Phixius

2nd Aug 2010

Casper (1995)

Corrected entry: Ghosts don't crossover as long as they have unfinished business. Casper's father had invented a machine called the lazarus, in a quest to bring Casper back to life, but he never got it to work. Therefore, Casper's father should have stayed as a ghost until he succeeded.

mightymick

Correction: No, ghosts who have unfinished business may choose to cross-over or choose to stay in the hopes of completing their business; they don't have to stay. Even so, Casper's father built the machine to bring his son back to life. Once he died, he'd no longer need his son to be alive in order to be with him again. That means he had no unfinished business.

Phixius

Not to mention it is from a newspaper that Casper's father was declared insane and presumably sent to a mental institution which were quite inhumane and horrifying at that time with their treatments. It's sad to think of, but quite possible the institution drove him to a point where he wasn't in a condition to care about coming back as a ghost to bring Casper back to life any longer.

27th Jul 2010

Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)

Corrected entry: When Murtaugh meets up with Riggs before he destroys the stilt house, you hear the tires of both their vehicles screech as they stop, yet they are on a gravel road.

Correction: I've squealed tires accelarating from a stop too fast on a gravel road before, so it's almost certain that the opposite is also possible.

Phixius

Corrected entry: After John traps the motorcycle terminator, he hotwires it and rides off. Why would an autonomous robot have external controls such as an accelerator or brakes?

Robertus

Correction: Already submitted and corrected, I believe. The Moto-Terminator has external controls to facilitate use and operation by Humanoid Terminator models, should the need ever arise.

Phixius

17th Jul 2010

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: When the chase begins on the lower fifth the van carrying Harvey Dent is struck from behind by the garbage truck. When it hits they cut to a shot inside the van showing Dent being pushed back against the wall behind him in reaction to the crash. But Dent is sitting in a sideways-facing seat, facing the driver's side of the van. When the Van was struck from behind Dent's body should have been pushed to his left.

BocaDavie

Correction: Dent's lurch is the result of a combination of him bracing himself against the wall after the impact, and the driver swerving after being hit.

Phixius

Corrected entry: When Edward and Bella kiss at the beginning in the parking lot, Edward's forehead creases. However, he is explained as being rock hard. (00:05:40)

Correction: Not to himself and other vampires. Therefore, his own forehead muscles would be capable of forming furrows on his own brow.

Phixius

Corrected entry: According to the newspaper Charlie is reading (with current headlines, obviously not an old paper) toward the beginning of the movie, we see that the movie is set in June 2010. It's stated numerous times that Riley has been missing for over a year, yet his poster says he was last seen in May of 2010.

White Lock

Correction: A minor can be missing from their home, but still have been subsequently "seen" at some point after the day they officially went missing, so long as they were not recovered and returned to their home and their current whereabouts remain unknown.

Phixius

Corrected entry: At one point in the film, Benjamin de-ages too quickly. In 1941, in a scene taking place just after the attack on Pearl Harbor, he is shown as having a head of severely thinning white hair (long white hair, but thin on top). Four years later, in 1945, he has a full head of thick blonde hair, without so much as a receding hairline. If you reverse it in terms of a normal aging person, this means in only 4 years his hair very noticeably thinned out and turned from completely blonde to completely white. This is in stark contrast to the rest of the film, in which he seems to de-age at a more normal rate.

calidude

Correction: I know several people who went bald before they were out of high school. That's only four years.

Phixius

12th Jul 2010

Blade II (2002)

Corrected entry: Nyssa describes vampirism as an arbovirus where vampires are the vector. However the definition of an arbovirus is as an arthropod-bourne virus - arthropods are invertebrates with exoskeletons(insects). Not vampires.

Correction: Yes, that's why the distinction was made that vampires are the vector rather than insects. She was comparing vampirism to an arbovirus since that was, as far as she knew, the closest thing to it.

Phixius

27th Jun 2010

The Book of Eli (2010)

Corrected entry: When Eli and Solaris are on the boat and the guard from Alcatraz yells down, Eli states that he has a KJV (King James Version) of the bible. After the bible has been printed the cover says NKJV (New King James Version) there are some differences in the translation.

momentum

Correction: The quotes were all NKJV as well. Eli simply misspoke when he called it KJV.

Phixius

13th Jun 2010

The Book of Eli (2010)

Corrected entry: Towards the end of the movie (near the 101 minute mark) while quoting verse 2 from memory of the King James Bible the words "was hovering" is quoted. The word should have been "moved." Genesis 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Correction: Eli calls the book a KJV, but it's actually NKJV. Even the printed cover of the books calls it so. Eli simply misspoke.

Phixius

27th Jun 2010

Toy Story 3 (2010)

Corrected entry: When we are first introduced to Chuckles the Clown, he is sitting on a windowsill with no hair. After he recounts his story, he has hair sprouting above his ears.

Wollybutt

Correction: The hair is there the whole time. They do a fade between present Chuckles and past Chuckles to juxtapose the differences; limp, ragged hair becoming perky and sleek again.

Phixius

Corrected entry: In the scene where we first see Stayne he is wearing a black heart eye patch, but for the rest of the movie it is red.

Correction: Either a trick of the lighting, as it was a very dark red, or he simply has more than one eyepatch. Either way, it's not a mistake unless the patch actually changes between cuts in the same scene.

Phixius

Corrected entry: When "Sardine Land" is unveiled, Flint says behind the pillar "I just need 16,000 more gigajoules", or something similar. Joules is a measurement of FORCE, not ELECTRIC POWER (hertz).

042lej

Correction: Flint is also a kid who's "security system" consists of a Simon game he's nailed to the wall. He needlessly dictates everything he does. This misuse of jargon is just another example of him trying to be "sciency".

Phixius

13th Jun 2010

Jurassic Park (1993)

Corrected entry: At the closing scene on the helicopter, it is very quiet. But helicopters in operation are very noisy.

cyberbanite

Correction: Artistic license. All the sound has been quieted for dramatic effect.

Phixius

Corrected entry: In the beginning when the King's soldiers catch the little boy, he calls the king "Sire", which is an English Title for Medieval English kings, while Persians call their Kings "Shah" and "Sultan".

Correction: Persia was an empire made up of many different peoples with their own customs and native languages. There's no reason an orphan boy who's family came from who-knows-where wouldn't call a king "sire".

Phixius

Corrected entry: In the Scene where Dastan and Tamina are underground and the landslide begins, Tamina seeks refuge by climbing up the stairway, while Dastan is swept down and has to superjump over the Abyss to the door on other side. How then did Tamina manage to cross the Abyss and help Dastan defeat the Hassasin on the other side?

SunnyboyN

Correction: She took the path along the perimeter of the cave.

Phixius

Corrected entry: In the scene (after the barn was destroyed and wolverine got away with bike) where wolverine is being hunted by a helicopter he is approaching two military humvee's. First is ripped by his claws and when he approaches second vehicle you can see how he grabs the handles of the vehicles and gets on it. Illogical thing here is that they move to each other but he grabs the handles as he would grab them like they stand still or moving in parallel. (00:51:50)

Joker

Correction: There is no way to grab the handle that would be impossible to achieve while moving in the opposite direction of the vehicle.

Phixius

20th May 2010

Tremors (1990)

Corrected entry: When Rhonda has just dug a hole to bury the sensor, the shovel is spotless, but it should have at least been dusty from digging.

Correction: Wouldn't be dusty if the soil was solid enough, and there's been a surface treatment for metal to keep soil from sticking to it since the early industrial revolution.

Phixius

18th May 2010

The Transporter 2 (2005)

Corrected entry: When Frank rolls his car in mid-air to tear the bomb off with the crane hook, this is totally unreal. The car weighs much more than the crane hook, so it would just bounce the crane hook out of the way. This trick would only work if the crane hook was welded solidly to the jib.

kenstrachan

Correction: First of all, the stunt is in its entirety ridiculously impossible. Ironically, the specific part that this entry takes issue with is actually feasible. The hook is only snagging the bomb, not the car, so it doesn't matter if the hook has more mass than the car; it just needs to have more mass than the bomb.

Phixius

11th May 2010

Robin Hood (2010)

Corrected entry: In the teaser trailer as the Frenchmen are attacking the beach, one of them has a shield that is visibly flapping, as if it is made of wet cardboard rather than wood.

Correction: Or poorly constructed from leather, which got wet.

Phixius

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