History Film / Armageddon1998

* AvengersAssemble: Once Stamper gets the {{Exposition}}, he says he's only the world's best driller because he has assembled the [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits world's best drilling team]]; ergo, he needs [[TheMagnificentSevenSamurai his six best men]] (along with seven other {{Sacrificial Lamb}}s) - but "once they get off the rig, [[LetsSplitUpGang they scatter]]." Cue TheBeatles. "Come together, right now!"

* GeniusLoci / '''''EverythingTryingToKillYou''''': The asteroid.

* TheGovernment: corrupt and inept. Nice combo.

** [[TheSmartGuy Rockhound]]: "We call him 'Hound' because, um, he's horny.

---> "[[ExactWords You know, A.J., there's not a job on the planet that I want you to work with me on.]]"

** [[TheObiWan Charles "Chick" Chapel]]: "at the craps table, Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada."

* BenAffleck as [[TheLancer A.J. Frost]]

Or does it? Apparently, although NASA has yoinked the patents on drilling machines, even their rocket scientists couldn't put them together or operate them right (just go with it). So NASA had to call in its creator -- Harry Stamper, the oil rig operator. Harry brings his daughter Grace with him, because he disapproves of her romance with rebellious hotshot AJ, whom Harry fired for having "hunches". On hearing what's at stake, Harry agrees to go up and do the job himself, but not without his own team. NASA has to seek out Harry's gang of lawbreaking ne'er-do-wells and get them ''trained in two weeks'' to go up to drill the meteor and break it into two pieces that will miss the earth, or everyone dies.

* OwenWilson as [[NaiveNewcomer Oscar Choice]]

However, the deciding factor was most likely its AllStarCast, playing [[TheMagnificentSevenSamurai The Magnificent Seven]] [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits Ragtag Roughnecks]];

'''''Armageddon''''' (1998) was released as a SummerBlockbuster movie, directed by MichaelBay, and placed in a DuelingMovies position against ''DeepImpact''. Despite receiving wide criticism for its tendency to distract the audience from its [[HollywoodScience terrible science]] and raging plot holes with huge explosions, the movie was a huge hit. It had an AwardBaitSong ({{Aerosmith}}'s "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo_0UXRY_rY I Don't Want To Miss A Thing]]") which got wide airplay, and its competition (The ''Film/{{Godzilla}}'' [[TheRemake remake]], which was positioned as ''the'' big SummerBlockbuster of 1998) suffered truly regrettable AdaptationDecay and wound up underperforming at the box office.

'''''Armageddon''''' (1998) was released as a SummerBlockbuster movie, directed by MichaelBay, and placed in a DuelingMovies position against ''DeepImpact''. Despite receiving wide criticism for its tendency to distract the audience from its [[HollywoodScience terrible science]] and raging plot holes with huge explosions, the movie was a huge hit. It had an AwardBaitSong - Aerosmith's "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing" - which got wide airplay, and it had no effective competition - The ''Film/{{Godzilla}}'' [[TheRemake remake]], which was positioned as ''the'' big SummerBlockbuster of 1998, suffered truly regrettable AdaptationDecay and wound up underperforming at the box office.

'''''Armageddon''''' (1998) was released as a SummerBlockbuster movie, directed by MichaelBay, and placed in a DuelingMovies position against ''DeepImpact''. Despite receiving wide criticism for its tendency to distract the audience from its [[HollywoodScience terrible science]] and raging plot holes with huge explosions, the movie was a huge hit. It probably owed its success to several factors:

* An AwardBaitSong - Aerosmith's "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing" getting wide airplay
* Lack of effective competition - The ''Film/{{Godzilla}}'' [[TheRemake remake]], which was positioned as ''the'' big SummerBlockbuster of 1998, suffered truly regrettable AdaptationDecay and wound up underperforming at the box office.
* An AllStarCast as [[TheMagnificentSevenSamurai The Magnificent Seven]] [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits Ragtag Roughnecks]];
** A-List Actor and SummerBlockbuster star BruceWillis as [[TheHero Harry Stamper]]
** BenAffleck as [[TheLancer A.J. Frost]]
** MichaelClarkeDuncan as [[TheBigGuy Bear]]
** SteveBuscemi as [[TheSmartGuy Rockhound]]
** WillPatton as [[TheObiWan Chick]]
** OwenWilson as [[NaiveNewcomer Oscar Choice]]
** KenHudsonCampbell as [[ComicRelief Max]]
** AndStarring...
*** LivTyler as [[TheChick Grace Stamper]]
*** And BillyBobThornton as [[MissionControl Dan Truman]]

* AvengersAssemble: Once Stamper gets the {{Exposition}}, he says he's only the world's best driller because he has assembled the [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits world's best drilling team]]; ergo, he needs [[TheMagnificentSevenSamurai his six best men]] (along with seven other {{Sacrificial Lamb}}s) - but "once they get off the rig, they scatter." Cue TheBeatles. "Come together, right now!"

** [[TheOldMaster Charles "Chick" Chapel]]: At the craps table at Caesar's Palace.

* A-List Actor and SummerBlockbuster star BruceWillis as Harry Stamper
* LivTyler as Grace Stamper
* BenAffleck as A.J. Frost
* SteveBuscemi as Rockhound
* BillyBobThornton as Dan Truman
* OwenWilson as Oscar Choi
* MichaelClarkeDuncan as Bear
* The Aerosmith [[AwardBaitSong Oscar Bait Song]] "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing" getting wide airplay
* The fact that the ''Film/{{Godzilla}}'' [[TheRemake remake]], which was positioned as ''the'' big SummerBlockbuster of 1998, suffered truly regrettable AdaptationDecay and wound up underperforming at the box office.

* ThisAintRocketSurgery: The engineers at NASA couldn't properly Stamper's drill.

->''We are about to {{save the world}} with [[YouFailPhysicsForecer questionable physics]]!''

->''We are about to save the world with questionable physics!''

* PrecisionFStrike: "This is one order you shouldn't follow and you '''[[spoiler: FUCKING]]''' know it!"

* MenAreTheExpendableGender: Jennifer Watts is notably absent in the scene in which everybody draws straws to decide who's staying behind to blow up the nuke. One might argue this is because she's a pilot, but then you realize she's only the co-pilot of the shuttle; and the ''actual'' pilot, Col. Willie Sharp, ''is'' present at the drawing.
** Technically Sharp is only holding the straws that are being drawn - he even says before it that it takes two people to pilot the ship.
** Justified, my fellow tropers. These men are not feminists.

** Naming the asteroid after the discover's wife (because it's a bitch from which there is no escape!")