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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: DVD Brand: WILLIS,BRUCE DVD Layers: 2 DVD Sides: 1 EAN: 9781558909007 Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Widescreen ISBN: 1558909001 Label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone Languages: Manufacturer: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone MPN: 717951000842 Number Of Items: 1 Picture Format: Letterbox Publisher: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone Region Code: 1 Release Date: January 05, 1999 Running Time: 151 minutes Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone Theatrical Release Date: July 01, 1998 Editorial Review: Product Description: When an asteroid the size of Texas is headed for Earth, a ragtag team of roughneck oil drillers are sent to drop a nuclear warhead into its core. Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure Rating: PG13 Release Date: 25-JAN-2005 Media Type: DVD 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 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Anal About Realism? Not for you. Want To Be Entertained? This is it.I believe this movie to be well directed and scripted. It had the right amount of humor, drama, and "feel good" ending. They knew when to be funny and when to be serious. It had a great cast and overall it was a very enjoyable movie. From what I've read, this was one of those "hate it or love it" movies and I really liked the movie. As for realism, yeah most of that stuff probably wouldn't fly realistically but if the only way to save our planet was to drill a hole in the sucker, would ... Read More Rating:  - every cliche and movie ploy in the bookthe best thing about this movie is it's fast paced and therefore the pain of various scenes is short-lived. also, there's some good one-liners on the moon. however, this movie attacks you with a blended mash of movie standards such as: the macho hero, the love interest, patriotism, action, rising music to artificially stir your emotions, the scientific genius, the misunderstood father, the misunderstood daughter, suspense, comedy, the bumbling bureaucrats, the rough-edged construction workers ... Read More Rating:  - OVER HYPED. BORING.This movie is over hyped. It's boring after 15 minutes into the movie. There's nothing exciting. It's also illogical. Rating: - A celebration of excitement and excessMichael Bay's films are an odd addition to the Criterion collection, until you recall the Criterion Collection's mission statement reads "All we ask is that each film in the collection be an exemplary film of its kind." Armageddon is ultimate distillation of Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer's commercial action movie formula, a formula that they introduced in Bad Boys (Special Edition), improved upon in The Rock - Criterion Collectionand finally, post-Armageddon, ran into the ground in Pearl ... Read More Rating: - This movie has great entertainment valueI have to admit that this is one of my favorite movies of all time. There are very few movies that even try to touch on almost every emotion and this one does it well in my opinion. For those who didn't like it, I am guessing that they were trying to relate it to reality. Movies like this aren't meant for that. They are meant for their entertainment value and this is full of it. There is action, comedy, drama, suspense, and a little horror. Awesome! |
