Armageddon was a Michael Bay movie about NASA training a team of oil drillers to become astronauts to stop an asteroid that was hurtling toward Earth.

1998 was the year of Earth-destroying disaster movies. Deep Impact came out in May 1998, followed two months later by Michael Bay's Armageddon. Both were among the top 10 grossing movies of the year, ...

The year 2023 brought us the summer of Barbenheimer, where two entirely different movies went head-to-head at the box office. But 25 years earlier, the summer of 1998 was marked by a very different ...

Chris is a Senior News Writer for Collider. He can be found in an IMAX screen, with his eyes watering and his ears bleeding for his own pleasure. He joined the news team in 2022 and accidentally fell ...

"I didn't know any better than to be really honest," Affleck said while in the Criterion Closet about the infamous 1998 Michael Bay film. Affleck infamously cited plot holes during the DVD commentary ...

Originally released in 1998, Armageddon was a bit of a mixed bag upon release, splitting the critics with its reception. Now, it's getting a resurgence in viewership with its availability to watch for ...

The 1998 disaster film Armageddon recently climbed to the No. 1 spot on Tubi’s U.S. streaming chart (via Flix Patrol). According to the platform’s rankings for March 8, 2026, the movie became the most ...

He's responsible for movies including Bad Boys II and Transformers: Dark of the Moon, yet director Michael Bay thinks Armageddon is his worst film. "I will apologize for Armageddon, because we had to ...

On its way to becoming the highest grossing movie of 1998, the Michael Bay disaster movie sparked a city-wide panic with its all-too-real ad campaign. By Ryan Gajewski Senior Entertainment Reporter ...