Armageddon

Michael Bay (The Rock) directed this science fiction action thriller in the When Worlds Collide tradition. After astronomy students discover a comet-asteroid collision, an asteroid fragment "the size of the Super Dome" threatens. It's destroyed by a secret USA defense in space, but a large chunk veers off toward Singapore. With another asteroid "the size of Texas" en route, a plan is devised to send oil drillers to land on the asteroid and drop a nuclear device down a 1000-foot shaft, a scheme calculated to crack the asteroid into two halves, saving Earth. NASA begins a crash program to train beer-besotted oil roughnecks for the mission. During a stopover to refuel at the Mir Station, the space station is accidentally destroyed, so a Russian cosmonaut also joins the team. Produced by Bay, Jerry Bruckheimer (Con Air), and Gale Anne Hurd (The Relic, The Abyss). ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi

A comet hurtles toward Earth, threatening to wipe out all life upon impact--a ragtag group of oil drillers are given the daunting task of heading up into space to meet it and plant a nuclear bomb inside it. This director's cut edition includes the following supplements: two audio commentaries: one by Michael Bay, Jerry Bruckheimer, Bruce Willis, and Ben Affleck, the other by cinematographer John Schwartzman, NASA consultant Dr. Joe Allen and asteroid expert Ivan Bekey; gag reel, deleted scenes; storyboards, production design drawings; analyses of the visual effects by the fx supervisors Richard Hoover, Pat McClung, and Hoyt Yeatman; production designer Michael White discusses the Armageddon look; trailers, teasers, TV spots; Aerosmith's "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" music video.