Armageddon
October 26, 2008Armageddon’s on TV right now. I’ve seen it a couple of hundred times already, and every time, I’m just amazed by how god damn good this film is. It has everything. Action, suspense, special effects, decent humour, and probably one of the most heartbreaking acting moments ever recorded on camera (I can’t listen to that Aerosmith song without a few chills traveling down my spine).
Armageddon does everything right. Even though the film makes no sense whatsoever, you just don’t give a rat’s ass when you’re watching it, because you’re totally into it all. And as far as I’m concerned, that’s what a good film is supposed to do: make the unbelievable believable. What’s harder to transfer to the silver screen: real events, things that could happen in reality - or something totally bizarre? The professional critics didn’t like it, but luckily, the audience didn’t give a rat’s ass, and went en masse to the film because they realised what it was: entertainment. A film doesn’t need dying AIDS patients or men making out in order to be good.
This film should’ve swept the Oscars, and the fact that it didn’t just shows what kind of an abysmal farce the Academy Awards are.
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I personally love “Armageddon”. It has very low ratings from critics and viewers, on IMDb too, but I just love it. It’s just FUN. The russian guy is amazing for once.
I feel the same way about “Independence Day” too btw. Same kind of movie: completely ridiculous and did really bad with critics and viewers, but it’s just fun!
Comment by Eugenia — October 27, 2008 @ 12:13 am
I enjoyed Armageddon when I was younger, not anymore.
I find it hard to maintain suspension of disbelief when it’s so central to the story itself. I can manage it when it comes to accessories, etc. but when the story itself requires you to stop thinking just so you can enjoy it, I can’t do it.
Not a judgement, just a feeling. When I was capable of doing it I quite enjoyed the movie.
Comment by Andrew — October 27, 2008 @ 2:47 am
>The russian guy is amazing for once.
Only Peter Stormare could pull it off.
Comment by Andrew — October 27, 2008 @ 2:50 am
You’re being sarcastic, right? It takes a LOT to make me hate a movie Steve Buscemi in it, but Armageddon manages it.
“Best” / worst scene? “Duh, hey, we made artificial gravity by spinning the spacestation around, cause we were too damn lazy to film a weightless scene… in a big budget ‘epic’… set in space.”
It deserves the Rifftrax treatment almost as much as “300″ did.
Comment by What the...? — October 27, 2008 @ 3:01 pm
I dunno about damn good but it is an entertaining loud & stupid action movie. Lots of wooden acting, a stupid plot and lots of stunts, just turn off your brain and enjoy.
As far as hating movies with Buscemi, ConAir is a lot worse than Armegeddon. Somehow Bruckheimer managed to make a move about a plane full of psychopatic criminals boring but maybe that’s because Cage puts in in incredibly dull and wooden performance. Few are the times when I have cared less about the main character.
Comment by Soulbender — October 27, 2008 @ 7:15 pm
>As far as hating movies with Buscemi, ConAir is a lot worse than Armegeddon.
I liked Con Air too.
Give me well-directed action and sci-fi and I won’t try to get the facts right. With Armageddon, NASA helped them. And when the movie came out, NASA didn’t want anything to do with the movie because so many scientific points were wrong. And I say, “who cares”? The movie is just so much fun, that it just doesn’t matter.
There are movies that you do care about it being perfect in every way, and then there are the action movies, where the action and suspense are the only things that need to be right. And both Armageddon, Con Air and Independence Day do this right.
Comment by Eugenia — October 28, 2008 @ 1:33 am
Well, the problem is that ConAir wasn’t entertaining. It was horribly boring and surely not helped by Cage doing his best to not show any damn emotions at all. I really didnt care jack for his character. The only good thing about it was Buscemi, Malkovich (who chews scenery like a champ) and Rames. Well, I guess John Cusack was in it but who really cared?
And trust me, I have low standards when it comes to being entertained by dumb, loud action movies. Heck, I even like both Bad Boys movis and Armegeddon but maybe thats because Will Smith has charm and doesnt act like a fallen tree log
Comment by Soulbender — October 28, 2008 @ 10:55 am
Aside from people who passed eighth-grade science?
Comment by What the...? — October 29, 2008 @ 8:28 pm