James King III

31st Aug 2008

Wall-E (2008)

Corrected entry: The plant WALL-E found was in a dark fridge. It shouldn't be alive without water or light.

Correction: Seeds can sprout into small plants with leaves in total darkness as long as there's water. They can't grow into large plants, but they can sprout- and that's all the plant is at that point.

James King III

But for a plant to be green, it needs to use photosynthesis, which can't happen without the sun.

27th Aug 2008

Wall-E (2008)

Corrected entry: In the ship's waste room, there are countless massive piles of metal rubbish. Where is all that metal waste from? The sheer amount of it can't only be bits from broken robots/systems; since the waste is being compacted and released one big pile at a time, even 700 years worth of broken robot bits wouldn't amount to that mass with regular expulsion.

Correction: We only ever see the "passenger" area of the cruise ship. There could be massive mechanical systems (life support, the reactor, etc) that is hidden from public view but still needs replacement parts and still produces scrap.

James King III

25th Aug 2008

Wall-E (2008)

Corrected entry: When in the repair ward, a robot puts a load of make-up on Wall-E's face and then when he is in his 'cell', a Hoover-looking robot sneezes on him and the white powder is blasted all over his face. In the very next shot of Wall-E, the make-up is all gone.

Correction: There are several camera cuts between the application and removal of the make-up: first person shots, seeing other bots, etc: Each time we see Wall-E he has less and less makeup on and VA-QM has had enough time to clean him off.

James King III

20th Jul 2008

Wall-E (2008)

Corrected entry: In the end, when it is panning out to the credits, the shorter building in the middle reads "Buy O Large" instead of "Buy N Large" or BNL, as it says during the rest of the movie.

Correction: It's a circle with an N in it- a dark N, which probably means the red one fell off some time in the last 700 years.

James King III

1st Jul 2008

Wall-E (2008)

Corrected entry: The Captain is holding a globe. When he drops it, it falls to his right, but in the following shot, as he moves forward, the globe is shown hitting the floor on his left.

Correction: It slides off his right side, then bounces off the wall and rolls underneath him- by the time we see the wide shot, it's correctly on his left.

James King III

16th Jul 2008

Wall-E (2008)

Corrected entry: Auto sees the plant, and orders "A113" (the order to destroy the plant to prevent the ship from going back to the Earth) is flashed on his visor. Then why does Auto present the plant to the Captain, instead of destroying it right now without the Captain learning about it?

Correction: Auto never shows the Captain the plant. He has the helper bot (GO-4) take it from EVE before she can present it, and gets her sent to the repair ward. If he had tried to cover up the fact that EVE returned positive at all, he could have been found out; the ship was made to make a big deal of this and no doubt several logs were made as soon as she returned aboard. (Plus, EVE would know) Auto DID try to destroy the plant, using GO-4 and the escape pod.

James King III

30th Sep 2005

Lost (2004)

Correction: When are are referring to? If it's after the raft is attacked by the Others, then they made it quite clear they were there for the boy and he attempted to shoot them based on them making it so clear.

James King III

26th Aug 2005

The Island (2005)

Corrected entry: How exactly did the Institute get the results back from Lincoln Six Echo's brain scan? Lincoln "disposed" of them after he had already left the Institute, so there was no way they could retrieve the information. Even if they sent out signals to receivers inside the Institute, they wouldn't have a complete brain scan because he left too early.

Correction: They followed Echo's trail to the bathroom and/or picked up their homing signals to retrieve them. The probes did manage to complete their scan because they left through the urine just as they were designed to. What makes you think he has to be in the facility for the probes to work?

James King III

1st Aug 2005

Hide and Seek (2005)

Corrected entry: Calloway smothers his wife with a pillow in bed then carries her to the bathroom to fake the suicide. However, being deceased her heart would no longer pump and blood would not have pooled like the amount shown by the crimson bathtub water. It would be obvious to the coroner that death was not by asphyxiation, he would rule "homicide" and the movie would effectively be over at that juncture.

Correction: He didn't smother her to death. It was just enough to make her unconscious, so she would bleed out and die while knocked out. This was to ensure she wouldn't wake up and interrupt him as compared to just dragging her to the tub and cutting her wrists.

James King III

Corrected entry: Once the baby alien has been sucked out of the window they appear to be flying through a pretty shot of sunlit clouds. This would mean that they had reached the upper level of the troposphere at least (approximately 15 miles depending upon whereabouts on the planet they were and what the current barometric conditions were). Therefore there are two things wrong (1) Firstly the depressurisation that sucked the alien baby out would continue just as if a whole had been made in a jetliner. Ripley and Call would therefore still have to hold on. (2) Secondly the temperature at the top of the troposphere is about -60 degrees Fahrenheit. All moisture would freeze instantly, whereas they stand there having a chit chat as if they were on the deck of cruise liner. (01:40:25)

Correction: 1) Depressurisation would end as soon as they ran out of air. 2) That -60 degrees neither freezes things instantly, nor would even do so quickly as it would have to come in through the small hole made, as the ship is (minus the hole) sealed and insulated from the outside. One's an andriod, the other's half alien, I don't see any problems here.

James King III

Corrected entry: If they are 'safe proofing' the house, why is the bike still hanging on the wall? This would be one of the first things to remove.

Correction: Character mistakes aren't movie mistakes.

James King III

2nd Aug 2005

The Island (2005)

Corrected entry: Merrick is supposedly breaking numerous laws against euthanasia by creating sentient clones, yet has a staff of hundreds working at the clone factory as though they were making shoes. He couldn't possibly hope to keep things secret running things the way he did. Does he really think someone like Steve Buscemi could be trusted with such a secret?

Correction: You'd be surprised what you can get people to do, and once they're associated with such activities they can't 'go public' lest they be arrested as well. Not to mention the pay is probably very good.

James King III

Corrected entry: In the scene, where the tripod rises from the ground after the EMP pulse has been triggered, the camera follows a young man filming the tripod with a digital video camera although the camera should be out of commission after the EMP.

Correction: EMP's only knock out equipment that is turned on. If a computer is turned off at the time of the EMP then it won't be affected.

Correction: He could have had the capacity to fix it, or we don't know if the EMP is a weapon or if it is just a side effect of their transport, which might mean it has uneven coverage and the camera was 'missed'.

James King III

30th Jul 2005

Stealth (2005)

Corrected entry: In the the first combat scene with E.D.I. Talon 2 quotes how fast they are going, but when they reach Mach 1 nothing happens. When you reach Mach 1 (Speed of sound) there is supposed to be a sonic boom but in this case nothing happens.

Correction: Many modern jets (and certainly the advanced Talons) do not make sonic booms due to their construction- their wings and body break up the sound waves.

James King III

30th Jul 2005

The Island (2005)

Corrected entry: Falling from a 40 story building would kill a person. even if they did land in a net.

Correction: Stuntmen do it all the time- obviously they land in carefully positioned airbags, but it is possible to survive a fall that high or higher. Though it is extremely unlikely.

James King III

30th Jul 2005

War of the Worlds (2005)

Corrected entry: IF the aliens wanted our planet so bad for so long, why didn't they just take it when they planted the stupid tripods? Why wait a million years and then systematically kill us in the most inefficient way possible? For that matter, wouldn't the germs have killed them when they first came to bury the stupid things?

Correction: They needed a 'critical mass' of warm-blooded creatures to grow and sustain their 'red vine' plants, that terraform our world to resemble theirs. There weren't enough back then. They weren't killed by disease because they sent down the machines UNMANNED- that's why we saw the pilots coming in on the lightning.

James King III

28th Jul 2005

The Island (2005)

Corrected entry: When Ewan McGregor enters the hospital through the loose floorboard, he doesn't close it all the way, yet when they show the hallway were the floorboard is supposed to be it is in place again. When he comes back, the floorboard is back in the same position he left it.

Correction: We don't see the first hallway again until he returns to it to leave, so we never see it 'back in place'.

James King III

22nd Jul 2005

Fantastic Four (2005)

Corrected entry: Before Ben wakes up, we hear the 'beep' of his cardiac monitor, measuring his heart rate, but when he wakes up it continues at the same steady beat it has been going. Wouldn't his heart rate have increased if he had just woken up not knowing where he was and confused?

Correction: He's just waking up, remember- and to a friendly face, no less. Confusion would take a bit to set in, otherwise he's just feeling relaxed.

James King III

21st Jul 2005

Fantastic Four (2005)

Corrected entry: How did Ben Grimm change back into The Thing at the end of the movie? Reed's machine was supposed to work by using energy that was the opposite of the cosmic energy they got hit with. Ben was no scientist so its unlikely he would have figured out how to operate the machine, never mind reversing its polarity or whatever.In addition the first time it took him days to change into the Thing not hours.

Correction: Just because a waveform is opposite doesn't mean it won't have the same effect on an unaltered person - sound waves played out of phase will completely silence a sound, which is how noise-cancelling headphones work. The out-of-phase sound sounds exactly like the first when played separately. Secondly, he did work for NASA and may have been able to figure it out, without needing to change any polarity. Lastly, both transformations (using the booth) took only minutes. Clearly the booth works faster than the original storm.

James King III

25th Apr 2005

Shaun of the Dead (2004)

Corrected entry: When Shaun and Ed find out how to beat the zombies you see them pulling forks, spoons, knives, etc. Yet when we see them outside ready to fight the zombies, the cutlery has gone.

Correction: Perhaps they dropped the cutlery, thinking it would be ineffective, in favor of heavier objects (which didn't turn out to be too effective anyway).

James King III

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