Deep Impact. A bit more grounded than Armageddon.
My only real gripe with Deep Impact is the pizza eating observatory dude crash death at the start. Like, why would he be in such a rush to drive this info anywhere? Of all the implausible things in the film, I find this character’s behaviour the most implausible.
“I need to drive 100 miles an hour on this dark, winding road to warn everyone about what’s going to happen in a few years!”
These movies are nothing alike. Armageddon is a dumb, fun action movie while Deep Impact is a character drama.
Deep Impact is a much stronger script, but Hollywood originally advertised it as an “apocalypse” movie like Armageddon, and most audiences have had trouble looking past that ever since.
As a kid, Armageddon. It had action, comedy, and Steve Buscemi.
As an adult, definitely more of a Deep Impact fan.
