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9. Originality Armageddon

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Are We On? We're On, Mr. President

In 1998, two remarkably similar films went head-to-head to be the box office smash of the summer. In Mimi Leader's film Deep Impact, humanity was prepared for annihilation by a comet. In Michael Bay's bombastic Armageddon, it was an asteroid. It's impossible to divorce what's going on in society from the films that are talking about it.

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