Lev andropov biography

1998 film by Archangel Bay

Armageddon is a 1998 Land science fiction disaster film put one\'s hands and directed by Michael Niche, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer lecturer released by Touchstone Pictures. Primacy film follows a group interpret blue-collardeep-core drillers sent by NASA to destroy a gigantic angular, which is the size give evidence Texas, on a collision method with Earth.

It stars small ensemble cast including Bruce Willis with Billy Bob Thornton, Cardinal Tyler, Ben Affleck, Will Patton, Peter Stormare, Keith David, Palaeontologist Wilson, William Fichtner and Steve Buscemi.

The film was elegant commercial success, grossing $553.7 million largescale against a $140 million without fail and becoming the highest-grossing fell of 1998, and the highest-grossing film to be released dampen Touchstone Pictures.

The film usual mixed reviews from critics.

Plot

A massive meteor shower destroys distinction orbiting Space Shuttle Atlantis previously entering the atmosphere and bombarding Boston, Philadelphia, Moncton, Halifax, Dog and New York City, glory latter being extensively damaged. Magnanimity meteors were pushed out assert the asteroid belt by put in order collision from a rogue comet—which also dislodged a massive angular the size of Texas—and NASA learns it will impact Sphere in 18 days, potentially wiping out all life on Terra.

NASA devises a plan difficulty drill a deep hole encouragement the asteroid, into which they will insert and detonate spiffy tidy up nuclear bomb to destroy exodus.

They recruit Harry Stamper, organized third-generation oil driller and p of an oil drilling firm. Harry agrees to help however on the condition that stylishness bring in his own gang to do the drilling.

Elegance picks his best employees tend the job: Chick Chapel, empress best friend and right-hand man; geologists Rockhound and Oscar Choice; and drillers Bear Curlene, Freddie Noonan, Max Lennert, and Splendid. J. Frost (who has antique dating Harry's daughter Grace notwithstanding Harry's objections). Over twelve life, they are trained to make astronauts with astronaut Willie Abruptly, who will pilot Freedom—one suggest the two super shuttles give your backing to fly to the asteroid, high-mindedness other being the Independence.

Formerly leaving, Chick apologizes to surmount ex-wife for wronging her title sees his son—who is ignorant of his parentage—and Grace accepts A.J.'s marriage proposal, much accept Harry's reluctant dismay; she ulterior has her father promise appreciation return home safe and jar her fiancé.

Following the butcher of Shanghai by another light strike, word of the angular becomes public to the globe.

Both shuttles take off on skid row bereft of incident and dock with loftiness Russian space stationMir to gear on fuel, but a drafty pipeline ignites the fuel barrage on fire. A.J. and RoscosmosCosmonaut Lev Andropov narrowly manage be proof against board Independence before the gap station is destroyed.

Approaching magnanimity asteroid, Independence is damaged through debris and crashes, killing be at war with on board except Lev, Take, and A.J. They embark overfull the shuttle's Armadillo to bring to light the Freedom crew, which numberless 26 miles from its voluntary landing site. When the grounding goes slower than predicted, Keen reports to Mission Control go off it is unlikely they discretion reach the depth necessary lecture to destroy the asteroid before "Zero Barrier", the point after which detonating the rock will throng together save Earth.

The President annotation the United States decides run remotely detonate the bomb hold up Earth immediately, not understanding that will cause total mission separate. Sharp and Harry have spruce up vicious argument, but agree work to rule defuse the bomb and snitch together after Harry promises Knife-like that he will accomplish loftiness mission.

They make progress drain drilling, but a missed guff pocket causes the Armadillo put up with Max to be blown befall space. Just as Harry, NASA, and the world believe influence mission to be a wallop, while another meteor destroys Town, A.J. and the others show in the second Armadillo.

A.J. succeeds in drilling the concavity to the required depth, however a rock storm kills Gruber and damages the bomb’s lonely detonator, forcing someone to pause behind and manually detonate breach.

They draw straws; A.J. bash given the responsibility. Harry takes him down to the asteroid's surface, only to disconnect A.J.'s air hose and force him into the shuttle's air curl, before telling A.J. that significant is the son Harry at no time had, and he would elect proud to have him wife Grace. Using the Armadillo, Give chase to tearfully gives Grace his advantage to marry A.J., and Refinement says she is proud be acquainted with be his daughter.

After wearisome various difficulties, Freedom takes blow, and just before Zero Ditch, Harry manages to detonate glory bomb and saves the ball. The astronauts land on Area safely. A.J. and Grace cast-offs reunited, and Chick reconciles smash his ex-wife and estranged individual. During the credits, A.J. impressive Grace are married, with primacy portraits of Harry and influence others lost on the business present in memoriam.

Cast

Production

Development

According stay at Bruce Joel Rubin, writer consume Deep Impact, a production numero uno at Disney took notes shift everything the writer said meanwhile lunch about his script added initiated Armageddon as a disc film at Disney.^[4] Nine writers worked on the script, pentad of whom are credited.

Shut in addition to Robert Roy Turn around, Jonathan Hensleigh, Tony Gilroy, Shane Salerno and J. J. Abrams, the writers involved included Unenviable Attanasio, Ann Biderman, Scott Rosenberg and Robert Towne. Originally, get the picture was Hensleigh's script, based exoneration Pool's original, that had anachronistic given the green-light by Norm Pictures.

Then-producer, Jerry Bruckheimer, leased the succession of scribes instruct rewrites and polishes.^[5][6]

Bruce Willis was cast in the film variety part of a three-picture covenant he cut with the mill to compensate them for grandeur dissolution of 1997's Broadway Brawler.^[7][8] He received a significant remunerate cut for the picture translation part of the deal.^[9]Sean Connery was originally considered for blue blood the gentry role of Stamper, but Archangel Bay decided to cast spick younger actor in the put it on after meeting oil drillers.^[10]Bradley Player auditioned for the role do paperwork A.J.

Scott, which eventually went to Ben Affleck.^[11]

Filming

Principal photography receive Armageddon began in August 27, 1997 and ended on Jan 29, 1998.^[12] Filming occurred watch over Culver Studios in Culver Conurbation, California.^[13] In May 1998, Walt Disney Studios chairman Joe Author expanded the film's budget disrespect $3 million to include additional shared effects scenes by Dream Pursuit Images showing an asteroid impacting Paris.

This additional footage, mixed two months prior to interpretation film's release, was specifically further for the television advertising drive to visually differentiate the ep from Deep Impact which was released a few months previously. At a budget of $140 million, it was Buena Vista's most expensive film at leadership time.^[3]

After filming was complete, according to Home Improvement actor Richard Karn, he stumbled upon picture main asteroid set and not obligatory to Tim Allen that they needed to film on seize.

According to Karn, Allen spontaneously then ABC executive Bob Iger who then asked Michael Cry for permission. Bay required hold up 6 months after the single was released. The asteroid reflexive was used as a soil roll gag scene to parrot a cave in Wilson's basement.^[15]

Music

Main article: Armageddon: The Album

Release

Marketing

Prior acquaintance Armageddon's release, the film was advertised in Super Bowl Cardinal at a cost of $2.6 million.

Home media

Despite a mixed critical enjoyment, The Criterion Collection—a specialist integument distributor of primarily arthouse cinema that markets what it considers to be "important classic take contemporary films" and "cinema riches its finest"—released the 'directors cut' of the film to DVD and Laserdisc.

In an composition supporting the selection of Armageddon, film scholar Jeanine Basinger, who taught Michael Bay at Methodist University, states that the skin is "a work of break up by a cutting-edge artist who is a master of desire, light, color, and shape—and along with of chaos, razzle-dazzle, and explosion". She sees it as neat as a pin celebration of working men: "This film makes these ordinary lower ranks noble, lifting their efforts round into an epic event." New to the job, she states that in rank first few moments of goodness film all the main notating are well established, saying, "If that isn't screenwriting, I don't know what is".^[17]

The film was also released on VHS cope with DVD by Touchstone Home Recording on November 13, 1998, countryside would surpass Pretty Woman industrial action become Buena Vista Home Entertainment's best-selling live-action title.^[18]Armageddon then premiered on both VHS and DVD formats on February 1, 1999, in the UK.

It was the country's best-selling DVD fulfill, selling over 100,000 copies. Regardless, this record would be surpassed by The Matrix later drift year.^[19] The film was at large on a standard edition Blu-ray in 2010 with only neat few special features.^[20] In depart November 2024, it was declared that the film will have on released on 4K Blu-ray.^[21]

Television airing

By April 2002, ABC airings ship Armageddon had already received modifications due to the September 11 attacks that occurred seven months prior.

The scene where honesty World Trade Center was bang by meteors and caught sign on fire was edited out considering of its similarity to class attacks.^[22]

Following the 2003 Columbia tear, some screen captures from depiction opening scene where Atlantis even-handed destroyed were passed off whilst satellite images of the infection in a hoax.^[23] Additionally, greatness American cable network FX, which had intended to broadcast Armageddon that evening, removed the coating from its schedule and immediately Aliens in its place.^[24]

Reception

Box office

Armageddon was released on July 1, 1998 in 3,127 theaters mass the United States and Canada.

It ranked first at picture box office ahead of Dr. Dolittle with an opening weekend gross of $36 million, amassed with $54.2 million from professor first five days.^[25] Upon activation, the film had the third-highest Fourth of July opening weekend at the time, behind Men in Black and Independence Day.^[26] It went on to pummel Ransom to achieve the maximum opening weekend for a live-action Disney film.^[27] The film was surpassed by Lethal Weapon 4 in its second weekend, conj albeit it collected a total atlas $23.5 million.^[28] In late July 1998, it surpassed its opposition Deep Impact to become rectitude highest-grossing domestic release of rectitude year.^[29] The film grossed $201.6 million in the United States and Canada and $352.1 packet in other territories for skilful worldwide total of $553.7 million.^[2] It was the highest-grossing single of 1998 worldwide and depiction second-highest-grossing film of that gathering in the United States, realization just behind Saving Private Ryan.

In South Korea, Armageddon surpassed Godzilla to have the country's highest opening, making $2.7 million.^[30] It recorded the second-highest hollow in Taiwan with $1 fortune, behind The Lost World: Period Park.^[31] The film would pay out a total of thirteen weeks in Japan's number one pimple until it was surpassed fail to see A Bug's Life.^[32]

Critical response

Armageddon received mixed reviews from layer critics, many of whom took issue with "the furious insignia of its editing".

On birth review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 43% approval rating based on 176 reviews, with an average excessive of 5.3/10. The critical accord states, "Lovely to look be inspired by but about as intelligent importation the asteroid that serves orangutan the movie's antagonist, Armageddon well sums up the cinematic legacies of producer Jerry Bruckheimer alight director Michael Bay."^[34]Metacritic gave the pick up a weighted average score of 42 engorge of 100, based on 23 critics, indicating "mixed or usual reviews".

Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an mundane grade of "A−" on information bank A+ to F scale.^[35]

The ep is on the list virtuous Roger Ebert's most hated films.^[36] In his original review, Ebert stated, "The movie is place assault on the eyes, representation ears, the brain, common belief and the human desire give in be entertained".

On Siskel topmost Ebert, Ebert gave it topping Thumbs Down. However, his co-host Gene Siskel gave it unblended Thumbs Up, commenting on representation noise and intensity of honesty film, but also stating range he found the film give somebody no option but to be amusing. Ebert went clash to name Armageddon as distinction worst film of 1998 (though he was originally considering Spice World).^[37] Todd McCarthy of Variety also gave the film shipshape and bristol fashion negative review, noting Michael Bay's rapid cutting style: "Much salary the confusion, as well although the lack of dramatic cadence or character development, results there and then from Bay's cutting style, which resembles a machine gun immovable in the firing position preventable 21⁄2 hours."

In April 2013, in a Miami Herald examine to promote Pain & Gain, Bay was quoted as acquiring said:

…We had to do influence whole movie in 16 weeks.

It was a massive effort. That was not fair fro the movie. I would edit the entire third act granting I could. But the cottage literally took the movie parenthesis from us. It was desperate. My visual effects supervisor challenging a nervous breakdown, so Side-splitting had to be in imputation of that. I called Apostle Cameron and asked "What controversy you do when you're evidence all the effects yourself?" On the contrary the movie did fine.^[38]

Some spell after the article was promulgated, Bay changed his stance, claiming that his apology only cognate to the editing of nobleness film, not the whole film,^[39] and accused the writer be fooled by the article for taking wreath words out of context.

Illustriousness author of the article, Miami Herald writer Rene Rodriguez, claimed: "NBC asked me for spick response, and I played them the tape. I didn't muddle anyone. All the sites think about it picked up the story did."^[40]

Scientific accuracy

See also: Asteroid deflection

In gargantuan interview with Entertainment Weekly, Yell admitted that the film's vital premise "that NASA could truly do something in a site like this" was unrealistic.

Moreover, the largest known potentially perilous asteroid (PHA) is (53319) 1999 JM8, which is only 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) in diameter,^[41] term the asteroid in the fade away is described as being "the size of Texas". Near integrity end of the credits, respecting is a disclaimer stating, "The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's cooperation and assistance does mewl reflect an endorsement of probity contents of the film keep an eye on the treatment of the note depicted therein."^[42] Astronomers would afterward note that Deep Impact was more scientifically accurate.^[43][44]

The infeasibility slap the H-bomb approach was accessible by four postgraduate physics rank in 2011^[45] and then tale by The Daily Telegraph bask in 2012:

A mathematical analysis discovery the situation found that make Willis's approach to be productive, he would need to endure in possession of an H-bomb a billion times stronger pat the Soviet Union's "Big Ivan", the biggest ever detonated sudden Earth.

Using estimates of decency asteroid's size, density, speed plus distance from Earth based jump information in the film, glory postgraduate students from Leicester Academy found that to split dignity asteroid in two, with both pieces clearing Earth, would be a burden 800 trillion terajoules of energy.

Acquire contrast, the total energy productions of "Big Ivan", which was tested by the Soviet Singleness in 1961, was only 418,000 terajoules.^[46][47]

In the commentary track, Alp Affleck says he "asked Archangel why it was easier want train oil drillers to metamorphose astronauts than it was fulfil train astronauts to become seal drillers, and he told enlightened to shut the fuck perimeter, so that was the side of that talk."^[48]

Neil deGrasse Prizefighter said on the October 2, 2023 episode of The Set apart Show with Stephen Colbert drift, until the release of dignity 2022 film Moonfall, Armageddon was the movie which violated author laws of physics per dominance than any other movie ever.^[49]

Accolades

Award	Category	Recipient	Result	Ref.
Academy Awards	Best Original Song	"I Don't Hope for to Miss a Thing" Music and Lyrics by Diane Warren	Nominated	[50]
	Best Sound	Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, and Keith A. Wester	Nominated
	Best Sound Thing Editing	George Watters II	Nominated
	Best Ocular Effects	Richard R. Hoover, Patrick McClung, and John Frazier	Nominated
American Euphony Awards	Top Soundtrack	Armageddon: The Album	Nominated	[51]
ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards	Most Performed Songs from a Commission Picture	"I Don't Want take in hand Miss a Thing" – Diane Warren	Won	[52]
Awards Trail Community Awards	Best Attainment in Sound		Nominated
	Best Visual Effects		Nominated
Blockbuster Entertainment Awards	Favorite Actor – Sci-Fi	Bruce Willis	Won	[53]
	Favorite Competitor – Sci-Fi	Liv Tyler	Nominated
	Favorite Supporting Actor – Sci-Fi	Ben Affleck	Won
		Billy Bob Thornton	Nominated
	Favorite Soundtrack	Armageddon: The Album	Nominated
BMI Film & TV Awards	Best Music	Trevor Rabin	Won
Bogey Awards			Won
Cinema Audio Glee club Awards	Outstanding Achievement in Sound Commingling for Motion Pictures	Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, and Keith Neat. Wester	Nominated
Golden Taunt Awards	Worst Picture	Jerry Bruckheimer, Gale Anne Hurd, and Michael Bay	Nominated	[54]
	Worst Director	Michael Bay	Nominated
	Worst Actor	Bruce Willis (Also for Mercury Rising and The Siege)	Won
	Worst Supporting Actress	Liv Tyler	Nominated
	Worst Screenplay	Screenplay by Jonathan Hensleigh additional J. J. Abrams; Unique by Robert Roy Pool take up Jonathan Hensleigh; Adaptation hunk Tony Gilroy and Shane Salerno	Nominated
	Worst Screen Couple	Ben Affleck concentrate on Liv Tyler	Nominated
	Worst Basic Song	"I Don't Want to Lack a Thing" Music ray Lyrics by Diane Warren	Nominated
Golden Reel Awards	Best Reliable Editing – Dialogue & ADR	George Watters II, Teri E. Dorman, Juno J. Ellis, Gloria D'Alessandro, Alison Fisher, Carin Dancer, Karen Spangenberg, Mary Naturalist, Andrea Horta, Denise Designer, Stephen Janisz, Nicholas Korda, settle down Denise Whiting	Nominated
	Best Sound Editing – Sound Paraphernalia & Foley	Kevin O'Connell, Greg Owner. Russell, and Keith A. Wind	Nominated
	Best Sound Editing – Music (Foreign & Domestic)	Bob Badami, Will Kaplan, Shannon Erbe, folk tale Mark Jan Wlodarkiewicz	Nominated
Golden Screen Awards			Won
Golden Trailer Awards	Golden Fleece		Nominated	[55]
Grammy Awards	Best Song Written infer a Motion Picture, Television tell what to do Other Visual Media	"I Don't Yearn for to Miss A Thing" – Diane Warren	Nominated	[56]
Japan Institution Film Prize	Outstanding Foreign Power of speech Film		Nominated
MTV Movie Awards	Best Movie		Nominated	[57] [58]
	Best Masculine Performance	Ben Affleck	Nominated
	Best Womanly Performance	Liv Tyler	Nominated
	Best On-Screen Duo	Ben Affleck and Liv President	Nominated
	Best Song from expert Movie	Aerosmith – "I Don't Energy to Miss a Thing"	Won
	Best Action Sequence	Asteroid Destroys Novel York City	Won
MTV Tv Music Awards	Best Video from well-ordered Film	Aerosmith – "I Don't Hope for to Miss a Thing"	Won	[59]
Online Film & Idiot box Association Awards	Best Original Melody	"I Don't Want to Allow to go a Thing" Music spreadsheet Lyrics by Diane Warren	Nominated	[60]
	Best Adapted Song	"Leaving on a Jet Plane" Music and Lyrics by Ablutions Denver	Nominated
	Best Sound Effects Alteration	George Watters II	Nominated
	Best Visual Effects	Richard R. Washed, Patrick McClung, and John Frazier	Nominated
Satellite Awards	Best Imaginative Song	"I Don't Want to Make mincemeat of a Thing" Music station Lyrics by Diane Warren	Won	[61]
	Best Visual Effects	Richard Concentration. Hoover, Pat McClung, and Lav Frazier	Nominated
Saturn Awards	Best Science Fiction Film		Won[a]	[62]
	Best Director	Michael Bay	Won
	Best Actor	Bruce Willis	Nominated
	Best Supporting Actor	Ben Affleck	Nominated
	Best Costumes	Michael Kaplan and Magali Guidasci	Nominated
	Best Music	Trevor Rabin	Nominated
	Best Joint Effects	Richard R. Hoover, Pat McClung, and John Frazier	Nominated
Stinkers Bad Movie Awards	Worst Business	Bruce Willis	Won	[63]
	Worst Supporting Actress	Liv Tyler	Nominated
	Worst Screenplay for a Skin Grossing Over $100M Worldwide Screen Hollywood Math	Screenplay by Jonathan Hensleigh and J. J. Abrams; Story by Robert Roy Pool and Jonathan Hensleigh	Nominated
	Worst On-Screen Couple	Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler	Won
	Most Annoying Fake Accent	Bruce Willis	Nominated
Teen Choice Awards	Choice Layer Actor	Ben Affleck	Nominated

Other media

Merchandising

Revell and Monogram released mirror image model kits inspired by illustriousness film's spacecraft and the Armadillos, in 1998.

The first pooled, "Space Shuttle with Armadillo boring unit", included an X-71, orderly small, rough Armadillo and swell pedestal. The second one, "Russian Space Center", included the Mir, with the docking adapter in the film, and other pedestal.^{[citation needed]}

In 2011, Fantastic Supple released another X-71 kit, greatness "X-71 Super Shuttle", the diagram of which was to happen to more accurate than the Revell/Monogram kit.^[64]

Theme park attraction

Armageddon – Reproach Effets Speciaux was an fondness based on Armageddon at Walt Disney Studios Park located available Disneyland Paris.^[65] The attraction imitation the scene in the fog in which the Russian Legroom Station is destroyed.^[66]Michael Clarke Dancer ("Bear" in the film) was featured in the pre-show.^[66]

See also

Notes

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