Deep Impact (DVD, 1998) Brand New - Picture 1 of 1
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I thought this was a great movie, good actors and message just a little too real...kinda like what's going on today with all the disasters that are happening
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The purpose of this movie was to wake people up to the consequences of a comet/asteroid strike. Unfortunately, there were too many people syrupy sub-plots. It would have been more interesting if the script was based on more real science and the probable consequences of an extinction-level event. As written, it was about three quarters hollywood love stories. One-eigth of the film was given to pseudo-science, unlikely technological possibilities and wishful thinking about the human response to such a game-changing scenario. The remainder had a bit more substance; but just a bit.
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Thinking that she has uncovered a huge scandal that might even go as high as the president of the United States, a want-to-be New York reporter soon finds out that the sex scandal she thinks that she has uncovered, turns out to be the fast approaching "end of the world"! A meteor the size of Mount Everest is on a collision course with the Earth, and there is no way that the Earth can win. This is the story of ELE - simply put, an "Extinction Level Event". Not just some, but the end of probably all life on the entire planet! The event is about a year away, and although there are a couple of possible scenarios, the prognosis looks very grim. As the world looks forward to the end, a maned mission to the comet along with a plan to detonate a nuclear bomb to blow it up, is underway. However hopeless, it is mankind's only chance. Along with this mission, there is a plan to select the smartest and most talented people, along with those who are deemed essential (doctors, scientists, some politicians, and any others who will be necessary to insure the survivability of the chosen for an unspecified time, until it is safe to emerge and start to rebuild. This is a pretty good film about a subject that is all too possible.Read full review
So one of many world-is-coming-to-an-end epic movies that came out in the late 90's, Deep Impact features a younger Elijiah Wood, a presidential Morgan Freeman, Téa Leoni, Robert Duvall, Vanessa Redgrave, and Leelee Sobieski to name a few. The plot revolves around a comet coming to hit the earth and destroy all life as we know it in an Extinction Level Event or E.L.E. First we have Elijiah Wood who discovers the comet and all the kids at school say he'll get laid a lot more now. He was getting laid before?? Come on, he's a science geek in high school. We all know better. Also he has the poor judgement to save Leelee Sobieski by marrying her. And tries to take her family too but when that doesn't work out, she wants to stay with them. Great idea, sweetie. So you can die too. Then he even risks his life and comes BACK to save her! Is she thrilled to see him? Yes. Does she want to go? No. Her parents basically have say they'll see her soon just to get her on the back of his motorbike and they throw a baby at her to raise too. Then we have Robert Duvall playing the aging astronaut that the youngins' don't have any faith in but who shows his true colors and comes up with an idea that sacrifices them, but saves most of the planet and gives them a chance. I can't believe they even considered saying no. After all, they'd have to jump off the rocket when they got home and attempt to hide in a cave? And possibly have all their family members killed off? Part of the comet hits the earth anyway and causes some really fun damage. I always love disaster movies, especially when it happens to recognizable monuments like the Statue of Liberty underwater. This stuff is what you wait the whole movie to watch. However, if you are a sympathetic crier, the astronauts saying goodbye to their families will get you. Which brings up another character that gets to you. Téa Leoni was really fun to watch in Fun With Dick and Jane...a not very highly reviewed movie but great for what it was. She was not fun to watch in this movie. She was a reporter hungry for an anchor position and when she comes into the knowledge of planetary destruction, she mostly uses it for gain in her career. She has a few emotional moments about it. Particularly when her mother decides to end things on her terms before she gets washed away. Which brings up my other question -- Why didn't more people TRY? So many people just stood and took it and didn't even try to get away. Anyway when reporting these crazy big stories, she is the slowest talking person I've ever heard on T.V. I feel like I'm...waiting...for her to finish her sentences. Maybe it's being respectful, but no, she does it all the time. Only when she's reporting the news. She gives up her spot on a getaway chopper to a friend and her child which is very nice and decides to go spend time with her estranged father and kill herself with him. On the one hand, it makes sense. She's created so many problems and her mom is dead and her relationship with her dad up to this point has been dead so she doesn't have much left except for her job. On the other hand, they could have made a good run for it. This again is a teary moment when she curls up to him and says, "Daddy" and I cried even though I was ticked off at her. This movie, plotwise, is not awesome. I haven't talked about Morgan Freeman much here because he doesn't do much besides make speeches and occasionally be grouchy.Read full review
The movie has a realizum about it that alot of other movies have tried to capture,and I believe couldn't.The fact that a meteor big enough can destroy our belove it earth is not unheard of.It keeps the viewer thinking on how we would spend our last moments on earth,who we want to be with,the phone calls we have to make etc..Most importantly how the "GOVERMENT" decides who lives or dies.That just blew my mind!!!!!!!! They knew a for a whole year,and they waited till the last minute like ALWAYS!!!!!Anyway TWO THUMBS UP!!!!!! I bought this to add to my great collection of Action,Drama & Suspence Better than Day After Tomorrow........
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