Armageddon, the film

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Okay so it's just as much cheesy, overblown fun as everyone said it was. And the beginning bit on the oil rig was very funny.

Jason Issacs sighting. It amused me that everyone else on the base was American but the brainiest was British. I suppose he was naturalised like the two Brits that have been up in space were.

Yo film-makers, I suggest that while you're getting permission from the French, you might like to discuss it with the European Space Agency, which the French one is part of. Okay, they can't even get a satellite into space, but still. Accuracy in all things.

Say what you want about her, but the camera really loves Liv Tyler. Although how she's so pale if she's been on rigs for all her life is beyond me.



Okay I did dreadfully on the he's dead meat pool. I had Chick down, but definitely not Oscar. I knew about what happened to Harry and to Hound Dog so they weren't betted on.

Of course I also knew that the chick wouldn't bite the dust, because accusations of having no female characters would be levied at them otherwise. I'm growing cynical in my old age. That's also how I figured Bear wouldn't die, although he did give me one huge fright there.

And one shuttle has all but two of the characters we knew from the start and the other one doesn't. Which is going to be vapourised?

Dude, mind not slamming into Paris, that's a nice city. Go destroy a concrete city instead.

And I spent the entire film going who's that guy playing the Russian, he looks familiar. It turns out to be Peter Stormare. Count one for random sightings of him.

I half expected him to get got, and was pleased when he didn't. And he has the right idea about machinery ;)

What was worrying was that I guessed what he was going to say just before they all drew lots.

Count also an Udo Kier sighting.

Loved how the military (baring Sharp) were all idiots and the NASA nerds were nice. However much of a cliche it might be.

Now, some of my favourite lines,

>>Lev Andropov: Don't touch my uncle! He is the genius of my family. He used to make the tip of the bomb, you know? That finds New York or Washington?<<

If only for the looks on their faces. Okay it amuses me in it's own right but that's cause I'm strange that way.

>>Ronald Quincy: I know the presidents' chief advisor, we were at MIT together. And, at this point in time, you really don't want to take advice from a man who got a C minus in astrophysics. The presidents' advisors are wrong. I am right.<<

You go man! Muchly loved his arrogance.

>>A.J.: Have you ever heard of Evel Knievel?
Lev Andropov: No, I never saw Star Wars. <<

ROTFLMAO

>>Karl: I wanna name her Dottie after my wife. She's a vicious life-sucking bitch from which there is no escape.<<

Ah, sweet revenge.

>>Colonel William Sharp: Miss Stamper? Colonel Willie Sharp, United States Airforce, ma'am. Requesting the permission to shake the hand of the daughter of the bravest man I've ever met.<<

Okay, it was cheesy, it was over the top, but as a line it is so perfect.

>>Colonel William Sharp: Get off... the nuclear... warhead.<<

I'm a sicko, it amuses me. You know the drill.



Oh and Steve Buscemi was in it, so I was happy about that also.