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Next is the Out & About review of Bruce Willis's latest action flick, Armageddon. If you like action, explosions, and lots of special effects then you will like Armageddon, if you like great acting, a good and original story, then you should watch something else. I'm not saying the acting was crap but in this mega movie acting was not a high priority, explosions and great special effects were. The story starts placid enough, but soon after the excitement begins with the destruction of a space shuttle in orbit. Soon after we meet the main characters of the show Bruce Willis and Ben Afflack, of Good Will Hunting fame. Willis (Mercury Rising) plays an oil well drilling operation owner and operator in the South China Sea with Liv Tyler playing his daughter, mommy ran away. Afflack works for Willis and is apparently quite a driller, in more than one way, cause ya see Afflack is fooling around with Liv an d Bruce goes ballistic before the excitement of an impending global disaster hits home. Then NASA comes calling for Bruce's help, he gives it, then he and his crew head into space to fight the big evil asteroid. I'm not sure but isn't there a big hunk of dirt hurling towards earth in Deep Impact? So the story isn't original, but it is more entertaining than Deep Impact. I think it's more entertaining because for one thing the people in Deep Impact knew that a disaster might happen and the government had lots of time to prepare for it, while in Armageddon everyone finds out about 18 days till total annihilation of the human species, and all other species as well on Earth. The movie makes heroes out of these oil drillers while poking fun at the military and the rest of the government. Wait I think that might give away the fact that the Earth doesn't get hit with the big rock, but then again it is a movie and I think you could probably figure that out on your own. Armageddon provides plenty of comic relief with a stargazer and his wife in the beginning, later a Russian cosmonaut provides the relief, and through the whole film Ben Afflack gives the comic relief along with a fellow drilling crew member who has a couple of PHDs, which all provide lots of laughs. Of course it's a Hollywood picture so we end up with lots of heroes at the end in this big budget summer movie. So in the end, lots of action, explosions, violence, special effects, comedy, and no nudity god damn it. All in all Armageddon gets 7 couches out of ten, but if Liv had flashed the audience then it would have received a seven and a half, but I guess we can't get everything and have to settle for Roseanne not flashing us, and I case you now think that Roseanne is in Armageddon, wrong, she's busy eating, singing the national anthem, marrying, getting divorced, or some other tabloid thing.
Last updated: Thursday, March 20, 2008 02:45:25 AM |
