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BS: 'Armageddon'

29 Jan 12 - 06:57 PM (#3298730)
Subject: BS: 'Armageddon'
From: Skivee

Entertaining brain candy, or incredibly dumb movie that ignored basic science, and based on cliches that by comparison made "Deep Impact" look like it was written by Shakespeare and Carl Sagan?
Discuss. Make sure to include examples and show your work.


29 Jan 12 - 07:49 PM (#3298770)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Armageddon'
From: GUEST,999

Bring back eight-track tapes.

They've been training for eight WHOLE MONTHS?

You know we're sitting on four million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon and a thing that has 270,000 moving parts built by the lowest bidder. Makes you feel good, doesn't it?


30 Jan 12 - 03:25 AM (#3298843)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Armageddon'
From: Nigel Parsons

"Knock knock"

"Who's there?"

"Armageddon"

"Armageddon who?"




"♫쳌ô Armageddon sentimental over you ♫쳌ô"


30 Jan 12 - 03:34 AM (#3298847)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Armageddon'
From: Dave Hanson

Armageddon out of here.

Dave H


30 Jan 12 - 06:52 AM (#3298903)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Armageddon'
From: Michael

I've had enough of this life - Armageddon weary.


30 Jan 12 - 07:41 AM (#3298927)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Armageddon'
From: jacqui.c

You know we're sitting on four million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon and a thing that has 270,000 moving parts built by the lowest bidder. Makes you feel good, doesn't it?

That, IMHO, was the best line in the film. I also liked the Aerosmith song.

I did think that Deep Impact was, by far, the better of the two films,less about the gung ho and more concentrating on the human aspect, but you have to watch these type of movies with a real suspension of belief. Entertaining brain candy would seem to sum it up.


30 Jan 12 - 08:33 AM (#3298971)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Armageddon'
From: GUEST,999

He in a bar: "I'm a mission specialist."
She in the same bar: "What's a mission specialist?"
He still in the bar: "I have no idea."


30 Jan 12 - 08:36 AM (#3298974)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Armageddon'
From: Becca72

I love the movie - I have to stop and watch where ever I stumble in when it's on TV. I still weep like a 3 year old when Bruce Willis is saying goodbye to his daughter. I'm getting a little teary just thinking of it now..


30 Jan 12 - 08:49 AM (#3298984)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Armageddon'
From: Bee-dubya-ell

♫ Armageddon tired of this big city life... ♫


30 Jan 12 - 08:53 AM (#3298990)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Armageddon'
From: GUEST,999

♫ Armageddon tired // of this big city life... ♫
Tired of this big city noise and this big city strife;


30 Jan 12 - 09:15 AM (#3299015)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Armageddon'
From: GUEST,999

Eureka. I have the laptop on an angle with space beneath it because I don't want it overheating and burning the town down. After five months I finally realized that that's why thread titles and their respective numbers to the right have been such a problem. Just thought I'd share that little snippet of information.


30 Jan 12 - 10:29 AM (#3299065)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Armageddon'
From: Rapparee

Armageddon drunk. And that pipe wrench the bartender has will make a deep impact on me.


30 Jan 12 - 10:35 AM (#3299072)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Armageddon'
From: GUEST,999

♫ Armageddon tired // of this big city life... ♫
Tired of this big city noise and this big city strife;
Armageddon drunk // as drunk as drunk can be,
Bartender's wrench go make a big impact on me.


30 Jan 12 - 11:54 AM (#3299126)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Armageddon'
From: GUEST,Wesley S

Hmmm... Armageddon came out in 1998. I'm glad to see that Mudcatters are keeping up with the latest films.

2012 anyone?


30 Jan 12 - 04:45 PM (#3299260)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Armageddon'
From: Don Firth

Apart from a few little gaffs like space shuttles maneuvering like fighter planes and the idea of blowing up a huge asteroid on a collision course with the earth and turning it into a rain of smaller asteroids to pummel the earth with, it was one helluva movie!

My favorite line in the movie (which I can't remember exactly, but it goes sort of like this):

They're trying to get the stalled shuttle restarted so they can blast off the asteroid before the nuke they planted explodes. Female American astronaut is messing with some electronic equipment. Russian cosmonaut say, "Let me take a look at it." She says, "No, this equipment is classified!" He shoulders her aside and say, "So what!? All this stuff is made in Taiwan!"

Don Firth


30 Jan 12 - 05:01 PM (#3299268)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Armageddon'
From: GUEST,999

Regarding Wesley's link: Who warned us?


30 Jan 12 - 05:05 PM (#3299272)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Armageddon'
From: GUEST,mauvepink

"God gave us children so we'd have roses in December"

Now that's the best line

:-)

mp


30 Jan 12 - 06:36 PM (#3299325)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Armageddon'
From: frogprince

Mayonaise a buncha ugly wimmin in thizere bar t'night; Armageddon 'bout ready t' give up 'n' go home.


30 Jan 12 - 06:55 PM (#3299338)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Armageddon'
From: Songwronger

Wasn't that one of two movies in a row that Willis made where he literally saved the world? "The Fifth Element" being the other.


31 Jan 12 - 06:48 PM (#3299935)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Armageddon'
From: gnu

The 5th had some good sci-fi and spefex. Yes, spefex. It's a new word I just made up. No, I don't text. Why do you ask?

I haven't watched a movie in years. Maybe I'll try after the Superbowl.


01 Feb 12 - 12:37 AM (#3300060)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Armageddon'
From: Skivee

Both films are silly but 5th is just lots better storytelling.
It kicks ass and takes names by comparison.
I consider 5th Element to be the Anti-Armageddon.
If they had made a stack of the dumb technical errors in Armageddon, the paper would have easily cushioned the impact of that big rock.
And speaking of rocks, that's what Mila Jovavich does.
"Multi-Pass?"


01 Feb 12 - 06:40 PM (#3300547)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Armageddon'
From: GUEST

Years ago, I lived in Brooklyn, NY and there was a business down the street from me called "Armageddon Carpet Cleaners". I didn't have any carpets, but to this day, I wish I did, because I'd love to know what their cleaning methods involved.


02 Feb 12 - 06:54 AM (#3300740)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Armageddon'
From: Nigel Parsons

Maybe it's just that the owner is from Megiddo?


02 Feb 12 - 05:46 PM (#3301165)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Armageddon'
From: Bev and Jerry

Megiddo is a National Park in the Galilee (northern) part of Israel. We visited there last year and it's an amazing place with ruins dating back many thousands of years.

The site is on a hill and the Hebrew word for hill is (transliterated) har - har Megiddo or Armageddon.

Bev and Jerry


03 Feb 12 - 03:00 AM (#3301324)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Armageddon'
From: Skivee

Something tells me that their pick up and delivery doesn't extend that far.
So here's your question: the people of that place might try to stop use of their name for such a suck film. this may seem extreme, but who among them could we blame if they opted to stone the cast first?