Wow!!! - Armageddon Reviews

I just caught this astonishing film again on cable, and I feel compelled to write a review. Now, I normally like to review movies by discussing various factors like the acting and story line, how well the different threads of the movie mesh together, and even how well the soundtrack further elucidates (or in some cases, detracts) from the movie itself. But instead, I think "Armageddon" can best be summed up by just one of the many gut-wrenching slow-motion sequences at the end. In this one, children who are supposedly living at the turn of the century learn about their planet narrowly avoiding destruction from an asteroid via--yup, you guessed it!--transitor radios, then celebrate by running out into the streets wearing 60s clothing and playing with boxcars near a mural of JFK. Since I don't think boxcars can be spontaneously produced via telekinesis, that means the children must have started building these boxcars several days before that, about the time that the entire planet first learned it was about to be pulverized by an asteroid. Because, you know, children do that. Jerry Bruckheimer should have paid ME to watch this!! And anyone who thinks he has a scrap of talent should be deported to Mississippi.