8 Times Neil DeGrasse Tyson Ruined Your Favorite Films

5. Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Not even Star Wars, the holy of holies, could escape Neil's nitpicking. Although some might argue that it's actually more along the lines of "space fantasy" and therefore not subject to the more rigorous standards of science pedants, they should have thought about that before they brought midichlorians into it.

Anyway, Tyson had a few things to say. He even picked a fight with everyone's favourite droid:

We also had some basic principles of physics being taken for a ride, specifically the propagation of sound waves through different mediums, and the small issue of storing all the energy produced by one of the universe's biggest nucelar reactors (also, can we talk about just how close Starkiller is to the sun? It'll be like an oven in there):

Then the old fashioned classic of misusing units of measurement, except this time it isn't "light years" but "parsecs". The concept, however is the same, in which non-scientists mistake a unit of distance for a unit of time.

Yes, we're aware that this has been retconned and explained in a number of different ways but, come on, a quick Google wouldn't go amiss when writing a multi million dollar movie.