Armageddon (1998)
Badger -1 points 4 years ago.

Please google, “scientific mistakes in Armageddon”. There are over 160 (you spotted the most glaringly obvious but there are a LOT more)! And that’s just the actual scientific errors, not the logical incongruities/bizarre decisions which make no sense (say training oil drillers to be astronauts instead of the other fing way around. I don’t pretend to be either an oil driller or an astronaut but I’m pretty certain which one’s more difficult). I don’t know which lists of great 90s films you’re looking at but this film’s not usually on them at all. For example: Pulp Fiction, The Matrix, Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, the Shawshank Redemption, Goodfellas, the Silence of the Lambs, Schindler’s List, Titantic, Seven, Forrest Gump, the Sixth Sense, Fight Club, the Big Lebowski, Reservoir Dogs, Trainspotting, Good Will Hunting, Fargo, American Beauty, Groundhog Day. That’s 20 films from the 90s picking randomly and in no specific order which are widely regarded as better than this one. I could’ve easily done another 20 without mentioning this film.

Canuckian 0 points 4 years ago.

Wow dude, you read WAAAY too much into my comment lol. My comment is my own, i never claimed it was “scientifically accurate” either and i am not going to pick apart a decent sci-fi FANTASY flick to its minute details because I actually ENJOY watching this movie…the fire/oxygen was meant as a “glaringly” obvious oversight that almost ANYONE would and should have noticed and then forgot about because it takes nothing from the over all story, i just can’t help think about it every time i watch the movie is all. For future, you do NOT need to pick apart my or anyone elses comment to satisfy your own desire to show me/us how much you love to analyze movies for accuracy both scientific and politically. If you watch all movies like that, you won’t enjoy them as much. It IS FICTION after all, right? I appreciate a bit of realism like everyone else, but i also know how to suspend it when i walk into the Theater. Your list of other 90’s movies is good, i love them all as well only having not seen Fargo, Big Lebowski and American Beauty, i have seen all the rest of course.. Curious though..you mention Groundhog Day..fantastic movie of course, Bill Murray at his best…but where is the scientific acccuracy in that movie? Time Travel? Time LOOP? CRAZY! You would almost have to “suspend your belief” to enjoy that movie huh? See my point? Anyway not trying to argue with man, just trying to say, don’t pick apart other peoples comments to either prove them wrong because their opinion doesn’t match yours, know what i mean? Anyway, cheers mate.