The film stars bruce willis, ben affleck, billy bob thornton, liv tyler, owen wilson, will patton, peter stormare, william fichtner, michael clarke duncan, keith david and steve buscemi. It turns out the 1998 asteroid disaster movie armageddon was a tad unrealistic. In the 1998 movie armageddon, an asteroid the size of texas. He wants to use his own men to do the drilling so nasa attempts to train. A number of side stories about bruces oil drilling team keeps the film moving. The logicdefying apocalypse movie made at a time before we were. In the film, a team led by bruce willis plants a nuclear bomb deep inside a 600milewide. Willis has always been a box office success during his career and had occasional positive response from critics as well. In the 1998 film, bruce willis plays an oildrilling platform engineer who lands on the surface of an earthbound asteroid, drills to the. So does the movie by stephen hunter washington post. In the 1998 movie armageddon, bruce willis plays an oildrilling platform engineer who leads a team that lands on an asteroid aimed at earth, drills a hole into its center and explodes a. The film follows a group of bluecollar deepcore drillers sent by nasa to stop a gigantic asteroid on a collision course with earth. Walter bruce willis was born on march 19, 1955, in the town of idaroberstein, west germany.
In order to blow up an asteroid the size of the one in the film, the. The special effects were good, but the best thing about this movie was the focus on the characters. Sorry, bruce willis, asteroid wins in real armageddon. It stars bruce willis and an ensemble cast comprising ben affleck, billy bob thornton, liv tyler, owen wilson, will. Bruce willis couldnt save us from asteroid doom update 7 august 2012 an artists animation illustrates a massive asteroid belt in. Armageddonstyle asteroid will now not destroy human. Armageddon disaster film wiki fandom powered by wikia.
During his talk, plait showed a clip from armageddon in which bruce willis character struggles to detonate the bomb. Asteroid incoming, bruce willis little help cosmos. Twenty years ago, dueling asteroid movies made an impact on hollywood. Ppt comets, asteroids, meteoroids, and a bruce willis. He was able to deflect a huge earthbound asteroid with the expedient use of a well placed thermonuclear explosion. Bruce willis saves the world but cant save armageddon. Waimea, hawaii in the 1998 movie armageddon, an asteroid the size of texas threatens to collide with earth in 18 days. But perhaps the most famous and still talkedabout tale of conceptual overlap came in the summer of 1998, when dueling films about death from above ones a comet, the others an asteroid. In the film, a team led by bruce willis plants a nuclear bomb deep inside a 600milewide 1,000 kilometers asteroid as it streaks toward earth. The rest of the movie focused on bruce willis, ben affleck and a couple space shuttles full of roughnecks, who blast off to kick some asteroid ass with an allamerican hbomb. In the 1998 film, bruce willis plays an oildrilling platform engineer who lands on the surface of an earthbound asteroid, drills to the center and detonates a nuclear weapon, splitting the asteroid in half. After discovering that an asteroid the size of texas is going to impact earth in less than a month.
Well, it turns out that willis may not actually be able to save the world from an asteroid. Every frame is calculated with enough speed, bluster, or character to. Armageddon is a 1998 american science fiction disaster film produced and directed by michael. Its essentially about an asteroid that is headed for earth and nasa brings in bruce willis who is an expert oil driller. The explosion splits the space rock in two, and the pieces zip safely past the planet, ensuring humanity lives to see another day.
You actually feel the doom that is about to reach these people, and to me, that is good film making. It has romance, drama, the comradesinarms angle, hightech effects, and this being a bruce willis movie great shots of things blowing up. Bruce willis, ben affleck, liv tyler, billy bob thornton, will patton. As a massive asteroid hurtles toward earth, nasas head honcho hatches a plan to split the deadly rock in two before it annihilates the entire planet. When an asteroid threatens to collide with earth, nasa honcho dan truman billy bob thornton determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear bomb. Nasas executive director, dan truman, has only one optionto send up a crew to destroy the asteroid. Nasa thinks they could land a crew of astronauts on the. The two pieces of the asteroid then pass either side of the earth, saving the planets population from annihilation. The asteroid in the film reaches a clearance either side of the earth of 400 miles 640km which is the assumed value for our calculation, according to the student paper could bruce willis save. After astronomy students discover a cometasteroid collision. Comets, asteroids, meteoroids, and a bruce willis movie 1 comets, asteroids, meteoroids, and a bruce willis movie 2 what are comets and where do they.
This film will entertain you and mostly, touch your heart. It is no accident that the asteroid in armageddon is. As a gigantic asteroid is hurtling through space towards earth, bruce willis and his team of oil drillers are called upon to save planet earth by drilling a hole in the asteroid and blowing it up. With bruce willis, billy bob thornton, ben affleck, liv tyler.
The team is forced or leave it to a group of astronauts who know nothing about deep drilling nto going on a mission to the largest asteroid to drill 780 feet into the asteroid, put a nuclear bomb. For years, the federal government has relied on the fact that if the world was ever threatened by some cosmic force, they could simply call up bruce willis to save the day. Bays disaster film was a disneyfinanced success that became ingrained in pop culture. Armageddon 1998 stars bruce willis, billy bob thornton. Bruce willis billy bob thornton ben affleck liv tyler will patton steve buscemi william fichtner owen wilson michael clarke duncan peter stormare keith david. How armageddon became the ultimate disaster movie in more.
To save the planet from destruction, a ragtag team of deepsea oil. What it does offer is fastpaced action heroics from bruce willis as an ordinary joe oil driller, called upon to go into space with his team of misfits to plant a nuclear warhead in the centre of the asteroid, attempting to explode it before it destroys all life on the planet. Willis is the oldest of four children with a sister named florence and two brothers, robert deceased and david. Washington post staff writer wednesday, july 1, 1998 bruce willis trys to save earth from armageddon. Bruce willis celebrates his 65th birthday on march 19, 2020. When nasa learns of an asteroid the size of texas will in 18 days destroy earth they call on the expertise of harry stamper bruce willis and his. Armageddon is a 1998 american science fiction disaster film produced and directed by michael bay, produced by jerry bruckheimer, and released by touchstone pictures.
In the 1998 film, bruce willis plays an oildrilling platform engineer who lands on the surface of an earthbound asteroid, drills to the centre and detonates a nuclear weapon, splitting the. Mimi leder s deep impact opened may 8, 1998, and was swiftly followed by michael bays armageddon just weeks later on june 30. Armageddon le film avec bruce willis 1998 by betrelle. Those who proclaim armageddon to be the greatest action movie ever are generally. Armageddon film an asteroid the size of texas is heading directly toward earth at 22,000 mph, with the potential to destroy the planet. Even bruce willis couldnt save earth from armageddon asteroid. Nasa has confirmed that an asteroid bigger than any manmade structure in the world is hurtling towards earth at a speed of almost 34,000 miles per hour. Armageddon 1998 stars bruce willis, billy bob thornton, ben affleck. Nasa discovers that the meteors were pushed out of the asteroid belt by a rogue comet that jarred loose a. This wasnt loud and stupid as that other asteroid movie. No bomb powerful enough to destroy an onrushing asteroid. Bruce willis cant save us from asteroids, so well have. Twenty years after mimi leders film fought and lost to michael bays blockbuster, its time to revisit the more cerebreal of the two 1998 asteroid disaster movies. When we first see harry stamper bruce willis, hes on his oil rig in the.
Even bruce willis couldnt save earth from armageddon. After discovering that an asteroid the size of texas is going to impact earth in less than a month, n. After discovering that an asteroid the size of texas is going to impact earth in less than a month, nasa recruits a misfit team of deepcore drillers to save the planet. Armageddon bruce willis trys to save earth from armageddon. An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him taking to the streets of new york after dark and randomly killing derelicts with a power drill. Armageddon involves an asteroid the size of texas that is on a collission course with earth and its going to hit in less than 18 days. The second and, mercifully, last of the seasons nuketheasteroidorbust premillennium spectaculars is so effectsobsessed and. The movie depicts harry stamper willis and his oil rig crew who are mostly losers who have done time in jail being hired by nasa as astronauts. Could bruce willis save the world from an asteroid. Their goal is to drill into an asteroid the size of texas and deploy a bomb to break it into pieces, before the asteroid hits the earth. Bruce willis heroically managed to save the world in the film 1998 armageddon.
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