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Deep Impact is terrible in every way, a cinematic sharp stick to the eye. I can forgive the lame special effects but the overall mawkish tone made me want to vomit. Truly awful.
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Well having read most of the other reviews of this film I have to say that the title 'Deep Impact' is more a reference to the deep emotional impact Mimi Leder was trying to create and sucessfully did evoke.
One other aspect of this film is it's attempt to scare you with science. What better way to create a feeling of dread than to be as factual as you can and I think this is apparent in her film and greatly enhances the impact as the film draws to it's moving closure. Of course not everything in the film matches up to proper physics, but the imperfections are minor and as previously stated we as an audience are far more interested in the fate of the characters as we grow to care for them and every scene where we see them having to make life or death decisions rings true.
This film shows how not to make a claptrap disaster movie driven only by big budget special effects. Make your characters believable so you can empathise with them.
Deep Impact.....always moves me when I watch it and makes that other 'film'...look like a bad 'Lost in Space' episode...
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I was very pleased with how quickly my item was mailed and the quality of the dvd
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Deeply affecting, life-affirming movie embellished by James Horner's quiet and evocative, lush and legato score. What movies used to promise, rather than the hateful, manipulative projects now so common.
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I can only say that I strongly second the opinions of all customers who gave this film high marks, who felt it was far superior to 'Armageddon', and who vehemently disagree with David Chute's review which is, unfortunately, the first opinion people see when they come to the Amazon page(s) on this movie.
I've seen this film several times now and I never cease to be stirred, excited, and moved by it. The writing and characterizations have unusual depth for a big studio, big budget disaster movie, and the acting is uniformly excellent, with several performances -- Morgan Freeman, Robert Duvaal, Vanessa Redgrave, Tea Leoni, and Maximilian Schell -- being especially memorable.
Yes, it has some of the elements of soap opera and melodrama and yet manages, somewhat miraculously, to transcend them in its overall effect.
This is, truly, a refreshingly real-feeling disaster epic with a surprisingly "deep impact".
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