12 Trash Movies (That You Definitely Love Anyway)

9. Armageddon

Say what you want about Michael Bay as a director - and lots of people often do just that - but he knows how to make money. His awful but financially bullet-proof Transformers movies prove that much, at the very least.

The director seems to know how to channel into some latent yearning in his audiences (which is possibly why he was drawn to the childhood franchise in the first place), which is definitely evident in Armageddon too. The ridiculous sci-fi actioner would be no more than an Asylum/Sy Fy movie normally, but the injection of a big budget and major acting talent dragged it out of the basement.

Sadly, the acting is mostly very poor (particularly from Ben Affleck) and the more dependable talent (like Steve Buscemi) ends up wrestling with frankly idiotic material. But then again, watching Buscemi ride a warhead and be instantly and very frankly diagnosed with "space dementia" will never not be gloriously charming. And at this stage, Bruce Willis was still action dad, so it was hard not to feel when he gave his life up for us all.