Factual error: The satellite phones don't work as they should. They're somehow still able to use them to communicate after the moon has got close enough to the earth to cause enough damage to the satellite network that it'd no longer function, and can also make and receive calls while under tons of rock.
Moonfall (2022)
Directed by: Roland Emmerich
Starring: Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, John Bradley
Factual error: In the subplot on earth, the heroes' family members are trying to outrun the falling moon's gravity that's sucking everything into the air. So, naturally they duck into a barn, because, of course, gravity can't affect you behind a wall. And sure enough, behind the wall, they're suddenly safe.
Factual error: In the opening scene, the shuttle is violently spinning, and anyone and anything inside would be pinned against the walls by the centrifugal force of the spin, and yet the Brian Harper character (Patrick Wilson) is able to move quite easily and normally through the ship with no trace of the forces that would be acting on him.
Holdenfield: This planet has suffered five extinctions. This is going to be the sixth.
KC Houseman: Ludicrous mode.
KC Houseman: Are we dead?
Brian Harper: No, we're just inside the moon.
KC Houseman: That might be the greatest sentence anyone's ever said.
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