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By: rorschach
Date: 5/17/98 5:04:49 PM
# Replies: 12
pretty good flick... must say. the space ship looked like it was built from scavenged parts lying about on the vehicle assembly building's floor, but given the story line that they had about a year and a half to work this thing out, that kinda fits. its written more like a tv miniseries than a big screen movie, I suspect it may have started out intended to be that but changed course later when the big movie people got wind of it and heard about bruce willis's forthcoming "armageddon" and figured two could play at this game.... its actually several "back-stories" intertwined without a real "front-story". it kinda takes the position that an extinction level event (E.L.E. remember this term for when you see the movie...;-) ) is going to effect everyone differently on a emotional level. even an old curmudgeon like me got tied up in knots in spots. two thumbs way up.... uh, somewhere...
Response #1
By: Ralf
Date: 5/17/98 10:10:03 PM
I thought the parts with the muppets were particularly cheesy.
Response #2
By: Da Sissop
Date: 5/18/98 10:56:10 AM
The basic premise is this: A big comet is going to hit the earth in about a year. What can we do to either prevent it from happening, or ensure that at least *some* life (particularly human) will go on?
That's the premise. What the filmmakers actually do is spend way too much time following the lives of a few largely uninteresting people in various dull sub-plots. Things drag on for quite some time until astronaut Robert Duvall and his crew of redshirts *finally* begin their mission and the movie becomes a pretty cool sci-fi adventure. For a bit.
I thought the best thing about the movie was the loud explosions and special effects. Morgan Freeman was great as the President. Dennis Hopper was great as the mad astronomer. And Sandra Bullock was a charmer as the girl-next-door who can't let the comet slow down below 55 m.p.h.
Response #3
By: Ralf
Date: 5/18/98 6:40:48 PM
I think the Fraggle Rock tie-in was just plain bad taste.
Response #4
By: sooz
Date: 5/18/98 6:52:27 PM
Morgan Freemain is good as anything. (He's black, he was probably bred that way.)
Dennis Hopper is good as a crazed anything. (He's white, he was probably bred that way.)
Sandra Bullock needs a new job.
Response #5
By: Shadow Sprite
Date: 5/19/98 9:07:58 AM
While Mr. Hopper, some call him Dennis, might be "good" as a crazed anything, I'd rather have seen good ol' Jack as the crazed astronomer. But he was doing "As Good as it Gets" at the time. Not that doing 50 movies at a time stops Samuel L. Jackson...
Response #6
By: Jay
Date: 5/19/98 9:29:37 AM
Actually Morgan Freeman is 70's actor Bud Cort from Harold & Maude and MASH...he's just so good in portraying black guys you start to believe he REALLY is black....
Response #7
By: Mycroft
Date: 5/19/98 3:10:33 PM
I just like the fact that a multi-million dollar sci-fi crapper uses the "smear effect" from microsoft photo editor to simulate the effects of a sonic boom caused by a giant asteroid
Response #8
By: Crush the State
Date: 5/28/98 6:55:47 AM
Sandra Bullock needs to be cloned, and that clone needs to be spliced with something less H-wood...
Smack of course is the answer. *Smack* Another teleology of looping. If you liked religion, you might like cigarettes, but you'll loooooooove smack.
Remember, folks, drug dealers are very forgiving - your family survives you.
Response #9
By: Ralf
Date: 5/28/98 7:56:02 PM
Anyone remember the software package Ractor, from the 80's?
Response #10
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 6/2/98 3:51:57 AM
The best part of Deep Impact is the meteor hitting the Earth, if for no other reason than you don't see Sean Connery anywhere nearby.
Did anyone spot the 23?
Response #11
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 6/4/98 9:26:34 PM
Sorry folks, I thought it sucked.
WHy too high on teh cheese factor for even me, and little too high of dosing of that "we are the human race, we can overcome anything" crap for me.
Response #12
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 6/5/98 2:22:24 AM
(It was tunnel #23 through which the kid was entering the underground mineshaft [shades of dr. strangelove] bunker thingie)