Re-watching it now, Armageddon has lost none of its spectacle.
Meanwhile, Harry must come to terms with the romance between his daughter Grace (Liv Tyler) and his employee AJ (a post Good Will Hunting Ben Affleck). The plan is to drill a hole, blow up the asteroid and save the planet. In that short period of time, a team of oil drillers led by Harry Stamper (Bruce Willis) must learn the basics of space travel while NASA tries to cope with their unconventional and rule-breaking methods. And so, a countdown begins to the end of the world.Īnd time is short with only 18 days until the extinction of all life on Earth. The narrator (Charlton Heston) says that it’s only a matter of time before this destruction happens again. The end of the world was topical.Īrmageddon opens 65 million years in the past as an asteroid smashes into the surface of the Earth sending flames and smoke across the planet and wiping out the dinosaurs.
Apocalyptic storytelling was on the rise in the second half of the 1990s as the new millennium approached. Its blend of comedy and action will be familiar to anyone who has watched a contemporary blockbuster.īut, it is also a film of that decade. The film also outperformed the year’s other film about an asteroid strike, the more thoughtful Deep Impact. It took over 200 million dollars at the US box office and ended the year as the second highest grosser of 1998 behind Saving Private Ryan. Love it or loathe it, the Michael Bay movie was a commercial success upon release. That’s the basic plot of Armageddon, the big-budget disaster film, which arrived in cinemas 20 years ago this week. The American space agency has some ideas for dealing with this threat but they don’t include asking a ragtag bunch of oil drillers for help if an asteroid the size of Texas is about to hit the Earth. In recently published plans, NASA suggested that the risk of an asteroid striking the Earth is small but such a hit would be very, very bad.
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