Phixius

22nd Jul 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: In the scene where Jim Gordon caught the Joker (after the car chase), we can see Gordon wearing "SWAT" glasses, but a few seconds later, he speaks with someone else and now wearing standard glasses.

Correction: Jim Gordon normally wears prescription glasses so he must have put them back on during those more than ample "few seconds" since he didn't need the safety glasses anymore.

Phixius

Corrected entry: Even minutes after when the Abonimation has started his rampage in the street, you see people still running around in the street, only to be hit by the Abonimation or dodge it in the last second. Should not they have had enough time to clear the street?

Correction: Some people are too stupid to head to safety. They'd rather see what's going on and their curiosity gets the better of them. This sort of thing happens in real life, only with things like tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, building collapses, mad gunmen in the streets, etc.

Phixius

15th Jul 2008

Toy Story (1995)

Corrected entry: Seeing as Buzz is unaware he is a toy, what exactly does he do when Andy plays with him? Would he not interact with him entirely the same way he does with his other toys when he first meets them.

logan crews

Correction: He thinks Andy is the leader of this "tribe". All the other toys allow Andy to play with them, so Buzz does too. When in Rome...

Phixius

Correction: Lee Unkrich. Who directed 3 and co-directed 2, said in a tweet to this question;" Two words; Toy instinct." So, there's that.

Sammo

21st Jul 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: In the scene where Joker sets fire to his half of the money with Lau sitting on top, where did the money come from? Lau took the mobs' money out of Dent's jurisdiction. Joker had time to kidnap Lau, discover the location of the money, divide it in half and stack it to stage Lau's demise?

Correction: Since you ask, here's the answer: yes. See, Lau never said he took the money out of Dent's jurisdiction, only that he himself could leave Dent's jurisdiction. The money could have been hidden anywhere, even the very warehouse in which it was burned.

Phixius

19th Jul 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: In the shot of the construction building where the Joker is watching the boats in the harbor, Bruce uses the cellular waves as a sonar and you can see the S.W.A.T. designs on the back of the officers' vests. This is impossible due to the fact that the S.W.A.T. lettering is flat and would not show up as another color. Instead, almost all surfaces would show up as one color.

Correction: That part of the vest resonates differently due to having the plastic like acrylic paint covering the canvas, and therefore looks different on Batman's imaging device. It is, after all, a fictional technology described only as being like sonar.

Phixius

16th Jul 2008

Wall-E (2008)

Correction: The evacuation occurred in our future. We don't know what kind of batteries they could have come up with. We don't have Wast Allocation Load Lifter technology yet either.

Phixius

16th Jul 2008

Pleasantville (1998)

Corrected entry: When George comes home and finds no Betty on the night it rains, Jen is upstairs reading. George yells "Honey, I'm home" four times, then shouts "Where's my dinner?" several times. Jen hears none of this and George apparently does not go upstairs to hunt for Betty. At the bowling alley he says, "No one was there" and "No lights were on," yet in a wide shot of the house we see Jen's bedroom light on and she was there.

Correction: Character mistake. He was extremely confused, then when he told the story to his buddies, he confused the details.

Phixius

14th Jul 2008

Predator (1987)

Corrected entry: Towards the end of the movie, when Anna is now trusted by Dutch and the team, Anna tries to help by wanting to carry a weapon. Dutch warns her not to carry a weapon because he's figured out that the Predator does not think it's sporting to kill an unarmed person and said this why the Predator did not kill her before. Since Dutch believes this, he should have ordered his men to drop all their weapons and then they all could simply walk out of the jungle safely.

Correction: There's a difference between "unarmed" and "disarmed". If they'd never had weapons, then, by Dutch's logic, the Predator wouldn't have gone after them. If they'd had weapons but disposed of them, that makes the men foolish prey, but still fair game.

Phixius

Correction: Billy puts this theory to the test and proves it to be false. He chucks his rifle and all of his ammo and gear away, and faces the Predator with just a knife. Even though he technically disarmed himself, the Predator still considered him fair enough sport to kill and take his skull as a trophy.

Having a knife is still considered being armed. So he didn't "test" the theory if he faced the Predator armed.

Bishop73

14th Jul 2008

Knocked Up (2007)

Corrected entry: In the scene where Ben and Allison are leaving the hospital with their new baby girl you can see that all the presents and balloons Ben is holding are to celebrate the birth of a baby boy. As he walks out the hospital doors you can see the balloon's face as it is turning and it says "It's a Boy!"

Correction: He didn't buy the decorations. They were bought by friends and well-wishers who obviously mistook the gender.

Phixius

Corrected entry: In the shot where Dobby is coming out of Harry's wardrobe, he has a sock on his ear. At Dobby's height, he was standing with Harry's shirt. His ear would not have come in contact with a sock. (00:06:15)

Correction: First it's pretty well demonstrated that Harry is messy. There's no telling where that sock was. Second, Dobby is enamored with Harry and was shut in his wardrobe. It's exceedingly likely Dobby was rummaging through it just to see the things that belong to the great Harry Potter.

Phixius

Corrected entry: The "Expelliarmus" spell changes throughout the films. In some cases, it just pops the recipient's wand out of their hand (the way it is actually used in the books), it launches a sort of ball of blue energy at the victim sending them hurtling backwards and stunning them (as used against Snape in PoA and Krum in GoF and is not necessarily accurate), or in the case of Goblet of fire, a jet of red electricity from Harry when used against Voldemort. It works for the film and books conceptually, but isn't consistent.

Correction: The effect and appearance of the spell changes depending on the potency with which it was cast. The spell was devised to disarm an opponent by expelling their wand from their hand. But even in the books Harry used it to expel himself from the jaws of a creature. In the example here, with Snape, you could say he'd been "expelled" from the floor. In the case of Harry and Voldemort's duel, the wands were "related" and wouldn't duel each other so neither spell acted properly.

Phixius

3rd Jul 2008

Wanted (2008)

Corrected entry: The gun Wesley takes from the toilet should not be able to shoot since it has been in water.

Correction: Not so. It is possible that a gun that's been submerged may not fire, but it's not a given. There are even some guns that are specifically designed to be able to do just that.

Phixius

3rd Jul 2008

The Terminator (1984)

Corrected entry: When the Terminator is flipping through Sarah's address book he has two flies on his face. When the janitor asks him the question and he moves his head they're still there. When he moves back after responding, after jerking his head to look back at the book they're still there. In reality they would have flown away.

Correction: Not necessarily. I've seen flies stay put when I would have thought they'd have flown away.

Phixius

Corrected entry: After Melanie goes to Alabama and uses her key to get into Jake's house, Wayne comes to arrest her and they start naming off crimes she has done. Jake talks about the stockyard and Melanie says "Like I could tip a cow by myself!" It is in fact impossible to tip a cow, and growing up in a small rural town, they would know that.

Correction: It's not impossible, and growing up in rural Iowa, I would know this. I can't even count the number of people I personally know who have done that. It's extremely dangerous for the cow too. It's also true that there's no way Melanie could have done it alone.

Phixius

3rd Jul 2008

Happy Gilmore (1996)

Corrected entry: Happy bets Virginia she cant get a goal in the hockey rink. She shoots this puck and it shows it slowly making its way through the goalies crease and then switches camera angle. The puck is now 10 feet away from the net and goes through the crease a 2nd time.

Correction: They're just showing the same event from a different angle. Like in action movies when we see the same explosion three times.

Phixius

1st Jul 2008

Ghost Rider (2007)

Corrected entry: Approx. 7 minutes into the movie, Johnny is talking to the devil getting ready to make his deal. The devil says, "The thing about cancer is the time it takes, the toll on the loved ones." Immediately after that, it goes to a shot of the devil walking left to right across the screen with the circus tent serving as background. Lightning flashes and you see the demonic shadow of the devil in vivid detail on the circus tent backdrop. For it to happen like that, the lightning would have to literally flash inside the tent. Lightning outside will not enhance the shadow inside the tent.

Correction: Mephistopholes used his demonic power to do that. It'll do what he wants it to do.

Phixius

30th Jun 2008

The Simpsons (1989)

Correction: It's a joke, not a mistake.

Phixius

Where's the joke? He is being extremely serious when speaking to Lisa.

Ssiscool

27th Jun 2008

Saw II (2005)

Corrected entry: Not massive trivia, but a little interesting: When Eric and Jigsaw are going down the elevator at the end, it shows a shot of the lift from above. In Hollow Man, when Cain goes down the elevator after he finds a stable DNA bond, it shows the lift from above too, and it's exactly the same as what they use in Saw 2. It's never mentioned by Darren Lynn Bousman, but I'm sure it's the same elevator - check it out.

Correction: Similar looking elevator shafts are not the makings of trivia.

Phixius

27th Jun 2008

Jumper (2008)

Corrected entry: In the scene where the black guy with white hair is in David's dad's house, you can see New York 1 news chanel on the tv. The problem is that the dad lives in AnnArbor, Michigan.

Correction: Digital Cable. I can get localized news channels from halfway across the country too.

Phixius

Corrected entry: When Cutler Beckett is sitting at his desk behind him there is a world map. On this map only the south coast and nothing else of Australia is marked. In Dead Man's Chest, on a different map behind him, the west coast is drawn and not the south coast. Although it's obvious not all of Australia would be discovered by that time, but there shouldn't be one and not the other, with a change over in the next film.

Correction: In Dead Man's Chest, that map was being painted even as we were viewing it. It's a reasonable assumption that the map in At World's End was also unfinished.

Phixius

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