Phixius

17th Aug 2008

Cars (2006)

Corrected entry: Lightening McQueen is portrayed as the first rookie to possibly win the Piston Cup. When he discovers the Piston Cup trophies in Doc Hudson's garage, we see that Doc won the Piston Cup in 1951, 1952 and 1953. Doc Hudson is a 1951 Hudson Hornet, as confirmed by his license plate is 51HHMD. By winning the Piston Cup in 1951 the year he was made, Doc Hudson is actually the first rookie to win the Piston Cup.

Correction: Doc Hudson would still be considered a rookie even if he raced before. Like other sports if he came from a lower racing league he would be considered a rookie when he got to the professional league.

Correction: "Rookie" would mean someone who's never raced before. McQueen's first races were in the Piston Cup Series. Doc Hudson must have raced prior to racing in the Piston Cup Series; meaning he won the Cup his first year racing, but had racing experience prior to competing for it.

Phixius

Correction: If the year convention follows how it is in the real world, the 1951 Hornet would have come out in 1950, making that his rookie year if he began racing right away.

The ‘51 Hudson Hornet was a new model car introduced in 1951.

Bishop73

The first 1951 Hudson Hornet was produced in September 1950 (18 built), with main production beginning in October 1950 (2977 built).

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Being produced and introduced are two separate things. Even if Doc was built in Sept 1950) he wouldn't have run a full season of the Piston Cup. Doc was meant to represent the Hudson driving team of NASCAR, especially Herb Thomas who won the Grand National Championship in 1951, with their ‘51 Hudson Hornet (1951 being the first year they drove the Hornet). Yes, ultimately it's just a cartoon movie with talking cars so there's nothing to say Doc didn't run a full season in 1950 or wasn't a rookie in 1951. But in keeping line with some semblance of the real world, by all accounts, Doc should have been a rookie in 1951.

Bishop73

16th Aug 2008

The Punisher (2004)

Corrected entry: When Howard Saint's men are going to Puerto Rico, they start from Tampa, Florida. This doesn't make any sense because it would take a while for them to get there, and it would also waste gas. Why wouldn't they start from Miami?

Correction: Who knows? But whatever their reasons, it's a character decision, not a movie mistake.

Phixius

16th Aug 2008

Men in Black (1997)

Corrected entry: When Will Smith is chasing the alien in the beginning, it sounds like he says "LAPD, stop!" The movie takes place in New York City.

Correction: He actually says "NYPD".

Phixius

13th Aug 2008

Batman Begins (2005)

Corrected entry: At the very end of the film when Batman and Gordon discuss escalation, you can hear Batman say "Well, Sergeant?" but his lips aren't moving. It is a wide shot but you have to look close.

Correction: It's very easy to say "Well, Sergeant" without moving your lips at all, so it stands to reason that the subtle movements Batman does make can't be easily seen in a wide shot.

Phixius

11th Aug 2008

Robocop (1987)

Corrected entry: Near the film's end, Dick is giving a presentation to the OCP board about ED-209 replacing Detroit Police officers. The board claps midway through his speech, and you can see "the Old Man" start to get up and open his mouth. He then looks to the person next to him and sits down quickly, as if missing a cue and forgetting that Dick has more lines.

Correction: Or he got up to say something and then realized Dick wasn't finished speaking. This is a character mistake, not a movie mistake.

Phixius

Corrected entry: Although Qin Shi-Huangdi really did oversee the first construction of the Great Wall of China (to keep out the Mongol hordes), it was originally a series of earthen embankments - not the stone wall shown in the film. (The wall as we know it was built much later.)

Correction: It's an action movie, not a documentary. This is just artistic license, not a movie mistake.

Phixius

9th Aug 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: When Bruce is swimming to the plane the smugglers would know who he is, yet when they pick him up he is in his Batman guise. Surely they would realise who he was?

Correction: Different people. One group picks up Bruce Wayne and drops him off somewhere. Another, completely unrelated group, picks up Batman and drops him off somewhere else.

Phixius

8th Aug 2008

Walk the Line (2005)

Corrected entry: In the scene where John (Cash) is going up to June's house after he has been in a 'funk' for about a year or so, he says, "Hi Carlene" and then she runs in the house to tell her mother John is at the door. She is also referred to as "Carlene" throughout the movie. Carlene was born as Rebecca Carlene Carter and wasn't referred to as Carlene until her late 20's when her music career started. Until then it was always Rebecca.

Correction: This film is a dramatization of the life of Johnny Cash, not a documentary. This isn't even really artistic license, let alone a movie mistake.

Phixius

8th Aug 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: During the big finale in the unfinished skyscraper, Batman discovers that the clowns are really the hostages. Why doesn't he contact Gordon and let him know right away? Batman was just in contact with Gordon on his way there (his batsuit is obviously equipped with a headset). Gordon could easily have alerted the SWAT team, and Batman would not have had to go through the trouble of methodically bringing down all the SWAT team members so they didn't fire on the hostages.

Correction: He was not in contact with Gordon. He was in contact with Lucius Fox.

Phixius

8th Aug 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: When the Joker kills Gamble, he offers two of his thugs to duke it out with a broken pool cue, so one could join the Joker's clan. What happened to that fight scene?

Correction: Not showing the fight does not constitute a plot hole, neither is it any other kind of mistake.

Phixius

Corrected entry: When Anakin is confronted by a "youngling," the boy refers to Anakin as Master Skywalker. However, Anakin was denied the privilege of becoming a Jedi Master earlier in the movie.

Correction: In this case, it's a show of respect not a formal or official title.

Phixius

Corrected entry: The "stone" Ace finds in snowflake's tank is supposed to be a cut of "Orange Amber." This is questionable as amber (which isn't really a stone, but is actually a resin) is extremely delicate and dissolves easily even in untreated water, take into account the amount of chemicals present in an aquarium and a piece as small as the ones used in the ring wouldn't stand a chance.

Correction: Unless it was coated in a clear lacquer. Which is almost certainly was. This would allow the owner of the ring in which this setting was to placed to not have to remove the ring every time they took a shower or went swimming. Without a lacquer finish the setting would eventually dissolve away even through normal wear and use.

Phixius

5th Aug 2008

In Bruges (2008)

Corrected entry: When Ken jumps from the bell tower, there are several problems. One, he could barely move from the loss of blood and then stands up to jump. Two, he drops the coins from his pocket into a crowd and then jumps into an empty space. Three, he jumps face forward - which would mean he would land perpendicular to the building - however he landed parallel to the building. Four, he was conscious and talking after a fall from that height onto bricks.

Correction: One, it was a last ditch effort using all his strength. It hurt to walk because his knee had been shot, it wasn't the blood loss that incapacitated him. Two, he drops coins into a crown to clear the crowd out. It shows them all stepping out of the way of the falling coins and looking up to see what's going on. That's why he dropped the coins. Three, his body rotated as it fell. Four, not impossible. A woman recently survived a fall from an airplane onto a paved parking lot. If she could fall from that height, there's no reason Ken shouldn't be able to be alive and speaking after his fall.

Phixius

5th Aug 2008

Chaos (2005)

Corrected entry: During the opening credits, we are shown a series of newspaper clippings. They are pretty convincing, but contain several mistakes that a real newspaper would not allow to print. One headline reads "Victims Family 'Not Happy'" instead of "Victim's Family 'Not Happy'" and another says "Call to Reign in 'Cowboy Cops'" when it should say "Call to Rein in 'Cowboy Cops'". (00:04:00)

Correction: Actually, newspapers have spelling errors like that all the time. Surprisingly often, in fact.

Phixius

4th Aug 2008

X-Men (2000)

Corrected entry: When the truck driver drops off Rogue, you can hear him push the brakes, but you don't hear him pull them before he gets out of the truck. No truck driver would leave his truck without setting his brakes. It would roll away.

Correction: I work at a factory that has trucks coming and going all day long, 24/7. This happens all the time.

Phixius

2nd Aug 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: After Gotham General is blown up; while Gordon is on the phone, he walks by what seems to be a boom crane on wheels behind him. Why would video production equipment be in front of a hospital? This thing surely didn't roll off a news van.

Correction: Why not? Joker made it known to the public that he was going to blow up a hospital. Any self-respecting news crew would make sure to be at a hospital ready to catch the breaking news, hoping they'd picked the right one.

Phixius

1st Aug 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: In the "Clowns are hostages" scene, in which Batman and Fox are using the cell phone sonar, there are no cell phones in the building. It's a construction site and the only people in the building are the Joker, the clowns, and the doctors. Even if each of them had a cell phone, Batman and Fox both see all of the empty floors of the building perfectly.

Correction: One phone showed an entire office building lobby. Their phones all work together to enhance the signal. We don't know entirely how this fictional technology works so we can't say what it can and can't do, really.

Phixius

31st Jul 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: During the 'know your limits' speech Bruce takes his shirt off and we can see that he is covered in cuts and bruises, yet when he's on the boat a day or so later he has no marks on him what so ever.

Correction: There is makeup called "concealer" for that sort of thing. Bruce is very wealthy so I'm sure he could afford plenty of the very best kind, and the stuff works wonders.

Phixius

30th Jul 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: When Bruce Wayne is done giving his speech about Harvey at the party, he goes outside and empties his champagne glass over the balcony. Yet, he doesn't have a champagne glass prior to that.

Correction: There are servers with trays of food and drink walking throughout the room. He could have grabbed the glass on his way to the balcony. The only purpose of this was to make it look like he was drinking thereby perpetuating the "party-boy billionaire" image. If he were holding a champagne glass in the middle of the room people would notice he wasn't drinking from it.

Phixius

30th Jul 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: During the scene where the SWAT caravan is taking Harvey Dent to central lockup, the helicopter above changes positions in regards to the truck as they approach. It appears to fly overhead, then hit the wires, crash, and fall in front of them when it should have already been behind them.

Correction: They're looking out their windshield at it. If it were flying over head they wouldn't be able to see it that way. The helicopter is always in front of them.

Phixius

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