r/movies • u/insulin4all • 9h ago
Discussion Armageddon
Which oil driller, who became an astronaut in one week in the movie Armageddon, was the one who tested positive for ketamine before heading to the asteroid?
I am thinking it was Steve Buscemi as "RockHound." There is a scene before he ascends to space to defeat the asteroid, where he goes with some of the other one-week astonauts to the strip club and spende $100k that RockHound took out from a loan shark at a 50% interst rate (I believe). Seems like he gets down. If it isn't him then it's got to be Owen Wilson.
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u/TheBigJebowski 8h ago
I thought it was the fat one whose mom found him in the tattoo parlor.
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u/J0ZXYQK 8h ago
I thought it was him or Michael Clark Duncan since Im pretty sure Harrys next line is “Some of these boys are pretty big” or something like that.
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u/nomnom_de_plume 7h ago
I think the line "Some of these boys are pretty big" was in response to Harry being told one of his crew tested positive for horse tranquilizers.
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u/J0ZXYQK 7h ago
wasnt the lead up to it “one of your guys tested positive for ketemine, which is a very powerful sedative, well this ones used for horses”
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u/Data_Chandler 3h ago
This is the correct answer, so even as a kid I assumed it was Michael Clarke Duncan or the fat white guy.
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u/tomc_23 6h ago edited 6h ago
It’s Bear (Michael Clark Duncan). The idea is that he's supposedly so huge that he takes what would normally knock out a horse.
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u/Data_Chandler 3h ago
Correct, or at least 50% correct, in the sense that it's either him or Max (the fat white guy).
Copy paste from IMDB:
One toxicology analysis revealed ketamin, that is a very powerful sedative!
Harry: Sedatives are used all the time, doctor.
Dr. Banks: Well this one's used on horses.
Harry: Some of these guys are pretty big.
Now of course in 2025 ketamine is no longer as crazy or exotic was it was in the 90s (good job Elon!), and tons of "skinny people" take it, but based on that interaction, I believe the movie strongly implied it was a big guy, so that leaves Michael Clarke Duncan and Max.
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u/iamuseless 9h ago
Stop, or you’ll make me obsessed with this movie again.
“I’m not leaving without AJ!” Ta-ta-ta-ta-hm-ta-ta-ta.
It’s always going to be a guilty pleasure of mine. I can quote this movie all day.
No idea on the ketamine though. Maybe Bear?
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u/brakeb 8h ago
"you're telling me this is the best you can come up with... I mean, you're NASA for Christ's sake... And this is best you can come up with!? Jesus!
I use this line at work regularly.. " All this talent and this is the best you can come up with?! "
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u/1maRealboy 7h ago
I tell you one thing that really drives me nuts, is people who think that Jethro Tull is just a person in a band
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u/2nickels 8h ago
God I watched this movie last week for the first time since it came out. It is so over the top and ridiculous in the best way.
Maybe the purest example of a pre 9/11 movie.
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u/gooneryoda 5h ago
Well, our object collison budget's a million dollars, that allows us to track about 3% of the sky, and beg'n your pardon sir, but it's a big-ass sky.
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u/Nisschev 6h ago
Ben affleck: You're telling me its easier to train drillers to be astronauts? How hard can it be? You point the drill at the ground and press on
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u/SkidzLIVE 5h ago
It made sense to me. All they had to do was put on a space suit and drill. They had actual, trained astronauts with them to fly the space shuttles.
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u/LordHussyPants 37m ago
yeah, whereas you try teach some astronauts to do commercial drilling in a week? that's how you get another houston we have a problem
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u/sharrrper 3h ago
Seriously. The only "astronauting" the drillers need to do is wear a suit. You can probably cover that pretty thoroughly in an afternoon. Other than that they're just passengers. They need the same amount of training as I fo to ride in a plane to California.
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u/DallasBroncos 8h ago
How were they all on the oil rig one day and then Harry went to visit the government and then they had to scour America to round em back up?
Day one - Generals pick up Harry and daughter to recruit him from oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico.
Day two - All the folks that were on the oil rig are spread out across the country.
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u/Dead_Starks 7h ago
Literally the last thing Harry says to Chick before getting on the helicopter is get em paid and get them off the rig. So presumably they were all on a helicopter later that day as well back to mainland and then headed home from there...
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u/fiestaspurs 7h ago
The Blu-ray subtitles say "get him paid and off the rig" presumably this means just Ben affleck's character.
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u/ShaunisntDead 6h ago
Greatest film of all time. Does Breathless have an entire space shuttle crew horribly killed on a mission to save humanity from a super mean asteroid? Does Citizen Kane have a pop song as magnificent as "I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing"? Does Bruce Willis almost single handedly save humanity from said asteroid last minute and also give a kick ass line reading like "We win Gracie?" Does Amadeus have Steve Buscemi doing anything?
Michael Bay perfected pure kino in 1998 and WE ARE NOT WORTHY.
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u/All_This_Mayhem 1h ago
God some people are insufferable about this point.
Do you have to be a pilot to fly in a plane? No? Then they didn't have to become full-fledged astronauts to ride in a space shuttle.
And it makes way more sense to train oil workers on how to safely sit in a chair and become passengers than it would have been to train astronauts to become oil drillers dealing with exploding transmissions and broken drill heads.
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u/ThisRiverIsWild_ 8h ago
Maybe I exaggerate...but Rockhound is the best character in the history of cinema.