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True Lies (1994) - 25 corrections

Directed by James Cameron, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Art Malik, Bill Paxton, Eliza Dushku, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tia Carrere, Tom Arnold (add more)

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Thriller

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After Arnold hands Helen the machine gun after they escape capture in the camp, Helen accidentally drops the gun, where-after, for a number of seconds, it shows a number of enemy terrorists being killed by the spray of the bullets from the gun bouncing down the stairway. One, no gun will normally fire without holding down the trigger, obviously Helen does not know how to set auto-fire [most machine-guns don't have it] so the sequence is incredibly unlikely to begin with. Two, that kind of machine gun will dump all of its ammo in about 2 seconds if it was stuck, they have this scene going on for 10 or fifteen seconds, an impossibility. [Whilst making the film the effects crew were having a hard time trying to rig the submachine gun [not a machine gun] to fire, in the end they did exactly what happens in the film - they simply dropped it down the stairs after hearing that particular weapon was known for misfiring. It worked, and that's what ended up on film. Also the scene appears in slow motion, which is why it appears to go on and on, if you watch the weapon it doesn't fire constantly, only when it hits the stairs and it only fires in small bursts.]
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When Art Malik's character falls from the crane firing the AK47, he later picks it up off the Harrier and re-cocks the weapon and fires again. The rifle was already cocked and loaded when he fell off the crane. [This is irrelevant. By pulling back the cocking handle and re-cocking the weapon all he is doing is ejecting one round and re-chambering another from the magazine. Granted, this is a waste of a round, but wouldn't stop him from firing the weapon.]
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In the scene where Arnie is asking for the missing page in his wife's phone conversations, Arnie punches out the window of their car. In the next shot when they get in and drive away, the window shows no sign of being damaged (no fragments of glass etc.), nor does Tom's hair move in the subsequent wind that should be blowing through the broken window. [The window that was broken is the passenger side rear, not the front window next to Tom. In the next scene when they are driving away, you can see the broken glass window over Tom's shoulder.]
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Opening shot of the lake shows the water as unfrozen. Then Arnold is cutting through the gate under a frozen lake. He then cuts through the ice with a knife and exits the frozen lake. [A) He is not cutting through the gate under a frozen lake, it's a much thinner canal next to the boat house (why would you have a gate in the middle of a lake? It's a canal for the boats). b) A canal may freeze much faster than a whole lake, there may be less current/waves on it. If you look how the surface of a major lake freezes, you'll see that the water surfaces in the harbors (behind the levies) freeze first, whilst the water surface in the actual lake is still unfrozen.]
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When Bill Paxton pees in his pants, it should not be audible, as his pants would silently absorb the pee. [Try running a tap gently against a bit of fabric sometime. All the water doesn't just get soaked up - plenty of it runs down the fabric and out.]
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Harry and his partner followed Simon after his lunch with Helen on Chinatown. The restaurant was pretty crowded, so how come they knew who to follow? Simon would not come out of the restaurant together with Helen, because he had a 'secret agent' role to play. He must have instructed her to go out a few minutes before or after him, so Arnie would have no way to know that he was the guy to follow. [Simon wouldn't want to risk Helen following him, in case she found out what he really does, so he'd send her out first. But he wouldn't want to be sitting there for ages either. All Harry and Gib have to do is wait until she leaves, then look for a single man leaving within a few minutes. It's still something of a guess, but an educated one which, as we see, pays off.]
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There are a lot of comments about the Harrier (technically speaking it is an AV8-A, a slightly different aircraft) flown by Arnold Schwarzenneger, but everyone's missed the obvious one. The terrorists are unaware of the fact that a Harrier is hovering just outside the window until they turn and see it there. A Harrier is an incredibly loud aircraft; you can hear them from three kilometers away. At that range the floor would shake with the noise. [Actually, the terrorists do hear it, they just don't know where it is at. Which is why you have the one terrorist looking through binoculars when Harry comes into view.]
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When Arnold is being followed by the bad guys and uses the cigarette-pack camera to watch them, the lens is toward the bottom of the pack as he holds it. However when he puts the pack on the sink in the bathroom later, although it's in an upside-down position compared to before, the feed in his sunglasses is still right-side up as before. [Considering the technology they used to put the camera in there, it is likely that the sunglasses can have the image flipped automatically when viewed, much the same way that camera phones flip the image when viewed from the other side.]
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When Arnie is breaking through the ice at the beginning of the film, it's obviously just wax. Watch the way it breaks when he's cutting the hole to crawl out of, and also how buoyant it is. Also, listen to the sound effects. It sounds like they didn't even bother covering up the wax sound with the sound of ice cracking. [Ice IS buoyant, that's a fact of physics. Plus, it doesn't always freeze solid. Some portions can be thinner than others, some can have air pockets in them, making it quite easy to break through.]
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When the AV-8B Harrier II fighter duo attacks the trucks on the bridge, they fire sidewinder missiles to destroy the bridge. Sidewinder missiles are not air-to-ground missiles and cannot be fired at ground targets as there is no heat source to lock onto. This task would have called for bombs or rockets. [Actually, Harry tells the Marines to use their Mavericks. The AGM-65 Maverick is an air-to-surface missile.]
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During the final action sequence, we see a janitor in one of the buildings, going about his business. With that kind of a threat, all buildings in the area would have been completely evacuated. [It's just a joke they threw in there.]
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In the scene where the terrorist jumps the motorcycle from the hotel into the pool on the other building's rooftop, why didn't Tom Arnold and the rest of the law enforcement officers just arrest him when he exited the building on the ground floor? He had to leave that building at some point and it was right across the street from where they were. [There are many possibilities. They may not have known the terrorist had jumped to another building. There may simply not have been enough of them to secure all exits from the second building--he presumably did not just walk out the front door.]
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When the Crimson Jihad is making its video while in the Florida Keys, the statement is made that "We will rain down fire on 1 U.S. city each week" unless their demands are met. The very next day, they are in Miami with the second nuke and claiming that they are all ready to die for their cause. Who would be left to 'rain down fire' if they all died in that building? [Quite a lot changes in between them making the video and the scenes in Miami - they've lost all the other nuclear weapons. As such, it really doesn't matter if all of them die, as they've got no other weapons to "rain down fire" with.]
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During the stripdance scene in the hotel room, Tasker is using what looks a whole lot like a walkman to play the recording of a man talking. Watch as the first number of times he plays and stops the tape, he presses buttons along the face of the player. Then when he replays "Now lie on the bed, and close your eyes" he uses regular playback buttons that stick out on the side of the walkman. I've never seen a walkman with two sets of controls on the body of the machine. [They're spies with access to an array of gadgets, its entirely possible for them to have an electronic device that can play a recording.]
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A real Harrier jet can only hover for approx 30 seconds. It needs water 150 gallons to cool the engine. In the movie it hovers for a few minutes, which would be impossible because it would have run out of coolant. [A Harrier can hover for multiple minutes. I have seen the RAF Harrier GR.7 (which is the same as the AV-8B in True Lies) hover for several minutes during a few air shows.]
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Tia Carrera says that the statues "are absolutely priceless. Pity" before they're destroyed to remove the warheads hidden inside. How did the nukes get inside them in the first place? [They are most likely plaster fakes they built around the nukes to sneak them into the country, and she was just being sarcastic.]
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In the restroom shootout, Harry is fighting the terrorist in the green jacket. He takes his gun and shoots the second guy, with the beard and brown jacket, who then fires off his gun in the way dying bad guys do. The gun he is holding is a USP Tactical Machine Pistol, which is silenced, but you can hear the loud shots from the gun as he dies. [Because it's a Steyr T.M.P. (not a USP, which is a German handgun) the standard barrel shroud on it looks like a silencer. It is not.]
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The first time Arnold commandeers the Harrier, it's lifting from the pavement hitting cop cars etc. When he finally gets control, the angle changes and the Harrier is now lifting from above the water. [As the shot where he is destroying those police cars ends, you can see the harrier is flying off the bridge and over the water.]
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In the scene where Harry walks out of his wife's office, stunned and believing that she's having an affair, you can see a woman a few cars back standing there and staring right at him and Gibb talk the entire time. [Harry has just walked in front of a bus. It doesn't surprise me that the woman was watching.]
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The 6 foot 2 Arnold manages to squeeze his steroid pumped body into a harrier jet, which is only mean to host people of horse jockey stature (around 5'8"). [But Arnold really did learn to fly a Harrier for that sequence, so he must have fit.]
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