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Hellboy (2004) - 36 corrections

Directed by Guillermo del Toro, starring Jeffrey Tambor, John Hurt, Ron Perlman, Selma Blair (add more)

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

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When Kronen is getting ready to kill Broom at the beginning, the Sargent shoots Kronen. One shot hits Kronen's mask and the bullet ricochets off of it, yet there is no dent in the mask. [Kroenen is a skilled craftsman, so why is it odd that his mask would be made out of something bullet proof?]
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When Abe shows Broom what happened in the library you see Kroenan crawl down the wall and stand up. In the next shot you see him already halfway over to the glass cabinet but he didn't even start to walk yet when we last saw him. [Perfectly standard cinematic technique of time compression. We don't need to physically see Kroenen walk the whole distance, it just wastes time.]
Edit Corrected by Tailkinker
When Ilsa pours the contents of the flask from the statue on the floor of the museum, not all of its contents are emptied. In the next shot, she's seen standing in the background with the flask completely empty. [Ilsa does, in fact, pour out all the contents of the jar.]
Edit Corrected by Brad Time
At the museum, if you watch Kroenen slice the statue open in slowmo, you can see that the cut doesn't appear until after he is finished with the motion (it should appear gradually during the cut) and shows up in the wrong place (it starts below the statue's left hand, but he sliced above it). [The rules of this site are quite clear; if you have to use slow mo to see a mistake, then it doesn't count as a valid entry.]
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We've established that Hellboy can bleed when he gets cut by Kronen and when Sammael plants the eggs in his arm. We've also established that Kronen's swords are extremely sharp by the way he cuts through a statue with one swipe. But in the fight with Kronen in Rasputin's crypt, Hellboy grabs both swords with his non-stone hand and Kronen cannot free them. And later, in close-ups, there are no cuts on Hellboy's "normal" hand. [1. They are tonfas, not swords. 2. It's physics. If you look into the way tonfas work, especially bladed tonfas, you would see that much of the power is derived from the spinning of the tonfa itself and the spinning of the body. This is why prior to his cutting the statue, he spends a second or two spinning it; to build momentum. So, though the blades are sharp, when Hellboy grabs Kroenen's tonfas, there is no movement of the blades which would cut him. He is holding them in place, and punching Kroenen, disorienting him, not allowing him to strike back.]
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At the start when Myers says, "These? You're reading these?" and Abe nods in response, his eyelids are easily visible blinking down, like a normal humans. But for the rest of the film they seem to come from an angle. [When Abe nods at Myers, his eyelids blink from an angle. You may need to zoom in to see it.]
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Ilsa holds up a case filled with Nazi gold to the Russians. That much gold would be too heavy for her to hold with one arm. [Who knows what powers come with eternal life and youth? Enormous strength? Why not?]
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At the beginning, when Rasputin is talking to Ilsa he says, "Whatever happens tonight" but his mouth says, "Whatever happens to me." [After watching the scene he does say tonight. Because of the way he was talking the word tonight might have appeared as me.]
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When we see Hellboy with stocks around his head and hands, the hole holding his left hand is easily big enough for him to get his hand through (not that it would have helped). [So, since it wouldn't have helped, where's the mistake?]
Edit Corrected by Phixius Time
When Hellboy raises what's left of Ivan from the dead he still has eyes, teeth and a gray beard. This is highly unlikely since these parts of the body are usually the first to decompose. [Uh, no. Teeth are among the last things to decompose along with the rest of the bones. As far as eyes and hair, we don't know the conditions the body was under; it is possible those parts remained.]
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When Hellboy tosses Manning under the door in the crypt maze, slow-mo shows the wire pulling Manning is visible at his neck just after he starts sliding. [As stipulated in the rules of the site, if you need to use slo-mo in order to spot something, then it's not a valid mistake.]
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After the opening scenes in which the American soldiers have defeated the German troops on the island off the coast of Scotland, there is a still photo of the American troops, Hellboy and Professor Broom in a group shot. In the picture there are at least two black soldiers among the group. Since this took place in 1944, the U.S. Army was very much segregated and there is no way black and white soldiers would have been in the same combat units together, much less on a "secret" mission. [I think it far more likely whoever was in charge of this highly secret and unusual mission would pick the best soldiers he could get, no matter what color.]
Edit Corrected by Grumpy Scot
When Hellboy is standing outside the asylum, one of the patients is heard saying, "There's a big red man down there." A nurse replies, "Santa isn't coming for another month." Since Hellboy has just walked through a big Halloween party, it's actually 2 months until Christmas. [It is not uncommon for volunteers dressed as Santa to visit asylums, hospitals, and schools in the run up to xmas. The nurse could be referring to the fact that "Santa" will be making a visit in a month.]
Edit Corrected by dgemba dgemba
When Hellboy and Kronen are fighting in Rasputin's crypt, you can see chunks of stone flying off of HB's stone hand every time he's struck by the swords. But the hand never seems to lose any pieces and when it is shown later in close-ups, is completely undamaged. [Not true, look closely and see that there are chips all over the surface of the hand. ]
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When the character of Abe is introduced, it is stated that he was found the day Abraham Lincoln died, which is how he got his name. However, the wrong date is given - the movie says Lincoln died on April 14, 1865, but he actually died on April 15. [The movie is based around conspiracies so it could be saying Abe Lincoln really did die at that date and not the date everyone is lead to believe.]
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When Hellboy and the agents go back to look for eggs in the subway, they enter through a working subway tunnel. Later, when HB is searching for Kronen and encounters Sammael, they fall into a hole, fighting as they drop hundreds of feet. But they crash through the ceiling of a subway station. Why is there another subway system hundreds of feet below the one they came in through? [In subway systems, different lines run on different levels, to allow the tunnels to cross each other without interference.]
Edit Corrected by Tailkinker
When the first portal opens, a light is pulled through it and into outer space. That type of light generates a lot of heat, so the bulb would be quite hot. But it's absolute zero in space, so the bulb would have exploded as soon as it passed through the portal. [Temperature of space is not absolute zero. By the laws of thermodynamics, absolute zero is the coldest possible temperature and immpossible to reach. Lights in freezers and fridges don't explode when you leave them on for hours on end.]
Edit Corrected by Rlvlk
When Hellboy hits Myer with the rock, he is on a rooftop across the street and pretty high up, but they are more or less facing each other. When the shot cuts to Myer getting hit, if you watch slowly, the rock appears to come from behind, hitting him in the back of the head or at least the side. Myer puts his hand up to his forehead, where you would expect him to be hit, considering the direction Hellboy is throwing from. But then Myer turns around and yells, "hey, who threw that?" behind him, where it appeared the rock came from in slo-mo. [They're not even close to facing each other - Hellboy is looking at them almost side-on. The rock comes from the correct direction, hitting Myers on the right-hand side of his forehead, exactly where he puts his hand to. He then stands and looks left and right first, and only turns round to look behind him once he's failed to spot the thrower in the more plausible directions.]
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Liz demonstrates her control to Hellboy by lifting her hand in front of her face and lighting up. In the next shot her hand is lower, in front of her chest and extended. [There is a fairly long shot of Hellboy speaking in between the two shots of the hand position. There was more than enough time for Liz to have moved it.]
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According to Agent Manning Hellboy is supposed to be about 2.13 metres tall. But, compared to the other people in the movie, Hellboy does not appear to be remarkably tall - some of the other characters are even taller than him. [In the museum Manning says that Hellboy is six foot five, which is about 1.9 metres, not 2.13. This is tall, but not remarkably so, so it's not unreasonable that some of the other characters could be taller than him.]
Edit Corrected by Tailkinker

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