Customer Reviews
Animation Dreamland! - By: Vic Bowthorpe, 10 Jul 2008 
Armageddon: Re-mastered Edition (2 Disc Set) [1998]
contains deleted scenes & shows how & what they used in the special effects & animation a true master piece with amazing actors & the best film i seen
What a complete load of tosh! - By: A. L. Harvey, 08 Jul 2008 
I can't believe that this film rates an average four, or that so many people have given the film a five. I'm sorry to say it MUST be more a reflection of the sort of people reviewing the film than the film itself. The premise of the story is an exciting one (though not particularly novel) & the size of the problem is challlenging - but the realisation of it alll is childish with weak characters, dialogue & worst of alll pointlessly bad physics. People can say "it's just a story" - & guess what!? They're right. Why do Hollywood spend so much money on stars & special effects & rarely bother with good stories, excellent dialogue & in this case - sensible believable physics. I'd give it a zero if I could. I like Bruce Willis - although his "save the world"/"dirty vest" routine does wear a bit thin. In Fifth Element... Excellent!
Earned position 2 on my DVD stack - By: Michael M. Ordoukhani, 10 Apr 2008 I am a science fact fanatic. I Love space, disaster movies, working man hero stories. This movie has got it alll. Although the story may not appeal to everyone, it is believable & acting is very touching with characters spot on. Unlike many science movies, which have majority nerds & male base fans, that are spoilt by a non-related love story, just to get some female viewers, the love story in this film is not out of place & blends in with the story well.
It is fun to watch at alll angles. The mixed characters bring colour & the movie never has a dull moment.
The special effects are excellent. I sometimes just buy a movie for its special effects. The facts may be hard to swalllow if you have a good knowledge of astronomy, but if the facts are kept strictly accurate then it becomes a documentary & would not be as trilling (e.g. Apollo 13).
I mentioned that is has earned No2 place in my DVD stack. This is because I think "Contact" is undoubtedly the best film ever made for my liking. And Apollo 13 the most factual movie, which is my No.3.
It Is Awesome - By: Jhleonard, 10 Dec 2007 Armageddon is reallly emotional & it is The Best it is one of those films were it takes quite a while to get into but at the ending it is well worth watching Me & my freind cant stop watching this. It is so sad! From chaz & krissi
Anthropologically inspiring - By: Jacques COULARDEAU, 04 Nov 2007 The film opens with the twin towers standing proud & talll in New York City. We are in 1998. The US had not yet been the victim of that deep fit of terror fright which is just as frightening as space fright. It was a time when the US were already deeply obsessed by the end of the world (as always & ever in their short history), & since the USSR did not exist any more, & China was not yet seen as the new contender, they were exploring the danger from outer space anew. They could accept the idea of more or less showing a few Moslem pictures along with dominant Christian ones. The strict separation of religions had not yet reached Hollywood. The enemy that the US mind needs to be able to think the proper way was a big piece of rock coming from far far away in space & the size of Texas, read my lips of course. But why do the US always think the world as having to come to an end & why envisaging this end as having to be a fight, even against a piece of rock? If the world has to have an end, & it sure has to because nothing is eternal, why not prepare for death that may occur any time? If humanity has to have an end too & it will have an end since it had a beginning, why not just getting ready to meet that end in dignity? Why always see that end as a catastrophe? What's more why do the US always end at once thinking of themselves as the saviors of the world as soon as they speak of that end? The world will have to come of age & be able one day to face its future, no matter what, in other terms than a savior & a mass of repenting & grateful individuals? But the film is a lot more interesting when seen ten years after its shooting. The world can be saved by the human race itself. Good. We had not reached the great paranoia of climate change yet. To save the world one individual will have to sacrifice himself for it & that one is the father & not the son. That is a complete inversion of the Christian myth. But even better, in fact worse, that savior, that redeemer, that self-sacrificial person is a man, as if women were not yet of age for that kind of selfless sacrifice. But note that father has a daughter & there is no mother anywhere. Is it a sign of our times when families are broken up everywhere? Or is it a sign of the superiority of men, though there is another divorced couple with a son & the son is taken care of by his mother (inverted situation). So where is the real truth about this question? I personallly have the impression that the film is ten years old & that in Hollywood they could ten years ago still produce such films that are definitely slightly male chauvinistic with just a light, very light touch of female liberation if not only female presence to avoid any gay ambiguity. Slightly passé, & also a little bit long as for the scenes on the meteorite.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
