Phixius

Corrected entry: In Snape's memory when Voldemort kills Lily Potter Voldemort is shown in his resurrected body but Voldemort had his own body at that time. Snape knew him and his memory should have shown Voldemort as he looked before.

missimin

Correction: He looked the same in both bodies.

Phixius

Corrected entry: When Edward was cutting the dogs hair for the very very first time, the dog first looked like a shaggy dog, and then when the dog comes running up to the owner, the dog then looks like a poodle.

Angelbabey

Correction: That's the point: Edward cut all the hair off the shaggy dog until its hairstyle resembled a typical poodle's hairstyle.

Phixius

Corrected entry: The CIA agent (let's call him... Carcetti) tells the 3 prisoners that the flight plan he filed with the agency lists "only one of you", implying that he is going to kill the 2 prisoners who wouldn't talk. Carcetti then fake-shoots one of the prisoners to put some pressure on the others and - this is crucial - pulls him back into the plane (Bane realizes that). This now indicates that he lied about the number of prisoners he listed in the flight plan. The flight plan most likely contains all three prisoners. The CIA expects all three prisoners. Now here is the mistake: Bane convinces only ONE of his mates to stay on the plane to throw off an investigation, but as we now know, the CIA should have expected more and any irregularities should have set off some alarms. But later in the movie when the plane crash comes up, no irregularities are mentioned. The plane crash is regarded as an accident and the CIA took the bait that Dr. Pavel was killed in that accident. An alternative explanation that Carcetti may have listed no additional prisoners in the flight plan (and therefore would have lied to the CIA) doesn't add up either, because then the CIA would've wondered about that one additional crash victim that wasn't listed in the flight plan and might've investigated further (as they should have anyway, what with the "wings and aft section crashed in totally different places than the plane itself" and all that, but that's a different plot hole). (00:02:15 - 00:06:00)

t-6

Correction: It seems odd that the only two conclusions drawn here are that 'Carcetti' either had three additional people listed on his flight plan or none at all. Why can't he have been speaking truth when he said the flight plan lists "only one of you"? However, he's obviously not going to kill two people just because his flight plan doesn't include them; that would make HIM the psychopath and he'd be arrested by his fellows on the spot. Solving this dilemma would be a simple matter of radioing ahead, but he didn't do so to maintain the charade, and Bane began his attack before he could place the call. Bane told his man to stay so the crash investigation would not turn up any red flags at all.

Phixius

17th Feb 2013

The Punisher (2004)

Corrected entry: When Frank blows up all the cars to kill Howard Saint, they form the Punisher skull. If those cars are not parked in any particular pattern (they aren't since its just a parking lot), how would Frank know exactly which cars to blow up?

Correction: Because he, for overly dramatic reasons unknown, only planted explosives on the cars which were parked in such a way as to form the skull when all were detonated.

Phixius

Corrected entry: This one is tricky but important in view of Doc's concern about doing anything that will alter the future. The lightning rod on the clock tower would have been connected to ground with a thick cable. Doc would have had to disconnect this cable to allow the current from the lightning to flow into his cable instead and hence to the time machine. We now know that a lightning strike is a result of a complex interaction of electric potentials between charges in a cloud and charges in the ground below. By disconnecting this grounding cable this interaction would have been disrupted, causing the lightning to strike at a different time or strike a different object on the ground.

Correction: If you touch a lightning rod while lightning strikes it, you will still get electrocuted. So, just like the energy would travel into your body, it traveled through Doc's cable. No need to disconnect the ground. If grounding a power source kept it from charging any thing else, no electrical appliance would ever function.

Phixius

11th Feb 2013

Aladdin (1992)

Corrected entry: In the scene where Jafar is trying to use hypnosis on the sultan, for a brief moment he becomes conscious, why hadn't he noticed what Jafar was doing? (00:48:20)

Correction: I'm sure if he hadn't immediately been forced back into an even more intense state of hypnosis, he would have.

Phixius

Corrected entry: When Ambrose is impersonating Ethan on the plane ride, he not only speaks in Ethan's voice with the voice changer but also Ethan's American accent. But when he removes the voice changer his accent goes back to Scots. Wouldn't he still have his Scots accent even with Ethan's voice? (00:05:05)

Correction: Not if he was deliberately speaking in an American accent during his impersonation and then stopped the fake accent when he stopped using the fake voice.

Phixius

21st Jan 2013

Looper (2012)

Corrected entry: When the gat men walk into young Joe's apartment they are heard talking about getting the silver and walking right in. Joe lives upstairs, when Old Joe is seen recapping those events, they are heard saying the same words but on the first floor.

Correction: An earlier point of the same conversation is heard when we see this scene from old Joe's perspective. The words are not the same, but they're talking about the same thing.

Phixius

24th Dec 2012

Pitch Perfect (2012)

Corrected entry: When the girls are in the bus singing "party in the USA" they try to get Beca to sing by not singing her part. Meanwhile Fat Amy is driving and can't see what is going on and she is just singing with them, but when the girls stop singing to get Beca to join in, Amy somehow stops too, despite having no way of knowing the others were about to stop.

moviemaster101

Correction: Rearview mirror. Amy knows exactly what's going on.

Phixius

24th Dec 2012

Pitch Perfect (2012)

Corrected entry: In the Riff Off, the head of the Riff Off said that 'it' was the word to match and that the Bellas lost because they sang 'I like the way you work it'. However just the song before the Treblemakers sang 'It feels like the first time.' They should have been eliminated.

Correction: No, the Bellas got eliminated because they came in with "it's" instead of "it." They don't have to match a word in the songs' titles, they have to start their new song with the same word that the current song is on at the moment they come in.

Phixius

Corrected entry: The movie uses the typical "vampires hate silver" mythos. When Adam opens Jack Bart's coffin, he is clutching Lincoln's silver pocket watch. Either he stole it from Lincoln before his death or Lincoln put it there, but either way, it should have been burning him up since he is a vampire. Also, the watch was given to Lincoln by Henry, another vampire, though Henry possibly could have been wearing gloves to negate the silver.

Correction: Vampires can hold a wooden stake, too, without coming to harm. They have to be stabbed in the heart with it before they'll die. Silver can kill these vampires, but only if it is actually used to cause what would be a mortal wound to a mortal man.

Phixius

Corrected entry: Abraham's axe has a gun built into the handle. During the train scene, the main vampire breaks his axe over his knee. This is amazing, due to the fact that the gun barrel inside the axe handle wouldn't have snapped.

Correction: And why wouldn't it have snapped? If the metal was stressed to such a degree and with such speed by a vampire's super-strength, especially having nowhere to bend being completely encased in wood, it could certainly have snapped.

Phixius

Corrected entry: In the train scene, Henry is beat up significantly by Adam. This directly contradicts an earlier scene where Henry could not touch or kill Adam due to the rules regarding vampires; Adam is still able to maim Henry and even bite him.

Correction: They're not able to KILL one another. Nothing was ever said about one vampire merely touching or even striking another vampire. So long as it's not a death blow, anything goes.

Phixius

Corrected entry: In a flashback, Henry reveals to the audience that vampires cannot kill one another as he attempts to stab Adam multiple times. Adam is seemingly surrounded by an invisible force field. Towards the end of the movie, however, Adam and Henry beat the living daylights out of each other and cause visible damage. Did some magical event take place on the train that allowed vampires to harm each other? We may never know.

Correction: Vampires can't kill one another. But they can still make physical contact with each other so long as such contact will not result in the death of one or the other.

Phixius

22nd Nov 2012

Casper (1995)

Corrected entry: When Casper is taking Kat a glass of juice, he holds it at the stalk and turns invisible. When he turns visible again, he is cupping the glass.

JoshJ91099

Correction: So he shifted his grip while invisible from one for carrying to one for handing over.

Phixius

13th Nov 2012

The Avengers (2012)

Corrected entry: Throughout the film each hero had been addressed by their respective codename at least once, with the exception of Natasha Romanov. She is either called Agent Romanov, Natasha or 'Nat'; never 'Black Widow'.

SheWhoLovesMovies

Correction: The Russian calls her "Black Widow" in the introductory scene, just a few minutes into the movie.

Phixius

Corrected entry: Amelia saying that Larry 'couldn't take his cheaters of her chassis' - using the word cheaters to mean his eyes - is incorrect. The slang term 'cheaters' was a reference to glasses/ spectacles, because using them to help enhance vision was 'cheating'.

Correction: It's just an expression. It does not matter that Larry wasn't wearing glasses. Men get told all the time not to get their "panties in a twist" even though odds are they're not wearing panties.

Phixius

Corrected entry: The inflatable costume beneath the clown costume has no purpose in Fugly Floom's act yet when the 'Do Not Pull' tag is pulled it inflates. It is unknown if Fugly would have used it later in the act if it was not ruined by Babe, despite the fact that the trousers were wrecked.

TrouserBraces

Correction: This entry corrects itself.

Phixius

23rd Oct 2012

Inception (2010)

Corrected entry: In the staircase paradox scene, when Ariadna and Arthur were at the end of the staircase, it seems that the staircase is moving upwards but in real the staircase is static its just the camerawork. You can also see that the railings of the upper part of staircase is not matching with the railings of the lower part. (00:40:10)

Correction: This scene shows Arthur explaining to Ariadne how the trick is created within a dream; it's all done within the context of the film's world. It's not accidentally revealing how the shot was created for the movie because even for the characters in the film the staircase was meant to be an optical illusion.

Phixius

Corrected entry: Snow White is a child and is in an apple tree with her cousin. Her cousin pulls a ripe apple from the tree, which is in full blossom, and takes a bite. An apple tree in full blossom is not at the point yet where it would be bearing fruit.

Correction: It's part of Snow's magic. Plants bloom and blossom as she merely passes them by; people she spends time near find their ailments healing. If she's actually in a tree, physically touching it for a length of time, the effect is going to be much more pronounced. A blossoming tree would suddenly bear fruit, for instance.

Phixius

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