Phixius

28th Nov 2004

Groundhog Day (1993)

Corrected entry: When Phil is driving Ralph's car on the railroad tracks, if he were on the same track as the train, he would not have made it since he had not turned off the tracks until the train was up to him.

Correction: It's tricky to judge how far away objects are from the outer dimensions of a vehicle you're sitting in. This is why there are so many scrapes and bumps in parking lots, etc. The POV was from inside the car at this moment, so we can't know for sure exactly how close the train was.

Phixius

Corrected entry: At the end of the movie when the villain falls into the water, you will see that the splash appears before he hits the water.

Correction: The splash appears before he disappears under the water's surface, yes. But that's how splashes work: as soon as you touch the water at speed a splash forms, even though you're not fully submerged yet.

Phixius

Correction: I wonder if we watched a different version of the scene, because the mistake - which exists, and it's probably the most well known and ridiculed of the movie, I remember it still from The Angry Videogame Nerd's review from way back - is that there is in fact no splash. It's like the ocean eats him.

Sammo

Corrected entry: When the time traveling first beings, it is explained that the dynamo and the high ranking people in the palace speak English because of the trade and western influence of their partnerships with the westerners in the movie. But later in the movie, all the common towns folk speak english with the turtles and rarely use japanese.

Correction: Those aren't 'common townsfolk', those are members of a rebellion. It stands to reason they'd 1)learn a language used by their enemies to better understand what they're plotting, and 2)refrain from using a language their guests can't understand.

Phixius

I doubt that the little Japanese kid in the burning house who shouts "Help! Grandfather, heeeeelp!" in English is doing it because he saw that there are non-Japanese guests and wanted to be inclusive for the minorities.

Sammo

Corrected entry: In the end after the Ninjas destroy the bad guy, they fall in some kind of pool. When they come up we can see that they are practically dry.

Correction: They're turtles, their skin does not absorb water like ours does. 'Practically dry" is not completely dry, so there's no mistake here.

Phixius

Correction: I agree with the correction, and the bandannas have a 'wet' look, too.

Sammo

Corrected entry: When the turtle Tokka (Rhazar?) jumps in the hole to chase after the turtle brothers, he gets stuck. If you look at his shell, one of the spikes has bent as if the shell is rubber. Seeing as he was a turtle before, the shell should be rock hard.

Correction: The outer layer of a turtle's shell (where a snapping turtle's spikes would be) are made of keratin, just like your fingernails which will bend with enough force. Snapping Turtles don't have very protective shells to begin with and Tokka certainly weighs a fair bit. It's not unreasonable that the spike could have warped under that kind of pressure.

Phixius

If your fingernails are shaped like cones and a few inches thick, good luck bending them! If they budge it's more likely that they are coming off the bed. I understand that we're talking about the bodyweight of this big creature here, but the spikes around the lower edge bend, and in particular when Tokka is already stuck in the manhole and squirms annoyed as Michelangelo tickles its foot, one of the largest spikes in the back comes up in view. The whole shell of the turtle would have to be completely soft, sorta spongy, to allow that, but it's not a creature designed to be a hedgehog or something like that: the shell is a solid one.

Sammo

19th Apr 2011

Firefly (2002)

Jaynestown - S1-E4

Corrected entry: In the morning when Jayne comes down the tavern steps with a girl on his arm, Mal comes up to him and say something about "The living hero needs to made an appearance at the town square." Wwe hear Jayne say, "He does?" but his lips don't move.

Correction: You can easily and clearly say "He does?" without moving your lips at all.

Phixius

10th Mar 2011

Megamind (2010)

Corrected entry: When Megamind is disguised as Bernard, he tries to keep up the charade of being both Megamind and Bernard in front of Roxanne, and pretends that 'Bernard' is fighting Megamind. 'Bernard' eventually gets thrown out of the doorway that both he and Megamind were fighting in, and Roxanne has witnessed it all. Yet, when 'Bernard' is thrown out, she comforts him, and then leads them away from where she last saw Megamind. This makes no sense. She saw where Megamind went: it's not logical for her to then completely go in the opposite direction.

GalahadFairlight

Correction: Standing there in the open isn't very logical either. She's looking for somewhere she can hide to get the drop on him.

Phixius

17th Apr 2011

Predators (2010)

Corrected entry: When Noland reveals himself he has an awesome looking weapon and armor. When the "crew" is in his hideout no one, including Noland, takes the stuff with them.

nitpicker1977

Correction: They left in a bit of a hurry. Didn't really have time to pack up.

Phixius

Corrected entry: When Peter first dislocates his arm in the fight with Miraz, his arm is snapped backwards, away from the body. However, when Edmund later "relocates" it for him, he is still pushing it backwards, away from the body, which would just dislocate it even more.

Correction: He's pulling Peter's arm away from the shoulder socket in the direction it was dislocated to avoid further damage to the tissue or bone as he manipulates it. He then manoeuvres the bone back into its socket.

Phixius

Corrected entry: When Alice rams her bike trough the church window, her headlight is on. And in the shot just before she hits the Licker, it still is. But in the shot where she actually rams it away, her light is all of a sudden off. It didn't break, because in the shot where she starts her turn, it is still intact.

Friso94

Correction: The damage doesn't need to be visible for a headlight to cease functioning.

Phixius

12th Mar 2011

Red (2010)

Corrected entry: When Sarah comes home from her date, she opens a fresh can of corona. After two sips from it, she throws the empty can at Moses.

Correction: There is nothing whatsoever to indicate that the can is empty.

Phixius

Corrected entry: At the hour mark Steven receives a printed template for a bail application which is headed "Bail Assignement". Clearly the title has been misspelled with an extra 'e' in assignment. However, 25 seconds or so later, the same piece of paper finds it way to a legal office for processing with the correct spelling "Bail Assignment". (01:06:05)

craigistop

Correction: That's not the same form. That's the duplicate Steven had made. His 'friend' obviously spelled "assignment" correctly when he created the forgery.

Phixius

11th Apr 2011

V for Vendetta (2005)

Corrected entry: In the scene where Evey activates the tube train and joins Mr. Finch on the platform as the train moves out of the station, several large production-grade lighting fixtures on tall stands can be seen along the platform. It's possible that these were "hidden in plain sight" and were supposed to be work lights for V. (02:02:20)

Correction: This entry corrects itself. They were work lights within the context of the film, and work lights for the crew filming it. Not a mistake.

Phixius

11th Apr 2011

V for Vendetta (2005)

Corrected entry: The BTN news studio facility does not have teleprompters/autocues on their cameras. In the scene where V enters the studio, you can also see that one of the camera's viewfinders is turned off. (00:17:00)

Correction: This is a fictional near-future. Teleprompters/autocues are obviously a part of their new equipment. As for the camera with the view finder switched off, what evidence is there that that particular camera is even in use?

Phixius

Corrected entry: When Grandpa returns from "India," he tells a story about how he shot an elephant in his pajamas, then mutters "You've heard it before." Clearly this is a joke he's told the family several times already. In fact, it's a paraphrase of a very famous Groucho Marx line from the Marx Brothers' movie "Animal Crackers." However, "Animal Crackers" wasn't released until 1931, nearly two decades after the story takes place, so there's no way Grandpa could possibly have known that joke.

Correction: He's a senile old man. It's not likely a joke he tells, but rather a story he's told them numerous times. Either way, this is a fictional world; if, in that world, that man is meant to have used that joke twenty years before it was popularized in the real world, then that's not a mistake.

Phixius

7th Apr 2011

Inception (2010)

Corrected entry: In the scene were Cobb is in the first dream level the train tears the ground behind it leaving tracks but as the scene continues the tracks disappear. (01:06:30)

Correction: Cobb drives over the torn up tracks and onto another street. They don't disappear, he drives away from them. The train was only on that one street so there shouldn't be any damage on any other road.

Phixius

Corrected entry: Despite being lost for three days without supplies, the guys remain clean-shaven throughout the entire movie.

Correction: I go a week without a five o'clock shadow. They can go three days.

Phixius

Corrected entry: After Alice jumps from the prison rooftop and Luther is clearing the zombies on the ground, he shouts, "Over here" to Alice, then fires his gun. Two zombies standing on either side of him die, seemingly from the gunshot at least half a second after the shot is fired. (01:03:25)

Ultim8Z0mb13

Correction: So it took them a while to fall over. It's not like they're going to reel back in pain as soon as they get shot.

Phixius

Correction: That's not a plot hole unless it contradicts something else in the film. It never explains where Alice was originally born either; doesn't make her appearance in the film a plot hole.

Phixius

But there is a slight issue in that he was healthy when he left the prison but sick when they arrived at Arcadia.

Ssiscool

Corrected entry: In the beginning of the film, the rescue people say the girls have been missing for 2 days. Although, when Cath and Greg come across Sam's lifeless body hanging from the ceiling, she looks as though she's already started to decompose. It doesn't seem like just two days after she died, she'd begin to decompose. Especially since when they found Rebecca's body, the skin was still in tact and hadn't started decomposing at all. (00:55:20)

Zenaaaah

Correction: There are a LOT of factors which determine rate of decomposition. Both in terms of speeding the process up and in slowing it down.

Phixius

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