Armageddon

 

Armageddon

• Director: Michael Bay
• Seen by this director: The Island
• Based on book: no
• Cast: Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, Steve Buscemi, Owen Wilson, Michael Clarke Duncan, Peter Stormare, Keith David, Jason Isaacs
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Bruce Willis - Looper, Moonrise Kingdom, Friends, The Siege, Glass, The Fifth Element, The Twelve Monkeys, Billy Bathgate, Pulp Fiction, In Country, Die Hard
• Billy Bob Thornton – Love Actually, Levity, Monster’s Ball, The Man Who Wasn’t There, A Simple Plan, Sling Blade, The Stars Fell on Henrietta,
• Ben Affleck – Gone Girl, He’s Just Not That into You, Daredevil, Dogma, Shakespeare in Love, Good Will Hunting
• Liv Tyler – Ad Astra, The Leftovers, Lonesome Jim, Lord of the Ring etc
• Steve Buscemi – Paris je t’aime, The Sopranos, Romance & Cigarettes, The Island, Big Fish, 28 Days, The Big Lebowski, Kansas City, Fargo, Living in Oblivion, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Billy Bathgate, Barton Fink, Miller’s Crossing, Mystery Train
• Owen Wilson – Darjeeling Limited, The Royal Tenenbaums
• Michael Clarke Duncan – The Island, Daredevil, The Green Mile, Bulworth
• Peter Stormare – The Zero Theorem, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Brothers Grimm, Hitler, Chocolat, Dancer in the Dark, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, Awakenings
• Keith David – Cloud Atlas, Crash, Requiem for a Dream, Dead Presidents, Reality Bites, Stars and Bars, Platoon
• Jason Isaacs – Hotel Mumbai, Case Studies, Harry Potter
• Why? A classic of sorts
• Seen: 23 April 2021      

       Asteroids hitting the Earth and killing us all is one of the things I’m afraid of. It’s out of our control. I hope this is a silly film, so I don’t have to be scared.

       Yeah, it’s pretty stupid. Eighteen days until an asteroid the size of Texas blows the planet into smithereens. The only one who can save us is the male chauvinist, trigger-happy, obnoxious, childish etc etc oil driller Harry (Willis).

       What is this great cast doing in this moronic film? It could have been good but other than the Willis character there is the problem of: all the other puerile characters, all the macho rubbish, all the yippie-hurrah-only-the-USA-can-save-the-world stuff, really feeble unfunny jokes, way too much dead material, way too many action film explosions, embarrassingly bad love scenes ditto father-daughter scenes, 90 % is boring.

       It could have been a good film if it was a different film.

       Can I give this turkey even 1*? Well, the music is good at times, some of the visuals are good, Peter Stormare has fun hamming it up at a cosmonaut. Does that add up to any *?

       Not really.

      ½ * of 5