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Avatar (2009) - 80 corrections

Directed by James Cameron, starring Giovanni Ribisi, Joel Moore, Michelle Rodriguez, Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Zoe Saldana (add more)

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-fi, Thriller

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At the end of the big battle, the survivors are lined up and are leaving Pandora but to where? All the ships from earth will be full and it will take at least 5+ years for empty ships to arrive to evacuate the survivors. [Simple logic would state that any ship doing the Earth-Pandora run must have sufficient capacity to evacuate the entire human population in the event of a disaster - it would be insane to have a situation where any possibility of rescue would take five years to get there. A significant number of the base's military personnel, likely the vast majority, would have been lost in the battle, so the ship returning to Earth should have more than ample capacity to take all the survivors back with them.]
Edit Corrected by Tailkinker
The missiles Qaurritch and his men use in the final battle are completely useless. If they have to fire in line of sight, why are the missiles constantly curving and flying all over the place? Line of sight works, but only if the missiles fly in a straight line, otherwise, hitting your target is dumb luck. [The missiles are flying around the place because of the magnetic properties pf the mountains. Notice the missiles were moving around fine when they took down home tree. Line of sight is just the best chance they have of hitting anything.]
Edit Corrected by XIII
The exoskeleton walkers are designed to detect the hand and arm movements that their drivers make and replicate them exactly. However at the end when the Colonel is shot by two arrows, he grasps the second one with his right hand (palm-down), however his walker makes a grasp with the palm up. [By this time the walker has suffered considerable damage. It is not unreasonable that some of the electronics and/or mechanical components of the system would no longer work correctly.]
Edit Corrected by Guy Time
On Pandora the animals do not have fur nor feathers. Still the Na'vi wear war decorations made out of feathers. [Just because we did not see any animals with feathers, doesn't mean they don't exist there.]
Edit Corrected by wizard_of_gore
The flux vortex in the Hallelujah mountains interferes with the radio instruments on the drop ship due to intense magnetic flux in the area. However it does not interfere with the Avatars, which are "remote controlled". ["Remote conrolled" doesn't necessarily equal "radio controlled" 140 years in the future. In fact, in the case of the Avatar program, it obviously does not.]
Edit Corrected by Phixius
The science of Pandora is all wrong. For example, they have regular days and nights there, but Pandora is not a planet, circling a sun, it's a moon, circling a planet. The days and nights would coincide with the rotation around the planet. For an extended period, when the planet was between Pandora and the sun, it would be dark, probably weeks at a time, and the opposite for daylight hours. In addition, because Pandora is a satellite of a gas giant, that means its orbit would be millions of miles in variance. There would be a few weeks of winter as it came several million miles further from the sun in its orbit, and then it would be several weeks of blistering summer as it came closer. The vegetation and ecology of the movie are treating the moon as if it had the same cycles and system as a planet, which is impossible. Even it took Pandora a year or more to orbit its planet, so that seasons were more regular, that means it would be in darkness for months as the planet was between it and the sun. If it rotated in a month, that means that it would be going through all 4 seasons 12 times a year, or however many months there were to a Pandoran year. [You're making wrong assumptions based partly on Earth's moon and based partly on simple misconceptions. Earth's moon is tidally locked with Earth (meaning that the same side is always facing Earth) but not all moons are necessarily like that. If Pandora is not tidally locked, it would definitely have its own day/night cycle, independent of the planet it orbited. And, yes, it's possible that it would pass in the shadow of the planet, and that would explain why the life there evolved bioluminescence so that they all glow in the dark. And it's entirely possible that we as an audience are simply not on Pandora long enough to enter into that dark season. And thirdly, given the distance that the gas giant is likely orbiting from its star, the distance change because of Pandora's orbit is completely negligable. Likely less than a percent of the total distance. Earth seasons don't happen because the distance with the sun changes. It is because the axis is tilted and different parts of the earth get aimed more or less directly toward or away from the sun.]
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During the scene when Jake and Norm enters the link-pods for the first time, we see Max looking at images of their brain activity. Max then slides Jakes images onto a tablet with his right hand while holding it with his left, before he moves away. In the next shot, we see Max start to move away from the screens once more, and this time he holds the tablet with his right hand. [Max was just flipping over the tablet. Not a mistake.]
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Grace is supposed to be dead, since she didn't make the transfer through the tree of souls. So, why is she holding a machine gun in almost the last scene when the humans are led to their ships to leave the planet? Look to the left side of the screen. [That's not Grace. She DID die.]
Edit Corrected by dux
In the scene after an inspiring speech by Jake, he grabs Neytiri's hand and goes to the bird. When the bird opens its wings, it is really obvious that it has a human leg. The CGI team missed that detail. [Please be more specific. The "bird" doesn't have a human leg since it's made entirely of CG.]
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When Jake is transformed at the end, he has no mask, so he couldn't have been breathing for the transformation. [Neytiri removes his mask when the "transformation" is complete. Clearly seen.]
Edit Corrected by XIII
In the Extended Edition of the movie, we have Tsu'tey's death scene in full near the end. Jake comes in and the whole scene plays out. but Jake is in his Avatar body. Not moments before, we saw the entire trailer holding the pods in which Jake connected with his Avatar body wrecked by Colonel Miles. So how did he reconnect with his Avatar body after that? It couldn't have been with that trailer, nor could it have been at the original base considering the company should still be inhabiting it and the scene seems to take place at most a few hours after wards. [The trailer was damaged, sure, but it wasn't totally wrecked - it still appeared to be, for the most part, structurally intact, for example. Slap a quick patch on the windows and any leaks (any installation designed to work in a toxic atmosphere is going to have repair equipment readily to hand) and it's not remotely unreasonable that at least one of the interface pods would still be functional.]
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Before decanting, the avatars have been maturing for six years in a sealed tank without consciousness, and yet the hair around their queue is in braids. Scuba-beautician? [It's not just hair in there, if indeed it is hair at all, and not one single Na'vi is seen to not have that "braid". Who's to say that whatever that appendage is doesn't simply grow in a way that resembles a human braid of hair?]
Edit Corrected by Phixius
In these short few seconds, In the top right corner of the shot, (Above the transparent screen's right corner), you can see a camera that moves exactly where the shot moves. This is a camera, although you have to be quick to see it; it almost disappears after 2 seconds. [Which "few short seconds"? What shot?]
Edit Corrected by MovieFan612 Time
In the scene where they are trying to save Grace's mind and soul from dying by transferring them to the avatar, instead of Grace, Jake is on the ground with his mask on and the roots are crawling over him not Grace. [I saw this movie three times in IMAX and it is definitely Grace's body. It's hard to mistake a female body for a male.]
Edit Corrected by wizard_of_gore
The first time we see the Avatar in the lab, before Jake connects to it, Jake's Avatar is lying on a bed and it is making a move with its foot. [Even though Jake's mind controls it, the Avatar is still an actual creature, with a nervous system. Muscle movements and twitches are to be expected.]
Edit Corrected by wizard_of_gore Time
A number of the animals on Pandora make the same sounds as the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park. For example, the horses, sometimes, make the same sound as the Velociraptors, and at one point in the film the T-Rex roar is made by one of the animals (but I'm not sure which one). [This is one person's opinion, not trivia. The two movies were produced by different companies (20th Century Fox and Universal) and therefore obviously had different sound production.]
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In the scene where the Na'vi are attempting to move Grace from her human body to her Avatar body, after she has died and one of the Na'vi moves to check for life in her Avatar, you can see her eyes flitch even though she is supposed to be dead. [People DO twitch immediately after death.]
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At various times in the film, Jake makes video logs. His 1st is dated May 19th, at approx. 17:09, his 12th is dated May 30th, at approx. 21:32, and his last (98th) is dated August 24th at 19:10. All in the year 2154. At no point in the film are we made aware of the lenghth of Pandoran days and/or nights. Pandora orbits a gas giant, Polyphemus, along with other moons, and Polyphemus orbits the sun, Alpha Centauri A. It's therefore highly unlikely that a Pandoran day (including the night) will be anywhere close to 24hours, which will subsequently affect the lengths of Pandoran weeks, months, years etc. Even if "earth-like" time, days and months were imposed to try and keep a sense of nomality it would never work. [Just because they are working on Pandora, doesn't mean they have to adopt the Pandoran calendar and time measurements. They are only "visitors" so they would keep in time with their own time/calendar system and report back to Earth using these measurements. There's no reason why they would have to keep time with Pandora's system.]
Edit Corrected by MovieFan612
In the sequence where the Navi try to upload Grace's human body to a Navi, you see Jake looking down on the two bodies. But in the next shot, he suddenly turns into Norm Spellman's avatar. [That's because that is Norm Spellman's avatar. He is standing next to Jake.]
Edit Corrected by Brad Time
When Jake is running from the Cat like thing, when he jumps through the tree's he has no gun, has it again, no gun, has it. Falls over and drops the gun, gets back up with NO gun in his hands and runs under the tree with nothing in his hands. Then has the gun to shoot it again under the roots of the tree. [Jake has the gun in his left hand most of the time during this scene, but at no point does he not have the gun until after the thanator rips it from his hands.]
Edit Corrected by tavenger5

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