johnrosa

27th May 2008

Batman Begins (2005)

Corrected entry: During the chase involving the batmobile and the cop cars, Batman goes onto the highway, and in most shots we can see the tire marks of the batmobile from previous takes. (01:33:35)

Correction: Only one shot has obvious tires marks visible on the road surface, and they are much narrower than the Tumbler's tires so that any other vehicle could have made them at any time.

johnrosa

Corrected entry: Towards the end of the film, the Enterprise is getting an audio/visual transmission from Captain Sulu on the Excelsior. You see Captain Sulu on a big screen. Female Vulcan, Lt. Valeris, is standing right in front of the screen. You can see a ledge at the bottom of the screen, and her shoulders are even with the ledge, and she's near the middle of the screen. Then they switch to a shot of Captain Kirk, and then back to a closer shot of the screen. This time, Lt. Valeris has disappeared. You can see the bottom ledge and the middle of the screen. Then there's another shot of Kirk, then back to the screen, with Lt. Valeris magically back again.

Correction: The shots of the screen without Valeris in front are shot from her position (but not her view) to give the audience an uninterrupted view of the screen. It's obvious we are closer to the viewscreen for those shots. In all the further shots, Valeris is in place where she should be.

johnrosa

17th Apr 2004

Alien 3 (1992)

Corrected entry: After Clemen's death, there is a shot of the ventilation shaft into which he was dragged by the alien. However, the shaft seen is the one in which Andrew's is taken into by the alien later. You can tell the difference because of the ceiling colour and the design of the ventilation shaft.

Correction: Not so. The opening in the infirmary is octagonal every time it's seen, while the opening in the cafeteria is rectangular with rounded corners, much like a TV screen.

johnrosa

7th Jan 2007

Batman Begins (2005)

Corrected entry: When Batman is being chased by the cops in the Batmobile and the Batmobile crashes into the concrete wall, on the right side of your screen at the top you can see the cop car run into the wall. You can see that the wall is made out of a rubber substance.

Correction: No such scene exists. The Batmobile never hits a wall. It side-swipes a concrete column, and later bashes through a concrete bridge barrier, but in neither shot is a police car shown crashing near the top/right of the screen.

johnrosa

27th Jul 2008

Batman Begins (2005)

Corrected entry: When Bruce first meets Ducard, Ducard's left eye is blue and his right eye is brown. In other close up shots of Ducard, his eye colors have switched.

Correction: Both eyes are a deep blue as they belong to Liam Neeson. In some shots, one eye or the other is in shadow or otherwise poorly lit, as to make the blue less obvious. But no contacts were worn to fake two eye colors.

johnrosa

Corrected entry: When the Enterprise first encounters the Reliant, we see several screen shots of the Reliant on the Enterprise viewscreen, and several shots of the Enterprise on Reliant's viewscreen. The puzzling thing is, if you watch very closely to the shots of the Enterprise on the Reliant's viewscreen, you will notice that the stars are actually moving BACKWARD, as if the Reliant were in a slow reverse. Obviously this is an editing blooper since Khan just ordered that the ship slow to one half impulse power, which still moves the ship forward.

Correction: Trek canon has shown the viewscreens are not the same as windows, and that the screens can show us views from vantage points where no camera exists. These vantage points also do not need to be stationary. As such, the views of Enterprise on Reliant's screen are taking Enterprise's speed into account, and the 'vantage point' is backing up to keep her 'in the shot' while Reliant is still moving forward.

johnrosa

This would work except the stars continue moving when the film cuts to exterior shots where the Enterprise and Reliant are both in view, even when they are nearly parallel with each other.

TonyPH

Corrected entry: In the scene where Lt. Valeris finds the gravity boots, at the end of the scene she attaches them to the locker door. Just before she places the boots on the door, you can see velcro or some other kind sticky material on the locker door.

Correction: There are scratches on the door, not velcro or glue.

johnrosa

Corrected entry: When Valeris slides down the pole, the corridor wall shakes when she bumps it.

Correction: There is no reason a flexible panel can't be used to conceal a compartment of some kind, nor to assume the panel must be a totally rigid support structure.

johnrosa

Corrected entry: After the first conference with the president of the Federation, all the men file out of the room, save Ambassador Sarek, who can be seen sitting in a chair beside the president's desk. In this shot, the president reaches for his eyeglasses. The very next shot cuts to the president taking off the glasses, showing the side of his desk where Sarek was sitting - but Sarek isn't there, and nor is his armchair.

Correction: Carefully comparing the two shots, the second angle has moved to the opposite side of the desk so that Sarek (and his chair) are just off camera.

johnrosa

Corrected entry: The character of Valeris was originally slated to be Lt. Saavik. The filmmakers tried to get Kirstie Alley back, but found out that her stardom in "Cheers" now made her too expensive. It was then decided that Saavik as she was known would never betray the Federation, so Valeris was created. This explains Valeris' infatuation with whether Spock is lying, as her words were originally Saavik's, mirrored in "The Wrath of Khan" (when Spock tells her, "I exaggerated," after she accuses him, "You lied.").

Correction: First, Saavik was already recast with Robin Curtis for Star Trek III and IV, so Alley was barely an issue for this film. Second, the exchange you mention is not a reference to the earlier film, but to the long-standing stipulation that Vulcans, as a rule, do not lie, established early in the original 1960s TV series.

johnrosa

There's nothing incorrect about the entry. Valeris was indeed originally written to be Saavik and Nicholas Meyer did try to get Kirstie Alley back (he did not care for Robin Curtis' interpretation of the character). The dialogue about Spock's apparent lies works with Valeris, too, but as originally written they would have been references to their earlier conversation in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

TonyPH

Corrected entry: Immediately after the whales' transponders are located in the Bering Sea, Gillian can be seen mouthing, "How can you do that?" without sound, then she is immediately seen and heard giving the same line from another camera angle.

Correction: She first wondered to herself, mouthing the words with little or no sound, then immediately spoke up to actually ask Kirk the question.

johnrosa

Corrected entry: When the crew starts to evacuate the Bird of Prey from the ship's hatch, the sound stage wall is easily visible.

Correction: That's the wall of the escape hatchway, not the sound stage wall.

johnrosa

9th Aug 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: One side of Harvey's face is severely burnt, also leaving his eye without an eyelid, if this was the case that the fire got so close to his eye to take the skin off then his actual eye should have been equally damaged.

Correction: The eyelid was burnt to a point that it could not be saved, but had protected the eye beneath. The hospital would have removed such a damaged eyelid.

johnrosa

25th Jul 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: During the Batman/Joker interrogation scene, the amount of make up on Joker's face changes between shots. This is particularly noticeable on his chin and forehead, and is not consistent with reasonable rub off from the altercation.

Correction: Watching the scene carefully to spot this, I find no blatant differences from shot to shot.

johnrosa

9th Aug 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: When Harvey Dent is on fire, it's understandable why only one side of his face burns. But it's unlikely that one side of his hair would be left unburned. Since hair is flammable, both sides would be missing.

Correction: Hair is not flammable to the point that lighting it in one spot causes it to travel quickly all over your head. If you hold a flame to hair, then remove the flame, the burning hair extinguishes itself very quickly.

johnrosa

2nd Aug 2008

Cloverfield (2008)

Corrected entry: In the scene where you see some troops and tanks begin to attack the monster, you see one drive by Hud and it shoots its main gun. Problem is that the tank you see is actually an M109A6: it has to be stationary to fire its gun. Also, the blast would probably give Hud a concussion or make him go deaf.

Correction: The Howitzer's standard firing prodecure would be to lob shells on a distant target from a standing position. Given the current mayhem and close-quarters, the crew is doing whatever it can to take down the monster, so firing 'by eye', while not ideal, is better than doing nothing. As for Hud's hearing, he probably did suffer some damage, but given that he dies before the attack is over, we've no way to test how much.

johnrosa

1st Aug 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: When Batman is on the Batpod, he rides up to the shopping mall and starts shooting guns at the glass door. Inside, you can see the shopping mall beyond the glass doors, and next shot, the Batpod is driving through a concrete underpass. Next shot, the Batpod smashes through the glass doors of the shopping mall. The shot of the concrete underpass should not be there.

Correction: Previously submitted and corrected. The building has outer doors that he goes through first, then up a lengthy wheelchair access ramp to the inner doors. As he goes through the second set of doors, you can see the ramp behind him.

johnrosa

1st Aug 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: The bus slams into the wall backwards during the robbery. (1) It would never have had enough speed to break the wall while going in reverse due to the other buildings across the busy street. (2) They easily open the rear door that would have been damaged and or stuck shut due to the impact.

Correction: The bus goes through glass doors, not walls, and needs little speed to do so. It strikes the wall above the doors, breaking it up a bit, and then comes to a stop quickly. And since the bumper hit the doors and the roof hit the wall above, the bus' back door hit nothing on the way in, so there's no reason to assume the door would be jammed- especially given how little the bus is visibly damaged in the remaining scenes.

johnrosa

11th Jul 2008

Vantage Point (2008)

Corrected entry: At movie's end inside the racing ambulance, Wm. Hurt releases the side rail of the gurney he's lying on (there's no question the gurney is on the left, inside the vehicle). The ambulance makes a hard right turn, and Hurt is thrown to the floor. Inertia from the turn actually would thrust Hurt to the outer-side wall of the ambulance, not onto the floor.

Correction: Actually, he rolls off as the van is completing the right turn and straightens out, the effect of which is the same as beginning a new, left turn.

johnrosa

19th Jul 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: Once inside Lau's building, Lau's bodyguards fire several shots at Batman while he is fighting. The bullets shatter the glass partitions inside the office but the exterior windows of the building, directly in the line of fire and only a few feet further than the partitions, are all entirely undamaged.

BocaDavie

Correction: Previously submitted and corrected. The shots hit Batman and either embed in his suit or deflect away from it, never striking the building's outer glass. The shooters are professional bodyguards, standing still, aiming at a target just a few feet away. We have no reason to assume they missed.

johnrosa

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