Phixius

1st Jun 2010

Iron Man 2 (2010)

Corrected entry: After the scene where Tony Stark takes strawberries to Pepper in the office, as he leaves after everyone else he pauses to look at the 'Expo' city model. In the next scene he has the model disassembled and sticking up out of his care as he speeds down the highway. Then in the next scene after he has reassembled the model he blows dust from it. After being driven at high speed, much less all the handling to disassemble and reassemble it, the model should not have any significant dust on it.

greydane

Correction: Only the front piece and the edges of the other pieces would have had the dust blown off them. The middle sections of the other pieces would still be dusty.

Phixius

31st Oct 2010

Toy Story 3 (2010)

Corrected entry: When the toys are in the garbage shredder place, Bullseye is not there, but is there when they all hold hands and escape.

Correction: He is shown before and after. Just because we don't see him in one particular sequence does not mean he wasn't present.

Phixius

18th Oct 2010

The Lovely Bones (2009)

Corrected entry: Harvey and the man at the sink hole had great difficulty rolling the safe. How did Harvey move it from the basement to his vehicle in seconds, since Suzie's sister had just escaped with the incriminating book? Why move the safe at all at that point? Why did Harvey not back his vehicle up to the sink hole?

trango

Correction: Questions, not mistakes. All have been answered here and elsewhere. Try Google.

Phixius

18th Oct 2010

The Karate Kid (2010)

Corrected entry: After Mei Ying told Dre they coudn't be friends anymore he went to go see Mr. Han, and while he was on his way he got a text message from his mom saying, "Where are you, you need to get home." At the bottom of the text, the date was listed as "June 8th, 6:08 pm". When Dre got to Mr. Han's house minutes later, Mr. Han said it was July 8th. (01:26:35 - 01:27:30)

Downloaded

Correction: I'm watching this movie right now and he does say it's June 8th not July.

Correction: You set the date and time on your phone, and it gives you information accordingly. He messed up when doing so. Understandable as he's 10 and the two months are right next to each other on the list and both start with "J".

Phixius

Corrected entry: When Doc is having the DeLorean do the burn out to get the car up to speed, the car is spinning its wheels up to 65 mph and Doc releases the brake. Now the car takes off, but the car would lose most of the speed the tires had built up as it is starting from essentially a dead stop even though the speedometer still shows 65 mph. Think of it this way, the back tires may be moving at 65 mph but the front tires are not. There is no physically possible way for a car to jump from 0 to 65 mph instantaneously using only its tires no matter how fast they were rotating. Even an F/A-18 needs a catapult to get that kind of speed so quickly. (00:21:35)

StopNGo & Girls

Correction: If the speedometer was hooked up in such a way as to show 65MPH as the speed before the brake was released, it would still show it afterward. The car was never going 65, true, but the tires were telling the speedometer it was. For whatever reason this is how Doc wired it all together. The tires wouldn't slow down suddenly just because the brake was let up, they'd continue to skid until the car's speed matched their own.

Phixius

Corrected entry: When Tus proposes marriage to Tamina and she agrees, Tus grabs her left hand to kiss with his right hand (you can tell it is her left arm based on the fingers). The very next shot shows him raising her right arm up in solidarity. The shot is immediate and there is not enough time for her to have switched arms nor for her to have raise/lowered one.

shortdanzr

Correction: The shot shows him raising her hand, so I don't know how it can be claimed there wasn't time for her to do so. Tus was holding both hands. One he kissed, the other he raised.

Phixius

17th Oct 2010

The Matrix (1999)

Corrected entry: Tank explains to Neo and Trinity that the reason the agents took Morpheus is because all captains to the ships are given codes to access Zion's mainframe and if an agent gets into the system it could destroy them. In the Matrix: Reloaded though, the Architect tells Neo "This is the sixth time we have destroyed it and we have become quite exceeding at it." Talking about Zion. If the machines have successfully destroyed it in the past six times, why would the agents need to even get into the computer to destroy them when they would just do it later?

icounited

Correction: As the Architect stated, they've gotten better and better at destroying Zion. This is just another attempt to continue improving and become even more efficient.

Phixius

8th Oct 2010

Kick-Ass (2010)

Corrected entry: At the end of the movie, when Kick-Ass and Hitgirl are on the top of a building, Hitgirl takes off her wig to show who she really is, but the wig comes off too easily to stay on during all of her fighting scenes.

curiouskid

Correction: Hairpins provide exceptional hold, but will slide right out when you pull on them. General jostling and deliberately pulling on the wig itself are two completely different things.

Phixius

8th Oct 2010

Shooter (2007)

Corrected entry: Near the end of the movie where the bad guys have Donnie's widow, they are all in the mountains(an obviously cold place) yet they are not dressed appropriately nor is their breath visible.

epiphone805

Correction: How they dress is merely their decision, and your breath being visible has as much to do with humidity as it does with temperature.

Phixius

10th Oct 2010

Beetlejuice (1988)

Corrected entry: This is in the scene right after Adam and Barbara see Juno and turn into "monsters" and they go back to the attic to scare the family and then they run into Lydia. After Lydia is scared, Barbara turns to normal again and is talking to Lydia. While this is happening, Adam is trying to turn back to normal. He walks in front of Lydia and Barbara, and turns around and he has a very large nose. As he walks by them right before he has the large nose, If you look closely at the shadows near where Lydia and Barbara stand, you can see the shadow of Adam putting on the fake rubber nose.

Correction: You see Adam's shadow as he tries in vain to get his nose back to normal. Not Alec Baldwin's shadow putting on the prosthetic. That would have been done before they even began shooting the scene.

Phixius

23rd Jun 2002

Minority Report (2002)

Corrected entry: At the beginning of the movie, we are told the year is 2054. When they show a tour of Pre-Crime for school age children, they say that Pre-Crime, started in 2046, has been running flawlessly for 9 years. Funny, I thought 2046 to 2054 is only 8 years.

Correction: So the tour guide misspoke, or rounded up, especially if it started early in 2046 and it's late in 2054. Hardly a plot hole as this happens all the time in real life.

Phixius

14th Oct 2010

Kick-Ass (2010)

Corrected entry: When Todd and Dave are walking out of the comic store, Todd has a chain hanging down from his jeans. When they are walking through to the car park where they get mugged, he has no visible chain or any sign that he has tucked the chain into his jeans. (00:07:20)

SimplyJodie

Correction: And what sign would there be that he has tucked the chain onto a pocket? He doesn't seem at all surprised to be getting mugged, just scared and frustrated. It's seems entirely logical that he'd hide the chain to hide the presence of a wallet.

Phixius

Corrected entry: During the scene in the 100 Agents fight, Neo has a pole which you can hear whistling in the air. However, this is only possible if the pole is open and hollow, which is not the case. Both ends of the pole are closed (best seen in the shot after the agent hurled into the air lands) and the flexibility (best seen when Neo kicks the pole into an agent) suggests that it is a solid stick.

Henkie36

Correction: The flexibility has nothing to do with anything since this is the matrix were buildings ripple like a pond when helicopters crash into them. The pole only needs to be open on one end to whistle, and it is. Even if it wasn't, again, this is a computer program simulating real life, not actual real life where real physics apply.

Phixius

Corrected entry: Chighur uses a cattle bolt gun to execute the first victim on the road by putting it against his forehead and firing it. Problem: since the bolt only extends an inch or two and them immediately retracts - we know it does that as it has virtually no recoil - it can't be used to kill. It isn't even a very effective stun weapon and it certainly can't penetrate a skull, much less destroy the brain tissue underneath. That guy would wake up a few hours later with a bad headache and that would be it. Nor would there be an entry wound, just a skin hematoma.

Correction: If it works on cows, it'd work on people. Why couldn't two inches of metal violently thrust forward from a starting position directly against a person's forehead not penetrate into their brain? This entry makes absolutely no sense at all.

Phixius

Correction: I worked in a meat packing plant for years slaughtering cattle. Don't tell me that bolt gun won't penetrate a human skull! It will kill you if you get hit in the head with it. I have seen it take knee caps off people by accident.

16th Oct 2010

The Book of Eli (2010)

Corrected entry: In the scene where Solara is being taken back by the bad guys, one of them take out Eli's machete and places it on the dashboard. After the car flips over, she manages to get the machete (because it couldn't have stayed on the dashboard) and stab the bad guy in a matter of seconds. If the car flips, that machete could have gone anywhere.

Correction: She did not stab him. He was stabbed in the accident. It is possible that the hilt of the weapon turned to press against the windshield and at some point in the flip (perhaps the landing) he was thrown forward into it.

This is where the separation from art and reality occurs. Some of us know that a black cloud hangs over our heads and this is the sort of thing that would happen to us. While others in the same situation, the machete would miss them and a winning Powerball ticket would fall in your hand.

Correction: Yes, it could have. Lucky for Solara, "anywhere" includes "within arm's reach". Which is where it wound up.

Phixius

Corrected entry: At the beginning of the film Elizabeth takes the Aztec gold coin from Will while he is unconscious. However, when we discover that anyone who took a gold coin or had possession of the coin, would be cursed. If this is the case, then why weren't Elizabeth, or even Will, cursed?

matsukiaoi

Correction: Only someone who takes possession of a coin straight out of the chest is cursed. Anyone to whom the coin is paid or received in some other manner is not cursed.

Phixius

10th Oct 2010

The Sixth Sense (1999)

Corrected entry: I find it hard to believe that if Malcolm thought he was treating a patient, he wouldn't try to communicate with the parent, thus he would have figured out something wasn't right because she wouldn't have responded to him.

RareJewel

Correction: The same thing could be said of his day to day interactions with the entire world. He doesn't use the bathroom anymore, he doesn't eat, he doesn't sleep. He has convinced himself that he is not dead and so his psyche ignores all evidence to the contrary. This is not a plot hole, it's a plot point.

Phixius

Corrected entry: When Sheik Amar talks about his last ostrich Anita, he is referring to her as "she", but in the picture, it's obviously a male ostrich. Male ostrich are black with a white tail. Female ostrich, however, are greyish black.

Jeffy

Correction: The guy's a thief, a gambler, and a con artist; not an avian biologist. Why should he know the difference?

Phixius

20th Mar 2006

V for Vendetta (2005)

Corrected entry: When V is broadcasting his plans on the television everybody is watching in awe. There is a gentleman in the bar who is smoking a cigarette letting it hang from his mouth as he watches the screen. Next shot back to him he is still staring at the screen but his cigarette is twice as big as it was before. It is unlikely that he lit another one because everybody was glued to the screen and not even drinking their drinks.

Spaceboy_007

Correction: Watched for this mistake. That man is shown twice. The first time, he is casually watching the video, flicking the ash off his nearly finished cigarette into an ashtray. Next time he is shown (a fair while later) he has another cigarette hanging out of his mouth. Since he wasn't particulary engrossed the first time we saw him, and his cigarette was almost finished, it's fair to assume he very shortly thereafter lit up another one and sometime after that realized the gravity of what V was doing, forgetting all about the new cigarette in his mouth.

Phixius

7th Oct 2010

Avatar (2009)

Corrected entry: Before decanting, the avatars have been maturing for six years in a sealed tank without consciousness, and yet the hair around their queue is in braids. Scuba-beautician?

Correction: It's not just hair in there, if indeed it is hair at all, and not one single Na'vi is seen to not have that "braid". Who's to say that whatever that appendage is doesn't simply grow in a way that resembles a human braid of hair?

Phixius

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