Re: ...and his name is Jerry Bruckheimer
Yeah, Armageddon didn't just bore or irritate me, it deeply offended me. I honestly despise that movie. I'm not a big Trek or Starwars fan, but I can handle their foibles, for the most part.
For me, Red Planet and Mission to Mars were at about the same level as each other -- better than Armageddon, but without much to otherwise reccomend them. Except that seeing a Mars Direct-style habitat rendered so faithfully in M2M was indeed pretty cool.
Just saw Minority Report. Quite a good sci-fi flick, although it has nothing to do with space. There was a trailer attached to it for Cameron's and Soderbergh's remake of "Solaris" (which can be found here -- that might also be fairly interesting.