And now a fourth 1998 movie in 24 hours: "Deep Impact" (1998)

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Hi, I'm Alan and I'll be commenting on the 1998 movie Deep Impact. Here we go again. #Dimpact19

Hi, I'm Mark and I will be commenting on Deep Impact, from 1998

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Spare, bold typography in opening credits

The use of sky superimposed in the title text reminds me of Windows XP

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REALLY GOOD TYPOGRAPHY. I am already excited about this movie. #Dimpact19

Movie starts with two nerds looking at the stars. What a bunch of nerds #Dimpact19

Nothing like a Deeper Darker Dew to accompany Deep Impact (1998). #MtnDewBlackLabel @MountainDew #Dimpact19

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I can't stand the sounds of this astronomer eating his pizza. #Dimpact19

It seems implausible that it took this long to find a bigger object right next to Alcor, in the big dipper. This would be immediately obvious

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A lot of things went wrong at once to destroy the floppy disk that might save the world #Dimpact19

And the one scientist that saw it is now extremely dead. That's what you get for eating pizza with your mouth open. #Dimpact19

Talk about an alcoholic character named Rittenhouse makes me want to get a bottle of Rittenhouse Rye #Dimpact19

This journalist is going to get the biggest scoop of her life and it's not going to be Rittenhouse. #DimpactTheories #Muckraker #MoonrakerMuckraker #Dimpact19

Really remarkable how the movie spends a solid ten minutes spending time watching Beltway types gossip interminably about absolutely nothing

What a bait-and-switch

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That classic story of how a secret asteroid can look to the press exactly like an affair #Dimpact19

When are the asteroids happening? #Dimpact19

Outside of the pointless Jeep explosion in the first two minutes, it's amazing how dry and boring this is

Imagining a family showing up to see the disaster blockbuster, and instead getting 20 minutes of MSNBC investigating mid-level cabinet resignations and possible infidelity

She's now talking to the President. This escalated quickly. Used that classic technique of convincing others she already knew things she didn't. #Dimpact19

Hell yeah, we have talk about schedule for finalizing and releasing budgets. Love this

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Impressive that searching for "ELE" on MSNBC's website also yields results for Ella, Ellie, etc.

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Searching for "E.L.E." online yielded a single result from UC Berkeley Extinction Studies about paleontology. MSNBC has a pretty crappy search engine. #Dimpact19

Brands we've seen so far:

* Jolt Cola

* Ensure

* MSNBC (including http://search.msnbc.com)

I wonder what was paid for

Oh no

I miss the '90s

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This movie is a stellar credit to the attention spans of moviegoing audiences in 1998. #dIMPACT19

I hope we continue to have a minimum of asteroid content, and a maximum of journalists jockeying for position and discussions about remarriage in late middle age

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POTUS says that the asteroid is the size of NYC, but then says it spans "from the northern edge of central park, to the battery." That's not the size of NYC

wtf

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"Graphics! I need graphics!" shouts the newsman immediately after hearing about the comet. Little did he know the White House already had beautiful 3D visualizations on-hand. #dIMPACT19

The President has frozen all wages and all prices. This man knows how to run a country in crisis. #dIMPACT19

POTUS has frozen all wages and prices.

This is a bad policy, last time we froze wages, we ended up with employer-provided health insurance

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Solid sideline, about the presidential staff erroneously reporting on the death of Elijah Wood

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RIP Elijah. #dIMPACT19

Just like in Mission to Mars, the astronauts have a casual garden party before embarking on their mission. #MissionToMars #dIMPACT19

Astronauts bragging about going to the moon not being a big deal seems highly unlikely. #dIMPACT19

Alan, you have to understand that on the asteroid, they'll have only seven hours of day, and seven hours of night

That's so much more intense than the moon #Dimpact19

"It's not a video game, son. It really isn't." #ClassicMovieLines #dIMPACT19

Eight nuclear devices splitting the comet up into many pieces seems inadvisable. Also, it seems implausible that Russian propulsion was significantly more advanced in the 90's. Those are my current grievances. #dIMPACTGrievances #dIMPACT19

The Russian/American mission features everyone speaking English, with displays that are a mixture of english and russian. Seems really odd

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I feel like this movie is almost over. Blow that comet, get home safe, host another garden party. #EasyPeasyCometSqueezy #dIMPACT19

The movie runs two hours, so I imagine the last hour will be about Tea Leoni's dad and his second marriage

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Any single piece of comet debris hitting their ship seems like it would be catastrophic. Moon guy is doing a very admirable job to only hit one of them. #dIMPACT19

That one piece knocked off a bunch of equipment from the top of the ship, but I'm sure it wasn't important

He also hit a bunch of other rocks with the broad side of the ship, but it was no big deal, they exploded

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Landing on a comet is never an easy thing, but let's agree they did pretty well. #dIMPACT19

The drilling mechanism has been locked up with especially hard rocks or something

But the astronauts have a solution: jumping on the driller a bunch of times

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Very rough business planting nuclear devices inside a comet. This is no walk in the park. #dIMPACT19

We haven't lost any astronauts yet, and we're not about to lose one now. Oh, wait, nevermind. #dIMPACT19

This should have been a suicide mission, let's be honest

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Go back for Gus! #GoBackForGus #dIMPACT19

I personally feel that they should have abandoned the whole "implanting explosives" part of the mission, and focused on saving Gus

Their priorities are all backward

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Nicely within blast radius here. Hard to plan for that, really. #dIMPACT19

The ship may have been directly within the area of the nuclear explosion, but it's clearly rugged enough to deal with it

Sure, an airlock or two may become ajar, but the astronauts can close those back up

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The Messiah Project was not a complete success, but I give it at least a solid B-.

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Solid crowd out in Times Square to watch the Prez. #dIMPACT19

"I believe in God." -The Prez #dIMPACT19

POTUS has designed death panels for our senior citizens

Thanks a lot, Obama #Dimpact19

Warp speed to Earth, Captain. #dIMPACT19

All of this woman's furniture is going into the vault for artistic preservation? That seems like an egregious waste of space. #dIMPACT19

Tea Leoni's mom's 18th century New England desk needs preservation, how dare you deny this

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"I'm the famous Leo Peterman!" —Leo Peterman #ClassicMovieLines #dIMPACT19

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"I'm the famous Leo Biederman!" —Leo Biederman #ClassicMovieLines #dIMPACT19

Leo living the classic high-school wish fulfillment fantasy: get mistaken for a dead scientist, get a comet named after you, and use your fame to force a girl at school to marry you in order to save herself and her family from death

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"Have you ever read Melville or Twain?"

"Hey, I'm a child of the movies, Fish!"

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Maybe aggressively presenting your marriage license isn't the best way to smoothly get your wife into the rescue bus. #dIMPACT19

Are we going to get to see these rescue caves? I'm getting suspicious. #ShowTheCaves #WhatAreYouHidingPrez #dIMPACT19

We have over five days until impact, not sure what the rush was with the troops loading the bus

Surely we had time to rectify the list discrepancy

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They have *so many* people to pick up, though. These caves aren't gonna fill themselves. #dIMPACT19

Sloppiness and haste doesn't serve anyone.

For all we know, that marriage license was a forgery

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The caves will contain two of every animal and two million humans. The perfect ark. #dIMPACT19

As they always say, one animal is worth a million humans #Dimpact19

We appear to have the first tattooed president

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Lot of stuff has been happening

Missiles have failed, Tea Leoni has memories of childhood vacations confirmed, Elijah Wood has located keys

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Lot of action in this action movie. #dIMPACT19

Still waiting for an answer

https://x.com/CodyPolzin/status/1025911173068349441

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We've seen the impact and it is confirmed deep. #dIMPACT19

This wave is a lot taller than 100 ft. #dIMPACT19

I don't think the movie deserves the luxury of long farewells for the astronauts, when we have just seen millions of people die on-screen very quickly

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They're heroes and they deserve a hero's farewell. #dIMPACT19

Incredible incompetence on the POTUS as well as NASA to conclude nothing could be done, when in fact blowing up remaining explosives near the comet was obvious

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The movie offers a lot to chew on, and is legitimately weird, but it's very long, and the iconography (such as the James Horner score) is just so boring

I could do 50 hours of analysis here, but I'm not sure I would enjoy it #Dimpact19