Deep Impact
1998 Directed by Mimi Leder
Synopsis
Heaven and Earth are about to collide.
A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to save the world. He appoints a tough-as-nails veteran astronaut to lead a joint American-Russian crew into space to destroy the comet before impact. Meanwhile, an enterprising reporter uses her smarts to uncover the scoop of the century.
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In 1998, it was the summer of the planet-killing asteroid. Michael Bay's gaudy, overblown Uncle Sam patriot pamphlet Armageddon (away from this film!) was to follow but first came Mimi Leder's Deep Impact, a much softer, deeper and more thoughtful take on the concept than Bay's action fest. Leder's film is not about cool heroes and wanky romances but rather hope, survival and fate. It's a much braver and richer piece of work as a result.
One of the things I've always admired about this movie over the years is how it genuinely shows humanity on the brink of destruction; for a while you really fear the asteroid is going to hit and take out everyone and that partly happens,…
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Boring to the point that it becomes unbearable.
This was the weird year that we got two films in which the earth was going to be destroyed by a comet/meteorite/whatever. And had they somehow been blended into one film, we probably would have had the perfect disaster move. As it is now, what Armageddon had too much, this film doesn't have enough of, leaving us with a hollow Discovery Channel-esque film, including a Morgan Freeman voiceover.
The choice to make it grounded in realism only resulted in it being very slow and plodding, with hardly any excitement. It also made the royal doses of patriotism stick out like a sore thumb (I'm looking at you, final shot!)
I hope when the world really ends it won't be as boring as this.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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Στον μικρόκοσμό μου αυτό είναι το αριστούργημα των disaster movies. Μη κρινεις, νταξ;
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In 1998, both this and Armageddon suffered from the usual disaster movies cliches. This was just a bit better.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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My favourite "giant asteroid" movie.
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Frodo gets married
Morgan is the president
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This film is too boring to be depressing.
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Apart from Morgan Freeman being POTUS, I did not care for this movie.
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Boring to the point that it becomes unbearable.
This was the weird year that we got two films in which the earth was going to be destroyed by a comet/meteorite/whatever. And had they somehow been blended into one film, we probably would have had the perfect disaster move. As it is now, what Armageddon had too much, this film doesn't have enough of, leaving us with a hollow Discovery Channel-esque film, including a Morgan Freeman voiceover.
The choice to make it grounded in realism only resulted in it being very slow and plodding, with hardly any excitement. It also made the royal doses of patriotism stick out like a sore thumb (I'm looking at you, final shot!)
I hope when the world really ends it won't be as boring as this.
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When the world ends I want Morgan Freeman to tell me about it.
This film's biggest strength is that the story evolves around the people on earth and how they are affected by this disaster, rather than making it a standard classic American hero tale action fest (hear that, Michael Bay?).
It is truly an emotional and good film. Now THIS is how you make a disaster movie with depth and credibility (hear that, Roland Emmerich?). -
A little hokey at times, but ultimately great science fiction with at least some semblance of scientific accuracy.
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Assisti este filme dentro de um avião.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.