10. Training Astronauts To Drill Would Be A Lot Quicker - Armageddon (1998)
Michael Bay's Armageddon was the highest-grossing movie of 1998, earning $553.7m at the box office despite a decidedly mixed critical reaction. Like most of the director's output the movie threw logic, sense and scientific accuracy out of the window in order to create a crowd-pleasing blockbuster full of massive-scale destruction. The plot centers on a motley crew of deep-core drillers that face a crash-course in astronaut training in order to save the world. However, Armageddon would be a much shorter movie if they had just switched things around and trained the astronauts how to drill instead. Becoming an astronaut requires immense dedication and years of intense training, but Bruce Willis and company only have a matter of weeks to train themselves for their dangerous mission. That being said, if the astronauts had learned how to drill then the script would probably be about ten pages long, as much of the second act is dedicated to the light-hearted shenanigans and training montages of the drilling team. In the DVD commentary for the movie, Ben Affleck reveals that he posed the very same question to Michael Bay when they were making the movie about how much easier it would be to train astronauts to drill. The director's response? 'Shut the f*ck up'.
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