Ben Affleck's kids loveArmageddon— even though 'they relentlessly mock it'

Frost, a hunky driller and one of the movie’s central heroes.

‘This is amazing, I’m set!’

My father had trouble working.

My mother was a public school teacher."

They dug out two stages of Disney for huge asteroid craters.

And I didn’t even think about the fact that the basic premise of the movie was totally absurd.

Why are they training oil drillers to be astronauts rather than astronauts to be oil drillers?

Still, Affleck admits, “I was a little naive about the opinions people would form about me.

They made me fix my teeth and work out and be sexy.

Be sexy, how do I do that?

‘Go to the gym!’

And you know, what can you say?

We could have made, I think, 400Chasing Amys for what we madeArmageddonfor.”

“Even though they relentlessly mock it, and me.

‘What are you, driving a tank on the moon?’

But they had fun, you know what I mean?

They could make fun of me, but they kind of got it, the spirit of it.

They won’t even watchThe Town.

So there you have it.”

Additional reporting by Leah Greenblatt.