You know, back in April, Phil Plait
(the Bad Astronomer) came to Calgary and gave a lecture at the Science center, and one of his main topics was Hollywood Movies vs Science.
This was what I wrote at the time in this thread:
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Phil went on to talk at length about the movie Armageddon and how basically this is the worst movie for science ever made. He said the only thing in this movie that is accurate is that Meteors exist. Everything else about the movie is pure garbage.
He did say though that a similar movie released the same year, Deep Impact, was one of the best scientifically done movies. The only real mistake they made was that when they blew up the 5 mile comet, it's pieces wouldn't have disintegrated in the atmosphere, the 5 miles of mass still has the same amount of energy whether it is in one chuck or a million chunks, so everyone would have died still.
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