Corrected entry: In the scene when Cecil is trying to get into the clinic and fakes that he left his coat, Jill turns around and unlocks the door to the waiting room, grabs the coat, and hands it to Cecil, who then charges into the room and demands the keys from Jill. Why would he need the keys if Jill never relocked the door? He was watching her the whole time, so he would have known.
wizard_of_gore
31st Oct 2007
Saw IV (2007)
28th Oct 2007
Saw IV (2007)
Corrected entry: The two ice-blocks that are suspended from the ceiling (that kill Mathews) were present the entire film. However, it is impossible that nobody would have noticed them, as they would be melting at least lightly, causing water to drip down and make noise. Also, they are rigged to a series of wires and pulleys that would have literally been impossible not to notice.
Correction: Who's to say what a person would, or would not notice under extreme stress? The lawyer was concentrating on watching the monitors, and saving his own skin, and the detective standing on the ice block has been in captivity for six months, and wants to die, so he certainly may not have noticed some water dripping from the ceiling.
21st Oct 2007
Transformers (2007)
Corrected entry: When Bumblebee, in car form, shows up on the car lot, nobody on the lot recognizes it, indicating that the store never owned it, yet the salesmen still sells it. How is it possible for him to sell a car his store doesn't own? It wouldn't have the proper paperwork needed for things such as its registration.
Correction: It's clear in the movie that the owner of the dealership is not exactly on the up-and-up, and he will just find a way to "fix" the paperwork.
11th Jul 2007
Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
Corrected entry: When McClane drives the truck into the computer control room, he smashes into the Thai goon with high speed, and then slams her into a wall. Her legs would have been crushed by that impact, but she's not hurt at all, and we see her moving her legs around with ease when she's trying to climb up the truck.
Correction: If you look closely, she does not actually hit the wall. The truck slams into an elevator shaft, and the rear of the truch gets stuck and stops it just short of the front end slamming into the opposite wall.
18th Jul 2007
Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
Corrected entry: When the hackers have taken over the TV broadcast signal and the picture is being displayed in the FBI command centre, a message scrolls across the screen. Cut to another shot with John McClane watching the same TV channel as the FBI, the same message scrolls across, when it had in fact already been displayed.
Correction: This is a standard movie making convention of showing the same scene or shot from different characters' point of view.
7th Aug 2007
Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
Corrected entry: In the scene where McClane is in the truck being chased by the jet plane, the truck is attacked by missiles. In a particular shot a missile blows up the road making the truck almost flip-over. The truck is in a hard LEFT-turn. McClane steers hard LEFT to prevent the truck from flipping over. But that would only make the truck flip harder. He should have steered hard RIGHT.
Correction: The trailer portion is trying to flip overto the right. He steers hard left to try to counterbalance the effect of the trailer tipping over.
If you look at the scene, the truck is also tipping, not just the trailer. Steering hard left with a truck and trailer on the verge of tipping to the right would increase the centrifugal force already acting upon it and it would have completed the tip over. Steering hard to the same direction of the tip while moving forward would apply the counter force necessary to allow the truck/trailer to return to normal center of gravity over the wheels. It is a physics error.
19th Sep 2007
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000)
Corrected entry: In the pre title sequence the rider calls the spooked horse "Gunner" yet when Gil asks Jim who discovered the body in the pipe Jim says "Flicka" as it cuts to the horse. (00:00:25 - 00:01:25)
Correction: Jim is making a joke. There is a famous kids film called "My Friend Flicka" and Jim is calling the horse Flicka as a joking reference to that film.
1st Sep 2003
There's Something About Mary (1998)
Corrected entry: When Ben Stiller gets done "cleaning the pipes", he looks around the bathroom for "the missing hair gel", if you freeze or slo-mo the scene, you can see there's nothing dangling from either ear. It doesn't appear until he answers the door. (01:24:25)
Correction: As per the rules of this site, if you have to use slow motion or freeze frame, it's not a valid mistake.
2nd Aug 2007
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
Corrected entry: When Umbridge gets caught by the fireworks-dragon, the doorway fills with smoke. Umbridge vanishes from that shot; the smoke clears enough to see that she isn't there anymore. She reappears in one of the next shots, after the ministry decrees have fallen down and the smoke has cleared.
Correction: It's all an illusion. The dragon 'eats' her, she vanishes for a moment, and then reappears. It's all magic.
22nd Aug 2005
Star Trek: Generations (1994)
Corrected entry: The ribbon obviously moves faster than light (it covers the distance between star systems in a matter of hours), but when it passes Veridian III it moves much, much slower than light.
Correction: This is a fictional object and, as such, can do whatever the writers need it to do. Perhaps it slows down when it encounters the gravitational forces in a solar system.
25th Jul 2007
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Corrected entry: In Rita's first interview with the four champions, she caresses Fleur's cheek then slaps it. Fleur flinches before Rita's hand leaves her cheek for the slap.
Correction: She's cringing because she does not like the fact that Rita is even touching her.
4th Jul 2007
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)
Corrected entry: Throughout the movie Johnny is "unstable" and switches powers with the rest of the group. However, at the end when he takes the powers of the others, he doesn't lose his flame abilities as he should have.
Correction: Since we do not know the exact mechanism by which the switch takes place, we cannot know what will happen when all four of them touch at the same time. In addition, Reed might have calculated or guessed, off screen, that by all four of them touching, Johnny would absorb their powers and keep his own.
1st Apr 2003
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
Corrected entry: In the scene where the Enterprise surrenders and Kirk and McCoy are about to beam to the Kilingon ship, if you watch carefully you can see Spock put his hand on Kirk's shoulder and place the tracking device there, which comes into play later when the Enterprise rescues him from the dilithium asteroid.
Correction: This is an important plot point, not trivia.
7th Jul 2007
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)
Corrected entry: The Human Torch's run-in with the Silver Surfer allows him to somehow switch powers with the other members. However the scene in which Johnny uses all four members powers should not be possible because inherent in switching powers is the required giving up of his own.
Correction: Since we do not know the exact mechanism by which the switch takes place, we cannot know what will happen when all four of them touch at the same time. In addition, Reed might have guessed, off screen, that by all four of them touching, Johnny would absorb their powers and keep his own.
5th Jun 2003
Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)
Corrected entry: In the scene where McClane and Zeus are arguing by the fountain, McClane is slamming his near-empty water jug around as he berates his 'new best friend'. Moments later his container is seen to be almost full, with exactly two gallons of water.
Correction: There are some scenes in between these two scenes, and more than 'a few moments' passes. It's clear that they had been experimenting with the water jugs in the intervening time.
3rd Feb 2005
Misery (1990)
Corrected entry: When Paul is searching the house in the wheelchair and starts reading the scrapbook articles about Annie, they start to tell the story concerning the headline but if you freeze frame you can see the story just starts to repeat it self.
Correction: According to the rules of this site, if you have to use freeze-frame to see it, it's not a valid mistake.
27th Nov 2004
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Corrected entry: When the Oompa Loompa is steering the Wonkatania, he doesn't move the steering wheel yet the ship manages to turn every corner. (00:59:00)
Correction: This was corrected in a similar entry. The boat could purposely be guided by a rail, to make it easier to control, and the wheel itself non-functional.
28th May 2007
Lost (2004)
Corrected entry: In Episode "Through the Looking Glass," Marsha Thomason, who plays Naomi Dorrit and James Lesure, who plays Dr. Hamill, were both major actors on "Las Vegas," playing Nesa Holt and Mike Cannon.
Correction: Actors appearing in other shows and/or movies is quite common, and is not really trivia.
13th Jun 2007
Office Space (1999)
Corrected entry: When Peter goes to Joanna's restaurant to ask her out, her long hair is down. Some is pulled back, but there is still a lot of her hair hanging down in front of her. This mistake keeps getting removed (not corrected) from the site, but most restaurants do require waitresses to tie all of their hair back. Many don't allow waitresses to have any of their hair touching the collar of their shirt.
Correction: It's still not a mistake. Just because 'many' restaurants don't allow this, doesn't mean that this one doesn't. It's not exactly a five star establishment.
Correction: I worked at a restaurant that was quite similar to this place - casual sit-down, "bar and grill" - and there were female servers who got away with this. And maybe Joanna's manager did speak to her about her hair (considering his dissatisfaction with her performance) at some point, off-screen.
27th Aug 2001
Death Race 2000 (1975)
Corrected entry: Thomasina refers to the navigator as her granddaughter, yet at the end, the navigator refers to Thomasina as her great-grandmother.
Correction: This is a character decision. My own great-grandmother refers to me as her 'grandson' and not her 'great-grandson'.
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