the way the World Trade Center hit (which the spots the towers were hit weren't all that off from where they were hit on 9/11) was beyond scary :(
3:19 - 3:36 Thank you!! Finally a moment that shows the importance of the people you should and shouldn't listen to...and these guys are the "advisors." And yes I've read the other comments about how the guy couldn't put the drill together.....Well I wouldn't hire a foot-doctor to work on my heart. They are both smart...so what. Plus the drill wasn't some handheld. It was a sophisticated, one-of-a-kind machine for drilling through material that can't be drilled through. So please stop comparing the two.
I have a B.S. in programming systems. As a result, I have to know *a little* bit of engineering through trial and error. But a company wouldn't come to me and ask me to build them a system. Sure, I could "build" the programming aspect of it, but not the hardware.
To say one last thing....just my opinion. But if I'm President of the US and I'm searching for my Scientific Adviser, I'm picking someone who excels in ALL aspects of science; and when I say *ALL* I'm talking about the area's of study they did to graduate....and in this case, a C- in the field astrophysics is not something the scientific adviser should have in his/her portfolio.
President to his adviser:: We have an asteroid headed here that will destroy the planet
Adviser:: Well, this is what we should do.....
President to adviser:: Ok, let's do that.
While the missile is just moments away from impact, the president, who never looked at his adviser's college history, decides to look through it as he watches updates on the missile about to hit the asteroid. As he finishes reading the part of the astrophysics, he looks up at the tv just in time to see the missile explode. After the flash, all he see's for the next few minutes is a rock. He ponders what he's thought throughout his life and what was important. Finally, he regrets only one thing; he says to himself, "I guess all those people, over the years, who told me that college wasn't that important...just might have been wrong."
“They don’t know jack about drilling!”
Like Affleck said, how hard can it be? Aim the drill at the ground and turn it on.
Affleck is a great driller, he can drill everywhere,anytime... In fact he drill the most dangerous place on mother earth and survive it (with a shotgun's shrapnel in the leg actually). If you understand what i mean.....
The dude at 2:28 talking about solar sails and winds always cracks me up. It always sounds like he has no idea what he's talking about.
I don't know why I keep replay when BBT said "Nothing would surive, not even bacteria" lol
When the world's greatest villain uses the planets most destructive materia. Michael Bay was there to film it all.
Jason Issacs. Any role. Any where.
Harry: (to Quincy) That's because you got all cams wrong, Mr. Wizard.
Me: He predicted future.
(reference to Jason Isaacs playing Lucius Malfoy in HP movies afterwards)
"She'll just smile at you, and keep on coming."
I love that part
I guess they didn't understand Bruce Willis' salt of the Earth ways.
"8 whole months"
lol
All the silliness aside, this was a terrifying movie.
The possibility is there, albeit exceedingly rare, that something like this could happen...again.
One of the best action movies ever made. Just brilliant.
"Let's train drillers to be astronauts, instead of train astronauts to drill" yeah no, great movie though.
People diss this movie because of its inaccuracies, they also diss Pearl Harbor but between the action and the romance songs these are perfect movies for a young couple to start dates with. Whatever happened to movies like this??
Pearl Harbor is somewhat of a failure though
Never realized Michael Bay cast himself as a rocket scientist in these scenes, which is hilarious because from everything I've ever seen by him, that man is the definition of the phrase "he's not a rocket scientist."
Bruce Willis got lots of movies with title "Die Hard" and so they got him in this movie to finally finish him off :D
I love this movie. If I ever see the dvd somewhere...I'm buying it on the spot.
@0:47 Michael Bay cameo XD
It's 2019 and this time I saw it immediately and looked for you in the comments. Salute, mi familia.
it only took 5th time for me to finally notice lol @@roachizkool
Adding to my dissertation. Thanks for the inspo Billy Bob!!
I Salute to Mr. Bay for this outstanding movie...he is a true Gem....wether ita Armageddon or Transformer series..he put emotions which is unmatchable.....❤ ur the Best Mr. Bay 🙏
Sweet upload.
0:47 - Michael Bay himself.
GOOD JOB,UNIMAGINABLY AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Imagine telling George Washington the smartest man on the planet is a British
0:47 Well, well, it's the man himself.
He said Mr Wizard to Mr malfoy
Now I want to watch Armageddon
And their best plan was to turn oil drillers into astronauts.🤦🏻♂️Brilliant
The moment between me sneaking out and getting caught by my dad was the wonderful 150mins of this movie brilliance.