DVD night in =)

Me and my housemates decided that we'd spend the night in and watch a few films. About a week ago one of my housemates had a craving to watch Deep Impact, and so off we went to the local shopping centre, but they didn't have it in stock.

So, once we got back home he went straight onto Amazon and ordered it. It arrived the other day, and after watching 2012, a similar story in a way, we thought it'd be good to see Deep Impact and discuss the difference.

Deep Impact, starring a young Elijah Wood, is about a comet that is heading towards the earth. The comet is an E.L.E, extinction level event, and so would end humanity. A cave has been built in secret to hold 2,000 people for 2 years, as a last resort plan, until it is safe to start the world over again.

However, a space mission is the world's first beacon of hope. A team of trained astronauts head towards the comet with a plan to bury explosives within it to break it up into harmless pieces.



Both films are highly similar, not only because they are natural disaster movies but they also both have a back up plan to save a certain amount of humans to continue the race. The means are different, though only slightly, but the purpose is the same.

2012 definitely has more of a blockbuster feel to it, with lots of CGI and gripping narrow escape scenes, but Deep Impact has a more realistic feel to it, a raw feel to it, and it is a great story.

I’ll leave it up to you to decide for yourselves which one you prefer, but me and my house mates seem to like Deep Impact better, I think that ‘raw’ feeling hooked us.