Phixius

Corrected entry: Guy gets hurt during the JV/Varsity game. You see him later when the Ducks have to skate with two men down. He couldn't be playing since he had to be helped off the rink by medics.

shkynh

Correction: The immediate pain of the injury make him incapable of leaving the rink on his own, but once that ebbed away, he felt well enough to play again.

Phixius

18th Nov 2009

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Corrected entry: Spiderman has the task of stopping the speeding train that has no brakes. Well, he uses his spider senses to see down the rest of the track to see the drop off the end. Throughout the rest of the track, you can see there are no stops or stations, and it eventually comes to a dead end. So where is this train heading anyway?

lildudealex

Correction: There are no stops or stations after the shot showing the remainder of the track, but there were stations before that. The last of which the train, under normal operation, would not have passed.

Phixius

Character mistake: Scarlett says that since McCullen is from Scotland, he speaks Celtic. Celtic is a group of languages, not a language unto itself (something a genius like Scarlett would most likely know); it would be like saying someone speaks Semitic or Germanic. McCullen would probably speak Scots or Scottish Gaelic, the official languages used in Scotland.

Jedd Jong

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Suggested correction: Scarlett certainly took this into account when she suggested the words for Ripcord to speak. Scottish Gaelic is a Celtic language so Scarlett was still correct, she was just simplifying for expediency.

Phixius

No she wasn't correct. There is no such language as "celtic."

Corrected entry: In Paris, when Ripcord jumps through the train he exits out the window directly across the window he entered. This would be impossible since the train is moving perpendicular to the direction of the jump of the G.I. He should have exited the window to the right of the window entered (farther up from the camera), because the train was moving to the left (towards the camera).

whitehawk

Correction: Not if he angled his jump accordingly. Also, the shot was in slow motion; he wasn't in the train as long as he appeared to be.

Phixius

Corrected entry: After firing the nano-mite missile, Storm Shadow jumps out of the building, falls a couple of stories and catches onto the Cobra ship. However, in the next shot the Cobra ship is at the same floor Storm Shadow jumped out of, and he is just clambering into the ship.

Jedd Jong

Correction: So where's the mistake? The ship was climbing when Storm Shadow jumped, and it took some time to pull himself up and in. Just because the action sequence skipped ahead to keep the action flowing, rather than grind to a halt while we wait for the ship to climb, does not mean there's a mistake. It's an editing technique called pacing.

Phixius

Correction: It is canonized in the final episode that, depending on how deeply Aang is tapping the power of The Avatar State, his every tattoo does not always radiate with energy.

Phixius

Corrected entry: In the scenes in the auction house, the auctioneer is wearing glasses the whole time, but when Prince Nuada holds up the creature in his hand, you get a brief look at the auctioneers face before the creature attacks and he is no longer wearing glasses.

becca

Correction: It's not impossible or unlikely that he'd take them off. For instance, perhaps the auctioneer is farsighted. He wears reading glasses so he can read the auction manifest. When the strange intruder bursts in and brandishes an even stranger object the auctioneer removes his glasses, off camera, to get a better look at it.

Phixius

Corrected entry: Ignoring the fact that a mass murderer would never be given legal immunity, Jigsaw was only given legal immunity for his previous crimes leading up to the sting he helped the FBI set up. He wouldn't be given immunity for any crimes after the sting and any self-respecting law enforcement agency would place surveillance on him and arrest him the moment he breaks any kind of law.

S. Ha

Correction: If it were that simple, they could have arrested him long before he became "Jigsaw".

Phixius

Corrected entry: In the scene where Connor and Jenny are cleaning up the wedding cake after Connor makes the cake fall, notice the cake topper Jenny is holding. First she is cleaning the "bride". The camera goes to Connor for only a second or two, but when they go back to Jenny, she is cleaning the groom.

Correction: That "second or two" is about twice as much time as it would take her to switch. Not a mistake at all.

Phixius

Corrected entry: After arriving to Hogwarts, just after Draco Malfoy is confronting Harry, Professor McGonagall taps Draco on the shoulder, when turned around, for a split moment you can see the tape that keeps on his wig to cover his brown hair.

sheekso

Correction: Except he's not wearing a wig; Tom Felton's hair has been dyed platinum blonde ever since he first got the role of Draco Malfoy.

Phixius

3rd Oct 2009

Finding Nemo (2003)

Corrected entry: If you look at Bruce the shark it looks like he has three sets of bottom teeth and only one set of top teeth. (00:25:15)

Angel_girl

Correction: Not one species of aquatic life in this entire movie is anatomically correct. It's a cartoon, that's just the style in which it was made, not a mistake.

Phixius

Corrected entry: If Poon-Dong is so important to the Triads, why would he be allowed to accompany a prostitute back to her room without protection? The ending makes very little sense considering how important he supposedly is.

TedStixon

Correction: He's the leader/founder of the Triads. It's not like they can tell him "no".

Phixius

Corrected entry: I know Moss said it was dumb, but it was more than dumb - if there ever was a plot hole, it was when Moss decided to take water back to the wounded Mexican in the truck. This action makes no sense from any perspective. One, the obvious, is that he almost got killed doing it as he was caught at the site. Two, even if he had not have been caught at the site, if this was a true humanitarian gesture, it should have been obvious it was going to take more than a drink of water for this severely wounded man to survive, i.e. he would have to be taken to a hospital. This was simply out of the question for Moss, due to the inevitable questions, eventual police involvement, and much unwanted exposure to the criminal element out to get him. Also, if by some miracle the Mexican survived, he had seen Moss, and probably would have few qualms about identifying him to the people he worked with. Three, given Moss's later actions it seemed a little out of character, since he put the hotel clerk and the driver of a truck in harm's way without a second thought, and they both ended up dead. Moss's obvious course of action should instead have been to get himself and his wife out of the country ASAP, if he wanted to keep the money. Hanging around that area meant certain death.

logician

Correction: Point by point: One, he didn't know he was going to be attacked, so this is irrelevant. Two, he wasn't expecting to save the man's life, only to ease his suffering. The man was begging for water, and Moss' conscience got the better of him. Three, Moss was trying to survive. Once he understood the nature of his pursuer, desperate measures were required to keep himself alive. And Moss did try to get himself and his wife out of the area; that's what the entire movie is about.

Phixius

27th Jun 2009

Battlefield Earth (2000)

Corrected entry: The reason that humans survived the 1000-year rule of the Psychlos was by hiding in the mountains where there was radiation, lethal to Psychlos. Yet, 1000 years on, there is no evidence of genetic defects or cancer in those, something that would be evident living for a long time in an area with background radiation.

Razvaluha

Correction: The radiation is weak. Also, no group of humans has lived among radiation for 1000 years; we don't know what the effects would be. Those left alive will be those with a genetic resistance/immunity to low level radiation.

Phixius

25th Jun 2009

Crank (2006)

Corrected entry: Chev falls for about one minute and a half in the ending scene. That suggests he fell from an altitude where it is cold enough for your breath to be seen. However, Chev's and Verona's breath is never seen before plummeting down.

BlueCell

Correction: It's not temperature alone that causes this effect; the humidity level also plays a part. The conditions apparently weren't right.

Phixius

27th Jun 2009

Independence Day (1996)

Corrected entry: The humans are shown attacking the alien destroyers with AMRAAM air-to air missiles, which are shown both times to do virtually no damage to it. AMRAAMs are designed for fast moving air-to air targets, like the alien fighters. Yet, the humans do not see a need to fit their fighters with more powerful weapons, such as bunker busters, cluster bombs, nuclear bunker busters or tactical nukes, that would easily cripple or outright destroy the alien saucer. Instead, they resort to firing countless AMRAAMs at a 15-mile wide destroyer, which amount to pinpricks and cause needless deaths.

Razvaluha

Correction: The AMRAAMs do not do "virtually no damage". They do absolutely no damage. The humans don't upgrade their munitions because there's no point to it.

Phixius

Missile hitting the armor leave sparks flying, and glowing hot metal. I'm not sure if you would call that missiles doing absolutely no damage.

Still, that sounds like throwing pebbles at an elephant. They can hurt him but cannot kill him.

Actually the missiles do damage the alien ship. Just not serious damage.

The point is they didn't know how much damage they would do. The first time they tried they hit a shield and no damage was done. They had hoped they would do damage. Next to "bunker busters" and any other type of armor piercing warheads (which I doubt can be fitted onto air-to-air missiles) they had little choice in weapons types. Nukes won't work if you are dogfighting alien fighters close to the target, you'd destroy all your own planes, next to that you'd again destroy whatever city you were flying above just like Houston.

lionhead

Correction: I believe you are making the assumption that after the Aliens attacked the Military bases, as stated in the film before the city attacks (In a report by General Grey), that there are still a large supply of "bunker busters, cluster bombs, nuclear bunker busters or tactical nukes" available for the planes to have them fitted before the final attack.

Next to that, they probably have the AA missiles loaded primarily to fight the fighters coming at them, not to damage the big ship directly. What else they had planned is never stated though. Perhaps they had hoped killing the mother-ship would make the destroyers retreat and they were simply delaying its attack.

lionhead

Correction: Because he's dying, not dead.

Phixius

Corrected entry: In the scene where Megatron has just been revived and is heading up to smash into the submarine, we hear the captain of the submarine say, "Evasive manouver left", yet in the very next shot, the submarine turns right.

Correction: This is just the result of the angle from which the submarine is viewed.

Phixius

Corrected entry: In one of the scenes in Egypt, Bumblebee is driving beside the group and is supposed to not have anyone inside of him, but the driver of the car can be seen.

Correction: The Transformers can project holographic drivers.

Phixius

Corrected entry: When Wheelie and Jetfire are talking, it's stated that the Decepticons' goal is to destroy the Universe, and that hate is their only motivator. That is incorrect, per the discussion between Megatron, the Fallen, and Starscream. It's just that the Decepticons don't care about other sentient species (particularly humans), when balanced against the survival of their own.

JayK

Correction: Jetfire has become disillusioned with the Decepticons. His feelings toward them are therefore skewed. Call it a kind of propaganda.

Phixius

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