1998 was a bad year to be planet Earth. Call it a quirk of fate, call it multiple Hollywood studios having the same idea at the same time, but somehow humanity found itself on a collision course with two oversized lumps of rock and ice. One was a comet named Wolf-Biederman, the other an asteroid known simply as Dottie, and each had the potential to wipe out all life as we know it. Just two years after "Independence Day" had rained down an apocalypse from giant alien spaceships, watching the skies remained seriously bad for your health.
First to arrive in Earth's orbit was "Deep Impact", followed two months later by "Armageddon." Like "Dante's Peak" and "Volcano" – a pair of disaster-tinged Hollywood doppelgangers that landed the previous year – the two movies looked remarkably similar on paper.
