Phixius

7th Aug 2013

Pacific Rim (2013)

Corrected entry: The winged Kaiju in Hong Kong was capable of spitting out a corrosive liquid which destroyed the Russian Jaeger and melted the side of a building, and yet the Gipsy Danger's hand was unaffected after it ripped the corrosive sac from the Kaiju (preventing it from spitting any more liquid afterwards), despite the fact that corrosive liquid was spilled all over it.

Correction: The liquid spilling all over Gipsy Danger's hand was the Kaiju's blood, not the corrosive fluid.

Phixius

8th Nov 2013

Ghost Ship (2002)

Corrected entry: Accounting for the forty year time period, and the amount it takes the human body to decompose, there should be some signs of human remains. The only thing Epps finds is the skeleton of Katie. All of the people in the pool, on the deck, and everywhere else, should have left skeletal remains at least. But there aren't any, save for Katie's.

Movie Nut

Correction: Because those people were collected, body and soul, by the evil spirits on the ship. Katie was not so her body remained. Her soul, though trapped on the ship, was also free to warn the newcomers.

Phixius

1st Nov 2013

Pokemon (1998)

Pokemon, I Choose You! - S1-E1

Corrected entry: Misty manages to pull Ash and Pikachu out of the water with a fishing rod. I know there's some suspension of belief required, but that's just a little too unbelievable. She's never known to be particularly strong, so pulling out something weighing roughly 120% of her own body weight so easily, causing them to literally fly through the air, is just crazy.

Knever

Correction: It's a visual gag in an action/comedy children's cartoon. It's no more a mistake than is the old bug-eyes gag in the classic Tex Avery cartoons.

Phixius

Corrected entry: When the wizard projects his face onto the white smoke, he does it in a carriage from behind the smoke. This works well for the sound, but it shouldn't be seen from where the witches are.

Correction: Why wouldn't it? The witches would just see a reverse image of what's being projected.

Phixius

30th Oct 2013

Hocus Pocus (1993)

Corrected entry: In the scene where Max lights the black flame candle and the Sanderson sisters return from the dead, Dani tells the sisters she lit the candle. However, later in the graveyard Sarah Sanderson calls Max the virgin who lit the candle. She could not have known it was Max and not Dani who lit the candle.

Correction: They figured out pretty quickly that Dani was lying about being a witch. They naturally deduced she was also lying about having lit the candle.

Phixius

Correction: The three kids are standing together, we don't know for sure who Sarah is addressing.

27th Oct 2013

After Earth (2013)

Corrected entry: Throughout the movie, the sword on the kids back appears and disappears from one scene to another.

rruizortiz

Correction: No, it does not. Sometimes he is carrying it and sometimes he is wearing it on his back, but it's always with him. Most of the individual shots in this movie do not take place one after the other anyway. After all, it takes less than two hours to show him make a three day journey. So just because it's in one place in one shot and another in the next does not make a continuity error.

Phixius

21st Oct 2013

The Mask (1994)

Corrected entry: In the beginning of the film when Tina walks into the bank, Charlie tells Stanley to look at 3 o'clock, which is their right. But the two stare straight ahead, which would be their 12 o'clock.

Correction: Charlie is also an idiot. That is exactly the kind of mistake this character would make.

Phixius

21st Oct 2013

Iron Man 3 (2013)

Corrected entry: The "Igor" armor was last seen supporting the damaged platform and preventing it from collapsing. After Tony orders the Clean Slate Protocol which destroys all the armors, this should have included Igor, which would mean the platform should have collapsed and put Tony and Pepper's life at risk.

Teru_Kage

Correction: Jarvis may be only artificially intelligent, but he's not stupid. Jarvis did not destroy "Igor" because doing so would kill Tony and Pepper, just like Jarvis also did not destroy the suit that Pepper was still wearing when Tony gave the order to initiate the Clean Slate Protocol. The obvious exceptions in those circumstances went without saying.

Phixius

Corrected entry: When Lorraine follows Marty back to Doc's in 1955 and Doc goes to answer the door, he says to Marty (before opening it) that it's his mum. Lorraine must have heard them through the door yet she never questions it.

Heather Benton

Correction: Two possible reasons she never asks about it. First, she simply did not hear him. You're assuming she did, but there's no evidence of it. Second, asking questions would be tantamount to admitting to eavesdropping. It's rude to eavesdrop and so Lorraine would hardly give herself away by asking questions about something she wasn't supposed to have heard in the first place, and which would have sounded nonsensical anyway.

Phixius

Correction: Besides, even if she did hear him, so what? She knew she obviously wasn't "Calvin's" mum. She would have assumed his mum looked like her and Doc mistakenly thought that was who was at the door. But if she still decided to question it, I just gave an explanation that they would have used.

The Avatar and the Firelord - S3-E6

Corrected entry: Roku dies at the end of the episode because he is about to be engulfed by a pyroclastic cloud. It is made clear that when the Avatar is in imminent danger, The Avatar State is triggered. So it should have triggered, saving Roku, but that couldn't happen for obvious plot purposes, even though it defies what they said earlier.

Friso94

Correction: First, The Avatar State is only triggered reflexively as a defense mechanism until the Avatar learns to control The Avatar State. Roku has, at this point, long since mastered The Avatar State and so here it is not triggered. Second, entering The Avatar State does not make the Avatar immortal, it just makes them more powerful and grants them the full awareness of all previous Avatars. Not only is an Avatar in The Avatar State not immortal, if an Avatar dies while in The Avatar State, the Avatar line will end forever. Roku knows this, and he also knows he is doomed, which is why he deliberately does not enter The Avatar State. He is trying to preserve the Avatar line for future generations.

Phixius

5th Jun 2013

After Earth (2013)

Corrected entry: The movie states that every animal/plant on Earth has evolved to kill humans, but humans have not been on Earth for over 1000 years so it would be impossible to evolve to kill humans specifically. Evolution is a process that takes constant interaction and stimulation to occur. It's the essence of trial and error. If they had not evolved before the humans left, then there is no way for them to do it afterwards. (00:29:10)

shaunmerritt

Correction: You're reading too much into it. He's only saying that every predator on this planet evolved alongside humanity for hundreds of thousands of years and therefore has evolved in such a way as to be capable of killing humans. One thousand years is not that long, evolutionarily speaking. What he means, for instance, is that an alien life form may find the black widow spider's venom to be completely harmless because the black widow did not evolve to be capable of attacking that alien species' nervous system. Nova Prime, the planet humans currently inhabit, likely has many examples of flora and fauna which are venomous to the native species but not to humans. Raige is simply warning his son not to be complacent because that will not be the case here. Also, it's been a thousand years since humanity left Earth; the planet has been mythologized a bit, because obviously not EVERYTHING on the planet has evolved to kill humans SPECIFICALLY even today. Just all the things that can kill are capable of killing humans.

Phixius

11th Oct 2013

Hocus Pocus (1993)

Corrected entry: When the witches are about to suck the life force from the girl at the beginning, you can see strands of energy moving towards the witches before they actually start inhaling.

Knever

Correction: They're not really breathing it in, in the literal sense, they're just absorbing her life energy into their own. It can be done just by thinking about it really hard, as was the case noted here. But the act of drawing breath helps them to focus their thoughts more effectively, speeding the process up considerably.

Phixius

Kiss 'N Tell - S1-E4

Corrected entry: When Frog Link goes to his room and is behind Spryte, he says her name and then tells her "No! Don't look." So she won't see his new form. But she looks back and then reacts to him saying don't look before he even says it. She already quickly turns back around just before he even says "No." (00:08:25)

Quantom X

Correction: She wasn't reacting to his outburst, she was reacting to his appearance. She was startled by what she saw and reflexively turned away.

Phixius

6th Oct 2013

The Terminator (1984)

Corrected entry: When Sarah calls Ginger and gets the machine (as Ginger is being killed), he machine starts playing the message immediately after the first ring - before the phone bell even stops ringing. Since the machine is mechanical (before digital technology), it is unlikely that the machine could have reacted that fast. These types of machines would typically ring 2-3 times, then answer and take a message, then the next call would be picked up after just one ring - but not as fast as this one does. (00:26:30 - 00:32:40)

DavidRTurner

Correction: Digital, mechanical, it's all activated by an electrical signal from the phone receiving a call. Only the medium on which the message is recorded has really changed in any significant way over the years. There's a switch on the side of most old answering machines that let's you choose from 1-4 rings before it picks up.

Phixius

3rd Oct 2013

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: When the Joker, Grumpy and Chuckles get out of their station wagon and rush into the bank, you can see that they are parked on the south side of Van Buren Street and their car is facing east, just west of the drawbridge over the river (as indicated by 301 South Wacker Drive being visible in the background). They then enter through doors at the east end of the lobby. When the Joker is starting up the bus and pulling out of the bank's west lobby doors, the entrance suddenly changes to being on the north side at the west end, as he only makes a 90 degree right turn to join in with the other buses, which are driving east on Van Buren Street. He should actually have to make a full 180 degree clockwise turn through the intersection of Canal Street and Van Buren. (00:02:05 - 00:07:00)

dmcreif

Correction: If this scene were set in Chicago, you'd have a valid mistake. But it's set in Gotham City, so all this talk of directions is moot since it's impossible to say which directions this fictional bank's multiple entrances face.

Phixius

1st Oct 2013

Sphere (1998)

Corrected entry: In the beginning, we are shown a sort of picture of the alien ship and all the coral that covers it, that's how they know how old it is, but when we see the ship for real, there's hardly any coral on it. Yes, the coral was supposed to have been blown away, so they can get in and out, but they wouldn't have blown all the other coral away - they could have damaged the ship. And yet, there is the enormous ship, clean of coral.

kh1616

Correction: The cleaned the coral off the entire ship, careful not to damage it, so that they could get an unobstructed visual of the exterior.

Phixius

Corrected entry: The reflection trick Belasko uses to blind his jousting opponents would not work, since the horse would be bouncing him too much to focus the glare.

Correction: If jousters can steady and accurately aim a heavy lance at full gallop, they can hold steady a tiny mirror.

Phixius

It wasn't a mirror though, it was a small gem on his helmet so trying to balance a heavy lance at full gallop and hold his head steady enough to blind his opponents would be next to impossible.

30th Sep 2013

Lilo & Stitch (2002)

Corrected entry: At the beginning of the movie when Stitch escapes to Earth, the Grand councilwoman is having him tracked and begins to ask questions about the planet, as well as requesting an expert about the planet as she has apparently never heard of it before. Near the end of the movie, in the scene where Stitch has been captured and being taken to the Grand Councilwoman's ship, the Grand Councilwoman comments that Mr. Bubbles "looks familiar", to which he responds that they had met in Roswell. This implies that the Grand Councilwoman had in fact been to Earth before and would have known the answers to the questions she had about Earth earlier in the movie.

Correction: Having been to a place does not mean you know anything at all about it, and it certainly does not make you an expert on the subject. There was supposedly an alien crash landing at Roswell, indicating the councilwoman's stop on this planet was unplanned and unintended. She stuck around, in seclusion, only long enough to catch another ship off to her original destination.

Phixius

20th Sep 2013

The Mummy (1999)

Corrected entry: The teeth on the star key suggest that the mummy sarcophagus uses some sort of tumbler system. A closer look at the "key hole" shows that there is nothing for the teeth to work on. The lock is simply the solid negative impression of the key. You can twist the lock with a bare hand and open it, so any trouble the characters go through to get the key is pointless. The same goes for the book of the dead.

Correction: Both of these books are books of magic. In this world, magic is real. Imhotep performs magic regularly; his very existence is in itself magic. The keys are required to open the books, not merely because they turn the locks, but because the books are magically enchanted not to open without their keys.

Phixius

Corrected entry: When Kirk gives Sulu the con before leaving for Kronos, Sulu states "I just never sat in the chair before," referring to the Captain's chair. Sulu commanded the Enterprise when Kirk and Spock beamed aboard Nero's ship to save Earth and Pike. (00:47:50)

Spiritfire

Correction: But he remained at his usual station, he didn't sit in the chair.

Phixius

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