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The Ring (2002) - 60 corrections

Directed by Gore Verbinski, starring Brian Cox, David Dorfman, Jane Alexander, Martin Henderson, Naomi Watts (add more)

Genres: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

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The name Samara is Latin for "elm tree," which is the type of tree near the cabin that is so emphasized in the movie. [That's not an elm tree, that's a maple tree.]
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In the scene where Noah is being killed he is wearing sandals. In the scene where Rachel goes in to see him his sandals are gone. [In the interrim, Noah also happens to have been killed by an evil, psychic ghost and his body moved, supernaturally, to the chair. Samara, for whatever reason, would surely have been capable of taking off his sandles.]
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At the wake Rachel talks to some teenage friends of Katie's to find more about her death. The way they interrupt each other sounds very artificial, as one person stops talking in mid-sentence the split-second another person starts, without any overlap, e.g. when the boy butts in first. [Bad acting isn't a movie mistake.]
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When Rachel and Aidan drive home from school they keep looking at each other through the rear mirror. It's not possible from his position, crouched into the far right of the back seat, to see her face, as she neither adjusts the mirror nor her position, and, if at all, he would only see her eyes not her whole face (as beautiful as it admittedly is). [Rearview mirrors are slightly convex, allowing the driver to see more behind them. With my car it is possible to see the entire backseat from left to right when it is adjusted to view through the rear window. From the back right corner of the seat, it is possible to see the driver's face, but not quite all of it.]
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At Katie's wake, Rachel talks to some of Katie's friends about the other teens that died. one of them was metnioned dying in a car accident, but this seems impossible because Samara attacks through the television. [It is explained as any reflective surface. I am sure metal and glass count.]
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When Rachel and Noah are dropping Aiden off, Rachel goes inside the house and stands at a window. Noah comes in to get her and he can be seen standing behind her right shoulder. But in the very next scene, Noah is in the car with Aiden. [Actually the person you see standing behind Rachel is her sister Ruthie. Don't forget this is where she is dropping off Aiden for the two days.]
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The time frame of this movie is somewhat unclear, but guessing from the age of Mr. Morgan we can guess that this all happened in the past twenty years or so. That would make the time of Samara's death in the 1970s. Then why are Anna and Samara dressed as if they're living in the 1800s? [They're dressing up that way probably because they just want to. Samara was adopted from another country, so I guess Anna wanted to make her "Americanized." They live on an island, so seclusion seems to add to this.]
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In the movie when Noah is over at Rachel's apartment watching the tape for the first time, he says he's going downtown anyway so he'll make a copy of it. He is already downtown, that's where her apartment is. [Most people refer to where all the shops are as downtown, which is a different place than where Rachel's apartment is.]
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When Noah is heading to Moeska Island, you can see that the ferry isn't moving, but it is not docked. Why would the boat be still while on its journey? [There could have been some trouble - the engine could have stalled, etc.]
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When Katie pulls the TV plug from the wall after the TV turns on, there's a giant spark. Yes, it would create a spark even if it were off, but not that big. [If the TV is turning on by itself then it's probably not an electrical spark, it is something supernatural.]
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When Rachel is dreaming about pulling the medallion from her throat, she then goes into her living room. From where she is, she can see Samara's hair hanging over the back of the chair, presumably to demonstrate that it is not her spooky son. The shot changes, and Samara's hair is now draped over her face, to make sure we get the full fright factor in Noah's apartment. And there is no obvious parting, so it can't be over both sides. [This isn't a mistake. Samara has full control of her physical appearance because she's not corporeal. Why shouldn't she have free reign in the hairstyle department?]
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When Rachel is watching the tape at Mr. Morgan's home and he comes in behind her, there is someone else's shadow in the window in the background, yet they are the only two there. [It isn't somebody else's shadow, it is caused by the lighthouse. The light from the lighthouse rotates, so when the light is shining the other way, it causes the background to be put in shadow. You can see this effect when Rachel and Noah go to the barn - the background is in shadow for a few seconds, and then in light for a few seconds.]
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In one shot where Samara is being thrown into the well by her mother, she is barefoot, but near the end in the other shot of her being thrown into the well she has socks and shoes on. [No, if you look closely she is wearing shoes in every shot.]
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When Katie's mother finds her dead daughter in the closet - shown as a flashback - Katie's head falls forward the moment the mother opens the door. This seems to have no other reason than to jack up the number of goosebumps on the spectators' arms and necks. [This isn't a mistake. Anyways, some houses transfer vibrations from motion very easily. In my house, if you walk through the living room, you can feel vibrations throughout the whole house. And with the mother swinging open the closet like that, it wouldn't be a big suprise if the vibrations made the body move a little.]
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When Noah and Rachel point flashlights into the well, they don't seem to be able to see the bottom. Later, when Rachel falls inside, Noah's flashlight beam reaches both her and the water. [The light does reach the bottom, it just is hard to see because of the blackness of the floor and walls through the water.]
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After the TV strikes Rachel in the chest and she falls down the well, you can clearly see her head violently striking the stone side of the well with enough force to shatter a motorcycle helmet. Later, Rachel is alive, not bleeding, and strangely doesn't even seem to have a headache. [It is not Rachel's head, but her shoulder/back that strikes the well. Painful, sure, but nowhere near as bad as hitting her head.]
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In the scene where Rachel and Noah are in his apartment, they both struggle over the operation of the video equipment. The tape shoots out of the player, ruining it. After Noah's "assistant" comes in, he invites her to look at the tape. Rachel ejects the tape quickly and puts the tape in her purse, just as it was before. [The tape did not shoot out of the player. A frame by frame analysis confirms this. They were adjusting the speed of the video drum, which normally rotates at 1800 rpm, by pressing their fingers against it and slowing it down. Rachel obviously hit her finger against one of the high speed screws on the top of the video drum. After, we can see her feeling her finger because of the pain. Also, the tape shooting out of the player would be highly improbable since the tape was paused and not moving while being held in place by the tape guides. The tape was still in good condition and not ruined.]
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When Rachel leafs through Katie's notebook the last entry is a drawing of the Ring. Katie drew it with such force that the pen made a hole in the paper, but when Rachel turns the page the next sheet is in pristine condition. [If you watch carefully (especially in slow motion), you can see that Rachel turns about 5 pages instead of one. Of course, we were not meant to see this as it was meant to be the last thing Katie drew, and to have pen marks on the other page would spoil the effect. But indeed, Katie used such force that you can still see a dent on the open page anyway.]
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The night Katie dies she & Becca are sitting in her bedroom. Katie tells Becca that she watched the tape that weekend and later on that night Katie dies due to the evil tape. People die one week after watching it, so it must be the following weekend, after she watched the tape, but the two girls are dressed in their school uniforms. [If Katie watched it on a Friday night, then it would make sense that she would still have her uniform on the following Friday night, after the school day.]
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Rachel and Noah are the natural parents of Aiden. The problem is they both have blue eyes, and Aiden has brown eyes - a genetic impossibility. [Although not common, two blue-eyed parents can produce children with brown eyes. The Davenport genetic model, which the theory that two blue-eyed parents can't produce brown-eyed children sprang from, is now known to be outdated and inaccurate.]
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