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Deep Impact was released in the same summer as the similarly themed Armageddon, which fared better at the box office, while astronomers described Deep Impact as being more accurate. [4] [5] Deep Impact was slightly better received critically than Armageddon, although both ultimately received mixed reviews.
As several NASA scientists tell us, Armageddon's depiction of blowing up an asteroid by planting a nuclear bomb in its core is unrealistic. Their colleagues say that Deep Impact's portrayal of a ...
Deep Impact: 1998 Armageddon: 1998 Also Doomsday Rock (1997), Asteroid (1997), Judgment Day (1998), and Tycus (1998). All are global catastrophic risk disaster films centered around an impending impact event that threatens to end most or all life on Earth. [9] [10] Saving Private Ryan: 1998 The Thin Red Line: 1998 Also Life Is Beautiful (1997).
Armageddon is a 1998 American science fiction disaster film produced and directed by Michael Bay, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.The film follows a group of blue-collar deep-core drillers sent by NASA to destroy a gigantic asteroid, which is the size of Texas, on a collision course with Earth.
Rank Title Studio(s) Actor(s) Director(s) Gross 1. Titanic: Paramount Pictures: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Bernard Hill, Jonathan Hyde, Danny Nucci, David Warner, Gloria Stuart, Suzy Amis and Bill Paxton
In the paragraph that compares Deep Impact with Armageddon, there appears the statement that "Deep Impact's story is generally considered to be more serious than Armageddon," which I believe to be "weasel-worded" (and this despite the fact that I actually liked Deep Impact better). 69.140.164.142 08:30, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
May 8 and July 1 – 1998 saw the release of two dueling science-fiction disaster films about asteroids: Armageddon and Deep Impact, both of which became box office successes. Armageddon became the most popular of the two and was also the highest-grossing film of 1998 worldwide.
The ceasefire deal that ended a relentless barrage of Israeli airstrikes and led Lebanon into a shaky peace took shape over weeks of talks and was uncertain until the final hours. U.S. envoy Amos ...