Comments on: Armageddon

by: What the...?

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:28:03 +0000

And I say, “who cares”?

Aside from people who passed eighth-grade science?

by: Soulbender

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:55:37 +0000

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

by: Eugenia

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:33:55 +0000

>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.

by: Soulbender

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:15:16 +0000

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.

by: What the...?

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:01:38 +0000

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.

by: Andrew

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:50:24 +0000

>The russian guy is amazing for once.
Only Peter Stormare could pull it off.

by: Andrew

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:47:17 +0000

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.

by: Eugenia

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:13:10 +0000

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!