Armageddon is no longer the funniest sci-fi movie in history! Who dethroned him?

It’s been 11 years since 2012 or Armageddon appeared in NASA’s top 10 funniest movies in terms of respecting the laws of physics. They’ve just been knocked off that sad pedestal with a feature film coming out in 2022.

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson was a guest on the podcast to promote his new book. The Jess Cagle Show And the presenter asked him if he was still thinking – As he said on Twitter, which has since become “X” – that Armageddon was the most far-sighted film:

That’s what I thought before I saw “Moonfall,” the pandemic movie starring Halle Berry. The moon is getting closer to the earth and they found out that it is hollow and contains a lunar creature made up of rocks living inside and the Apollo missions visited it to feed the moon and… I couldn’t. I was like, “Well, I thought Armageddon was unbeatable, but apparently not.”

Moonfall is directed by Roland Emmerich and tells the story of how a mysterious force pushes the moon out of its orbit and slams it towards Earth. Two NASA astronauts and a conspiracy theorist team up to avert disaster and discover the secrets of the satellite!

Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson and John Bradley (Sam in Game of Thrones) star in this incredible story of a moon that actually hides extraterrestrial infrastructure.

Released in February 2022, at a time when COVID was very present, the film was shunned by the critics, and the general public – which at the time was reluctant to return to the cinema in general.

Consequently, the feature film was an abject failure at the box office, losing more money adjusted for inflation than one of cinema’s worst flops: Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate . If the latter has remained in history for this sad place and its intrinsic qualities, the fall of the moon has already been forgotten.

Michael Bay’s Armageddon, released on August 5, 1998 in France, starred Bruce Willis as Harry S. As Stamper, an oil drilling specialist hired by NASA to destroy an asteroid headed for Earth. A less improbable scenario, but which contained, according to Tyson, the most physical errors per minute of any other film.

As for whether it’s worse than a moonshot when it comes to physics, we’ll let the astrophysicist be the judge. Remember that he is one of the major media figures in science in the United States and the director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.