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Old School (2003) - 22 corrections

Directed by Todd Phillips, starring Jeremy Piven, Luke Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Will Ferrell, Elisha Cuthbert, Ellen Pompeo, Juliette Lewis, Leah Remini, Seann William Scott (add more)

Genres: Comedy

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When the Dean informs the fraternity that they did not pass because Blue scored 0% on all the tests, he states that their score drops to a 58%, when earlier, Mitch said they had a score of 84%. Since the fraternity has at least a dozen guys in it, Blue's 0% would not cause such a dramatic decrease. [The Dean intentionally manipulated it so that they wold fail; he didn't need to be honest, he just needed a plausible excuse.]
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When Frank shoots himself with the dart he falls down and his right arm lands on top of a folding chair. The camera angle changes and his arm is now seen stuck inside the chair. [Invalid. The door is always closed. There is a shot where you just see Frank's upper body but you can't see the car door. The door is open when Marisa walks down the yard with the ice tea and it is still open when she asks him to turn it (the music) down. Since he is working on the car, it stands to reason that he would leave the door open, even when he's inside the car.]
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When Mitch catches his girlfriend cheating on him, the bathroom door behind him is closed, then opened, then closed again as he's talking to her. [The bathroom door is just cracked open on the left side. The next shot doesn't even show the left side of the door. In the final door shot, the people in the bathroom come out. The door is open wider than in the first shot as they cut to the people coming out. The original entry is invalid.]
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In the scene where Mitch and Frank come home to Beenie holding the initial fraternity meeting, Frank is holding a George Foreman grill under his left arm. Towards the end of the scene Mitch says something to Beenie. Frank's arm with the grill in it can be seen. The shot goes to Beenie and then back to Mitch and the grill is then under Frank's right arm, but in the next shot it switches back again to his left. [The gift isn't a George Foreman Grill. It's a bread making machine.]
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When Frank is streaking down the street, a Pontiac Bonneville honks at him as it passes, yet the horn sound is not a Bonneville horn. [I drive a Honda that was in an accident. The original horn was damaged in the wreck, so it needed to be replaced. The replacement sounds nothing like the original horn. Very possible the Pontiac could have a new horn for the same reason.]
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When the fat man drops a cinder block on a manhole cover, the cover falls in the hole. This could not happen as manholes and their covers are shaped and sized as they are (circular) so as to make it impossible for the cover to ever fall through the hole. [The cinder block appears to break the manhole cover on its descent, making it possible.]
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The film is set in New York, but the palm trees in the background of many scenes remind us that it was of course filmed in California. [The film never says where exactly it takes place and the clues point to a California location rather than a New York one. In the first scene, Mitch is in San Diego for a meeting with his company. He leaves that afternoon and arrives later that night to see his GF involved in the gang bang. He was stuck at the airport for a while due to the metal detector going off on him, and the time it takes to get from San Diego to New York, all the signs point to it being around L.A. or Sacramento where the weather is nice enough to have outdoor parties and swimming pools in November.]
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During the scene where Luke Wilson tells the fraternity that they are subject to a review, Vince Vaughn leaves the restaurant and tells Wilson that he built Speaker City from the ground up and he could barely read. However, at the academics test, Vince Vaughn is able to read a complicated question into the microphone. [That comment was to point out that although Vince Vaughan is successful, hes not too smart of a guy. The phrase was only meant figuratively.]
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When the student is seen pulling out the school newspaper from the paper stand, the remaining papers in the stand are not the same as the one taken out. [If you look at the newspaper that was underneath, there is no heading on it. It can be assumed that it is the same paper but the page we are seeing is faced down.]
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In the clips during the credits when Mark drives the car off of the bridge to avoid being hit, it lands on Dean Pritchard and then blows up. Meanwhile, the car Mark almost hit is nowhere to be seen. [The shot of the car falling on the Dean was from a ground view.]
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When the pledges are going through the initiation process (the scene where they are throwing the cinder blocks from the roof) the "big kid" throws his on a man hole cover. If cars and big rigs can drive over them i don't see how a 15lb cinder block would do what it did. [Its called "distribution of weight". The trucks etc distrubate their weight evenly over their tyres, otherwise there would be trouble. A heavy weight, dropped from a height doesn't distribute anything and as such the manhole cover might not be able to take it.]
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When they are doing the wrestling game in the basement, there's more lubricant in the pool that could be contained in the bag. [It is very possible that there were many other bags of lubricant not shown on screen.]
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In the scene where the fraternity are dancing in the gym hall, the fat guy moves from one end to another in the same shot. [The rather large college kid never switches sides. The camera angle just changes from a front/side shot to a shot from behind, since they do a 180 pivot move. If you pay close attention during that shot, you can relate the large kid's position to the judge's position, which is now to their backs.]
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When Luke Wilson discovers that the girl he met at his party is his boss's daughter and still in high school, his boss says she'll be graduating in seven months. Assuming that'll be somewhere around June, that would make the current month November. An outside party would be too cold to have at this time of the year in New York, and you'd be able to see everyone's breath because of the low temperature. Also, Beanie's pool would not still be open. [The film never says where exactly it takes place and the clues point to a California location, then a New York one. In the first scene, Mitch is in San Diego for a meeting with his company. He leaves that afternoon and arrives later that night to see his GF involved in the gang bang. He was stuck at the airport for a while due to the metal detector going off on him, and the time it takes to get from San Diego to New York, all the signs point to it being around LA or Sacramento where the weather is nice enough to have outdoor parties and swimming pools in November.]
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When the wedding singer starts singing you see a mic stand, but when the scene changes its gone. [If you watch this scene, they have a close up of the singer and you can see him slip the mic from the stand and knock the stand over. When they show the stage again they never show the floor of the stage to see if it is there. I am assuming that it is there. The entry makes it seem as if he doesn't pull it out of the stand.]
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When Mitch is seen removing the original and copies from the copy machine, the copies are upside down as compared to how he had the original on the glass. [Depending on the photocopier, the image might have been flipped by the optics.]
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In the scene when Will Ferrell picks up the tranq pistol the goat stomps down and for a second you can see the hand of the goat trainer petting the side of it. [It's not the trainer's hand, its the animal's tail.]
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When Beanie is with the college girl on his futon, the girl is seen sucking the air out of a balloon, yet when she talks her voice is unchanged by the helium. If there wasn't any helium in it, it wouldn't make sense for her to be sucking on it. [Its not helium, its nitrous...which really doesn't change your voice, but does give you a quick buzz.]
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In Frank's wedding scene, there is a cheesy wedding singer. During Mitch-A-Palooza, Snoop Dogg is playing the party, with Beanie paying the bill. It's pretty funny that Beanie doesn't hook Frank up on his big day, but gets Mitch Snoop when he breaks up with his girlfriend. [That's because he doesn't want Frank to get married.]
Edit Corrected by DenizenZERO
Yeah it made for a better sequence, but considering it is an all male fraternity they are creating, why do they do solely women's gymnastic events? i.e. Frank performs the floor exercise with a ribbon, technically considered rhythmic gymnastics which is a women's event. And the vault is set up for women as the long end of the vault is perpendicular to the runway. For men, the vault has its long side parallel to the run way. [If you watch the scene right before the examining sequence, Dean Pritchard tells someone that he "got a little creative with some of their tests, it should make for an entertaining day." This may explain why the male fraternity is doing women's gymnastics.]
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