I have to like Armageddon. They filmed scenes at NASA-JSC when my father worked there (got in a few scenes as an extra.) Simon Green, sci fi author of that name who wrote a great series (Deathstalker). I need to read those again.
I can't get past the bad science. I very much prefer "Deep Impact".
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/01/nasa-uses-the-movie-armageddon-in-their-management-training-program/
Today I found out that NASA uses the 1998 film, Armageddon, in their management training program.
It turns out, to absolutely no one’s surprise, that this is not because it’s an incredibly well thought out movie in how to stop an asteroid from hitting the earth… No, they use it because it contains over 168 distinct things that are impossible (not just improbable, but impossible. there are many many more if you want to talk about improbable). Because of this, it makes for a great exercise in seeing how many of those things their staff can recognize, both the impossible things and the improbable.
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Phil Plait said it best “Here’s the short version: Armageddon got some astronomy right. For example, there is an asteroid in the movie, and asteroids do indeed exist. And then there was… um… well, you know… um. Okay, so that was about all they got right.”