Armageddon, the End of Time, the End of Good Film

Rating: 1/10 (30 June 2001)

This movie makes me angry. In a way, I see it as hailing in a new era of filmmaking, one where the anticipated, sought after, big budget films of the summer are reduced to script-by-committee, special effects laden, bore fests. Sure, there have been such movies prior to this debacle but this ridiculous gross of this idiot movie would seem to indicate that this style of film is here to stay, whether we want it or not.
We all know the premise of the film already: Bruce Willis, deep core driller and the most unlikeable main character to grace the screen in a long time, is asked by the government to help destroy world threatening asteroid.
To tag along for the ride is Ben Affeck, generally a favorite of mine, whose romantic leading man character is so schmarmy as to give the strongest amongst us stomach palpatations. Scenes between he and Liv Tyler (in yet another typically Hollywood throwaway cheesecake female role) made me yearn for a handy airline barfbag. Romance is well and good but these scenes were painful, as if director Michael Bay learned everything he knows about romance from Hallmark commercials. Bleh...
To top things off, the movie is unbearably long clocking in around 2 1/2 hours!!!
Avoid this movie like the plague or, if you want to see the future of big budget summer stupid fests, look no further. Armageddon is for you.