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Introduction
I saw Deep Impact when I was 8 years old, I thought it was great! A little boring (I was 8) but I thought it was good. I later watched Armageddon... eh, it was okay. What can I say, it was Michael Bay. I rewatched Deep Impact... man it was good. But, what if it had a little flare...? And so I decided to combine 1998's Deep Impact and Armageddon. This edit cuts out the crew out of Deep Impact and replaces them with the story of Armageddon. So, we get a movie with about 50% Deep Impact, and 50% Armageddon. To keep a Decent runtime, a bit of Deep Impact was cut, and a LOT of Armageddon was cut.
Teaser Trailer:
Official Full Trailer:
Intention
My biggest goal was to - of course - combine 1998's Armageddon and Deep Impact into one coherent movie. I aim to make Armageddon less goofy and irreverent, though also allowing it humor and some stupid stuff. Some time dumb fun is fine, just as long it doesn't hurt the overall story. So I tried to minimize the dumb fun to an amount that doesn't weigh down the rest of the movie. Honestly, I prefer Deep Impact, and at first I tried to find a way to make the whole movie that sort of tone; but when you're working with Armageddon... yeah I dropped that ball pretty quick.
The Armageddon part is to serve as what's going on in space to stop the asteroid, whereas Deep Impact is to serve as the earth side to the story; what the government is doing; how people are reacting - and we get to see this on a personal level with Deep Impact. Overall, I wanted this edit to highlight the personal and more dramatic aspects of these movies, while of course still having some occasional levity and action.
Another important thing I tried my best to do was to have them feel like their happening at the same time. Having tricks such as: something bad happens on the asteroid in Armageddon, and people in Deep Impact react to it. Simple things such as the President Morgan Freeman announcing the asteroids and then the following scene is the Armageddon scene where Billy Bob Thornton says that "now the whole world knows" to Bruce Willis.
These movies are about an asteroid that is about to hit earth, and my edit is just telling that same story from two point of views that coexist, and influence each other every now and then.
Runtime
Original (Two movies combined): 275 minutes, or 4hrs 35min
My edit runs at: 144 minutes, or 2hrs 24min
I cut: 131 minutes, or 2hrs 11min
I'll keep this thread updated as I complete this project.
I saw Deep Impact when I was 8 years old, I thought it was great! A little boring (I was 8) but I thought it was good. I later watched Armageddon... eh, it was okay. What can I say, it was Michael Bay. I rewatched Deep Impact... man it was good. But, what if it had a little flare...? And so I decided to combine 1998's Deep Impact and Armageddon. This edit cuts out the crew out of Deep Impact and replaces them with the story of Armageddon. So, we get a movie with about 50% Deep Impact, and 50% Armageddon. To keep a Decent runtime, a bit of Deep Impact was cut, and a LOT of Armageddon was cut.
Teaser Trailer:
Official Full Trailer:
Intention
My biggest goal was to - of course - combine 1998's Armageddon and Deep Impact into one coherent movie. I aim to make Armageddon less goofy and irreverent, though also allowing it humor and some stupid stuff. Some time dumb fun is fine, just as long it doesn't hurt the overall story. So I tried to minimize the dumb fun to an amount that doesn't weigh down the rest of the movie. Honestly, I prefer Deep Impact, and at first I tried to find a way to make the whole movie that sort of tone; but when you're working with Armageddon... yeah I dropped that ball pretty quick.
The Armageddon part is to serve as what's going on in space to stop the asteroid, whereas Deep Impact is to serve as the earth side to the story; what the government is doing; how people are reacting - and we get to see this on a personal level with Deep Impact. Overall, I wanted this edit to highlight the personal and more dramatic aspects of these movies, while of course still having some occasional levity and action.
Another important thing I tried my best to do was to have them feel like their happening at the same time. Having tricks such as: something bad happens on the asteroid in Armageddon, and people in Deep Impact react to it. Simple things such as the President Morgan Freeman announcing the asteroids and then the following scene is the Armageddon scene where Billy Bob Thornton says that "now the whole world knows" to Bruce Willis.
These movies are about an asteroid that is about to hit earth, and my edit is just telling that same story from two point of views that coexist, and influence each other every now and then.
Runtime
Original (Two movies combined): 275 minutes, or 4hrs 35min
My edit runs at: 144 minutes, or 2hrs 24min
I cut: 131 minutes, or 2hrs 11min
I'll keep this thread updated as I complete this project.
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