modern disaster flick

Rating: Null/10 (14 January 2000)

Unlike the Irwin Allen disaster flicks of the 1970s, which also includes Earthquake (1974) and Meteor (1979), Armageddon seems more modern, and features the typical all-star cast like the disaster flicks of yesteryear.

Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, Billy Bob Thornton, and Liv Tyler might be heralded as an all-star cast, like the star-studded casts typical to the 1970s disaster flicks, with a few differences. Modern CGI special effects have come a long way, since the substandard SPFX of the 1970s.

Liv Tyler might pay homage to screen legend Ava Gardner, since she has the glamour and beauty of legendary actresses, and Bruce Willis in a role that foreshadows Charlton Heston's roles in the 1970s disaster films. The opening narration by Heston might be homage to his other noted works, as well as his affiliation with the 1970s disaster flicks.

Michael Clarke Duncan (who would excel in The Green Mile) gives an outstanding performance that paves the way for his stardom, and watch for a scene with Canadian beauty Jessica Steen during the spacesuit orientation, since this resembles a high school classroom with a disruptive student.