Bruce willis captures the reluctant hero role, and liv tyler does well as his daughter. Aug 08, 2012 in the 1998 film, bruce willis plays an oildrilling platform engineer who lands on the surface of an earthbound asteroid, drills to the center and detonates a nuclear weapon, splitting the asteroid in half. Could bruce willis save the world from an asteroid. Nasa follows bruce willis armageddon with plan to land. David james elliott, natasha henstridge, benjamin sadler, florentine lahme. Aug 20, 2012 in order to have a chance, nasa would need much more than just the 18 days depicted in the movie to deflect the asteroid. Twenty years ago, dueling asteroid movies made an impact on hollywood.
Primarily set in the 23rd century, the films central plot involves the survival of planet earth, which becomes the responsibility of korben dallas willis, a taxicab driver and former. The mean astronaut pulls out a gun and points it at bruce willis and his crew. Ok, we no longer use the space shuttle so its a bit dated and the cgi isnt quite up to todays standard but this is still an excellent movie. Whooooaaaaaa i want naked 15 year olds bruce willis pulls a copy of death. Nasa on this actionpacked endoftheworld movie starring bruce willis. While the entire world watches the largest meteor shower in 10,000 years, a rogue asteroid, hidden by the meteor field, smashes into the moon in a tremendous explosion of rock and debris. Inside nasas plan to catch an asteroid bruce willis not. Superb performances with enough hiconcept hioctane throughout. Space movies that are out of this world susanna hayward. Nasa knows space, but they dont know drilling, so they seek the advice of the best driller on earth, bruce willis. Armageddon is marketed to the unthinking macho american audience. Theyre also looking for a perfect space rock to capture so that astronauts could go there and study it. The film starred bruce willis and an ensemble cast including ben affleck, owen wilson, billy bob thorton and many more, but where are the actors now. With bruce willis, milla jovovich, gary oldman, ian holm.
The milelong asteroid will safely pass by earth, the space agency said. That one dude who was in love with steven tylers daughter was going to blow up the big comet or whatever you want to call it but instead bruce willis takes it and blows it up. Potentially deadly asteroid is hurtling towards earth, where. The asteroid will not even come close to hitting the planet, the space agency said. Out there in the black, a 1600foot asteroid is speeding toward earth. All bruce willis movies ranked mar 19, 2017 space physicist dr carrie nugent talks about the chances of earth being hit by a giant asteroid and why she owes her job to a bruce willis movie. In real life, nasa wargaming revealed, matters are considerably more.
Sep 16, 2014 in the 1998 movie armageddon, an asteroid the size of texas threatens to collide with earth in 18 days. The spacecraft will then envelop the space rock with a bag of sorts. Even bruce willis couldnt save earth from armageddon asteroid. Oct, 2016 armageddon 1998 stars bruce willis, billy bob thornton, ben affleck. Mar 03, 2020 the latest bruce willis for 2018 is a remake of the charles bronson 1970s movie death wish. When nasa learns of an asteroid the size of texas will in 18 days destroy earth they call. Neither trailer is particularly great, but both highlight their major difference. Deep impact came out a couple of months previously and is by far the better movie. Heres the right way to nuke an asteroid sorry, bruce willis. The rest of the movie focused on bruce willis, ben affleck and a couple space shuttles full of roughnecks, who blast off to kick some asteroid ass with an allamerican hbomb. Armageddon is a silly space movie about blowing stuff up, and deep impact is a serious earth movie about.
The mean astronaut places the bomb on the asteroid and sets the timer. May, 2014 nasa astronauts have started training for a planned mission to land on an asteroid, in a project similar to the stroyline of bruce willis hollywood blockbuster armageddon. Senator at spacethreat hearing calls for bruce willis. Jun 05, 2018 its not that michael bay isnt to blame for armageddon.
Steve buscemi delivers a great comedic performance as the genius who goes insane once they land on the asteroid. It turns out the 1998 asteroid disaster movie armageddon was a tad unrealistic. Aug 20, 2012 in the film, a team led by bruce willis plants a nuclear bomb deep inside a 600milewide 1,000 kilometers asteroid as it streaks toward earth. In the film armageddon, bruce willis, ben affleck, owen wilson and some other folk saved the world from an incoming asteroid. The film follows a group of bluecollar deepcore drillers sent by nasa to stop a gigantic asteroid on a collision course with earth.
When an asteroid threatens to collide with earth, nasa honcho dan truman billy bob thornton determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear bomb. With bruce willis, billy bob thornton, ben affleck, liv tyler. The two films willis later made under this deal were the sixth sense 1999 and unbreakable 2000. An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him taking to the streets of new york after dark and randomly killing derelicts with a power drill. Nasas preparing to attack earthkilling asteroids without. It stars bruce willis and ben affleck, is directed by michael bay and is produced by jerry bruckheimer so unsurprisingly its a pile of expensive effects laden bubblegum. The film follows a group of bluecollar deepcore drillers sent by nasa to stop a gigantic asteroid on a collision course with. After discovering that an asteroid the size of texas is going to impact earth in less than a month, nasa recruits a misfit team of deepcore drillers to save the planet. Willis plays a deep space oil driller who is sent into space to try and destroy an asteroid hurling towards the planet. Armageddon is a 1998 american science fiction disaster film produced and directed by michael bay, produced by jerry bruckheimer, and released by touchstone pictures. Asteroid mining for real, this time and no, bruce willis and ben affleck arent involved. Asteroids and comets are orbiting toward earth, and a new national academy of sciences report notes the united states is nowhere near the objective set in 2005 to detect 90 percent of them by next. When a giant asteroid is headed for earth, billy bob thornton enlists the drilling expertise of bruce willis because the only way to stop this. Bruce willis cant save us from asteroids, so well have to.
Armageddon 1998 stars bruce willis, billy bob thornton. Their team of astronauts will land on the asteroid, drill a hole in the middle and blow it up with a nuclear bomb. The explosion splits the space rock in two, and the pieces zip safely past the planet, ensuring humanity lives to see another day. In the film, a team led by bruce willis plants a nuclear bomb deep inside a 600milewide.
Next time the media tell you that an asteroid is currently oncourse to impact earth, be sure to play this dvd. Blockbuster producer jerry bruckheimer ups the disaster movie ante by envisaging the destruction of the entire earth by an asteroid the size of texas. In order to have a chance, nasa would need much more than just the 18 days depicted in the movie to deflect the asteroid. Top 5 science done wrong moments in movies smithsonian. May, 2019 twentyone years after bruce willis saved the earth from a fictional asteroid in armageddon, nasa is planning a reallife asteroid collision. Even bruce willis couldnt save earth from armageddon. Why deep impact couldnt top armageddon hollywood reporter. With the asteroid getting all of this attention, we may see armageddon and deep impact start to climb the itunes movie charts over the weekend. Inside nasas plan to catch an asteroid bruce willis not required by mike wall 10 april 20. Bruce willis, billy bob thornton, ben affleck, liv tyler.
He insists that some of his roughnecks come along, and. The white house and nasa are seeking the publics help in hunting for asteroids that could someday smash into earth. When an asteroid is destined for earth, who better to save the day than billy bob thorton and bruce willis. Willis has always been a box office success during his career and had occasional positive response. Mar 20, 20 other witnesses on the panel stressed that hollywoods impact on assessing reallife asteroid threats has proved a double edged sword. A group of bluecollar drillers have to train to be astronauts in two weeks so they can fly to space and place a nuclear bomb inside a giant asteroid that threatens all life. Its the first test in a project to, if needed yes, really, save the earth from huge deadly space rocks.
The two pieces of the asteroid then pass either side of the earth, saving the planets population from annihilation. With another asteroid the size of texas en route, a plan is devised to send oil drillers to land on the asteroid and drop a nuclear device down a foot shaft, a scheme calculated to crack. Le cinquieme element is a 1997 englishlanguage french science fiction action film directed and cowritten by luc besson. Nasas attempt to avert global catastrophe involves sending a motley crew of oil drillers, led by harry stamper bruce willis, into space, where they will drop a nuclear bomb into the asteroid s. Bay should absolutely be held responsible for the film he inflicted on an unsuspecting world in. Armageddon 1998 stars bruce willis, billy bob thornton, ben affleck. Nov 08, 20 and since bruce willis is only an actor and armageddon just a crappy action movie, well have to protect ourselves. Then theres the outer space heroics, with willis s crew blasting off into space in a pair of hightech space shuttles, docking with a russian space station, slingshotting around the moon at 15 gs in order to sneak up on the asteroid from behind, crashlanding on the asteroid s surface, and so on. In a narration by charlton heston, he tells about how the dinosaurs were wiped out 68 million years ago when an asteroid barely six miles across hit the earth. Hubble space telescope captures incredible images of comet. In the film, a team led by bruce willis plants a nuclear bomb deep inside a 600milewide 1,000 kilometers asteroid as it streaks toward earth.
Willis, as stamper, the macho honcho of a deepsea oil rig, is recruited to lead the nasa expedition to drill into and blow up the asteroid. Armageddonstyle asteroid will now not destroy human race. Released on the wednesday before the fourth of july weekend, michael bays epic disaster film about a group of drillers who are sent to space in order to destroy an asteroid. Waimea, hawaii in the 1998 movie armageddon, an asteroid the size of texas threatens to collide with earth in 18 days. The movie depicts harry stamper willis and his oil rig crew who are mostly losers who have done time in jail being hired by nasa as astronauts. In the colorful future, a cab driver unwittingly becomes the central figure in the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep evil and mr. Bruce willis leads a desperate mission to save earth from a direct hit by a monstrous asteroid in this disaster epic. Both deep impact and armageddon were released in that year but while i did enjoy the thrill and special effects of the latter film, i find deep impact the superior of the two. Will a asteroid hit earth in 29 april 2020 asteroid is. This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title armageddon. The woodlands, texas if you want to use a nuclear weapon to save the world from an asteroid, dont try to do it the way bruce willis did in. It seems 1998 was the year hollywood turned to the idea of the world being decimated by objects from outer space to fuel their disaster films. Disneys thenhead joe roth worked out a deal where willis would star in armageddon and two future films for the studio, and in exchange, disney would absorb the failed projects costs as an advance against his initial salary. Plait showed a clip from armageddon in which bruce willis.
Jul 20, 2019 this is the absolute best of the worst space movies. Look up armageddon or armageddon in wiktionary, the free dictionary. Asteroid coming towards earthburj khalifa sized space rocks asteroid is ready to hit next month. Armageddon 1998 stars bruce willis, billy bob thornton, ben. It wont be quite like bruce willis in armageddon, but maybe youll feel just as much a hero. The explosion splits the space rock in two, and the. Potentially deadly asteroid is hurtling towards earth.
It stars bruce willis, gary oldman and milla jovovich. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started. Armageddon involves an asteroid the size of texas that is on a. The working man as a gigantic asteroid is hurtling through space towards earth, bruce willis and his team of oil drillers are called upon to save planet earth by drilling a hole in the asteroid and blowing it up. The fate of the world is in the hands of bluecollar deepcore drillers, who have no experience with space, to shuttle onto the asteroid to destroy it. I saw this movie and it didnt end well for bruce willis. This is the absolute best of the worst space movies. Armageddon is, according to the bible, the site of a battle during the end times. This leads him to renowned driller harry stamper bruce willis, who agrees to helm the dangerous space mission provided he can bring along his own hotshot crew. Sorry, bruce willis, asteroid wins in real armageddon.
In a mission similar to the plot of hollywood movie armageddon, the european space agency plan to smash a spacecraft into an asteroid so they are prepared if they have to do it for real. Primarily set in the 23rd century, the films central plot involves the survival of planet earth, which becomes the responsibility of korben dallas willis, a taxicab driver and former special forces major, after a young woman jovovich falls into his cab. Armageddonstyle asteroid will now not destroy human. Asteroid incoming, bruce willis little help cosmos. Mimi leders deep impact opened may 8, 1998, and was swiftly followed by michael bays armageddon just weeks later on june. Bruce willis kicks asteroid george magazine july 1998 cmon, come to papayou little bucktoothed bastards.
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