Armageddon (1998) - Quotes

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.

Grace Stamper: [talking to Harry on the monitor; chuckles happily] Daddy?

Harry Stamper: Hi, Gracie. Hi, honey. Grace, I know I promised you I was comin home.

Grace: [confused] I don't under... understand.

Harry: [sighs] Looks like I'm gonna have to break that promise.

Grace: [emotionally; smiles] I, um, I lied to you too, when I told you that I didn't wanna be like you... because I am like you. Everything good that I have inside of me, I have from you. I love you so much, Daddy. I'm so proud of you. I'm so scared. I'm so scared.

Harry: [Grace gets teary-eyed; a tear streams down his face as he looks at Grace one last time] I know, baby. But there won't be anything to be scared of soon. Gracie, I want you to know that AJ saved us. He did. I want you to tell Chick, that I couldn't have done it without him. None of it. I want you to take care of AJ. I wanna see your granddad come so far from up here, Grace. He told me that God gives us children so we could have roses in December. He gave me a gardenful, a whole gardenful, Gracie. He really did. I wish I could be there to walk you down the aisle. But I'll... I'll look in on you from time to time, okay, honey? I love you, Grace.

Grace: [cries] I love you too.

Harry: Gotta go now, honey.

Grace: [touches the screen as Harry cuts the video feed; breaks down crying] Daddy, no! No. No, Dad, no!

AJ: Do me a favor, will ya? Just tell Grace that, uh... that I'll always be with her, okay? Can you do that?

Harry: [pulls AJ's air hose out, rips off his own mission badge and hands it to AJ; pushes AJ back into the hatch and closes the door] Yeah. Okay, kid. Give this to Truman! Make sure Truman gets that! Get in there. It's my turn now.

AJ: Harry, Harry! You can't do this to me! It's my job!

Harry: [AJ stares at Harry with tears rushing down his face] You go take care of my little girl now. That's your job. I always thought of you as a son. Always. But I'll be damn proud to have you marry Grace.

AJ: [pleadingly] Harry...

Harry: [pushes a button sending the hatch up] Take care of yourself. I love you, pal.

AJ: No, wait! Harry, I love you! Harry, don't do this! I love you! No, wait a minute!

Harry: My son.

Harry: For God's sakes, think about what you're doin'. Why are you listenin to someone a hundred thousand miles away? We're here. No one down there can help us and if we don't get this job done, then everybody's gone.

Chick: One minute.

Harry: I have been drillin holes in the earth for 30 years. And I have never, never missed a depth that I have aimed for. And by God, I am not gonna miss this one, I will make 800 feet.

Chick: Forty-two seconds.

Harry: But I can't do it alone, Colonel. I need your help.

Col. Sharp: You swear on your daughter's life, on my family's, that you can hit that mark?

Harry: I will make 800 feet. I swear to God I will.

Col. Sharp: [[Nuclear weapons|bomb] Then let's turn this ] off.

Rockhound: [[Captain America] We're in segment 202, lateral grid nine, site 15H-32; give or take a few yards. ] here blew the landing by 26 miles!

Col. Sharp: How the hell do you know that?

Rockhound: [[genius] Because I'm a ].

Watts: [[w:Magnetic_field|magnetic field] The gauges will not read. They're all peaked like we're plugged into some ].

Rockhound: [sarcastically] Well, who on this spaceship wants to know why?

Gruber: By all means.

Rockhound: [[w:Iron_ferrite|iron ferrite] The reason we were shooting for grid eight, was because thermographics indicated that grid nine was compressed ]...which means you've landed us on a goddamn iron plate!

Chick: Hey.

Denise: What are you doin here?

Chick: [a boy comes onto the porch with a toy and sees Chick] I was just passin by on the, uh, I came...

Tommy: Who's he?

Denise: [Tommy obeys] That man's a salesman. Would you go inside? Thank you.

Chick: He got big.

Denise: Can't come around like this. Court says you can't. Confuses him.

Chick: [puts a toy shuttle on the porch] No, I know. I just... I wanted to say that I'm sorry... about everything, and... I got somethin comin up, some'n kinda big. You just might be proud of me. Would you do somethin for me? Would you just give him this? You don't have - you don't have to tell him who it's from, just...

Truman: So what's the verdict?

Harry Stamper: They'll do it. They've made a few requests though.

Truman: Such as?

Stamper: [riffles through sheets of paper] Well, there's uh, few things here, uh... nothin really big, uh, just- Well, as an example, uh, uh, Oscar here, he's got some outstanding parking tickets. Wants them wiped off his record.

Oscar: [shouting from balcony] Fifty-six tickets in seven states...

Stamper: [to Oscar] I'll-I'll tell em Oscar, you got it.

Oscar: Okay.

Stamper: [[women; [John F. Kennedy|Kennedy; Truman and the General look at him; tries to read writing; looks up at Bear] Uh, Noonan's got two ] friends that he'd like to see made American citizens, no questions asked. Max would like you to...bring back eight-track tapes. Not sure if that's gonna work, but, uh, let's see what else. Um, Chick wants a full week's Emperor's Package at Caesar's Palace. Um - hey, you guys wouldn't be able to tell us who actually killed ], would ya? Didn't think so. Um, Bear would like to stay at the... "White horse"?

Bear: White. House. White House.

Stamper: [[White House] White House. Yeah, he'd like to stay in the Lincoln bedroom of the ] for the summer. Stuff like that.

Truman: Sure, I think we can, uh, take care of... some of that.

Rockhound: [shouting from balcony] Harry!

Stamper: [motions back at Rockhound; [Taxation in the United States|taxes; Kimsey and Truman stare at Harry, who smirks and shrugs] Yeah, one more thing, um...none of them wanna pay ] again. Ever.

Harry Stamper: What's your contingency plan?

Truman: Contingency plan?

Harry: Your backup plan. You gotta have some kind of backup plan, right?

Truman: No, we don't have a back up plan, this is, uh...

Harry: [[Federal government of the United States|US government; [Boy Scouts; gestures to USAF pilots] And this is the best that you-that the government, the ] could come up with? I mean, you're NASA for cryin out loud, you put a man on the moon, you're geniuses! You're the guys that're thinkin shit up! I'm sure you got a team of men sittin around somewhere right now just thinkin shit up and somebody backin them up! You're tellin me you don't have a backup plan, that these eight ] right here , that is the world's hope, that's what you're tellin me?

Truman: Yeah.

President: Enough of this anomaly horseshit! What is this thing?

Truman: It's an asteroid, sir.

President: How big are we talking?

Scientist: Sir, our best estimate is 97.6 billion–

Truman: [[Texas] It's the size of ], Mr. President.

Scientist: [sits down] Uh, yes, sir.

President: Dan, we didn't see this thing coming?

Truman: [[Dollar|dollars] Well, our object collision budget's a million ]. That allows us to track about three percent of the sky, and begging your pardon, sir, but it's a big-ass sky.

Gen. Kimsey: And the ones this morning?

Truman: Uh, those were nothing. Those were the size of basketballs and Volkswagens, things like that.

President: Is this, going to hit us?

Truman: We're efforting that as we speak, sir.

President: What kind of damage are we...

Truman: Damage? Total, sir. It's what we call a global killer. The end of mankind. Doesn't matter where it hits, nothing would survive, not even bacteria.

President: My God. What do we do?

NASA Employee: [shows paper] We have 18 days before it hits Earth!

U.S. President: [[President of the United States; [humanity; [The Bible|Bible; [technology; [extinction; [science; [space; [War|wars; [pain; [suffering; [courage; [planet] I address you tonight not as the ], not as the leader of a country, but as a citizen of ]. We are faced with the very gravest of challenges. The ] calls this day "Armageddon"; the end of all things. And yet, for the first time in the history of the planet, a species has the ] to prevent its own ]. All of you praying with us need to know that everything that can be done to prevent this disaster is being called into service. The human thirst for excellence, knowledge. Every step up the ladder of ], every adventurous reach into ], all of our combined modern technologies and imaginations, even the ] that we've fought have provided us the tools to wage this terrible battle. Through all the chaos that is our history, through all of the wrongs and the discord, through all of the ] and ], through all of our times, there is one thing that has nourished our souls, and elevated our species above its origins, and that is our ]. Dreams of an entire ] are focused tonight on those 14 brave souls traveling into the heavens. And may we all, citizens the world over, see these events through. Godspeed, and good luck to you.

Dan Truman: [briefing Harry and Grace Stamper on the situation; [comet; [w:Asteroid_belt|asteroid belt; [water; [land; [Oceans|ocean; [Pacific Ocean; [California; [Denver; [Japan; [Australia; [Earth; [w:Nuclear_winter|nuclear winter] When the rogue ] went through the ], it sent shrapnel right for us. For the next 11 days, the Earth's in a shooting gallery. Even if the asteroid itself hits the ], it's still hitting ], it'll flashboil millions of gallons of seawater and slam into the ] bedrock. Now if it's a ] impact, which we think it will be, it will create a tidal wave about three miles high, travelling a thousand miles an hour, covering ] and washing up in ]. ] is gone, ] is wiped out. Half of the ]'s population will be incinerated by the heat blast, the rest will freeze to death in a ].

Dan Truman: [addressing staff on the [[NASA; [w:50th_Space_Wing#50th_Tactical_Fighter_Wing|50th Tactical] ] flight center network after the space shuttle Atlantis is destroyed] Okay, I want three groups. One: internal malfunction; get the log tape and start working back; maybe it's a glitch. Two: I want NORAD, Space Command and the ] comparing all the space junk you tracked in every orbit. I want you to check, re-check and then do it all over again. Number three: wild cards, anything and everything alright? Now, Big Russ, I want you to get on the phone and wake up 11,000 people. Walt, get em going.

Harry Stamper: [last words as he activates the manual detonator] We win, Gracie!

Harry Stamper: [After ''Freedom''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Armadillo is destroyed] Get a hold of Truman, and prepare the world for bad news.

Harry Stamper: [After informing his crew on the current situation] The United States government just asked us to save the world... Anybody want to say no'?