Armageddon Vs. Deep Impact.

[Forbin]

I personally preferred the slightly-more-believable (slightly) Deep Impact.

This always happens to me whenever two films with similar themes come out at around the same time, I usually prefer the less-popular one. It happened when Ghost and Always came out. Everybody was raving over Ghost, but I thought Always was SOOOOO much better! Of course I'm a sucker for a girl in an A-26.

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

Deep Impact was a disaster movie that mostly happens on Earth. Armageddon is an action movie that mostly happens in space. Both have heaps of inaccuracies in them and make me laugh whenever I catch either on TV. That said, I like Armageddon more as I like action movies in space, personally don't like disaster flicks, and love laughing at the hideous failed attempts at simplifying science stuff for everyone to understand.

Also, late-90s Liv Tyler. Mmmm. Late-90s Liv Tyler.

Mark

 

[Owain Taggart]

Deep Impact is the better movie while Armageddon is pure Hollywood blockbuster. It still got some things wrong, but for the most part, it was a more realistic story. Plus, I have to admit I have a sort of bias for it since I've met David Levy (the scientist addressed on the envelop at the beginning of the movie) several times.

 

[Bob Karo]

I have to go with the one that has Steve Buscemi firing a minigun in space. (What did NASA expect to find on Mars?)

I personally preferred the slightly-more-believable (slightly) Deep Impact.

This always happens to me whenever two films with similar themes come out at around the same time, I usually prefer the less-popular one. It happened when Ghost and Always came out. Everybody was raving over Ghost, but I thought Always was SOOOOO much better! Of course I'm a sucker for a girl in an A-26.

You're one of those people that likes Wyatt Earp more than Tombstone, aren't you?

 

[Holdfast]

Deep Impact. It was more down to Earth with relatable characters rather than cartoons.

at your choice of words. Yes, I suppose it was...


Armageddon is a more rewatchable film, I think. Whenever I stumble across it on TV, I often end up watching it for a while. It's just lots of silly fun, and has a great song too. Deep Impact has the more moving conclusion on first watching, but it's not particularly interesting to revisit.

 

[Deckerd]

Armageddon is very quotable. And funny.

Deep Impact is not (aside from the sublimely unselfconscious "Messiah has failed")

case rested

 

[Guy Gardener]

"When you were a baby, I dropped you on your head."

 

[FPAlpha]

I personally preferred the slightly-more-believable (slightly) Deep Impact.

This always happens to me whenever two films with similar themes come out at around the same time, I usually prefer the less-popular one. It happened when Ghost and Always came out. Everybody was raving over Ghost, but I thought Always was SOOOOO much better! Of course I'm a sucker for a girl in an A-26.

Thank you.. finally someone who appreciates Always. It has some of my favorite actors of all time.. John Goodman and Richard Dreyfuss and it isn't as sugary sweet as Ghost. Plus.. it has far better humor.

 

[Deckerd]

Ghost is only really remembered for the pisstake in Naked Gun.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I like "Deep Impact." I don't think it's my favourite movie of all time, but it's decent enough for the most part, and has a rather amusing moment where Elijah Wood's character is holding two golden rings in his hand.

However, I had never really seen "Armageddon" until recently, and, aside from the presence of Peter Stormare and Jason Isaacs (both almost always the best thing in whatever they do), I found it far too loud and far too silly.

Ghost is only really remembered for the pisstake in Naked Gun.

The former directed, and the latter co-written, by Jerry Zucker!

 

[Mooch]

I like most of Deep Impact but not all of it (particularly Elijah Wood's storyline). I like some of Armageddon but I don't remember it too well, I haven't seen it in ages.

 

[Amaris]

I like them both, though I like Deep Impact more. There are a number of reasons why, but three of the biggest reasons are Morgan Freeman, Robert Duvall, and Tea Leoni.

Plus, I like the story better. Also, when that movie came out, I had a crush on LeeLee Sobieski.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Deep Impact. It was more down to Earth with relatable characters rather than cartoons.

at your choice of words. Yes, I suppose it was...


Armageddon is a more rewatchable film, I think. Whenever I stumble across it on TV, I often end up watching it for a while. It's just lots of silly fun, and has a great song too. Deep Impact has the more moving conclusion on first watching, but it's not particularly interesting to revisit.

Must have been my subconscious at work.

I've rewatched Deep Impact several times. Armageddon, maybe twice.

 

[Harvey]

Neither film is very memorable, or that accurate. Of the two, Armageddon is by far a louder and stupider movie -- basically, what you should expect from a film crediting Michael Bay as the director and Jerry Bruckheimer as the producer.

 

[stj]

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait on Deep Impact:

Without keeping you in suspense, I'll just say it: I liked it. It was good! Sure, it had its Bad Astronomy, but quite a bit of it was right on the money, and some of the Bad stuff can be fairly chalked up to movie-making license.

BAd Astronomer Phil Plait on Armageddon:

However, I will say this here: this movie is in my opinion very very bad. And for those that think I am just being cynical because the astronomy is atrocious, I assure you, I am not.

Here's the short version: "Armageddon" got some astronomy right. For example, there is an asteroid in the movie, and asteroids do indeed exist. And then there was... um... well, you know... um. Okay, so that was about all they got right. Now I know that accuracy was not the main point of the movie, and clearly from the way the plot played out, realism was the last thing on the minds of the writers. One person who emailed me said the movie had "sub-comic book level science" which is pretty much right. But as always, I can use their Bad Astronomy as a jumping off point for some Good Astronomy. Shall we start?

Deep Impact is much better. It's really hard to figure out what was supposed to be fun about Armageddon. My guess is vicarious identification with Bruce Willis bad assery, who gets to do suffering hero too. There are only normal people in Deep Impact.

 

[bigdaddy]

Deep Impact by a mile. Much more serious, yet still fun. You can relate to the charcters even if the actors can't really act.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Neither film is very memorable, or that accurate. Of the two, Armageddon is by far a louder and stupider movie -- basically, what you should expect from a film crediting Michael Bay as the director and Jerry Bruckheimer as the producer.

I neglected to say originally, which I'll now add, that watching Armageddon was physically a very unpleasant experience for me. I emerged from the theater with a headache. It was filmed in what I call "headache-cam." The same thing with Enemy of the State.

 

[Gil T.Azell]

No Poll?
I like them both.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

The same thing with Enemy of the State.

Enemy of the State was the start of Tony Scott's "throw in everything but the kitchen sink" philosophy about camera trickery. Fade outs, double exposure, freeze frames, reverse angle playback, quick cuts... At least in the context of a film about satellite imagery and the surveillance state it had some purpose to it, but then he started going overboard with it and using it in all his subsequent films too, and even getting worse. They're still good movies for the most part (Domino is dreadful, though), but man the camera tricks get on your nerves and become a distraction after a while. People who complain about JJ Abrams and lens flares should have to suffer through ten minutes of Domino, and then they'll think Abrams is positively subdued.

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

CRIMSON TIDE is better than ARMAGEDDON. Tony Scott at his best. ARNAGEDDON is better then DEEP IMPACT, though both are good. ARMAGEDON is a classic compared to THE ROCK, with only Ed Harris to elevate it. ANYTHING is better than DOMINO......even Scott's atrocious PELHAM 123 threemake.