I agree. The story isn't Oscar worthy, but everything else about this movie was pretty damn good and memorable even 20 years later. Deep Impact was trash in comparison. Boring story, crappy music and nothing particularly memorable after all these years.
UzuMaki NaRuto I love movies of this type that do it right probably as much as I love movies with deep, powerful and inspiring plot. I mean sure, it’s very over the top and comedic, while dramatic and heartbreaking at the same time but the plot isn’t a lot which is why the movie is so good. If it had a deep plot like other very good movies it wouldn’t have been as good because of the fact that “hey there’s a big space rock and we have to stop it” is the main goal and it works both for the movie and the viewer.
@@UzumakiNaruto_ The impact scene in Deep Impact was epic though and totally made up for it. I think you're giving it a hard time, DI had some great scenes man.
When Harry asks "What the hell is that, is that the Independence--?!" and gets his question answered in the most brutal way as a crewmate's lifeless body slams briefly against the glass like nothing more than passing debris. :' (
The special effects hold up fairly well and are hands down the best thing about this movie. I didn't like it but had a good time watching it anyway, just because scenes like this are so exhilarating.
I might be the only one that feels this way but the coffee mug bit around 1:09 was such a dramatic emotional part for me, really just set the scene up for what was coming, the way the music changed the sound of the guy shouting mayday and billy bobs face in disbelief and shock, amazing film!
You know when that mug comes down crashing that the end result would be catastrophic to Truman, the shuttle, the astronauts and the mission. Very emotional and resonated with me two decades later!
The coffee cup shattering and the music change is definitely a strong indicator of the intensity. When he’s not ruining classic franchises, Michael Bay certainly knows what he’s doing.
The part where Harry (Bruce Willis) catches a glimpse of the out of control remains of the Independence and doesn't even recognize it immediately followed by Colonel Davis' body bouncing off the windshield hit me just as much as the quotes "Good luck Freedom" and "Oh my God this is it!"
I love the USAF/NASA pilot calling for everyone to put on their own lifesupport and lock themselves in the cargo bay, giving them the highest chance of survival while disregarding their own.
In the Air Force you are taught to sacrifice ur life for the safety of the passengers, my grandpa told me this he is a ww2 101st airborne veteran on D Day
RIP to the two pilots who instructed for everything to lock in the cargo bay. As they risked their lives to ensure the safety of the drillers of mankind. I still sing this song at Karoake in Ktown.
@@johnhey4138 Oh nevermind. They said “Go for throttle up”, which means all systems are go for throttle up. But they don’t throttle up until max q has been breached.
envelope91 thats nice to hear, because everyone is always complaining about how this movie sucks and so on. Just finished watching it again literally one minute ago, my favourite movie of all time
Hey big troll, im 2 years late but i accept your challenge lol... Stupid shit ass comment......nobody gave a fuck lol... You probably kept going back to see too. Right?
@@Top10soon it's a Michael Bay movie! So of course we have the obvious people don't act intelligently at all. (Often times they don't even act like people) Things explode because apparently everything is built with TNT as the binder. Shake the camera so much that it's impossible to know what is happening, the lighting makes everything look like everything is covered in mud to the point I honestly don't know what is supposed to be happening.
Just imagine the ultimate horror if that situation were real. To lose most of the crew as it goes down, but to survive the crash and find yourself stranded on a rock heading for the Earth at 30 miles a second. I know it's just an action film, and the idea of sending a shuttle around the moon is ludicrous. But to imagine surviving that and having to carry on.
This movie was a rollercoaster of emotions and that's why it will forever be remembered fondly by people who didn't watch this for the realism aspect of it.
I don't know why many people cannot see this is 1 of the greatest movie of all time. From the plot, acting, emotions displayed, time the movie was released, soundtrack, graphics, visual effects & all? It has been one of the top 3 best Hollywood movies i have seen since 1998.
AJ escaped death five times in this film. The first one was when Harry shoot his leg but luckily AJ didn't get seriously harmed. The second one was when the space station exploded however AJ barely escaped it just before it exploded. The third one was when the Independence crashed but he survived the crash. The fourth one was when AJ's rover almost "fell into space" but thanks to Lev's efforts the rover was saved. The fifth one was when Harry bravely sacrificed his life to save AJ by volunteering himself to detonate the bomb instead of AJ.
ah u missed one....when he had to cut the pipe in the hole and he got launched into space but Harry grabbed the rope just in time and brought him back down
because aj is batman aj is bruce wayne’s traumatized nightmares in bruce wayne’s head…. harry is symbolic of thomas wayne aj is the person bruce wishes he could be but can’t
yeah it would just shatter into a cloud of debris that would likely destroy the shuttle behind it too. the expanse explains things like this realistically. For example if a ship gets destroyed it becomes shrapnel that is dangerous to anything hat fly's by, even armored ships. The issue is, the shuttle was hit and "went down" as if it was with an atmosphere. Losing it's main engine wouldn't make it spiral out of control seeing that space shuttles have thrusters than can correct that roll rather easily, and it made no sense for the shuttle to lose all of it's ARC thrusters after just having one of it's main engines hit. It would of been more realistic for that rock to have just shattered the entire shuttle because at what was it? mach 30?., hitting that rock would be like being hit by a bomb.
@@WaveForceful Shouldn't the giganteous mass of the Asteroid create it's own gravity field? If a shuttle is going directly at it's direction at enough speed, then there's no way for the manuever thrusters to stop the chaotic trajectory from crashing in the asteroid, plus, shuttle's thrusters are attached very closed to the main engine, so it is not impossible that some of the thrusters were damaged, causing a total failure of the emergency manuevering engine.
But it wasn't zero gravity. Considering the size of the asteroid, it was basically the equivalent of a small planet with it's own atmosphere and gravitational pull. The gravity is obviously less than on earth but it would definitely have enough allow a crash landing.
When I saw this in the theater 23 years ago, this scene scared the crap out of me. Especially when Col. Davis & Pilot Tucker were ejected through the windows. I knew it wasn't going to end well when that coffee cup shattered and the music changed abruptly.
2:11 Among the many things that'll probably flash through my mind, this one particular part will probably be one of them. It's always stuck with me, even in those dreams you die in, I always say it to myself.
Sadly, this is probably what was going though the minds of the crew of the Challenger. They survived the explosion, but crashed and died upon landing in the ocean at high speed Also, that’s pretty much what goes though people’s minds when they’re actually seconds from dying or nearly dying in a disaster. Lots of 9/11 survivors recalled genuinely thinking they were going to die from the building
Carnal Sharp @ 1:42 says ''We're gonna hit!!'' Always get goosebumps at that part cause from his point of view he thought they were probably dead as well but justttt managed to dodge it if he didnt that would have been game over for earth right there
The shot of Oscar trying to get his helmet on in the final moments reminds me of the Columbia disaster. The investigation board said some of the astronauts weren't properly strapped in during the re-entry phase, which may have caused premature fatal injuries when the spacecraft lost control. I wonder also whether Rick Husband, commander of Columbia when she broke up, mirrored the film scene and ordered the crew in the final moments to try to protect themselves in an ultimately futile attempt to survive when they realised the ship was disintegrating. For all its scientific inaccuracy this scene reminds me a lot of the disaster. RIP Rick, Willy, KC, Michael, David, Laurel and Ilan.
Every commander in those situations has a hope that just maybe there’s a slim chance they’ll stay alive or the ship will hold up just long enough for the crew to attempt a bail out. Had Columbia’s left wing held up a bit longer it’s possible the crew might have been able to bail out. But once they hit the denser atmosphere the RCS became ineffective and without one wing the orbiter went into a 360 spin that tore the vehicle apart. Had they implemented the crew cabin ejection system the crew might have been able to cut away the fatally crippled orbiter and fall into denser atmo which would have allowed them to bail out
@@matthewcaughey8898 columbia lost the wing during reentry.. look at challenger disaster,the crew cabin did separate from orbiter after it disintegrated,crew did not die instantly,there was evidence that some buttons on the panel could not be pushed by explosion or impact with water and there was emergency air supply thingy used by atleast three crew members. but most likely these emergency air supply were useless at that height,it would not save crew from losing consciousness... in case of columbia crew cabin disintegrated during shuttle break up,there was no way for anyone to be conscious for even few seconds,it was instant depressurization.
It breaks my heart thinking of his final moments. The commander has the overall responsibility of getting his crew up and back down safely. I really hope he didnt die thinking he had failed them and that there was a mistake that he made. Theres nothing he could have done and i pray he died. Knowing that none of it was his fault.
The pilot sacrificed themselves to save the drilling crew. Told them to lock themselves away. They realized the drilling crew is the important factor to save the world.
Fun fact: the Captain of the Shuttle, that crashes, is actor Marshall Teague. He was the lead henchman who squared off with Patrick Swayze in “Roadhouse”.
No matter what you think about Michael Bay movies, this crash of the Independence definitely gets some tears building. Those flight crews went out like the men they were trained to be. Although…maybe, put your helmets on and strap in next time.
There's no strap in the world that saves from decompression and they're not wearing suits or have helmets because they need visibility and mobility to pilot the craft and suits hinder that.
NASA refers to this as a contingency. They sent 2 shuttles with 2 complete crews hoping both were going to get there but anticipating that there was a good chance one wasn’t going to get there.
No matter how many times I watch this, the asteroid will never not be utterly terrifying. They truly succeeded in making this thing look like an eldritch abomination from some kind of nether dimension hellbent on annihilating everything in its path.
When you think its just a movie, there's a real event is more worst than this... he is Columbia space shuttle in 2003, burning in the atmosphere when back to earth
RW:when i saw this movie with my dad when i was was young i was crying my eyes out,just the feeling when the shuttle crashed didn't made me feel confident that they ever make it .😔 it was like one scary rollercoaster ride.😫
Matti2609 screw grace she was the worst character in the movie. Only about 5 or 6 scenes she was in were good, and most of the time not because of her acting but the dialogue/actions in general.
Alejandro Cabrera at 2:27 he was sucked out of the shuttle. He was the one behind AJ’s seat. Luckily AJ run for his floating helmet at the back I think halsey was fragged by the window glass as it is seen here also.
I remember I was so sad when Owen Wilson died !! Am I the only that feels that the late 90’s , early 2000’s was the time Owen Wilson’s character died a lot?
To all the people shitting on Michael Bay - the guy can make good movies. But he does stupid stuff because it sells. He took 1b USD from the production companies and turned it into nearly 5. Five times the investment. Show me a banker, a finance specialist or investment advisor that will offer you a nearly five time return over the course of 12 years. Not a lot of them out there, I can tell you. He never pretended Transformers had any deeper meaning. He's making money and he's good at that.
I think the scene where Harry says goodbye to his daughter, breaking probably the first promise he ever broke in his life to her is absolutely hands on the saddest and most dramatic scene in the movie and one of the most heartbreaking scenes in cinema in general.
Michael Bay was such a good director at that time! The action scenes, that, in his recent movies, are known for being bad and confusing, were so good earlier! Fast-paced, but still thilling and dramatic.. Michael, if you ever happen to read this, I ask you: Remember the way you were earlier, and become that way again! You still can do good movies, instead of being doomed to make b-movies for the rest of your career!
jason994 You do realize that nothing you said is actually accurate. Movies that people "hate" don't go on to be the #1 in box office on four different continents, and become one of the first action-dramas to gross over a half-billion dollars. Try not to confuse your opinion, with actual fact. ;)
+ImmortalSynn By that definition, Bay's recent movies aren't movies that people "hate" either, because they're some of the highest grossing movies of all time. Strangely, this movie was criticized (initially) for many of the same things Transformers was. Confusing action scenes, poor taste in humor, racial sterotyping and a total disregard for reality and physics. Funny that. Personally I just think that in today's (social media interconnected) world it is much easier for initial negativity to be blown into full on bandwagoning hatred, where the actual facts matter little. Today's audiences can hardly tell the difference between good, bad or no CGI for example. I've seen comments of people panning Terminator for its "unrealistic CGI" unskinned Terminator that was actually a puppet, not CGI, or sequences in Pirates of the Caribbean that were done using practical effects but were also called "CGI" by audiences. And acting and writing? The interpretation of that is probably worse, considering the average internet critic can barely follow a conversation that doesn't consist of one-liners or memes.
Bruce Willis, Billy Bob, young Aflek, Fichtner, Liv Tyler, Owen Wilson (I was so bummed to see him go), as well as some of the other classic people for these types of movies (the NASA and gov dudes). Such an awesome movie!
I don’t know why but when I watched this scene as a boy I started crying I don’t know why I cried but I felt extremely heart broken 💔 when I saw the the other plane flew by and whirl passed the other one. Everyone in the theater started to feel shocked and baffled. My dad got emotional too. Felt so patriotic ❤
I’ve seen this movie several times in my life, bought the movie during the pandemic. Still haven’t watched it since buying it, likely because of this scene.
Those 2 pilots went out like G’s, They accepted their fate & instructed the rest of the crew what to do to give them the best chance to survive,RIP.
Other than not wearing suits and apparently not wearing seatbelts
It's a duty once you put on the uniform. To die to protect the others.
They died glorious deaths. Their souls are in Valhalla now.
shootybaking it’s true, saw them just the other day.
@@shootybaking Amen
That coffee mug drop gets me everytime.
+Scary7064 That part made it very emotional and dramatic.
That and Grace listening to the audio, knowing that her boyfriend AJ is on board that shuttle. (´；ω；｀)
thought i was the only one that felt that part
waste of good coffee...
Scary7064 literally just thinking that, watching on Netflix!
The music score in this movie is amazing. Perfect actors perfect music. IT was made at the right time in life.
I agree. The story isn't Oscar worthy, but everything else about this movie was pretty damn good and memorable even 20 years later. Deep Impact was trash in comparison. Boring story, crappy music and nothing particularly memorable after all these years.
UzuMaki NaRuto I love movies of this type that do it right probably as much as I love movies with deep, powerful and inspiring plot. I mean sure, it’s very over the top and comedic, while dramatic and heartbreaking at the same time but the plot isn’t a lot which is why the movie is so good. If it had a deep plot like other very good movies it wouldn’t have been as good because of the fact that “hey there’s a big space rock and we have to stop it” is the main goal and it works both for the movie and the viewer.
@@UzumakiNaruto_ The impact scene in Deep Impact was epic though and totally made up for it. I think you're giving it a hard time, DI had some great scenes man.
The film is a masterpiece . Michael bay . I give them that
Trevor Rabin, who wrote “Owner of a Lonely Heart” & who was the lead guitarist of YES, did the score for this film.
When Harry asks "What the hell is that, is that the Independence--?!" and gets his question answered in the most brutal way as a crewmate's lifeless body slams briefly against the glass like nothing more than passing debris. :' (
It was one of the pilots of the shuttle. Even worse
Just me who thinks after 20 years the CGI still looks really good?
18 years, but yes they're very good.
+Damar158 There are so many things wrong with that scene, the cgi made up for it all though.
The special effects hold up fairly well and are hands down the best thing about this movie. I didn't like it but had a good time watching it anyway, just because scenes like this are so exhilarating.
Yeah that was the saving grace of the whole movie sure as fuck wasn't the story.
one of the few objectively good things about this movie
"independence goes before freedom; but freedom requires independence"
Be independent to achieve freedom.
"Oh My God, This Is It." Those two pilots were steely eyed missle men. They saved the drillers and took their deaths like men.
Those two are actors
@@spacetagliatelle1520you must be really fun at parties Mr literal!
@@nathanmerritt1581 parties where you drink your alcoholic beverages to have fun? no thank you
@@spacetagliatelle1520 oh boy! you're one of those!
@@nathanmerritt1581 yeah thos idiots who dont drink like animals
I know this may sound weird but as a kid this movie made me gain so much respect for what real astronauts go threw and sacrifices they make.
Johnny Mac flying among the stars always has risks. You gotta be ready to die at any point
skem 😑
scotty mills .🤔😑.
@skem As someone who plays KSP, this hurts me to watch.
@Chonghan L Haha yeah. I remember building my first ever duna rocket and finding out that it couldn't fly stable on kerbin.
I might be the only one that feels this way but the coffee mug bit around 1:09 was such a dramatic emotional part for me, really just set the scene up for what was coming, the way the music changed the sound of the guy shouting mayday and billy bobs face in disbelief and shock, amazing film!
You know when that mug comes down crashing that the end result would be catastrophic to Truman, the shuttle, the astronauts and the mission. Very emotional and resonated with me two decades later!
I mean I’d drop it at 1:32
Any closer, and the other shuttle would have spiraled as well
He couldn’t see what the shuttle were doing 🤦🏽♂️
Me too
Even after all these years, still hits me in the feels😢
Defo, McQueen dying 😭
The coffee cup shattering and the music change is definitely a strong indicator of the intensity. When he’s not ruining classic franchises, Michael Bay certainly knows what he’s doing.
@@Omega1867 that’s the exact part that gets to me!
@@ericksanchez4782 I'm watching this now at the age of 30 and it still hits home...
It does not make any sense.
When coffe mug breaks, it honestly breaks my heart, togethar with that music. Greets from Europe. Watched this in cinema
The part where Harry (Bruce Willis) catches a glimpse of the out of control remains of the Independence and doesn't even recognize it immediately followed by Colonel Davis' body bouncing off the windshield hit me just as much as the quotes "Good luck Freedom" and "Oh my God this is it!"
Just what I was thinking.
2:21 you can genuinely see the horror in their faces… just as soon as that windshield broke… that was it.
Yeah but since they were strapped to their seats they wouldn't have flown through the windows
@ do you know the amount of suction a vacuum in space can cause? It’s even worst than an explosive decompression on earth’s atmosphere
@@crvm2295 I know it's strong but the seat belts in a space shuttle are strong too.
I love the USAF/NASA pilot calling for everyone to put on their own lifesupport and lock themselves in the cargo bay, giving them the highest chance of survival while disregarding their own.
+kelly wilson whitehead
No one talks about the Russian guy though. Saved the day 3 separate times, on his own.
any civilian pilot would have done the same trying to save his passengers lives before it's own. But still a hero you're right
wake up it's a movie.
damn straight
In the Air Force you are taught to sacrifice ur life for the safety of the passengers, my grandpa told me this he is a ww2 101st airborne veteran on D Day
RIP to the two pilots who instructed for everything to lock in the cargo bay. As they risked their lives to ensure the safety of the drillers of mankind. I still sing this song at Karoake in Ktown.
That’s some mission first dedication.
Throttling the engines back up before max q isn’t dedication
@@fork9001 riding a mother fucking rocket that has a fucking 7.5 million pounds of explosive is dedication
@@fork9001 what do you mean by this? theyre not just throttling the engines they are riding a freaking rocket with high explosive fuel
@@johnhey4138 Oh nevermind. They said “Go for throttle up”, which means all systems are go for throttle up. But they don’t throttle up until max q has been breached.
Am i the only one who fucking loves this movie?
No! Thats why i uploaded it, it's one of my absolute favorite movies, i especially love the music.
envelope91
thats nice to hear, because everyone is always complaining about how this movie sucks and so on. Just finished watching it again literally one minute ago, my favourite movie of all time
No its my best movie ever but i know alot of people didnt like it for some reason, so many little things make this movie great
nope
I herd they filmed this entire movie in 3 months!!!!!
"Let's just ask God to take care of our friends. May they rest in peace." - Harry
“Amen.” - Chick
People bitch and make fun of Michael Bay movies, but look at this scene 1:15. The look on his face after dropping the coffee is priceless.
Because Michael Bay's movies felt emotional in 1998.. Now it's just explosions..
I imagine that's what a lot of liberals looked like on November 20th.
HAHA!
WookySnacky666 Nah, my employers did. I got a raise man ;)
Hey big troll, im 2 years late but i accept your challenge lol... Stupid shit ass comment......nobody gave a fuck lol... You probably kept going back to see too. Right?
The hairs on my neck stand up when the captain says "were hit" could watch this movie over and over and never get bored
We're hit
Same goes for me!
Armageddon’s take on a Special Ops Space Shuttle is really underrated. It looks so damn wicked!
Despite the mass flaws with this movie, it sure had some powerful scenes.
Compared to what we get for movies now.
Well s broken clock is right twice a day.
What mass flaws? This movie was awesome!! Top 10 fav of all movies for me
@@Top10soon it's a Michael Bay movie! So of course we have the obvious people don't act intelligently at all. (Often times they don't even act like people) Things explode because apparently everything is built with TNT as the binder. Shake the camera so much that it's impossible to know what is happening, the lighting makes everything look like everything is covered in mud to the point I honestly don't know what is supposed to be happening.
I've heard from a Watchmojo video years ago stating that Armageddon is used as a training video at NASA.
one of the most epic scenes in movie history
No, the most Epic of 90s
Doubly epic in fact, with cherries on top. Epic! Just sooo epic. Too epic even. Epic Epic!
Just imagine the ultimate horror if that situation were real. To lose most of the crew as it goes down, but to survive the crash and find yourself stranded on a rock heading for the Earth at 30 miles a second. I know it's just an action film, and the idea of sending a shuttle around the moon is ludicrous. But to imagine surviving that and having to carry on.
The music is perfect for this epic scene in a fantastic movie! You can't help but feel, imagine, and ponder.
This movie was a rollercoaster of emotions and that's why it will forever be remembered fondly by people who didn't watch this for the realism aspect of it.
I don't know why many people cannot see this is 1 of the greatest movie of all time.
From the plot, acting, emotions displayed, time the movie was released, soundtrack, graphics, visual effects & all?
It has been one of the top 3 best Hollywood movies i have seen since 1998.
MAN THIS SCENE IS SO INTENSE ! ! ! I WAS SO IMMERSED I FELT INVOLVED ! ! ! GREAT DIRECTION & ACTING ! ! !👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
the scene where the two independence pilots got sucked out of the shuttle crushes my heart =(
Blown out
Yes, that scene scared the crap out of me when I saw it in the theater almost 25 years ago.
@@WizelBalango grade an english paper or something
Especially with the build up, the "Oh my God, this is it." to the window cracking and the warning beeping indicating they're about to get hit.
They were strapped, so they would have stayed in their seats
One of the best movie in cinematic history! This and other 10 or 12 scenes always gets me... 😢
AJ escaped death five times in this film. The first one was when Harry shoot his leg but luckily AJ didn't get seriously harmed. The second one was when the space station exploded however AJ barely escaped it just before it exploded. The third one was when the Independence crashed but he survived the crash. The fourth one was when AJ's rover almost "fell into space" but thanks to Lev's efforts the rover was saved. The fifth one was when Harry bravely sacrificed his life to save AJ by volunteering himself to detonate the bomb instead of AJ.
Amd the sixth time was when he got married..I wonder if he survived that
ah u missed one....when he had to cut the pipe in the hole and he got launched into space but Harry grabbed the rope just in time and brought him back down
because aj is batman aj is bruce wayne’s traumatized nightmares in bruce wayne’s head…. harry is symbolic of thomas wayne
aj is the person bruce wishes he could be but can’t
Inner part of my brain: "There's no way a spacecraft would 'crash' like that in zero gravity."
Me: *just starting my third bag of popcorn*
yeah it would just shatter into a cloud of debris that would likely destroy the shuttle behind it too. the expanse explains things like this realistically. For example if a ship gets destroyed it becomes shrapnel that is dangerous to anything hat fly's by, even armored ships.
The issue is, the shuttle was hit and "went down" as if it was with an atmosphere. Losing it's main engine wouldn't make it spiral out of control seeing that space shuttles have thrusters than can correct that roll rather easily, and it made no sense for the shuttle to lose all of it's ARC thrusters after just having one of it's main engines hit. It would of been more realistic for that rock to have just shattered the entire shuttle because at what was it? mach 30?., hitting that rock would be like being hit by a bomb.
@@WaveForceful Shouldn't the giganteous mass of the Asteroid create it's own gravity field? If a shuttle is going directly at it's direction at enough speed, then there's no way for the manuever thrusters to stop the chaotic trajectory from crashing in the asteroid, plus, shuttle's thrusters are attached very closed to the main engine, so it is not impossible that some of the thrusters were damaged, causing a total failure of the emergency manuevering engine.
Actually. Around an object that big, it musters its own gravitational pull and strength.
But it wasn't zero gravity. Considering the size of the asteroid, it was basically the equivalent of a small planet with it's own atmosphere and gravitational pull. The gravity is obviously less than on earth but it would definitely have enough allow a crash landing.
They are not falling. Just collisionate with the asteroid for lose directional boosters.
When I saw this in the theater 23 years ago, this scene scared the crap out of me. Especially when Col. Davis & Pilot Tucker were ejected through the windows. I knew it wasn't going to end well when that coffee cup shattered and the music changed abruptly.
Me too. When I saw this scene in 1998, for one moment I believed, OMG this mission is impossible to achieve.
2:11 Among the many things that'll probably flash through my mind, this one particular part will probably be one of them. It's always stuck with me, even in those dreams you die in, I always say it to myself.
Sadly, this is probably what was going though the minds of the crew of the Challenger.
They survived the explosion, but crashed and died upon landing in the ocean at high speed
Also, that’s pretty much what goes though people’s minds when they’re actually seconds from dying or nearly dying in a disaster.
Lots of 9/11 survivors recalled genuinely thinking they were going to die from the building
Top notch CGI work. Better than most CGI used today.
still best scene ever with CGI, music dramatic, dramatic scene, make me cry, still love this scene. RIP pilots.
"omg this is it"
Carnal Sharp @ 1:42 says ''We're gonna hit!!'' Always get goosebumps at that part cause from his point of view he thought they were probably dead as well but justttt managed to dodge it if he didnt that would have been game over for earth right there
The shot of Oscar trying to get his helmet on in the final moments reminds me of the Columbia disaster. The investigation board said some of the astronauts weren't properly strapped in during the re-entry phase, which may have caused premature fatal injuries when the spacecraft lost control. I wonder also whether Rick Husband, commander of Columbia when she broke up, mirrored the film scene and ordered the crew in the final moments to try to protect themselves in an ultimately futile attempt to survive when they realised the ship was disintegrating. For all its scientific inaccuracy this scene reminds me a lot of the disaster. RIP Rick, Willy, KC, Michael, David, Laurel and Ilan.
Every commander in those situations has a hope that just maybe there’s a slim chance they’ll stay alive or the ship will hold up just long enough for the crew to attempt a bail out. Had Columbia’s left wing held up a bit longer it’s possible the crew might have been able to bail out. But once they hit the denser atmosphere the RCS became ineffective and without one wing the orbiter went into a 360 spin that tore the vehicle apart. Had they implemented the crew cabin ejection system the crew might have been able to cut away the fatally crippled orbiter and fall into denser atmo which would have allowed them to bail out
@@matthewcaughey8898 columbia lost the wing during reentry.. look at challenger disaster,the crew cabin did separate from orbiter after it disintegrated,crew did not die instantly,there was evidence that some buttons on the panel could not be pushed by explosion or impact with water and there was emergency air supply thingy used by atleast three crew members. but most likely these emergency air supply were useless at that height,it would not save crew from losing consciousness...
in case of columbia crew cabin disintegrated during shuttle break up,there was no way for anyone to be conscious for even few seconds,it was instant depressurization.
@@stratiosastero6880 the Columbia crew wore the pressurized ACES 2 re entry suit. It became a standard item after the challenger disaster
This film came out years before that tragedy wtf
It breaks my heart thinking of his final moments. The commander has the overall responsibility of getting his crew up and back down safely. I really hope he didnt die thinking he had failed them and that there was a mistake that he made. Theres nothing he could have done and i pray he died. Knowing that none of it was his fault.
3:05 The body hitting the windshield was really chilling...
I laughed when I saw it. 😂
I remember seeing that in the theater. It gave me the creeps and it was a long time before I could watch the movie again.
"Sharp, what the hell is that?! Is that the Independence?!"
Which Pilot was it? Just curious
All these years later and the bit where he drops the coffee and the cup breaks next thing you hear mayday mayday instant chills
01:17 name me another movie that dares to duplicate something like that.
Such a hard scene to swallow... especially after “that’s why I told you, touch NOTHING but you’re all a bunch of cowboys!”
My God, the editing is so damn good in this film, I don't care what anybody says.
The pilot sacrificed themselves to save the drilling crew. Told them to lock themselves away.
They realized the drilling crew is the important factor to save the world.
Saved some of them anyway. Oscar and Noonan were killed in the crash
The CGI is still great even after 22 years! It may be very unrealistic, but I still really enjoy watching it!
RIP to Davis, Tucker, Halsey, Oscar Choice, and Freddy Noonan.
Those two pilots were my favorite characters
Fun fact: the Captain of the Shuttle, that crashes, is actor Marshall Teague. He was the lead henchman who squared off with Patrick Swayze in “Roadhouse”.
No matter what you think about Michael Bay movies, this crash of the Independence definitely gets some tears building. Those flight crews went out like the men they were trained to be. Although…maybe, put your helmets on and strap in next time.
There's no strap in the world that saves from decompression and they're not wearing suits or have helmets because they need visibility and mobility to pilot the craft and suits hinder that.
NASA refers to this as a contingency. They sent 2 shuttles with 2 complete crews hoping both were going to get there but anticipating that there was a good chance one wasn’t going to get there.
Let’s have a moment of silence for the death of Lightning McQueen on this mission.
1:16 man, that part , that music , just something else.
Me to myself : "Stop getting emotional, it's just a movie, Stop getting emotional, it's just a movie, Stop getting emotional, it's just a movie!!!"😭
My brother and i use to re-enact this WHOLE SCENE when we were little. Miss being young.
OMG THIS IS IT!
this scene always breaks my heart no matter how many times i hv watched this movie
Owen Wilson’s character I feel so bad for here he couldn’t get his helmet on and that’s how he died
This scene make me cry.
MICHAEL BAY LOVES HIS EXPLOSIONS & DESTRUCTIONS ! ! !👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
I'm always amazed at the action Michael bay can produce
1:55 Colonel Davis: everybody go to your own life support lock yourself in the Cargo Bay
the scene where two pilots got sucked out of the shuttle crushes my heart =(
1:14 "We're hit" Then the theme kicks in... 😭
No matter how many times I watch this, the asteroid will never not be utterly terrifying. They truly succeeded in making this thing look like an eldritch abomination from some kind of nether dimension hellbent on annihilating everything in its path.
How ironic that the shuttle that was considered lost ended up saving the day.
When you think its just a movie, there's a real event is more worst than this...
he is Columbia space shuttle in 2003, burning in the atmosphere when back to earth
Exactly :-| RIP the astronauts
RW:when i saw this movie with my dad when i was was young i was crying my eyes out,just the feeling when the shuttle crashed didn't made me feel confident that they ever make it .😔 it was like one scary rollercoaster ride.😫
"We're hit!"
*"YAMEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"*
this scene is one of the saddest in the movie
Right? I felt so sorry for Grace who thought she had lost her fiancé :/
Matti2609 screw grace she was the worst character in the movie. Only about 5 or 6 scenes she was in were good, and most of the time not because of her acting but the dialogue/actions in general.
Especially that one that one scene that The end is near which it wasn't shown until later on the movie scenes
@doge8825 yea i think the only good scene was when she was talking with her dad near the end of the film
One of the best movies ever, literally.
“Oh my god this is it”
Rest in peace, Oscar Choice and Freddy Noonon.
And Col. Davis, NASA Pilot Tucker, and Mission Specialist Halsey. May they RIP too.
AJ, Bear, and Lev are the only ones who survived the crash.
In which minute noonan dies?
Alejandro Cabrera at 2:27 he was sucked out of the shuttle. He was the one behind AJ’s seat. Luckily AJ run for his floating helmet at the back
I think halsey was fragged by the window glass as it is seen here also.
mcbryan saga it’s 2:29 not 2:27
I remember I was so sad when Owen Wilson died !! Am I the only that feels that the late 90’s , early 2000’s was the time Owen Wilson’s character died a lot?
Me too! I loved him! 😭😭
To all the people shitting on Michael Bay - the guy can make good movies. But he does stupid stuff because it sells. He took 1b USD from the production companies and turned it into nearly 5. Five times the investment. Show me a banker, a finance specialist or investment advisor that will offer you a nearly five time return over the course of 12 years. Not a lot of them out there, I can tell you. He never pretended Transformers had any deeper meaning. He's making money and he's good at that.
THE GREATEST MOVIE I EVER WATCHED LOVE THIS
Most dramatic scene in the movie.
I think the scene where Harry says goodbye to his daughter, breaking probably the first promise he ever broke in his life to her is absolutely hands on the saddest and most dramatic scene in the movie and one of the most heartbreaking scenes in cinema in general.
Flies into comet like debris tail
“Goddamn we got debris”
BILL HARDING: Debris?!
I love how hilariously inaccurate the physics are. This movie is incredible.
...omg i thought it was a movie...didnt know it was a live shooting..those camera men are legends
Michael Bay was such a good director at that time! The action scenes, that, in his recent movies, are known for being bad and confusing, were so good earlier! Fast-paced, but still thilling and dramatic.. Michael, if you ever happen to read this, I ask you: Remember the way you were earlier, and become that way again! You still can do good movies, instead of being doomed to make b-movies for the rest of your career!
Gui Caldo you do realize that everyone hated this movie when it came out right?
jason994 You do realize that nothing you said is actually accurate. Movies that people "hate" don't go on to be the #1 in box office on four different continents, and become one of the first action-dramas to gross over a half-billion dollars.
Try not to confuse your opinion, with actual fact. ;)
ImmortalSynn Exactly! I didn´t watch the movie, but people say it was actually really good.
+ImmortalSynn By that definition, Bay's recent movies aren't movies that people "hate" either, because they're some of the highest grossing movies of all time.
Strangely, this movie was criticized (initially) for many of the same things Transformers was. Confusing action scenes, poor taste in humor, racial sterotyping and a total disregard for reality and physics.
Funny that. Personally I just think that in today's (social media interconnected) world it is much easier for initial negativity to be blown into full on bandwagoning hatred, where the actual facts matter little. Today's audiences can hardly tell the difference between good, bad or no CGI for example. I've seen comments of people panning Terminator for its "unrealistic CGI" unskinned Terminator that was actually a puppet, not CGI, or sequences in Pirates of the Caribbean that were done using practical effects but were also called "CGI" by audiences. And acting and writing? The interpretation of that is probably worse, considering the average internet critic can barely follow a conversation that doesn't consist of one-liners or memes.
+ImmortalSynn Box office does not equal popularity or quality. This film was critically mixed upon release.
Bruce Willis, Billy Bob, young Aflek, Fichtner, Liv Tyler, Owen Wilson (I was so bummed to see him go), as well as some of the other classic people for these types of movies (the NASA and gov dudes). Such an awesome movie!
When they accept their fate
And the captain says good luck freedom. Like this is it no hope Independence is done
Respect to the pilots, doing their job to the last.
this scene includes of many winks has Star Wars Empire strike back with the falcon millennium in the asteroids field
I was thinking the same thing.
I forgot there was a time when Owen Wislon was like the Sean Bean of films & got killed in every movie he was in.
Anaconda, the haunting, Armageddon
Excellent movie, graphics are perfect, and of course Bruce Willis❤
The movie was so bad you root for the asteroid to hit earth
1:54
*"Everybody, go to your own life support. LOCK YOURSELF IN THE CARGO BAY!!"*
-USAF/NASA STS Independence Pilot Col. Davis
3:05 The pilot rolling over the other shuttle😔
We are going down!!!! OMG... I love this movie... and I will defend it forever. Its a good movie with great CGI, Soundtrack and Beloved Characters...
When coffe cup goes down, it gets me like Hell... omg...Its like in that moment we as a species are all doomed, cannot explain it
“I KNEW I should’ve bet the under”
- Billy Bob
I had this movie on VHS and watched it a lot as a kid, this scene made me so sad every single time.
I always wondered what happened to the Mob guy on Harry’s crew but at 2:29 you can see him getting sucked out rip
2:29* why does everyone get this wrong... at 2:27 and 2:28 you see Bear getting hit by glass.
One of the best Films I have ever seen
Seriously tho, when that dude says "oh my God, this is it..." I get bad anxiety lol
Jesus .... where are all the movies like this? this was a great movie
0:43 lol wouldn't be a Michael Bay movie without an unecessary unexplained explosion LMAO
I think that was a fragment of the asteroid, thought it's unexplained how it could build up enough delta V to impact so violently
@@TactileCoder when I replayed it again, i think it's one of the fragments that hit the expended Auxiliary SRBs.
Why is this movie so damn good?! It’s the gift that keeps giving decades later…wait…decades? 😮…
Why Owen and not Affleck
I don’t know why but when I watched this scene as a boy I started crying I don’t know why I cried but I felt extremely heart broken 💔 when I saw the the other plane flew by and whirl passed the other one. Everyone in the theater started to feel shocked and baffled. My dad got emotional too. Felt so patriotic ❤
I feel bad for Owen Wilson :(
His helmet cracked:/
I wish Oscar alive but he was awesome character
Oh how I wish they would release a new edit of this film. Some of these scenes induce seizures, the cuts are so quick.
There should have been a third crew and a third space shuttle called Liberty 😅😅😅🤣🤣🤣👍🏻
They dont have enough money for anothe space shuttle but youre right
They should have send an armada of shuttles with equipment up there. Money shouldnt be a problem when facing extinction.
They didn't have the time to make another space shuttle, they never even had predicted that an asteroid is going to hit Earth.
@@HartlyLion Considering the catastrophy they could have mobilised enough manpower to build more.
@@wolfsoldner9029 In less than two weeks? sure!
I’ve seen this movie several times in my life, bought the movie during the pandemic. Still haven’t watched it since buying it, likely because of this scene.