Corrected entry: Towards the beginning, when Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd meet the helicopter in the desert, they await a helicopter. After the helicopter lands, while it's rising off the ground, the red stripe across the side of the chopper gradually fades into green. And then, as it pulls away, the stripe abruptly changes back to red.
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27th Aug 2001
Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
27th Aug 2001
Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
Corrected entry: There was a scene in the movie showing Plenty returning to Bond's room, seeing him with Tiffany, and angrily going through Tiffany's purse to find her address (presumably to exact some sort of revenge). However, this scene was deleted in the final cut, leaving us with no clue whatsoever of how Plenty shows up at Tiffany's home.
Correction: There are any number of ways Plenty could have ended up in Tiffany Case's pool. The fact that a deleted scene exists to explain it proves this isn't a mistake - that just happened offscreen.
17th Sep 2007
Octopussy (1983)
Corrected entry: When the clown falls into the water in Berlin, and floats down river, it is obviously a dummy - check the strangely wrinkled forehead.
Correction: The strangely wrinkled forehead is actually the latex from the clown wig 009 is wearing.
24th Feb 2009
Octopussy (1983)
Corrected entry: What did the jewellery smuggling and the fake jewels have to do with the A-bomb? It wasn't payment to Kamal for services rendered, since the jewelry was transferred to General Orlov's car while Gobinda was watching. Kamal and Orlov could easily have placed a bomb in the circus without the jewelry-story.
Correction: Kamal and Orlov are using Octopussy's circus to smuggle the bomb into the air base. The circus is one of her many legitimate business ventures used to circumvent customs and border security as she smuggles jewels. She thinks she has been working with Kamal and Orlov to sell Russian jewels on the black market. Orlov steals the jewels and replaces them with fakes created by Kamal, and gives the real ones to Octopussy to smuggle out of Soviet territory. 009 discovered this and stole the Faberge egg, probably thinking Orlov was using the funds to secretly finance a covert Soviet operation. The jewels exchanged for the bomb were a necessary ruse because Octopussy wasn't really a bad guy who would go along with a plot to kill thousands in a nuclear explosion. So Orlov and Kamal had to make her think she was smuggling jewels so she wouldn't think anything was wrong. As Orlov explains when he takes delivery of the fake jewels, Kamal was to gain the real ones as payment after the bomb exploded. Orlov had to take the jewels with him after switching them out for the bomb because Kamal had to continue on with the train, and letting Orlov hold onto them was easier than Kamal having to smuggle them across the border into Western Europe and then hold onto them as he escaped, and then smuggle them back to India (presumably it's easier for Orlov to smuggle them back to India through Soviet controlled Afghanistan). But seeing Bond on the train, Orlov felt the need to warn his accomplices, which is why he made a break for the border.
27th Aug 2001
The World is Not Enough (1999)
Corrected entry: When Renard is setting the time to show M when she will die there is an upshot angle which shows the underside of the lampshade - you can see a sticker which is either a price tag or the propmaster's serial number.
Correction: So what? Why can't old things such as clocks have things stuck to them? If it's a price tag it's not even a mistake. It just means they didn't take the tag off.
28th Aug 2003
Die Another Day (2002)
Corrected entry: When Bond is with Q on the gadget place, you can see the Bond dummy Scaramanga used to train with in "The Man With the Golden Gun." It has a Roger Moore face, it's undressed and missing its fingers from its left hand.
Correction: No. There are several dummies in the lab in various states of disrepair, but none have Roger Moore's face. These are the dummies seen over the years used to test Q's various gadgets. The most prominent dummy seen (next to the crocodile sub) isn't just missing fingers from its left hand, its missing its entire left arm! It's actually highly unlikely MI6 would have the Scaramanga dummy of Bond considering that the playhouse (and the rest of the lair) blew up and Bond never bothered to take it with him.
7th Nov 2010
Never Say Never Again (1983)
Corrected entry: Nigel Small-Fawcett calls James Bond in the fishing lady's hotel room and James hangs up. James Bond's motel room is later blown up by Fatima Blush, so then Bond says to the fishing lady, "looks like we made the right choice for 'my place or yours'". So then, Nigel could not have known which room Bond was in. (00:55:20)
Correction: Actually, Nigel greets Bond on the phone by telling him how hard it was to track him down, implying he wasn't in his room. Nigel could have been talking with various hotel staffers before someone realized Bond was with the fishing girl.
7th Jun 2012
The Artist (2011)
Corrected entry: In the movie they show the filming of many scenes in the silent movie. They use a "Clapboard" to start the scene. Granted the slate part was accurate but the clapper was designed for sound use to line up sound with the film, so wouldn't have been used before the advent of talkies.
Correction: Wrong. The filming of silent films are shown using slates that don't have clappers. Clapboard slates are used only in the depiction of what are talkies within the world of the film (such as in the final scene).
24th Aug 2009
The World is Not Enough (1999)
Corrected entry: The Swiss banker says he delivers the money less a small amount to cover expenses. Then - if Bond knew what exchange rate to use - the GBP amount would convert to less than USD 5 million.
Correction: No, Bond was converting the final amount that was in the briefcase, which was written on the paper given to him to show the calculations of the deductions. King had paid more than the 3 million pounds, but the deductions were manipulated so the final amount would equal $5 million when converted. That's the message they were trying to send. If they wanted it to convert to $5.5 million or $4 million or whatever the fees would have been different.
22nd Aug 2012
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)
Corrected entry: Adam, the main vampire, claims he was 5000 years old. Judas was the first vampire as said in the movie and he was born somewhere around the year 0. That's 2000 years ago.
Correction: Judas is not said to be the first vampire in this film (he was in 'Dracula 2000', but not here). The story of Judas is told to explain how silver can kill vampires - that his act of betrayal caused silver to be a cursed substance and harmful to cursed creatures such as vampires because of the affront to God it represents.
2nd Oct 2012
Prometheus (2012)
Corrected entry: The spaceship travels approximately 14.5 times faster than the speed of light [the absolute maximum speed possible in universe]. You find that by dividing the distance to earth [3.27*10^17m] by the time they needed to arrive there [two years, four months, 18 days, 36 hours and 15 minutes], which is mentioned by David five minutes after the distance shows up.
Correction: First off, it's 3.27 x 10^14 km. And it's a science-fiction film set in the future, a genre well known for fictional technologies that enable FTL travel.
1st Jun 2012
Men in Black 3 (2012)
Corrected entry: In one of the first shoots on the moon, a Apollo moon lander is visible as a relic of the Apollo missions. However, the complete lander module consisting of the ascent AND descent modules is shown; which would mean the crew of the Apollo-mission in question would have never left the moon again.
Correction: While the mistake is technically correct, that a lunar lander observed on the moon today wouldn't have an ascent stage, this particular lunar lander [probably Apollo 15, judging by its upper hemisphere location] had a big structure built around it, and has been cordoned off, so in all likelihood the builders of the prison restored the ascent stage to the lander. Or it's a secret mission and the astronauts helped build the prison, and thus the ascent stage was never used. Or it's just a replica, like many museums on Earth have. [Transformers: Dark of the Moon made this same mistake, but with a landing site that wouldn't have been altered by subsequent visits.]
10th Feb 2008
National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)
Corrected entry: The reenactment of Lincoln's murder is not historically correct. Booth shot the president in the back of the head. One of Lincoln's guests - Major Rathbone - jumped from his seat and tried to prevent Booth from escaping, but Booth stabbed the Major violently in the arm with a knife. Rathbone quickly recovered and grabbed onto Booth's coat as he was preparing to jump from the sill of the box. Booth vaulted over the rail and down to the stage. His foot was caught on the Treasury flag, and Booth came down full-face to the audience, thus breaking his leg.
Correction: This is essentially what is depicted in the film, though for time the sequence had to be abridged and the fight with Rathbone is omitted. Booth's foot is shown catching in the flag, causing him to crash on the stage. The scene even includes the correct line being spoken during the play right before Lincoln is shot. There are other minor details about the scene the film flubs, but the broad sequence isn't one of them.
11th Aug 2008
Major League II (1994)
Corrected entry: In the second game of the doubleheader versus the Red Sox, when Willy comes in to pinch run, another unknown player comes up to bat. While Willy steals 2nd, 3rd, and home two pitches are thrown to the batter. Then Cerrano goes in to pinch hit but a pinch hitter cannot go in in the middle of an at bat unless the player is injured.
Correction: This entry is just wrong. Pinch hitters can enter the game at any point during an at-bat, regardless of injury.
12th Jan 2004
Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (1989)
Corrected entry: Once Indy gets past the blades, he stops them and shouts that he is through, once past the "Leap of Faith", he throws sand on the bridge to make it visible. But what about the "Word of God" device? Indy does not shout what to do, and as pointed out, Donovan & Elsa didn't know what else was in the book (about the final challenge). They didn't even know that the second device was called the "Word of God". Unless she took a wild guess that they had to spell Iehovah...
Correction: After Indy climbs back up after mistakenly stepping on the J, and as he figures out he needs to step on the I, Elsa and Donovan can be seen watching him from behind, next to the blades from the first challenge. He didn't need to tell them how to get through it because they were standing right there.
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Correction: It does no such thing. The stripe is always red. There are moments when the helicopter passes through a shadow, which makes the stripe darker, and then passes into a lighter area, which makes the red stand out more. The Blu-ray of the film confirms it is red throughout the sequence. The lower-resolution quality of other video formats might make it seem green.
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