#armageddon movie

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

If the movie “Armageddon” was made today:

1) Pedro Pascal would definitely be the dad/leader of the drillers. (Sorry, I forgot Bruce Willis’ character’s name. I forgot all the characters’ names)

2) Jenna Ortega would be Pedro’s daughter (Liv Tyler)

3) Tom Holland would be Jenna’s boyfriend/the young, reckless driller who gets on Pedro’s nerves (Ben Affleck)

4) Jon Bernthal would be the NASA guy who couldn’t go to space (Billy Bob Thornton)

5) Oscar Isaac would be the astronaut leader guy who defuses the nuke (William Fichtner)

6) David Harbour would be the weird cosmonaut who joins the team after the space station blows up (Peter Stormare)

7) Alfie Allen as the member of the team who suffers space dementia (Steve Buscemi)

8) Lady Gaga is initially asked to sing “I Don’t Want to Miss A Thing” but she drops out for some reason. So, the song is shopped around until either Foo Fighters or Fall Out Boy accept the gig.

[shadowoftheraven15]

the ending of every disaster movie be like

[meep-meep-richie]

Owen Wilson + headphones

[coelii]

A Knight’s Tale is in the same category of movies as Con Air and Armageddon for me: I know it’s a bad film but damn do I have a good time watching it.

[spockvarietyhour]

Near Future NASA  on film part 1: Space Shuttles, Next Generation Shuttles, and Shuttle-adjacent

1. Moonraker’s passenger shuttle 2. Heavy Metal’s personal shuttle 3. Airplane II: The Sequel’s passenger shuttle 4. Lifeforce’s Churchill Shuttle 5. Armageddon’s Freedom and Independence shuttles 6. Deep Impact’s Messiah shuttle and interplanetary booster 7. Species II’s Excursion shuttle and interplanetary booster 8. Mission to Mars’ Mars II interplanetary craft

[vojjdless]

klowns on the brain...

[gettheorion]

[texaschainsawmascara]

and I don’t wanna miss a thing

[homestuckreplay]

Gee John, How Come Your Dad Lets You Watch Three Movies?!

Alright. I suffered through THREE of John's movies today, and all of them were extremely bad. All three of them had terrible dialogue and boring characterization, Face/Off was mostly gunfights, Armageddon was mostly explosions, and Ghost Dad was mostly an absolute fever dream clearly signed off by a very drugged up executive.

However, I do see why John likes these movies. John is a Nic Cage fan, and I do think both Cage and Travolta gave great performances in Face/Off. The weird, experimental science aspect is fun too, and might have a link to John's chumhandle - I can see him getting curious about how the facial transplant surgery works. Mistaken identity is an interesting theme - John feels like his dad doesn't know him well, thinking he'd like harlequin dolls and cakes, and might think his dad sees him as a different person. People on Discord have theorized that John's arc will be realizing she's transgender, which is REALLY interesting in light of this movie and its focus on physical features vs actual identity.

Armageddon has the same basic premise as Deep Impact - a meteor will destroy the Earth if the American government can't figure out a way to stop it - but on a much shorter timeframe. I personally think Deep Impact is miles better, but Armageddon is very focused on American masculinity and a motley crew of men who live dangerous, somewhat criminal lives (it's more similar to Con Air in this regard). We know John likes a Cool Movie Moment (see p.20) and this one is basically fifty lab-grown Cool Movie Moments stitched together.

Both these movies are very long and very action packed. Armageddon barely takes time away from the action to give us the characters' names, and since John probably watches movies for escapism, this must be appealing to him. Their major characters have very exciting lives, whether that's working for the FBI, as a terrorist, as a deep sea oil driller or as an astronaut - John probably isn't concerned with the politics of these things, they're simply cooler kinds of people who he could grow up to be, and it's fun to imagine himself in their place because it beats his current life.

Ghost Dad is completely irredeemable. [ooc 2024 note: I don't endorse watching movies that feature Bill Cosby, who is a known terrible guy, and I can guarantee he did not receive any money from my watching this.] It's horrifically written and plotted and none of the humor lands. But, it makes perfect sense that John and his dad would watch this, as it's about a family who pranks each other. The son is an aspiring magician just like John (and is similarly bad at it), and John might even have got his interest in magic from watching this.

The dad spraying whipped cream on a top hat is very Dad Egbert-coded, and John might love the idea of having a ghost in his house who can pilot clothes around while invisible and float up to windows to scare mean kids. Meanwhile, Dad clearly likes to show John movies that feature parents eventually choosing their kids over their career. (It seems like he shows this with his actions, too - he's clearly not at work today, and John's feeling suffocated in the house suggests that Dad is there most of the time).

MOVIES WATCHED: 10/11

MOST RECENT MOVIES:

Face/Off (1997) - Rating 4/10

Armageddon (1998) - Rating 3/10

Ghost Dad (1990) - Rating 1/10

[neoyan]

[missathlete31]

Here I am just thinking about a Top Gun Maverick Armageddon AU because if NASA can teach oil drillers to be astronauts that means they can teach Naval Aviators to be oil drillers….. and then astronauts

Never going to write it because I can’t write anything anymore but it’s fun to think about!

[frances-baby-houseman]

Listen I know people are always like, why didn't they train astronauts to drill the asteroid instead of training drillers to become astronauts

and I gotta tell ya, I think they actually did it right

first of all, the spaceship kinda flies itself. Like, it just goes in one direction. Once you get through the atmosphere it's not like you have to keep using fuel, it just keeps going. Landing on the asteroid does sound difficult but really that's the only thing they have to learn. Not to be mean to anyone but I don't think anyone's top priority was also getting them back home. Just get TO the asteroid and destroy it.

second of all, it seems much more reasonable to have 8 drillers in a spaceship supported by all of cape canaveral and houston than to have 8 astronauts in a space ship and still have to find drillers to like, talk them through it from earth

third, if they can get to the asteroid the drillers will know what to do if they lose communication but I don't believe that the astronauts would necessarily be able to fully detonate the bomb if something went wrong on the asteroid, WHICH WE KNOW IT DOES.

Anyway I just wanted to get my opinion out there, bc I think they got it right! The drilling just actually seems like the harder and more important task in this instance and maybe they wanted the best drillers not the best astronauts!!!

[horrororman]

💀☠️🎂 A Happy #horror Birthday to Paula Marshall 🎂☠️💀

#PaulaMarshall

#HellraiserIIIHellonEarth (1992)

#FullEclipse (1993)

#WarlockTheArmageddon (1993)

#Malignant (2021)

[meep-meep-richie]

'' Guys, this is, like, deep blue hero stuff! Of course I'm in. ''

more owen wilson filmography gifsets can be found here

[worms-for-brains]

I watched Armageddon and all I’ll say is, Truman and Stamper had a thing going on. I could feel it and I know yall could too.

[spockvarietyhour]

For context both movies came out months apart and dealt with an asteroid heading to Earth.