And thanks to cinema, we now know that, in a roundabout way, the latter is true.
This results in a procession of disasters and terrible special effects.
High ranking characters (among them, Morgan Freeman as the president) agonise over what to do next.
Underground shelters can be hurriedly built, but can only house a tiny percentage of Earths population.
Armageddonis so loud and macho, in fact, that its script was probably printed entirely in uppercase.
and the conclusion, where the meteor is finally obliterated by playing an Aerosmith track at top volume.
Or maybe Im remembering that bit wrong.
The presence of Mario Bava also ensures that the films shot and lit with genuine class.
That is, until a tribe of talking zombies emerge.
Its a bit like an 80s, jokey version ofI Am Legend.
A very few meteors have struck the earth and caused craters.
Masen awakes the next day, head still bandaged, to the sound of society in total meltdown.
Instead, King simply cranks the AC/DC soundtrack up to eleven and lets the machines have their fun.
Lifeforce
Another movie, another comet, and this ones the famous Halleys Comet.
Lurking in its tail is an alien spaceship, which contains dozens of apparently dead bodies.
