Hamster

19th Oct 2002

The Haunting (1999)

Corrected entry: When Theo and Nell are taken into their room for the first time Theo does a front flip onto her bed, but lands facing backward.

Correction: This is what I thought at first, when I watched it normally. But if you watch in slow-motion, you can see in the wide-shot she flips and then starts to fall facing backwards. Then it cuts to a closeup of he landing on her back. It's just that she does the flip so quickly, and the angle cuts instantly, it's hard to spot.

16th Nov 2002

The Haunting (1999)

Corrected entry: In the scene where Luke, Theo, Nell and Dr. Marrow are attempting to escape Hill House, Luke runs to borrow Nell's car in order to ram the gates. In a subsequent shot, a rather large SUV is also parked within the gates; why choose the lighter, less-powerful vehicle?

Correction: This is a character's decision - not a movie mistake.

19th Dec 2002

The Haunting (1999)

Corrected entry: When Dr Marrow goes to rescue Nell to the top of the spiral stairs, at the end of the scene, they leave the greenhouse through a door on top of the stairs. It would have been much easier for him to go rescue her from the top, while Theo and Luke talked to her as a diversion to avoid her from throwing herself off.

Correction: This is a character's decision, not a movie mistake. Anyway, Dr. Marrow did not know that the house would unscrew the bolts and untwine the wires holding the metal staircase in order to kill him, so he probably thought climbing the staircase would be easier.

11th Sep 2004

The Master of Disguise (2002)

Corrected entry: When Bowman captures Fabrizzio if you watch Bowman you never see him throw his cigar into the Dumpster because the same exact one is found later.

tylerasktaylorsteckleralexdenny

Correction: Just because we didn't see Bowman throw the cigar in the dumpster, it doesn't mean that he didn't. We don't see ever shot of this scene, only four or five shots. The shots in this scene are not at all consecutive either.

4th Sep 2004

The Master of Disguise (2002)

Corrected entry: When Pistachio and his Grandfather are singing "Who, Why, Where, How," watch in the background before they were singing, then look at it while they're singing, the store in the background changes and goes back to the one it has before.

tylerasktaylorsteckleralexdenny

Correction: The store arrangement never changes. It seems it does, but this is due to the different angles. In wideshots from the side, we see "Pasticceria Franz", but then when it closeups on Pistachio, we see part of a dark-green shop which is directly behind him. But once again, the shops / restaurants around the are always the same, they just seem different due to the shots being angled differently.

10th Oct 2004

The Master of Disguise (2002)

Corrected entry: Devlin Bowman catches Pistachio because he has cherries on his feet. When he backs away and does a flip, his shoes are black.

tylerasktaylorsteckleralexdenny

Correction: These shots are not consecutive, and in between them we see a shot of Pistachio ripping his "henchman" uniform off, so he may have pulled the cherries off too.

1st Nov 2004

The Master of Disguise (2002)

Corrected entry: At the beginning, Pistachio has a flashback to his science class. When he says "and just a little bit of Luminol", his mouth isn't matching the words.

tylerasktaylorsteckleralexdenny

Correction: I checked this out, and his mouth moves along with the audio perfectly.

21st Mar 2002

Beetlejuice (1988)

Corrected entry: When Otho and Delia walk through the bathroom of the house with the spray paint cans, you can see the top of the bathroom all cut off to reveal the top of the studio behind it.

Correction: I used the DVD and I rewatched this scene again and again, but never found this.

28th Aug 2003

The Master of Disguise (2002)

Corrected entry: At the end, when Bowman is showing the Apollo 11 Lunar Module, he is standing up. In the very next shot, he is sitting down and talking.

Correction: These are two different scenes. There is nothing to indicate that these two shots run consecutively with each other, so therefore they can easily be classified as two seperate scenes.

18th Jun 2003

The Master of Disguise (2002)

Corrected entry: In the scene with Mr. Peru, you see him dancing on a blue floor. Later, in the same scene, you can see him dancing on red tiles. (00:50:28)

Correction: Yet again, these shots are not consecutive, so it would have been easy for Mr. Peru to have moved to another place. Not only the floor changes, but everything behind him changes too, so it's obvious he has just moved to another location.

29th Jul 2005

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

Corrected entry: When Willy goes trick-or-treating, he is holding a pillowcase/bag, but when his father spills the candy on the table, it is out of a pumpkin bucket.

Correction: The plastic pumpkin bucket could be inside the pillowcase. Instead of carrying the small pumpkin bucket about, he could have put it inside the pillowcase, which would have probably been much easier to carry.

23rd Aug 2005

Matilda (1996)

Corrected entry: Matilda has a lot of books in her small red wagon. Usually libraries give you a limit to how many books you can get out.

Correction: Matilda's wagon is full of big books, and in each shot I'd say she has around 20. However, at my local library, we can get up to 35 books out at a time. In fact, when the librarian is walking with Matilda, she tells her she can get up to as many books as she wants.

23rd Aug 2005

Matilda (1996)

Corrected entry: When Matilda first realises her powers, she dances in the lounge and makes cards, counters and other objects fly around. When she finishes, she sits on the couch, moves her hands in a motion, signaling she wants the curtains open. Nothing happens. Then she turns off the radio, does the same hand motion and the curtains open, so why didn't they open before?

Correction: When she signalled to stop the first time, she was telling the pack of cards/counters to stop flying around, then the second time, she does another motion signaling the curtains to open.

17th Aug 2005

Matilda (1996)

Corrected entry: In the part where the piece of chalk floats and writes on the board - you can see a wire all the time.

Correction: The special featurette explains how they did this scene - they wrote the letters the chalk is going to write backwards on the wall behind the chalkboard. They then used a strong magnet and traced these words - thus giving the effect that the chalk is floating and writing the words on the board the correct way. No wires were used in the making of this scene.

17th Aug 2005

Friday the 13th Part 3: 3D (1982)

Corrected entry: On the movie poster for Friday the 13th part 3D their is a picture of Jason shoving his machete at a victim in the shower curtain. This scene never happened in the film it's self.

Correction: This often happens, and is not a proper MOVIE mistake. Scenes from movie posters/trailers/TV spots etc. which don't make it into the movie itself are NOT movie mistakes. Additionaly, the front cover is done like that for a 3D effect (the machete poking through the shower curtain.).

27th Aug 2003

Barb Wire (1996)

Corrected entry: When the police chief hands Barb the grenade, there are Directorate soldiers behind them. Surely they would have noticed he didn't cuff her.

Correction: There is a 50% chance that they would see this, but then a 50% chance they would not. Your mistake is saying the Directorate soldiers HAD to have seen this, but they don't really seem to be looking closely as he "cuffs" her.

29th May 2005

Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (1985)

Corrected entry: When Roy goes into the barn he opens a door up and Pam comes out with a chainsaw. Roy tries to get away but Pam cuts him in the shoulder and he falls down. Then the chainsaw runs out of gasoline and Pam throws the chainsaw at Roy. When Pam throws the chainsaw it goes in an entirely different direction than Roy, thus missing him. But Roy stills flies back into the pile of hay as if the chainsaw had hit him. (01:14:40)

Correction: The chainsaw is quite close to hitting Roy, and the reason he falls back is because he is dodging the flying chainsaw, so that it doesn't hit him. He falls back, into some hay, and then gets straight back up, without acting as if anything hurt. So it is clear he was just dodging the chainsaw - he didn't get hit.

26th Aug 2003

Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (1985)

Corrected entry: In the scene when Billy picks up Lana from the gas station Lana thinks she is waiting for Billy and she runs out of the car after seeing Jason's feet, Jason swings the axe at her horizontly in her stomach but as the camera zooms in on her when she is dead on the floor the axe is now seen vertically in her stomach. (00:37:10)

Correction: On my DVD, when the camera zooms out from Lana, when she is dead on the floor, the axe is stuck horizontally in her chest.

17th Apr 2005

Lilo & Stitch (2002)

Corrected entry: In the beginning of the movie when Stitch breaks out he holds some broken pieces of metal to shield him from the guns. Stitch is bulletproof, so why would he need them?

Correction: It could be very possible Stitch was never informed that he was bulletproof, so therefore his instinct would be to shield himself from danger. The bullets hitting would also slow him down and lower his chance of escape.

7th Dec 2002

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)

Corrected entry: When Cindy is in the Grinch's cave, she has gloves on. Yet when she falls into the trap door, she doesn't have any gloves on.

Correction: Cindy has gloves on in the Grinch's lair, and they are still on her hands as she falls down the trap door. They then come off during her slide down the chute. The gloves are still visible all the time because they are the type of gloves on strings (usually attached to the coat.)

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