1. Special effects have come a long way but not in this movie
2. Stephen Baldwin is such a good actor....
3. There is more poeple trying to make serious faces in this movie then any other.
4.Ahh Armagedon called they are suing
5. Blowing stuff up is cool
6. Someone who knows how to blow up buildings is the best person to ask how to stabilize an astronomical object.
7. Part of the moon breaks up and no one on earth notices except for one female rocket scientist.
8. The inside of the Space Shuttle looks like a set from Monty Python's Flying Circus.
9. Nuclear Warheads come in a nice foil-lined box.
10. The Space Shuttle flight computers are all Amigas!
11. Amigas can tell when a cargo-clip becomes loose with no sensors attached at all.
12. Mission control only really needs to consist of about 5 guys, one with an abort key and an Amiga. (Sorry.. I need to leave the Amiga thing behind..)
13. All buildings in Baltimore, Maryland are built out of Legos.
14. The crew on the film just learned how to use chroma-key compositing and they want to prove it to us!
15. The Space Shuttle is WAY more maneuverable than we’ve been led to believe.
16. It only takes one person to fly the Space Shuttle, confirming the suspicion that sending seven people up there was typical government overkill.
17. The U.S. Government does have a safe and secure method for checking out nuclear weapons (it’s similar to signing for a Fed Ex package).
18. We (the U.S.) will decide when it’s best to blow up the moon to save the earth. Other countries are too stupid to come to this obvious conclusion, which is why we should never consult with them on anything.
19. Walking around in the shuttle is just like running around on earth. There is no zero-gravity.
20. Blowing sh!t up is always the best option!
21. Flying a shuttle through an asteroid field is just like playing "Asteroids: The Game"
22. Stephen Baldwin's career is in serious trouble.
23. If they had sent a lone building demolition guy to blow up "Dottie" instead of a rag tag group of the world's best deep core drillers, maybe Harry Stanton would be alive today.
25. Sometimes the thing to do is blow the asteroid/comet/big rock in space into chunks, other times you want to glue it back together.
26. In fact, ASI has guys that think that s*** up...just sitting around somewhere right now thinking s*** up and somebody backing them up.
27. Spacesuits are so heavy that in Earth's gravity they make it look like you are always walking in slow motion.
28. You can run an entire shuttle mission from your basement with a few laptops and 4 of your friends.
29. You can make a science fiction movie with your home movie camera, some old computers and cardboard control panels and I will watch it on TV.
30. Dirk Benedict's career is in serious trouble.
31. Nukes are your friend and the answer to ALL major disasters.
32. Nuclear weapons can be modified in minutes using common shuttle components to become giant magnets.
33. If your nuke-turned-magnet is two orders of magnitude too small, just attach a handy nuclear pulse engine to it.
34. Shuttle engines run continuously in space, even after the main fuel tank is gone.
35. You need fancy nuclear engines to get you to the moon, but you can leave them once you get there, returning won't be a problem.
36. The shuttle cargo bay is pressurized and quite luxurious.
37. Stephen Baldwin has a career?
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share38. Dirk now looks better in real life than on the big screen (he had a hair cut in my local town here in the UK last month).
39. Women drivers aren't that bad after all (we didn't really need the 'captain' and the near misses reminded me of how silly 2012 was).
40. There comes a point when a movie is so bad that it becomes watchable and you just wait for the next laugh (like some excellent B-movie 50s sci-fi).
41. There is a combination lock to get at the engines of the shuttle to prevent any stowaways messing things up on a mission.
42. We still use solenoids.
43. Astronomy is spelled "ASTRONOMEY."
share44. Everytime rocks / asteroids / etc are falling to Earth they are equipped with targeting devices to hit only the biggest cities.
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45. Heat-seeking missles fired from jets detonate asteroid chunks moments from hitting earth, but the explosion looks like it did more damage than just letting the chunk hit the earth.
46. Dirk Benedict really does look younger in real life, as a previous poster stated. Saw him at a comic-con and he looked like he'd just stepped off the set of the original BSG. Maybe our HDTVs are too sharp, like a magnifying glass?
47. The ultra-hot co-worker (Anna Silk) of Baldwin is given too little screen time, as she is one of the best special effects in the whole flick.
48. The powers-that-be say that asteroids are coming in and Mexico is the likely target and need to be informed. Exactly one second later, the asteroids hit so I guess the message didn't get through.
49. The actor who plays the weatherman in Florida for about five seconds is a much better actor than our leading man (sorry, Stephen, I like ya, dude. Just saying).
50. The main engineer/scientist is of course a balding, scruffy-looking comedic type whom any sane person wouldn't trust for a minute.
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51. A space shuttle can be flown like an X-wing.
share52. No matter how bad his career is going, Stephen Baldwin will always have the SyFy Channel.
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53. Most of the maneuvers done by a space shuttle are operated with a joystick and one dashboard button.
54. If you don't fasten your seatbelts on a space shuttle you are in danger of bumping your head against the walls and floor when asteroids hit the aforementioned craft.
55. Magnetic fields are visible, glowing and blue.
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56. The Space Shuttle is an actual spaceship that flies & maneuvers like the Millennium Falcon. & the boosters & fuel tank can be jettisoned simultaneously.
shareAnd for all of these science failures this is no worse, no better than Pacific Rimjob.
With that movie, people just orgasmed over giant machine men (robot are not onboard human guided) and giant monstery things..
Sure, the science is silly in this - it is in most of these "armageddon-outa-here" type movies.
But it was dopey fun.
57. If you find yourself in the immediate vicinity of a collapsing building, diving into the nearest tent should provide sufficient cover
58. Movies are more realistic when you don't use any makeup on the actors
59. If you are thousands of miles away from Earth on you way to the moon in a space shuttle you can communicate with mission control sounding like you're in the same room.
60. There is actually a movie out there that IS too stupid to watch