Deep Impact (1999, VHS)

Deep Impact 1998 Directed by Mimi Leder (Pay it Forward and E.R.) Morgan Freeman as President Tom Beck Robert Duvall as Captain Tanner T a Leoni as Jenny Lerner Elijah Wood as Leo Beiderman James Cromwell as Alan Rittenhouse The Storyline / plot Deep Impact is a about the end of the world as we know it. An asteroid the size of Mount Everest is on a collision course with earth. The U.S. government and the President (Morgan Freeman) are aware of the situation and have managed to keep it hid from the public. They could only pull this off for so long though. An investigative reporter Jenny Lerner.

As Douglas Adams so admirably put it, Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space. In reality, it s a good thing that space is as big as it is, because along with our own dearly beloved planet Earth, there s a lot of stuff hurtling about out there. But big as space is, sometimes our Earth (and the rest of the planets in the solar system for that matter) do get pelted by asteroids, comets, and other assorted space debris. Don t believe me? Just ask the.

When I was a little girl I saw a movie called "The Day After" about nuclear war. It absolutely terrified me to think that the world as we know it could cease to exist. Ever since then I have been sickly fascinated by natural disasters. I'm a sucker for movies such as Twister, Armageddon, and The Perfect Storm. All great movies, but Deep Impact holds the spot for my all time favorite disaster movie. The story begins with two young lovers watching the stars and unknowingly discovering the disastrous asteroid. Months later, an up-and-coming reporter stumbles upon this information, thinking she's.

The term "disaster movie" is somewhat of a misnomer since films of the type aren t so much about the cataclysmic events themselves as they are about people banding together because of a threat. This is a concept that could, in theory, combine action and drama perfectly. "Deep Impact" is another mega-budget movie of the sort which tries its hardest to be completely plausible, but in turn detracts from the fantasy of it all. There's no denying we want to be excited and intrigued by movies right from the get-go, and this film realizes that notion and exploits it through one of the most pathetic..