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<blockquote data-quote="John Crichton" data-source="post: 2599299" data-attributes="member: 4779">Never seen The Core but you touched upon something that I was going to say.&nbsp; I'll elaborate -According to the original poster, &quot;What breaks it for me, though, is a film that purports to be set in &quot;reality,&quot; yet gets even the simplist scientific principles wrong.&quot;Armageddon never purported to be set in anything remotely resembling reality.&nbsp; Yeah, it had humans in it but so does Lord of the Rings.&nbsp; I think they are very similiar (and yes, I happened to love both films).&nbsp; Does Armageddon have &quot;bad science?&quot;&nbsp; Of course!&nbsp; It's a doomsday movie released as a summer blockbuster, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, directed by Mike Bay, the king of blowin' stuff up and blowin' it up real good and starring Bruce Willis who also likes to do the same.&nbsp; Go watch the trailer/teaser/super bowl commercial again and think if you've been deceived into thinking that the film was grounded in any kind of science. I also think it should be mentioned that the movie is really Americana personified.&nbsp; They have the biggest guns, the most ra-ra, big-ass jets and spaceships and even the crazy ruskie.&nbsp; Check out the amount of flags, symbolism and general patriotic blabber going on.&nbsp; None of it really makes any sense or really matters but it's all there wrapped up in a package of one-liners, cheezy romance and suspense points with some great production values.&nbsp; Fantastic film once you remove it from the catagory of realism as it was properly presented as.EDIT:&nbsp; I'd also like to mention that for all you Lost fans out there (a show that has loads of melodrama, similar to Armageddon) JJ Abrams was a screenwriter on the flick.&nbsp; Do I want all my movies like it?&nbsp; No.&nbsp; But it was a damn fun ride.I had a much bigger problem with Deep Impact, which did present itself as realistic.&nbsp; Maybe it's just me.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Crichton, post: 2599299, member: 4779"] Never seen The Core but you touched upon something that I was going to say. I'll elaborate - According to the original poster, "What breaks it for me, though, is a film that purports to be set in "reality," yet gets even the simplist scientific principles wrong." Armageddon never purported to be set in anything remotely resembling reality. Yeah, it had humans in it but so does Lord of the Rings. I think they are very similiar (and yes, I happened to love both films). Does Armageddon have "bad science?" Of course! It's a doomsday movie released as a summer blockbuster, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, directed by Mike Bay, the king of blowin' stuff up and blowin' it up real good and starring Bruce Willis who also likes to do the same. Go watch the trailer/teaser/super bowl commercial again and think if you've been deceived into thinking that the film was grounded in any kind of science. I also think it should be mentioned that the movie is really Americana personified. They have the biggest guns, the most ra-ra, big-ass jets and spaceships and even the crazy ruskie. Check out the amount of flags, symbolism and general patriotic blabber going on. None of it really makes any sense or really matters but it's all there wrapped up in a package of one-liners, cheezy romance and suspense points with some great production values. Fantastic film once you remove it from the catagory of realism as it was properly presented as. EDIT: I'd also like to mention that for all you Lost fans out there (a show that has loads of melodrama, similar to Armageddon) JJ Abrams was a screenwriter on the flick. Do I want all my movies like it? No. But it was a damn fun ride. I had a much bigger problem with Deep Impact, which did present itself as realistic. Maybe it's just me. ;) [/QUOTE]

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