Factual error: In order to incapacitate the Fimples, the Commandos fire sleeping pills into their drink via a mouse trap converted into a catapult. But in every spring- or torsion-powered one-armed catapult, a horizontal bar is required which stops the arm as it swings forward, or otherwise the load would be smashed into the ground in front of the weapon.
Small Soldiers (1998)
1 factual error - chronological order
Directed by: Joe Dante
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Denis Leary, Jay Mohr, David Cross, Gregory Smith, Alexandra Wilson
Visible crew/equipment: When Alan throws his father's broken radio into the box and he turns around to talk to the girl on the ladder, the reflection of a crew member wearing a white T-shirt can be seen in the monitor on the desk as the camera follows Alan. (00:30:40)
Archer: Just because you can't see something doesn't mean it isn't there.
Trivia: When Brick Bazooka loses his legs to Alan's bike gear, he emits a high-pitched, half-choked scream just before he hits the ground. This is the infamous "Wilhelm scream" and can be heard in several other movies as well: in Star Wars, when Luke shoots a stormtrooper in the shaft-swinging scene; in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, when an Elf warrior is thrown off the Helm's Deep wall; and in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, when a Gondor soldier fleeing from Osgiliath is snatched up and dumped by a Nazgul steed. The earliest movie I have heard the scream in so far is the 1954 horror movie 'Them' (when Ben Peterson is killed by a giant ant near the end).
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