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On Wednesday, for the first time in history, a robot touched down on a comet. The successful landing of Philae was huge news in the scientific community. In the pop culture community, the whole “real life Armageddon” thing felt a little familiar. That the plot of a 16-year-old action movie so closely foreshadows this latest intergalactic advancement is just one of the ways in which Armageddon predicted the future. Here are five more:

The beginning of Ben Affleck as an arguably good leading man

He had recently won an Oscar for co-writing the Good Will Hunting screenplay, but from a star power standpoint, that movie belonged to Matt Damon. Armageddon was Affleck’s first chance to display his leading man chops. Today he is one of the biggest names in the business, based (at least a little bit) on his ability to convincingly use Animal Crackers as a form of foreplay.

The end of Aerosmith as an arguably cool band

That I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing from the Armageddon soundtrack is Aerosmith’s only No. 1 single is proof of just how wrong the gen pop can be. Not only is it a mediocre tune, it was also the last straw for a band that went from brilliant (Dream On) to great (Janie’s Got a Gun) to guilty pleasure (every song that has Alicia Silverstone in the video) to total garbage. Can anyone even name a post-1999 Aerosmith song? Precisely.

Twerking

If you can’t draw a direct line between scene where Bear (Michael Clarke Duncan) gyrates in leopard print undies and Miley Cyrus’s most infamous dance move then you’re not looking hard enough. Everything Duncan does in Armageddon is highlight reel-worthy. It is also possible (though not provable) that the entire Sons of Anarchy series was inspired by the scene in which Bear tries to outride the cops while sporting a leather vest.

Kleenex-required father/daughter space movies

Oh please, Christopher Nolan – we are so on to you. To point out just the most obvious similarities between the father/daughter dynamic in Armageddon (Bruce Willis and Liv Tyler) and Interstellar (Matthew McConaughey and Jessica Chastain): Loving, husky, weirdly ageless dad must leave unusually good-looking daughter back on

Earth for the sake of humanity. Dad promises to come home then later explains why that promise may have been a little bit bogus over Space Skype.

Skype

Was invented four years later. Just saying.