Better 90s asteroid movie, Armageddon or Deep Impact?
Last Night (1998) came out the same year. It's a very Canadian version of the end of the world caused by an asteroid.
The premise is a little different. Everyone's known it was coming for months so all the rioting and stupidity is out the way and it shows what people are doing on their last night on earth.
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Those old disaster movies are legitimately my guilty pleasure. I freaking love them. Armageddon, Deep Impact, Dante's Peak, Day After Tomorrow, Twister, Volcano. Just so much dumb fun packed into all of them.
You forgot the best one 2012!
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Last Night (1998) came out the same year. It's a very Canadian version of the end of the world caused by an asteroid.
The premise is a little different. Everyone's known it was coming for months so all the rioting and stupidity is out the way and it shows what people are doing on their last night on earth.
One of the early films of a young Sandra Oh. Great film. Cronenberg has a great acting role in it.
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Man I've only ever seen the first few seconds of that. The whole thing is hilarious. I saw Affleck talk about how he didn't understand at the time that the commentary was going to be like on the DVD with the movie.
"They don't know jack about drilling? What's there to know? You aim the drill at the ground."
Affleck should do a podcast where he just rips apart his movies. Some good options. Daredevil. Pearl Harbour. Gigli. Paycheck.
The love/hate reactions over the years to Armageddon is awesome and hilarious. I found the full Affleck commentary. More hilarity but with a lot of good insights into the film and movie making in general:
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Those old disaster movies are legitimately my guilty pleasure. I freaking love them. Armageddon, Deep Impact, Dante's Peak, Day After Tomorrow, Twister, Volcano. Just so much dumb fun packed into all of them.
Ditto.
They're like a comfortably worn pair of old shoes. You can just throw them on and enjoy and its like a dial in your brain is wound down to relaxed comfort.
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Those old disaster movies are legitimately my guilty pleasure. I freaking love them. Armageddon, Deep Impact, Dante's Peak, Day After Tomorrow, Twister, Volcano. Just so much dumb fun packed into all of them.
The original Poseidon Adventure from 1972 is a classic.
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I've got to give Armageddon the edge over Deep Impact simply for the brilliant line from famous character actor William Fichtner of "Talk about the wrong stuff."
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I know I have praised a lot of movies on here lately but I just saw one of the best movies I've ever seen. It's literally the perfect movie, it's like comfort food for the movie lovers soul. I'm talking about the bio pic Amadeus. The costumes, the score, the acting, the sets, everything about this movie is just perfection. It's 3hrs long and I never got bored once, was completely hooked and engaged the entire time. If I made a list of the top 100 movies to see before you die, this one would be on there. If you were like me and had never seen it before please do me a favor and give it a watch.
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I know I have praised a lot of movies on here lately but I just saw one of the best movies I've ever seen. It's literally the perfect movie, it's like comfort food for the movie lovers soul. I'm talking about the bio pic Amadeus. The costumes, the score, the acting, the sets, everything about this movie is just perfection. It's 3hrs long and I never got bored once, was completely hooked and engaged the entire time. If I made a list of the top 100 movies to see before you die, this one would be on there. If you were like me and had never seen it before please do me a favor and give it a watch.
I dont even know what to say about this.
You have, lets be honest, a 'different' taste and opinion on films, and I'm starting to understand why. It seems like your taste in films has been raised on garbage.
Amadeus? That film is literally older than I am.
Yes. Its a great movie. Its also almost 40 years old. How have you missed it?
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Amadeus has a good director’s cut. An all time performance from F Murray Abraham. And I’ll remember Tom Hulce’s laugh until the day I die.
I always found it unusual that both of their careers peaked in that movie. An absolutely incredible movie, in my top ten movies of all-time. Milos Foreman is an incredible director. The People vs. Larry Flynt and One Flew Over the ####oo's Nest are both stellar movies as well.
Back to my original point, after Amadeus Tom Hulce's only memorable role is the voice of Hunchback in the animated movie and Abraham as the villainous Robert Crawford in Finding Forrester. Although I binged White Lotus over the weekend, and it was great seeing Abraham in season two. What a highly underrated career he has had.
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I always found it unusual that both of their careers peaked in that movie. An absolutely incredible movie, in my top ten movies of all-time. Milos Foreman is an incredible director. The People vs. Larry Flynt and One Flew Over the ####oo's Nest are both stellar movies as well.
Back to my original point, after Amadeus Tom Hulce's only memorable role is the voice of Hunchback in the animated movie and Abraham as the villainous Robert Crawford in Finding Forrester. Although I binged White Lotus over the weekend, and it was great seeing Abraham in season two. What a highly underrated career he has had.
I can only see him as Pinto from Animal House, and that's it.
I have a buddy who named his kid Wolfgang because he loves Amadeus so much. I really need to rewatch it.
Sometimes we just have holes in our movies, no matter how we love them. I only saw All That Jazz last year for the first time and I think it's one of the best movies ever made.
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You have, lets be honest, a 'different' taste and opinion on films, and I'm starting to understand why. It seems like your taste in films has been raised on garbage.
Amadeus? That film is literally older than I am.
Yes. Its a great movie. Its also almost 40 years old. How have you missed it?
I feel like outside of superhero movies (which I understand my tastes differ from yours) I have decent taste in films, especially horror, and I know we both really like disaster movies.
Why haven't I seen this before? Well as you said, it came out years before I was even born. I have a long list of films through out history that I haven't seen that I've been slowly watching. I guarantee you probably have some holes in your film watching list, everyone does. It's impossible to see everything.
I mean I had only recently seen the old western movies I now have on my top 20 list because I never had an interest in those kinds of movies before. Movies like Tombstone and the Good, the Bad and the Ugly were never on my radar despite them being classics.
I, for one, have been enjoying observing Nadal Fan's deepening interest in older movies and getting into some classics. We all have bad movies from our youth that we love even if they were bad. Last page talking about Armageddon and Day After Tomorrow. Those are mostly bad movies that we enjoy for the cheese. The Aquaman cheese isn't for me, but hey go for it. And enjoy the classics too.
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