Armageddon (UK)
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For love. For honour. For mankind
Certificate: 12
Running Time: 144 mins
Retail Price: £15.99
Release Date:
Content Type: Movie
Synopsis:
When NASAs executive director, Dan Truman realizes the Earth has 18 days before it is obliterated by a meteor the size of Texas, he has only one option - land a ragtag team of roughneck oil drillers on the asteroid and drop a nuclear warhead into its core. Spectacular special effects, laugh-out-loud humour, great characters, riveting story telling and heartfelt emotion make Armageddon an exhilarating thrill ride you`ll want to experience like there`s no tomorrow.
Special Features:
Interactive Menus
Scene Access
Video Tracks:
Widescreen Anamorphic 2.35:1
Audio Tracks:
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Dolby Digital 5.1 French
Dolby Digital 5.1 German
Subtitle Tracks:
French
Hebrew
Icelandic
Polish
CC: German
English
CC: English
Portuguese
Greek
Croatian
Hungarian
Directed By:
Michael Bay
Written By:
Jonathan Hensleigh
Starring:
Keith David
Will Patton
Liv Tyler
Bruce Willis
Steve Buscemi
Peter Stormare
Ben Affleck
Billy Bob Thornton
Music From:
Trevor Rabin
Director of Photography:
John Schwartzman
Editor:
Glen Scantlebury
Mark Goldblatt
Chris Lebenzon
Costume Designer:
Michael Kaplan
Production Designer:
Michael White
Producer:
Michael Bay
Jerry Bruckheimer
Gale Anne Hurd
Executive Producer:
Jim Van Wyck
Chad Oman
Jonathan Hensleigh
Distributor:
Touchstone Pictures
Your Opinions and Comments
The story is fun, but a little silly - especially the MIR chapters (layer change around here), the effects are good the CGI is good.
The film is fast paced and watchable, it is a very good demo disc, the flipper WAS NOT a good demo.
The DD sound track is very good, and the picture is excellent.
Parts of the story line are a bit ludicrous, but you get swept along with it. The ending is a bit American and a bit sickly.
Almost everything about it is awesome.
The transfer is excellent. I was especially impressed with the dark scenes near the asteroid. They were transferred with perfection. Of course, one cannot ignore the cool destruction scenes on Earth as well. They all look real. VERY real. :)
The audio is excellent as well. All the explosions rocked the house and the sounds during the asteroid scenes were really convincing.
It`s really a shame that there are no extra features for this movie. A real shame!!!
Bottom line - a great movie in all aspects.
The only bit worth watching was the meteor storm right at the start which put down the rest of the film as it was just plain more interesting and seens as the film was so long I was generally dissapointed.
No features=crap.
The disc had to swapped in the middle of a scene which seems a bit amateur considering they could have swapped sides at an earlier point, at the start of a chapter.
Me no like this film/
The worst bit, when Willis requests to never pay taxes again! I mean, what the f***, the world is getting blown up and you`re worried about taxes. I don`t know, maybe it was meant to be funny or ironic. Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler are awful in it. The rest of the cast do well with a poor script.
In summary, avoid this rubbish and watch something like Starship Troopers or The Rock