10 Summer Blockbuster Movies That Should Never Have Happened

Described by Roger Ebert as “an assault on the eyes, the ears, the brain, common sense and the human desire to be entertained”, Armageddon gets into the graces of bad movie fans with an opening sequence where an asteroid hits the Earth, wiping out the dinosaurs in the process. As music swells, we get a title card: “Sixty Five Million Years Later….”

If only the rest of the film was as enjoyably corny. Instead, we get a love story imported from Titanic that reaches its nadir when Ben Affleck attempts to seduce Liv Tyler with animal crackers, and lots of forced banter between the leads that attempts to gloss over how ridiculous it all is.

Once our heroes get off the ground, the dumb fun drains away, leaving nothing but effects shots, noise and a series of tired, predictable crises to be faced before humanity can triumph. Given that Pearl Harbor, Bad Boys II and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen lay in the future, we needn’t have bothered.