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Deep Impact (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia While the film deals with the pending impact of a comet on planet Earth, the novel is focused on the pending impact of an asteroid that is discovered by an astronomer on Mars. Deep Impact is generally considered to be more realistic than Armageddon, and has a stronger emphasis on the effect on society. Deep Impact is also an extremely successful Japanese racehorse, that won the three major races in Japan in 2005. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Deep_Impact_(movie)   (1353 words)

Cylon Alliance - Deep Impact Unlike the When Worlds Collide scenario in which the film was originally based, the new script for Deep Impact portrayed the horror of the dangers of all life being wiped away in an unstoppable blast. Realizing the potential of such a film, they rushed to produce Armageddon, a Bruce Willis action film whose script was so similar to that of Deep Impact to be totally beyond any chance of coincidence. Much of the film focuses on the need to keep the impending disaster secret from the general population until enough progress can be made with countermeasures to keep the masses from panicking. www.cylon.org /films/impact-01.html   (810 words)

Deep Impact - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Deep Impact (space mission), the 2005 NASA space mission. Deep Impact (film), the 1998 motion picture with Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, and Morgan Freeman Impact event, caused by the collision of large meteoroids, asteroids or comets (generically: bolides) with Earth en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Deep_Impact   (115 words)

Deep Impact - Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) DEEP IMPACT will have you squirming in your seats at times, hoping beyond hope that the main characters are going to survive for a happy ending. Deep Impact is a character study, but runs the gamut of emotions with courageous actions, heartfelt realizations, and sacrifices as some characters give up their lives to save others. Deep Impact will start you thinking and you may realize just how fragile our planet is as a target in a cosmic shooting gallery. www.sacnews.net /moviecorner/deep_i.html   (479 words)

Movie Review - Deep Impact - eFilmCritic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) Said film revolved around the notion that a large planetary body was on a collision course with earth, and charted the efforts of humanity to build a spacecraft which would enable a select few to escape the impending threat. Deep Impact, then, has a similar theme, one which is nothing particularly new to anyone who reads science-fiction or watched Armageddon in the same year. The film chooses instead to map the progress of a disparate group of protagonists against a backdrop of ever-rising hopelessness, and does such a fine job of creating an oppressive atmosphere that by the final twenty minutes I was reaching for the anti-depressants which I'd been saving for the next Batman sequel. efilmcritic.com /review.php?movie=1&reviewer=193   (882 words)

DEEP IMPACT film review In Film Australia Deep Impact is great as a Sci Fi, but terrible as a drama. Robert Duvall, grasping "hero" status in the film, is the only other actor worthy of a mention – giving an amicable presence as an astronaut brought out of retirement to lead The Messiah. The film comes nail bitingly close to being a worthwhile epic to add to this years blockbuster tally, but Mimi Lee seems never able to keep it in capable, focused control. www.infilm.com.au /reviews/dpimpact.htm   (716 words)

DEEP IMPACT DEEP IMPACT may be the winner this summer in the "asteroid hitting the Earth" movie race mainly because it'll reach the public first. Though DEEP IMPACT claims to be the version that concentrates on this question, they shoot themselves in the foot with too many subplots and unnecessary characters. The most compelling aspects of this film were the families and the lottery (to be one of the million people chosen to live underground in the new "ark"). crazy4cinema.com /Review/FilmsD/f_deep_impact.html   (895 words)

Asteroid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Second, the two films of the same region were viewed under a stereoscope. Two events in later decades increased the level of alarm: the increasing acceptance of Walter Alvarez' theory of dinosaur extinction being due to an impact event, and the 1994 observation of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashing into Jupiter. It has been suggested that asteroids might be used in the future as a source of materials which may be rare or exhausted on earth (asteroid mining). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Asteroid   (3553 words)

Deep Impact Movie Review by Anthony Leong "Deep Impact", the latest tentpole production from Dreamworks SKG (following up their previous efforts "The Peacemaker" and "Mousehunt"), spent a lot of time in the eighties and early Nineties in development hell, as producing team Richard Zanuck and David Brown shopped it around the various studios. The question that "Deep Impact" ponders on is 'what would you do if you knew the world was going to end in one year?', which is not unlike the question posed in "Titanic" and the grim nuclear holocaust tearjerker "On the Beach". The emotional resonance is diluted in "Deep Impact" because we are only given quick glimpses of each character at various times, and so when the 'great moment of self-sacrifice and epiphany' comes, the impact is not as resounding, and you are left with what amounts to contrived pathos. www.mediacircus.net /deepimpact.html   (994 words)

Deep Impact   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) Deep Impact, too, features a carefully selected all-star cast and, like 1979's Meteor (not to mention the upcoming Armageddon), a plot concerning a large chunk of rock hurtling towards Mother Earth. The difference here is that the deep impact of the title has more to do with the deep psychological impact surrounding the imminent disaster than the crash 'n' burn spectacle of it all. Deep Impact gets a little preachy in the last twenty minutes, especially Morgan Freeman's closing presidential speech, and I lost count of how many times someone earnestly said "I love you" backed by a cherubic James Horner score that finally wears out its welcome. members.dca.net /dnb/reviews/deepimpact.htm   (527 words)

DVD Empire - Item - Deep Impact / DVD-Video "Deep Impact" was one of these films, it was also one of those disaster films that got caught in the middle of the studio wars. Deep Impact, a movie about comet on a collision course with Earth, was the first of two interstellar disaster films this year and I’ll be honest I liked this one more. Deep Impact, on the other hand, is a disaster movie with the heart and the human drama is explicitly integrated into the separate stories intricately wovened by Mimi Leder. www.dvdempire.com /Exec/v4_item.asp?item_id=3788   (543 words)

Deep Impact   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) Deep Impact however opts to tell the idiotic story in a straight faced melodramatic way unlike the ridiculous combination of tongue and cheek humour and melodrama that Armageddon used. Deep Impact though it has a dumb story line it could be quite well told as I have seen a very good end of the world saga in a TV movie called The Day After which managed to paint a realistic picture of Deep Impact is the worst kind of big budget disaster movie as it is one that takes itself far too serious and does give us the moments of action and special effects that we paid to see. homepages.ihug.co.nz /~Sbasket/dpimpact.htm   (373 words)

JoBlo reviews the movie "Deep Impact" Deep impact is a human drama/ disaster movie, and a rather well done one at that. Granted Deep Impact is not action packed or fast paced, but I wouldn't go so far as to call it slow, because I was never bored by it. DEEP IMPACT is probably only just an OK film but of the two falling item disaster films, this is by far the best. www.joblo.com /deepimpact.htm   (1357 words)

Movie Reviews|Deep Impact   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) Deep Impactis a commendable attempt to turn the stereotypical doomsday plot into a decent film. The discovery is not revealed to the public until a year from scheduled impact, however. The first measure to be taken would be to send a space shuttle to land on the comet and detonate several nuclear war heads. members.tripod.com /~yoz2/dimpact.htm   (237 words)

DVD Review:Deep Impact What we get is essentially a 1 hr 45 min soap opera with a chunk of effects at the end, which has one very strange bit of humor as the wave flings a man off his park bench. This film only works when Leder picks up the pace, with steadycam shots that are even a bit too dizzying. The ending leaves much to be desired; we sit through the majority of this dramatic film waiting for a big final; it's big, but it's not impressive at all. www.angelfire.com /il/currentfilm/deepimpactdvd.html   (1034 words)

village voice > film > Inside Deep Throat by J. Hoberman The HBO documentary Inside Deep Throat doesn't have nearly that much conceptual elegance, but it too focuses on a reaction—namely the convulsions that shook the American body politic in the wake of the porn film Deep Throat. Deep Throat was created by Gerard Damiano, an erstwhile Queens beautician, as a vehicle for the so-called Linda Lovelace; daughter of a New York City cop, she had been pimped by her husband for her extraordinary ability to suppress her gag response. Deep Throat evoked, yet concealed, the source of female satisfaction; it privileged that satisfaction in the service of a phallocratic regime. www.villagevoice.com /film/0506,hoberman,60833,20.html   (794 words)

Deep Impact Web Sites Predictions on "Deep Impact" With the imminent arrival of the "Deep Impact" spacecraft at the comet Tempel 1, it... Deep Impact is a NASA space probe designed to study the composition of the interior of the comet... Deep Impact is a 1998 disaster film/science fiction film released by... www.shortestpath.us /complex/Deep+Impact   (1429 words)

DVD REVIEW: "DEEP IMPACT" Although the previews imply that there's plenty of disaster action (cool looking tidal waves, crashing and burning comets, etc...), you should be aware that you're going to have to wait a long time before you see any of that. Instead, and just like all of those Irwin Allen (and other) disaster films of the 1970's, this movie features a disparate cast and their personal stories that are affected by the looming disaster. Deep Impact is now available for purchase by clicking here. www.screenit.com /dvd/1998/deep_impact.html   (1166 words)

Review: Deep Impact   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) The films in question, Mimi Leder's Deep Impact and Michael Bay's Armageddon, are separated by two months, so the first should have a chance to run its course before the second reaches the screen. The film opens with a modicum of promise by detailing the initial discovery of comet Wolf- Biederman by high school student Leo Biederman (Elijah Wood), who's at a telescope party with his local astronomy club. As it is, the viewer sits patiently in his or her seat, enduring all sorts of perfunctory, "character building" moments while waiting for the special effects show to begin. movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/d/deep_impact.html   (903 words)

Spaceflight Now | Deep Impact | Deep Impact is a smashing success Deep Impact mission officials provide an engineering overview of the spacecraft's daring attempt to fire a small probe into Comet Tempel 1. The crater that almost certainly resulted from the impact was not immediately visible in an obscuring cloud of debris that spread outward into deep space like some ghostly fog. On a more fundamental level, the $333 million Deep Impact mission will shed light on the composition of the cloud of gas and dust that coalesced to form the solar system 4.6 billion years ago. www.spaceflightnow.com /deepimpact/050704postimpact.html   (1998 words)

Deep Impact. A Hollywood Jesus visual film review. I especially liked the progression of Tea Leoni's character throughout the film, from self-interested business-woman to forgiving "Prodigal Daughter." The moments where she gave up her helicopter seat and spent her final moments with her dad on the beach were incredible. "Deep Impact" was, I thought, a thought provocative movie, a summer action movie that had a little more depth and thought to it than the usual summer action film. All film stills, trailers, video clips and trademarks are the property of their respective owners and may not be reproduced for any reason whatsoever. www.hollywoodjesus.com /deep_impact.htm   (1697 words)

Joey the Film Geek: Reviews - "Deep Impact" "Deep Impact" won't be officially released until May 8, but I got to see it on May 5 for free. I was prepared to hate "Deep Impact." I read several early negative reviews, and I was (and still am) looking much more forward to "Armageddon," the other "comet hits Earth movie." As it turned out, I ended up enjoying "Deep Impact" much more than I thought I would. The only thing about "Deep Impact" that I didn't like was the fact that they spent too much time on the astronaut crew trying to stop the comet. www.joeythefilmgeek.com /reviews/impact.html   (475 words)

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Probe on course for comet impact Deep Impact, the spacecraft which carried and ejected the impactor, will take pictures and gather data from the collision and its aftermath, 133 million kilometres (83 million miles) from Earth. The impact is expected to excavate a crater more than 25m (80ft) deep and 100m (330ft) across, ejecting ice, dust and gas and exposing "pristine" material. Rick Grammier, Deep Impact project manager, likened the mission to "a bullet trying to hit another bullet with a third bullet in the right place at the right time". news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/science/nature/4642845.stm   (575 words)

Eyepiece -- The AAA Newsletter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) On July 4, NASA's real-life Deep Impact mission will return the favor when its 820-pound "impactor," which will have separated from the main spacecraft the previous day, plows into the sunlit side of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 at 23,000 miles per hour. The energy released in the impact will be the equivalent of five tons of TNT, and will likely create a crater 300-600 feet across and 75-150 feet deep. Deep Impact is one of NASA's Discovery Program of lower-cost missions, with a price tag of some $330 million. www.aaa.org /aaaeye0507art1.htm   (706 words)

Deep Impact   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) The government knows for a full year that the comet is on a collision course with earth, and yet it does not reveal this information to the public. So, in the film, the government does everything it can to make sure everyone in the country dies, except for the lucky million. Yet, at the end of the film, the first building shown to be rebuilt (after the entire East Coast is flooded) is the Capitol. www.freecolorado.com /ari/imovies/deepimpact.html   (529 words)

Deep impact - Film - Entertainment - smh.com.au The film was banned in 23 US states, and Damiano and stars Harry Reems and Lovelace were prosecuted. Ultimately, it was the film that killed off the experimentation and freedom of the '60s. He was out at LA at the premiere [of Inside Deep Throat] and walked up the red carpet in tears. www.smh.com.au /articles/2005/11/03/1130823318282.html?from=top5   (599 words)

VFX HQ: DEEP IMPACT The deep, dark smoke trail that it leaves is intensely realistic, as is the ripple effect of the comet's shockwave on the water. DEEP IMPACT's wave shots, while technically and aesthetically successful, have less of an impact on the viewer because of their infrequent appearances. But the work in DEEP IMPACT furthers the notion that CG effects cannot entirely replace physical and miniature effects--doses of both miniature photography and digitally created elements are still required to create feature film illusions. www.vfxhq.com /1998/deepimpact.html   (970 words)

Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Deep Impact space collision reveals comets to be fluffy balls of powder In is the comet as a fluffy ball of powder, blowing puffs of dust whenever sunlight falls on it. Under the gaze of cameras on nearby spacecraft and more than 70 ground-based telescopes, the Deep Impact probe fired a metre-long copper bullet on a collision course with a 4-mile-wide block of dust and ice known as Comet 9P/Tempel 1. When Deep Impact's copper bullet slammed into the comet, it produced a crater estimated to be the size of a football pitch and some tens of metres deep. www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,3604,1564078,00.html   (643 words)

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