Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson says after 25 years of holding the title, Michael Bay’s “Armageddon” can no longer be called the Hollywood movie to break the most laws of physics.
Appearing on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show to promote his new book “To Infinity and Beyond,” and says the scientific inaccuracies in “Independence Day” and “Stargate” director Roland Emmerich’s 2022 sci-fi film “Moonfall” go even further into the ridiculous.
The film follows two former astronauts (Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson) alongside a conspiracy theorist (John Bradley) who discover the hidden truth about Earth’s moon when it suddenly leaves its orbit – turns out its hollow with a massive substructure inside.
Cagle got the ball rolling, saying: “Armageddon, you say, violates more laws of physics per minute than any other film ever made” to which DeGrasse Tyson agreed, but then said:
“That’s what I thought until I saw Moonfall. 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.'”
Michael Peña, Charlie Plummer, Kelly Yu and Donald Sutherland co-starred in the film which boasted a $140 million budget and was a box-office disaster, pulling in just $67.3 million worldwide along with poor reviews.
