What a horrible movie...

Rating: 1/10 (3 July 1999)

By the time "Armageddon" was about halfway through, I was hoping that the asteroid DID strike Earth and wipe out those damned annoying characters in the movie. When it ended, and its supposed tearjerking ending took the life of Bruce Willis, I cheered. I don't mind Willis ("Die Hard" and "Pulp Fiction" are two of my all-time faves), but in this one he was so annoying I wished I could reach in the TV screen and punch him out, just like most of the other characters.
"Armageddon" is a testosterone-overloaded special-effect-laden mess, with a horrible screenplay and bad direction. The soundtrack is ok (I'm a big Aerosmith fan), and there were 2 characters who I didn't feel like shooting (Billy Bob Thornton and Liv Tyler's characters were close to normal).
Also - I'm Canadian, and I hate these huge American movies (a la "Independence Day") that seem to tell the world, "Without America, you'd all be toast!" - and throw American flags in our faces while blowing up everything in sight.
The thing that gets me is... Thornton won an Oscar in 1996 for writing the screenplay to "Sling Blade". Co-star Ben Affleck won an Oscar in 1997 for co-writing "Good Will Hunting". Couldn't they have worked on the screenplay together to make it better? Don't we deserve at least THAT???
2 out of 10.