Corrected entry: Why are all the fruits and vegetables at the supermarket still fresh? you would assume that after 28 days there they'd start to look a little on the rotten side.
Grumpy Scot
2nd Nov 2003
28 Days Later (2002)
3rd Feb 2002
Tank Girl (1995)
Corrected entry: When Tank Girl is on guard duty near the beginning of the film, she offers to trade Sam the dangerball for some food. However, she doesn't want to hand over the ball until she gets the food. Then they are attacked and Sam is kidnapped. How does Sam come to have the dangerball later on at Liquid Silver?
Correction: Just because we don't see Sam bring her food and get the dangerball doesn't mean she didn't. There was just a time gap between when she left and the attack.
29th Oct 2003
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
Corrected entry: The Keymaker gets shot by some 5 Desert Eagle bullets, a weak guy like the Keymaker (even in the Matrix) would have either exploded or flown three feet back. His insides would have been all over the floor.
Correction: Nope, that's just a movie thing. The way he reacted to the shots were actually quite realistic. Bullets don't throw people around or blow holes the size of plates in people.
26th Aug 2003
28 Days Later (2002)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Jim and the others stop at a supermarket there is a gross error. The sets feature no electricity, in the city and country, other than generator or battery power. At the supermarket outside of London, whereas the music may be at the market or on the soundtrack, the fluorescent lighting is a rather obvious blunder. (00:48:25)
Correction: Not necessarily. A power plant could run by itself for a week or two unattended (particularly if it is hydroelectric). Many grocery stores have a backup generator as well, which could kick in when the power fails (and be on a timer so it only runs at certain hours, prolonging duration). It is possible (though only just) that the power would still be on there.
Correction: The director admitted to this being a blooper.
14th Oct 2003
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
Corrected entry: In the beginning of the movie, Sulu's Captain's Log (voice-over) tells how his ship, Excelsior, is cataloging gaseous anomolies. Later, when the Enterprise has no way to fire back against a Klingon ship that can fire while cloaked, Ohura says, "What about all that equipment we're carrying to catalog gaseous anomolies?"
Correction: Why can't Enterprise be on the same mission as Excelsior? Starfleet has hundreds of ships, surely 2 can be doing the same thing simultaneously.
Starfleet's mission is exploration. Surely they would have equipment on board in case they came across anything interesting even though that isn't their primary mission.
26th Aug 2003
Space Cowboys (2000)
Corrected entry: Have you ever heard of them re-naming a shuttle based on the first team that flies it?
Correction: Eastwood refused to do the mission if he didn't get his team and the shuttle name.
9th Oct 2003
Air Force One (1997)
Corrected entry: When the lady is showing the terrorists around she says the plane is bulletproof and is protected from the pulse of a nuclear explosion. Later on when the Mig's shoot at Air Force One, the bullets are going though the fuselage, engines rudder etc.
Correction: That refers to small arms fire if the aircraft is attacked on the ground. There is NO armor that any aircraft can carry that will stop a 23mm cannon like the Migs use.
14th Jul 2003
Outland (1981)
Corrected entry: Why doesn't Marshall simply send request for help to Earth, after he finds out the foul play that is corrupting even the "Io PD"?
Correction: At the end he sends a message to his wife, something about "looking forward to sleeping with you for a year".(A year to get to Io would be about right with the tech we have now, and the movie doesn't really show any radically advanced technology.) If it takes a year to get honest cops there, what's the point?
8th Oct 2003
Stargate SG-1 (1997)
Corrected entry: Throughout the series, Daniel Jackson has worn glasses yet has used the sarcophagus on numerous occasions. If the sarcophagus can heal any wound and even bring back the dead, surely it can correct a small fault in his eyes.
Correction: The sarcophagus heals damage to the body. Daniel's eyesite is a genetic imperfection. The sarcophagus won't work on any defect the user is born with.
Correction: The effects of the sarcophagus have been shown to wear off, which is why the Goa'uld (and others) have to keep using it. In "Need", when Daniel becomes addicted to using the sarcophagus, he eventually doesn't need glasses. But, while a wound won't come back after being healed, a failing organ will continue to fail after time.
27th Aug 2001
Star Trek: Generations (1994)
Corrected entry: Guinan's race was destroyed by the Borg and rescued from the Nexus by the Enterprise-B, but they never must have mentioned it to the Federation because they were unprepared in the 24th century for their arrival.
Correction: Who says they didn't mention it? How many worlds has the Federation seen destroyed by unknown races? Was there enough evidence beside survivor stories to convince them that the Borg were any worse than the Klingons or Romulans? If so, after 80 years with not even Borg rumors, the information would be gradually forgotten.
4th Oct 2003
Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
Corrected entry: Goldmember is mocked several times for his pronunciation of "father" as "fah-jher". However, the Dutch word for father is "vader" - no Dutch person would ever pronounce "father" as Goldmember does.
Correction: Yes, but he is saying the word "father" in English with a very strong Dutch accent.
27th Aug 2001
Superman II (1980)
Corrected entry: When Superman gives up his powers at the fortress of solitude, how do he and Lois get the car to go to the diner without freezing their butts off?
Correction: If he was planning to give up his powers, then he obviously thought it out first. I imagine he planned ahead and brought parkas.
1st Oct 2003
Spawn (1997)
Corrected entry: Spawn is nearly at point-blank range when he shoots Priest in the head. This should have taken her head off, but instead there is nothing but a tiny hole.
Correction: Actually compared to most movies, this is far more realistic. Bullets don't make body parts and heads explode, nor do they make the victim fly through the air. The small hole is right. It may have done far more extensive damage to the back of her head, but we never see it.
27th Aug 2003
Firefox (1982)
Corrected entry: About 5 minutes into the film Clint Eastwood is having a Vietnam flashback where he is being rescued by American aircraft. One plane is a World War II era fighter used more than 20 years before the Vietnam war.
Correction: This is not a mistake, these planes were still used in Vietnam for ground attack as they were far harder for new Russian-made SAM's to home in on. They were nicknamed "Sandies".
Technically, the prop aircraft known as Sandys were A-1 Skyraiders designed and brought into service after WW2.
23rd Jan 2003
Predator (1987)
Corrected entry: When the guy with the minigun is shot, it has a forward scene of him falling down and the wound is fairly small. When they flip him over after they've shot the hell out of the trees, it looks like a small comet hit him.
Correction: Its possible the Predator is using a plasma weapon. Plasma (kind of like super-napalm) would continue to vaporize flesh and bone until it finally burned out, greatly enlarging the wound.
It is indeed a plasma weapon known as the Plasma Caster.
12th Feb 2002
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
Corrected entry: Throughout the movie, and including the climatic battle sequence between the Enterprise and General Chiang's Bird of Prey, Scotty is wearing his black "casual" duty uniform. When Kirk and company beam down to Kitimer, Scotty is wearing his red uniform. When they return to the Enterpise, he's back in his black uniform.
Correction: Scotty just put on his red uniform jacket over his black utility overall top. He took it off when he got back. The pants are the same.
26th Aug 2003
The New Guy (2002)
Corrected entry: Why do only two people in as many Texas football towns have southern accents?
Correction: I'm from Texas and the exaggerated accents seen in the movies are actually very rare.
5th Sep 2002
Predator 2 (1990)
Corrected entry: This mistake is when Gary Busey explains to Danny Glover the tremendous power of the Predator's self-destruction sequence. Busey stated that the power of the explosion devastated a section of rainforest equal to 10 city blocks. In the first Predator, Arnold is running away form the Predator, he is no further than a few hundred feet.
Correction: Arnie managed to jump down into a small ditch/depression which shielded him from a lot of the blast. Watch closely, he leaps and falls out of view just before the blast. He still got pretty cooked though.
18th Sep 2003
The Thing From Another World (1951)
Corrected entry: The thermite bombs vaporize the saucer leaving no trace except for the thing; yet, the saucer survives a fiery entry (still shots shown to the captain) into our atmosphere and the craft was determined by the scientist to weigh 20,000 tons when it crashed and made up an unknown alloy. With this in mind and no trace but a body, how did the body survive that heat?
Correction: The book explains this. The thing survived the crash, wandered out and was lost in a blizzard then froze. The ship caught fire because thermite burns much, much hotter than air friction from reentry.
22nd Sep 2003
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
Corrected entry: Near the end of the movie, when Arnold is going to destroy TX with his fuel cell, how come earlier when he flies the chopper into her she doesn't repair herself and then kill Arnold?
Correction: As shown by her flickering readouts, she is damaged and pinned by the chopper.
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Correction: A lot of them are going rotten, they show several rotten fruits and vegetables and only some green apples are still good. Frank says "ah, irradiated" just before he picks up a tray of apples.
Grumpy Scot