Armageddon (Criterion) DVD

• The exclusive director's cut, containing previously unseen footage, in a new digital transfer personally supervised by Michael Bay
• Discrete 5.1 Channel Dolby Digital soundtrack
• Two commentary tracks: one featuring Michael Bay, producer Jerry Bruckheimer, Bruce Willis, and Ben Affleck; the second featuring cinematographer John Schwartzman, NASA consultant Dr. Joe Allen, and asteroid consultant Ivan Bekey
• Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition
• Michael Bay's gag reel
• Deleted scenes compiled by Michael Bay
• Storyboards and production design drawings
• Analyses of the special effects by visual effects supervisors Richard Hoover, Pat McClung, and Hoyt Yeatman
• Production designer Michael White on the look of Armageddon
• Trailer, teaser, and television spots
• The Aerosmith music video "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing," plus interviews with band members

Director: Michael Bay
Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, Will Patton

Michael Bay directed this $150 million science fiction action thriller about an asteroid on a collision course with Earth, sending fireballs down on Manhattan, prompting a plan to split the asteroid into two sections before it arrives and causes human extinction. NASA executive director Dan Truman (Billy Bob Thornton) brings in the world's number-one oil driller, Harry S. Stamper (Bruce Willis), who assembles his team that is trained for the task. The group includes top crew hand A.J. Frost (Ben Affleck), who is involved in a relationship with Stamper's daughter Grace (Liv Tyler). With only days remaining, two shuttles head into space to drill 800 feet into the asteroid and nuke the rock. Back on Earth, as mini-asteroids pelt Paris and Shanghai, humanity hopes and prays for a successful mission.