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Armageddon (I) (1998)
6.3
Ratings: 6.3/10 from 171,319 users
Metascore:
42/100
Reviews: 1,124 user | 145 critic | 23 from Metacritic.com When an asteroid the size of Texas is headed for Earth the world's best deep core drilling team is sent to nuke the rock from the inside. Director:Michael Bay |
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Nominated for 4 Oscars.
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| Bruce Willis | ... | ||
| Billy Bob Thornton | ... | ||
| Ben Affleck | ... | ||
| Liv Tyler | ... | ||
| Will Patton | ... | ||
| Steve Buscemi | ... | ||
| William Fichtner | ... | ||
| Owen Wilson | ... | ||
| Michael Clarke Duncan | ... | ||
| Peter Stormare | ... | ||
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Ken Hudson Campbell | ... |
Max
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| Jessica Steen | ... | ||
| Keith David | ... | ||
| Chris Ellis | ... | ||
| Jason Isaacs | ... | ||
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Storyline
It is just another day at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), a few astronauts were repairing a satellite until, out of nowhere, a series of asteroids came crashing into the shuttle, destroying it. These asteroids also decimated New York soon thereafter. Then, NASA discovered that there is an asteroid roughly the size of Texas heading towards the Earth, and when it does hit the Earth, the planet itself and all of its inhabitants will be obliterated, worse, the asteroid will hit the Earth in 18 days. Unfortunately, NASA's plans to destroy the asteroid are irrelevant. That is when the U.S. military decides to use a nuclear warhead to blow the asteroid to pieces. Then, scientists decide to blow the asteroid with the warhead inside the asteroid itself. The only man to do it, is an oil driller named Harry Stamper and his group of misfit drillers and geologists. As he and his drill team prepare for space excavation... Written by John Wiggins
Plot Summary | Plot SynopsisTaglines:
For Love. For Honor. For Mankind. See more »Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated PG-13 for sci-fi disaster action, sensuality and brief language See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Armageddon - Das jüngste Gericht See more »Box Office
Budget:
$140,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$36,089,972 (USA) (5 July 1998) (3127 Screens)Gross:
$251,200,000 (Worldwide) (20 December 1998) (except USA)Company Credits
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Runtime:
| USA: (director's cut)Color:
Color (Technicolor)Aspect Ratio:
2.20 : 1
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[Camera shoots past the moon to slowly zoom in on the Earth]
Narrator: This is the Earth, at a time when the dinosaurs roamed a lush and fertile planet.
[From behind the camera, a giant asteroid appears, speeding towards the Earth ahead of it]
Narrator: A piece of rock just 6 miles wide changed all that.
[Blazing through the atmosphere, the asteroid impacts with a spectacular display of fire and destruction]
Narrator: It hit with the force of 10,000 nuclear weapons. A trillion tons of dirt and rock hurtled into the atmosphere, creating a suffocating blanket of dust the sun was powerless to penetrate for a thousand years. It happened before. It will happen again. It's just a question of when.
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Also some outtakes (1 per character) were featured at the very end of the credits with text underneath saying 'In loving memory of <character's name> who gave his life saving our planet.' (The outtakes only came with the initial copies on video.) See more »
Written by Karl Wallinger
Performed by Shawn Colvin
Courtesy of Columbia Records See more »
Did You Know?
Trivia
The film crew was also allowed to shoot sequences at the top of a real launch pad with an actual space shuttle docked to it. The only condition was that they not step into the shuttle itself. Ben Affleck admitted to stepping inside the orbiter for a brief moment before NASA technicians ordered him out of the spacecraft. See more »Goofs
Continuity: A.J. goes down the hole to cut a piece of pipe away. We cut to Harry and the Col. William Sharp yelling at him to come out. Meanwhile, A.J. is just starting to cut the same pipe again. See more »Quotes
[first lines][Camera shoots past the moon to slowly zoom in on the Earth]
Narrator: This is the Earth, at a time when the dinosaurs roamed a lush and fertile planet.
[From behind the camera, a giant asteroid appears, speeding towards the Earth ahead of it]
Narrator: A piece of rock just 6 miles wide changed all that.
[Blazing through the atmosphere, the asteroid impacts with a spectacular display of fire and destruction]
Narrator: It hit with the force of 10,000 nuclear weapons. A trillion tons of dirt and rock hurtled into the atmosphere, creating a suffocating blanket of dust the sun was powerless to penetrate for a thousand years. It happened before. It will happen again. It's just a question of when.
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Crazy Credits
All initial UK '12' Certificate videos came with the full promo video for Aerosmith's: "I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing" before the film started. The video only came with the limited widescreen or even more limited 'double feature' boxed video with 'The Making of Armaggedon' as a bonus video.Also some outtakes (1 per character) were featured at the very end of the credits with text underneath saying 'In loving memory of <character's name> who gave his life saving our planet.' (The outtakes only came with the initial copies on video.) See more »
Soundtracks
"When The Rainbow Comes"Written by Karl Wallinger
Performed by Shawn Colvin
Courtesy of Columbia Records See more »
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