Illustrious astrophysicist and friend of the random nerd, Neil deGrasse Tysonhas officially established that he has a new most hated movie: Moon attack.
Why is this news? Welp, it’s always fun to see what the universe’s most renowned cosmologist hates when it comes to fictional, CGI-laden, Science fiction movies. Roland Emmerich had a certain tendency towards total global destruction (i.e.: independence Day, The day after tomorrow, 2012). He set up his high-end LEGO models and burned them like he was a six-year-old arsonist.
Despite Emmerich sounding his final apocalyptic alarm, Neil deGrasse Tyson decided over a year ago now that a movie with a tongue-in-cheek trailer and a baffled concept of a hollow moon is worthless.
Thanks for that timely headline, bruh. Let’s investigate.
Neil deGrasse Tyson missed you, Hollywood
![Neil deGrasse Tyson no longer hates 'Armageddon' most because he's a sci-fi troll.](https://nerdspin.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/whats-the-release-date-for-moonfall-jpg.webp)
Poor guy. He walks out of the Lower Manhattan neighborhood, sits on the porch of his Tribeca apartment, and notices something strange: There were no TV cameras on him. It’s not enough to be a director of the Hayden Planetarium as the best mind over space. Dude loves the spotlight, so he was browsing through his 2022 DVD collection and had an idea. He
He called The Jess Cagle Show on SXM, which has a big stick behind it as SiriusXM’s main entertainment anchor. The mission: to leave his own footprint on the moon. When asked about the plot of moon falls, Neil deGrasse Tyson informed the world why this science fiction brought up false etiquette.
“They learn that [the moon is] hole and there’s a moon creature made of rocks that live in it and the Apollo missions were actually to visit and feed the moon creature so I said, ‘Okay, I thought Armageddon had this crown safely in his hands, but apparently not.
“All you have to do is give him a push. If you do that early enough, if you push it to the right an inch per second, there is no friction in space, so it just keeps drifting to the right. If you do that early enough, you can let the asteroid pass in front of Earth instead of hitting Earth, or you can slow it down so it passes behind Earth.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson via The Jess Cagle Show
No word on whether Cagel asked Tyson about it ET, The Last Starfighter, The Fifth Element, Men in Black, or Flash Gordon.
‘Armageddon’ is no longer the worst Tyson film
![Armageddon is no longer Neil deGrasse Tyson's most hated film. What a relief.](https://nerdspin.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/armageddon-1024x541.webp)
Another reason why this made national headlines is that when the Bruce Willisexplosion porn, pre-apocalyptic film Armageddon was clearly his most hated, physics-illiterate film ever made.
He rolled out of his bath under the glow-in-the-dark stars and had a similar experience, so he pointed his Nerf gun at Michael Bay—five years later. Apparently he was roasting some popcorn and wanted some entertainment. He did what most people do: he asked Twitter where he could find it Armageddon.
Netflix didn’t waste a second:
And ruin it, he did.
It doesn’t matter that NASA or Boston Dynamics ever called Michael Bay for ideas about celestial navigation or robotics in movies. Neil deGrasse Tyson – protector of the cosmos – decided that the person behind the Transformers franchise could be hit by Halley’s Comet.
On that day Tyson said Armageddon “violated more laws of physics (per minute) than any other movie in the universe.” Thank you, Mr. Sunshine, for lowering your standards to mock another fake movie. Next on his list is something about seeing aliens being heresy NASA alien statutes because of authentic space life movies, such as Martian attacks, Howard the Duck, Killer Klowns in space, And Hitchhiker’s guide to the Milky Way.