Michael Bay
Armageddon didn't exactly rack up great critical reviews, but it was still one of the biggest grossing blockbusters of 1998 worldwide. Bruce Willis plays a blue-collar driller who must destroy an asteroid before it destroys the earth. The shuttle, Atlantis, explodes and New York is under a rainfall of meteors. NASA scientists then panic as they try to figure out what went down. Among these scrambled scientists is director Michael Bay reading a manual.