Phixius

Corrected entry: When Fred and George stand next to each other, they both appear to have two ears. However, George should be minus one. Snape had cursed it off in Deathly Hallows, part 1.

Correction: The twin on the left has a gnarled stump in place of a left ear (his left, not the viewer's).

Phixius

21st Jul 2011

Spaceballs (1987)

Corrected entry: When Barf opens the roof of Vespa's car, the stars behind them are not moving considering the car is being tractor beamed in.

jbrbbt

Correction: Do the stars seem to move as you drive down the road at night? They're far enough away that they seem stationary from that perspective.

Phixius

Corrected entry: When Harry first yells at Snape in Hogwarts, he is wearing a school cloak, yet after Snape leaves he is wearing his jacket and shirt.

Fireball

Correction: He was wearing the cloak over his own clothes to blend into the crowd. After revealing his presence, he no longer needed to disguise himself and cast the cloak off. He is seen doing so when McGonagall relights the Great Hall. It's lying on the floor.

Phixius

Corrected entry: Luna was left at Shell Cottage, but is in the scene already as Harry arrives in the room of requirement, dressed in the same clothes she had on at Shell Cottage.

Correction: So she left Shell Cottage some time after they did and went straight to Hogsmeade, where she gained entry to The Room of Requirement. Harry, Ron, & Hermione made a stop at Gringotts first, then rode a dragon around Britain for a while. Not even the slightest haste needed for Luna to get to Hogwarts first. She is also wearing different clothing.

Phixius

9th Jul 2011

Angels & Demons (2009)

Corrected entry: At the Harvard(?) pool, the Vatican officer hands Langdon the paper with "illuminati" written on it. Langdon says that "illuminati" is an anagram "because it reads the same backwards and forwards", however the proper word for that is palindrome.

daemon

Correction: He doesn't call it an "anagram", he calls an "ambigram". Which it is, not a palindrome.

Phixius

Corrected entry: It is commonly known that in the Twilight world, vampires can be reassembled if they are dismembered but not burned immediately. However, during the fight scene, the vampires seem incapable of doing this, even though there is no real evidence that the Cullens or the Volturi burned them.

LuvShadowsDolls

Correction: The pieces don't just magically fly back together. They have to blindly attempt to reassemble themselves, or be put back together by someone else, and can only be healed with vampire venom. That didn't happen so the vampires stayed broken.

Phixius

Corrected entry: When Neo meets the Architect, the Architect mentions that the matrix was created 6 times. The first two were disasters, and a solution was found by the oracle for the 3rd version. That means the 3rd version would allow "The One" and a "Zion" to exist; this meant that "Zion" was created 4 times (3rd, 4th, 5th version, and current). The architect mentioned that it will be the 6th time they destroyed it.

sksallaj

Correction: No there was always a Zion, the humans were simply waking up en masse necessitating Zions rapidly recurring destruction before the 3rd Matrix.

Phixius

Corrected entry: In the scene where Jasper tells Bella how he became a vampire he mentions that he was on his way back to Galveston, Texas. The next shot shows him riding a horse in a hilled environment. The area around Galveston is without hills for hundreds of miles.

Correction: You could be in the Appalachian mountains and still be on your way back to Galveston. He didn't say he was IN Galveston.

Phixius

Except, the scene from the book which is being visualized in the movie, expressly states he was moving from Houston to Galveston. No hills.

27th Jun 2011

Pearl Harbor (2001)

Corrected entry: In the scene when Jimmy Dolittle is standing on the carrier talking to Rafe about the reason for the Raid there is no wind. This is impossible as the Hornet was steaming at over 30 Knots which means there would have been a wind of over 30 miles an hour going across the deck and it would have been heaving up and down as the seas were rough for the trip.

Clarence Daugette

Correction: The carrier would be sailing into the wind as the B25s would be taking off soon.

When they actually launched they were still 10 hours away from actual take off, they didn't go against the wind yet. They had to do that the moment the decision was made to launch.

lionhead

Correction: This phenomenon is called 'apparent wind'. If they are traveling the same direction as the wind at roughly the same speed, they would not feel the wind.

Phixius

For this to happen, the wind would have to only come from one direction. The wind doesn't stay in the same direction for any length of time, especially when it is blowing at 30 knots.

terry s

Correction: Firstly, there is definitely wind, their jackets are all bulged up. Secondly, the trip took 2 weeks. It wasn't bad weather the entire way and they were talking about the medals days before April 18th when the weather was rougher. They intentionally did the operation before the end of April when the weather was going to turn bad.

lionhead

26th Jun 2011

Sunshine (2007)

Corrected entry: At the point where they need to leave "Icarus 1" the sexy guy rips some foil apart to reveal the space suit. Shortly afterwards, one of the others blows dust from the suit, as if it has been out in the ship's atmosphere as long as everything else on board.

RoK

Correction: "The sexy guy" is ripping insulation off the walls, upon one of which the only remaining space suit hangs, in order to provide the other two with a degree of protection. The suit is not behind this insulation.

Phixius

25th Jun 2011

Red (2010)

Corrected entry: At the end, Frank says they have no one chasing them anymore as Cooper will clean it all up. The Vice-President was murdered and there are hundreds of witnesses including Secret Service agents who saw Frank and his crew at the crime scene. Not to mention security cameras which must have caught a good portion of the action.

Correction: Cooper isn't going to simply brush it all under a rug. Frank is simply telling the gang that they themselves will no longer be hunted as Cooper will be sure the blame lay elsewhere.

Phixius

Corrected entry: The aliens are attacking Earth because it's the only planet with water in a liquid state. In other words, the aliens are capable of interstellar travel but aren't smart enough to melt a block of ice from somewhere else.

Correction: They use the water as fuel. Melting the ice would require fuel. See the dilemma? Besides, perhaps they ARE mining ice elsewhere. But they learn of Earth, and it's ready supply of liquid water, and decide the opportunity is too good to pass up.

Phixius

Not to mention, much of the "ice" available on other planets is not water ice.

Nauticalisimo

23rd Jun 2011

Red (2010)

Corrected entry: Listen closely to the scene where Sara opens the can of beer. Two small clicks are heard, but no loud snap or gushing noise as you hear when you open a beer or soda. It would appear that the prop team opened the can for her probably to prevent a broken nail and she just flipped the tab back and forth to seem like she opened it. The foley people don't add any sounds to compensate either.

Correction: I know a LOT of people that do not open the cut out section all the way across the seam. They just open it enough to let the drink out. The seam tearing is what makes the loud snapping sound. As for gushing, if the can was settled there'd be no gushing sound at all. She didn't shake it up before she opened it.

Phixius

23rd Jun 2011

Grown Ups (2010)

Corrected entry: When Lenny meets Dickie Bailey at Woodman's restaurant, it is as though the two are meeting for the first time in 30 years. Lenny even asks, "Dickie Bailey? Long time, no see. How you doing, man?" Dickie was at the coach's funeral. Lenny and Dickie would have met, and exchanged verbal jabs, then.

Correction: Apparently they did not.

Phixius

19th Jun 2011

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Corrected entry: When falling towards the train tracks in the clock tower fight, Spider-Man shoots two web balls up at Doc Ock. However, Doc Ock gets hit by two web balls and a third goes flying past him.

jzak2392

Correction: Spider-Man obviously shoots a third after the camera has cut away from him to show us Doc Ock reacting to the attack.

Phixius

14th Jun 2011

Tangled (2010)

Corrected entry: Gothel ages rapidly and dies because Rapunzel's hair has lost its magic, which could keep her young, after it's cut. However, since Rapunzel was able to heal Flynn with her tears, that means she had the magic in her instead of containing in her hair. Therefore, the death of Gothel wasn't possible. (01:40:05)

Correction: Separate charms though. Gothel's youth was maintained through Rapunzel's hair, which lost it's magical properties. If Gothel had distilled Rapunzel's tears instead, she would perhaps have retained her youth despite Rapunzel's hair being cut.

Phixius

15th Jun 2011

Grown Ups (2010)

Corrected entry: For the arrows to fall back to the point (or just to the vicinity) from which they were fired, as they do in the games of "arrow roulette," the angle of the arrows, when fired, would have to have been perfectly vertical. In both roulette games, the angle of the fired arrows was significantly off vertical. Even a slight deviation from perfectly vertical would cause the arrows to land nowhere near the point from which they were fired.

Correction: Once you account for wind speed and direction, a vertically loosed arrow would wind up quite a ways downwind from where the archer stands. This is why they loose the arrow at a slight angle, into the wind.

Phixius

2nd Sep 2010

Grown Ups (2010)

Corrected entry: Rob frowns on Lenny cooking bacon in the kitchen, saying that only vegan fare is allowed, yet has no problem later eating chicken out of Eric's KFC bucket.

Correction: KFC bucket wasn't in his kitchen, where only vegan fare is allowed. His wife is the hardcore vegan, he just accommodates her preferences.

Phixius

15th Jun 2011

S. Darko (2009)

Corrected entry: The second newspaper article that Corey looks at about the young girl decapitated by a manhole cover, the eighth paragraph (the one at the very bottom in the second column from the left) has a typo "We we jumping rope" instead of "We were jumping rope". (00:49:55)

Gunner6777

Correction: Newspapers, especially from small towns, have typograghical errors on a regular basis; usually several per issue. This is true to life and therefore not a Movie Mistake.

Phixius

Corrected entry: This is more of an "out-of-character" plot hole. In the previous movie, Jack Sparrow was bent on acquiring the Flying Dutchman because he would be able to roam the seas forever. Yet, in this movie he philosophizes how he doesn't have the desire to live forever.

Correction: Yes, because he's learned his lesson about the cost of immortality during the course of the previous film. Now, regaining some youth and extending your life a bit is not the same thing as living forever.

Phixius

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