Phixius

Corrected entry: When Abel and his partner are shaking down the white thug, he claims to be 1/7 Cherokee. That figure is biologically impossible. (One can be 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, etc.). (00:12:50)

throcko

Correction: He's just a dumb thug who's pulling a number out of the air; lying to the cops, hoping to get sympathy as a "fellow minority". What he said is supposed to be stupid because the character is supposed to be stupid. That's not a character mistake because it suits the character perfectly.

Phixius

3rd Apr 2011

The Hangover (2009)

Corrected entry: In the end sequence of pictures from the digital camera, one photograph shows Ed Helms smiling with his missing tooth several images before the series where he is shown pulling it out in a bloody mess.

Correction: The pictures aren't necessarily in chronological order, just grouped according to common theme.

Phixius

30th Sep 2010

Frozen (2010)

Corrected entry: In the scene where the girlfriend's hand is frozen to the metal bar 50 feet in the air, she forces her hand loose and 1/2" of skin and blood is left frozen to the bar. Later on in the movie, they show the bar and her sitting there, and not even a mark on the bar.

Correction: The skin left on the bar gradually disappears over the next several scenes, implying it was picked off over time, or simply dried up and flaked off in the wind bit by bit. I know I would have picked it off so I wouldn't have to sit there and stare at it.

Phixius

14th Oct 2010

Frozen (2010)

Corrected entry: Why didn't any of the staff at the slope notice a car left in the carpark at the end of the day? Their vehicle is shown to still be there at the end.

Correction: Who's to say they didn't notice? They probably just didn't care. They didn't exactly seem to be highly responsible individuals, and they were all headed home early for a week off.

Phixius

Correction: People leave their vehicles out and camp near resorts all the time.

Corrected entry: At the end when Spongebob finally receives his manager badge he says to Squidward "your fly is down." However if you look at the next shot they show of Squidward he isn't wearing any pants.

rdobert4

Correction: Squidward never wears pants. Pointing out obvious gags is not "trivia".

Phixius

28th Feb 2011

Arachnophobia (1990)

Corrected entry: When Dr.Atherton determines to test the toxicity of the venom, he extracts a sample from one of the 3 tiny poison sacs on the (now) deceased spider. However, the distance he retracted the plunger on the syringe would have been sufficient to obtain 10-15 cc's, far more than the sac could hold.

Correction: So he drew air in after the venom was extracted. The syringe is not shown to hold 15 cubic centimeters of pure venom, so there's no mistake.

Phixius

But when he injects the mouse, the syringe is pointing up. So, unless the syringe was full of venom, he would only inject air into the mouse.

subspace

21st Feb 2011

Kindergarten Cop (1990)

Corrected entry: To allow for the children to be at eye level when they speak to him, when Arnold is brought out on the stretcher, the ambulance attendants roll him with it in the down position. You can see at the end of the scene they actually raise him up to put him the ambulance to cover up the manoeuvre when in fact they should have left him lowered to lift him in.

Correction: This instructional video demonstrates the proper procedure: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxmTaDehfzI | ALL stretchers are raised or lowered on their frames to be level with the back of the ambulance. Once the ambulance is supporting the head end of the stretcher, the frame is raised up from under the stretcher while one or more responders continue to support it. It is then loaded into the ambulance. The stretcher in this film starts off lower than usual so the children can speak to Kimble, yes, but this is not a movie mistake, just a consideration of the responders. This scene plays out almost exactly like the instructional video in the link.

Phixius

28th Feb 2011

Kindergarten Cop (1990)

Corrected entry: Right at the end when Arnold is on the stretcher going into the ambulance, the EMS crew does a strange thing. They are rolling the stretcher with Arnold in the down position, then when they get to the ambulance, they raise it up. This is the opposite of the way it is normally done. Plus, with that model of stretcher, you have to lower the patient and then lift him bodily into the back of the ambulance. In the scene immediately after they raise it, they are seen sliding the stretcher into the ambulance after is has been put back into the down position. If you watch closely, you can see that the medics look confused when they raise the stretcher and it won't go into the ambulance. Clearly they rolled it in the down position so the kids could talk to him.

Correction: This instructional video demonstrates the proper procedure: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxmTaDehfzI | ALL stretchers are raised or lowered on their frames to be level with the back of the ambulance. Once the ambulance is supporting the head end of the stretcher, the frame is raised up from under the stretcher while one or more responders continue to support it. It is then loaded into the ambulance. The stretcher in this film starts off lower than usual so the children can speak to Kimble, yes, but this is not a movie mistake, just a consideration of the responders. This scene plays out almost exactly like the instructional video in the link.

Phixius

Corrected entry: Part of the Punisher's objective in his war against crime is to protect innocent civilians. Yet at one point in the movie he chooses to dispatch an enemy on a rooftop by using a rocket launcher, even though the rocket could have missed and collided with a nearby building and killed several innocents.

S. Ha

Correction: Unfortunately for the innocent civilians, The Punisher's ONLY objective is to punish violent criminals. He's not The Protector, he's The Punisher.

Phixius

This correction demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of the Punisher as a character. Just because he's called the Punisher, it doesn't mean he has no moral code or doesn't care about innocent people. This film, for all of its many flaws, even shows him questioning himself after he mistakenly murders an undercover FBI agent.

Phaneron

Additionally, the main plot of this film is the Punisher protecting the family of the murdered FBI agent from the mobsters he infiltrated. If punishing criminals was his only objective as you suggested, then he wouldn't go out of his way to help the family. He would just spray bullets at the criminals and shrug off whatever collateral damage he causes in the process.

Phaneron

If you read some of his comics, he has pursued enemies in front of innocent people and some have been caught in the crossfire sadly. Not really an error.

Corrected entry: The beach in the movie is just too small in comparison to the historical Omaha Beach. When visiting it today, Omaha Beach does look much smaller because houses and a road were built, halving the original beach. But in 1944, the beach was miles in length. Because the beach is so much smaller in the movie, you can see the German machine-gunners and the US soldiers they are shooting at in the same frame. And because they are shooting from such a small distance, they can fire in long, wild bursts. So it is understandable why the beach was so small in the movie: because of artistic license. Most of the US soldiers that were killed on Omaha Beach never even saw their enemy because of the distance.

Audie-T

Correction: This entry corrects itself: artistic license. This is decent trivia, but it's not a movie mistake.

Phixius

19th Mar 2011

Inception (2010)

Corrected entry: In 1st layer of the dream, Cobb pulls over so Ariadne could leap into the car, then it gets slammed by the train. The car stops perpendicular to the street, but in next shot it gets slammed in its side.

Correction: That makes perfect sense. If the car is perpendicular to the road, its side would be facing the oncoming train which is running parallel to the road.

Phixius

20th Mar 2011

Speed (1994)

Corrected entry: In the scene after they get to the airport where the news helicopters can't follow, Keanu Reeves talks Dennis Hopper into letting him get off the bus to talk to the money people. They cut to Dennis Hopper with several TVs in the scene. The bottom right TV still has arial coverage of the bus.

MikeB

Correction: Of course. The stations aren't suddenly going to stop talking about this just because they can't get any more new footage. This station is replaying some previously recorded footage while continuing to discuss the incident. They do this with every ongoing crisis/natural disaster.

Phixius

21st Mar 2011

Bedazzled (2000)

Corrected entry: About 1/3 of the way through, in the scene where Elliot is Jefe and the servant asks him if he wants breakfast, he says, "I'm sorry I don't speak Spanish." He realizes that he just spoken Spanish and he rolls his eyes up in his head. As he does this the brown contact lenses that he is wearing roll up a little and you can see his blue eyes underneath.

quay

Correction: Is there a reason Elliot oughtn't be wearing colored contacts? No? Then this isn't a mistake.

Phixius

Corrected entry: In the scenes where Marcus is repairing the Jeep, you can see plants growing between the front seats. Yet a few scenes on, Marcus shoves Kyle out of the Jeep, saying, "I am driving," and the plants are now gone.

Correction: I wouldn't leave them in there, I'd yank them out. They're only gone "a few scenes on", so there was time to do so.

Phixius

Corrected entry: When Marty travels back to 1955 the DeLorean first strikes a scarecrow, then drives at high speed into a barn and finally crashes through the barn door to escape. Later, when it returns to 1985, it crashes into a movie theatre front before it can stop. After all this mayhem the DeLorean doesn't have as much as a scratch on its nose.

Correction: That's because the entire body of every DMC DeLorean is made out of stainless steel, not fiberglass.

Phixius

Corrected entry: Towards the end Larry gets the octopus into the reflecting pool, when the octopus first jumps in (which is a problem by itself) it is completely submerged. But the reflecting pool is only about 18 inches deep. So there is NO WAY that this octopus would be able to do this.

rdobert4

Correction: Octopedes have no bones and are extremely flexible and squishy. There are videos all over the internet showing these creatures squeezing through unbelievably tight spaces. This octopus could effortlessly have submerged itself in a foot and a half of water.

Phixius

21st Feb 2011

Ong Bak 3 (2010)

Corrected entry: After Bhuti decapitates Lord Rajasena, Rajasena curses Bhuti with his dying breath. The problem with this is, it's physically impossible for a severed head to produce sound.

gobylo

Correction: It's also impossible for a man-crow to use mystical powers when fighting his adversaries. This is a fantasy film, taking a degree of artistic licence.

Phixius

Corrected entry: Susan's hair appears to change in relative length (this is as noted when she is standing with her head/neck straight). In the scenes at the church, Susan's hair, at the back, hangs to a point ABOVE her shoulder line (and this is in continuity with all prior scenes). When Susan grows, her hair stays the same relative length (proportionally), only changing in colour. She is then knocked-out and captured. In the first scene at the secret facility, when Susan wakes up from her drug-induced sleep, her hair is noticeably longer at the back than at capture, the equivalent of a inch or two (relative to her original height), and hangs about her shoulders. Susan's subsequent actions and dialogue indicate that the location is new/foreign to her. This would imply that she was asleep for some weeks, probably as much as three or four months, which seems unlikely. Susan's fringe does not, however, appear to change in relative length.

Correction: Yes, it did. It covers her right eye partially after she wakes up, whereas it did not before she was captured.

Phixius

Corrected entry: At the beginning of the movie, Clyde and Rice are disusing the deal. Rice states that there is not enough evidence to send the offenders to prison, and that his "eye-witness identification" is not enough to convict. So they're cutting a deal with Darby to testify against Ames. This would never happen. Since Clyde could identify the perpetrators BEFORE he blacked out. His testimony and ID would be more than sufficient.

RareJewel

Correction: It would happen with a lawyer like Rice, who's more concerned with his conviction record than he is with justice. The fact that the encounter began with Clyde being clubbed over the head is enough for any decent defense attorney to have Clyde's identification testimony disregarded by the court. Rice won't risk this, because that would make it that much harder for him to win an already tough case. So he cuts a deal for a sure thing.

Phixius

Corrected entry: Once Alice is in the parking lot of umbrella during the initial fight, she knocked down several men with his powers and destroys several hummers, but they explode from the inside out, not outside-in. (00:09:10)

saunders

Correction: First, Alice is a her, not a him. Second, she made the Hummers blow up, what difference does it make how or why they exploded? Her powers are never that specifically defined so this isn't a mistake.

Phixius

But it does raise the question on what could have been in the cab (as we are shown) to make them blow up from that location? The engine bay or the fuel tank area you can understand. But what in the cab makes the fireball?

Ssiscool

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