History Film / Moonfall

** At the beginning of the movie, Bryan is able to see the swarm kicking up a plume of dust with the naked eye from Low Earth Orbit as it digs into the lunar surface. The thing is, if he could see it, so could everyone else, and it would be quite noticeable, immediately lending credence to his claims that the 'Endeavor' was attacked.

** One of the worst examples is the whole [[spoiler:"Luna is a DysonSphere" business. White dwarfs are small compared to regular main sequence stars, but they're still roughly the size of Earth (even the smallest one known to date [[https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03615-y is somewhat larger than the Moon]]) and thus far too big to fit inside a moon-sized megastructure that's dozens, if not hundreds of times larger than the star it encapsulates. And then there's the fact that a white dwarf's diminutive size doesn't change a thing about its star-level mass, making it billions of times heavier than Luna, with all the crushing gravity shenanigans this would imply when orbiting Earth at a lunar distance (not to mention that, given how gravity works, Earth would be orbiting the Moon in this case and not the other way around). The gravity issue might be handwaved as some sort of containment failure, given the arbitrary jump in gravity halfway through the film.]]

* MonumentalDamage: Luna's final pass (close enough to nearly scratch the Earth's surface) takes off the top half of the Chrysler Building and deposits it mostly intact halfway around the world. Amusingly averted in the case of One World Trade Center, which can be seen being ''completely missed'' by all the flying debris that's being pelted through pretty much every other building around it.

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* ApocalypseAnarchy: The moon is falling towards the earth, ''everyone'''s gonna die but people have still gone bandit doing the "our car broke down" gambit to steal a second sone.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/IndependenceDay'' and [[Film/IndependenceDayResurgence its sequel]].

** At one point a scientist says the moons orbit is going into "an ellipse". The moon's orbit is already an ellipse. A circular orbit is an ellipse with one focal point. What they meant or should have said was that the moon was "spiraling towards the Earth".

* MonumentalDamage: Luna's final pass (close enough to nearly scratch the Earth's surface) takes off the top half of the Chrysler Building and deposits it mostly intact halfway around the world.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Moon Spaceship Moon hypothesis]], which claims that [[spoiler:the Moon is hollow and an alien spacecraft]], is an actual conspiracy theory according to Website/TheOtherWiki.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Moon Spaceship Moon hypothesis]], which claims that [[spoiler:the Moon is hollow and an alien spacecraft]], is an actual conspiracy theory according to Wiki/TheOtherWiki.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Moon Spaceship Moon hypothesis]], which claims that [[spoiler:the Moon is hollow and an alien spacecraft]], is an actual conspiracy theory, according to Wiki/TheOtherWiki.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Moon Spaceship Moon hypothesis]], which claims that [[spoiler:the Moon is hollow and an alien spacecraft]] is an actual conspiracy theory, according to Wiki/TheOtherWiki.

The cast also includes Charlie Plummer, Creator/MichaelPena and Creator/DonaldSutherland.

* ArtisticLicenseEngineering: During the launch, one of the boosters cuts out mid-burn. This is physically impossible for a solid rocket booster to do - there are no parts that can fail that would [i]stop[/i] the booster from burning, and the reaction involved generates its own oxygen, so the fuel will continue to burn even in the absence of atmospheric oxygen. The only way a solid rocket booster stops burning is when it's out of fuel.

** One of the worst examples is the whole [[spoiler:"Luna is a DysonSphere" business. White dwarfs are small compared to regular main sequence stars, but they're still roughly the size of Earth (even the smallest one known to date [[https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03615-y is somewhat larger than the Moon]]) and thus far too big to fit inside a moon-sized megastructure that's dozens, if not hundreds of times larger than the star it encapsulates. And then there's the fact that a white dwarf's diminutive size doesn't change a thing about its star-level mass, making it billions of times heavier than Luna, with all the crushing gravity shenanigans this would imply when orbiting Earth at a lunar distance (not to mention that in this case, Earth would be orbiting Luna instead of the other way around). The gravity issue might be handwaved as some sort of containment failure, given the arbitrary jump in gravity halfway through the film.]]

* ProductPlacement: To an almost nauseating degree. Elon Musk and his UsefulNotes/SpaceX projects get not one but at least four shout-outs, Tom prominently sells Lexus cars, Kaspersky has a giant billboard prominently displayed and apparently also provides network security for orbital [=SpaceX=] refueling stations, and so on and so forth.

** The Endeavour launch site is hit by an earthquake as the moon gets closer which damages some of the equipment, likely a reference to Film/WhenWorldsCollide.
** The wallpaper pattern of the retro-themed hotel that KC, Brian, and the conspiracy theorists take shelter in is the exact same as the floor pattern in the hotel from Film/TheShining (albeit a different colour), a nod to both the aforementioned film and the conspiracy theory that the moon landing was faked and directed by Creator/StanleyKubrick.

* AdvancedAncientHumans: Upon visiting the Moon, Brian [[spoiler:learns that Earth was seeded by a race of advanced ancient humans who were destroyed by their own A.I. systems]].

** One of the worst examples is the whole [[spoiler:"Luna is a DysonSphere" business. White dwarves are small compared to regular main sequence stars, but they're still roughly the size of Earth (even the smallest one known to date [[https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03615-y is somewhat larger than the Moon]]) and thus far too big to fit inside a moon-sized megastructure that's dozens, if not hundreds of times larger than the star it encapsulates. And then there's the fact that a white dwarf's diminutive size doesn't change a thing about its star-level mass, making it billions of times heavier than Luna, with all the crushing gravity shenanigans this would imply when orbiting Earth at a lunar distance (not to mention that in this case, Earth would be orbiting Luna instead of the other way around). The gravity issue might be handwaved as some sort of containment failure, given the arbitrary jump in gravity halfway through the film.]]

** One of the worst examples is the whole [[spoiler:"Luna is a DysonSphere" business. White dwarves are small compared to regular main sequence stars, but they're still roughly the size of Earth[[note]]Even the smallest one known to date [[https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03615-y is somewhat larger than the Moon]][[/note]] and thus far too big to fit inside a moon-sized megastructure that's dozens, if not hundreds of times larger than the star it encapsulates. And then there's the fact that a white dwarf's diminutive size doesn't change a thing about its star-level mass, making it billions of times heavier than Luna, with all the crushing gravity shenanigans this would imply when orbiting Earth at a lunar distance (not to mention that in this case, Earth would be orbiting Luna instead of the other way around). The gravity issue might be handwaved as some sort of containment failure, given the arbitrary jump in gravity halfway through the film.]]

** Considering that their society has been at peace for centuries before the A.I. rebellion, they may have simply been incapable of thinking of those kind of weapons in time to do anything to their enemy; their ships are only shown to have "basic" energy weapons that aren't much use against a depicted technological swarm. Compare it to ''Series/StargateSG1''; the Asgard turned to humanity for help against their enemy because they essentially needed someone "stupid" to think of a new way to attack the enemy.

* GravityScrew: As the moon descends further into Earth's orbit, gravity on Earth changed, with the water from the oceans being sucked vertically into the sky.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:The last we see of General Davidson and the other Chiefs of Staff is their bunker collapsing as it is hit with a literal mountain of Moon debris. We are not shown whether or not anyone survived.]]