Pop Culture What-If: Aerosmith Without The 1998 Movie "Armageddon" Is Never Released

If I remember, Aerosmith released Nine Lives in 1997 and then re-released it in 1998 with "I don't want to miss a thing" as the final track. This was quite a clever marketing move as their hardcore fans had already bought the album and now all the fans of the film (or even just the song) would buy it.

Their next album, Just Push Play was full of tracks that were quite similar to Idwtmat and was riding on the back of that success. If Aerosmith hadn't got involved in Armageddon, I'd have expected to see JPP to be aimed more at their hardcore fans and been more classic rocky and less ballady. Would they still have taken a long hiatus from releasing any new material after that though? JPP was released in 2001 and was the last all new album they did.

Interesting point: Armageddon soundtrack also features one of Aerosmith's most popular classics, Sweet Emotion - along with lots of other classic tracks from Our Lady Peace, Bon Jovi and Bob Seger. The soundtrack may have introduced lots of people to these artists.
 
Nine Lives, specifically the 'Pink' song was quite popular when it was released and that was, as MonsooN said, prior to Armageddon. I remember being in elementary and catching that song on The Box and my friends and I would watch it because we found the music video humorous. So, it's not as if they weren't relevant prior to Armageddon and that was what, a year or so before the movie was released?
 
I agree. But two things about Armageddon. First its another sci-fi movie that makes a causal reference to Denver being destroyed-ie the Pacific Ocean impact tsunami would wash up in Denver -shivers.

Actually it wouldn't, but it's a movie.

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JSmith

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Then you're NOT a 90's kid. If the majority of your teen years weren't in the 90's, you're a 2000s kid, not a 90's kid.

I was born in 81. That doesn't make me an 80s kid, as I don't really remember any of the 80s.
Right. Whatever decade your a kid of you usually have to be born the previous decade.In some cases you kind of straddle two though. I was born in 1974 so I consider myself a child of the 80's and 90's to a certain degree since I was 10-20 from 1984-1994 .
 
Not powerful enough or the Rockys stop it?

Not powerful enough to have a tidal wave that can travel 1200 miles from the Pacific ocean, over several mountain ranges to hit a city a mile up in the mountains, on the other side of the mountain range. Even the wave shown in the movie hitting the East coast wouldn't make it all the way to the Appalachians, like they said it would. All of the east coast seaside cities and for several miles inland would be destroyed, but the waves wouldn't make it several hundred miles inland there either. I think a giant wave might get further on the East Coast than the West coast due to the fact that the ground slope is more gradual on the East Coast than it is on the West, but I could be wrong on that idea.

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Without it, I'd imagine that Affleck would follow the career trajectory that awaited him post-Good Will Hunting, and similar to that of his friend Matt Damon at the time; i.e. a well-known and well-respected character actor, but not seen as possessing "leading man" cachet. He might become a director earlier than in OTL; he's definitely cut out for it. Or, like Damon with the Bourne movies, Affleck could wind up finding his big role and becoming huge another way. At the very least, the media circus surrounding his relationship with Jennifer Lopez that ultimately destroyed his A-list career is almost certainly butterflied away.


I recall once reading that he was considered for the role of Clark Kent/Superman.
 
If you're old enough to have seen Armageddon in theaters and remember it, you're old enough to know who Aerosmith is without that film.

If anything, Armageddon was a black spot on their career. I hated that song, it was clearly bought and paid for by the movie, and it sucked.
I have seen it in theater I remember it I was 11 years old but nevr heard of Aerosmith before seeing the movie maybe it depend on the country you are in.
 
I was born in '78 and first noticed Aerosmith when "Get A Grip" came out in '93. Actually, "Living On The Edge" got me to buy the album, but it was "Cryin" and "Crazy" which were absolutely huge here in Germany, they didn't top the charts, but everybody knew the videos (young people nowadays also don't realize how huge music television was back then).

"IDWMAT" was their only #1 here, but Aerosmith was well in focus beforehands.

The albums "Get A Grip" got to #3, so did "Nine Lives" in '97. They couldn't match these successes after Armageddon, so perhaps Michael Bay rather destroyed them as a band. :eek:

BTW, I liked Steven's cameo as himself in Two And A Half Men. And they are one of the few bands who got their own rollercoaster. Of all places, in Disneyworld...
 

JSmith

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Even the wave shown in the movie hitting the East coast wouldn't make it all the way to the Appalachians, like they said it would.
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That was Deep Impact.

I think a giant wave might get further on the East Coast than the West coast due to the fact that the ground slope is more gradual on the East Coast than it is on the West, but I could be wrong on that idea.

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I think this is true. Well thats a relief about Denver- I'm not a great swimmer and drowning is a bad way to go !
 
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