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Movies that feel likeArmageddon (1998)

When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear bomb. This leads him to renowned driller Harry Stamper, who agrees to helm the dangerous space mission provided he can bring along his own hotshot crew. Among them is the cocksure A.J. who Harry thinks isn't good enough for his daughter, until the mission proves otherwise.

If you loved Armageddon, the closest films we have are Transformers (2007), Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) and The Amazing Spider-Man (2012). All three share Armageddon's kinetic and cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021).

🍅 42% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Michael Baykineticcerebralepicmelancholy
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Transformers
2007 · dir. Michael Bay
🍅 57%★ 7.1adventure · science fiction · actionParamount+Starz

Bay staging planet-level stakes with the same swagger and hardware worship

The difference: The human story is a teen and his car, not veterans facing the end

Young teenager Sam Witwicky becomes involved in the ancient struggle between two extraterrestrial factions of transforming robots – the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons. Sam holds the clue to unimaginable power and the Decepticons will stop at nothing to retrieve it.

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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2022 · dir. Ryan Coogler
🍅 84%★ 6.6action · adventure · science fictionDisney+

Blockbuster scale built around grief and what sacrifice costs the living

The difference: Statelier and more solemn — mourning first, spectacle second

Queen Ramonda, Shuri, M’Baku, Okoye and the Dora Milaje fight to protect their nation from intervening world powers in the wake of King T’Challa’s death. As the Wakandans strive to embrace their next chapter, the heroes must band together with the help of War Dog Nakia and Everett Ross and forge a new path for the kingdom of Wakanda.

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The Amazing Spider-Man
2012 · dir. Marc Webb
🍅 71%★ 6.9action · adventure · science fictionDisney+

The same preoccupation in both: grief

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

A teenage Peter Parker grapples with both high school and amazing super-human crises as his alter-ego Spider-Man.

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Spider-Man 3
2007 · dir. Sam Raimi
🍅 62%★ 6.3action · adventure · science fictionHuluDisney+

Blockbuster spectacle that keeps stopping for love, guilt and forgiveness

The difference: Superhero soap — the threat is personal villains, not extinction

The seemingly invincible Spider-Man goes up against an all-new crop of villains—including the shape-shifting Sandman. While Spider-Man’s superpowers are altered by an alien organism, his alter ego, Peter Parker, deals with nemesis Eddie Brock and also gets caught up in a love triangle.

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Spider-Man: No Way Home
2021 · dir. Jon Watts
🍅 93%★ 8.1action · adventure · science fictionDisney+Starz

One thread runs through both: grief

The difference: Made in the 2020s, in a different era of the craft

Peter Parker is unmasked and no longer able to separate his normal life from the high-stakes of being a super-hero. When he asks for help from Doctor Strange the stakes become even more dangerous, forcing him to discover what it truly means to be Spider-Man.

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Superman Returns
2006 · dir. Bryan Singer
🍅 72%★ 6.1science fiction · action · adventureMax

Both keep coming back to the same thing: saving the world

The difference: Easier on the melancholy than Armageddon

Superman returns to discover his 5-year absence has allowed Lex Luthor to walk free, and that those he was closest to felt abandoned and have moved on. Luthor plots his ultimate revenge that could see millions killed and change the face of the planet forever, as well as ridding himself of the Man of Steel.

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Jumper
2008 · dir. Doug Liman
🍅 15%★ 6.1action · adventure · science fiction

Effects-driven thrill ride carried by a cocky lead you're meant to forgive

The difference: Small stakes — one hunted man, not a planet on the clock, and it ends abruptly

David Rice is a man who knows no boundaries, a Jumper, born with the uncanny ability to teleport instantly to anywhere on Earth. When he discovers others like himself, David is thrust into a dangerous and bloodthirsty war while being hunted by a sinister and determined group of zealots who have sworn to destroy all Jumpers. Now, David’s extraordinary gift may be his only hope for survival!

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Stargate
1994 · dir. Roland Emmerich
🍅 53%★ 7action · adventure · science fiction

Nineties earnestness and a team shipped through space against impossible odds

The difference: Slower pulp adventure — mythology and wonder over countdown urgency

An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra.

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The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1997 · dir. Steven Spielberg
🍅 57%★ 6.6adventure · action · science fictionHuluStarz

The same mix in both: momentum, then ideas

Four years after Jurassic Park's genetically bred dinosaurs ran amok, multimillionaire John Hammond shocks chaos theorist Ian Malcolm by revealing that he has been breeding more beasties at a secret location. Malcolm, his paleontologist ladylove and a wildlife videographer join an expedition to document the lethal lizards' natural behavior in this action-packed thriller.

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Waterworld
1995 · dir. Kevin Reynolds
🍅 61%★ 6.3adventure · action · science fictionStarz

Both lean on scale more than on action

In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floating island prison. They escape, along with her young charge, Enola, and sail off aboard his ship. But the trio soon becomes the target of a menacing pirate who covets the map to 'Dryland'—which is tattooed on Enola's back.

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Dune
1984 · dir. David Lynch
🍅 36%★ 6.2action · science fiction · adventure

Doomy sci-fi opera that treats its cosmic stakes with total conviction

The difference: Dense, strange and slow — Lynch demands patience Bay never asks for

In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spice is vital to space travel. The spice exists on only one planet in the entire universe, the vast desert planet Arrakis, also known as Dune. Its native inhabitants, the Fremen, have long held a prophecy that a man would come, a messiah who would lead them to true freedom.

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The Time Machine
2002 · dir. Simon Wells
🍅 28%★ 6science fiction · adventure · action

Kinetic science fiction in both cases

Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th-century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds mankind divided into two warring races.

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