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u/OrbitronFactory 55m ago
More on screen deaths than I remember. Nice.
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u/Bone_Breaker0 41m ago
I remember reading the novelization of the movie, and over a 1000 kids died that day.
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u/zk3033 54m ago
This was so cool. The all-star cast going through shenanigans was also so much fun. Plus, Aerosmith sings a song about Steven Tyler's daughter! This way-overshadowed the other 1998 movie about preparing to blow up a meteor Deep Impact.
What has been "subjected to misinterpretation?!?"
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u/monjorob 54m ago
Honestly it’s one of the greatest disaster/adventure movies ever made. Great characters, fast pacing, fantastic technical effects. I agree with Criterion
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u/gtkarber 48m ago
The essay for this Criterion release is great. It’s from one of Michael Bay’s teachers, in undergrad I think. And they say that Michael Bay asked if they could bring some photos in for feedback after class and the teacher said sure and then says that, looking at them, they were gobsmacked. They were the best photographs they had ever been shown by a student. And of course they were of typical Michael Bay subjects — fast expensive cars and such — but that they captured movement and speed in a way that no other student could touch. And the teacher knew Michael Bay had the goods, and that this movie is the outcome of that talent, focused and honed and applied to commercial art. It kinda flipped me on Michael Bay!
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u/thebublight 54m ago
Absolutely a work of art anyone who says otherwise is a pretentious art school snob. Not every movie strives to be citizen kane. This movie is a master class in entertainment. Remember thst movies can be FUN
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u/True_Pirate 43m ago
It’s all subjective. I don’t throw any hate for someone enjoying it. I thought it was just godawful, though.
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u/classphoto92 40m ago
I will always hold a place in my heart for Michael Bay on the strength of his got milk? Commercial alone. But at the same time, he had peak Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson in a spiritual Logan's Run reboot and it wasn't completely terrible. That should have been my all time favorite movie ever on the history of all time in the world!
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u/maringue 40m ago
"Those are special effects, not a story." "I don't understand the difference."
South Park nailed Michael Bay right there.
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u/brainfreeze77 45m ago
Sorry but im no snob, i love popcorn flicks and I can't stand this movie. The quick cuts are enough to give you whiplash.
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u/bonyponyride 34m ago
Maybe I'm a pretentious science school snob, but meteors would hit the ground with so much more energy. It should have been even more destructive, with impact shock waves that create craters like we see on the moon rather than standard hollywood fireballs.
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u/SaveUsCatman 50m ago
Yeah like Event Horizon
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u/VoidLookedBack 34m ago
One of Paul W.S. Andersons Top movies IMO, Event Horizon and Soldier might be his best work.
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u/Franiera 37m ago
Speaking of the writing: why would they choose drillers to be astronauts, rather than choosing astronauts to be drillers? Logically speaking, it’s much easier to learn how to drill than it is to go into space.
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u/Bromirez 47m ago
It’s just one the movies they had the rights to distribute early on. It’s kind of a joke now, but sales of the film propelled a lot of other movies to be released later on. We should all be thankful for Armageddon!
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u/GeekAesthete 44m ago
They got so lucky casting Ben Affleck before Good Will Hunting.
Supposedly they brought him in for casting, and he was the one that all the women in the office swooned over, so they figured he was a good choice for a budget love interest (since Bruce Willis was already the star). Then GWH and all the Oscar fame happened, and he ended up being a significant selling point.
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u/MWH1980 47m ago edited 1m ago
I remember this inspires me to do some disaster-related art in my animation classes in 2000-2001.
I remember me and one guy were trying to figure out how we could pull off a realistic-looking Sears Tower collapse using handheld camera angles and Alias/Wavefront Maya software…and then 9/11 happened, and we abandoned the idea.
Besides, in the late 2010’s the film Rampage did a pretty amazing job of making that effects-driven idea happen.
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u/Lewslayer 35m ago
This is my favorite lizard-brain movie of all time. One of the all-time “don’t think, just enjoy the ride” movies out there.
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u/GaryQueenofScots 29m ago
I used to teach a seminar called “Stupid Movie Physics”. This flick was one of my favorite examples. So dumb, in so many ways. But a lot of fun, if you could turn your brain off.
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u/jsakic99 47m ago
Requesting permission to shake the hand of the daughter of the bravest man I've ever met.
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u/True_Pirate 43m ago
🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
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u/jsakic99 40m ago
Boy: "Mom, that salesman's on TV."
Mother: "That man's not a salesman. That's your daddy."
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u/goaway432 53m ago
I realize just how awful the "science" in the movie was, but I'll be damned if it wasn't fun to watch.
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u/deltajvliet 37m ago
Just realized the taxi flips into the Cadillac twice, very separately from different angles. The end doesn't age well as far as 9/11 vibes. Great special effects for the time though, and I appreciate real cars are at least being flung into real cars. CGI action these days can't compete.
I'm no Bay apologist, but I feel like this would be a good example to enter into the Collection or maybe the Library of Congress for people a few hundred years from now to see what bombastic cinematic stupidity looked like circa ~2000.
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u/Riceatron 50m ago
A friend got me to read Homestuck for the first time and this movie and Con Air play some heavy relevancy in that shockingly pretty ok mess of a webcomic, so we watched them as they hadn't seen them. Con Air? Amazing start to finish, what a movie. Armageddon we stopped before they even went to space and it had already been nearly an hour and a half.
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u/postwarmutant 54m ago
Entered into? Criterion isn’t a hall of fame, they’re just a distributor with really good branding. They often acquire commercial films because the sales enable them to distribute much less commercial films.