User:Stephenfisher2001/sandbox/Deep Impact

Deep Impact is a 1998 American sci-fi, disaster film directed by Mimi Leder, written by Bruce Joel Rubin and Michael Tolkin.

Plot
According to predictions, a deadly comet will strike Earth and destroy humanity. US President Beck comes up with a plan and builds a network of caves to accommodate one million Americans.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) It is one of the disaster films that didn't suck, almost unlike most disaster films that try to copy any disaster film, or have just plain ridiculous, or generic writing (like Volcano, or Armageddon), Deep Impact is actually a pretty decent disaster film that tries to do it’s own decent take on the protagonists facing a deadly asteroid.
 * 2) Decent, beautiful and depressing written storyline.
 * 3) The CGI effects for the tsunami were pretty decent for 1998 standards.
 * 4) If you have serious and passionate about the film and execution, this film might make you cry for the victims.
 * 5) Pretty good, and sad scenes, like before the tsunami strikes on the east coast, The kids saying goodbye to their family just before they meet their fate by the tsunami.
 * 6) Decent direction by Mimi Leder.
 * 7) Beautiful, and depressing soundtrack that was performed by James Horner, who also previously made a soundtrack from Titanic.
 * 8) Memorable characters, especially for Jenny Lerner as well.
 * 9) Decent cinematography that was made by German cinematographer, Dietrich Lohmann which is his final film before his death in 1997.
 * 10) The infamous scene, near the end of the film, where the comment strikes the Earth at the east coast and destroying New York City is pretty epic and very iconic.
 * 11) The ending is pretty good, but it's pretty sad, giving a fair well to the astronauts giving a suicide run to the asteroid to save planet Earth.
 * 12) Decent acting, especially for Robert Duvall, Tea Leoni, and Elijah Wood.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The film suffers from being cliche, generic and predictable.

Reception
The reviews of Deep Impact were not that bad as 1998's Armageddon, although Deep Impact did receive mixed reviews from critics, with a 45% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. On Metacritic, the film holds a 40/100 rating, indicating "mixed or average reviews" with a 5.6/10 user score rating on that same website. On IMDb, the film holds a 6.2/10 rating.

A lot of people claimed that Deep Impact is actually better than mh:awfulmovies:Armageddon, to this day.