Trivia: Armageddon was released on Liv Tyler's (Grace Stamper) 21st birthday.
Trivia: Just a point of interest, Rockhound and the Russian cosmonaut are played by Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare. They played a duo in crime in Fargo (1996).
Trivia: At the beginning of the movie, the dog Reggie, is attacking the vendor's blow-up doll of Godzilla. This is probably due to the fact that the movies Godzilla and Armageddon came out during the summer of 1998, and were in direct competition with each other.
Trivia: In the scene when Bruce Willis is in the Armadillo and says goodbye to Liv Tyler, he actually had a picture of his real daughter in front of him, which helped him to cry. (02:07:30)
Trivia: In the medical testing scene, Max asks the doctor if he's ever seen Pulp Fiction (1994), a movie featuring both Steve Buscemi (Rockhound) in a cameo at the restaurant, and Bruce Willis (Harry S. Stamper).
Trivia: When the scientist says to the other man, "We're moving the Hubble," the long-haired man whom he is talking to is Michael Bay, the director of Armageddon.
Trivia: This movie was the first time civilians not involved in the space program wore genuine current NASA spacesuits. They cost over 3 million dollars each. NASA had previous loaned NBC an (obsolete) space suit for the first episode of "The Six Million Dollar Man" shot in 1973.
Trivia: When they take the nuke of the shuttle, Steve Buscemi rides on it, saying that he's mimicking Slim Pickens, who did the exact same thing (riding the nuke, but also ending with his self sacrifice) in the movie Dr. Strangelove.
Trivia: Ben Affleck once stated in an interview that "I once asked Michael Bay why it was easier to train oil drillers to become astronauts that it was to train astronauts to become oil drillers, and he told me to shut the fuck up, so that was the end of it."
Suggested correction: He stated it in the Criterion DVD commentary.
Trivia: Roger Ebert, in his original review, declared Armageddon to be "an assault on the ears, the eyes, the brain, common sense and the human desire to be entertained." He later named it the worst movie of the year and one of the worst films of all time. Weirdly, his reviewing partner, Gene Siskel, gave it a positive review.
