Armageddon (film) Quotes
1998 films, 1990s American films, Action films, Science fiction films, Space adventure films, Films about space hazards, Apocalyptic films, Films about astronauts, Screenplays by J. J. Abrams, Films directed by Michael Bay, Screenplays by Tony Gilroy
Top Quotes
“[last words as he activates the manual detonator] We win, Gracie!”
“Ben Affleck - AJ Frost”
“Liv Tyler - Grace Stamper”
“Steve Buscemi - Rockhound”
“Bruce Willis - Harry Stamper”
“Rotten Tomatoes: Armageddon”
“Wikicommons: -inline”
“Peter Stormare - Lev Andropov”
“Owen Wilson - Oscar Choi, Geologist”
“Will Patton - Charles 'Chick' Chappel”
“Billy Bob Thornton - Dan Truman”
“Internet Movie Database (IMDb): Armageddon”
“William Fichtner - Colonel William Sharp”
“Dyllan Christopher - Tommy Chappell”
“Michael Clarke Duncan - Jayotis 'Bear' Kurleenbear”
“[After Freedom
' s Armadillo is destroyed] Get a hold of Truman, and prepare the world for bad news.”
“[addressing staff on the NASA flight center network after the space shuttle Atlantis is destroyed] Okay, I want three groups. One: internal malfunction; get the log tape and start working back; maybe it's a glitch. Two: I want NORAD, Space Command and the 50th Tactical comparing all the space junk you tracked in every orbit. I want you to check, re-check and then do it all over again. Number three: wild cards, anything and everything alright? Now, Big Russ, I want you to get on the phone and wake up 11,000 people. Walt, get 'em going.”
“[briefing Harry and Grace Stamper on the situation] When the rogue comet went through the asteroid belt, it sent shrapnel right for us. For the next 11 days, the Earth's in a shooting gallery. Even if the asteroid itself hits the water, it's still hitting land, it'll flashboil millions of gallons of seawater and slam into the ocean bedrock. Now if it's a Pacific Ocean impact, which we think it will be, it will create a tidal wave about three miles high, travelling a thousand miles an hour, covering California and washing up in Denver. Japan is gone, Australia is wiped out. Half of the Earth's population will be incinerated by the heat blast, the rest will freeze to death in a nuclear winter.”
“When the World Trade towers fell on September 11, 2001, there was one refrain I heard over and over again, a common response that was both automatic and indicting: “It looked like something out of a Michael Bay movie.” More specifically, the explosions and citywide carnage resembled Armageddon, the Bay-directed action vehicle that had come out four summers prior and contained scenes of epic metropolitan mayhem that were still something of a cinematic novelty at the time. We pray that nothing on the scale of 9/11 will ever happen again, but if something actually did, we’d now have a sickening number of summer movies to compare it to. This weekend’s Man of Steel is only the latest film this year to exploit familiar 9/11 imagery in ways that are far more extreme and blatant than anything we’ve seen on the big screen before, as though Hollywood feels the need to out-9/11 itself. It’s lazy, it’s cheap, it’s deadening, and it needs to stop.”