A comet thunders towards the earth on a cataclysmic collision course, and is spotted by a young lad who is able to warn the US government of impending doom. In order to stop the comet, NASA plans a space mission so flawed that my science teacher would have thrown it back and given them detention for a week!
What worries me is that should such an event happen (or any other Extinction Level Event), that some people might turn to Deep Impact as a rough guide on what do. I hope that they read these words before such a thing happens:
1) If a massive tidal wave is sweeping towards you at 100 mph, then running away won't do much good, or at least you should have thought about doing that much sooner.
2) If everyone not hidden in the underground shelter is going to die, then giving your son an expensive watch to use as a bargaining tool might not be very useful.
3) If your newlywed wife would rather get smashed to pieces by a massive tidal wave, than spend the rest of her life with you, then things aren't working out, and maybe you should spend some time apart.
4) If your daughter would rather stay with you and die horribly under a massive tidal wave, rather than spending the rest of her life with the nice young man she just married, then for heavens sake, speak up!
5) If you are the head of NASA and have to produce a mission plan to save the world, try not to include such points as; flying through the comets tail, giving the astronauts less time than a commercial break to complete their mission, giving them bombs that don't work properly or having a crew who suffer from ageism.
However, in the slew of meteor films (we'll, 2) that came at us in 1998, Deep Impact had one major advantage over Armageddon, it had an accurate title. There was an impact and I imagine that it must have been quite deep, but Armageddon well I felt a little cheated.
So in summary, by all means watch the film, but please don't copy anything you see. Especially you fellows at NASA.
What worries me is that should such an event happen (or any other Extinction Level Event), that some people might turn to Deep Impact as a rough guide on what do. I hope that they read these words before such a thing happens:
1) If a massive tidal wave is sweeping towards you at 100 mph, then running away won't do much good, or at least you should have thought about doing that much sooner.
2) If everyone not hidden in the underground shelter is going to die, then giving your son an expensive watch to use as a bargaining tool might not be very useful.
3) If your newlywed wife would rather get smashed to pieces by a massive tidal wave, than spend the rest of her life with you, then things aren't working out, and maybe you should spend some time apart.
4) If your daughter would rather stay with you and die horribly under a massive tidal wave, rather than spending the rest of her life with the nice young man she just married, then for heavens sake, speak up!
5) If you are the head of NASA and have to produce a mission plan to save the world, try not to include such points as; flying through the comets tail, giving the astronauts less time than a commercial break to complete their mission, giving them bombs that don't work properly or having a crew who suffer from ageism.
However, in the slew of meteor films (we'll, 2) that came at us in 1998, Deep Impact had one major advantage over Armageddon, it had an accurate title. There was an impact and I imagine that it must have been quite deep, but Armageddon well I felt a little cheated.
So in summary, by all means watch the film, but please don't copy anything you see. Especially you fellows at NASA.