Corrected entry: When Annie gets in Max's cab, there is bright sunlight. The scenes quickly change to dark night. Surely their trip wasn't that far. There was no transition from daylight to total night.
SexyIrishLeprechaun
17th Feb 2005
Collateral (2004)
4th Feb 2005
I, Robot (2004)
Corrected entry: 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.
Correction: Well, the movie is set in the future, it's quite possible that they have invented new alloys that are quite light.
19th Jan 2005
Meet the Fockers (2004)
Corrected entry: Sodium pentathol, the truth serum given to Gaylord, renders the drugged person in an unconscious, trance-like state. Gaylord would not have been able to walk around and function relatively normally as shown in the film.
Correction: Actually, in low enough doses it doesn't, it just causes a drunk-like state. See this site for more information. http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/other/sodium_pentothol_info1.shtml.
30th Jan 2005
Meet the Fockers (2004)
Corrected entry: When Gay is given truth serum, why does he then profess that he has a son with Isabella, if the truth is that he does not know anything about this?
Correction: One side effect of Sodium Pentathol is high suggestability. Jack's suggestion that he had a son made him BELIEVE it was true.
6th Jan 2005
Gangs of New York (2002)
Corrected entry: At the very beginning of the theater scene, we see an actor's face close up who is dressed as Abraham Lincoln. Look closely at the right side of his beard. It's a false beard because you can see a gap between it and his skin where the beard has lost its grip on his cheek.
Correction: It's a theater scene. The beard is supposed to be fake. It's a make-up mistake in the play, but not in the film itself.
2nd Dec 2004
Friends (1994)
The One Where Phoebe Hates PBS - S5-E4
Corrected entry: When Phoebe tells Joey she hates the channel he is going to, she says that when she was living on the street they sent her a key chain. Well, at what address did they send it to? Ms.Phoebe Buffay, The street?
Correction: They could have sent it to a P.O box or a friend of hers or even a business she stayed close to.
28th Nov 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
Corrected entry: Homer and Marge in most episodes say that they had Bart in high school, but they're 38 and Bart's 10. As stupid as Homer is, I doubt he was in high school at 28.
2nd Aug 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
The War of the Simpsons - S2-E20
Corrected entry: After Marge explains why they're having the party, Homer recalls their wedding very vividly, having, "priests, champagne, and musicians," but in Season 3, "I Married Marge," their wedding isn't that spectacular as Homer remembers.
Correction: Homer is an idiot, and his memory is not too good either.
26th Jul 2004
Mystic River (2003)
Corrected entry: When Tim Robbins is in the bar with the girls dancing on the bar, he and his friend are watching the Red Sox game on TV. The audio game commentary heard is actually that of a Red Sox radio broadcast, not television. The two voices heard are those of Joe and Jerry, they only do radio broadcasts. (00:14:40)
Correction: Some places play games and radio commentaries at the same time. My bar sometimes does that, if the TV commentary is useless.
28th Jul 2004
Friends (1994)
The One with Mrs. Bing - S1-E11
Corrected entry: Listen carefully when Ross and Mrs. Bing are kissing and Joey comes by - you will hear a woman in the audience saying : "Ooops ." (00:09:00)
Correction: Friends has never made it a secret they have live audiences. As such, someone in the crowd reacting to what is happening is not a mistake.
16th Jul 2004
The Terminal (2004)
Corrected entry: When the police officers ask Dixon if he wants to arrest Viktor, he says that the 5:00 pm flight from Tokyo has just arrived. It's New York during in the winter, but it is sunny outside at 5:00pm.
Correction: The five pm flight from Tokyo would have LEFT Tokyo at 5pm. I don't know much about flight times and such, but it could really get there when its sunny.
The airborne duration between Tokyo to JFK typically ranges from 12.5 to 13 hours, assuming it is a direct flight (otherwise Dixon's words wouldn't make sense). A 5:00 pm (GMT+9) departed flight would probably arrive in JFK (GMT-5, winter time) at from 3:30 to 4:00 pm. Moreover, It is a common knowledge that east-bound trans-pacific flights tend to be a few minutes earlier because of the wind. In reality, the Tokyo flight should have landed in JFK way before 5:00 pm (if it departed at 5:00 pm in Tokyo) or slightly before 5:00 pm (if it was scheduled to land at 5:00 pm). It is still daytime at 5:00 pm. When Viktor arrived in JFK and was brought to Dixon's office, green leaves out of the window, which suggests that Viktor arrived in JFK in late April or early May (NOTE: which I thought is actually a movie mistake, as the green leaves can be seen to have just started to turn yellow, which indicates September instead of suggested late Spring). We all know that Viktor stayed in the terminal for 9 months, which makes his walking out of the terminal sometime in late January to early February. The sunset (i.e. when you start to sense it is getting dark) time in New York during that period of the year starts earliest at right past 5:00 pm, with complete darkness arrives only at 6:30. The movie is actually particularly accurate on this point.
Correction: The airborne duration between Tokyo to JFK typically ranges from 12.5 to 13 hours, assuming it is a direct flight (otherwise Dixon's words wouldn't make sense). A 5:00 pm (GMT+9) departed flight would probably arrive in JFK (GMT-5, winter time) at from 3:30 to 4:00 pm. Moreover, It is a common knowledge that east-bound trans-pacific flights tend to be a few minutes earlier because of the wind. In reality, the Tokyo flight should have landed in JFK way before 5:00 pm (if it departed at 5:00 pm in Tokyo) or slightly before 5:00 pm (if it was scheduled to land at 5:00 pm). It is still daytime at 5:00 pm. When Viktor arrived in JFK and was brought to Dixon's office, green leaves out of the window, which suggests that Viktor arrived in JFK in late April or early May (NOTE: which I thought is actually a movie mistake, as the green leaves can be seen to have just started to turn yellow, which indicates September instead of suggested late Spring). We all know that Viktor stayed in the terminal for 9 months, which makes his walking out of the terminal sometime in late January to early February. The sunset (i.e. when you start to sense it is getting dark) time in New York during that period of the year starts earliest at right past 5:00 pm, with complete darkness arrives only at 6:30. The movie is actually particularly accurate on this point.
31st Jul 2004
Old School (2003)
Corrected entry: When the pledges are going through the initiation process (the scene where they are throwing the cinder blocks from the roof) the "big kid" throws his on a man hole cover. If cars and big rigs can drive over them i don't see how a 15lb cinder block would do what it did.
Correction: Its called "distribution of weight". The trucks etc distrubate their weight evenly over their tyres, otherwise there would be trouble. A heavy weight, dropped from a height doesn't distribute anything and as such the manhole cover might not be able to take it.
25th Jul 2004
Futurama (1999)
My Problem With Popplers (a.k.a. The Problem With Popplers) - S2-E18
Corrected entry: When Luur announces that they will eat 'the first earthling' who ate one of their young, he announces that it was Leela. Leela isn't an earthling.
Correction: Yes she is. It is revealed in season 4 that she is in fact a mutant and therefore technically an earthling. She didn't know it at the time, but it had been hinted at in previous episodes.
17th Jul 2004
Jurassic Park (1993)
Corrected entry: When the T-Rex moves to Dr. Grant and the boy they hold still because it can't see things that don't move. Unfortunately though, T-Rex's have a highly developed sense of smell and would certainly have known they were there.
Correction: Considering the fact T-Rex's have been extinct for 65 million years, its quite difficult to tell what their sense of smell was like. Also, Grant says quite clearly in the film that sight was the Rex's most powerful sense and if you stayed still, it confuses him.
There is actually evidence that T-Rex had visual clarity 13 times better than a human, and could see objects up to 6 kilometres away. So, T-Rex would have been able to see Dr. Grant and the boy regardless of whether they moved or not.
If a T-Rex is unable to see something when something is standing still, it's not its most powerful sense. Smell makes more sense, but not provable.
12th Jun 2004
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Corrected entry: It was crucial that patients of Lacuna Inc. remove all items that have a connection with the memory of the one they want erased. It seems like the dent in Joel's car would be a pretty significant connection, since it was part of the act that contributed to the final break up.
Correction: Yes, but as shown, a car dent can be explained away as "the guy parked next to me did it". A photograph would be more difficult to explain away.
6th Jun 2004
Troy (2004)
Corrected entry: When Brendan Gleeson figures out that his wife is gone, he travels to his brother's palace, taking about a day. His brother then sends notification to all the kings in Greece, a very large empire, to prepare for battle. This would take from a day to two weeks to deliver. Each of these states must then prepare all their arms and men. So how is it that the large, heavy fleet arrive at Troy only a day after Paris and Hector's small fleet?
4th Jun 2004
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Corrected entry: After Sirius has flown away on Buckbeak, the clock bell begins to toll, altogether there are 14 tolls. Even in the magic world there isn't a 14 o'clock. And since the time turner goes back in hours (stated in the book) it should be three hours on from 7.30pm, making it 10.30, and don't most clocks strike on the hour?
Correction: It chimes twelve times.
21st May 2004
Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004)
Corrected entry: In the scene outside Bud's trailer Beatrix has been shot, in the next scene she emerges from the coffin without a mark on her.
Correction: She was shot with rock salt. Its only designed to hurt, not kill or mark.
22nd Sep 2003
Futurama (1999)
Corrected entry: When everyone is floating towards the waterfall, the rock that saves them appears out of nowhere.
Correction: You can see it in the other shots, especially when Bender and the rest of ERR go over the edge. Its just a little below the water-line so you can't see it from water level.
12th Dec 2003
Futurama (1999)
Corrected entry: Bender is 30% Iron, 40% Zinc, 40% Titanium and 40% Dolomite. Thats 150%.
Correction: Not true. He sells his 40% titanium parts in one episode and sells some more parts and even explodes in later episodes.
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Correction: Its not bright day-light, it was close to sunset. The journey was long enough to have that transition and not every part of the journey was shown.
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