“Armageddon” as 1998 time capsule:
- Liv Tyler in a “Chinese-style” embroidered cheongsam dress with mandarin collar
- Mission Control as nerdy yet stylized, high drama staging room—see also, Deep Impact
- Michael Clarke Duncan pre The Green Mile
- skinny Ben Affleck, three and a half months after “losing would suck and winning would be very scary” Academy Award
- ‘Texas’ as a yardstick for measuring the asteroid headed for Earth
- Space as conceived by Michael Bay: metallic blues, patriotic reds, Cheetos® orange
- Chantal Kreviazuk
- character names like Dan Truman and A.J. Frost
- Owen Wilson as a geologist
