Wild Wild West (1999) - 22 corrections

Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, starring Kenneth Branagh, Kevin Kline, M. Emmet Walsh, Salma Hayek, Ted Levine, Will Smith (add more)

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Entry I don't believe that those blades that were sent flying after Will Smith and Kevin Kline's magnets on their necks were as much as a threat as was indicated. The circular blades would do severe damage to the 2 guys if they were flying at a high enough velocity but they're velocity would slow down significantly once they were changing direction. If the guys were to duck and the blade was to overshoot its target, the blade would slow down significantly as it reversed its direction, especially if it was going at such a fast velocity to begin with. In the scene, the blades were travelling unrealistically fast the whole time. [The whole movie is full of devices and effects that would be impossible for one reason or another. The film exists in a fantasy "steampunk" world and has its own laws of physics and science for the sake of entertainment.]
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Entry In the train, after Rita says goodnight. You see that Jim and Arty each glance to the side as they talk to each other, as if their couches are on different sides of the car. However, both couches are obviously on the same side of the car, since each man is lying close to the left side of the screen (against the back part of his couch). They should be looking ahead to face each other, not to the side. [No, you can see the wall of the car behind each man as they are talking. The wall behind Gordon is to his right, and the wall behind West is to his left indicating opposite sides of the car. Also, if the couches were on the same side of the car one of the men would have to turn all the way around to a) talk to the other or b) talk to Rita. Since neither man has to do this, the couches must be on opposite sides of the car.]
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Entry In the scene where Jim is talking to the Oriental girl at Loveless's party, he shoots behind and all around the room, but never up. But when he walks out of the room, a man falls from the ceiling. How did he get shot? [He didn't get shot, he just lets himself drop. Jim has shot everyone else and left the room, so there is no need for the man to continue holding on to the ceiling (or whatever he was doing).]
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Entry Will Smith could not have been a sheriff back in those days because the color of his skin. [He wasn't a sheriff, he was a federal marshal.]
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Entry During the scene when Loveless is talking about taking over the U.S. and he mentions some states and Arizona is one of them. Arizona was not a state when Grant was president. (He may have mentioned others that weren't states yet, but this is the only one I remember completely.) [True, Arizona was not a state. However, Arizona was organized as a separate territory from New Mexico on February 24, 1863.]
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Entry When West and Gordon are running away from the giant saw blades, how do they end up on opposite sides of the cliff? [In the scene before they jump there is and overhead shot and you can see that they split up to the other sides of the cliff.]
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Entry In Loveless' demonstration, he refers to the armoured vehicle as a "tank." When these vehicles were first delivered in World War I, they were described in official documentation as "water tanks" to maintain secrecy. The name stuck. Unless Loveless tried the same deception, he wouldn't call it a tank. [It might not be the reason, but given the shape of the "tank" in WWW, they almost look like the Water Tanks seen in the movie used to Water Locomotives. That, or Loveless has completely different reasons as to call his invention a Tank.]
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Entry At the end of the feature, the two main characters (Jim West and Artemis) are supposed to go to Washington DC. But the film shows them riding off into the sunset, which is in the west. (The sun sets in the west) This is wrong, since Washington DC is in the east. [Given the nature of the film, you could argue this was just put in as a stereotypical wild west thing to do, irrespective of the direction you're meant to be going in].
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Entry After Artemis gets rid of Loveless' lady henchmen, the Pres. tells him to come over and drive. While trying, he pulls the middle lever, and the sound of the fireball and explosion is heard. Earlier, when Loveless was destroying the town, he pulled one of the levers to the side to launch the fireball. [Loveless always used the middle lever to launch the Fireball; the ones on the side were used to aim and steer.]
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Entry In the scene after Will Smith stops the horses before going of the cliff, after the horses pull him up from the cliff, we see Will look into the brothel. Then before that scene ends we see him walk towards the brothel to confront Bloodbath McGrath, and technically right off the cliff. [Pay closer attention to the shot of him hanging there. The "cliff" slopes downward at a decent angle for him to slide down it.]
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Entry When West and Gordon are about to look through the severed head of a scientist, Gordon shows West the metal collar that was supposedly found 10 feet (I'm not exactly sure what he said) away from his head, connected to his body. Yet in the beginning, when McGrath takes the blade that beheaded our poor scientist, the collar is shown still connected to the mans neck. [It would have been at least several hours if not several days later, and there are any number of ways for the collar (or the head) to have moved a little ways away by then.]
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Entry When Will Smith is shot in the chest and falls of the spider he is dressed in a vest and jacket and he has his guns on.  When he gets back to the train he is dressed in a shirt, the same one he had on when he and Kevin Kline got to the train after escaping the magnetic collars. [No it isn't. It's the same one he wears under his jacket - complete with vest - they're just the same color.]
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Entry When Arliss Loveless makes his appearance at a gathering, a giant bust of Abraham Lincoln is wheeled out. The head on this bust explodes and we see Loveless's head pop out in place of where Lincoln's was. When we see a close up of it, we see what was left of the bust around Loveless's head, yet instantly afterward in a wider shot, the remains of the bust disappear. [By that point the bust has folded out so Loveless can move his wheel-chair, thereby blocking the broken pieces from our view.]
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Entry In the shot where Jim returns to the train after being shot in the chest he steps on a belt. When you see the belt you also see a battery on the floor. I thought there weren't electronics that time. [There's no battery on the floor!]
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Entry When Jim was stopping the horses that were carrying the nitro in the wagon, Jim stopped the horses right near a little drop off, which made him fall off holding on to the horses reigns.  What I don't get is why he made the horses pull him back up.  Why didn't he just jump off, it was only a couple of feet down.  It's not like it was a cliff or something. [That's not a mistake. It's just a character's decision within the movie.]
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Entry In the scene where West and Gordon are being chased into the cornfield by the flying blades, West runs into the field without his hat, but has it on as he is running through the cornfield. [At no point in that scene does it look as though West has lost his hat.]
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Entry After they get out of the mud, their clothes and collars are both clean [Their clothes are so obviously NOT clean that it is mind-boggling that you could have ever mistaken them as such.]
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Entry When fighting the man with a metal head, at the end of the fight he hands this metal pipe to the man with the metal head and as he is getting ready to clobber Will Smith he gets electrocuted. There is no reason shown before the next scene. [The "man with a metal head" is obviously a Cyborg. A Cyborg with an iron pipe who's just walked between two large Copper Conductors. He's dead.]
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Entry Why does that metal bloke short circuit? [He's obviously a Cyborg. A Cyborg carrying a large metal wrench, who's just walked between two even larger conductors. That sort of thing tends not to be very conducive to the health of such creatures.]
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Entry When Jim West and Artemis Gordon are riding away from the train, you can see that Jim is a doll. He's too stiff when he's riding to be a real person. [Jim has probably been riding horses since he was a teenager and possesses more than enough experience to remain steady on almost any one of them. And you can see him use that exact posture and exact speed when he's heading to and from the White House. Apart from which; nobody's going to be stupid enough to stick an inanimate Doll on top of a horse and then set him loose over open land.]
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