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I really don't think I'm being unfair by calling this film the worst EVER made. This type of film not only insults the audience, but also assaults them in every manner possible. The writing in this film is so horrendously fake, predictable, and manipulating, and the characters so absolutely cardboard and idiotic, that by the end of this "film" I was extremely insulted that the makers of this film have the audacity to spell out in every way possible what idiots film goers are...and we lap it up and ask for more! Knowing that this piece of crap made over $200 million dollars makes me sick to my stomach...we must be idiots.

There is a glimmer of hope in the event of a real-life Armageddon of an asteroid striking the earth. Certainly, all life will end on this planet, but it will also TAKE THIS MOVIE WITH IT!!! This ranks (pun intended) as one of the worst movies I have ever seen (1950's monster movies not withstanding). The acting is sooooo bad in this movie (Who the hell told Liv Tyler she could act???), and Bruce Willis should be completely embarrassed by this flick. Movies such as these are the reason I save my $7 at the theater, and wait til it comes on HBO. Of course, a lot of people will say that you can't get the full effect of the movie without seeing it on the big screen. While that may be true, it's pretty sad that you have to judge a movie simply by special effects and only when they're seen on the big screen.

One final note: When I watch a movie about the "end of the earth", I really would like to actually SEE the end of the earth, and not some hokey story about 1 person saving the day at the last minute. Does EVERY movie HAVE to have a happy ending? In the case of Armageddon, the happy ending was the ending itself!

Even though my father treated me to Armageddon I felt as if I'd wasted my own money. I felt so bad, I apologized to him as we walked out. This movie was so bad I wouldn't recommend anyone to watch it if the could see it for FREE. It was long, stupid, non-entertaining, and horrible. This and GODZILLA were two of the worst movies made in recent years. Why cant more of these "blockbusters" have the same thrills, heart, and wit as the STAR WARS series. Hollywood should realize that there's a reason these movies are so popular.

DO NOT GO SEE ARMAGEDDON!!!!!

Armageddon, directed by hack Michael Bay, is an atrocious piece of wasted celluloid. Why films like this smash box office records and other better movies suffer at the theater is beyond me. Basically, the film is about a bunch of oil drillers who get chosen to go into space and save mankind by destroying an asteroid!! Ben Affleck, as usual, can't act his way out of a paper bag and makes a fool out of himself in the "animal crackers" scene. In fact, almost nobody in this film is saved from its horrible wrath. Did anyone read the screenplay? Does Michael Bay know how to effectively shoot a steady shot? Is there any film with more shots of the American flag than this one? You will be asking these questions to yourself and many more while watching this pile of trash. For a real action film see one of these:

-Point Blank -Deliverance -Excalibur -Soldier of Orange -Dawn of the Dead .5/4 stars

I can't say I've seen too many movies more depressing than this, and it's supposed to be a big exhilarating action movie, but it's really not. The tone, photography and dialogue show a bunch of characters marching to their death in the grim, most isolated way possible. It's not fun, it's too long, too loud, ugly, stupid and reprehensible.

Oh, and Ben Affleck sucks.

1/10

The most gripping, terrifying aspect of this movie is that it made millions at the box office. I am ashamed I even rented it to see if it had any value at all. I found myself booing the screen and throwing things. One of the worst of all time.

Science fiction only works if the writer(s), director and producer keep faithful to scientific fact and go off into fantasy where known science ends. Scenes of space shuttles with no propellent tanks but with burning rocket engines, crackling fires in vacuum of space, drilling tractors armed with 20mm gatling guns. This is what happens when the writer, director and producer fail to graduate from high school. This was one of the most absurd films I have seen. The constant camera movement for the first half of the film was tiresome. This was an animated comic book for imbeciles.

Armageddon, I don't want to even mention about the title of that stupid movie... I went to the film after watching the trailer and advertisements, Unfortunately I took my sister to the theatre too. after the first 20 minutes I begin to bore about the movie and I waited until the end of first half that maybe something will change on the movie. :-( but nothin changed. I advise all the people not to watch this time wasting movie, but I have to critisize about the movie a bit. the performance of the actors, especially Bruce Willis was unbelivable bad, the rest were in a competition to be the worst. Only Peter Stormare (russian cosmonot) was good and I could only remember his scenes from the movie, one more thing the special effects were 7 out of 10. I watch more than 10.000 films from different cultures and different direction aspects and this is the worst film..

PLEASE DONT WASTE YOUR TIME.. , After watching I had a stomakhage :)))

1 out of 10 (+1 because of visual effects)

"Armageddon" is directed with so little faith in its audience that director Michael Bay feels he must cut scenes after they've only lived for brief seconds. The whole thing feels like nothing more than a trailer with its jittery cutting and sound-bite happy dialogue. The funny thing is, it still ended up being the most boring, predictable film of the year. This, added with the fact that we see some great actors (Billy Bob Thornton, Steve Buscemi, Ben Affleck) selling themselves out for a good paycheck, and this is also the saddest film of the year. The effects are lackluster, the human element is totally absent, and any real tension is destroyed by the ridiculous plot. Truly a stinker, in every sense.

Other user reviews here rightfully say this is a movie you'll either love or hate. I wholeheartedly agree. Unfortunately the crowd that loves this movie remind me of the people of similar mental disposition that made the blockbuster playing on screens in the movie Idiocracy so popular. They love it for exactly the same reasons, pure entertainment value.

Some background for those that haven't watched Idiocracy, the blockbuster movie of the future was aptly called "Ass". It was entire movie devoted to someone's ass farting repeatedly. The crowds loved it. Armageddon is ahead of it's time as a noisy piece of flatulence that came out of a rear end. I don't want to waste time being redundant, go read all the bad reviews here for spot on commentaries of the reasons why.

If you're the kind of movie lover that would appreciate a movie like "Ass", I highly recommend this to you. Otherwise, save your time and money and avoid the high risk of developing brain-rot akin to licking lead paint.

There have technically been worse movies created, but none with the staggering budget of this. $200M could have been spent in so many more useful or more entertaining ways which is why this gets my vote for worst. movie. ever.

I am at a loss for words. I have never seen such drivel in my 75 years. It was all so unbelievable. Willis is a caricature of himself. Affleck is pitiful as a lover. Billy Bob is such a let down. I blame it on material and of course the buck always beckons. I actually swore at the screen in derision.

A wasted evening. Give it back, Hollywood. The special effects were abysmal. I was CHEATED. I gave it a '1'. Had zero been a choice, that would have been it. What garbage!!

This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. It has every bit of cheesiness, including the infamous "animal cracker scene," shots of little kids running across the field at sunset (I guess that's who those people are risking their lives for, yes), the father-daughter touchy-feely crud, and just an awful depiction of patriotism much like Mel Gibson's The Patriot, another awful movie. The worst thing about the movie is that it managed to make every character extremely annoying and obnoxious, maybe with the exception of Willis and Tyler. If everyone except Willis died on the mission, I would've been happy; unfortunately, it worked in the opposite way.

And one more thing: I couldn't keep a straight face throughout the movie (a mixture of disbelieving laughter and frowns) since they started talking about drilling a hole into the asteroid. Right. Then just watching them actually do the drilling, in space, on an asteroid traveling really fast towards the earth is a priceless bit of comedy; unfortunately, the movie was not meant to be a comedy. The idea is as absurd as Silvester Stallone playing an arm wrestling big rig driver.

I really hate this movie. On a scale of one to ten, I give it a zero. And to my friends who dragged me to see this movie (and actually liked it), I'll get you for that some day. Maybe I'll force them to watch the Stallone arm wrestling movie.

Armageddon is definitely the worst movie of the century! It could surely have won the 1st award for the worst film of the year (has it?)! A quick made movie for earning easily lot of money... When we at first see the promotion for this movie like trailer or info about the movie,we think that it'll be the best movie ever...unfortunately when we see the film our thought begins to change very rapidly!Everything is bad made in that movie!Even the special effects,and the story is really awful...the scenes which are meant to be sad,heroic or others emotions are really laughable!! Sad that an actor like Bruce Wilis did a movie like that,it s definitely NOT his best performance!He has got ourselves used to better films than this one in the past!I hope that it was only a mistake and that he will soon be in a better movie!

So if you planned to go see that movie,I better advice you not to do that...or do it if you have time to waste!

I can not believe how much money they spent on this. There are so many bad things about this movie that I can not possibly list them all here. Suffice it to say, there was no plot. They tried to hide this with pointless explosions and tension-less action scenes, but it didn't work. Deep Impact was boring, but this was BAD. Go see the Sixth Sense instead. Bruce Willis is far better in that movie. This one is an embarassment.

Let's forget for a second that a comet wouldn't hardly put a small dent in to an astroid the size of Texas and that the chances of a comet hitting an astroid are rather slim. Also, let's forget that there are no astroids the size of Texas in this solar system. So right off from the start; the movie is too stupid to be taken seriously. Anyone who really understands physics and astronomy will have a good laugh at this movie's expense.

Let's move on to all that other stuff in a movie (story, characters, special effects). All of them are poorly done and some of them are at an absurd level of silliness. Yet, you can tell that the director is taking this movie seriously and expects us to. A movie that should have been a comedy (and would have been a good one) instead injects melodrama and techno babble. At any rate; if you're up for a stupid movie that fails big time; check this one out; it will be worth your while.

Friends have commented to me that Armageddon is a better film than Saving Private Ryan. Others have told me that the guys they were with were all in tears at times. Maybe I'm a movie snob but this is one of the stupidest films I've ever seen. With a "yeah, right" factor as high as Armageddon, I'm left wondering what sort of judge of movies my friends are, or much of the general public for that matter going by the number of people giving this movie a 10. I was not bowled over by Deep Impact, but at least it was more than mere eye candy. The most troubling part of Armageddon for me was the attitude of the drillers in preparing for the mission. This is an event that would result in the end of mankind yet I've seen preparation for a kid's birthday party taken more seriously!

While I'll admit that this movie is clever in parts, like all of the government agents chasing down Bear (I love that one shot), this movie is lousy.

If you own a copy of this movie, place it upon an anvil, yell "This how we fix on Russia Space Station!" and smash it with a ridiculously large monkey wrench.

There was another movie that was actually good, followed the same basic plot and came out at thhe same time and it actually had an asteroid hitting Earth, devastating millions and putting 6the tears of a vanquished humanity into my eyes... Deep Impact. I have noticed people saying that the movie is art because it made $600 million dollars at the box office which is like saying Jenna Jameson is an artist because she's the most popular porn actress of all time. This movie IS garbage, popular garbage but garbage nonetheless, see Deep Impact.

Okay, Bruce Willis is an oilman who hates the idea of not having to drill for oil, so much so, that when protesters come near him, complaining about oil spills and environmental disaster, he drives golf balls at them and we all know that it doesn't hurt to get hit with a golf ball and you can't possibly be killed by it so, of course, it's funny.

Ben Afleck CANNOT act!!!!!!!!!!

Once upon a time, JOHN DENVER wrote a song called "Leaving on a Jet Plane", which made sense with his line "When I come back, I'll bring your wedding ring," implying that upon return he will drop to one knee and propose to his beloved, there is a reproduced track of the same song with the same line performed by a femalic moron for this movie in which, rather than augment the line to "I'll WEAR your wedding ring", she keeps it the same, to suggest that she'll kneel down before her betrothed and demand a marriage now!

If, no matter what, the guys are going to space, no chance in Hell they're not, what's the point of the psychological imbalance testing?

How does Steve Buschemi get the sunglasses on inside his helmet?

Where did Steve Buschemi get the high tech jeweler's eyepiece?

We call him Hound Dog because he's horny. I do not know anyone who equates HORNY with HOUND DOG. The following comes into my mind upon hearing hound dog: Elvis, The Baskervilles, loud and raucus, blood hound, etc. but NOT horny. What does that mean to imply?

How did NASA get a report on the total makeup of the planetoid(not asteroid) without sending off a probe and, if the thing is rotating erratically, how are they able to ensure any kind of sensible landing at all?

Why is the planetoid shedding so much stuff? It is assumable that it has been travelling billions of miles and I think its own gravity and other radical objects in space would have worn it down to a hunk of fairly smooth and slightly cratered planetary material.

What does, "the size of Texas" mean?

How does an atom bomb, less than a thousand feet into a planetoid, assumedly, as far across in every dimension as Texas, split the planetoid in half? How does the planetoid split from the 'front'(the end nearest Earth) when our team of heroes are working at its side?

I'm sure it was fun to make, just toss off a bunch of prescripted catch-lines and get millions of dollars, but it is just so I.Q. diminishing to watch.

Why do they specifically need Bruce Willis's drill design to cut through rock? Nasa has microwave matter splitters, for heaven's sake.

Why do they need a team of oil workers to operate a drill?

Why can't a NASA physicist put together a drill designed by an idiot?

Why can't a NASA physicist understand how a solar sail works and why would he roll his eyes at the movies most sensible idea?

What the hell does getting a "C" average in astrophysics have to do with anything??

THIS IS cinematic garbage! Watch Deep Impact, you might actually learn a whole lot of neat stuff and the movie is just as exciting as Armageddon, if not more so.

Why was this movie even made? It contained nothing original - not that that's always a bad thing. While Independence Day took every Hollywood action movie cliche & wove it into the movie ride of the summer, Armageddon threw all their tired cliches into a blender & came out with a mess. (The screenplay seems to have suffered the same fate cast member Steve Buscemi did in "Fargo"). I didn't expect much from this film, and I still was disappointed! I couldn't recommend this movie to anyone, except maybe a 10 year old who had never seen a movie of any kind before! Watch any of the movies Armageddon ripped off rather than rent this hi-budget, loser. Is this the "Showgirls" of Sci-Fi?

Worst Movie Ever Made!!! Granted, there have been worse movies made with $500 budgets, but not huge ones like this. This is cheesy, fake, stupid, and makes me outraged at how much money and time was wasted on such an awful film. Why is it so terrible?

In every shot, there is an American flag. The jokes are stupid. The acting is terrible. The directing is horrendous. Blue collar GWB supporters probably loved it. All they need is some more country music in the background. To see the proper commentary on this movie, see "Team America, World Police" which mocks its stupidity in several places especially the "Montage" scene.

Overall the worst movie ever made and an insult to intelligence.

This is one great insult of the viewers' intelligence. While the special effects are amazing the film has no story, almost no believable characters and just about every technical detail is wrong! The laws of nature are suspended so that the thing is like an alternate-universe fantasy movie - yet set in the USA. And yes, the unbearable US nationalism that permeates the film makes audiences all over the world groan. I will never understand the pauperes spiritu (probably children mostly) who like this thing.