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Re: Did you like the movie "Armageddon"?
« Reply #15 on: April 23, 2013, 04:31:45 PM »

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That's it. I'm going to bat for this movie. I'd say it's on my top 100 list

A far more funny movie than it's given credit for

You realize we're sitting on 300 tons of rocket fuel and a nuclear weapon all built by the lowest bidder?

Even the less funny stuff was pretty good. Like when the guy says "Wait. Rockets? Like you just strap us and off we go like the coyote? No this is important because it never really worked for the coyote!"   "Actually. We have way bigger rockets"

I mean..popcorn movie is one thing, but top 100? yikes.

What'd you push out, Ernest Goes To Jail?
Casablanca. That movie is so dated expired milk smells good sitting next to it.  One good like the whole film.

Also I'm pretty sure I started watching Gone with the Wind as a freshman in college and when I got to junior year and still hadn't reached the half way point I decided it would never make it to the list.


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But Casablanca? Play it, Sam.*

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Re: Did you like the movie "Armageddon"?
« Reply #16 on: April 23, 2013, 04:42:48 PM »

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I love it for class.  "Find all the bad science packed in this movie" 



The key, getting a version with the sappy romance stuff edited out. 




Drill a hole to put a nuke in the center that will split it into two perfect halves that will pass on either side of the planet.  Bad science gold. 


(This activity can also be done with the Core, but the movie is unwatchable)

Re: Did you like the movie "Armageddon"?
« Reply #17 on: April 23, 2013, 04:46:49 PM »

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I love it for class.  "Find all the bad science packed in this movie" 



The key, getting a version with the sappy romance stuff edited out. 




Drill a hole to put a nuke in the center that will split it into two perfect halves that will pass on either side of the planet.  Bad science gold. 


(This activity can also be done with the Core, but the movie is unwatchable)
Totally deserves its own thread

Re: Did you like the movie "Armageddon"?
« Reply #18 on: April 23, 2013, 04:49:09 PM »

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That sappy song was very good. Steven Tyler and his last great gasp...other than maybe that song Pink

Re: Did you like the movie "Armageddon"?
« Reply #19 on: April 23, 2013, 05:12:45 PM »

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Ben Affleck (as a lead)=FAIL!

Its amazing how much I disagree (currently) with this statement based on his work in the Town and Argo. 7 to 10 years ago... Absolutely Agree.

Re: Did you like the movie "Armageddon"?
« Reply #20 on: April 23, 2013, 05:26:14 PM »

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It was ok, misfit losers save the world and die in the process.  The science is bad, we could simply use paint to deflect the asteroids but that isn't as dramatic.

Re: Did you like the movie "Armageddon"?
« Reply #21 on: April 23, 2013, 05:50:30 PM »

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Ben Affleck (as a lead)=FAIL!

Its amazing how much I disagree (currently) with this statement based on his work in the Town and Argo. 7 to 10 years ago... Absolutely Agree.

Didn't like "The Town", and have never seen "Argo".

Affleck has to be on my top 5 list of most hated actors.  He sucks.

Re: Did you like the movie "Armageddon"?
« Reply #22 on: April 23, 2013, 07:53:15 PM »

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Ben Affleck (as a lead)=FAIL!

Its amazing how much I disagree (currently) with this statement based on his work in the Town and Argo. 7 to 10 years ago... Absolutely Agree.

Didn't like "The Town", and have never seen "Argo".

Affleck has to be on my top 5 list of most hated actors.  He sucks.
Well I think he's pretty good, so how you like them apples?!?!

Re: Did you like the movie "Armageddon"?
« Reply #23 on: April 23, 2013, 07:55:42 PM »

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Ben Affleck (as a lead)=FAIL!

Its amazing how much I disagree (currently) with this statement based on his work in the Town and Argo. 7 to 10 years ago... Absolutely Agree.

Didn't like "The Town", and have never seen "Argo".

Affleck has to be on my top 5 list of most hated actors.  He sucks.
Well I think he's pretty good, so how you like them apples?!?!

Yeah, he's been in a lot of garbage, but he's turned a corner in his career, for sure.


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Re: Did you like the movie "Armageddon"?
« Reply #24 on: April 23, 2013, 07:59:03 PM »

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Ben Affleck (as a lead)=FAIL!

Its amazing how much I disagree (currently) with this statement based on his work in the Town and Argo. 7 to 10 years ago... Absolutely Agree.

Didn't like "The Town", and have never seen "Argo".

Affleck has to be on my top 5 list of most hated actors.  He sucks.
Well I think he's pretty good, so how you like them apples?!?!

Yeah, he's been in a lot of garbage, but he's turned a corner in his career, for sure.
yeah, he was great both in front and behind the camera in his last two flicks. I think he was really good in The Town but just got overshadowed by a truly great performance from Jeremy Renner. In Argo he was top notch as well.

Re: Did you like the movie "Armageddon"?
« Reply #25 on: April 23, 2013, 08:29:00 PM »

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Ben Affleck (as a lead)=FAIL!

Its amazing how much I disagree (currently) with this statement based on his work in the Town and Argo. 7 to 10 years ago... Absolutely Agree.

Didn't like "The Town", and have never seen "Argo".

Affleck has to be on my top 5 list of most hated actors.  He sucks.
Well I think he's pretty good, so how you like them apples?!?!

I don't like apples...I like oranges  :P

Re: Did you like the movie "Armageddon"?
« Reply #26 on: April 23, 2013, 09:10:26 PM »

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Ben Affleck (as a lead)=FAIL!

Its amazing how much I disagree (currently) with this statement based on his work in the Town and Argo. 7 to 10 years ago... Absolutely Agree.

Didn't like "The Town", and have never seen "Argo".

Affleck has to be on my top 5 list of most hated actors.  He sucks.
Well I think he's pretty good, so how you like them apples?!?!

Yeah, he's been in a lot of garbage, but he's turned a corner in his career, for sure.
yeah, he was great both in front and behind the camera in his last two flicks. I think he was really good in The Town but just got overshadowed by a truly great performance from Jeremy Renner. In Argo he was top notch as well.

I really like his directing in Gone Baby Gone too.

As far as Armageddon, I like it. Saw it at the theater opening night, many moons ago.
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Re: Did you like the movie "Armageddon"?
« Reply #27 on: April 23, 2013, 09:17:08 PM »

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Loved the part where he started tearing apart the machine that he designed that they tried to imitate and he's like "What the heck is this? What is this? Some space age ice cream scooper? What did that cost you? Three hundred bucks?"   Classic

Re: Did you like the movie "Armageddon"?
« Reply #28 on: April 23, 2013, 09:22:41 PM »

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A far more funny movie than it's given credit for

You realize we're sitting on 300 tons of rocket fuel and a nuclear weapon all built by the lowest bidder?

  It's only kinda funny if you've worked in the defense industry.

  For some reason, when I worked for such a company, they had a program going where people would buy US savings bonds at a slight discount. They'd talk about it in a meeting once a year to get people to sign up for that payroll deduction and they'd say something along the lines of "We don't know for sure that the high percentage of employees buying bonds helps us get govt contracts but we think that it might". I was horrified by the thought. We'd get out of there and I'd ask my friends how they'd feel about flying if they really thought that the people that got the contract to make the air traffic control equipment did when their bid wasn't quite up to snuff, but they bought a lot of savings bonds.

  But I digress.

Re: Did you like the movie "Armageddon"?
« Reply #29 on: April 23, 2013, 09:23:01 PM »

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