Did anyone here pay money to see that awful asteroid-hitting-earth film, "Armageddon"?

(Synopsis: Bruce Willis and a bunch of yahoos simultanously launch in two Space Shuttles and head to an asteroid -- without atmosphere -- where they use oil-rig drills -- with internal combustion engines -- to drill holes large enough to embed some nukes with which they will blow said asteroid off of its course towards Earth.)

Anyways, the opening scene of this cinematic marvel featured -- get this -- an astronaut, doing a space walk from the Space Shuttle, at a satellite which has a VME-type card on an extender, and he's upgrading the CPU on that card by lifting the little level on the ZIF socket and holding the replacement CPU in his gloved hand.

Everything about that entire scene was weapons-grade bullshit (who wants to enumerate?), and I actually DID stand up and yell, "BULLSHIT!" and I was greeted with much applause.

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OK, so that same year there was ANOTHER asteroid-threatens-earth film, Mimi Leder's "Deep Impact," which also featured a whole lotta bullshit. Like, for example, the astronomer who is up at an observatory in Tucson (obviously meant to be Kitt Peak) and he's actually in the dome running his observation with the lights on (no no no no!), eating pizza (everyone knows Tucson pizza sucks and the observatory is an hour from the nearest, so it'd be cold), and he notices the asteroid on his screen (I guess he's not doing hour-long integrations) so he captures the data in some manner and tries to e-mail others, and that doesn't work (OK, I'll buy the internet going down) so he dumps the data to a floppy disk (really? those images are big!) and hops into his car, and starts driving down the mountain WITH HIS LIGHTS ON (that's light pollution) and runs into a delivery truck driving up the same road (Sorry, the road closes at 4 pm and there is no traffic) (and the truck lights are on, too). Funny thing is, a lot of people scoffed at the idea of a black President (even if it was Morgan Freeman). (What, you want Morgan Fairchild?).

It's just silly.

-a