When last minute difficulties occur involving both the shuttle engines and the detonator, Andropov crudely ends up getting the engines started, Freedom moves to a safe distance and Harry successfully retrieves and triggers the detonator while his life flashes before his eyes.
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The bomb successfully splits the asteroid, avoiding the collision with Earth. Freedom safely returns to Earth, and the surviving crew is treated as heroes.
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This additional footage, incorporated two months prior to the film's release, was specifically added for the television advertising campaign to differentiate the film from Deep Impact which was released a few months before. According to Bruce Joel Rubin, writer of Deep Impact , a production president at Disney took notes on everything the writer said during lunch about his script and initiated Armageddon as a counter film at Disney. Nine writers worked on the script, five of whom are credited.
Originally, it was Hensleigh's script, based on Pool's original, that had been given the green-light by Touchstone.
Then-producer, Jerry Bruckheimer, hired the succession of scribes for rewrites and polishes. Despite a mixed critical reception, a DVD edition of Armageddon was released by The Criterion Collection , a specialist film distributor of primarily arthouse films that markets what it considers to be "important classic and contemporary films" and "cinema at its finest".
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In an essay supporting the selection of Armageddon , film scholar Jeanine Basinger , who taught Michael Bay at Wesleyan University , states that the film is "a work of art by a cutting-edge artist who is a master of movement, light, color, and shape—and also of chaos, razzle-dazzle, and explosion".
She sees it as a celebration of working men: Following the Columbia disaster , some screen captures from the opening scene where Atlantis is destroyed were passed off as satellite images of the disaster in a hoax. Armageddon was released on July 1 , in 3, theaters in the United States and Canada. Armageddon received mostly negative reviews from film critics, many of whom took issue with "the furious pace of its editing".
However, his co-host Gene Siskel gave it a Thumbs Up. Ebert went on to name Armageddon as the worst film of though he was originally considering Spice World. We had to do the whole movie in 16 weeks. It was a massive undertaking. That was not fair to the movie. I would redo the entire third act if I could. But the studio literally took the movie away from us. My visual effects supervisor had a nervous breakdown, so I had to be in charge of that.
I called James Cameron and asked "What do you do when you're doing all the effects yourself?
Some time after the article was published, Bay changed his stance, claiming that his apology only related to the editing of the film, not the whole film, [20] and accused the writer of the article for taking his words out of context. The author of the article, Miami Herald writer Rene Rodriguez claimed: I didn't misquote anyone. All the sites that picked up the story did. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly , Bay admitted that the film's central premise "that NASA could actually do something in a situation like this" was unrealistic. Additionally, near the end of the credits, there is a disclaimer stating, "The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's cooperation and assistance does not reflect an endorsement of the contents of the film or the treatment of the characters depicted therein.
The infeasibility of the H-bomb approach was published by four postgraduate physics students in [23] and then reported by The Daily Telegraph in A mathematical analysis of the situation found that for Willis's approach to be effective, he would need to be in possession of an H-bomb a billion times stronger than the Soviet Union 's " Big Ivan ", the biggest ever detonated on Earth.
Using estimates of the asteroid's size, density, speed and distance from Earth based on information in the film, the postgraduate students from Leicester University found that to split the asteroid in two, with both pieces clearing Earth, would require trillion terajoules of energy.
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In contrast, the total energy output of "Big Ivan", which was tested by the Soviet Union in , was only , terajoules. In the commentary track, Ben Affleck says he "asked Michael why it was easier to train oil drillers to become astronauts than it was to train astronauts to become oil drillers, and he told me to shut the fuck up, so that was the end of that talk.
Russell and Keith A. It was also nominated for seven Razzie Awards [28] including: Only one Razzie was awarded: Bruce Willis received the Worst Actor award for Armageddon , in addition to his appearances in Mercury Rising and The Siege , both released in the same year as this film. Revell and Monogram released two model kits inspired by the film's spacecraft and the Armadillos, in The first one, "Space Shuttle with Armadillo drilling unit", included an X, a small, rough Armadillo and a pedestal.
The second one, "Russian Space Center", included the Mir , with the docking adapter seen in the film, and another pedestal. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Armageddon Theatrical release poster.
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