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"&lt;p&gt;How do I hate &amp;quot;Armageddon&amp;quot;? Let me count the ways. I hate it to the depth and breadth and height of its greedy confidence that a jumbo promotion budget (reportedly a record $100 million) can herd an audience into anything &amp;#x2014; even a formulaic epic about an asteroid the size of Texas that&amp;apos;s on a collision course with Earth. This despite the fact that a similar collection of space clich&amp;#xE9;s was launched back in May, in &lt;em&gt;Deep Impact.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;wm:embed type=\"related\"&gt;&lt;/wm:embed&gt;&lt;p&gt;I hate &lt;em&gt;Armageddon&lt;/em&gt; for what it is: the unholy spawn of &lt;em&gt;The Dirty Dozen&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=\"../../../movies/reviews/con-air-19970606\"&gt;Con Air&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt; What else do you call a tired plot about hard-ass oil drillers, led by Bruce Willis, who take a crash course in NASA astronaut training so they can land on the asteroid, drill a big hole, plug in a nuclear device and save the world in exchange for never again paying taxes?&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;p&gt;I hate &lt;em&gt;Armageddon&lt;/em&gt; freely, as anyone should who sees solid actors &amp;#x2014; Willis. Billy Bob Thornton, Will Patton, the great Steve Buscemi &amp;#x2014; squandering their talent for a fat paycheck. As for the dud romance between Willis&amp;apos; screen daughter (Liv Tyler) and the crew&amp;apos;s stud muffin (Ben Affleck), is this mawkish muck the price we have to pay for the record success of &lt;em&gt;Titanic&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;p&gt;I hate &lt;em&gt;Armageddon&lt;/em&gt; purely, for the impure direction of Michael Bay, who thinks frantic cutting covers sins of omission in character, substance and imagination. I shall hate &lt;em&gt;Armageddon&lt;/em&gt; even more if it goes on, as predicted, to be the biggest hit of the summer. Don&amp;apos;t let it happen, people. For all mankind.&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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