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  Review by amaya ★ 7

  this movie is a masterpiece because it simultaneously manages to be for people with minuscule attention spans and also 151 minutes long

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  Review by Lauren Wilford 16

  I shit you not, there’s a scene, underscored by strings, where Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler are lying supine with her shirt undone, and Affleck takes a couple of animal crackers and starts doing a David Attenborough narration as he walks the animal crackers “up north” to her bra and then “down south” to her panties 

  then Affleck says, “I wonder if there’s anyone else on this planet doing this exact thing at this exact time”
  she says, “I hope so.”

  then “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing” starts playing

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  Review by Necro ★★★★ 18

  This movie grabs my heart and doesn't let go. I cried at the end. I'm a grown man and I cried at the end of Armageddon. No one can take that from me.

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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★★ 2

  Honestly until they go into space this movie kinda rules.

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★★½ 1

  Bay's masterpiece, his Rosetta Stone, his only optimistic film.

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  Review by Josh Lewis ★★★★ 4

  The only time bay's ever unabashedly leaned into sentiment and it's worked for me, mostly because the excessive blue-collar romanticism meets dumb guy disaster epic writing (he's got space dementia!!) is actually well-served by how absurdly over-cranked his direction is. The huge camera moves, complex lighting setups, gorgeous merging of analog/digital FX, and impressive sense of intensity and scale generated out of such a stupidly conceived melodrama and situations: "What are you doing with a gun in space?" I'm not sure I could mount the argument in good faith that its visual focus on large-scale organizing and destruction vs. intimate assertions of human personality/ingenuity/value is anywhere near the levels of physical-as-internal expressiveness as say, a John Woo for example, but…

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  Review by Grooveman ★★★★★ 5

  "The override......it's been overridden."

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  Review by Matt Singer ★½ 3

  This film gave me space dementia. Also, there are a lot of Aerosmith songs in this thing. Like, a lot.

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  Review by Nakul ★★★ 2

  “He’s got space dementia!”

  Armageddon is easily one of the stupidest films I’ve ever seen in my entire life and I thoroughly enjoy it. All the actors embrace the silliness of Bayhem without winking at the audience and the pacing of the action & the visual intensity is just an overall assault.

  Also, I feel the need to remind people that this movie is a part of Criterion collection with probably one of the best commentary tracks of all time.

  
  Ben Affleck - “Why didn’t they just train the astronauts to drill”

  Michael Bay - “Shut the fuck up Ben!!”

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  Review by Grooveman ★★★★★ 5

  "Man, what are you doing with a gun in space?"

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  Review by Jay ★★★½ 2

  michael bay adding an extra $3,000,000 to the budget to create a realistic annihilation of paris? completely worth the money

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  Review by jeffborislow ★★★ 6

  True to the source material. This happened for real in 1996 and they made the movie about it two years later.