20 Movies So Good You Ignore Huge Plot Holes

19. Armageddon - Training Drillers Instead Of Astronauts

Armageddon is a stone-cold banger, albeit one that doesn't make a lick of sense. 

After all, this is the film where NASA discovers an asteroid the size of Texas and devises a plan to drill into it and detonate a nuclear bomb. Instead of sending trained astronauts, they send a random crew of oil drillers who somehow get trained in space travel over the space of just 12 days (actual astronauts have to train for two years!). 

Apparently, Ben Affleck did point out this bizarre choice of personnel to Michael Bay, who bluntly told him to "Shut the f**k up" in response.  

Furthermore, the movie is loaded with so many scientific inaccuracies that NASA actually uses it as a training tool. Workers are required to watch the film and list all of its errors. There is no getting around the fact that this movie is completely ridiculous, but nonetheless, it is still a very good example of a big-budget B-Movie. 

Factual inaccuracies are present in most major disaster movies out there, but while films such as The Core and The Day After Tomorrow play their stupid plots far too straight, Armageddon is far more self-aware. It goes for a knowing, tongue-in-cheek approach, and combines its explosive spectacle with some hilarious comedy and unexpectedly affecting melodrama, making this an enormously entertaining cinematic cheese sandwich that'll have you grinning throughout. It works largely because it doesn't take itself too seriously. 

That Aerosmith song still sucks, though.