Corrected entry: At the beginning of the show, all five team members working together are unable to defeat Cinderblock, yet somehow Cyborg is able to return later on and show the team he defeated Cinderblock by himself.
Rlvlk
25th Jul 2005
Teen Titans (2003)
25th Jul 2005
Big Fish (2003)
Corrected entry: When Edward and Karl are leaving Ashton, the movie marquee is advertising 1953's "From Here to Eternity". Edward's paratrooper mission would have been prior to the Korean War Armistice of July 27, 1953. This would not have left enough time for his stint at the carnival and Army training as a paratrooper.
Correction: The people he meets on the journey of his life are real, but the facts surrounding them are embellished. The movie is one tall-tale after another so there is plenty of time for him to do anything he wishes.
19th Jul 2005
Phoenix Nights (2001)
Corrected entry: During the introductions in Robot Wars Brian asks a man if that is his robot, the man says something like "the correct term is an automaton." This is actually incorrect. An automaton is programmed with tasks to do, and does them when he thinks they are necessary according to his programming, but a robot such as the one in the episode has no intelligence of its own and only responds to commands from the controller.
Correction: Automaton and robot can be interchangeable terms: http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=automaton&x=14&y=18.
17th Jul 2005
The Odyssey (1997)
Corrected entry: When the wooden horse is being pulled into Troy, there is an overhead shot in which you can tell that it's at least 15 feet taller than the city gates. How did they get it inside?
Correction: It was intentional. The Trojans had to take apart part of the walls and gates to get it in. The Greeks couldn't break through the Trojan walls so they built the horse intentionally bigger than the gate. They left behind one man with a story to entice the Trojans to get the horse into the city. This way, the Trojans broke through their own walls allowing the rest of the Greek army into the city.
20th Jul 2005
Hot Shots! (1991)
Corrected entry: When Block's cockpit gets barraged by bullets, some of those shots would have hit him in more places than just the arm.
Correction: The movie is a spoof. In some war movies, no matter how bad the plane gets shot up (if the pilot lives) he only takes a round in the arm.
10th Mar 2005
King Ralph (1991)
Corrected entry: Why would a ceremonial sword, such as the one used for performing knighthoods, be sharp?
Correction: My cousin, while serving in the US Air Force, used to carry a ceremonial sword. He said at times he would get bored and sit down and sharpen it.
1st Jul 2005
Mortal Kombat (1995)
Corrected entry: During Goro's First fight with the black guy, Goro destroys his opponent. After winning the battle, Tsang says, "Flawless Victory." According to the game, in order to get a flawless victory, you have to have a full bar of energy, which usually goes down even if you have been hit once. The black guy hits Goro a couple of times, which would nullify the "Flawless Victory" comment.
18th Jul 2005
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Corrected entry: A physics-related mistake in the scene in which Obi-Wan and Anakin attack Gen. Grevious's ship: As they approach the hangar bay in their fighters, Anakin shoots out the forcefield generator, rendering the hangar bay completely exposed to the vacuum of space. The Jedi crash-land their craft in the hangar just before the emergency doors close on them and then they instantly leap from their respective cockpits to engage the guard-droids. There is no conceivable way to replenish that huge volume of air in the few seconds elapsed between the hangar doors closing and the Jedi exiting their ships. Even if the air (and heat) could be replenished that quickly, the massive pressure difference it caused would've produced a shock wave, and likely ruptured their ear drums.
Correction: Their technology is a bit more advanced than ours: The interstellar travel, hyperdrive, robotics, lightsabres, cloning, etc. They should be able to find someway to repressureize the hangar quickly and safely.
17th Jul 2005
Troy (2004)
Corrected entry: When Achilles sticks out his sword over the arriving Greek army, they all yell "Achilles, Achilles". Some of them are at too far of a distance away to have properly identified Achilles.
Correction: The people that can see him start chanting and those that can't see him join in.
7th Mar 2005
The Simpsons (1989)
Corrected entry: When Aunt Gladys Bouvier dies, she leaves her pet iguana to her sister, Jacqueline Bouvier (Marge's Mom.) If she never married as she claims, Jacqueline's maiden name would have been Bouvier, not her married name. This would also mean that Patty, Selma and Marge would not be Bouviers either.
Correction: It is customary for the wife to take the husband's last name, not mandatory. You can even switch back after a divorce or a death.
6th Sep 2004
Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)
Corrected entry: When the co-pilot calls the control tower after the flying saucer has passed in front of the airplane, he says "May Day, May Day, standby Burbank tower." According to protocol, pilots actually have to say "May Day" three times. (00:05:15)
Correction: People get nervous, people make mistakes.
13th Jul 2005
Shrek 2 (2004)
Corrected entry: When Shrek first sees Fiona with Charming, he assumes she has simply fallen for someone else. He does not know who Charming is, and moreover, he does not know that Fiona knows about the potion. Donkey would simply have to tell Shrek that Fiona knows about the potion, and Shrek would logically conclude that she is mistaking Charming for himself. This renders a sizeable chunk of the movie unnecessary.
11th Nov 2004
Courage Under Fire (1996)
Corrected entry: Karen Walden's Medevac and the Blackhawk chopper were both shot down near Kufa, Iraq, which is next to Najaf. In the first Gulf War, no American forces went that far north into Iraq with the exception of jets conducting air raids.
Correction: The movie isn't a documentry on the Persian Gulf War, it is a dramatization. If the screenwriters wanted a battle to happen that far North, they can do it.
29th Jun 2005
Star Trek (1966)
Corrected entry: This episode breaks the laws of physics. After Kirk has been hyper-accelerated to Scalosian rate, he fires a phaser at Deela but the phaser light crawls out slowly and she steps out of the way. Phasers would fire at the speed of light, which is CONSTANT, a fundamental basis of modern physics. She would not have been able to avoid getting shot regardless of being hyper-accelerated.
Correction: Being hyper-accelerated, time is moving at a faster rate for them. The phaser is not hyper-accelerated so she easily steps out of its way. In near light-speed physics frame of reference becomes particularly important.
14th Jun 2005
Star Trek: Enterprise (2001)
In a Mirror, Darkly (1) - S4-E18
Corrected entry: At the end of the opening credits for this episode and its sequel, Earth is shown rotating from west to east, the opposite direction as in real-life, likely to highlight the differences in the mirror universe.
Correction: Since they have never shown the sun rising in the mirror universe, the Earth just might rotate west to east. The phenomenom is called retrograde rotation. Venus spins west to east for example.
13th Nov 2002
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
Corrected entry: The letter adressed to new Hogwarts students reads they may bring an owl OR a cat OR a toad. How come Ron can bring a rat? (00:18:35 - 00:36:15)
Correction: They actually only showed the letter to Harry. The others may have been different. Or, since Ron was a legacy and Scabbers was a hand-me-down pet, they made an exception to the rule (as they did many times in the film) And, according to the book, there were other pets at the school besides owls, toads, and cats. At least one other student had a spider.
17th Dec 2002
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Corrected entry: The basilisk is supposed to be moving through the plumbing, but when it petrifies people it's in a room or hallway. How does it get out of the plumbing and into the room? It's too big to fit through a tap, drain or toilet. If it has to knock a hole in the pipes and walls to get out, surely someone would have noticed gaping holes everywhere?
Correction: It is a magical beast controlled by the 2nd most powerful wizard in the world. Maybe Voldemort shrunk it before he sent it out to hunt.
13th Dec 2004
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Corrected entry: Look at the blood writing on the wall. Tom Riddle says that it was written by Ginny, but you can see that it's too high for her to write - we see a flashback of Ginny writing the blood on the wall, not standing on a chair and clearly not standing on a ladder.
Correction: If a wizard or a witch can levitate a feather, it would be no problem to levitate him/herself. Besides, the shot of Ginny writing just shows her from the chest up writing on the wall.
19th Jun 2005
Kim Possible (2002)
Ron the Man - S1-E20
Corrected entry: No scientist would create something that mixes time, space, etc. into a Nevada-sized vortex of doom. There would be absolutely no purpose for it, except to be stolen by villains like Dementor and used for evil.
Correction: J Robert Oppenheimer, one of the scientists that helped build the atomic bomb, was quoted as saying "My God, what have we done?" when he witnessed the first nuclear explosion. Scientists can be short sighted too.
13th Jun 2005
South Park (1997)
Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes - S8-E9
Corrected entry: When entering Wall-Mart, Mrs. Brofloski points to Grandpa Marsh and says to Stan's mom, "Isn't that your father?". Grandpa Marsh is the father of Stan's dad.
Correction: Mrs. Brofloski was asking a question, that was never answered, so the answer would be "No, he's my Father-in-law." Or if she really considered him a Dad, she could answer "Yes".
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Correction: They also show that they are not working well together as a team. Cyborg and Robin have a major fight which causes Cyborg to quit, hence the Divide part of the title. As for how Cyborg did it alone, use some imagination.
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