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Watchmen (2009) - 25 corrections

Directed by Zack Snyder, starring Billy Crudup, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Patrick Wilson (add more)

Genres: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-fi, Thriller

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At the beginning of the funeral scene, when the hearse arrives, there are three people visible on the right side of the screen. However, when the viewer observes these people during the shot inside the hearse as the coffin is removed, another person is visible with them: Rorschach, holding a "The End is Nigh" sign. [There is a wide angle shot of the hearse arriving; on the far right is Ozymandias, his secretary and Nightowl II, on the far left is a military detail: and Rorschach with his sign. Rorschach then moves from left to right as the coffin is removed, crossing in front of the Watchmen as Dr. Manhattan exits the limo.]
Edit Corrected by Sanguis
In the opening credits sequence when Silk Spectre I is having an argument with her husband, she says, "I was a hero G*******t!" When she says this, her hands are in front of her. However, in both flashback scenes later in the movie, when she says that line her hands are at her side. [Laurie is simply remembering the argument differently the second time. It could also be two different arguments; it's common for married couples to have the same argument more than once.]
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Adrian Veidt says that the first Night Owl was one of only two heroes to make his identity public, but Laurie's identity is public and she even says so to Nite Owl in his workshop when she expresses jealousy that his identity is private. That makes 3. [Adrian and the first Nite Owl were the only heroes to "go public" [the phrase that they used in the movie] by revealing their previously secret identities to the public. Laurie never had a secret identity as evidenced by the fact that she never wore a mask.]
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In the initial scenes when Comedian is killed, the .45 pistol showed has Picattini rails in the frame. The story is set in 1985, when no pistol whatsoever had that feature (a.45 1911 like that, looking like a Springfield, was only offered in 2006). [It's set in an alternate 1985, where it's repeatedly shown that many things are different.]
Edit Corrected by Tailkinker
During the credits, it is revealed that The Comedian shot JFK - except that JFK is shot from behind, and the Comedian is positioned about 100 feet in front of the car. [The movie and comics are set in an alternate reality. Many historical differences may exist. Besides, according to all the videos, we see his head jerk 'back and to the left' Clearly indicating being shot from the front. (Refer to the movie JFK).]
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During Adrian's magazine interview, the reporter says that he and Hollis Mason, the original Nite Owl, are the only Watchmen to have revealed their true identities. But the first Nite Owl wasn't a Watchman; he was a Minuteman. [Character mistake. It is quite common for people (characters) to make a mistake, especially a reporter.]
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Although the "alternate reality" excuse could be applied, shown in the film are HD (high density) 3.5" floppy disks (in Veidt's office) which did not exist until 1987, and on the set of the TV interview with Dr. Manhattan there is a Sony Profeel Pro series TV monitor (KX-27HV1?) which were not introduced until 1986. [In a world with Dr. Manhattan, who knows what could have been invented earlier?]
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When the Nite Owl II inserts the Pyramid Transnational floppy disk into Veidt's computer, he inserts it backwards. Surprisingly, it works anyway. [After just having viewed the scene, I can say with certainty that Nite Owl inserts the disk correctly. Not to mention that inserting that type of disk backwards would require a lot of excessive force.]
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When Nite Owl II screams upon seeing Manhattan explode his friend, you can see the set lights shining above him as he falls to his knees. The first trailer also shows this scene near the 1:35 mark. [They could just as easily be the lights in the tunnel. Something specific would need to be pointed out to prove that they were the set lights.]
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In the scene where little Rorschach catches his mother having sex with a man, right after the man leaves and his mother slaps him, you can see two men behind the mom, holding some equipment. [The two men in the scene were dressed in clothing for the period the scene takes place in. The most reasonable explanation is that they were customers.]
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Dr. Manhattan perceives time simultaneously across past and future yet is subject to Veidt's use of tachyon interference. Yet Dr. Manhattan would still be able to perceive the point at which he is told about the tachyon interference and the reasons for Veidt's plan. So really he would know all along anyway. [The tachyon interference prevented him from perceiving aspects of time, whether past, present, or future, throughout its entire duration. The tachyon interference continued through the point when Dr. Manhattan learned of it, so he was unaware of it until that moment as was intended by Ozymandias.]
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On one of the bottom left monitors in Ozymandias' lair, during one of the earliest scenes where we see him watching them, the film "Mars Attacks" is playing, which came out in 1996. [In our timeline, it did indeed. But this is an altered timeline so events and their times can and are subtly or radically different.]
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In the scene where Dr. Manhattan is visible only as a circulatory system (after the accident where Jon Osterman is locked into a test chamber and caught in an "Intrinsic Field Subtractor" in 1959) we can see that he has pupils in the eyes, while normally he doesn't. ["Normally" being the point. He is in mid-transformation and we can't know his pupils would not be visible at this point. In fact, since we see them, we know they are indeed visible at this time.]
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When the bomb goes off in New York, the prison psychiatrist is knocking with his fingers at his stopped wirstwatch. He'd need his right hand for this. However, a few shots later we see that he is holding his briefcase in his right hand, so he could not have manipulated his watch with those fingers. ["A few shots later" gives him ample time to change the way he's holding his briefcase, or even pick it up from having set it down previously.]
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In the scene where the Nite Owl and Ms. Jupiter are in Night Owl's lair, there is a shot of Ms. Jupiter looking through Nite Owl's special night-vision goggles. Nite Owl turns off the lights and we are viewing him through Ms. Jupiter's eyes looking through his goggles. In this shot, the pupils of Nite Owl's eyes are very small - indicating that he is in bright light (as would be the case as the scene was most probably filmed in bright light). However, if we are viewing him through night vision goggles, we know he is entirely in the dark and his eyes would be completely dilated. [She was looking at him the moment he turned off the lights. It takes a few seconds for the human eye to dilate. The shot is not long enough to determine whether his eyes dilate in the dark or not.]
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When Nixon's speech is being shown on multiple TV screens (all of them playing at the same volume and within the same shot), there is no time delay between them and none of the foreign networks are translating what he's saying at all. [Not all foreign networks broadcast simultaneous translations. Besides, this is an alternative universe, and the technology available in this universe's 1985 is very diffferent than ours, so no time delay could very well be possible.]
Edit Corrected by rswarrior
In the scene where the prison thug has his arms taken off by the power tool, one can see his real arms behind his back. They are also visible when he passes out and falls down on the floor. [The arms were digitally removed and are absolutely not visible at any point.]
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On Veidt's TV wall, one of things he's watching is First Blood 2. Now if because of Manhattan's arrival in the war we won Vietnam, then First Blood would never have been written, and thus never filmed, i.e. no sequel. [If our universe can have mediums depicting fictitious endings to the Vietnam War (i.e Watchmen), it stands that the universe presented in Watchmen can have their own "alternate" takes on the war as well (i.e Rambo).]
Edit Corrected by S. Ha
In the TV Show "Heroes" it is a nod to the epic graphic novel Watchmen that Gabriel/Sylar is a former watch repairer as was Jon Osterman/Dr. Manhattan. [This is irrelevant to this film. The homage to the graphic novel occurs in Heroes and thus should be noted in a trivia item for that TV series, not here.]
Edit Corrected by Tailkinker
In the scene when the Comedian is being attacked in his house you can see a light pendant over his dining table that was designed in 2005, when the action is supposed to be set in 1985. [The movie is set in an alternate 1985, therefore it's entirely plausible that the light pendant was designed earlier in that time period.]
Edit Corrected by GalahadFairlight

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