Features the best last words ever uttered on film.

Tea Leoni's dad to Tea Leoni: "When you were a baby I dropped you on your head."

*splash*

B

Pretty good for what it is. Definitely better than Armageddon, which reminded me of cheesy 1930's science fiction. At least Deep Impact is for the most part scientifically accurate, spacecraft included... Armageddon is somewhere between War of the Worlds and Mars Attacks.

And all the three latter films are much more entertaining than the fairly boring Deep Impact.

Extended disaster film ratings:

Deep Impact = 95
Armageddon = 55
War of the Worlds = -395
Mars Attacks = -605
Day After Tomorrow = -625

now dont be saying anything bad about mars attacks. oscar worthy i tell you.

What would you do if the end of the world was near? How would you react if you knew that there was no way you were going to survive what was about to happen? Would you want to survive what was about to happen? Deep Impact is an excellent film that tells the story of a giant comet that is heading towards earth and unless it is stopped it will destroy everything. It contains many inter-personal relationships, and it examines how people would react if the end was near. It doesn't get as deep as "Last Night" at examining those issues, but what it does better than Last Night and even Armageddon ( another film that I loved ) is it shows a little more about relationships. It has a father and daughter trying to patch things up before the end is upon them. It shows young love, parental love and the love for a country and the world we live in. Deep Impact had a deeper impact on me and I really admire both Hollywood summer films that came out and dealt with this issue. But Deep Impact has more to say than Armageddon does.

One of the things that I admired so much about this film was how Tea Leoni was so hell bent on uncovering a story so that she could move up in the ranks of reporting, and in the process she uncovers something bigger than any political scandal could ever be. At first she is following a tip about some senator that has retired from office rather urgently. She has transcripts with him talking about a girl named Ellie. And she is determined to uncover who Ellie is so she can embarrass the senator and quicken her pursuit to greatness. She finally confronts the senator on the dock where he is laoding a boat with what looks to be enough supplies to last for a year. She tries to bully the senator into telling her the story but he refuses. She then does some research on the Internet and finds out that Ellie wasn't the name of a woman, but an acronym for the comet. E.L.E. Extinction Level Event. She is horrified. The beginning takes up a good half an hour of the movie and it is during that thirty mintues that I became hooked. My emotions were manipulated to the point where I felt like I should be at home with my family. The direness of the situation was very well executed. And the rest of the film is on the same level. It does a great job at making us ask questions about ourselves. And we examine our own lives and wonder if we would be prepared if something like this ever happened. I realize this may be getting a little sentimental and perhaps sappy, but this film really tapped into my emotions and I think it did that to a lot of people. I highly recommend htis film for all that it is. The acting is top notch, especially from Morgan Freeman. He conveys the hurt, confusion and utter regret as the president of the United States. He knows that it is impossible to save everyone but he has to do what he can to save as many as possible. He truly is a great and gifted actor. The score is also a moving orchestra and the direction by Mimi Leder is swift and appropriatly crisp and dizzying in some ways. I have never heard of her before this, but I heard that Spielberg picked her himself for this project. And he was smart to pick her. She really does a wonderful job here.

Deep Impact is more than just a movie, it is an experience, and one that should be had by all. A wonderful, wonderful film

Mars Attacks was better than a sharp stick in the eye...

(Though I'd take the stick before watching The Day After Tomorrow again.)

You mean, the two latter films. Stupidity fails to entertain me, unless it recognizes itself as stupid, which is awesome.

See, the thing is, Mars Attacks is a great movie. Why? It doesn't take itself seriously. It's funny, and it knows it. Armageddon is like Titanic hitting the Marshmallow Man and sinking, yet thinking it hit an iceberg. It's like Snakes On A Plane thinking it's Aliens. Can you imagine if Mars Attacks was so self-righteously serious like Armageddon?

I was cracking up seeing those 30's-style shuttles landing on the giant wad of moldy cotton... errrr I mean the "asteroid." Armageddon is between War of the Worlds and Mars Attacks in level of ridiculousness, but it doesn't think it's ridiculous at all! If the movie was meant to be a Buck Rogers adventure, then it should've been man enough to admit it. But no, it had to try and make me cry for Bruce Willis. Armageddon treated itself like Deep Impact - a big no-no; an adventure romp pretending to be a disaster drama doesn't entertain me. At all.

That's A- for Deep Impact and F for Armageddon. You all knew that already.

Armageddon had better developed characters than Deep Impact. And it also had more of an emotional connection between the audience and the characters. The problem with Armageddon is that it is not made for cynical people like you Hito. If you go into Armageddon and dislike it because it gets its physics wrong, then you miss the whole point of the movie.

Deep Impact- 9/10
Armageddon- 10/10

I didn't miss the point, I never felt there was a point. For adventure's sake, I'd rather watch Independence Day; it's a load of fun, and didn't try to make me care too much.

I ... agree ... with you. Shocking.

Is that a temperature pun? Ahem.

Now that you've explained comedy, can you explain drama next...

The point of the movie is that is was meant to be fun and enjoyable. It wasn't meant to be be a lesson in astrophysics or NASA protocol.

That's the point that eluded me.

Also, it's just different to somebody with aerospace knowledge. It's not a matter of cynicism - I'm rarely cynical about anything outside politics. Seeing some of the things in Armageddon was like seeing a one-wheeled car. A one-wheeled car would look ludicrous to every moviegoer because cars having four wheels is common sense. Damn the uncommon sense.

I know, and i get your point. I loved the movie immensely and it is a very hit and miss film. I know a lot of people dislike it. I'm going to shush now, as I've done this ad nausea.

Samewise. Touche, mate!

utterly boring. It sa good movie, but this is one of the films i expected to entertain me and it didnt though the special effects inthe wave scene are still fantastric.

armagedodn was a much bigger crowd pleaser with more action and jokes

Nearly everyone I know loves or really likes Armageddon. The only people who dislike it seem to be on the internet.

Same here.

Says more about you than the movie...

Armageddon is one of the best films for pure entertainment. I just don't get how people can't just enjoy it for the fun of it.

I wont deny that a lot of people really liked Armageddon, and by that same token Deep Impact was given a rough ride for not being "entertaining" enough. I'd beg to differ. The drama in deep impact actually was a bit all over the place, but it worked, and the conspiring element to it added another layer. It was a movie that had a lot of depth to it, wheras Armageddon was a typically manipulative movie that followed the expected narrative pattern.

Because to get to the asteroid itself was purely laughable and as unbelieveable as it get's.. NASA Trains these guy's probably for a couple of years before even considering going up in space and what do we have?? 5 or 6 guy's from an Oil Rig out in the ocean attempting to land on an asteroid after only 1 week's training.. Not to mention the fact that there was debris the size of a house flying around this asteroid and in real life, Bruce Willis and Co. would've been toast the moment something like that even came close to striking there ship.. DEEP IMPACT on the otherhand just had more surrealism to it in it's tone and was less cowboyish and gung ho like ARMEGEDDON was..

Forget either of the asteroid movies, The Core is the best disaster movie to come out in the last 15 years.