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Asteroid (1997)
Not a bad movie than again I am a little biased.
I am a little embarrassed by the strong negative reviews of this movie because I worked in this movie as a background actor. I am also surprised by the fact that the movie was nominated for 4 awards and won an Emmy for Outstanding Special Visual Effects, yet all but a hand few of viewers on this web site agreed with the Academy of Arts and Sciences in their movie review.
Personally I enjoyed the movie. It wasn't the greatest movie I've seen but it certainly wasn't the worst. Of course when I first started watching the movie I was more interested in picking out my ugly mug out of the sea of faces. (you can actually see me standing just behind Anne Marie Johnson. We were watching a news vid at the Kansas City Evacuation site. (We were watching the actual news vid that was filmed earlier and later used in the movie, not a blank TV screen.)
One of my favorite scenes was when Fema worker Adam Marquez (played by Carlos Gomez) got shot, I thought it was very well done. I liked the actor who played the gunman, he did an excellent job! I actually worked in that scene as one of the extras in the crowd of upset evacuees. An interesting bit of trivia is that while we were doing that scene, one of the other extras in the crowd fell over and had convulsions. Someone called out for a "real" medic, then the man was carried out on a stretcher. (The man was alright and I believe he was there for the re-shoot the following evening.)
I also enjoyed the suspense created in the scene when Jack Wallach (played by Michael Biehl) saved the boy named Elliot off of a slab of concrete just before it crashes into the center of a crater formed by the Asteroid hit.
I am a little puzzled by those who think they saw mountains in the movie. The evacuation scenes were filmed at Buckley Air National Guard base several miles out east from Denver. (That's away from the mountains, for those of you geographically challenged.) It was far enough away to make it nearly impossible to see any mountains. Most of the other scenes that were filmed within the city limits were filmed at night making it difficult to see the mountains if they did happen to get in the shot. I have also watched the movie many times myself and have never seen any mountains in any of the scenes. (I guess I will have to watch it again to see of I can see them.)
Not a bad movie. Had I not worked in the movie it would be hard to say if I would have enjoyed it more or less. If you like a good disaster movies than I would recommend this one.