Armageddon: Difference between revisions

* [[Avengers Assemble]]: Once Stamper gets the [[Exposition]], he says he's only the world's best driller because he has assembled the [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits|world's best drilling team]]; ergo, he needs [[The Magnificent Seven Samurai|his six best men]] (along with five other [[Sacrificial Lamb|sacrificial lambs]]) -- but "once they get off the rig, [[Let's Split Up, Gang!|they scatter]]." Cue [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]]. "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnvZP8LTO8c Come together, right now!]" As sung by [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDtoZ8M3Q50 Aerosmith.]

** [[The Big Guy|J. Otis Curlene Bear]]: "Probably the only black man on a [[wikipedia:Big Dog Motorcycles|Big Dog]] in Kadoka, South Dakota."

** [[Comic Relief|Max]]: "Got a weight limit on the shuttle?"

** [[The Smart Guy|Rockhound]]: "We call him 'Hound' because, um, he's horny."

** [[Naive Newcomer|Oscar Choice]]: "Spacey but absolutely brilliant geologist."

** [[The Obi-Wan|Charles "Chick" Chapel]]: "At the craps table, Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada."

** As for [[The Lancer]]: "The only one knows how to run it as well as I do is A.J."

* [[Award Bait Song]]: Aerosmith's "Don't Want To Miss A Thing" and "Leavin' On A Jet Plane"

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: {{spoiler|AJ, Bear, and the Russian arrive in the second Armadillo just minutes after the first one gets thrown into space by a gas pocket.}}

*** Well, not so much failed Physics 101 as just got a C minus in Astrophysics.

** And, in the words of [[Roger Ebert]]:

** He's not far off. An asteroid the size of a house would destroy the better part of a city. If it's as big as a 20-story office building, it could wipe out an entire city and all its suburbs. A rock [http://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/natural-disasters/asteroid-hits-earth.htm one mile wide] would cause a mass extinction; a rock six miles wide wiped out the dinosaurs.

* [[Disaster Movie]]: natch.

* [[Gatling Good]]: Both of the Armadillo vehicles are armed with these, one of which Rockhound starts shooting wildly when he goes loopy from so-called 'space dementia'.

* [[Genius Loci]]/''[[Everything Trying to Kill You]]'': The asteroid.

'''Chick:''' That's 'cause it knows we're here to kill it!|'''''(cue [[Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies|Rocks Fall]], [[Red Shirt|Red Shirts]] die)'''''}}

* [[The Glomp]]: Molly Mounds is ''very'' happy that Rockhound made it home safely.

* [[Nations of the World Montage]]

* [[No Periods, Period]]: Only mentioned; while Grace is arguing with Harry about her and A.J.'s relationship, she brings up a laundry list of all the things she had to deal with on her own because he was a distant parent.

'''Rock:''' I ''told'' [[Digging Yourself Deeper|her how to use them]]. I didn't ''show'' her, Harry. }}

* [[Nuclear Option]]: Avoids [[Deus Ex Nukina]] only by using the nuke to supply the one thing that nukes actually supply -- very large explosions. Unfortunately, even a nuclear explosion [[Did Not Do the Research|wouldn't have been enough]] to cause the results seen in the movie.

* [[Oh Crap]]: ''Lots'' of them, particularly when they're on the rock itself.

* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: [[Peter Stormare]] would be this if, like so many of his other roles, his character was restricted to just one scene instead of being a main character in the second half of the movie.

* [[Overshadowed by Awesome]]