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delsyn@email.msn.com writes:
[Some Armageddon spoilers. Not that it matters.]
AARGHH!
Armageddon is killing me! That... movie -- for lack of a better word -- will not get out of my head! It's like the mirror image of The Truman Show. I keep digging through the layers of crap in a vain attempt to find oxygen -- and all I find is more crap! I must vent!- What the hell was that freakin' red wire/blue wire scene? This is a standard issue military nuclear bomb being disarmed by a guy who's on the spaceship specifically because HE KNOWS ABOUT NUCLEAR BOMBS! These guys are not a military recruitment incentive.
- Why would Michael Bay specifically focus on the Apollo 1 plaque? This was one of the greatest tragedies in the history of the space program -- other than this movie. Is this supposed to fill me with confidence?
- Texas is a pretty big state -- but not enough for an asteroid the same size to generate the selective gravity that's shown in this movie.
- Why shoot Liv Tyler on her back with her face all scrunched up into her neck? She's cute and virtually the only female in the film. Shouldn't you want to make her look her best?
- I expect the roughnecks in the films to be anti-authoritarian rebels, but bad as they are, they actually acted more professionally than the NASA guys AND the military.
- This film had two Oscar winning screenwriters in the cast, Billy Bob Thornton and Ben Affleck, and nobody ever said, "Hey, guys, think you could punch up the dialogue?"
- In an era of mind-numbing special effects, how come the destruction of New York looked so damn fake?
Thanks -- just needed to get that off my chest.
The Flick Filosopher responds:
You thought the roughnecks acted more professionally than the NASA guys? I saw it exactly the opposite: The roughnecks were like a bunch of children, running around, screaming, shooting and hitting everything in sight. The moral of the movie seemed to be, It's cool to be a moron.
The destruction of New York looked so damn fake because the exploding streets were actually a Hollywood soundstage. For a supposedly big FX movie, they skimped on a lot of things, like all the lame-ass excuses for not having to do zero-g effects. In fact, the one time they did do zero-g, I could see the wires supporting the actor!
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