Corrected entry: In the pursuit scene, the Blues Brothers are coming out from one tunnel, and they are about to crash into a police car. After they intercept it, the police cars are hitting it and there is no driver inside.
johnrosa
9th Oct 2004
The Blues Brothers (1980)
9th Jun 2004
Mad Max 2 (1981)
Corrected entry: In the scene when Max decides to turn around, there is an overhead shot of the U-turn, showing the front end of the semi. The Claw raider should be visible behind the rear window of the semi, but he isn't.
Correction: The raider is shown fighting with the boy a few shots and seconds before the turn. During that overhead shot, we only see a portion of the turn, very quickly, and our vantage point doesn't allow enough view to determine the raider is or isn't still there, or whether he has used the few seconds off screen to move over, further out of our view. His absence is not certain.
29th Nov 2004
Mad Max 2 (1981)
Corrected entry: Max shoots the driver of the red XA Coupe with his shotgun. They then show the car going out of control, and cut to a close-up of the XA's windshield. The passenger of the XA is seen fighting with the steering wheel trying to get the car under control. Then it cuts back to a larger exterior shot of the car, and it's obvious that there's not even a passenger in it.
Correction: As you said, the driver is shot and the passenger slides over to control the car. As the various shots occur, the driver is slumping lower and the passenger is further into the driver's position so that it appears the driver is there and the passenger gone, but the passenger is now the driver and the driver is slumped out of sight.
9th Feb 2005
Mad Max 2 (1981)
Corrected entry: When Max leaves the compound in the semi, he hits the wrecked pink 1959 DeSoto knocking it almost sideways. When they show the compound exploding, the DeSoto is now sitting back where it was before Max hit it.
Correction: The car's wheels are turned toward the compound so that after the collision, it has rolled foward again, but not quite to the point it started.
9th Jun 2004
Mad Max 2 (1981)
Corrected entry: Look closely at the car which is wrecked right in front of the gate as Max enters the compound, it's the landau that flipped upside down in the opening chase, minus the supercharger that was sticking out of its hood, but the hole for the charger is still there.
Correction: It's not hard to believe the raiders recovered the wreck in the day or more since the crash and have used it in the interim in some fashion that ended with it lying near the fortress. Not really a mistake unless the car were shown fresh and undamaged as if this scene were filmed before the crash scene shown earlier.
No. When Max goes back to the site to recover the truck, the wrecked Landau is still there. The only explanation is that there were two identical vehicles and Humungus' gang have lost both; one to the refinery/fortress and one to Max.
10th Jun 2008
Mad Max 2 (1981)
Corrected entry: When Wez and his gang drive Max's Interceptor off the road, they still have the two hostages tied to their truck's front. After the Interceptor blows up, when Wez climbs into the truck and leaves, there is suddenly only one hostage tied to the truck. (01:08:20)
Correction: The farside hostage is still there, but is slumped and leaning forward so that he is blocked from view by the other hostage. We can see a gap of sky between the one hostage and the upright that holds the other hostage. But as the truck drives off to the left, the second hostage comes into view. He's not missing, just difficult to see until the last moment.
27th Aug 2001
Mad Max 2 (1981)
Corrected entry: During the final chase scene, the tanker that Max is driving has its driver's door pulled off. As the camera pans to the side you can clearly see the crew member - most likely the stunt co-ordinator - crouched down by the passenger seat.
27th Aug 2001
Primal Fear (1996)
Corrected entry: Very often you can see the boom mike coming in from the top of the screen. Edited out of the video.
Correction: If it's visible in the theater but not in the video or DVD, then it's a projectionist mistake, not a movie mistake.
15th Jun 2007
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
Corrected entry: In the first half of the film Savannah has very short hair. When she, Max and the children enter Bartertown she has a long pony tail hair until the end of the film.
Correction: When she first appears and rescues Max, she's seen meeting the boy and lifting him, and the ponytail is there (00:47:55). When she rings the gong and challanges Max, it's there (1:02:40, 1:03:10). When she's struggling to save a boy in quicksand, it's there (1:11:25). The only time it isn't seen is when she's facing the camera, wearing the feathery head-dress or not in a shot at all.
9th Jul 2008
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)
Corrected entry: At Jadzia's insistence, Benjamin goes to find Jake when he doesn't show up for dinner. To do this, he asks the computer for his location. As shown in "Dax" and "Captive Pursuit," Deep Space Nine's computers rely on commbadges to locate specific people, just like on the Enterprise. Jake doesn't wear a commbadge, nor does he appear to have anything similar, so how did the computer find him?
Correction: As the episode does not specifically indicate what method the computer used to determined Jake's location, there are rather simple explanations for it knowing where he was. First, he and Nog are carrying electronic equipment similar to PDAs, and these devices have been known to access the main computer, so if Jake's PDA is accessing the computer from Cargo Bay 14, the computer can imply Jake is there. Also, a cargo bay can require coded access so that Jake had to tell the computer he wanted to go in. Similar restrictions have also been shown in other episodes.
7th Jul 2008
Animal Treasure Island (1971)
Corrected entry: I know that this is a kiddie's movie and this was done for cuteness, but there are several anachronistic items, like modern toothbrushes, baseballs and baseball gloves, and 20th century-style alarm clocks; Jim's barrel boat even features a steam engine. In the latter case, if steam engines are known already, why didn't anyone else - especially the pirates - install them into their own ships as well?
Correction: This is a fantasy adventure. As such, historical accuracy isn't a consideration anymore than talking animals can be considered a 'mistake' here.
22nd Jan 2004
Mad Max (1979)
Corrected entry: After Nightrider and his girl lose control of their car and skid around the crashed truck while flames shoot out the back of their car, you can see that for about 2 seconds that he and his girl have been replaced with crash-test dummies. (00:12:00)
Correction: The scene is very short and out of focus. We can make out two figures bobbing about in the car as it 'skips' sideways out of control (and we can assume actors would not be in a car being intentionally destroyed), so it is very likely dummies are aboard, but they simply can not be recognized as such visually in the scene as shown.
4th Dec 2002
Mad Max (1979)
Corrected entry: When the bikers arrive in the town and line up in front of the building, one of them takes off his green helmet; then in the next shot, he has it back on.
7th Jan 2003
Mad Max (1979)
Corrected entry: As Max runs the two bikes off the road, you can see the rods on the right side of the screen pulling them off the bridge.
Correction: The two bikes are driven off the bridge by the stuntmen riding them. There is no equipment of any kind in the shot and none was used. I suspect the submitter watched a fullscreen version and mistook the straight-leafed plants at the right as being some type of 'rods'.
15th Aug 2007
Mad Max 2 (1981)
Corrected entry: While Max is watching the compond he opens a can and eats out of it,throwing it to the dog to finish off, while the dog is eating the label goes from upside down to right way up even though only one end of the can is open.
24th Jun 2003
Mad Max 2 (1981)
Corrected entry: At the very moment of impact between the tanker and Humungous' car, the rest of the biker vehicles are visible, yet apparently stationary. Not only that, but they're also "parked" off the road and not very far behind. This conflicts with the short scene just prior to the impact, with the tanker barrelling down the slope towards Humungous. There aren't any vehicles behind the tanker in this scene. (01:28:29)
Correction: Actually, the same vehicles are there in that short scene, in the same place, but they are quickly (in just a few frames) blocked from view by the approaching tanker.
23rd Jun 2008
Powder (1995)
Corrected entry: In the scene where the sheriff brings Jeremy to his home, there is a shot where he opens a door and turns on a light. The switch is that very old kind with the shiny, spring-loaded "push-on" and black "trip-off" buttons. When he opens the door and it is dark, the switch is "on". Then, he pushes the "off" button to turn on the light. (01:11:25)
Correction: The switch is simply wired backwards- a very common thing in older homes.
23rd Jun 2008
Cloverfield (2008)
Corrected entry: This is a major plot hole. Whenever the camera gets dropped, scratched, etc. it does not show any signs of damage. In many scenes, such as when (SPOILER) Hud dies, the camera stays intact, even though it was just dropped some 30 feet.
Correction: It also survived a helicopter crash, but so did the three passengers. Just because it could be damaged, that doesn't mean it must be damaged. Many factors can be present that allow for the camera to remain working. Not impossible.
23rd Jun 2008
American Gangster (2007)
Corrected entry: During the beginning, in 1968, Jon Polito discusses with Denzel Washington about heroin which has the same quality as that in the film "The French Connection". While that part takes place in 1968, "The French Connection" wasn't released untill 1971.
Correction: They aren't talking about the film. They are talking about the real events that inspired that film- events that occured in 1961. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Egan.
9th Jun 2008
That '70s Show (1998)
Corrected entry: In the episode, it flashes back to 1968 so Eric would be about 8 or 9 because you know that in 1976 he turned 16, so he would be born in 1959. However it says in the closing credits 'Eric aged 7'. How can he be 7?
Correction: Born somewhere in 1960, he would turn 16 in 1976. Prior to his birthday in 1968, he'd be 7.
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Correction: The car was parked there as a road block, then the driver got out in case the car gets rammed. Normal safety procedure.
johnrosa