Corrected entry: In the scene where Arnold is going to drive the truck, his eyes point in different directions. However, when he gets up as a cyborg while the truck is burning up (and in rest of the film), he can move both eyes in the same direction. (01:27:25 - 01:31:05)
Phixius
7th Jan 2012
The Terminator (1984)
3rd Jan 2012
American History X (1998)
Corrected entry: In the bathroom scene toward the beginning of the film, where the white kid is getting whaled on by the three blacks, as the third black kid is leaving he puts his hand up towards Edward Furlongs face, and in the process, hits Furlongs cigarette. The cherry explodes everywhere but in the next shot the cigarette is lit as he helps the kid up. (00:11:00)
11th Nov 2011
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
Corrected entry: When Caesar liberates the monkeys/apes from the zoo, they seem to have become just as intelligent as the apes who inhaled the "medicine", but they didn't and should be acting as normal animals. Instead, they take the metal bars and become fierce warriors.
Correction: Those are apes from the habitat and the lab that take up the spears. The apes from the zoo are just following the alpha along where he goes. They're participating but not coordinating to the same degree as the others. That said, they are exhibiting higher than normal levels of reasoning, but that's only because they're following the example of the other apes without really understanding what they're doing or why.
29th Dec 2011
Liar Liar (1997)
Corrected entry: In the state of California, all parties are required for consent to be recorded, much less be used in a court of law as evidence as one's infidelity in the tape recording we hear.
Correction: True, but irrelevant as the gentleman himself confesses to the adultery while on the stand. It's not illegal to present the recording, it just can't be taken into consideration by the court as evidence.
What would be the point to presenting evidence that can't be considered as evidence?
16th Dec 2011
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
Corrected entry: In the scene in the Great Hall where Ron is looking at his Chocolate Frogs cards, Harry picks one up. It's suppose to be Dumbledore's card, but in several shots you see where Dumbledore's picture should be. Instead, all you see is the green screen attached to the cards.
Correction: Dumbledore's picture was a simple holographic foil image; the same kind you'd see on any credit card. There was no green screen effect needed for this. What you're seeing is just the way the light plays off the foil when viewed from an extreme angle.
16th Dec 2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
Corrected entry: When Voldemort says to Snape in the Boathouse "Only I can live forever", Snape's reply is "My lord". Look at his shirt and you'll see that it's buttoned. But when Voldemort casts Sectumsempra on him his button is undone and his white collar is visible.
14th Jun 2011
Super 8 (2011)
Corrected entry: A character is seen building an Aurora Hunchback of Notre Dame glow in the dark model which is correct for 1979, but the model box is the "long box" used for the non-glow in the dark model in the sixties.
18th Nov 2011
X-Men: First Class (2011)
Corrected entry: Moira McTaggert, who has NO mutant powers to prevent her aging, is shown to be in her 30s in this movie set in the 60s. The X-Trilogy is set in the 2000s according to the novelization. That's a gap of 50 years, so Moira should be in her 70s in the trilogy. Yet, when we see her in X-Men 3, she's barely pushing 40.
14th Nov 2011
Futurama (1999)
How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back - S2-E14
Corrected entry: The other poker players confront Bender about his cheating using X-ray glasses, and he grabs the poker chips off the table and runs. What's the point of that? The other players know he's been cheating and they won't cash the chips - they are worthless plastic.
11th Nov 2011
Men in Black II (2002)
Corrected entry: When J shoots the door of MIB so him, K and the worms can get in, they are all sucked in through the hole he blew. The only way this would happen is if the pressure inside the building is less than outside the building and, judging from the powerful suction that lifts them off their feet, there would have been a vacuum inside the building, which means that everyone inside would have suffocated.
Correction: Not necessarily. Large stadiums have a high internal air pressure to keep the ceiling up. When you exit, the difference in air pressure can knock you down if you aren't prepared for it, yet you don't really feel the difference while you're inside. So the pressure inside MiB headquarters could be significantly lower than the pressure outside (likely to accommodate beings from low-pressure environments) without actually being uninhabitable to humans.
24th May 2011
The Green Hornet (2011)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Reid And Kato was sitting in the back of the Chrysler and Reid called Kato a human Swiss army knife, Reid poured the whisky and just as they toast, Kato spoke in Chinese (translation: I spent three months). But when Reid told Kato he's speaking Chinese, Kato apologized and continued "I spent three weeks".
31st Oct 2011
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
Corrected entry: After Luke defeats Vader, he stands over Vader with his lightsaber and the blade casts no shadow. Earlier shots during the fight showed shadows cast from the lightsaber blades.
29th Oct 2011
The Number 23 (2007)
Corrected entry: When Walter Sparrow 'reads' the secret message from the book, he tells his son that he got the message by circling every 23rd word of every 23rd page, but you see him circling more than one word on a page. Then, when he calls his son to read the message out loud, it shows him reading this from one page only, so the message is not scattered throughout the book. (01:08:30)
Correction: "Every 23rd word" means he counts from the first word to 23, then from there to 23 again, repeating until he's out of words for that page. Just like "every 23rd page" is counted; he doesn't just circle one word on the 23rd page of the book. As for the other, margins make excellent places to write notes in a book. So there's no reason his son could not have read the message from a single page.
29th Oct 2011
X-Men: First Class (2011)
Corrected entry: Charles says when they are looking at the suits, that they have to wear them because they haven't mutated to endure g-force or being riddled by bullets. Yet somehow a deflected Walther PPK bullet, which is one of the smallest calibers out there, can go through the suit and still have enough power to paralyze Charles?
9th Jul 2011
X-Men: First Class (2011)
Corrected entry: In the scene in which Banshee jumps out of the Blackbird, the wings that Beast designed for him aren't on while he's still on the Blackbird, but they appear as he's gliding over the ocean. They're gone again once he's underwater and makes his sonic blast.
Correction: The wings of this wingsuit extend and retract via some unexplained mechanism from a harness strapped to his torso. The straps on his suit are visible at all times, whether his wings are visible or not, and they don't appear on anyone else's suit. Just like no one else has the disc on their chest that Havok has.
7th Jul 2011
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
Corrected entry: The arrival of Cybertron orbiting so close to Earth would have massive ramifications for our planet. Bearing in mind the effects our moon has on our planet and Cybertron is considerably larger, it would cause massive tsunamis, floods and affect Earth's orbit around the sun. No explanation is given onscreen as to how the Space Bridge technology works, therefore any correction that speculatively tries to guess is against site rules.
Correction: You're assuming Cybertron is a solid mass, like other celestial bodies in our solar system. It's not. It's shown, repeatedly, to be a framework structure, the frames themselves being more or less hollow for to allow for internal habitation and traversal. There is considerably less mass to this planet than there appears to be from a distance, therefore the gravitational effect on the Earth is nominal.
12th Jul 2011
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
Corrected entry: During the Apollo 11 moonwalk, footage is shown of Walter Cronkite reporting a loss of signal from Apollo 11, saying it is on the dark side of the moon. Since the same side of the moon always faces Earth, the moon would not rotate so that the Apollo 11 craft would be on the dark side. A loss of signal such as the one Cronkite reported would occur when the craft is in lunar orbit and passes around the dark side, which takes about a half-hour.
13th Sep 2011
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
Corrected entry: When Sentinel Prime is revived he is immediately speaking English. I know that the Transformers can learn a language quickly via the Internet, but he was just revived and in under a second is practically fluent.
13th Sep 2011
Men in Black (1997)
Corrected entry: When Dr Laurel Weaver (the coroner) is making a statement on a tape recorder about the oddities of the "body" of Gentle Rosenberg, J and K never bothered to erase the tape, so neuralizing Dr Weaver by itself was not enough to cover the tracks. (00:51:15)
13th Sep 2011
Inception (2010)
Corrected entry: At the very end when Cobb finally gets home, Michael Caine goes outside to get the children and says, "Look who's here." When the children come in, Cobb pick ups up his daughter first and the son is on the ground. The camera then goes to Michael Caine for a second. When it goes back, Cobb's daughter is on the ground and Cobb's son is in his arms.
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Correction: "Can" and "must" are two different things. He's a cyborg, why shouldn't he be capable of moving his eyes independently of one another?
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