Phixius

11th May 2010

Planet 51 (2009)

Corrected entry: All of the aliens are able to stand up normally, which gives the impression that the planet has gravity. But, the hamburgers that the alien flipped near the beginning of the movie, when Chuck first stepped out of the spaceship, give the impression that the planet has no gravity.

Correction: No, they don't. They give the impression that these aliens' grilling technology is light years ahead of our own.

Phixius

Corrected entry: After Clyde leaves the Justice Building after planting the bomb, he heads straight back to his tunnel to return to his cell (despite being slowed by the traffic a little). How does Jamie Foxx's character grab the bomb, remove it from the building without being stopped by other police, and plant it in the cell before Clyde gets back?

Correction: By hurrying. Clyde was in no hurry at all. In fact he likely spent some time in his hideout, to change and whatnot, before returning to his cell.

Phixius

Corrected entry: During all the time that the German major is intruding on Von Hammersmark and her conversation with the German-born Basterds, the major doesn't appear to recognize Stieglitz. He murdered 13 German officers: one would think that his face would be plastered all over on "Wanted" posters or advisory communiques to the German military. It doesn't seem likely that the German army would forget about his treason so quickly. Landa knew about Stieglitz and what he had done, so why didn't the German major? You'd think he'd be high enough in rank/security clearance to know this information.

Correction: Certainly he'd know about it. Doesn't mean he'd recognize the guy by sight, based solely on a sketch of him that the major may or may not have seen ever, let alone recently.

Phixius

12th May 2010

Moon (2009)

Corrected entry: How does the second Sam know where the first Sam has his accident and is stuck. He is a clone and just woke up knowing nothing but the stuff he is programmed to know, yet he is very devoted to find the first Sam.

Eskildsen

Correction: GERTY had to tell Sam about the accident, make the new Sam think it was him in it, to explain the absence of the rover. When GERTY refused to let the new Sam go out to retrieve the rover, or even perform any of his duties outside the base, he grew suspicious that something was going on. He was only going out to investigate the rover; he had no idea he'd find and rescue his predecessor.

Phixius

Corrected entry: Ames writhes in pain on the table while receiving the death penalty. Clyde says that he changed the potassium chloride for "something a little more deliberate". Potassium chloride is the last chemical injected and so Ames would still have been paralyzed by the pancuronium (the second injection) and could not have moved.

zephalis

Correction: Either the replacement for the potassium chloride contained a chemical to counter the pancuronium, or the pancuronium was replaced with an inert substance such as saline.

Phixius

Corrected entry: Part of the plot hinges on the fact that the music department has limited funds and is in danger of being shut down. And yet the Chipettes' performance at the school is on a expensive-looking stage with a very sophisticated lighting system. Nice use of budget.

Brad

Correction: That system obviously wasn't put in that same year. It's from years gone by, when the district had more money to devote to the music program. It could also have come from money for the drama department, and the music department simply takes advantage of the fact that they're there. The budget money goes to the ones who bring cash back into the school.

Phixius

4th May 2010

The Incredibles (2004)

Corrected entry: When Mr. Incredible is caught lurking in the computer room on the island, the guns shoot that black sticky stuff on him. He starts running. He falls down. He puts his hand forward to stop the fall, and a ball is stuck to it. The ball slid across the ground and didn't stick. Other balls were shown sticking to the ground.

Some_Old_Acct

Correction: Mr. Incredible is pushing on this glob, since it's stuck to his hand. He's really strong, you see, so it didn't stick.

Phixius

3rd May 2010

Armageddon (1998)

Corrected entry: At the end of the movie there is a flyover by Air Force jets (the Thunderbirds possibly?). At the end of the flyover one jet peels off in what I believe is supposed to be the "missing man formation." However, the plane that leaves is the one in the back middle. This is incorrect, as it leaves an intact 5-plane V. Instead one of the planes to the side of the lead plane (on either side) should have left, leaving an unbalanced, "missing" formation.

Correction: Then it's obviously not the "missing man formation". These are professional pilots. What they're doing is done on purpose. They didn't just throw a few stuntmen into fighter jets and tell 'em to try to do something cool. This isn't a movie mistake.

Phixius

Corrected entry: How come in one of the final scenes the T-1000 at first needs Sarah to call for Johnny when just a few minutes later it could easily transform into Sarah's shape and call for Johnny himself? It's already sampled her from when he scratched her in the lift earlier. This can not be corrected saying T-1000 needs to consciously sample a subject because we saw in the hospital that the guard just stepped on it and the T-100 transformed.

Ivan-sama

Correction: That's why the T-1000 chose to hide on the floor: to obtain a sample of the guard. So, for this enty, no it couldn't have called for John itself yet, as the scratch didn't take a sample. If nothing else there's an argument to be made that its malfunctions have impaired its abilities too.

Phixius

29th Apr 2010

Igor (2008)

Corrected entry: Igor wants to create life, but Igor already has created life, he just hasn't thought about it. He crated Scamper and Brain, and they were alive! In fact, Scamper can't stop living.

Correction: We don't see their creation, so we don't know if their parts were still biologically alive or not when they were "created".

Phixius

3rd May 2010

Avatar (2009)

Corrected entry: In the first exterior shot of the starship at the beginning of the movie, it is facing the wrong direction. It must have been facing backwards (away from Pandora) to decelerate from cruising speed, and would also need to be facing backwards for its upcoming orbital insertion burn. Turning the ship forwards between deceleration and orbital insertion would waste fuel and accomplish nothing.

Dusso Janladde

Correction: Nothing about anything happening there is something that has ever actually occurred. So to say the hows, whats, and whys are not factual or logical is ridiculous.

Phixius

30th Jan 2010

The Lovely Bones (2009)

Corrected entry: On the cars in this movie there was inspection stickers on the windshield even though those weren't required until 1979 which doesn't follow the time line in this movie.

Correction: You're confusing "being required" with "being available". Which is to say, just because they weren't required yet does not mean they could not have been there.

Phixius

Corrected entry: When Susie first enters her house after being killed, she leaves muddy footprints on the floor. When the shot changes to a front view from the kitchen, the footprints are gone. This scene doesn't change viewpoints from the Spirit World until after these shots are complete.

VonZipper08

Correction: Imagery, backgrounds, and entire environments change in the "spirit world" within a single shot countless times throughout the movie. It can't possibly be claimed that ghosly footprints disappearing is a mistake in this case.

Phixius

31st Jan 2010

The Lovely Bones (2009)

Corrected entry: When Suzie's sister is frantically leaving the house with the evidence she found in the murderer's house, she's sweaty and the ground is as green as could be. After her mother finally returns home, she shows the evidence to her grandmother. The next shot is of the murderer's house with snow covering the ground and police cars surrounding the house.

Correction: She's sweating from running during track practice, the anxiety of breaking into a man's house and finding proof he murdered her sister, and then the fear of trying and barely succeedig to escape; not becuase it's hot outside. Unless the snow is missing in a shot that takes place immediately after the shot mentioned (it's not) then there's no mistake.

Phixius

Corrected entry: When Susie's sister first enters the killer's basement from the window and goes upstairs, we can see her passing within a couple feet of her sister's concealed body in the safe; the director makes sure that we do. When she flees the house so does the killer with great haste knowing that he has been caught. The problem lies in the next scene when we see the killer dropping off the safe at the sink hole to dispose of the evidence; which takes 2 people and great effort to roll it to the edge. How did he manage to get it out of the basement and loaded into his truck in 10 minutes by himself?

VonZipper08

Correction: Having watched these scenes very carefully, due to having read this entry previously, it is clear to me that there is not much indication at all of how much time has passed. Even so, tipping the safe on its side and tying a rope tied around it would make dragging it up the basement stairs and then up a ramp into the vehicle relatively quick work. There's no mistake here.

Phixius

24th Apr 2010

The Hurt Locker (2008)

Corrected entry: In the sniper scene in the desert, the shelter the insurgents are using was built by mud or brick cinder blocks. Since the Barrett is actually an anti-materiel sniper rifle, i.e., to be used against vehicles that are armored, .50-caliber armor-piercing bullets from a Barrett M107 would have cut through those blocks like a white-hot knife through butter. The Barrett rifle has absolutely devastating power, and if Sgt. Sanborn had enough .50-cal. bullets he could have collapsed the small building on its foundation.

joejitters

Correction: But he didn't, so he couldn't.

Phixius

28th Mar 2006

V for Vendetta (2005)

Corrected entry: The mouse hole in which Evey finds Valerie's message is (when standing in the doorway) on the right side of the cell. But when Evey gets out, we see that her cell (number 5) is the last one of the left row, meaning there only is a full wall to its right, with cell number 4 to its left (which is consistent with what we we see in the doctor's memories). Thus, the hole does not link cell 5 to cell 4 (Valerie's). Since V took the time to recreate Larkhill, and wants Evey to live through exactly the same experience he has, there is no reason why he wouldn't recreate everything as it originally was. Plus, as previously said, his underground setting corresponds to the doctor's memories.

Sereenie

Correction: All we ever see of Larkhill cells in the doctor's memories is a hall with doors. Pretty typical of most detention facilities. And just because that hallway ends with Evey's cell, or V's cell at Larkhill, doesn't mean that's the edge of the building. There could be another cell on the opposite side of that wall with a seperate hallway because they're seperate cell blocks for a seperate type of inmate. Also, V does not even remotely attempt to recreate his own experience at Larkhill as Evey was not used as a lab rat, injected with diseases so potential cures could be tested on her. Basically, it's never explicitly stated in the film which cell housed Valerie, and even if it did plainly state she was in Cell IV, it's still not a mistake for V to slip the note in the way he did.

Phixius

13th Apr 2010

Fargo (1996)

Corrected entry: In a scene a neighbour and a cop speaks, they are dressed like its -25º c but there is no ice or snow on the street and no cold air coming from their mouth when they speak. Obviously it's above 0º c. (01:00:05)

tomce

Correction: First, they can dress how they want. Second, no ice or snow or visible breath is absolutely no indicator of the ambient temperature.

Phixius

16th Mar 2010

The Replacements (2000)

Corrected entry: If the players quit in the middle of the season, why is the head cheerleader recruiting a new squad? If the season had already begun, the squad would have already been chosen. And if the players went on strike, why would the cheerleaders also go on strike? It doesn't make any sense.

poehitman

Correction: The cheerleaders refused to perform in support of the players on strike. The head cheerleader didn't quit because she didn't agree with the striking players' demands.

Phixius

Corrected entry: When Edward and Bella reunite in Italy, he supposedly has not "eaten" for a long time, so his eyes should be blank, as indicated by the movie Twilight and all the books, but his eyes remain gold throughout the movie.

Correction: At no point in the film is it specified that Edward has gone without food for any length of time. Discrepancies between book and film are not movie mistakes.

Phixius

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