The Playlist: Blow Up Your July 4th With 5 Clips And More From 'Armageddon'

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Blow Up Your July 4th With 5 Clips And More From 'Armageddon' Jul 4th 2013, 19:23, by Diana Drumm Released 4th of July weekend 15 years ago, "Armageddon" was a little known indie picture examining the existentialist crisis triggered by meteors pummeling the earth. Joking aside, the Michael Bay disaster flick was balls to the wall epic. With a real late '90s gem premise -- a massive asteroid is on its way to faceplant earth and a ragtag team of oil-drillers is the world's only hope -- and a cast led by a not-yet-bald Bruce Willis and a fresh-faced Ben Affleck, even the Grinch-iest of critics must appreciate the sheer ridiculous "we're saving the world, dammit" bravura of it (Gene Siskel said, "its audacity is almost amusing" and we concur). The movie also holds a special place as a veritable "Who's Who" of "Oh, That Guy"-type actors (including Will Patton, Michael Clarke Duncan, Peter Dormare, William Fichtner, Keith David, and Jason Isaacs). "Armageddon" went on to be the highest grossing film of 1998 (beating out Steven Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan"), inspire a EuroDisney... Media files: armageddon.jpg (image/jpeg)

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