10 Dumbest Sci-Fi Movie Decisions (That People Survived)

The premise of Armageddon is relatively simple, even if it is scientifically impossible. A group of people travel to an inbound asteroid, drill to a predetermined depth to implant a nuke, blow it up, and save the world. It's a fun adventure movie, and it's one people love, but it really doesn't make a lot of sense.

Instead of sending a crew of astronauts to take care of the mission, NASA instead opts to send a group of oil drillers because they're experts in drilling. The decision to do that — that was stupid, and it shouldn't have worked. In reality, everyone should have died.

Ultimately, NASA Spent billions on equipment and training, but when the world was about to end, it chucked all that training in the bin and gave a group of drillers the keys to a couple of spaceships. The world should have ended, killing everyone, but the plan miraculously worked.

The underlying premise of the film was a stupid decision that should have resulted in the extinction of the human species, and that issue became the chief critique of the movie. Ben Affleck even pointed this out to Michael Bay, who told him to "Shut the f**k up."