Neil deGrasse Tyson Had Some Painful Feedback For Halle Berry After Her Disastrous Sci-fi Movie That Does Not Make Sense
A movie featuring Halle Berry was criticized by American astronomer, author, and science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson for breaking the rules of science. Tyson has become a frequent critic of big-screen scientific representation because of his social media presence, particularly when it comes to movies about space.
The astrophysicist claimed for years that 1998’s Armageddon, starring Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck, violated the most laws of physics per minute of any film ever made. However, the title has since been given to another film, and the science communicator noted that this movie is even less accurate in terms of science. Let’s learn more.
Neil deGrasse Tyson calls out Halle Berry’s Moonfall
American astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, who appeared on The Jess Cagle Show on SiriusXM, to promote his book; To Infinity and Beyond, has shared that 2022’s Moonfall, starring Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, John Bradley, Donald Sutherland, and more, is the movie that has violated the most laws of physics. He adds that Moonfall had replaced Michael Bay’s Armageddon for the top spot.
“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. There’s a moon being made out of rocks living inside of it, and the Apollo missions were really to feed the moon. I just couldn’t. So I said ‘alright, I thought Armageddon had a secure hold on this crown, but probably not’.”
The host had brought up the topic of Armageddon being the movie that had violated the most laws of physics per minute than any other movie ever made as a suggestion. For Tyson to explain that, unlike Armageddon, there was a much simpler way to throw an asteroid off its path. He said,
“All you got to 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. 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.”
What is Halle Berry’s Moonfall about?
Moonfall premiered in 2022 and was co-written, directed, and produced by Roland Emmerich. It centers around two former astronauts played by Halle Berry and Patrick Wilson alongside a conspiracy theorist who discovers a hidden truth about Earth’s moon when it suddenly leaves its orbit. It is said to be one of the most expensive movies produced independently and it failed to impress the audience as it was a box office disaster.
The movie received mixed reviews from critics at the time and grossed just $67 million worldwide over a budget of $138-146 million. As a result of being a box office disaster, the movie was soon made available on a VOD platform less than two months after its theatrical release.
A lot of critics at the time said that the plot of the movie was silly, adding that it had so many unnecessary clichés and the chemistry between the cast members was hardly found.
Tyson in his interview with Jess Cagle further explained the point with asteroids by giving an example of Terminator noting,
“It’s like The Terminator thing where I want to kill your parents so that you’re never born. ‘Really?’ All you have to do is prevent your parents from meeting each other or have them have s*x 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.”
Halle Berry talks about why people love watching the End of the World movies
Back in 2022, ahead of the release of Moonfall, during an interview with Collider, Halle Berry spoke about why, according to her, people love to watch end of the world movies. She said,
“I think it scares the crap out of everybody. I think we love to watch and fantasize about what could happen and then we like to see what we could do as human beings if worse possible things did happen. You know it’s somehow comforting to know that while that seems terrible, it makes our reality not seem quite as bad as it is also when you face these big disastrous situations that could happen but they ultimately don’t happen.”
Armageddon and The Terminator are available to watch on Max.
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