Armageddon poster
Armageddon

Half-Assed Internet Research

Armageddon The Rewatchables

Research finds the asteroid plan wildly infeasible, notes NASA’s error-counting exercise, confirms real shuttle footage, and records the film as Criterion’s final LaserDisc.

In the discussion (4)
Approx. transcript time · 01:09:13Read transcript
  • A 2011 student paper calculated that the required bomb would need roughly a billion times the power of the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated.
  • NASA management training uses the film to spot errors and has identified at least 168.
  • The shuttle launches use real launch footage.
  • Armageddon was Criterion LaserDisc spine 384 and the last LaserDisc title the company released.