Armageddon (1998)

Quotes about Armageddon: [http://www.vulture.com/2013/06/hollywood-blockbusters-cant-stop-evoking-911.html “Is It Possible to Make a Hollywood Blockbuster Without Evoking 9/11?”] * Kyle Buchanan, , Vulture, (2013/06).

Quotes about Armageddon: [[wikipedia:Michael_Bay|Michael Bay; [September 11 attacks|9/11; [movies; [Man of Steel (film)|Man of Steel; [Hollywood] When the World Trade towers fell on September 11, 2001, there was one refrain I heard over and over again, a common response that was both automatic and indicting: “It looked like something out of a ] movie.” More specifically, the explosions and citywide carnage resembled Armageddon, the Bay-directed action vehicle that had come out four summers prior and contained scenes of epic metropolitan mayhem that were still something of a cinematic novelty at the time. We pray that nothing on the scale of ] will ever happen again, but if something actually did, we’d now have a sickening number of summer ] to compare it to. This weekend’s ] is only the latest film this year to exploit familiar 9/11 imagery in ways that are far more extreme and blatant than anything we’ve seen on the big screen before, as though ] feels the need to out-9/11 itself. It’s lazy, it’s cheap, it’s deadening, and it needs to stop.