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Asteroid
With the discovery of an incoming asteroid, the government of America formulate a plan to destroy it. When the plan fails, all the world can do is wait. The main impact zone is revealed to be Dallas, Texas. Generally, the plot follows the lives and reactions of several characters: an astronomer, her father, her son, two firefighters from Kansas, two young doctors in Dallas and the heads of the government agency in charge of the situation.
Release : | 1997 |
Rating : | 4.7 |
Studio : | Davis Entertainment, NBC, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Construction Coordinator, |
Cast : | Michael Biehn Annabella Sciorra Don Franklin Carlos Gómez Michael Weatherly |
Genre : | Action Thriller Science Fiction TV Movie |
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What makes it different from others?
Lack of good storyline.
Highly Overrated But Still Good
Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.
This movie/TV Series? is really bad. The effects are terrible, really bad. The asteroid looks to "computer generated" (yes, we all know it is, but it looks really bad), the explosions we can see clearly the buildings are miniatures, like when the flood happens. The lasers used are just to freaking bad looking. Well, i didn't know this movie was made in 1997 so i guess it explains why the effects are terrible. But, there are so many movies in that date which effects are good like Independence Day. Now, other bad point: the actors. Most of them don't know how to act. Take for example the little kid: so ANNOYING. In the scene were his grandpa gets stuck he reacts normal and simply goes away to a point he wants a chocolate bar more them rescuing grandpa. His mother on the movie is also terrible. Her lines are to chezzy and she doesn't show emotions at all. In my point of view, if her son was killed she wouldn't react. For example, when her son is falling in the asteroid crater she goes saying "Hey. Hold on, OK?" I mean hes about to DIE for gods sake... Overall, its a bad movie. I give it 3/10 and not zero because some actors were good actually.
I saw this movie today and was hoping for something along the Armageddon line - okay, so this kind of movie tends to be predictable, but i think it's a guilty pleasure anyway. Boy was I disappointed. The story seemed to drag on and on - every time you think it's over, it's not (surprise surprise). You can almost see the producers' brains ticking to come up with some more plot to make up the allotted time. The premise is actually quite good, and believable, but the end result is poor. I felt no sympathy whatsoever for Elliot (the son), he was just an annoying brat to me. I also could not relate to the main characters - the firefighter's wife was pretty selfish, and the "romance" budding between Jack and Lilly has NO SPARKS whatsoever. Finally, is it really realistic to believe that after such a disaster, one woman would be able to get 1) a chopper 2) her own soldier and truck to go and look for her son and father when there's like ten thousand other people needing help? I think not. Waste of time, I didn't even stick around to watching the last five minutes.
How did she get caught up in this movie? I loved Annabella Sciorra in "What Dreams May Come", but this was just ridiculous.It was so terrible it was hilarious. Being from Texas, I had to watch it. Obviously, these people did not do ANY research at all before they started this movie because Dallas County is one of only 35 counties in Texas that does NOT have oil fields. And yet somehow, that tiny asteroid was able to set the oil fields in Dallas on fire. Miraculous! Also, those people would not be wearing long sleeves in July in Dallas, where the temperatures rarely drop below 90 degrees, even at night.Watch only if you want a good laugh.
The hilarious horror is how many scientific facts you can get wrong in a single movie.As a first time watch this movie is absolutely gut-wrenching because of the huge blunders in the plot and the scientific "facts". I really ought to have spared myself by shutting off the TV but I could not. I was in denial - refusing to believe that so many stupid errors that any high school student could have caught had actually made it into a movie.So I kept watching in horror. Then actually, later on I watched this movie again because I still refused to believe what my eyes had seen. When I watched it the second time i realized that my eyes and ears had not betrayed me and I was rolling on the floor laughing through most of the film.The stupidity in this movie, makes it the kind of movie that makes the rest of the world believe that Americans are ignorant, unintelligent and need to fix their public schools. Not that I believe this to bee true although the script-writer falls into this category.This is unquestionably the most stupid movie I have ever watched, and probably also the worst. So I give it a clear 1 out of 10 since I can't use negative numbers.Although I must admit that this movie has a potential for becoming a cult-movie in the horror or comedy genre.