| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Movie Name | ARMAGEDDON (1998) |
| Director | Michael Bay |
| Writer | Jonathan Hensleigh, J.J. Abrams, Tony Gilroy |
| Lead Actor | Brad Garrett |
| Cast | Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck |
| Genre | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller |
| Release Date | July 1, 1998 (United States) |
| Duration | 2h 31m(151 min) |
| Budget | $140 million |
| Language | English |
| IMDB Rating | 6.7/10 |
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Armageddon is your basic expensive special effects disaster sci-fi flick produced by Jerry Bruckheimer (Top Gun, The Rock), the maestro of macho overachievement. A Texas-sized meteor will demolish Earth unless a group of misfits, clowns and rowdies can be sent up on two NASA shuttles to split and divert it with a nuclear weapon.
While the title comes from a reference in the Bible, it has no relevance here. The movie’s aims and I.Q. level are established as astronauts and parts of Manhattan are zapped by unlucky hits from basketball sized meteors. Then switch to low comedy on a Pacific oil rig as tough boss Bruce Willis (in a John Wayne role) finds his pretty daughter (Liv Tyler) in the bed of young rebel Ben Affleck and chases him with a shotgun.
The movies’ current obsession with apocalyptic disaster probably connects with end of millennium anxieties. Looking at this film from inside Catholic culture is frustrating, since we don’t really expect a loving God to end the world this way. Such films, rooted in pseudo-science, never deal with important philosophical ideas but refer vaguely to “religious hysteria” as the end of the world looms.
Praying in crises is largely peremptory (like “God go with you”), it rarely emerges from a character’s personal relationship with the Creator or awareness of eternal context.
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