It turns out that one of the film’s actors agreed all along as fans would have learned had they sat down to watch the film accompanied by Ben Affleck’s DVD commentary.
“I mean this is a little bit of a logic stretch; they don’t know much about drilling?” he continues.
While Michael Bay film Armageddon may not be as awful as, say, Pearl Harbor or the million Transformers films he’s made, it still remains a ludicrously unrealistic watch.
“I mean, how hard can it be: aim the drill at the ground and turn it on.”