Corrected entry: Given how small the bug start of as that bites Dr. Marshall, when its on his back its the size of a gallon of milk from ingesting so much blood. The human body has 6 pints and that much blood being removed would surely have killed him despite the comedic factor of the gag.
Phixius
11th Sep 2011
Land of the Lost (2009)
5th Sep 2011
Rango (2011)
Corrected entry: After Rango's terrarium falls out of the car, the cocktail umbrella lands on the glass shard Rango is lying down on. When it burns up later, it's on the asphalt and far from the shard.
5th Sep 2011
Mean Girls (2004)
Corrected entry: Cady admits to writing the Burn Book. It's not possible for her to have been able to write the entire book by herself seeing as she's a new student, and all the events in the book did not occur in her time being at the school.
5th Sep 2011
Batman and Robin (1997)
Corrected entry: Batman couldn't possibly have his own credit card. Obtaining a credit card requires proof of identification and a billing address, neither of which Batman would submit for obvious reasons. Nor would it be a credit card that he issued himself through Wayne Enterprises because the credit card company would see that a Wayne Enterprises Corporate credit card was used at a charity event that was attended by Batman and would subsequently reveal his secret identity (not to mention that Batman intends on using the card for a $7 million purchase, which is not a price anyone is going to turn a blind eye to), which is not something Batman would risk. And although the Bat-credit card may be a jokey reference to the 60s TV series, Batman still demonstrates his intent on using the card to secure his bid for a date with Poison Ivy, which means that in the context of the film, the credit card is functional.
Correction: Granted that the movie takes place in the real-time calendar year 1997; keep in mind that major federal banking laws were not enforced too seriously at the time, plus this was the time way before the USA Patriot Act was created and strictly enforced after the September 11 terrorist attacks. I can understand that even if Bruce Wayne did manage to have his own bank and provided a line of credit to Batman still like everyone else he had to submit to US federal banking laws (FCRA, ECOA and the like.) Let alone the general public will find it too suspicious why a private citizen would give a line of credit to a superhero in the first place. Either way, it's all within the DC World fantasy.
I would be too young to remember, but prior to online shopping, weren't people usually required to present their ID when making a credit card purchase? When I had my first job, if someone was making a purchase with the credit card, our boss required us to check their ID. I mean, if I was holding a fundraiser and someone pledged $1 million, I would want them to provide valid ID in case they decided to welch on the payment.
2nd Sep 2011
Tremors (1990)
Corrected entry: When the station wagon is found buried, not only is the radio on but the headlights are as well. Given the attack occurred at night and it is now mid-morning and the fact that the car can't run underground, even the best car batteries can't last more than an hour.
Correction: The best car batteries will last a lot more than an hour. I've left my lights on accidentally when I parked for work and found them still on 8 hours later. Car started up just fine too.
In modern cars I would agree with you - but this car is almost 20 years old and the battery would not last more than an hour or so with both the radio and the headlights running.
Doesn't mean the battery is 20 years old.
The sound of the radio is not coming from the car. It's a small portable radio the Dr. Has in his car. You see it get turned on by accident when the Dr.'s wife kicks the radio during the attack.
The car radio wasn't on. It was the transistor radio she knocked over in the back of the car when she climbed through.
Correction: It wasn't the car radio, it was a portable radio.
Correction: Battery power and battery life depend on the battery and not on the car it's in.
4th Oct 2011
Apollo 13 (1995)
Corrected entry: The consoles used in the movie were the actual consoles that were in the second and third floor MOCR (Mission Operations Control Room). The goose neck reading lamps did not exist, however. The shots of the hallways outside the MOCR in Building 30 were not authentic. Also, during the first two days of the disaster, the hallways on the second floor were lined with student chairs where programmers were working on the various scenarios for return and reentry. Ron Howard's dedication to accuracy is amazing because the information on the displays in Mission Control was authentic in format, the switch legends on the consoles were labels as they would have been and even the lights on the Keysets (the communication consoles with the telephone dial) were accurate in their color coding and in the flashing light indicating that a "talk loop" was active (monitor-only circuits were illuminated but not flashing).
Correction: His attention to detail is admirable, but at the end of the day this film is a drama, not a historical documentary. This entry is not referring to factually impossible things, merely factually inaccurate things (with the exception of the goose-necked reading lamps). Many, many things happened differently in the film compared to what happened in real life. None of those things constitute a movie mistake.
20th Sep 2011
Batman Forever (1995)
Corrected entry: When the Riddler and Two Face sit down to play Battleship with the Bat-Boat and Bat-Plane, how did they know two ships would be coming? Robin did not exist until Batman was about to leave to rescue Chase, so technically the game shouldn't exist and the two villains should only be expecting Batman.
8th Sep 2011
Speed (1994)
Corrected entry: A while after Jack has boarded the bus, Payne is watching news reports that mention a police officer has boarded the bus and Payne says, "Would that be you Jack?". As is later revealed, Payne has a camera on the bus and should have known this already.
5th Sep 2011
Ultraviolet (2006)
Corrected entry: During the library scene, Violet has custom guns with purple muzzle flares. The shape of these flares are Biohazard symbols, a direct reference to Resident Evil, one of Jovovich's earlier movies. Resident Evil is known as Biohazard in Japan, the origin of the series.
Correction: Seems kind of a reach. Unless there's some commentary on the issue by someone involved with the production of the film (and if there is, it ought to be cited in the entry) I'd say it's much more likely they're biohazard symbols because that's a "cool" shape for the flares to take.
3rd Sep 2011
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Snape takes over the Defense against the dark arts class, (about werewolves) when the projector changes slides, on the screen the image moves clockwise at the top. However, when you see the projector, the light enabling a picture to be projected is on the bottom and the slides rotate counter clockwise.
6th Sep 2011
Detroit Rock City (1999)
Corrected entry: In the scene where they are driving down the road with Christine in the back after beating up the Guidos, she says something like, "I wouldn't be surprised if Kiss made a disco song," and the other guys all just laugh and say that'll never happen. What's funny here is Kiss made the song "I Was Made for Lovin' You," which is a disco rock kind of song as a way to show how easy it would be to make a disco song.
21st Aug 2011
Sherlock Holmes (2009)
Corrected entry: Holmes' ''stun baton'' works multiple times without having to recharge. That is not how electricity works. If it has the ability to discharge, it will keep going until the charges between the device and the ground are equal, which would be after one time. And batteries that small didn't exist then.
Correction: You suppose a lot knowing absolutely nothing about how this home made device of his works. A tazer can discharge multiple times without needing to recharge because it must be activated with a button press. Apparently there is a similar such activation mechanic on Holmes' baton.
4th Sep 2011
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Corrected entry: When Jen start to run away, she arrives to a kind of restaurant. Two fighters speak to her in a very agressive way and challenge her. First she has the green destiny sword in one hand, later she cuts the fighter's arms but the sword now appears in her other hand.
27th Aug 2011
Apocalypto (2006)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Jaguar Paw's wife is stuck in the cave, 2 animals are fighting and one falls into the cave. These animals were Tasmanian Devils and are only found in the island Tasmania off the coast of Australia.
Corrected entry: When there is a shot of the characters' shadows on the shore before Aslan's Country, and the camera moves back towards Aslan's shadow, Aslan's actual body is not there, his paws are not touching his shadow, there is no Aslan, just the shadow. And then in the next shot, he is there.
3rd Aug 2011
Taken (2008)
Corrected entry: When Bryan rescues Kim on the boat he says "I told you I would come for you". Well, he never said that once in the movie.
4th Aug 2011
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Corrected entry: Short Round's age has been given as somewhere between nine and twelve. But in the campfire scene, Indy says that Short Round was orphaned at the age of four when the Japanese bombed Shanghai, which happened in 1932. The movie is set in 1935, making Short Round seven. But this seems highly unlikely, as the character seems to be at least nine or ten.
29th Jul 2011
Seven (1995)
Corrected entry: When Somerset visits Mills' apartment, a subway train passes very close by and everything starts shaking. Somerset explains how they were tricked by the real estate agent. But this obviously takes place after they have had dinner, and thus Somerset must have been in the apartment for quite a while - they must have already had trains passing and that conversation already.
27th Jul 2011
Osmosis Jones (2001)
Corrected entry: While waiting to leave the bladder, Drix says that he wasn't designed to fight a virus. Yet Drix is a cold pill. The common cold is a virus.
26th Jul 2011
The Love Guru (2008)
Corrected entry: While the Guru is fighting with the rooster, we see a bunch white feathers in the air around the Guru, but the rooster is black/brown, not white. (00:26:00)
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Correction: If visual gags killed people, there wouldn't be a comedy in existence that wasn't a slaughter-fest. Over-the-top visual gags are a staple of comedic film making, just like "sound in space" in the sci-fi genre. Neither is considered a movie mistake.
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