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* [[Anvilicious]]: '''''Lots''''' of comments are made about [[I Want My Jetpack|how pathetic our space technology is]], and [[Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped|how utterly screwed we'd be if it happened for real]].
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'''Dan Truman:''' Even if [[Colony Drop|the asteroid itself hits]] the water, it's still hitting land. [[Story
'''Harry Stamper:''' And this is the best that you c - that the-[[The Government]], the '''''[[Eagle Land|U.S. government]]''''' can come up with? I mean, you-you're [[NASA]] for cryin' out loud, you put a man on the moon, you're geniuses! You-you're the guys that think this shit up! I'm sure you got a team of men sitting around somewhere right now just thinking shit up and somebody backing them up! You're telling me you don't have a [[Time for Plan B|backup plan]], that [[Million-to-One Chance|these eight boy scouts right here]], that is the world's hope, that's what you're telling me?<br />
'''General Kimsey:''' [[Crazy Prepared|We spend 250 billion dollars a year on defense]]. And here we are. The fate of the planet is in the hands of [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits|a bunch of retards I wouldn't trust with a potato gun!]]<br />
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Latest revision as of 16:01, 7 August 2014
- Anvilicious: Lots of comments are made about how pathetic our space technology is, and how utterly screwed we'd be if it happened for real.
Dan Truman: Our object collision budget's a million dollars. That allows us to track about 3% of the sky, and beg'n your pardon sir, but it's a big-ass sky. |
- Apocalypse How
- Crazy Awesome: The Russian cosmonaut. Also counts as an Ensemble Darkhorse.
- Crowning Music of Awesome: Lots of people complained about the science goofs and the plot holes. Film critics were absolutely merciless and wrote scathing reviews. But the Trevor Rabin soundtrack may have been worth the price of admission all by itself.
- Funny Aneurysm Moment: In the first ten minutes of the film, New York is decimated by a meteorite shower (See Harsher in Hindsight). It's kind of worth mentioning that in the middle of this scene there's a cabbie that screams something with each impact: "Look at that! Whoa! We're at war! Saddam Insane is bombing us!" Oh, the innocent irony of 90s catastrophe films.
- Made even more ironic by the fact that, despite Saddam Hussein's lack of involvement in 9/11, America still ended up going back to war with him less than a decade later...
- Harsher in Hindsight: very disturbing to see the World Trade Center twin towers with huge gaping holes in them after the events of 9/11.
- Not to mention the destruction of the Space Shuttles Atlantis and Independence after the Columbia disaster.
- Nightmare Fuel: those are people falling out of the Chrysler Building during the meteor shower in New York City. For additional Squick, watch the movie frame per frame. That thing that just fell on a cab's trunk, severely deforming it? Not a piece of building.
- So Bad It's Good
- Tear Jerker: for a testosterone-fueled Action Movie, there are several couples, but the tearjerking scene mostly involved Grace and Harry.
- Special mention for the music video for the song I Don't Want to Miss a Thing, where they mirror the most tear jerking scene in the entire movie, only with Liv and Steve Tyler...
- Chick's reunion with his son is another.
- FOR ALL MANKIND