10 Most Underwhelming Summer Movies Of All Time

10. Armageddon

As an asteroid collides with the Earth, wiping out the dinosaurs in the process, music swells and we get a title card: “Sixty-Five Million Years Later…”

Armageddon is that corny.

Anyway, there’s another asteroid heading for Earth and the filmmakers have decided that this will be the perfect backdrop for a love story. So they import some soap opera moments from Titanic, the previous year’s box office champ, which reaches its nadir when Ben Affleck attempts to seduce Liv Tyler with animal crackers.

There are lots of soap opera moments here, all of which ring hollow (Michael Bay doesn’t “do” drama), while the forced banter between the leads tries to gloss over how ridiculous it all is, such as when 50,000 die in a Shanghai meteor shower that receives barely thirty seconds of screen time. Eddie Griffin’s jive-talkin’ bike messenger was on screen for longer, and all he did was destroy some Godzilla merchandise.