Armageddon (1998/I)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.0/10   

Director:

Michael Bay

Escritores (WGA):

Robert Roy Pool (story) and
Jonathan Hensleigh (story) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

1 julio 1998 (USA)

Género:

Acción | Romance | Ciencia-Ficción | Suspenso

Frase comercial:

It's Closer Than You Think.

Plot:

When an asteroid the size of Texas is headed for Earth the world's best deep core drilling team is sent to nuke the rock from the inside.

Plot Keywords:

Asteroid | Drill | NASA | Nuclear | Astronaut

Premios:

Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 12 wins & 27 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Has all the ingredients of a good action movie...

Reparto

Bruce Willis	...	Harry S. Stamper
Billy Bob Thornton	...	Dan Truman, NASA Administrator
Ben Affleck	...	A.J. Frost
Liv Tyler	...	Grace Stamper
Will Patton	...	Charles 'Chick' Chapple
Steve Buscemi	...	Rockhound
William Fichtner	...	Colonel William Sharp, Shuttle Freedom Pilot
Owen Wilson	...	Oscar Choi, Geologist
Michael Clarke Duncan	...	Jayotis 'Bear' Kurleenbear
Peter Stormare	...	Lev Andropov, Russian Cosmonaut
Ken Hudson Campbell	...	Max Lennert (as Ken Campbell)
Jessica Steen	...	Jennifer Watts, Shuttle Freedom Co-Pilot
Keith David	...	Lt. General Kimsey
Chris Ellis	...	Walter Clark
Jason Isaacs	...	Dr. Ronald Quincy, Research

También conocida como:

Armageddon (Argentina) (Spain) [es]
Armagedón (Venezuela) [es]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for sci-fi disaster action, sensuality and brief language.

Duración:

150 min | USA:153 min (director's cut)

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés | Ruso

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

2.20 : 1

Sonido:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Clasificación:

Taiwan:PG-12 | Philippines:PG-13 | Finland:K-12 (1998) | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PA (Manitoba) | Canada:PG (Alberta/British Columbia/Ontario) | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Belgium:KT | Brazil:12 | Chile:14 | Denmark:15 | France:U | Germany:12 (w) | Hong Kong:IIA | Iceland:LH (video rating) | Iceland:L (original rating) | Italy:T | Netherlands:12 | Norway:15 | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:PG | South Korea:12 | Sweden:11 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | UK:12 | USA:PG-13 (certificate #36122) | USA:Unrated (director's cut)

Locaciones de Filmación:

4th Street, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA

Compañía:

Touchstone Pictures

Trivialidades:

Liv Tyler turned down the role of Grace Stamper twice before finally accepting.

Errores:

Personal o Equipo Visible: On asteroid, a puff of smoke reveals/reflects shadow of a camera on crane.

Citas:

[first lines]
[Camera shoots past the moon to slowly zoom in on the Earth]
Narrator: This is the Earth, at a time when the dinosaurs roamed a lush and fertile planet.
[From behind the camera, a giant asteroid appears, speeding towards the Earth ahead of it]
Narrator: A piece of rock just 6 miles wide changed all that.
[Blazing through the atmosphere, the asteroid impacts with a spectacular display of fire and destruction]
Narrator: It hit with the force of 10,000 nuclear weapons. A trillion tons of dirt and rock hurtled into the atmosphere, creating a suffocating blanket of dust the sun was powerless to penetrate for a thousand years. It happened before. It will happen again. It's just a question of when.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 (2008) (VG)

Banda de Sonido:

Starseed

Has all the ingredients of a good action movie...

...that's exactly what this is: an ACTION movie. It's not supposed to sweep the Oscars, the acting isn't supposed to be perfect, and it's not supposed to make perfect sense.

The story follows a group of oil drillers sent by NASA to stop an asteroid that will strike the world in eighteen days. The drillers are taught and trained to become astronauts (in a very comedic scene) and then sent to the asteroid to drop the nukes and blow it up. After that, a whole lot goes wrong.

I loved this movie, and I hate how everyone's been calling it 'mindless action'. It's not mindless, it's actually very dramatic. The acting is great from pretty much all accounts, even Ben Affleck does a good job.

Bruce Willis captures the 'reluctant hero' role, and Liv Tyler does well as his daughter. Steve Buscemi delivers a great comedic performance as the genius who goes insane once they land on the asteroid.

Great, funny, intense, dramatic movie. 8/10.