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I, Robot (2004) - 57 corrections

Directed by Alex Proyas, starring Alan Tudyk, Bridget Moynahan, Bruce Greenwood, James Cromwell, Will Smith (add more)

Genres: Action, Mystery, Sci-fi, Thriller

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When Spooner is riding his motorcycle down the freeway, all the hover cars have wheels. [There are no hover cars in this future. Just regular cars with wheels (spherical wheels, as we see in the later chase, enabling the cars to move in multiple directions). No mistake here.]
Edit Corrected by Brad
When Spooner gets out of his car after it crashes, he kicks out the driver's side door. But, when the robot throws the car at him, the door is back. [The door that Spooner kicks out is actually the passenger door (since the car is upside-down). The door that is "back" is the driver's door which is still intact. You can see the passenger door is still missing through the vehicle's absent windows.]
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When Spooner looks at Lanning's body then looks up, there is a big robot statue in the lobby. When he looks around the lobby, at other times throughout the movie, there is no robot and sometimes VIKI is also in the lobby, because they only have one. [VIKI and the location of the Robot are at separate ends of the building, the robot being in the front-end of the lobby. VIKI and most of the lobby the film takes place in happens behind the robot, and behind a large glass screen.]
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At the start of the film when Del and Calvin are in Dr Lanning's office, we see Del go to the window and pick up a book from a chair, if you notice the chair has no handles at the sides, yet the next time we see it, it has handles. [As Del picks up the book you can actually see part of the right side handle. It is just the camera angle and the fact that the handle has a 90 degree bend at the bottom that could make it look like the handle wasn't there.]
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At the beginning of the film when Del turns on his CD player, it lights up blue as you can see, but a few shots later with the music still playing, if you look behind him at the CD player its now off. [When he turns the CD player on, it lights up so he can see the display, to decide if he wants to switch tracks, change volume, etc. After perhaps 30 seconds of no activity, the light shuts off. Both my cellphone and my car do this.]
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When the Demolition Robot is destroying Dr. Lanning's house and Spooner leaps out of the house. You see his car being hit with several pieces of debris, yet later on in the movie it appears as if the car doesn't even have a scratch from the debris. [His car is most likely armored and although it might have some scratches, the Audi's shell is a silvery-white meaning light would have to hit it at a certain angle to reflect the scratches. Besides, in all of the time elapsing between the next time he uses the car, he could've had it taken to a body shop to perfect it.]
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At the beginning of the movie when Spooner and the Chief is at the bar, Spooner get up and says "I have to take a raincheck" and then picks up the tab for the beers. He pays for 2 beers but there was a total of 3 beers consumed. 2 by Spooner (The robot takes one away and gives him 2) and 1 by the Chief. [No mistake. He only pays for his own beers.]
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After Del has been to the Lake Michigan landfill site and the NS-5s start to attack, he jumps back onto his bike and flicks his left foot up to engage gear. The gears on the bike are 1 down 4 up, so 1st would have been better than 2nd for a fast escape. [This is a character mistake. What a character "should have" done is not a movie mistake. Del simply was too panicked to think and put the bike into 2nd rather than 1st.]
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When Del gets to the police station after the bag snatch, John says to him, "Lead by example. Says that on your badge," but when he uses his badge to scan into USR, there's nothing like that on it. [That was not mean to be taken literally. John meant that when he became a police officer, "leading by example" came with the badge. Meaning it was assumed to be one of his roles as a police officer.]
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In the beginning of one scene Spooner tells all the robots not to move, but when he is against the floor and Sonny leaves, a lot of the robots come towards him asking if they can help him. the point is that what they did conflicted with the Second Law, and what they did was not the First Law so why did they do it? [The robots simply saw the possiblity that Spooner needed help - whether he really did or not. The first law "A robot cannot harm a human or, through inactivity, allow a human to be harmed," is so strongly programmed into the robots that the mere possibility eliminates any orders gave them under the Second Law. Therefore, they moved.]
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When Spooner comes to save his young friend from the rioting robots, he tells the girl to step off the motorcycle and wait. He then drives away at high speed for about 15 seconds. However, she manages to catch up just in time to shoot the robot attacking him. Not only would it have been impossible for her to get there so quickly on foot, but she is not even out of breath. [He drives up and out of the tunnel and then makes a U-Turn to the right, following the boy. It's completely possible for her to climb out on foot and find them if he made a trip around.]
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When Spooner first meets Sonny in the doctor's office, he pulls the gun from his shoulder holster, but Sonny kicks it from his hand & takes it when he jumps out of the bin. Subsequently, Spooner pulls smaller gun from his ankle holster to shoot at Sonny as he jumps out the window. Once Spooner gets to the ground floor, however his ankle gun has grown in size so that he has to put it back in his shoulder holster. Spooner then picks up the original shoulder holster gun from the ground where Sonny drops it and just carries it off. [We don't really see the size of the gun that he stows in the shoulder holster. We just see him going through the motions of putting a gun there. It is likely that it would be easier for him to do this, rather than halt his pursuit to bend down and return the gun to the ankle holster.]
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When Del is walking through the robot storage area by the place where Lake Michigan used to be and he's looking at the retired robots, Alfred Lanning's voice is talking about how "robots who are in the dark will gather at the light" and that "robots who are together in storage will gather together rather than stay apart." However, quite a while back while Del is looking at the video where this quote came from, Lanning says nothing about the robots gathering towards light, he just immediately says the bit about them staying in groups. It seems as if a shot was taken out while the doctor was talking and no one bothered to catch up with the sound. Either that or the other sentence was added later to better fit the shots of the stored robots. [When Spooner asks Dr. Calvin about the "ghosts in the machine," she makes it clear that this principle was of utmost importance to Dr. Lanning. It is likely that he spoke on this topic on several occasions, and may have varied the content from time to time.]
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The nanites are protected by a very powerful force field, as evident by what happened to the robot Sonny throws at it. Additionally even though we don't actually see Sonny remove the nanites from the force field, we are told by V.I.K.I that she will not deactivate the field. Obviously Sonny cannot deactivate it or he would have done so before reaching in. So even though Sonny would be able to survive the trip through the force field the cylinder would not because even if the metal part was made of the same super strong alloy as Sonny the clear part is not. [As shown during that scene, that the "force field" cannot penetrate Sonny's metal alloy (i.e cannot pass through his hand/arm. Therefore all Sonny had to do was to hold the container with both hands to protect it from the "force field" since his hands are impenetratable.]
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Early in the film, a view from Mr Robertson's office shows the Chicago skyline and a big blue body of water at the edge of the city (presumably Lake Michigan). Yet later twice Will Smith is shown at the bridge ruin with the plaque saying "this was Lake Michigan" and the lake bed seems to be dried up and all sand, no water. [In the scene where Spooner's in Robertson's office and the skyline is shown to be blue, then later at the bridge it's a wasteland, it's not certain where that bridge is, since it overlooks the place where they dump the obsolete robots. It also isn't known that the blue in the skyline is in fact, Lake Michigan. The entire area where the bridge is and the dump site, could be miles from the water.]
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In the scene where Del goes to Dr. Lannings house, he parks his car in the courtyard and waits for the door to fully open before getting out (which takes a few seconds, as the door opens rather slowly). He then begins to walk up a nearby flight of stairs while the car door is about half-shut. But then we see an immediate shot with his car in the background, and the door is shut completely, something that would have taken a few more seconds to do. [The scene where Spooner goes to Lannings house, and get out of the car, he gets out once the door has opened enough, then the door begins to close. When he ascends the stairs the door's halfway closed, it's possible for the door to be fully cloed by the time it's seen again in the background.]
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During the car/robot chase, the robots punch out the entire windshield. About 30 seconds later, however, the robots punch out some more windshield.(look closely at the right passenger top corner). [In the scene where Spooner gets attacked by the robots while driving, they don't punch out the entire windshield. They only punch out the part where he is. Then later in the scene they punch out the passenger part, and one more part close to Spooner.]
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Unless future forensic science goes terribly wrong, the scientists should not have let Del touch that hologram without proper protective gloves. [Actually if future forensic science has progressed enough, it should only take about 5 minutes to extract every possible piece of evidence from such a small item, meaning that letting someone touch it without protective gloves (especially a detective) wouldn't be a problem.]
Edit Corrected by Gary O'Reilly
When Del Spooner shoots Sunny in the leg and Sunny runs out of the building, Spooner runs out to see where Sunny has gone. You can see Spooner's gun from a distance but no robot blood. In the close up shot you can see the robot blood leading up to the gun. [Sonny doesn't actually start "bleeding" until right before he drops the gun. When we see Dr. Calvin kneel down and inspect the blood, there is no blood on the ground anywhere behind her, so it would have been hard to make out from a distance. If you look at the scene frame-by-frame, you can see evidence of there being blood on the ground near the gun in one of the lead-up shots (it is very vague though, because of the blue tint of the blood).]
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When Del Spooner was trying to escape attack from the NS-5s in the tunnel, he was flipped upside down and sent skidding across the ground. When he came to a stop, the car was rocking on its roof and we can see that it tips from side to side too fast, and the sounds heard from it rocking, show that it is rather light and hollow. [Well, the movie is set in the future, it's quite possible that they have invented new alloys that are quite light.]
Edit Corrected by SexyIrishLeprechaun

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