Phixius

14th Jun 2016

The Green Mile (1999)

Corrected entry: When Percy sabotages Del's execution, he claims he didn't know the sponge was supposed to be wet, and everyone believes him. But everyone also saw him put the sponge in the bucket. If he didn't know he was supposed to wet the sponge, why would he put the sponge in a bucket of water? The answer is because he wanted to deceive everyone, but nobody picks up on that.

MikeH

Correction: They didn't accept his explanation so much as they just gave up on trying to get through to him. They weren't fooled, only exasperated to the point of indifference.

Phixius

Correction: Actually the guy punches him right in the face for lying and then they both cover for him, just so he will finally transfer out of the green mile like they wanted and were trying to get him to do during the whole movie.

30th May 2016

The Crow (1994)

Corrected entry: When Eric tackles Tin Tin in the alley, we see him connect with Tin Tin. The shot then changes and he's about 3 foot away from Tin Tin and connects again. (00:19:00)

Ssiscool

Correction: It's the same action shown again from a different angle, not a continuity error. This technique is used frequently with big climactic explosions too - we're not meant to assume an object exploded more than once. We're just seeing it happen multiple times.

Phixius

Which is the basis of a continuity mistake.

Ssiscool

Not always - trouble is with things like this they have to be judged on a case by case basis. Some repeated actions are sloppy editing, some are a directorial decision, so not even a "deliberate" mistake, they're just showing the same thing a couple of times for impact.

Jon Sandys

Corrected entry: When Steve is holding the helicopter his hand is holding the rail from underneath, then the overhead shot shows his hand on top of the rail, then back to underneath in all shots after that.

Correction: Steve holds the rail overhand for the first front shot and the following overhead shot. Return to the front shot and we actually see Steve switch to an underhand grip, which he maintains for all following shots.

Phixius

29th Oct 2015

Crimson Peak (2015)

Corrected entry: The Sharpe's dilapidated mansion has had a huge hole in the roofing for some time that allows snow and rain to fall through into the foyer. However, there is no sign of water and weather damage to the foyer area except to a portion o the floor directly beneath. The foyer walls, staircase, and furniture look completely unaffected by being exposed to the weather when they should be stained, faded, moldy, warped, or buckled.

raywest

Correction: The water damage is prevalent and easily visible throughout the entire house.

Phixius

I am only referring to the foyer area, where the huge, gaping roof hole is several stories directly above, and not the rest of the house. Other than the floor, the rest of the room looks practically pristine, unaffected by the mold, mildew and humidity that would be caused by the rain and cold.

raywest

Corrected entry: For a good duration of the movie, Daniel gets threatened in many ways by Mike Barnes to sign the form to enter the tournament as if there was no way out once signed. However, once signed, Mike tells Daniel "don't even think of backing out now!", and in addition, Daniel later tells Terry Silver he's decided he's not going to enter after all. If Daniel can get out that easy, what was the point of all that energy Mike went through to get Daniel to sign?

Correction: Because Daniel can't compete if he doesn't sign. He had to sign in order for entering the tournament to even be an option. Getting Daniel into the tournament involved both getting him to sign and getting him to show up.

Phixius

28th Feb 2016

Watchmen (2009)

Corrected entry: In the prison scene Walter retaliates against an aggressive inmate with a fry basket, all of which have holes in the bottom, but the oil comes splashing out as if it were a bucket container.

drub22boy

Correction: There is food in the bottom of the basket which prevents the oil from draining as quickly as it normally would. It would still have drained out if Walter had simply held it still, but inertia carried the oil along with the basket because he swung it so fast.

Phixius

1st Mar 2016

The Avengers (2012)

Corrected entry: Hawkeye has his case of arrows with a lid on the top which has small holes, the problem is that the heads of the arrows would not fit in order to take them out.

ozwal13

Correction: It's not a lid and those aren't holes. Do a Google image search for "pedicure toe separator" to see the only thing I can think of that resembles what is on top of his quiver. The arrow shafts clip inside to keep his arrows from falling out of the quiver while he runs and jumps about, but they pop right out when he pulls on them.

Phixius

27th Feb 2016

Watchmen (2009)

Corrected entry: When Rorschach and Night Owl confront Adrian and engage him in hand-to-hand combat, normal physics seem to go out the window. Night Owl executes a rapid series of upper and lower roundhouse moves that Adrian easily dodges. Night Owl then tries a flying kick, which Adrian counters with a front kick that lands on Night Owl's right knee or shin. For some reason, this blow to the lower leg sends Night Owl's full body mass hurtling away like he bounced off a brick wall.

Charles Austin Miller

Correction: This sort of thing is an action movie/fight sequence standard and is no more a movie mistake than sound in space, which is not admissible per this site's rules.

Phixius

27th Feb 2016

Ant-Man (2015)

Corrected entry: Paxton says, "I know this van." How, exactly? He briefly saw Scott driving an older brown and beige van once, in daylight. It is now dark. The van has been repainted grey and blue, even inside (as can be seen seen when they open the rear door) and it now has assorted equipment mounted on the outside (ladder, winch, emergency light). Yes, he heard the "La Cucaracha" horn in the distance, but that is hardly a direct connection. The only physical resemblance is the side windows. If real cops forced a vehicle open on such a flimsy comparison, they would be sued.

MFWills

Correction: No, they wouldn't. Police are very familiar with the technique of repainting a vehicle to change its appearance. That van is the same make, model, and year, three things he is trained to notice, as the one Scott, whom he severely mistrusts, was driving and it has the exact same horn. The odds of the two vans being the same van are pretty great.

Phixius

23rd Feb 2016

Project Almanac (2014)

Corrected entry: After Lollapalooza David bought the tickets on eBay in order to travel in time and attend to the concert, but there were double tickets, so if they use their tickets the other people with the same tickets could not.

ozwal13

Correction: Not a mistake at all. This just means they had to hope to get in line ahead of the original ticket holders.

Phixius

Corrected entry: In chapter twenty-five, when Harry and Cho are walking to Hogsmeade together, Harry says that he saw Oliver Wood at the Quidditch World Cup "last year." This scene is taking place in February of 1996 and the World Cup was in August of 1994. Harry actually saw Oliver the year before last year.

Correction: 18 months previous to the conversation in question is when Harry saw Oliver. More than one year, but less than two. He connects the memory to other memories which he associates as being a part of his time as a fourth year at Hogwarts. Since this conversation takes place during a period he associates as being a part of his time as a fifth year at Hogwarts, he refers to the event as having taken place "last year". It's rather like how a school year actually takes place across two distinct calendar years and even though it isn't even one whole year long we still refer to it as one year.

Phixius

Your answer is accurate, however the original post also makes sense, as not every country's school year is across 2 calendar years and I upon first reading it was also confused.

18th Jan 2016

Ex Machina (2015)

Corrected entry: At end of the film Caleb tries to access the shutdown through the computer but the power cut stops him. Only Ava can manually trigger power-cuts by placing her hand on her wall charger and she was gone - she has no ability to do delayed or timed cuts.

Correction: Ava is only shown twice to use the wallpad to trigger a power cut. Multiple power cuts occur while she is standing or sitting in the middle of the room, so she can trigger them remotely, timed, or when certain triggers initiate them, such as accessing the computer.

Phixius

16th Dec 2015

Ant-Man (2015)

Corrected entry: With regards to the Thomas the Tank Engine model near the end of the film, the mechanism that moves the eyes is part of the same mechanism that drives the wheels. As such, the eyes should have stopped moving from side-to-side from the moment that was derailed. Instead, we have them moving even after the model has been blown up to massive size.

Tbdanny

Correction: If the toy engine is derailed, the mechanism continues to function, the wheels just spin uselessly and the eyes continue to move. There's no reason for it to shut off just because it sits on its side.

Phixius

10th Dec 2015

Immortals (2011)

Corrected entry: After placing his mother's body in the tomb, Theseus discovers and retrieves a magic bow embedded in stone. He cautiously tugs at the bowstring, revealing its magic power. As Theseus tugs and releases it, the bowstring vibrates loosely for nearly 4 full seconds, like a really, really bad guitar string. Such a loosely-strung bow would be useless as a weapon. Ancient Greek recurve bows were actually strung so tight (at well over 100-lbs draw) that they only vibrated with a THUMP for a fraction of a second upon release. The bow in the movie was probably strung loose so that Henry Cavill could make an "effortless" full draw moments later, but any archer would recognize the error.

Charles Austin Miller

Correction: It's a magic bow that shoots magic arrows that appear out of thin air. The string is loose so that absolutely anyone may effortlessly wield the bow. It's a feature, not a fault.

Phixius

9th Dec 2015

Hook (1991)

Corrected entry: Tinkerbell tries to warn Peter his medicine is poisoned, but can't get him to understand her. How is it, that in all the time they've spent together, they've never established ANY kind of communication system? Especially for emergencies like this? It was actually done because the original playwright had had a lot of failures, and he wanted to know ASAP whether the audience liked and cared about this play.

dizzyd

Correction: There is no scene in the film Hook in which Peter Pan, a full-grown adult, takes any kind of medicine and is unable to understand the warnings of Tinkerbell, who speaks fluent English and is therefore perfectly comprehensible at all times.

Phixius

25th Jan 2015

The Bourne Legacy (2012)

Corrected entry: In the cabin Jeremy Renner looks up and sees the name Jason Bourne carved into the wood. Jason Bourne was one of the many aliases of David Webb - he wasn't given the name Jason Bourne until he completed his training.

Correction: Aaron (Renner) is in this cabin during a disciplinary exercise, not a training exercise; his "training period" has been long since completed. It's possible, even likely, that David returned to this cabin for same or similar reasons after having already been assigned the alias of Jason Bourne.

Phixius

Corrected entry: In the scene when Robin is trying to cross the river, and the Little John's men pull the rope to tip him in, Will Scarlet starts to sing "Pop Goes the Weasel" with different lyrics. The film takes place around 1200 and this song was published in 1855.

António Ferreira Costa

Correction: The LYRICS are from the 1850's, the MUSIC (which is all Will uses) is older. We don't know exactly how old. It was described as "an Old English Dance" on a sheet of music dating back to 1853, and that's just when it was written down, not the first time anybody ever put those notes together.

Phixius

Corrected entry: Rice said it took approximately 15 minutes to get to Reynolds from the time he was given his location. He found that Clyde rigged Reynolds' air supply to shut off at 1:15 (if food sent to Clyde on time at 1:00, it was sent at 1:08) - but even if Rice got the info from Clyde exactly at 1:00, it would still take extra minutes to leave the cell, run through the prison to the helicopter outside, and take off, so 15 minutes wouldn't have helped save Reynolds even if Rice gave Clyde his 1:00 request.

Correction: If everything had happened exactly as it did, except 8 minutes sooner as Clyde demanded, Reynolds would have been suffocating but still alive when Rice found him.

Phixius

2nd Jul 2015

Pet Sematary (1989)

Corrected entry: When Rachel comes home, she hears her sister Zelda call her name from Jud's house. So why would she go over there when she knows she's dead? Same thing with Gage. She knows he's dead yet thinks nothing of seeing him standing there with a scalpel in his hand.

Correction: They are grieving and miss their family members. In the case of hearing her sister, she may have not believed her ears and went to find out what she was really hearing. She my have been too emotional at hearing her dead sister's voice to think. Same with seeing Gage. Here's her baby boy, alive by all appearances when she thought she'd lost him forever. Logical thought goes right out the window at a time like that.

Phixius

2nd Jul 2015

Frozen (2013)

Corrected entry: When Anna is trying to convince Elsa to come back with her and Elsa is telling her to go back home, Anna says that Arendelle is in "deep, deep, deep, deep snow" and that she caused an eternal winter everywhere. How does Anna know this about her home? When she left on her horse it was just barely snowing.

Correction: Because she climbed through deep, deep, deep, deep snow to get to Elsa's castle. Perhaps there is snow year-round higher up the mountain, but the rest of that snow she waded through was definitely out of season.

Phixius

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