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Title: A genuine guilty pleasure
Review: With a great cast, spectacular special effects and many shattering scenes that depict hard core destruction on Earth bound cities, Armageddon is a movie you watch with your brain turned off. Not that it's completely dumb, but it's not something you nit pick for scientific accuracy. It's very entertaining, loud and sappy; and man is it a helluva ride. Bay is the best director for this. He has a gift for the action scenes as well as the emotion. They are all overdone and overlayered with a patriotic soundtrack and camera angles that come from all perspectives. The Criterion Collection is full, and I do mean full, of extras and documentaries. If you want a more realistic disaster movie I would recommend Deep Impact. It's slower but a more revealing drama. I still highly recommend Armageddon, just leave your scepticism at the door and ignore the critics.
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