I can buy videos at garage sales for $1. I can resell them at the Movie Trading Co for about $.50. This means that I can watch older movies for cheap if I can find them at garage sales. I found Armageddon a few weeks ago. Tonight Howard and I re-watched it. The science in that movie is astoundingly bad. Every time I saw the two shuttles flying in formation like jet fighters I had to laugh. There were fires burning in airless environments. Characters in space suits were warned of events because they somehow managed to hear them through vacuum. The shuttle landed on the asteroid by hitting multiple stalagmites and yet still successfully landed on earth with undamaged heat sheilding. In all Armageddon would be a fantastic movie to gather science people together and have an MST 3K party. Or not, maybe the science would just be too painful.
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Well, y’know, it is a
DisneyEisner production. Did you really expect better? 🙂[er, take 2. Bad HTML tag. Bad. No donut.]
Not to mention that the entire premise of the entire movie is flawed from even before the word “Go” …. you have an asteroid “the size of Texas” on a collision course with Earth, and you don’t get a mission off the ground until it’s 24 hours out? I’m sorry, Mr. Eisner, that’s the point at which you call everyone you know on the entire lanet and say, “Hey, it was nice knowing you. How about coming over for an End Of The Habitable World Party?” If a rock that big is that close to impact, forget it, it’s all over. The entire combined thermonuclear arsenals of the world’s nuclear superpowers wouldn’t be enough to deflect that much mass appreciably at that point. An object that big is going to obliterate the entire biosphere anyway, even if you managed to break it up into little tiny boulders merely the size of, say, nuclear supercarriers and skyscrapers. Can you say “Extinction Level Event,” Mr. Eisner?
Hmm, you’re right! Just the other day a news guy was talking about the space shuttle and was handling a heat deflection tile… and even just while he handled it it started to break off on the edges. And they were talking about just how fragile those tiles are.
But, on the other hand, maybe I just have a really really good suspension of disbelief. I just sit back and enjoy the show without even thinking about any laws of physics or science that they are violating.
Although, with The Core? You just can’t ignore how impossible it is to tunnel down through to the center of the earth… so you just laugh and cheer them on and guess who’s going to die next. 🙂 (you could MST 3K that one REALLY well!)
The bad science is exactly why it would be perfect for a MST3K party. For that matter you could add Deep Impact as well. They both have plot and science holes you could drive a Truck, ur, asteroid through.
I’m in if you want to do one!
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heh, you know it wasn’t even the science that got to me, rather it was the minigun on the mars rover thing. wiskey tango foxtrot? but it was good in a corny non serious action flicky kinda way. i found it’s opposition, deep impact, to be too wishy washy and melodramatic. meh, when it comes to bad psudo-sci-fi/disaster flicks, give me mindless action and potty humor over melodrama and wah! anyday
True, the science was bad, but c’mon, I remember seeing it in the theater, and even though it was melodramatic as all get out, I still had a tear in my eye as Bruce Willis sacrificed himself to save us all. I mean, yes, who didn’t see that one coming from a mile away, but I wanna be Bruce Willis when I grow up.
So no teary eyes at the very end?