Michael Bay is the director of Bad Boys and The Rock and the new asteroid-attack movie Armageddon — which should be called The Rock With Serious Attitude. Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, surviving partner of the notorious Don Simpson. Armageddon is as noisy as Top Gun as as fast-paced as Con Air. With previous Bay films, all produced by Bruckheimer and his late partner, Don Simpson, there at least came a moment — usually about an hour into …showed first 75 words of 473 total…

…showed last 75 words of 473 total…jock nonchalance some emotional levels. But in Armageddon not only does his Harry Stamper have to save the world, he also has to contend with his headstrong daughter, Grace (Liv Tyler), who is lovingly photographed as if she were the star of a margarine commercial. Yes, it's probably true that asteroids wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. If they're up there in dino-heaven, could it be they're asking - "We died for this?!''