[Movie Monday] Armageddon: My Litmus Test for Film Advice

Have you ever seen a movie that was bad? I mean really, really bad, not bad in the good way where you can make fun of the film and enjoy yourself, but bad in the bad way, where you feel like you’ve just wasted two hours of your life. Bad in the way that you walk away saying, “if anyone ever recommends this film to me, I’ll know not to take advice from that person on movies again.”

For me, that movie is Armageddon. It came out the summer after I graduated from high school, and I somehow missed seeing it in the theater. But when I saw it on home video later that year on my first Thanksgiving break away from college, holy crap was I annoyed by it.

You might like Armageddon. You might think it’s a good movie. You might even own a copy for a purpose other than irony.

Well, to you I say: that’s fine. But I won’t be taking any movie advice from you until you realize the error of your ways.

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