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When the team plays back the record, it contains an extremely high-pitched tone which triggers the crystal sensors on the ship. But the speech on the record is low quality. This low quality would be the result of extreme frequencies being lost; but if they were, the trigger tone (a VERY extreme frequency) would be lost too. If the League's gramophones are capable of recording and playing such a tone, they should also be able to record and play back the speech without any quality loss. See more...

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Never in Robert Louis Stevenson's original short story was Mr Hyde larger than Dr Jekyll. He was considerably shorter and therefore Jekyll's clothes hung loosely from him. Also, Jekyll never needed a potion to become Hyde after the first time. The change became involuntary and ever more frequent. Hyde needed the potion to *change back* to Jekyll. See more...

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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) - 70 corrections

Directed by Stephen Norrington, starring Jason Flemyng, Peta Wilson, Richard Roxburgh, Sean Connery, Shane West, Stuart Townsend, Tony Curran (add more)

Genres: Action, Fantasy, Sci-fi

Comments made in brackets are corrections from other visitors. As such, any aggressive/abusive corrections (and I get quite a few) written as if they're comments I've made myself will be ignored. To submit your own corrections for mistakes, just click the edit icon under an entry, then choose "correct entry". Some entries have "duplicated entry" after them - these are entries which were already listed on the main page, but were submitted again. I occasionally leave these online for a while, just in case they were moved in error, so don't worry about pointing them out to me.

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Entry When Mina starts her final fight with Dorian, she jumps right over him, plunging her dagger into his back, and Dorian rips it out. But the mistake here is that the dagger is buried high in his back, between the shoulder blades - a position where it could not be easily reached, especially if you reach for it under the armpit. Also, unless Dorian has unusually long and flexible arms, he would only be able to get the dagger by its blade, not by the handle. [As you've said in the mistake "A position where it could not be easily reached." so Dorian could reach it if he really wanted to. Also, we've seen in a earlier scene that Dorian isn't worried about damaging his body to achieve a desired end result.]
Entry There is absolutely no way that a ship the size of the Nautilus could navigate the Thames, as it does. From the hull to the top of the sail it is too tall to fit under any one of the many bridges that were on the Thames at the time without running aground, quite apart from the fact that there is no part of the Thames in London deep enough for such a huge vessel to be wholly submerged. [There is no way the sub could navigate the canals of Venice either, but it has been established that the 'universe' for the graphic novels and the film are not the same as ours, so the same rules do not apply.]
Corrected by wizard_of_gore
Entry At Dorian's home you see the Fantom's men turn from behind bookcases, some have normal machine guns, some have long silencer looking things on the barrels. Why have silencers when the others have normal ones? [They only look like silencers and may not be, besides it's certainly not a movie mistake. Perhaps the silenced guns lead the attack to maintain the element of surprise for as long as possible.]
Entry To see this mistake, you'll have to download one of the trailers or teasers and go frame per frame. When the grotesque muscled guy charges to Hyde, he swings his arm in order to hit him, yet Hyde is flying away even before he got hit. CGI mistake? [The rules of this site are clear. If you have to go frame by frame to see this minor mistake, it's not a film mistake.]
Corrected by wizard_of_gore
Entry In 'M's summer retreat', when Hyde picks up the door to shield himself against the bullets, you can see bullet holes in the door as he picks it up, before it's even close to the path of the bullets. [After Hyde breaks the door it falls to the side, then the bad guys start firing wildly. It is more than likely some of the bullets hit the door before Hyde picked it up, therefore not a mistake.]
Entry When Dorian is shot by the automatic rifle, he just stands there and takes it without so much as screaming in pain. Later in the film, when Mina and Dorian are fighting, she stabs him in his crotch and Dorian groans in pain. [People scream in pain in different situations. It is human nature.]
Corrected by Rlvlk
Entry Mina should not be a vampire. People only become vampires when they die as a result of having their blood drained as a vampire. Mina survived the events of Bram Stoker's book. [The characters aren't lifted exactly from the books, they're approximations that are interpreted to fit the film's needs. You could also point out that Skinner isn't the real Invisible Man, that Hyde was physically smaller than Jekyll (and they both died), and that Dorian Grey's portrait didn't actually make him invulnerable (quite the opposite, in fact).]
Entry In the scene at Dorian's home when the Phantom's gunmen appear on the balcony, Agent Sawyer is supposed to appear about five minutes later. However, if you look very closely Sawyer arrives and points his gun at the same time as the others. He is visible as he has a white shirt on. [He replaces one of the stragglers on the way there, not after they have arrived.]
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Entry When the Germans break into the bank, one of them speaks, and the subtitle says, 'Leave one alive to tell the tale.' What the speaker actually said (in German) was, 'kill all but one.' [The meanings are identical, good translations have to convey the meaning, not simply convert between languages so I see no mistake.]
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Entry Mina is a vampire, so why is she checking her reflection in a pocket mirror, in Gray library. When we all know vampires cast no reflection in mirrors. [This film does not follow the classical plots of all its individual characters. Mr. Hyde is actually smaller than Dr. Jeckyl, Dorian Gray had youth for as long as he lived, but he a) lived a shorter life than he would have anyway (he went mad and essentially killed himself) and b) could look at the painting as often as he liked (and he did, often, to reflect on the degredation of his soul). It never says anything about not being killed/hurt. Quite possible that in this universe, vampires have a reflection.]
Corrected by Gary O'Reilly
Entry At the end of the fight in the Kenyan club Quatermain pushes one guy against a rhino horn on the wall which comes out of his chest, in spite of his bullet-proof metal armor. [The armor appears to be overlapping plates. It's possible that the horn got in between two of the plates.]
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Entry M tricks the League into forming so he can steal their special attributes from them, but while most of the League joined by choice, the film makes it clear that the invisible man was taken by force (eventually agreeing to stay because they promised him a cure). Why didn't M just take skin from him when he was captured? [He needed him to take the fall for stealing Dr. Jekyll's formula.]
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Entry In the scene on deck of the Nautilus where Quatermain and Sawyer practice shooting the Nautilus is lying still in the water when the camera is on deck, but visibly speeding along when seen from the point where the target balls land in the water. This happens in alternating shots. [When seen from the deck, the camera is high up, and therefore looking at the sea far from the vessel, which, due to the distance, would look like it was moving much slower. Looking at the vessel from the buoys shows its actual speed.]
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Entry Sawyer is driving the car through Venice. There are no streets in Venice... [He is not driving along the streets, he is on the path between the houses and the canals, presumably where people would disembark from the gondolas and walk to nearby houses. There are paths under the archways to get from door to door but they are not roads.]
Entry In the beginning when the tank comes charging out and runs over the young officer, he is standing facing the middle of tank, yet when he is run over, he is magically under the left tank tread. [His hat is under the left tread. The rest of him is never seen.]
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Entry When Alan Quatermain is running through the castle, he says he was told to turn right at the column. However when he says this he turns to the left and runs that way. [Alan & Tom get lost. The dialog is something like Alan "Skinner said to turn right at the column" Tom: "Which column?" Alan: "This way." They get lost, which gives us a guided tour of the complex.]
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Entry When the camera turns to show the bombs underneath Venice, we see that a BIG majority of them are NOT attached to any building supports or foundations; they are centered below the grate in the open, so how can M hope to sink the entire city of Venice if most of them just explode and take the necessary load bearing supports with them? [It's mentioned that, using Leonardo da Vinci's blueprints of Venice, The Phantom can figure out a place to plant a bomb that will take out the whole of the city.]
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Entry When Mina is lying on the bed after Dorian "kills" her, you can see her eyes following something out of the frame. Ok she's not really dead but surely she knew not to move her eyes? [She was watching for any of her associates entering the room. None of them would be able to kill Dorian, so she'd have to get up quickly if one entered the room, or warn them to stay away. A little risky, but even if Dorian noticed her she'd still be upright quick enough to stop him taking another stab at her.]
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Entry The double rifle that Quatermain uses is designed for stopping large and dangerous animals at short range; almost always less than 100 yards, and usually less than 75 yards. It would not have the accuracy to make the kind of shots that Quatermain pulls off constantly throughout the movie. And before anyone says that he could have had one of the barrels customised for long-range accuracy: true, but there is no sign of the special long-range sights he would have had to have fitted; the sights seen in the movie would have been virtually useless at those kind of ranges, no matter how good a shot Quatermain was. [Quatermain has excellent eyesight, so he wouldn't need any special sights fitted. This is shown by him having to use glassesto shoot the man running away after the fight at the beginning, as, due to his age, his eyesight was failing.]
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Entry In the scene where Allan Quatermain is on the bridge of the Nautilus teaching Agent Sawyer to shoot at distant targets, Sawyer uses Quatermain's rifle. Disgusted, he leaves Sawyer on the bridge about to take a shot - when left alone, Sawyer puts the rifle butt down on the deck, rests his hand and chin on the muzzle and gazes out to sea. No one experienced with firearms (as Sawyer is supposed to be) would do this with a gun - loaded or un-loaded. [Sawyer is cocky and thinks he knows all there is to know about firearms. It seems resonable that he'd expect the gun not to go off.]
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