Phixius

5th Jun 2008

The Covenant (2006)

Corrected entry: In Sarah's shower scene, when the lightbulb breaks, the entire room goes dark. In the next few shots, several light fixtures are seen throughout the room - enough that one lightbulb going out isn't going to make that significant a difference in the overall lighting of the room.

Correction: It's magic. The lightbulb didn't break on its own, and the darkness wasn't natural either.

Phixius

26th Aug 2003

Equilibrium (2002)

Corrected entry: Another subtitles related problem. Whenever they show Sean Pertwee delivering a speech the subtitles list Angus Macfayden's character as the one speaking. While this later turns out to be the case I still think they could have done a slightly more discreet job.

Correction: It may have been a bad idea, given the reveal at the end of the movie, but it is not a mistake. Sorry, but opinions don't make mistakes.

Phixius

Corrected entry: When the rider summons the cold, the window freezes. If window glass were to get that cold that fast it would shatter. The cold does manage to find it's way in and everyone's covered in frost and there are huge icicles in the house. First off, somebody would've woken up if they weren't dead already. Second, icicles need liquid water to grow and they don't grow in extreme cold. Also, even falling icicle's that large would likely injure but not kill someone (the ones that weren't controlled by magic). (01:17:20)

zephalis

Correction: This entry nearly explains itself away: magic. The windows don't shatter because it's magic. The icicles form because it's magic. Frost grows on people without killing them because it's magic.

Phixius

Corrected entry: When the sheriff's men are robbing a church, they post a "wanted" sign for Robin Hood. From the front the sign looks fine, but from the side it looks very shiny, like it's laminated.

Krista

Correction: It's oiled to protect the ink from the elements.

Phixius

28th Jul 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Correction: No. The Joker had forward momentum, yes, but the truck flipped so fast, he'd have smacked into the roof since that's what would have been in front as he continued forward. To put it another way, the truck rotated around Joker as he flew forward.

Phixius

Corrected entry: At the end of the movie when the women are at the ballpark, the scene shows an "older" Dottie standing with a suitcase in her right hand looking out at the baseball field. In the very next shot, the older Doris, like earlier in the movie, suddenly throws a baseball at her and Dottie, without dropping the suitcase, reaches up and catches the ball in her right hand. How could she grab the ball so easily if just seconds before she was holding the suitcase, and we never saw her put it down?

Correction: She switched hands while the camera was off of her. It's a very common thing to do, your arm gets tired so you switch back and forth periodically.

Phixius

27th Aug 2001

Dogma (1999)

Corrected entry: When Rufus falls out of the sky and reads that message from Jesus, he says it is written in Aramaic. Aramaic is written from right to left but he read it left to right like as if it was written in English.

Correction: There is nothing to indicate which direction Rufus is reading. He only swipes his finger across the word for "Jesus". He doesn't trace the text with his finger as he reads and we can't see his eyes.

Phixius

4th Jul 2002

Men in Black II (2002)

Corrected entry: When Agent J takes the anchovy tin out of the cabinet at the pizza place he exclaims, "Anchovies in virgin olive oil". When the camera shows the top of the tin it only reads, "Anchovies in Olive Oil". No "virgin".

Correction: That's Jay's character mistake, not the movie's.

Phixius

24th Nov 2002

Men in Black II (2002)

Corrected entry: In the scene where the half-destroyed subway car arrives in the station, when it stops, you hear a small chime-like noise. In New York City, however, this noise is only made when a subway car's doors shut and it leaves the station.

Correction: It's half destroyed. A minor electrical malfunction is very likely.

Phixius

27th Aug 2001

Men in Black (1997)

Corrected entry: In the scene where Edgar's skin gets inhabited by the alien bug, and goes back into the house, he pulls his skin back to make it stop hanging from his bones, in the next shot, he appears to still be holding it back, but when he lets go, it is very apparent that he was only holding his hair.

Correction: Which is attached to the skin. That's not a mistake.

Phixius

Corrected entry: When the outlaws' hideout in Sherwood Forest is attacked 'by surprise' there are a large number of heavy catapults, which attack the hideout. Given the density of the forest and the size of the catapults, it probably would have taken over a week to get them in position.

Correction: They were assembled on site. While travelling through the forest, they were much more compact allowing them to be moved very quickly.

Phixius

25th Jul 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: At the end of the movie, Commissioner Gordon says that Two Face killed "5 people, 2 cops." Two Face only killed 1 cop; he didn't kill Ramirez. He also killed Maroni's driver (and maybe Maroni indirectly). That equals 3 people, 1 cop.

Correction: We didn't necessarily see everyone that Two-Face killed. Only the plot relevant murders.

Phixius

25th Jul 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: When the Joker is in the jail cell and the interrogation room with Batman, his hands are visible with paint stains and long nails. Once he escapes in the police car and is hanging out of the window he is wearing his purple leather gloves again.

Correction: Two totally different scenes with several minutes, at least, between them. He could have retrieved his gloves or been given another pair by whoever is in the car with him.

Phixius

23rd Jul 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: The film contains several Bond movie references: the "skyhook" technology that Batman uses to extricate Lau is similar to that used by Felix Leiter at the end of "Thunderball", and Joker's hidden blade in the shoe is very reminiscint of Rosa Klebb's weapon of choice in "From Russia With Love".

Correction: The bootknife could just as easily be a reference to Kevin Kline's use of one in Wild Wild West, which is to say it's not a reference to either. The skyhook is a reference to the actual technology developed by the military, not to some movie which mimicked the same technique.

Phixius

23rd Jul 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: This one bothered me throughout the trailer and in the film. Batman is driving through the mall-looking area on the bat-pod and shoots out the glass to the doors, the shot cuts to him riding up a ramp and then back to Batman now crashing through the glass he had just shot. The shots seems out of place.

Correction: There was a wheelchair ramp in front of the doors.

Phixius

23rd Jul 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: When Batman and the Joker have their final confrontation towards the end of the movie, Batman throws the Joker off the building and he falls a significant distance before Batman saves him with his "zipline" device and hauls him back up. But we see Batman pulling up his zipline with his hands only a few times before the Joker is pulled the entire distance back up. Those few tugs of the zipline would have pulled the Joker up perhaps several feet, not the long distance he originally fell.

Correction: The gun is pulling the zip-line too. Batman is only using his hands to help it go faster.

Phixius

23rd Jul 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: In the scene where Gordon and his officers rescue the consultant (Reese) who's about to reveal Batman's identity, they rescue Engel (Anthony Michael Hall) from the TV studio also. He is seen with Gordon and Reese in the police SUV when Bruce Wayne saves the day with his Lamborghini. However, Engel all of a sudden appears as one of the hostages being hustled into the school bus at Gotham Hospital, and is shown in the Joker's hostage video.

Correction: Nope. There's the driver, the officer with a wife in the hospital, Gordon, and Reese.

Phixius

23rd Jul 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: In the scene of the assassination attempt the Joker, without his makeup, is disguised as one of the police officers who will give the gun salute. Even if we can suspend our disbelief that nobody recognized him specifically as being the Joker (even though he does have the same facial scar), how on earth could he have gotten himself chosen as one of the cops who would give the salute and therefore hold a loaded gun literally next to a high-ranking city official? I'd think that the police force would double-check and then triple-check who got selected to hold a gun in that type of situation. How did he get past that and fool everyone?

Correction: He and his thugs abducted and detained the men who were selected and took their place. He didn't show up at the police station, sans makeup, and apply for a position in the 21-gun salute then, after being legitimately selected, somehow convince the other six officers to fire on the mayor with him.

Phixius

23rd Jul 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: In the scene where Alfred is burning documents in the 'batcave' furnace, it starts with furnace open where you can see him shoveling papers into a burning pile. The next shot shows him closing the door to the furnace, except there is no visible flame in the window. In the next shots the flames are visible again through the window.

Correction: Alfred is tossing, not "shoveling", and it's only one schematic that we actually see him throw in. Second, we can't see the flames because of the angle. In the next shot, the angle is different.

Phixius

22nd Jul 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: In the scene where Batman is holding the Joker off the edge of a building and the Joker is obviously upside down, the camera angle is showing an very poor upright version of him. It's very obvious that he has a fan blowing underneath him and he is swaying back and forth.

Correction: His cheeks, lips, each individual hair on his head, and his coat all must have strings pulling them up too, then, because all those things appear as they would if Heath Ledger were actually upside down. And Batman isn't holding him either. He's hanging from Batman's zip line.

Phixius

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