So strap yourselves in for seven things you didn't know about Armageddon.
Thanks to the favorable light it casts on the space program, the production of Armageddon was granted unprecedented access to many of NASA's facilities and equipment.
Like this vacuum chamber that can fit a space shuttle inside, and has a 40-ton door.
This hangar, which is so tall they had to constantly run the AC so clouds don't form in the ceiling.
And the neutral buoyancy pool for simulating zero g in astronaut training, which is 40 feet deep, and holds 6 million gallons of water.
Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck were actually the first people to go inside it who weren't affiliated with the space program.
But with all this access, Michael Bay declined to shoot at the real mission control, (Sound) citing that it just Wasn't sexy enough.
Instead, they slapped a NASA sign on the front of an herbal supplement company for the exterior, and the rest was shot in a studio.
And that's pretty much Bay's mantra right there, why be accurate when you can be sexy?
(Laugh) The soundtrack hit number one on the charts for two weeks, and Aerosmith's I Don't want to Miss A Thing was nominated for an Oscar, and became the band's very first song to debut at number one.
Boom, bonus thing, which makes this the first time anything positive ever came from being chased by Godzilla.
(Sound) Hard to believe, but Armageddon started Ben Affleck's transformation to the Hollywood superstar we know today.
And by transformation, I mean literally.
In the wake of Titanic, pun very much intended, Affleck was cast opposite Liv Tyler to boost the movie's love story.
But Michael Bay had just one problem with the fresh-faced indie darling.
His teeth.
I'm at a loss for words.
According to Bay, Affleck had baby teeth, and they spent $20,000 of the budget for Ben to sit in a dentist chair for a whole week, getting his teeth capped.
Much sexier.
If you take a second look at Goodwill Hunting, you can kind of see the difference.
I guess an apple a day doesn't keep the director away.
How do you like them apples?
(Laugh) Moving on.
(Sound) What are you doing with a gun in space?
I asked Michael why it was easier to train oil drillers to become astronauts then it was to train astronauts to become oil drillers, and he told me to shut the (Sound) up.
I was like it was a real plan at NASA to train oil drillers?
He was like just shut your mouth.
Even throwing a little shade at Bruce Willis.
None of them want to pay taxes again.
Bruce is a big no taxes kind of guy.
So that was close to his heart.
You know, he's Republican, you know that.
Bear in mind, he had just won an Oscar at the 70th Academy Awards, which still has the largest viewer rating of any Oscar ceremony ever.
Boom, bonus thing.
So, he was probably feeling a bit untouchable when he recorded it.
And he even does a legitimately good Sling Blade impression for Billy Bob scenes.
Then, there was the first day wearing the space suits.
Ben had to stop the scene to look for a rock to break open his helmet because he was suffocating due to an air supply malfunction.
It's been a nightmare when it comes to the space suits.
And there was a different take of this shot, where Ben lost his balance after being grabbed and almost fell into the neutral buoyancy pool while wearing a hundred-pound space suit.
Thankfully, he didn't fall in, but you have to admit, what a sexy way to go.
(Sound) Setting aside his later work on Transformers, Bay was never a big fan of CGI.
He took every opportunity on Armageddon to use real explosions, flip real cars, and drop actual heavy things around his actors.
Which is how Bruce Willis' stunt double almost died when he took one of these pipes to the head, boom, bonus thing.
So it might blow your mind that the asteroid was an actual physical prop.
The arts department spent months fashioning one large enough to actually fit a camera inside, and get all those close angles.
Gases and debris were later added digitally to finish the look.
And since Bay loves his low angles, they ended up excavating 20 feet below the floor of the sound stage which was reportedly expensive.
But why worry about money when you can be sexy?
(Sound) Listen, this is a kick-ass ride!
Let's finish it off with one crazy thing about working with NASA.
This blast-off wasn't stock footage.
And it was the first time an outside crew was allowed to film a launch.
Cinematographer John Schwartzman set up 14 individual cameras to capture the take-off of space shuttle Endeavor on its way to the Mir space station.
Apparently the brave soul who went out there to retrieve the first camera, puked his guts out from the smell.
But thankfully all that sexy footage wasn't destroyed, and that's really all that matters, right?