Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has had a long standing issue with the 1998 film “Armageddon.” He’s previous said the Bruce Willis-led action film violates the most laws of physics. But a new film has taken that title, and no, it’s not another Michael Bay flick. Tyson now believes the 2022 film “Moonfall” is the WORST cinematic violator.
While visiting “The Jess Cagle Show,” Cagle asked NdGT about “Armageddon” and it’s lowest of low standings in the physics world.
“That’s what I thought until I saw ‘Moonfall’,” Tyson said. “It was a pandemic film that came out, you know, Halle Berry, and the moon is approaching Earth, and they learned that it’s hollow and there’s a moon being made out of rocks living inside of it and the Apollo missions were really to visit, to feed the moon being, and I just couldn’t, so I said, “Alright, I thought Armageddon had a secure hold on this crown, but apparently not.”
And he’s right, that plot is ridiculous. We all know the moon is made out of cheese!
Tyson also took the opportunity to expand upon previous comments he has made about “Armaggedon.” While also taking a shot at the science in James Cameron’s “The Terminator.”
“All you gotta do is just nudge it, and if you do that early enough, if you nudge it like one centimeter per second to the right, in space, there’s no friction, so it’ll just keep drifting to the right,” Tyson continued. “If you do that early enough, then you can have the asteroid pass in front of the earth rather than hit the earth, or you can slow it down so that it’ll pass behind the earth. Two ways you can adjust it.”
“So, yeah. You know what it’s like? It’s like The Terminator thing where I want to kill your parents so that you’re never born,” he added. “Really? All you have to do is prevent your parents from meeting each other or have them have sex 20 minutes later than the other one. That will create a different zygote and you won’t be born, so the movies go, in some cases, they get hyperbolic on their solutions to problems.”
Tyson has a long standing issue with scientific inaccuracies in Hollywood misleading the general public. His newest book “To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery,” co-authored with Lindsey Nyx Walker, explores multiple examples of faulty science in Hollywood.
But considering that “Moonfall” was a box office flop, we doubt too many people were effected by it. You can check out the trailer linked below:
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