Phixius

Corrected entry: The FBI wants the Punisher off the streets because he kills criminals. However the FBI has no problem letting Jigsaw and his gang run around freely even though they murder innocent people. This was previously corrected citing FBI corruption, however this is not the case. If the FBI in this film were in fact corrupt, they never would have planted a mole in Jigsaw's unit, nor would they have arrested him at the Donatelli residence, nor would they want to arrest the Punisher. This is further reinforced by the fact that the FBI were reluctant to strike a plea bargain with Jigsaw to begin with.

S. Ha

Correction: The FBI thought it more important to stop the sale and distribution of a biological weapon that could kill billions than to stop one single man from committing crimes. Sort of like Crime-based Triage. It's not that the FBI had "no problem" with what Jigsaw was doing, they were just prioritizing. They expected Punisher to kill Jigsaw anyway. They got two birds with one stone this way.

Phixius

20th Mar 2009

Twilight (2008)

Corrected entry: This happens during the vampire baseball scene, when Jasper is up to bat. While Alice is winding up to throw the ball, you can see Carlisle running off of second base. However, after Jasper swings, Carlisle is running off of second base again. (01:20:45)

Correction: A player on first may choose to begin running to second before the pitcher has actually pitched, decide they've left too early (giving the pitcher time to throw the ball to the first basemen instead of the catcher getting said player out), and therefore choose to return to first, only to begin their run to second again once they deem the time right. This is the scenario Carlisle found himself in.

Phixius

20th Mar 2009

V for Vendetta (2005)

Corrected entry: Contrary to what the opening historical flashback denotes, Guy Fawkes did not resist arrest but simply surrendered to the Parliament guards upon being discovered with the gunpowder barrels. Likewise he avoided being successfully hanged by jumping off the gallows platform after his rope had been fitted so his neck broke and he instantly died.

Correction: This isn't an historical documentary. It's a work of fiction. The Guy Fawkes in this film could have had a beard made of cheese if the filmmakers had wanted him to.

Phixius

18th Mar 2009

Hitch (2005)

Corrected entry: Near the end of the movie, Hitch gets hit by the Mini and is talking to Sara. For about two seconds in the background, you can see one of those double-decker tour buses coming across the background. A man on the top of the bus is obviously waving and pointing his hands, alerting people to the filming going on.

Correction: He could be drawing their attention to anything. Yes, it probably is to the filming, but since there is no actual evidence of that within the film this can't be considered a mistake.

Phixius

18th Mar 2009

Watchmen (2009)

Corrected entry: Dr. Manhattan perceives time simultaneously across past and future yet is subject to Veidt's use of tachyon interference. Yet Dr. Manhattan would still be able to perceive the point at which he is told about the tachyon interference and the reasons for Veidt's plan. So really he would know all along anyway.

EvilDictator

Correction: The tachyon interference prevented him from perceiving aspects of time, whether past, present, or future, throughout its entire duration. The tachyon interference continued through the point when Dr. Manhattan learned of it, so he was unaware of it until that moment as was intended by Ozymandias.

Phixius

14th Mar 2009

Watchmen (2009)

Corrected entry: When the bomb goes off in New York, the prison psychiatrist is knocking with his fingers at his stopped wirstwatch. He'd need his right hand for this. However, a few shots later we see that he is holding his briefcase in his right hand, so he could not have manipulated his watch with those fingers.

Correction: "A few shots later" gives him ample time to change the way he's holding his briefcase, or even pick it up from having set it down previously.

Phixius

11th Mar 2009

Signs (2002)

Corrected entry: When Merrill and Graham board up the door after they walk through it, Merrill bangs the nail into the board. If you watch his hammer, he misses the nail about six times. (01:10:45)

tom alma

Correction: Happens all the time in real life, that's no movie mistake.

Phixius

24th Dec 2008

Transporter 3 (2008)

Corrected entry: When Valentine sits in the car while Frank beats the bad guys up, you can see that she could easily take the bracelet off her hand if she wanted to. (00:38:00)

Correction: It appears so at certain times throughout the movie, but a closer look shows that the bracelet is thicker in some parts than in others. She cannot get it over her hand.

Phixius

27th Dec 2008

Transporter 3 (2008)

Corrected entry: When a car's engine is submerged, it is 100% going to be ruined. Not to mention that high end cars like Audi have electronic controls which get fried after a dip like the one in the movie. But magically, our hero seems to fix his car in a matter of hours.

Correction: Frank is a professional Transporter. It is absolutely ridiculous to assume he does not carry with him a means to repair the source of his livelihood. He carries a spare suit, I should think he's got a few spare parts in his trunk as well. His car is also highly customized. Cars can be made to run underwater, his would at the very least be waterproofed. Even ignoring those facts, he could have easily, with the aid of his inspector friend, acquired what he needed to get his car running in the matter of hours prescribed in the submission.

Phixius

16th Jan 2009

Transporter 3 (2008)

Corrected entry: When Malcolm, the first transporter, crashes into Frank's house with his Audi S8, there are no airbags opened to be seen in the following scenes. I would think that from a crash like that at least the driver's airbag would set off.

Correction: Maybe, maybe not. I've seen severe accidents where the airbags did not deploy. I've also seen minor incidents where the airbags deployed for no apparent reason. Also, a professional Transporter would likely have disabled or removed the airbags to avoid the impairment of accidental deployment considering the types of things they do in their cars.

Phixius

10th Mar 2009

Transporter 3 (2008)

Corrected entry: The Audi S8 Frank drives is equipped with keyless start. There would be no need for the keys in the ignition, leaving nothing for Valentine to pull out.

hal.hockersmith

Correction: It has a keyless start, yes, but that does not mean Frank uses it every time. We see Frank use the keyless start one time only. The car stops and starts many times after that before Valentine takes the keys.

Phixius

10th Mar 2009

Iron Man (2008)

Corrected entry: During Stark's construction of the Iron Man Mark II suit, a line of 4 cars can be seen in his garage: a grey Audi, a blue Cobra, an orange Saleen and a grey Tesla Roadster. Later, when Stark falls through the roof of his house and lands on the Cobra, a fifth car can be seen between the Saleen and the Tesla: a 30's convertible. (01:01:00 - 01:04:40)

Razvaluha

Correction: The two scenes occur with quite a lot of time between them. Stark could have moved the car there from some where else, or even have only just bought it within that time.

Phixius

1st Mar 2009

Pleasantville (1998)

Corrected entry: In one scene, Mr. Simpson says he heard that Bud's "dad's got a new car." Later on, when Bud is on his date with Margaret, he's driving a 1954 Buick, which would have been four years old in the show's time of 1958.

screwball432

Correction: It's "new" to Bud's dad in the sense that it's not his old car. And if it's never been owned by anyone before, it's "new" in that sense as well.

Phixius

1st Mar 2009

Eagle Eye (2008)

Corrected entry: Many scenes (attacks by UAVs and the car chase through a junkyard) and even plot points (cyber-terrorism and artificial intelligence) are copiously similar to that of Transformers (2007) which also starred Shia LaBeouf and was also executive-produced by Steven Spielberg.

Correction: This movie also has scenes showing the sky, just like the movie Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, starring Shia LaBeouf and directed by Steven Spielberg. But that's not trivia either.

Phixius

24th Feb 2009

Juno (2007)

Corrected entry: When first being introduced to Paulie Bleeker, he is shown putting on his running outfit including the wristbands. Before he puts both wristbands on, you can see an elastic mark on his right wrist where the wrist band was in a previous shot (as he's only waking up, he wasn't previously wearing one). This was obviously not the first take of such a shot.

Correction: It takes a fair bit of time to acquire a mark like that. Putting on and almost immediately removing the wristbands for the next take would not give them enough time to cause such a mark. More probably, and conveniently within the context of the film, the mark could come from a watch that was worn to bed, but removed before Bleeker began his morning exercise routine.

Phixius

25th Feb 2009

Fight Club (1999)

Corrected entry: In the scene where Tyler runs the car off the road, it ends up upside down with the rear wheels spinning. The car is a Lincoln Town Car, which is rear-wheel drive, meaning it must have been in neutral when Tyler had no opportunity or reason to shift.

Correction: Every car I've ever owned can be put into neutral merely by moving the shift lever. The catch does not need to be released as it does when shifting from Park, Reverse, or Drive to any other of the same. The car was knocked into neutral simply in the course of the wreck.

Phixius

17th Feb 2009

Futurama (1999)

Correction: They put it back. There's no sense in showing that in the episode, it's just implied.

Phixius

Correction: Knowing Monty Python's brand of humor this is not a mistake, it's just a little joke they throw in.

Phixius

15th Feb 2009

City of Angels (1998)

Corrected entry: Seth exclaims that he sees color when he sees his blood as if he had never seen color before. Are we to believe he couldn't see color and yet says how beautiful the world is a few times before becoming human. This is also a problem since angels aren't supposed to feel emotions.

zephalis

Correction: He's an angel, intangible. Light isn't. He didn't see the same way we do. It's comparable to Pleasantville when the door turned blue. They all agreed that it had always been blue, but now it was *blue*. Seth could always distinguish one color from another, but until he became human he couldn't really "see" color. Also, being able to acknowledge the beauty in something doesn't have to be a matter of emotion.

Phixius

14th Feb 2009

City of Angels (1998)

Corrected entry: One of the fundamental points in the plot is that humans have free will but angels do not. If angels didn't have free will they would not have the choice to fall from grace.

zephalis

Correction: No, one of the fundamental points of the plot is that God gave humans *and* angels free will, the angels just don't realize they have it.

Phixius

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