Armageddon (1998)

Charlton Heston: Narration by

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  [Camera shoots past the moon to slowly zoom in on the Earth] 

  Narrator : This is the Earth, at a time when the dinosaurs roamed a lush and fertile planet.

  [From behind the camera, a giant asteroid appears, speeding towards the Earth ahead of it] 

  Narrator : A piece of rock just 6 miles wide changed all that.

  [Blazing through the atmosphere, the asteroid impacts with a spectacular display of fire and destruction] 

  Narrator : It hit with the force of 10,000 nuclear weapons. A trillion tons of dirt and rock hurtled into the atmosphere, creating a suffocating blanket of dust the sun was powerless to penetrate for a thousand years. It happened before. It will happen again. It's just a question of when.