Cubs Fan

28th Aug 2008

Vantage Point (2008)

Corrected entry: Each time a new individual's vantage point begins, a time countdown is shown at the lower left corner of the screen. It jumps from 1:59 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. every time.

Correction: It changes from 11:59 am to 12:00 pm in each perspective.

Cubs Fan

Corrected entry: When Harry and Marv get hit by the toolchest, Harry asks, "What's that sound?" Marv answers, "That was the sound of a tool chest falling down the stairs." They had not been on the staircase it came from, and had not seen the tool chest or the stairs - both were blocked by the door.

Correction: Considering the amount of noise the toolchest made, it's not a stretch to think that they were able to deduce what it was.

Cubs Fan

Corrected entry: In the beginning of the movie it shows Brendon Fraser fly fishing with the year stated as 1946 or similar. Then when shooting the gun at the "soldiers" he shouts welcome to the "21st" century, but that was the 20th.

Correction: He says "Welcome to the 20th century." At first, I thought he was wrong (since 2008 is in the 21st century), but then I remembered that 1947 was in the 20th.

Cubs Fan

Corrected entry: In the scene where Malfoy is taking points off Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ernie Macmillan at the start of chapter 28, Ernie states that Prefects can't take away house points, but in "The Chamber of Secrets" Percy Weasley takes ten points from Griffindor because Harry & Ron are in Moaning Myrtle's.

Correction: J.K. Rowling has explained that prefects can take House points, just not from other Houses.

Cubs Fan

27th Jun 2008

Iron Man (2008)

Corrected entry: Why would Obadiah Stane keep the video message of the 'terrorist' demanding more money for killing Tony Stark? If he wanted the company, just give them the extra money they requested to kill him and be done with it.

Correction: It could be for insurance, as a contingency in case the terrorists ever plan to double-cross him.

Cubs Fan

Corrected entry: Harry and Hermione get their wands taken from them when they are caught using Umbridge's fire. After the centaur attack the others break free and come to meet Harry and Hermione. After this point they have their wands, even though nothing was mentioned to say how they got them back.

Correction: If you read the text closely enough, it says that Ron hands Harry and Hermione's wands back to them.

Cubs Fan

17th Mar 2008

Vantage Point (2008)

Corrected entry: This one has been 'corrected' but the person 'correcting' the mistake didn't watch the movie properly. Barnes at NO point knows that the President has been abducted, and at NO point do HQ/Control ever inform him either, because quite early in the movie, Javier has already taken out HQ/Control as evidenced by Barnes repeated calls over the radio going unanswered. The mistake still stands, at the end of the movie Barnes asks Matthew Foxs character "where is the President", which is a plot hole because he was never told he was abducted.

Correction: Barnes definitely learns of POTUS' abduction; you have to listen for it, but it's there. Barnes is connected to Secret Service headquarters in Washington, not HQ at the hotel in Salamanca.

Cubs Fan

6th Mar 2008

Vantage Point (2008)

Corrected entry: Towards the end of the film, Dennis Quaid asks Matthew Fox "Where is the President?" However, it was earlier represented that Quaid did not know that a body double was being used, and he would not have known that the real president had been kidnapped because he did not go back to the hotel after the mayhem in the square.

Correction: At one point during the chase scene, Barnes is on the phone with HQ and is told the president has been abducted.

Cubs Fan

Corrected entry: In chapter nine, after confronting the death eaters in the cafe, Hermione tells Ron and Harry that she has never performed a memory charm before. Yet in chapter six she explained to them that she had used a memory charm on her parents to make them forget all about her and move to Australia where they would be safe.

Correction: According to J.K. Rowling, the spell Hermione used on her parents was *not* a Memory Charm. The spell she did use altered their memories of her instead of removing them completely.

Cubs Fan

Corrected entry: When Bernstein is telephoning a source for confirmation, he does so from a small office in the Washington Post. On the wall of the office is a poster of Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie, from a concert tour they made after Spiro Agnew resigned (Arlo alludes to this in the recording of the concert). But the movie takes place before Spiro's resignation, one of the last events mentioned on the teletype at the end.

Correction: Agnew's resignation would have happened within the film as depicted. He resigned on October 10, 1973, which falls within the film's timeline between the break-in on July 17, 1972 and Nixon's resignation on August 9, 1974.

Cubs Fan

Corrected entry: Malfoy used the Imperius curse on Madam Rosmerta to have her deliver the cursed necklace to a Hogwarts student. If Hogsmead is "outside of school" and Malfoy was underaged at the time, shouldn't the Ministry investigate the use of an Unforgivable Curse so close to Hogwarts? And if so, wouldn't they have found out that Rosmerta was cursed?

Correction: The way I understand it, the phrase "outside of school" refers to when students are in the Muggle world during the summer. Since Hogsmeade is an entirely wizarding village, I would think that while the Ministry certainly would investigate the matter, it would be difficult for them to ascertain who specifically performed the curse; there are sixteen groups of underage students (3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th years, from four Houses) who are allowed to visit the village.

Cubs Fan

True. but in book 2, the ministry knows what type of magic has been performed in the Dursley's house (by Dobby), as all the underaged have the trace on them. Therefore, the ministry MUST know that an Imperius curse (an unforgivable curse!) has been shot in the village at that moment in book 6. Since performing it on a human being can send you to Azkaban for life, the ministry should have investigated the matter thoroughly AND informed the headmaster of Hogwarts. When Draco is explaining things, it seems as if Dumbledore would never have guessed someone in the village was under the Imperius curse.

According to the wiki the trace is lifted whilst the students are attending Hogwarts. They can use magic freely then, this include the Hogwarts express at least so it's not unlikely Hogsmead counts as well. It is put back again during holidays, but not weekends. It is also true that muggle born children like Hermione and Harry are more closely monitored than one with a wizard family like Draco, since magic happens around him a lot more often. Next to that, if they do notice him using magic they might investigate but then find out he is the son of Lucius Malfoy and drop the case anyway because they fear him.

lionhead

25th Nov 2006

Casino Royale (2006)

Corrected entry: When Bond drinks the drugged Martini, he more or less bottoms-up the glass. But when he looks at the glass after feeling the drug it is at least half full.

Jacob La Cour

Correction: I've re-watched that scene, and Bond only takes a small sip.

Cubs Fan

Corrected entry: In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Marcus Flint is described as a "troll-like 6th year". Yet in the Prisoner of Azkaban, Flint is still captain of the Slytherin Quidditch team. There are only 7 years in Hogwarts and there is no mention of Flint being held back a year or anything else which would explain why he is present in what would be his 8th year at Hogwarts.

Correction: J.K. Rowling has acknowledged this apparent discrepancy, and has commented that Flint was held back.

Cubs Fan

Corrected entry: It states in the Half-Blood Prince that the ministry can only detect magic, not its perpetrator. Therefore, when Dumbledore visits Harry at the beginning of the book and performs magic, shouldn't the ministry have detected it, knowing that Harry was an underage wizard? (There should have been no magic being performed at the house at all).

Correction: As explained in "Deathly Hallows," there is a charm placed upon magical people under seventeen that detects underage magic. Since Dumbledore is of age, it's possible that the Ministry knows this, and it is thus legal magic.

Cubs Fan

Corrected entry: Chapter 6: The Journey from Platform Nine and Three Quarters it says that Harry kept to his room. and Hedwig swooped in and out of the open window. Couple of problems with this: at this stage Harry is still in his cupboard (and it is still called "his cupboard" at the beginning of the chapter, and cupboards don't have windows.

Correction: After the first letter from Hogwarts arrives, which Uncle Vernon confiscates, he and Aunt Petunia let Harry have Dudley's second bedroom.

Cubs Fan

Corrected entry: In this book Percy takes 10 points from Gryffindor, when Ron Harry and Hermione are outside the girls bathroom on the second floor. "Ten points from Gryffindor" said Percy, fingering his prefect badge. However, later in the series, once Umbridge begins teaching, Malfoy tries to dock points from Harry, Hermione and Ron, and Hermione says "Prefects can't take points from students, Malfoy, only teachers can".

Correction: According to J.K. Rowling, prefects can take points from students, just not from other prefects.

Cubs Fan

Corrected entry: In Chapter 17 Harry hands an injured Hedwig to Professor Grubbly-Plank who says "Thestrals will sometimes go for birds, of course." The next paragraph states that "Harry neither knew nor cared what Thestrals were". However, in Chapter Ten there is a discussion about them between Luna Lovegood and Harry who can both see them pulling the carriages, as well as a paragraph where Harry is pointing them out to Ron.

Correction: True, but at those points in time, Harry didn't know what they were called. Only after Hagrid returned and resumed teaching did Harry learn why he could see them and Ron and Hermione could not.

Cubs Fan

Corrected entry: When Rufus is jamming with Bill and Ted at the end of the movie, you will notice that when the camera switches shots and shows the close-up of Rufus's hands, his hands are black. Rufus is white throughout the movie.

Correction: I rewatched that scene, and Rufus's hands remain white.

Cubs Fan

27th Mar 2007

24 (2001)

Correction: Walt was separated from his wife when he met Audrey at the River Hotel. He was still legally married to Suzanne.

Cubs Fan

Corrected entry: On page 229, when Fred and George get beards Dumbledore sys "I suggest you both go up to Madame Pomfrey. She is already tending to Miss Fawcett of Ravenclaw." However at the ball on page 371, when Fawcett and Stebbins are found behind the bushes by Snape he says "Ten points from Hufflepuff, Fawcett." Shouldn't it be from Ravenclaw? This is from the first edition of the British version.

Correction: It could be that Fawcett has a sibling in Hufflepuff. As Hermione comments, siblings are sometimes put in different houses, an example being the Patil sisters; even though they are identical, Parvati is in Gryffindor, while Padma is in Ravenclaw.

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