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[Al Degutis]

Looking at the posts about some of the other movies, I expect to be in the minority about liking this movie. I guess it's because when I watch a movie I allow for more fiction than science. I don't try to analyze it too much and just see if it entertains me. This one did. The movie has good and bad science:

Good: having to drill a hole into the asteriod to split it instead of a surface detonation.

Bad: most everything else.

The cast of characters is also at the extreme, but it makes it colorful... not necessarily believeable.

I enjoy this movie for what it is: entertainment.

Al

[Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe]

There are movies which are bad and fun...and there are movies which are bad and just offensive.

I liked Armageddon for sheer fun. Afleck can't act, but it's ok. I did have a problem with using shuttles for the mission. I guess they incorporate technology that the public is familiar with, but it didn't make it any more believable.

The Russian cosmonaut was a laugh and Steve Buscemi's character was fun - ( I like him in any movie..."Reseviour Dogs"). I really don't need the character developements, (love, family ambition etc...), to make a movie work for me. I think that "Armegeddon" and many other movies spend to much time in this rut, and not enough on the real main story line. It's suppose to make you care about the people...ho hum.

But I did like the movie and humor.

Now the movie "Meteor" from 1979 with an all star cast, was a really bad film. Not even Henry Fonda, Natalie Wood or Sean Connery could save it.

[stargazer]

Wasnt this the movie where a comet or something was going to hit the Earth and if they didnt blow it up we would all die and in the end theone guy left behind blew up the comet with a Nucular (?) bomb and died with it. He sent the crew home and then did it. If this is that movie I thought it was stupid. The plot seemed real as I know it could happen (about a comet crashing to earth and killing us all) but to blow it up the way they did I dont see how.

[Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe]

Yes, that was the movie , with Bruce Willis as the sacrificial astronaut.

I don't remember the weight of the asteroid nor the kilo tons of the bomb...but with some imagination, I can accept the plan. The danger is creating countless rogue missles, now with the asteroid all splintered, but if the Earth is going to get hit anyway, what the hell!

I didn't see "Deep Impact", but I heard it took itself too seriously. I'm tired of seeing individual catastrophies while the major one is going on...such as a wall falling on a dope, someone getting electrocuted on a downed powerline, or a heroic rescue of a little girl from a burning car. Again....ho-hum. A bad movie relies on these minor sub-plots to garner the short attention span of the average viewer.

[stargazer]

I saw Deep Impact and I didnt like it at all. You were right it did take itself to serious. Why cant they make movies about the Space Program or the Universe. Show the world what us Astronomers see and are in love with. But thats just my opinion.

B

[Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe]

Why cant they make movies about the Space Program or the Universe. Show the world what us Astronomers see and are in love with. But thats just my opinion.

Becky...I believe they have...see my entry for "October Sky" that I will post now.