Deep Impact was better

I LIKE BOTH...I PREFER ARMAGEDDON THOUGH...GREAT CAST CHEWING THE SCENERY WHILE SAVING THE PLANET...ONE OF THE BEST ACTION SCPECTACLES OF THE 90S..

DI is boring. Armageddon is stupid af but it revels in its stupidity.

DUH!

“Armageddon and Deep Impact don't get the physics right, but they made people aware that this could happen.” The director of NASA’s Spaceguard on the real world positive role disaster movies have on public funding for asteroid detection. Michael Bay's legacy might actually save the planet.

https://www.supercluster.com/editorial/90s-disaster-movies-might-actually-save-the-planet

I am so with you on this! Everything about Armageddon was so crap compared to Deep Impact. I acknowledge they both have flaws but I found Armageddon unbearable to watch, from the editing and music through to the acting, characters and dialogue. I love Bruce Willis and co. but Armageddon as a whole didn't work for me. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, so there will always be people for and against each. I just wanted to back you up!

Which do you prefer out of the following?

The Abyss vs. Leviathan vs. Deep Star Six
Airwolf vs. Blue Thunder
Volcano vs. Dante's Peak

I agree Deep Impact is the better film but I have to admit I enjoy them both equally in their different ways.

In some way, that may be true, but in my opinion it's the opposite.
Armageddon is just a ridiculous movie full of ridiculous movie tropes and impossibilities. It's like one big joke movie. It has some annoying aspects, but overall it does not pretend to be what it is not. It is s stupid spectacle of a movie, with no regard to reality.
Deep impact, however, is a sappy emotional story pretending to be based in reality. In truth, there's nothing realistic about it, it is not anywhere as rooted in reality as its seems to pretend to be. It also mostly disregard the story it was originally based on, which is far superior - and completely different. In that story it is an act of terrorism.
Some absurdities in Deep Impact:
The low passing of a mile wide fragment of a comet, right above people to no ill effect (a huge difference from the book).
The ridiculous dip
The time which goes between the two fragments hit earth - how is that supposed to happen? They should hit simultaneously or at least one of them would miss (as in the book). It is the same comet but split. They either hit or they pass.
Not only do the comet do that, but at the end, they "explode" the larger comet so that it becomes small objects which "burn" in the atmosphere. Which actually in reality would have created the same overall effect as if it would have hit as one single piece, so they actually failed. At least in Armageddon, as stupid as that movie might be, they made the asteroid split and miss earth.
Both movies suffer from the trope of having first a "precursor" asteroid hit, with the main destroyer coming in later. Which makes no sense in reality.
But it's just a personal opinion.

I haven't seen Deep Impact in about 15 years, but I remember it being rather boring and don't recall a single memorable action scene until the end. Armageddon is bad, but it's entertaining bad. Deep Impact was trying to be an Oscar winning disaster movie, but it failed at that.