# If You Thought "Armageddon" Was a Bad Movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 20, 2008, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-thought-armageddon-was-a-bad-movie/446066 "2008-04-20T01:21:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-thought-armageddon-was-a-bad-movie/446066/21 "2008-04-20T20:58:16Z")
[QUOTE=The Them] The problem here, is that I never thought _Armageddon_ was a bad movie. I’d pay full admission just for the scene where Bruce Willis is presenting a list of his crew’s demands to Federal Officials…and I have a crush on Liv Tyler. So sue me. [/QUOTE] I can’t read the title “Armageddon” without thinking of the disaster movie promo in “Kentucky Fried Movie,” “That’s Armageddon!” Which looked like a lot more fun that “Armageddon.” ---
**Author:** ![FlyingDragonFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c89c15/32.png) [@FlyingDragonFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingDragonFan)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-thought-armageddon-was-a-bad-movie/446066/22 "2008-04-21T00:32:54Z")
[QUOTE=ElvisL1ves] =This latest epic, below even SciFi Channel’s standard for their portfolio of disaster flicks, could still not be worse than “The Core”. [/QUOTE] I love _The Core_. Yes, it’s filled to bursting with stupid, and it seems like I notice a new piece of stupid every time I watch it, but I’m still thoroughly entertained by it. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-thought-armageddon-was-a-bad-movie/446066/23 "2008-04-21T01:00:46Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan] [Then let me introduce you to "Impact."](http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080418/tv_nm/elliott_dc;_ylt=AllcrRoNWN3PkSZUu5wfSzppMhkF)The stupid! It burns! Gaaah! [/QUOTE] The really depressing part is that, as such things go, that premise [does not even represent a high point in stupid.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_1999) ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-thought-armageddon-was-a-bad-movie/446066/24 "2008-04-21T04:31:40Z")
[QUOTE=Smeghead] This is a made for TV movie? It can never EVER beat TEN POINT FIVE!!! The sheer genius of having an earthquake-driven crack in the earth chase down and swallow a train can never be matched. [/QUOTE] My favorite part was when the electromagnetic pulse from the atomic blasts made the RIVER RUN BACKWARDS. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-thought-armageddon-was-a-bad-movie/446066/25 "2008-04-21T04:44:15Z")
[QUOTE=mack] 10.5 was awesome. Landmarks crashing down, dams breaking, nukes, gas, Fred Ward as FEMA Director Roy Nolan and hot scientist Kim Delaney bucking the system, the whole nine yards. [/quote] Yeah, baby! > [@](#): > > I’m always up for a disaster miniseries. I’m curious to see what $13 million buys these days.\ Oh, me too. I’ll take 'em any way I can get 'em. I always wish that Hollywood would make some effort to make good global disaster/post-apocalyptic movies, but I’ll still watch all of 'em. What movie was it with the Golden Gate Bridge getting all bucked and broken up? Was that “The Core?” I loved that scene. Sheer genius. (Heh - see what I did there?) And “The Day After Tomorrow” with that tanker floating down some avenue in Manhattan - loved that, too. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-thought-armageddon-was-a-bad-movie/446066/26 "2008-04-21T07:02:40Z")
> [@](#): > > The $13 million project chronicles the aftermath of a meteor shower during which a piece of a dwarf star lodges itself in the moon. That triggers a series of anomalies on Earth, including cell phone service interruption, exaggerated tides and the occurrence of sporadic weightlessness. I’m picturing someone near a beach who has to run away from the rising tides that swallow their house, then mysteriously get launched into the air during a period of temporary weightlessness (how the hell does that work?). The person keeps their cool during all of this despite the utterly bizarre nature of it. When they get back on the ground, they pull out their cell phone to call someone about what just happened, and upon finding out that cell phones don’t work, they flip the hell out and become hysterical. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-thought-armageddon-was-a-bad-movie/446066/27 "2008-04-21T07:39:45Z")
[QUOTE=Smeghead] This is a made for TV movie? It can never EVER beat TEN POINT FIVE!!! The sheer genius of having an earthquake-driven crack in the earth chase down and swallow a train can never be matched. [/QUOTE] No no!! The BEST part of 10.5 was all of the people running from the giant crack opening up and splitting the refuge camp in two with the ocean!!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-thought-armageddon-was-a-bad-movie/446066/28 "2008-04-21T18:11:46Z")
Are they going to upload virus into the moon? ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-thought-armageddon-was-a-bad-movie/446066/29 "2008-04-21T18:33:42Z")
[QUOTE=Gangster Octopus] Are they going to upload virus into the moon? [/QUOTE] Hey, as long as the 12 year-old can find the proper file in UNIX via some bizarro graphical representation that nobody in their chemically-addled mind would create, the Earth will be saved. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-thought-armageddon-was-a-bad-movie/446066/30 "2008-04-21T19:19:40Z")
[QUOTE=JohnT] Hey, as long as the 12 year-old can find the proper file in UNIX via some bizarro graphical representation that nobody in their chemically-addled mind would create, the Earth will be saved. [/QUOTE] Assuming you’re speaking of Jurassic Park, someone on this board confirmed that the interface was indeed a real one - an obscure variant of a graphical unix interface. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-thought-armageddon-was-a-bad-movie/446066/31 "2008-04-21T19:31:37Z")
Really? Naaaaawwwww! You’re just pulling my leg! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-thought-armageddon-was-a-bad-movie/446066/32 "2008-04-21T20:36:20Z")
I wouldn’t exactly call IRIX an obscure variant of Unix. It was the OS for Silicon Graphics (now SGI) computers, which were used to render the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park. There was indeed a 3D navigator for the filesystem, called [FSN](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn), that used to be available on the SGI website. Unfortunately the link is now defunct. You can, however, download a clone for Linux called [FSV](http://fsv.sourceforge.net/). Even if someone weren’t familiar with the exact 3D interface, any Unix user worth her salt would recognize the directory structure: /etc, /home, /usr, /dev, and /var are unmistakable. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-thought-armageddon-was-a-bad-movie/446066/33 "2008-04-21T20:49:51Z")
I meant that the interface was fairly obscure, not the OS. I should’ve been more clear. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-thought-armageddon-was-a-bad-movie/446066/34 "2008-04-21T20:54:55Z")
What **Terminus Est** said – Irix and SGI interfaces weren’t all that unknown at the time Jurassic Park came out. I was still amused to hear that teen girl go "its a _Unix_ system! (squeee!) " as though the SGI interface was the acme of a commonplace \*nix front end. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-thought-armageddon-was-a-bad-movie/446066/35 "2008-04-21T21:09:04Z")
[QUOTE=squeegee] What **Terminus Est** said – Irix and SGI interfaces weren’t all that unknown at the time Jurassic Park came out. I was still amused to hear that teen girl go "its a _Unix_ system! (squeee!) " as though the SGI interface was the acme of a commonplace \*nix front end. [/QUOTE] I would have loved the scene if she’d said, “Why the hell are they using a high-end graphics station as an admin box?” Or even, “Why are they using this crap?” before exiting to a CLI. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-thought-armageddon-was-a-bad-movie/446066/36 "2008-04-21T22:23:23Z")
I really, really love you guys. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-thought-armageddon-was-a-bad-movie/446066/37 "2008-04-22T00:35:24Z")
[QUOTE=Balance] I would have loved the scene if she’d said, “Why the hell are they using a high-end graphics station as an admin box?” Or even, “Why are they using this crap?” before exiting to a CLI. [/QUOTE] _That_ would have been awesome. That was entirely my reaction when I saw that scene. ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-thought-armageddon-was-a-bad-movie/446066/38 "2008-04-22T00:58:09Z")
I must object to the Armagedon bashing. The second I saw that NASA scientist walking around the model of the earth with two space shuttles on a stick, I recognied comedy gold. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-thought-armageddon-was-a-bad-movie/446066/39 "2008-04-22T16:36:32Z")
Meteor showers consist of material that is in the solar system. There is no degenerate matter from white dwarf stars in the solar system. [QUOTE=squeegee] Maybe I’m being silly, but I would think it wouldn’t take an astronomer to notice the Moon had left its orbit. It’d be fairly noticeable to anyone with eyes and a clear evening sky. [/quote] I don’t even think it would take that. I think the earthquakes would be rather noticeable even if you couldn’t see the sky. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-thought-armageddon-was-a-bad-movie/446066/40 "2008-04-22T18:11:20Z")
I have to give it up for Armageddon too. True the plots holes can swallow the moon. Now there’s a disaster movie for you. I’m also supremely annoyed by the way they devolve Liv Tyler from powerful self directed hottie to helpless left behind hottie. But Billy Bob Thortons scenery chewing is fun and the psych eval sessions with **Udo Kier** are worth the price of admission. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-thought-armageddon-was-a-bad-movie/446066.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-thought-armageddon-was-a-bad-movie/446066.md?page=3)