Armageddon

Perhaps one of my favorite movies, Armageddon is an emotional roller coaster where one minute I'm laughing my balls off and the next minute I'm crying like my goldfish died. The movie is about a meteor about to hit the Earth and the only way to stop it is to nuke it, so NASA sends a bunch of non-astronaut rough necks who work on an oil rig up to space to drill a hole and drop the nuke in. Sounds pretty lame, right? You are right though, it does sound pretty lame. But it's not lame. It's pretty fucking wild. If you can't get behind the concept at least get behind the star studded cast which includes:

• Bruce Willis (The badass oil rig boss)
• Billy Bob Thornton (The NASA employee who's pretty cool unlike the douchebag government men)
• Ben Affleck (Banging Bruce Willis's daughter and also Bruce Willis's 2nd in command, very controversial)
• Liv Tyler (Bruce Willis's daughter who gets plowed out by Big Ben Affleck)
• Will Patton (Typical Patton role: Main characters best friend, not quite in the spotlight but not easily forgotten)
• Steve Buscemi (Hilarious genius who bang's anything that moves)
• William Fitchner (NASA astronaut)
• Owen Wilson (Hick)
• Michael Clark Duncan (Jacked black guy, every movie needs a jacked black guy)

Every name there is an everyday household name without question. If your not talking about crazy eyes over morning coffee then what are you talking about? Jacked black guys real life unfortunate death? Ben Affleck as the new batman? The fat guy yelling "Yoast!" at Will Patton in Remember the Titans? How about the intense volleyball game in Meet The Parents? YA GOTTA SPIKE THOSE FOCKER! That's what I thought. Every name is indeed an everyday household name and they were all thrown into one suicide mission film with "Certainty of death, small chance of success," so, "What are we waiting for?"

On a more serious note, this movie falls into the classic storyline of the good guys having to prevail against all odds to save the world, which generally is too cliche for my liking. Even though at times it's quite unrealistic and over dramatic, Armageddon has hilarious one liners, excellent tear-jerking speeches, and incredible overall character and total movie development that turns this movie into an instant classic. I'd recommend it to anyone and everyone.

By the way, I hope you guys know that the "Certainty of death..." quote is by Gimli in LOTR, not by any characters in Armageddon.

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Note: Liv Tyler is the real life daughter of Steve Tyler of Aerosmith. Liv Tyler is the daughter of Steve Tyler, Bruce Willis, and Elron fron LOTR. She's 1/3 rock and roll, 1/3 badass, and 1/3 elf. I wouldn't fuck with her if I was you.

*Update*
Liv Tyler was married to Royston Langdon for a little while? How the fuck did he land a chick like her?