Phixius

15th Jan 2011

Men in Black II (2002)

Corrected entry: After they are flushed from MIB HQ, J begins to tell the story of how K used to love to be flushed. In the first movie, just before K hands J the Neurolizer, he says 'not bad for your first day, huh?" They were never flushed in the first movie.

Knapper

Correction: Congratulations, you got the joke without realizing it was a joke. J is trying to keep K from getting upset about being flushed by attempting to convince him that he used to love it, figuring K won't know he's being lied to since he doesn't remember anyway.

Phixius

Corrected entry: After Claire and Chris are thrown into the containment tubes during the finale, they are shown banging on the glass as they slide down into the floor. When Alice picks up the control pad to release them she finds their entries with a picture of each of them, dressed in the same clothes, with the same wounds and blood stains, but they are calmly looking straight ahead. When and how were these pictures taken? Even if a picture was automatically taken when the tube closed it's unlikely that either of them would have posed for it.

Correction: Just like the Hive from the first film, the Arcadia has hidden security cameras all over it. The photographs were captured by these security cameras at some point after Chris and Claire boarded the ship. They look calm because they haven't been attacked yet.

Phixius

22nd Sep 2010

Salt (2010)

Corrected entry: Salt is dressed like a man sneaking into a White House press function. She is posing as the male companion of a former Russian colleague of hers, who is also a double agent. They keep whispering to each other in a heavy Russian accent which makes absolutely no sense given they were speaking to one another in fluent Russian in the previous scene.

Correction: They are speaking English to avoid arousing suspicion and using a thick accent to stay in character.

Phixius

1st Aug 2010

The Karate Kid (2010)

Corrected entry: At the start of the movie Dre and Sherry are in Detroit, and they take a flight to Beijing on Air China, but Air China doesn't fly into or out of Detroit.

Beka!

Correction: TheY lived in Detroit. We see them leaving home, then arriving at the airport with no real indication of how much time passed in between. They didn't necessarily stay in town.

Phixius

1st Jan 2011

Surrogates (2009)

Corrected entry: The scene when all surrogates are destroyed (falling over and crushing cars) should be in fact earlier - as soon as they are insulated from the network by Willis, because people wouldn't be able to control them from that moment. In the film they start to fall over not until when the virus is activated.

Correction: To prevent accidental damage to the surrogates, they have programming which keeps them upright even when not under a person's direct control. Rather like a Segway. The virus disrupts this programming causing the surrogates to topple.

Phixius

Corrected entry: While the train is climbing the spiral-shaped mountain, the engine and cars are shown to physically bend with the tracks.

Upsidedowner

Correction: The train is literally made of Christmas Magic and defies physics at every step of the journey.

Phixius

1st Jan 2011

Sunshine (2007)

Corrected entry: A human body is mostly composed of water at the right atmospheric pressure. In a vacuum environment, the water will instantly evaporate. Making the astronaut's bodies explode when propelling themselves from Icarus 1 to 2. Otherwise astronauts wouldn't need pressurized suits.

allibyx

Correction: It takes a much greater shift in atmospheric pressure to cause a human body to explode. Google the question and you'll find that most every expert agrees a human being could survive exposure to space for up to 30 seconds with no permanent injury.

Phixius

2nd Jan 2011

Despicable Me (2010)

Corrected entry: When Gru is waiting at the girls' dance class, the calendar on the wall behind him has only six days per week - Sunday is missing. (00:43:10)

Megawall300

Correction: A lot of calendars have Saturday AND Sunday missing off them, like school lunch calendars, office calendars, etc. The dance studio doesn't have classes on Sundays so they don't need Sunday on their calendar.

Phixius

1st Jan 2011

Waterworld (1995)

Corrected entry: The Mariner takes Helen down to the sea bed in a makeshift 'diving bell'. He tells Helen there is only enough air for one person. The depth they dive to is shown as quite comfortably exceeding 200m. (To save this turning into a science essay I'll include this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyle's_law). Regardless of suspension of disbelief, there is no way that a bell of that size would carry enough air for even one person at that depth for that long. There's also the matter of decompression stops when they return to the surface. The Mariner wouldn't need them but Helen certainly would. It could be argued that the deco stops occurred off-screen and the audience doesn't see every second of their trip. Fair enough however The Mariner has no depth gauge. That would also assume he is not only aware of decompression as a concept, but is familiar with a specific set of decompression tables and schedules, to the point of having them memorised on the off chance he ever takes a human diving. Highly implausible.

Correction: Who says the mariner doesn't need decompression stops? He has gills and webbed toes, but even a fish can't move from the ocean floor to the surface without literally exploding. The "knowledge" of decompression must be instinctual for him, as is whether to breath through lungs or gills. He knows to stop for Helen because he must stop for himself as well. The first half of this mistake is valid but the second half is not. Perhaps a resubmission might be in order. This is why it's wiser not to list several issues in a single entry.

Phixius

Rather more alarmingly, Boyle's Law states that if the temperature remains constant, pressure and volume are inversely proportional. This means that if the original posts comment about 200m is accurate, the pressure would be at least 21 atmospheres worth. Therefore, even though the volume of the air bubble should reduce to 1/21 of the original volume, the footage shows the bell being approximately 1/3 filled with air even when they"ve dived all the way to the bottom. Ludicrous.

5th Dec 2010

Toy Story 3 (2010)

Corrected entry: In the first film, Woody fends of Sid's mutant toys with Buzz's karate-chop mode, which is activated by pushing the purple button on the back of Buzz's jetpack. This film shows that his jetpack is his battery compartment and there are no physical connections between the purple karate chop button and the rest of Buzz's body that would allow it to control his karate chop.

Vader47000

Correction: The button on the pack depresses to press another button embedded in Buzz's actual back.

Phixius

Corrected entry: During Dobby's buriel, a pile of sand removed to form the hole can be seen. They then fill the hole, yet none of the sand from the pile has moved by the time they have finished and are sitting around his grave.

novalytee

Correction: There is always soil (or in this case sand) left over after a burial. It's not as compressed as it was before they dug it all up and of course the body takes up space as well.

Phixius

26th Nov 2010

Toy Story 3 (2010)

Corrected entry: In the daydream sequence at the start of the film, Jessie is there with Andy being a boy and his sister, Molly, being a toddler. Jessie didn't come in until the second film when Andy was older so Jessie shouldn't be in this sequence.

Correction: Little enough time passed between the films that Molly could still be in her toddler stage.

Phixius

Corrected entry: When Marty first enters Lou's cafe in 1955, Lou is visibly angry at Marty just because he won't order something right away. However, he doesn't seem to care that one of his paying customers, George McFly, is being harassed by Biff and his gang and told never to come in there again. You would think Lou would tell Biff and Co. to knock it off or else be asked to leave.

calidude

Correction: George had already paid for his cereal, what does Lou care? Biff and Co. are paying customers on occasion too, he wouldn't want to alienate them either. Especially considering they're likely to vandalize his restaraunt in retaliation.

Phixius

Corrected entry: Lorraine thinks Marty's name is Calvin Klein because she said it was written on his underwear. Actually, it's stitched on, which should tip her off that the underwear was made that way when it was manufactured, not written on.

calidude

Correction: Ever heard of embroidery? It's the process of using a needle and thread to put images or letters on cloth by hand. Lorraine undoubtedly assumed "Calvin's" mother had embroidered his underwear.

Phixius

Corrected entry: After Marty returns to 1985, he discovers that he now has the new Toyota truck he wanted, while the rest of his family is forced to share one car. Why would Marty, the youngest of the siblings, who is still in high school, have his own brand new truck while his older siblings and both parents have to share one other vehicle?

calidude

Correction: We only see one vehicle other than the truck, this does not mean it is the only other vehicle. We only know that Marty's older brother uses the car to go to work.

Phixius

Corrected entry: When Marty is hit by Lorraine's dad, it is right in front of the Baines house. If he was right in front of his house, then why was he driving so fast? He should have been slowing down to pull into the driveway or park, but he appears to still be going at a pretty good speed.

calidude

Correction: There's any number of reasons. Maybe he's just a reckless driver, maybe he was headed to the store after work to pick something up and his house happened to be between the store and his job. Just because you don't know why something happened does not make it a mistake.

Phixius

Corrected entry: When doc picks out clothes for Marty to wear to the old west, Marty asks if they are authentic, so Doc says "sure, haven't you ever seen a western?" Considering Doc is supposedly a genius and the old west is his favorite historical era (he himself said it was his favorite era in part 2) he should know that Hollywood's version of old west clothing and the reality of it are two different things. Doc should know better than to base his knowledge on Hollywood films.

calidude

Correction: This is 50's Doc Brown talking, not 80's Doc Brown. It is 80's Doc Brown who tells Marty that the "Old West" is his favorite era. It's entirely possible that 50's Doc Brown hadn't yet done the research 80's Doc Brown had no doubt made.

Phixius

23rd Nov 2010

Pearl Harbor (2001)

Corrected entry: There were no pilots from Pearl who participated in the Doolittle raid much less fighter pilots who would have needed to get retrained for bomber pilot flying which is too different from fighter plane piloting.

terry s

Correction: This is a historical drama not a documentary. Creative license is allowed.

Phixius

Corrected entry: At one point in movie Nemo and Quatermain meet in front of Allan's cabin and Nemo informs him that food has been served. This scene was invented by Sean Connery and Nasserudin Shah. They always considered each other the greatest of rivals in the world of movie industry, since Connery is an icon of Western cinema, while Shah is one of the greatest icons of Indian cinema. They spend 10-15 second looking each other directly in the eyes, which is the way Indians normally show respect to other people.

mirtom

Correction: Why would they have considered one another rivals when they worked in completely different circles? I'd be surprised to hear they'd ever shared a costar before this film.

Phixius

12th Jul 2010

Predators (2010)

Corrected entry: When Royce decapitates the last predator, the "dreadlocks" aren't cut, even tho it's a clean cut through the neck. I'm guessing it's deliberate for dramatic effect. If the "dreadlock" were cut as it would in real life, you wouldn't have the same suspense in the scene.

Correction: Several reasons why the dreadlocks aren't cut. First, they're free hanging, whereas his neck is anchored to his body. They would simply move out of the way with the motion of the slice. Second, the cut does not go all he way through the Predator's neck. Tthe weight of his head pulls it the rest of the way off. Third, we don't know what the dreadlocks are made of reall. They may very well be much tougher than the Predators' flesh.

Phixius

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