Bruce willis billy bob thornton ben affleck liv tyler will patton steve buscemi william fichtner owen wilson michael clarke duncan peter stormare keith david. It stars bruce willis and an ensemble cast comprising ben affleck, billy bob thornton, liv tyler, owen wilson, will. The explosion splits the space rock in two, and the pieces zip safely past the planet, ensuring humanity lives to see another day. After astronomy students discover a cometasteroid collision.
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. When we first see harry stamper bruce willis, hes on his oil rig in the. He was able to deflect a huge earthbound asteroid with the expedient use of a well placed thermonuclear explosion. Armageddon bruce willis trys to save earth from armageddon. The special effects were good, but the best thing about this movie was the focus on the characters. Armageddon is a 1998 american science fiction disaster film produced and directed by michael. Ppt comets, asteroids, meteoroids, and a bruce willis. Mimi leder s deep impact opened may 8, 1998, and was swiftly followed by michael bays armageddon just weeks later on june 30. Bruce willis, ben affleck, liv tyler, billy bob thornton, will patton. Washington post staff writer wednesday, july 1, 1998 bruce willis trys to save earth from armageddon. During his talk, plait showed a clip from armageddon in which bruce willis character struggles to detonate the bomb. He wants to use his own men to do the drilling so nasa attempts to train. 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.
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 center and detonates a nuclear weapon, splitting the asteroid in half. Even bruce willis couldnt save earth from armageddon asteroid. Nasa discovers that the meteors were pushed out of the asteroid belt by a rogue comet that jarred loose a. Every frame is calculated with enough speed, bluster, or character to. In order to blow up an asteroid the size of the one in the film, the. 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. Armageddonstyle asteroid will now not destroy human. 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. No bomb powerful enough to destroy an onrushing asteroid. 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. Bruce willis celebrates his 65th birthday on march 19, 2020. 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.
Walter bruce willis was born on march 19, 1955, in the town of idaroberstein, west germany. In the 1998 film, bruce willis plays an oildrilling platform engineer who lands on the surface of an earthbound asteroid, drills to the. A number of side stories about bruces oil drilling team keeps the film moving. Ive always been drawn to stories where little guys face overwhelming odds and accomplish their goals, he says. It turns out the 1998 asteroid disaster movie armageddon was a tad unrealistic. After discovering that an asteroid the size of texas is going to impact earth in less than a month. Armageddon film an asteroid the size of texas is heading directly toward earth at 22,000 mph, with the potential to destroy the planet. The logicdefying apocalypse movie made at a time before we were. Bays disaster film was a disneyfinanced success that became ingrained in pop culture. Those who proclaim armageddon to be the greatest action movie ever are generally. You actually feel the doom that is about to reach these people, and to me, that is good film making. 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. Bruce willis cant save us from asteroids, so well have.
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. Its essentially about an asteroid that is headed for earth and nasa brings in bruce willis who is an expert oil driller. How armageddon became the ultimate disaster movie in more. Could bruce willis save the world from an asteroid. In the 1998 movie armageddon, an asteroid the size of texas. The film follows a group of bluecollar deepcore drillers sent by nasa to stop a gigantic asteroid on a collision course with earth. 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. 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. Well, it turns out that willis may not actually be able to save the world from an asteroid. So does the movie by stephen hunter washington post.
Nasa thinks they could land a crew of astronauts on the. 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. This wasnt loud and stupid as that other asteroid movie. Sorry, bruce willis, asteroid wins in real armageddon. Armageddon le film avec bruce willis 1998 by betrelle. 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. 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. This film will entertain you and mostly, touch your heart. The second and, mercifully, last of the seasons nuketheasteroidorbust premillennium spectaculars is so effectsobsessed and. 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. Armageddon is an american disaster film directed and coproduced by michael bay.
Armageddon disaster film wiki fandom powered by wikia. 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. In the film, a team led by bruce willis plants a nuclear bomb deep inside a 600milewide. 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. Twenty years ago, dueling asteroid movies made an impact on hollywood. To save the planet from destruction, a ragtag team of deepsea oil.
Nasas executive director, dan truman, has only one optionto send up a crew to destroy the asteroid. Bruce willis couldnt save us from asteroid doom update 7 august 2012 an artists animation illustrates a massive asteroid belt in. Bruce willis saves the world but cant save armageddon. 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. It is no accident that the asteroid in armageddon is. After discovering that an asteroid the size of texas is going to impact earth in less than a month, n. With bruce willis, billy bob thornton, ben affleck, liv tyler. It has romance, drama, the comradesinarms angle, hightech effects, and this being a bruce willis movie great shots of things blowing up. Even bruce willis couldnt 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. 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. Waimea, hawaii in the 1998 movie armageddon, an asteroid the size of texas threatens to collide with earth in 18 days.
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. 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. But some have questioned whether williss feat would actually have been possible. Willis is the oldest of four children with a sister named florence and two brothers, robert deceased and david.
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