No comparison...

Rating: Null/10 (11 September 2000)

I remember after seeing "Deep Impact", thinking to myself: "You know, that was rather enjoyable...but what would it have been like as a comedy?" As if the gods of movieland heard me, along comes "Armageddon." This movie is a friggin' laugh riot. I mean, not only does Ben Affleck play a total bonehead, but Bruce Willis plays his girlfriend's angry dad! That's really original! And then of course, there's the other great characters: the goofy nerd guy (Steve Buscemi), the Mr. Nice-Guy flight director-or-whatever bossman (Billy Bob Thorton), the big bad, yet funny, black guy (Michael Clarke Duncan), and the funny fat guy. Oh, I almost forgot the straight-laced REAL astronaunt who can't stand the new guys horning in on their turf! Wow, with originality like this, I can't believe they had such a great script! A giant asteriod is going to hit the planet and only Bruce Willis' gang of misfits can save us! Where the heck do they come up with this stuff? *Spoiler Warning* And, wow, what an ending! Bruce Willis pushes his daughter's boyfriend out of the way so he can sacrifice himself! And then he waits until THE LAST POSSIBLE SECOND to detonate the bomb! And then (get this!), when he does, there's this really sweet montage of memories of his daughter. Speaking of his daughter, she's played by Liv Tyler. Wow, what a great actress! I can hardly tell she's only in the movie to help sell Aerosmith albums!