Armageddon: Re-mastered Edition (2 Disc Set) [1998]

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Primary Contributor : Bruce Willis
Primary Contributor : Owen Wilson

Product Details

Director : Michael Bay
Actor : Bruce Willis, Owen Wilson, Michael Clarke Duncan, Charles Stewart, Billy Bob Thornton
Format : PAL, Widescreen
Aspect Ratio : 2.35:1
Binding : DVD
EAN : 5017188883146
Number of Discs : 2
Product Group : DVD
Region Code : 2
Release Date : 2001-08-20
Running Time : 144minutes
Studio : Touchstone Home Video

ASIN : B00004CY5Q

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review

This 1998 testosterone-saturated blow-'em-up from producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay (The Rock, Bad Boys) continued Hollywood's millennium-fuelled fascination with the destruction of our planet. There's no arguing that the successful duo understand what mainstream 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, of course, lovable) 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 fetishising 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 try to lure the art-house crowd, raiding the local indie acting stable to populate the film with guys like Steve Buscemi, Billy Bob Thornton, Owen Wilson, and Michael Duncan, all adding needed touches of humour 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 female characters--four if you count the meteor, who's constantly referred to as a "bitch that needs drillin'". Sadly, she's a hell of a lot more developed and unpredictable than all 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

DVD Description

DVD Special Features:

Disc 1:
Audio Commentary featuring Michael Bay, Jerry Bruckheimer, Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck
Audio Commentary featuring Cinematographer, NASA Consultant, and Asteroid Consultant

Disc 2:
Deleted Scenes
Storyboard and Production Design Drawings
Analysis of Special Effects
Featurette by Production Designer
Theatrical Trailer
Aerosmith Music Video

Languages: English Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles: English, English for the hearing impaired
Widescreen format 2.35:1

Synopsis

A low earth orbit space station is in the middle of a repair mission with the space shuttle when an unforeseen meteor shower obliterates them both. This sudden event sends fireballs hurtling to Earth and scientists scurrying to telescopes. An amateur astronomer is the first to spy a gigantic fireball headed towards the planet and notifies NASA. Turner (Thornton) informs the president of the asteroid and describes it as being the size of Texas, a planet-killer. With eighteen days to impact, NASA frantically tries to find a solution but ends up turning to an outside contractor. Harry Stamper (Willis) and his team of ragamuffin roughneck oilmen are called upon to save the planet as only they can.

Customer Reviews

The most preposterous blockbuster ever made (2008-08-18)

This will probably be the shortest Amazon review I've ever written because there really isn't much to say about this terrible movie, possibly the worst Hollywood film I've ever seen. Ludicrous plot, unsympathetic characters, awful script, dreadful 'jokes'... Don't waste two hours of your life watching it as you'll regret it. If you must watch films about meteors hitting the earth try Deep Impact.

What, another 'meteor' film? Oh, no, take cover! (2008-08-13)

I saw this on TV yesterday, having wanted to see it for a while. Bruce Willis does a very good 'fighting the odds' film, after all.Thing is, this is not, in any way, comparable to 'Die Hard', which works for him with a very straight, simple - and plausable - plot.'Armageddon' is the Gung-ho version of 'Deep Impact', but the plot is so farcical, with every possible twist wrung dry, that the only surprise in it is that Willis doesn't magically reappear from the debris of the asteriod at the end.Others have worked the plot well already. Nothing more to add - though I wonder whether 'Team America - World Police' has a less daft plot overall than this one....

irredeemably awful (2008-08-12)

Try as I might, I couldn't watch this all the way through; I left it running whilst I was doing other things but each time I came back it seemed to have become even more horrifically bad than before. Nobody involved in making this movie seems to have possessed any sense of restraint or drama. Throw in an all-time cringemaking script which must include virtually every cliché in the book and which obliges the 'actors' to produce almost the complete set of stereotypes. Bury it (best thing for it I suppose) in a range of standard special-effects which, of course, include an increasingly loud series of explosions and then try to drown it in what must be the most noisy and irritating soundtrack in movie history. A possibly interesting scientific premise becomes totally unbelievable by the crass way in which it is developed -or not - and by the ludicrous scientific blunders, not least of which, is the obvious one that, in space, no-one can hear you scream. O for the bliss of a few moments of silence. Brainless, offensive and gross. But that's only my opinion and I appear to be in a minority. I write this only to try in a tiny way to tip the balance of reviews. How can a movie like this trash possibly be worth an average of four stars?

Animation Dreamland! (2008-07-10)

Armageddon: Re-mastered Edition (2 Disc Set) [1998]contains deleted scenes and shows how and what they used in the special effects and animation a true master piece with amazing actors and the best film i seen

What a complete load of tosh! (2008-07-08)

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) and the size of the problem is challenging - but the realisation of it all is childish with weak characters, dialogue and worst of all pointlessly bad physics. People can say "it's just a story" - and guess what!? They're right. Why do Hollywood spend so much money on stars and special effects and rarely bother with good stories, excellent dialogue and 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!

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