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    Ben Affleck 100% Stands By His Harsh 'Armageddon' DVD Commentary Criticisms of the Michael Bay Catastrophe Blockbuster

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    Ben Affleck 100% Stands By His Harsh 'Armageddon' DVD Commentary Criticisms of the Michael Bay Catastrophe Blockbuster
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    Ben Affleck

    has by no means been identified to mince phrases, and his remarks on the DVD commentary observe for 1998’s Armageddon

    stay one among Hollywood’s most memorable acts of public self-reflection. Greater than twenty years after the movie’s launch, Affleck has confirmed that he continues to face by his tongue-in-cheek however seemingly all-true critiques of the logic behind the film’s plot. Whereas Armageddon pulled in huge ticket gross sales and have become a staple of late-90s popular culture, Affleck’s brutally trustworthy commentary gave everybody a good suggestion of how the actor needed to ignore his storytelling instincts when engaged on the film.

    Talking in a current interview with GQ, Affleck addressed his notorious DVD commentary second, when he referred to as out the absurdities of the Michael Bay-directed film. He defined:

    “That is without doubt one of the achievements of my profession on which I’m prepared to pat myself on the again. I imagine which may be at the least prime 5 all-time DVD commentaries. By the way in which, no one mentioned something to me. I don’t suppose any of the opposite individuals listened to it or gave a f*ck till years later when it was performed.

    And I used to be form of shocked and appalled that I went on there and began being like…. I imply, that’s all true. Every little thing I mentioned was 100% true, however that’s the purpose. You’re not imagined to go on there and inform the entire reality.”

    The cast of Armageddon

    Associated

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    Michael Bay Credit Ben Affleck’s Abdomen Flu for the Finest Scene in ‘Armageddon’

    “He felt like sh*t. He appeared like sh*t, too.”

    Ben Affleck Felt Like One thing Small in One thing Very Massive

    Bruce Willis in Armageddon
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    In fact, again when Armageddon was launched in 1998, Ben Affleck was not the Oscar-winning director or acclaimed actor he’s now, and for that cause there have been many issues that he simply needed to go together with when engaged on the movie. Starring alongside business icons like Bruce Willis, he was a small fish. He continued:

    “I by no means anticipated, ‘Oh, that is going to be genius.’ I believed, I’m going to go do a giant Hollywood motion film and I like it. And sure, through the film, I used to be form of shocked to seek out that generally they weren’t all that concerned with making sense.

    And I used to be the one one that was form of like, “Okay, I assume we don’t function by these different guidelines right here.” However there’s a way of being small and of this factor being massive. And so I felt like just a little ant on the elephant once I would shoot my mouth off in regards to the dialog I had with Michael [Bay, the director of Armageddon] about why is it simpler to coach oil drillers to be astronauts than to coach astronauts to drill a gap within the floor?”

    Like many Michael Bay films, Armageddon is all about spectacle, motion, and, in fact, the large bombastic finale the place the day is saved and everybody celebrates in true American model. Plot holes should not precisely unusual in this sort of crowd-pleasing blockbuster, and whereas critics are completely happy to level out these flaws, cinema audiences don’t all the time pay that a lot consideration…or don’t care. For Affleck, evidently time has not modified his view of the issues of Armageddon, and we most likely didn’t actually count on anything.

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    Armageddon


    Launch Date

    July 1, 1998

    Runtime

    151 minutes



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