Agreed, I too loved Armageddon, I never saw why people were nitpicking about it being unrealistic, I've never seen any action movie with complete realism, have you?
As far as I'm concerned, I don't dislike Armageddon for being unrealistic but because it could have been so much more. Bay had some terrific actors to work with like Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton (who delivered some great stuff in
Bandits), Steve Buscemi, William Fichtner, Peter Stormare... And didn't use them at all to even one hundredth of their potential. He even used Liv Tyler as mostly decoration and Liv Tyler is like marmalade: she has to be spread about in generous amounts.
Oh, and let's not forget Ben Affleck. Guy is better than some movies he made might suggest. Check out
Chasing Amy.
The trouble with
Armageddon was that I had forgotten most of it within seconds of getting out of the movies because, simply, there wasn't anything memorable about it and usually a movie with the opening narration spoken by Charlton Heston
ought to be memorable. Mind you, I think
Deep Impact was even worse because it tried to be serious but it was pure narm and it did have a stellar cast that was woefully underused.