Corrected entry: Throughout the film, it is emphasized that Pokémon are behaving strangely because they've noticed the changes in nature. This same rule should apply to Meowth (who is still a Pokémon regardless of his human-like behavior), yet he never seems affected.
Phixius
18th Sep 2013
Pokemon: The Movie 2000 (1999)
10th Sep 2013
X-Men: First Class (2011)
Corrected entry: When Erik is destroying Shaw's yacht with its own anchor, in the shots of the chain slicing the top half of the boat, the chain exerts a forward force on the yacht, but the boat is stationary. This is impossible considering it is floating in water and the slightest nudge would make the yacht move.
Correction: The yacht has a lot of mass and therefore a lot of stationary inertia. The water also creates a significant amount of resistance against the hull. As long as the amount of energy needed for the chain to slice through the yacht is less than the amount of energy needed to move the yacht, the yacht would remain stationary during the attack. Especially if Erik is holding the yacht still with his powers in order to make his attack more effective. If you think "the slightest nudge" is all that's required to make a boat that size glide through the water, I invite you to visit your nearest marina and just try shoving a few boats around.
17th Feb 2013
Dredd (2012)
Corrected entry: The guy who shoots Dredd in the information booth uses the same gun that one of the guys outside the medical center had. You can tell by the very distinctive tape around the front end of the gun. It would seem extremely unlikely that they would have both done that, or that the second guy would go down more than 150 stories just to get a weapon, when there are plenty at hand.
17th Feb 2013
Dredd (2012)
Corrected entry: The silencers on the Judges' guns don't seem to make any difference: they sound exactly the same in normal as in silencer mode.
Correction: Yes, just like a real silencer. Silencers don't actually "silence" a weapon, they just make it very slightly quieter, like 15% or so. (The soft sound heard in most movies is very inaccurate). As the target, it's more difficult to judge how far away the weapon being fired is because you don't know if it's a distant weapon or a nearer but silenced weapon that's being shot at you, thereby making it more difficult to determine where to aim return fire. The guns sound the same to the viewing audience because there's not a lot of discernible difference on your TV between a sound that is 120 decibels (silenced gunfire) and a sound that is 140 decibels (normal gunfire) and we're always right next to the guns as they're being fired, not across the atrium with the villains being fired upon, so the effect would be almost totally lost on us anyway.
20th Feb 2013
Dredd (2012)
Corrected entry: When Dredd is going through the ammo options and they all indicate empty, you can see that the display on the side of the gun is turned off, when it should have lettering on it. (01:15:00)
Correction: The display could not have been off since we only know the gun is empty because we can see the word "Empty" under the type of ammo Dredd has called up on the display. Any other angle in which it appears to be off is just because a bright blue light shining out of your gun in every direction isn't very tactical, so it's only visible from a very narrow angle; we have such technology now, so they certainly have it in this future world.
5th Sep 2013
Oblivion (2013)
Corrected entry: When Jack Tech 49 is in tower 52, Vicky 52 finds him and carries on a conversation with him, thinking he is Jack 52, who was just sent to fix a drone that came across the border - she lost contact with him, and being his lover she'd obviously be worried. She sees Jack 49, and sees the tattered clothes, the wound on his nose and cheek, but says nothing of it. Jack just says "False alarm." yet he obviously looks like he's been through hell and back with his clothes in their burned, shot, tattered condition, and the cut on his nose being a day old and looks it. And she just saw Jack 52 in basically perfect condition. A concerned lover alone, as well as a guardian team mate would have been much more concerned by his condition, especially with it changing in such a short amount of time so drastically after reportedly investigating a downed drone and "bogey." (01:23:00)
Correction: If Jack 49's exploits in the first act are anything to go by, these Techs can see quite a lot of action during a day's work. Vicky 52 is undoubtedly concerned, but it's also nothing she hasn't seen before. As she can tell he's in a hurry, and their mission so far as she knows is very important, she's likely saving her questions to be discussed over supper that night.
4th Sep 2013
Life of Pi (2012)
Corrected entry: After the tiger drags the zebra under the tarp, there is an overhead shot of the lifeboat. There is no blood or any other evidence of an animal kill.
2nd Sep 2013
The Bourne Identity (2002)
Corrected entry: After Bourne enters Eamon's house and discovers the Christmas lights still on, he knows they have to leave, but they don't leave in time to avoid Eamon returning home. But as he leaves the house to meet Eamon, you can see the Christmas lights blinking through the opened window. They would have seen the lights as they approached the house, wouldn't have entered the house at all, and would have avoided the entire scene the next day.
Correction: It's not uncommon for Christmas lights to have timers to turn them off and on. It's not the lights that convinced Bourne they could not stay, it's the signs of very recent occupancy inside the home that tell him the homeowners have left relatively recently and therefore could be back at any time.
2nd Sep 2013
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
Corrected entry: When Peter has dinner at Gwen's place, before they leave to take some fresh air, Peter is not wearing his jacket, but outside it's suddenly on.
Correction: The camera does not follow Peter in one continuous take from the table to the rooftop patio; we didn't see him walk all the way there either, but we can assume he did. He grabs his jacket off camera at some point in between when we see him get up from the table and when we next see him step through the door outside.
18th Aug 2013
Resident Evil (2002)
Corrected entry: In the beginning, the people are trapped in the elevator. The woman tried to squeeze out to get help, and a long piece of hair hangs down. As the car drops, the hair hangs out at an angle, the same angle as when the car stops, and her head is inches above the floor. Gravity defying hair?
17th Feb 2013
Prometheus (2012)
Corrected entry: Shaw and Ford struggle to lift the engineer's helmet off the head asking David over claiming "it's too heavy to lift". Earlier in the movie, Shaw had no problems carrying the helmet, still with the head in it, in a bag, with one arm and still held on to it in the storm.
Correction: Shaw and Ford carried the head together, hanging straight down between them in a bag with handles. That's a far cry from reaching out across the table, reducing the lifting power of their arms by extending them, and single-handedly removing the helmet which has no readily apparent gripping points.
22nd Jul 2013
Prometheus (2012)
Corrected entry: To enter the central sector of the alien spaceship, David, the android, cleverly types some signal that causes the door to open. We see him climb a silver metallic ladder to reach the necessary keys to make this happen. Where did this ladder come from? The crew did not bring it, and it was not shown prior to David using it.
23rd Jun 2012
Prometheus (2012)
Corrected entry: Upon reentry, a crew member comments that the atmosphere is like "breathing through an exhaust pipe, CO2 is over 3%, two minutes without a suit and you're dead." However, human beings can live in an environment of over 5% CO2, with only mild discomfort in the 3% range.
Correction: They're just rattling off a list of details about the atmosphere, concluding with the fact that it will kill you. Its lethal toxicity is not to do with the CO2 levels.
"Not to do with the CO2 levels"? Read the quote. They're saying you'll die in minutes from exposure to 3% CO2. That would make mouth-to-mouth resuscitation an impossibility as we exhale about 4% CO2. Even if they meant carbon monoxide - ie. What comes out of an exhaust pipe - you'd still have have to be WELL over 3% concentration for it to be lethal within minutes.
The quote does say the atmosphere is over 3%, not at 3%. Could be 6%.
It's unlikely after saying 71% nitrogen and 21% oxygen that "over 3%" would mean double the amount. Over 3% would mean less than 4%. But I would like to know what studies shows humans surviving over 5% CO2 levels to see what the rest of the air is made up of.
30th Jul 2013
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
Corrected entry: Peter Parker is able to sidearm throw a football from a seated position several dozen yards away at a field goal post so hard that it bends one of the uprights. Several of his schoolmates witness this, yet none of them act like this is a strange occurrence. They just carry on as if that sort of thing happens every day.
25th Jul 2013
True Lies (1994)
Corrected entry: After Aziz has shot up the bathroom stalls, you can see the resultant bullet holes in the doors. While doing this he is standing at quite an oblique angle to the doors and as such you would expect to see elongated/oval shaped bullet holes in the doors from their angle of entry. instead you see the perfectly round holes produced by a real gun obviously being fired from an off-screen location at ninety degrees to the doors.
22nd Jul 2013
Life of Pi (2012)
Corrected entry: After Pi's father has found him in the back room of the zoo, he feeds a goat to the tiger. The goat is tied on one side (a) with vertical bars which are are about the size of someone's arm in separation distance. When the tiger comes in (side b) he manages to somehow grab the goat and drag him through the bars and away in one piece.
Correction: The goat is in one piece, but it certainly has several broken bones. So long as the skull fits between the bars, there's no reason the tiger couldn't have dragged it through without spilling a drop of blood.
I believe that this is intentional. It is not possible for the tiger to have pulled the goat through the bars, this is in keeping with the fantastical quality of the story and a suggestion that the narrator is not reliable.
21st Apr 2013
Evil Dead (2013)
Corrected entry: When Mia is first possessed she manages to walk around and shoot at her brother while drugged up on enough tranquillizer to 'put a horse to sleep', but at the end of the film it only takes one shot of the tranquillizer to knock her out for long enough for him to not only bury her, but give his teacher friend a fond farewell too.
16th Jul 2013
The Fly (1986)
Plot hole: The whole problem with the teleporter occurs when fly DNA is mixed in with Seth Brundle's DNA, starting his transformation into the Brundlefly. Brundle is on a hiding to nothing from the word go, and the fly is irrelevant. Humans are a walking talking mass of foreign DNA - we are host to one trillion bacteria all of which has a complete complement of DNA, as do various tiny mites that live in our hair follicles and all sorts of single cell organisms in our gut. If the transporter serves to mix the DNA of all living creatures which are in the transporter pod at the time Brundle would turn into a half-man, half-bacteria. Incidentally, DNA from a bacteria, an amoeba or a hair follicle mite would be just as 'compatible' with human DNA as that from an insect. It's quite a simple chemical, really.
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Suggested correction: Being as how the bacteria and mites and such were IN or ON Seth, the machine was able to organize those symbiotic relationships accordingly as teleporting one would teleport all. The fly was separate, not touching. The machine was not programmed to anticipate two separated entities and so combined them into one on the other side.
We leave behind a vapour trail of bacteria and viruses (among other things) as we walk, in our breath and emanations from pores in our skin, and Brundle isn't trapping any in his clothes as he isn't wearing any. Brundle has an invisible cloud of DNA floating around him in that teleportation chamber and as far as the machine is concerned their DNA has exactly the same status as that of the fly.
12th Jul 2013
Les Miserables (2012)
Corrected entry: When Fantine sells her hair she is still wearing her pink dress. In the shot directly after her hair has been cut off she is wearing a blue dress with a ragged shawl and hat, with no time to have got changed. (00:25:00)
11th Jul 2013
Star Trek (2009)
Corrected entry: While running from the cop, young James Kirk barrels towards a cliff in his stepdad's car. He is able to slow down some before reaching the edge, and jumps out, barely grabbing the edge to keep from going over himself. The car is still going a good speed as it slides sideways and goes off the cliff. But as the camera follows its movement over the edge, it is seen falling almost straight down. The momentum it had, from its still considerable speed, would have had it moving out away from the canyon wall as it went down, not just going straight down. (00:14:00)
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Correction: This particular Meowth is not a normal (no pun intended) Pokémon. He does not behave naturally, and therefore the shifts in nature do not affect him in the same way. Other Pokémon are wild animals or tamed pets, while this Meowth is a fully cognizant intelligent being. Perhaps he feels it, but he is at the very least able to resist responding to it.
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