20: Armageddon (1998)

20: Armageddon (1998) - No way out.
Bruce Willis is the astronaut who steals the short straw and stays behind to blow up an asteroid threatening Earth after a semi-abortive mission by desperate mankind to destroy the rock. The impact of the scene was somewhat diluted by an almost identical scenario being played out with Robert Duvall in Mimi Leder's Deep Impact, which was in competition with Armageddon that summer.

Impact: It's hard not to like Willis, particularly when he's playing a bone-headed mule (which is the case in 99% of his action roles), and martyrdom is always worth getting a piece of dust in your eye for.

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