Armageddon Movie Details
Armageddon taglines:It’s Closer Than You Think.
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| Directors: Michael Bay | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IMDB Rating: 6.0/10 out of 110,110 votes |
“Armageddon” 1998 by Michael Bay – Movie Goofs
“Armageddon” Plot Summary
When an asteroid the size of Texas is headed for Earth the world’s best deep core drilling team is sent to nuke the rock from the inside.
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“Armageddon” Goofs List
- Factual errors: There are numerous errors in Shuttle procedure and in the depiction of space flight. See trivia.
- Factual errors: There are numerous errors in the depiction of the physics of space and microgravity and of asteroids (their characteristics, their behavior and their effects). See trivia.
- Continuity: Shots in the shuttle launch sequence alternate between close-ups of the X-71 (metallic, with boosters over the wings) and panoramic shots of a regular shuttle (white, with no boosters over the wings).
- Continuity: SPOILER: When AJ enters the shuttle after Harry decides to blow the nuke, he is covered in dirt and blood. As he is being strapped in a few seconds later, he is totally clean.
- Plot holes: SPOILER: Killing the uplink to the nuclear weapon would not stop the timer. Once the timer has been started on the nuclear weapon, the timer on it would be independent. It would take an override code via an active uplink, not a killed uplink, to stop it. Thus, Truman’s ploy to “buy them maybe two minutes” on the comet would have been useless. What he should have done was use the uplink to stop the timer, not kill the uplink itself.
- Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: The shot of people celebrating in Mission Control after the nuclear weapon is detonated is used twice, just longer the second time. Most noticeable is the officer in a beret in the front doing the same motions both times.
- Continuity: When preparing for launch, the two shuttle crews board from the same gantry tower, but later shots it is obvious that there are two separate gantries.
- Continuity: The Russian space station simulates gravity when it is rotated. The direction that this force applies to people and objects within the station and the two attached shuttles is inconsistent with the geometry of the station. in reality, when the station is spinning in that manner, gravity can be simulated however the two shuttles would experience the gravity a different way, one crew would be able to walk on the floors of the station, where the other shuttle (being on the opposite side) the other folks would end up walking on the celing, appearing upside down to their friends from the first shuttle.
- Continuity: Falling objects near the surface of the asteroid fall as if affected by gravity as strong as the Earth’s.
- Continuity: The asteroid is supposedly rotating in all three dimensions, yet the view of the Earth from the asteroid remains the same.
- Errors in geography: Johnson Space Center in Houston is labeled as the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
- Crew or equipment visible: On asteroid, a puff of smoke reveals/reflects shadow of a camera on crane.
- Continuity: Two shuttles are launched separately, some minutes apart. But they are shown flying very close when they are leaving Earth atmosphere.
- Continuity: Early in the movie, Harry and crew “accidentally” strike oil. Immediately following, when the feds arrive, we see a distinct spot of oil on Harry’s nose. In the next few shots it disappears and reappears.
- Continuity: Harry knocks on A.J.’s wall with a golf club, knocking everything off the shelf except a few playing cards. Once he’s inside the room, some cans and other things fall off the shelf a second time.
- Continuity: A dog is seen chewing on a miniature Godzilla toy. In the next shot, he is chewing on a much bigger, balloon type Godzilla. But throughout, a guy has been trying to remove the toy from the dog’s mouth.
- Continuity: AJ’s hat disappears when he is in the fuel pod, then reappears when he is climbing the ladder.
- Audio/visual unsynchronized: When they strike oil on the oil rig, Harry scolds AJ and we hear, “Number 2 relief valve is wide open,” but Harry finishes speaking before the end of the sentence.
- Continuity: When Oscar is riding his horse in the beginning he is riding with a sunset as the backdrop. In a close-up of his face, the background is a bright blue sky.
- Continuity: A.J. goes down the hole to cut a piece of pipe away. We cut to Harry and the Col. William Sharp yelling at him to come out. Meanwhile, A.J. is just starting to cut the same pipe again.
- Continuity: During the Armadillo jump a yellow ear plug appears and disappears in A.J.’s right ear between shots.
- Continuity: When the countdown timer is at “5 Hours”, there is a sequence of communication between Harry and Dan Truman. Between scenes, the timer goes from “5 Hours” to “6 Hours” and then back down to “5 Hours”.
- Continuity: When A.J is singing “Leaving on a Jet Plane”, Grace hugs him. She switches sides between shots.
- Continuity: The movie starts on a Friday and they say that the asteroid will hit in 18 days, which would bring us to a Tuesday. The shuttle is launched on a Tuesday evening at 6:30pm. It takes about an hour (67min) to get to MIR, 60 hours to get to the moon, 12 min slingshot, 8 hours on the asteroid and about 4 hours (3:57) to earth after zero barrier. This timeline projects the asteroid hitting earth Friday evening around 8pm. No where near Tuesday evening.
- Factual errors: The Russian space station is an absurdity in itself: initiating a rotation to accommodate artificial gravity would in reality threaten the structural integrity of such a pronged modular craft, and spinning the station before docking would be unpractical, as it renders a normally tricky docking to be nearly impossible since the docking ports are on the external rotating pods. Furthermore, a rotating station would need its docking area along the axis of rotation, plus the docking vessel would have to match that rotation, and match its center of gravity along the docking point approaching along the station’s axis of rotation.
- Continuity: When the two ships are docking, the radar shows that both are docking at the same time, but the shot from space shows one docking after another.
- Continuity: When the crew has landed on the asteroid, Harry says something to the effect of, “Come down here to the flat area, and take readings,” twice.
- Continuity: When Harry shoots at A.J, the wound appears on one leg. However, in the next shot, when A.J is hopping, it is clear that the wound has changed legs
- Continuity: When Harry is threatening AJ in AJ’s room, he holds the golf club to AJ’s neck facing the right. In the next shot it is facing to the left.
- Continuity: Chick Capple’s ex-wife is holding the telephone receiver in her right hand, but when she drops the receiver, it falls from her left hand.
- Errors in geography: The two crews are shown splitting up to walk to and board their respective shuttles. Launch pads 39A and 39B are three miles apart.
- Revealing mistakes: As the shuttles pull to a stop to dock with the space station, the engines still appear to be at full throttle.
- Crew or equipment visible: In the scene of the helicopters chasing Oscar on his horse, a Wescam camera pod can be seen on the lead chopper (only visible in widescreen versions of the movie).
- Continuity: When the asteroid has been destroyed, the footage of a relieved crew at mission control is used twice, most notably with a soldier with his hands to his face, wiping his brow and adjusting his beret.
- Factual errors: Fire cannot exist in the vacuum of space. Once the oxygen is either burned up or dissipated the fire would die, this would only take a few seconds.
- Anachronisms: The opening sequence of the asteroid, said to have caused a mass extinction 65 million years ago, shows the continental arrangement and exact coastlines of today’s Caribbean area. Continental placements and all coastlines were vastly different 65 million years ago. North and South America were not joined as shown, nor even close together.
- Plot holes: How was A.J. able to start his own company so fast? If the movie started on a Friday, and it had to be assumed it took no more than a couple of days to round up all the guys, there is no way he could have done it.
- Continuity: Harry had golf shoes and a golf glove on at the beginning of the movie. After he shoots at AJ, and he’s following Grace, he has work boots and work gloves on.
- Continuity: The feds show up on the oil rig the very same day the asteroid is discovered. This is done after they discover the asteroid, name it, find out when it is going to hit, called to find out who was the best deep core driller, etc.
- Plot holes: Harry and Grace are picked up by the military, leaving behind the crew on the rig to go straight to NASA and find out about the asteroid. Presumably, time being of the essence, this trip did not take long. Nevertheless, in the time that
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