Armageddon (1998)
If you don't take this movie seriously (and ignore the fact that the title is a huge misnomer, according to Shannon), it's actually pretty fun. The Aerosmith song is corny but sweet, the animal cracker scene is the same, and the moment that father and daughter share at the Apollo I memorial site is kind of touching. The visual effects are awesome, though the production design is definitely not (who decided that the surface of the asteroid should look like an ice cave covered in tin foil?), and there are a bunch of actors who show up that I certainly didn't expect. Owen Wilson, Michael Clark Duncan, Jason Isaacs, and that guy who's in every action or war movie made in the last ten years (William Fichtner) all show up as NASA specialists or drillers. The President's speech to the world about standing together in the face of adversary, though, isn't nearly as good as President Whitmore's in Independence Day.
My Netflix rating: 4 stars
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