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Binding: Blu-ray
Graphics Memory Size: Widescreen
Maximum Color Depth: Buena Vista
Metal Type: Buena Vista
Publisher: 1
Total Firewire Ports: Buena Vista
Total Metal Weight: 1
Buena Vista
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com essential video:
The latest testosterone-saturated blow-'em-up from producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay (The Rock, Bad Boys) continues Hollywood's millennium-fueled fascination with the destruction of our planet. There's no arguing that the successful duo understands what mainstream American audiences want in their blockbuster movies--loads of loud, eye-popping special effects, rapid- fire pacing, and patriotic flag waving. Bay's protagonists--the eight crude, lewd, oversexed (but lovable, of course) oil drillers summoned to save the world from a Texas-sized meteor hurling toward the earth--are not flawless heroes, but common men with whom all can relate. In this huge Western-in-space soap opera, they're American cowboys turned astronauts. Sci-fi buffs will appreciate Bay's fetishizing of technology, even though it's apparent he doesn't understand it as anything more than flashing lights and shiny gadgets. Smartly, the duo also tries to lure the art-house crowd, raiding the local indie acting stable and populating the film with guys like Steve Buscemi, Billy Bob Thornton, Owen Wilson, and Michael Duncan, all adding needed touches of humor and charisma. When Bay applies his sledgehammer aesthetics to the action portions of the film, it's mindless fun; it's only when Armageddon tackles humanity that it becomes truly offensive. Not since Mississippi Burning have racial and cultural stereotypes been substituted for characters so blatantly--African Americans, Japanese, Chinese, Scottish, Samoans, Muslims, French ... if it's not white and American, Bay simplifies it. Or, make that white male America; the film features only three notable females--four if you count the meteor, who's constantly referred to as a "bitch that needs drillin'," but she's a hell of a lot more developed and unpredictable than the other women characters combined. Sure, Bay's film creates some tension and contains some visceral moments, but if he can't create any redeemable characters outside of those in space, what's the point of saving the planet? --Dave McCoy
Amazon.com:
The latest testosterone-saturated blow-'em-up from producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay (The Rock, Bad Boys) continues Hollywood's millennium-fueled fascination with the destruction of our planet. There's no arguing that the successful duo understands what mainstream American audiences want in their blockbuster movies--loads of loud, eye-popping special effects, rapid- fire pacing, and patriotic flag waving. Bay's protagonists--the eight crude, lewd, oversexed (but lovable, of course) oil drillers summoned to save the world from a Texas-sized meteor hurling toward the earth--are not flawless heroes, but common men with whom all can relate. In this huge Western-in-space soap opera, they're American cowboys turned astronauts. Sci-fi buffs will appreciate Bay's fetishizing of technology, even though it's apparent he doesn't understand it as anything more than flashing lights and shiny gadgets. Smartly, the duo also tries to lure the art-house crowd, raiding the local indie acting stable and populating the film with guys like Steve Buscemi, Billy Bob Thornton, Owen Wilson, and Michael Duncan, all adding needed touches of humor and charisma. When Bay applies his sledgehammer aesthetics to the action portions of the film, it's mindless fun; it's only when Armageddon tackles humanity that it becomes truly offensive. Not since Mississippi Burning have racial and cultural stereotypes been substituted for characters so blatantly--African Americans, Japanese, Chinese, Scottish, Samoans, Muslims, French ... if it's not white and American, Bay simplifies it. Or, make that white male America; the film features only three notable females--four if you count the meteor, who's constantly referred to as a "bitch that needs drillin'," but she's a hell of a lot more developed and unpredictable than the other women characters combined. Sure, Bay's film creates some tension and contains some visceral moments, but if he can't create any redeemable characters outside of those in space, what's the point of saving the planet? --Dave McCoy
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
If you know some of my other reviews, I don't hate Michael Bay. I am the ONLY nitpicky film fan in the world who considers Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen one of his favorite movies, and I don't get impressed by many movies. Armageddon is good for matinee fun, and it's an entertaining blockbuster at first glance. However, even though I could easily just turn off my brain completely, with it's glaring problems, there's no way I'm going to let it slide. I'm putting my foot down on a movie that ... Read More
Rating:  -
This is an abominable mess of a movie. Earth seems doomed when astronomers discover a 500-mile wide asteroid hurtling toward us. In a plan worthy of Wile E. Coyote, an oil-drilling crew that is as violent as a Chicago street gang will save the planet by flying up in a Shuttle, landing on said meteor, drilling an 800-foot (!) hole, and inserting a nuclear warhead, which will blow that bad boy in two, so that half skims past Earth on each side. Along the way they have many chances for snappy tough-guy ... Read More
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If you want to see a movie with loud action, awesome special effects and pure destruction (even though it's content is absurd) this is the movie for you. I might warn you, there are some real cheesy scenes that might make your eyes bleed.
I am no astronaut, nor do I work for NASA or even worse ever read a book about space, and yet I found load of things when I saw this in the movies 12 years ago that it was impossible for it to happen, but yet since it is for entertainment purposes I tried ... Read More
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This movie epitomizes the literary phrase "Suspension of Disbelief", which means absolutely preposterous. That doesn't always mean terrible. This movie has one of the craziest and most implausible plot points in movie history. They get great actors to sound excited about the perils and pitfalls of drilling into the hardest metal imaginable on an asteroid headed for earth. The U.S. Space Shuttles can barely reenter our own atmosphere without pieces falling off of it. YET, they manage to land on an asteroid ... Read More
Rating:  -
Again - don't let the movie snobs fool you; this is a really good flick. I am excited to see (and hear) this on Blu-Ray. Armageddon is easily this is one of the best action flicks of the 1990's and will take any viewer back decades to old science fiction stories of the 1950's and 60's found in movies and comics. It really is traditional story telling in its purest form. It contains the perfect mix of humor, action and suspense. Is this film deserving of an Academy Award? Well, no...but it is a good flick ... Read More
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