Phixius

14th Feb 2009

28 Weeks Later (2007)

Corrected entry: During the scene where Don visits his wife in the medical containment room, we see him swipe through no fewer than three locked security doors. However, after he becomes infected and kills his wife we jump to him killing guards in a garage. Despite having retained slightly higher than normal cognitive skills, how is zombie Don able to escape from several concentric locked areas?

Correction: By swiping his card again. In both films, the zombies are shown to have a capacity for problem solving and application of logic, not to mention that they remember everything about their lives. The disease, basically, just makes them murderously angry at every human being to the degree that they will only pursue a course of action if it has the potential to end with that result; i.e. they don't eat because that doesn't get anyone killed. Doesn't affect them mentally in any other way.

Phixius

So why didn't any infected pilots crash their planes into populated areas, even across the channel in France? Why didn't anyone drive their cars into fleeing people, leaving damaged wrecks in London (instead of streets that were almost completely devoid of vehicles? Why didn't infected soldiers use their firearms, or launch nuclear weapons? That would kill a lot of people.

That doesn't make much sense. I would assume it is much more likely because the doors only require keycards to be swiped when entering and not leaving. Even modern RFID keycards have this capability. Similar to hotel room doors.

Corrected entry: Iago asks why the 40 thieves were only after the staff at Aladdin's wedding. The Oracle appears and answers. Even though Iago didn't directly ask the Oracle why they were after the staff, she refused to answer his second question as she is bound by "the rule of one." However Aladdin later indirectly asks the Oracle, "My father is alive?" and is still permitted to ask the Oracle where his father is located.

Correction: Iago's question was an actual question to which he actually wanted an answer. Aladdin's "question" was merely a statement of incredulity. He had already been told his father was alive and was simply expressing his surprise.

Phixius

27th Jan 2009

Pineapple Express (2008)

Corrected entry: When Dale first goes to Saul's house after he sees the shooting, Saul lights a joint, and when they are running to leave he puts it out on his table. When Matherson and the other guy go into the house, Matherson picks it up, hits it, and says "Want some? Still lit."

Correction: So in his haste, Saul didn't get it put out properly. No mistake here.

Phixius

24th Jan 2009

Bean (1997)

Corrected entry: In the scene where Bean is trying to scare Jennifer out of her "deep sleep", as he is shouting "wake up, wake up, wake up" and shaking her, you can see Jennifer doing a conscious swallowing, something which would not happen in a "deep sleep". (01:12:35)

Correction: Humans can and do swallow in their sleep.

Phixius

19th Jan 2009

Eagle Eye (2008)

Corrected entry: Although it moves the plot along, it makes no sense for ARIA to force Rachel to deliver a bomb to the Capitol building, since ARIA has the ability to control military aircraft and could just bomb the building herself.

Correction: Which would arouse a lot more suspicion than what would otherwise appear to have been a terrorist attack. ARIA has her reasons.

Phixius

27th Jul 2006

Superman Returns (2006)

Corrected entry: On Lex Luthor's Russian-made missile launcher, the second button from the left is labelled "otkaz", which is presumably intended to mean "abort". The correct word would be "otmena". While "otkaz" is a general synonym, in a technological context it means, rather unfortunately, "equipment failure".

Correction: It must be the panel reset in the event of an equipment failure, rather than the abort button. We have such resets on all the machinery I work with.

Phixius

22nd Jan 2009

Pineapple Express (2008)

Corrected entry: Toward the end of the film when Dale and Saul are in the bunker with their hands tied, they break loose and Matheson comes in and shoots Dale's ear and Saul shoots Matheson. When Saul is being carried down to the bunker, we see many guards with guns. After hearing the gunshots one of them would have gone to see what had happened, as they were definitely close enough to hear the shots.

Correction: The guards all know Matheson is angry about his face. The guards know there are two bound prisoners and they hear two gunshots. Not really cause for investigation: apparently he shot the prisoners.

Phixius

10th Jan 2009

Babylon A.D. (2008)

Corrected entry: We are told that Toorop's parents' home was "probably destroyed". We are led to believe that this would've been many years before the end of the movie. But when you look at the remains of the cabin you can see all of the old broken wood except for one large wall (right before Aurora smiles at him) that looks like a relatively fresh break. This was most likely from having to build the set and forgetting to artificially age part of it as other breaks look properly aged. (01:30:10)

zephalis

Correction: Or it was intended to be from natural weather damage, and was therefore made to look like a more a recent break. The cabin didn't likely collapse on itself all at once. Set designers put a lot of attention to detail into what they do; they don't just "forget" to add a detail to one part of the set, when they've added that same detail to every other part of it.

Phixius

20th Jan 2009

Underworld (2003)

Corrected entry: When Selene drags Michael away from Lucien, she saw that Lucien was on top of him and would have realized that he had bitten Michael. However, when Erika tells her this, she seems completely stunned.

Correction: Apparently Selene was under the impression that she had gotten Michael away from Lucien before Lucien had performed the deed.

Phixius

2nd Sep 2008

Babylon A.D. (2008)

Corrected entry: In the train ride scene, a little girl is suddenly sitting on sister Rebekah's lap sleeping, and then when they get off the train she is gone. It is never explained who the little girl is, where she came from or where she went.

Correction: She's just a random, nameless passenger on the train. She was tired, had no place to sit, and Sister Rebekah is a very kind person who allowed the child to sleep on her lap. Nothing more to it.

Phixius

17th Jan 2009

Wall-E (2008)

Corrected entry: In the scene where Wall-E is playing Pong, he gets 2000 points. The real video game freezes once you get 21 points.

Correction: Wall-E is a considerably sophisticated robot, that has seemingly evolved past mere artificial intelligence to actual sentient self-awareness. Like many of his hodge-podged possessions, he has reprogrammed the game to make a session last longer.

Phixius

16th Jan 2009

Superbad (2007)

Corrected entry: During the credits we see the penis drawings that Seth made as a child. In the pic of the train-penis being driven by a conductor, the words above say Choo-Coho instead of Choo-Choo.

Correction: So an eight-year-old Seth made a grammatical error. That sort of spelling mistake happens all the time, with people of all ages. Makes the drawing more authentic looking, really.

Phixius

Corrected entry: At the paramilitary camp, when the Emperor is talking with Yang, he gets angry and several pieces of his terracotta face crumble off. Yet, in the next wide-shot, there is no trace of the pieces anywhere on the ground.

Correction: After the pieces fall off of him they continue to crumble into dust, leaving nothing of them intact.

Phixius

27th Dec 2008

Bangkok Dangerous (2008)

Corrected entry: In the beginning scenes in Prague, just after Joe shoots the witness, there are several shots of witness's papers. One of them shows witness's head shot and the name spelled "JINDOICH EIPERA" (with a stroke-through O and accented E) which is wrong. This kind of erroneous spelling happens when Central European texts are printed with a Western/US character set. The correct spelling should be "JINDRICH CIPERA" (with R and C with caron).

Correction: So those papers were printed with a Western/US character set. Where's the movie mistake in that? We don't know who hired Joe to do the job in Prague, there's no reason the paperwork he was given could not have come from America.

Phixius

I don't agree with the correction itself (a faulty transliteration is a mistake regardless), but this correction was probably made without seeing the scene. Those papers are not in Joe's possession, but the papers of the Prague police that arrested the witness he is killing before an interrogation. There's no reason for them to have papers that are written in the wrong character set.

Sammo

13th Jun 2007

28 Weeks Later (2007)

Corrected entry: Why weren't there guards to prevent Don from entering the quarantined room with Alice and obtaining the Rage virus from her? Even with his master clearance; he wouldn't have the authority to enter such a high risk area unescorted. With the risk of another outbreak from Alice's body fluids, the base commander would have assigned 24-hour guards around her in addition to the forces already in control to ensure no one touched her and became infected. Anything less would have been cause for the commander being relieved for incompetence, assuming he didn't get killed or infected first.

Correction: She was in a locked room that very few people could even access, and he made the obviously incorrect assumption that none of those people would even want to go in there, let alone be foolish enough to actually try. Why waste the men on it?

Phixius

29th Dec 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: During the SWAT chase on the underground street, when the Joker switches weapons and pulls out an RPG, the SWAT passenger says, "What is that, a bazooka?" It's actually a Soviet-designed RPG-7 - while most lay people might call any cylinder-shaped weapon a bazooka, a trained SWAT officer could easily tell the difference, and would have no reason to use the wrong name.

Correction: He doesn't really care what it is, only that it's big and aimed at him. It's a high-stress fast-paced situation, no matter what training he's had. Given those facts, the only remaining important factor is which rolls off the tongue easier, making his point clear to his associates quicker: "What is that? A Bazooka?!" or "What is that? A Soviet-Designed RPG-7?!"

Phixius

12th Jan 2009

The Transporter 2 (2005)

Corrected entry: Frank is forced to drive off with the little kid because a sniper is aiming his gun at the kid and Lola has her gun pressed against Frank's groin. In the car chase that follows, it is visible that Lola does not point her gun at Frank anymore. Yet, Frank does not seize any of the numerous opportunities to kill or get rid of her.

Correction: He's busy with that car chase you mentioned.

Phixius

28th Sep 2008

Eagle Eye (2008)

Corrected entry: Towards the end of the movie, Zoey destroys ARIA's robotic eye, causing her to shut down. Yet, later, we see ARIA's screen showing the countdown to when the bomb is triggered.

Brad

Correction: Destroying the "eye" disabled that robotic extension, but it did not completely shutdown ARIA's entire system.

Phixius

17th Oct 2008

Eagle Eye (2008)

Corrected entry: The Bomb (crystal-necklace) in the last scene would be triggered by frequency-response as soon as the trumpet hits the high F in the star spangled banner. The exact same 'high-F-note' has however by that time already been played by the trumpet (you can actually hear it) a few phrases earlier. Check any score of the anthem. The F sounds earlier on the word 'glare' (rockets red glare). So the bomb should already have been triggered.

Correction: The crystals are man-made, each made to react to a specific frequency. To avoid accidental detonation, the crystals would be made to react to only a sustained tone of a predetermined length. The earlier high-F was not held long enough to trigger the explosion.

Phixius

Corrected entry: When Bourne has broken into the office in Madrid, there is a shot of two surveillance camera monitors. As the armed men arrive in their car, the surveillance camera follows their movement and zoom both in and out, despite no-one being around to operate them. The camera actions are more complicated than simple motion-tracking software. (00:36:45)

Andreas Winnberg

Correction: Most security cameras can be controlled by remote.

Phixius

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