Extremely Similar to Independence Day

Rating: Null/10 (18 December 1998)

Armageddon, in my opinion is EXTREMELY similar to Independence Day, both coming out approximately the same time of year, both inspiring extreme amounts of patriotism by making the United States be the catalyst of all world-saving heroic actions. While depicting other countries as weak nations who just sit around praying and waiting for the US to pull a miracle out of its ear. Not that that's bad... me, being born and raised in America myself. The plot was fairly predictable, but it gave a nice feel-good feeling afterwards. At times it may have been corny but some of the dialogue would pretty inspiring. The movie was loud and funny. I loved Lev the Russian. And clearly the "Russian space station" was Mir... no doubt about it. Now back to the Independence Day analogy. The movie featured two characters who seemed an exact parallel to two other characters from ID4. Chick and David from ID4. Just look at the ending. Both get reunited with their estranged wives.. tearful reunion, weep weep. And AJ and Will Smith's character... I can't remember his name. The young studly guys who get's the young "hot babe" of the movies. The ending looked remarkably similar. I rented both videos watched them both, compared them and gosh darn it... I swear it was the same movie, except one dealt with aliens and the other with asteroids. There are many more similarities, but I AM restricted to 1,000 words here. If you wanna know more, watch both movies, take notes, and you'll see what I mean.