Tim of Pop Crunch has a list of what he considers to be the fifteen worst science fiction films of all time. Coming in at #5 is the 1998 Bruce Willis movie Armageddon:Seriously, the histrionic plot is bad enough, but the science of the film is so bad as to make any scientist within a 5 mile radius of a showing to spontaneously combust. They get every possible details wrong—how you would stop an asteroid; what would happen if you put explosives down a shaft in one; what would happen if you split it up; sound in space; gravity; hiring oildrillers for the thing in the first place. Throw in Ben Stiller pretending he can act and Bruce Willis
giving a textbook definition of “phoning it in”, you get an utterly crap movie, of course directed by Michael Bay.
I thought that it was okay, but Tim is correct to suggest that the movie requires simply enormous suspension of disbelief.
What movie would you add to the list? What movie would you remove from the list?
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