Phixius

Corrected entry: How could Sallah have known that the monkey died from a poisoned date and react quickly enough to stop it happening to Indy.

Correction: He saw a previously virile monkey suddenly dead with a pilfered date nearby. He put two and two together. Pretty straightforward.

Phixius

Corrected entry: When Marty suggests taking Clara back to 1985 with them, Doc refuses, saying that it would disrupt the spacetime continuum. Since she was supposed to die in 1885, she's not even supposed to be there. Taking her back to the future would fix the problem, not make it worse.

Correction: She was supposed to die, period. Taking her to the "present" would disrupt the space time contimuum for the "future". She'd affect the world of 1985 in ways it wasn't meant to be affected thereby altering the timeline. Since she didn't die, the most logical "place" for her is her own time.

Phixius

10th May 2008

Thirteen Ghosts (2001)

Corrected entry: The glass walls are sturdy, shatterproof and intricately slotted together; how did Arthur and the psychic manage to disengage a wall to use as a shield?

Correction: They're on tracks to allow them to move. They just took it off the tracks. After all, it's not immobility of the wall panels that holds the ghosts back, but rather the spells written on them.

Phixius

29th Aug 2003

Treasure Planet (2002)

Corrected entry: How can Scroop grab the ropes to tie down sails if he has claws for hands? We know they are sharp when he cut Arrow's rope and sawed Jim's, and you can see his shadow grabbing the rope that remained intact.

Correction: Because he can control the amount of pressure he exerts with his claws. Just like crocodiles can put things in their mouths without rending them in half.

Phixius

26th Jun 2004

Treasure Planet (2002)

Corrected entry: Silver goes to the galley to get his spyglass right before the mutiny. Why does Silver need that spyglass? Silver's cyborg eye has a built in spyglass, which we learn later when he sees Jim about to fall and zooms in to see that he is loosing grasp on his handhold. We also see another time that Silver uses the built in spyglass when Jim tells them to turn the ship around right before the planet blows up. Silver zooms in to see the portal, then zooms in even closer to see the 3D map. So since Silver can obviously see things from great distances very well, why would he need to go to galley?

Correction: He wasn't always a cyborg, which means at one time he did need a spyglass. If he went to get it, then it must have sentimental value.

Phixius

27th Aug 2001

Snatch (2000)

Corrected entry: When Frankie Four Fingers first gets the diamond, he claims that it is 86 carats, but throughout the rest of the film it is referred to as a 84 carat diamond.

Correction: 1. It is referred to as an 84 carat diamond one time, at the end. Not throughout the whole film. 2. Frankie Four Fingers is a gambler, not a jeweler. How should he know anyway?

Phixius

It's referred to as 84 carat when Boris turns up at the jewellers as well.

11th Sep 2004

Snatch (2000)

Corrected entry: At the end of the movie when Turkish and Tommy are at the caravan park, they are stopped by some police and the policeman shows his I.D. An English police I.D consists of a badge which is usually on the right hand side of the badge, and an I.D card showing with a photo of the officer and his rank on the left. Look carefully and you can see there is no I.D card.

Correction: So he didn't show his I.D. card. Not a movie mistake.

Phixius

3rd May 2008

Spider-Man 3 (2007)

Corrected entry: In Spiderman 3, a large portion of New York city is aware of Spiderman and Mary Jane's upside down kiss from Spiderman 1. An entire crowd urges Peter Parker to recreate the upside-down kiss with Gwen. However, no-one saw Spiderman and Mary Jane kiss in the first place. Although the 'upside-down kiss' scene is a memorable cinematic moment, it occurred in an abandoned alley.

Correction: They're not urging him to "recreate" anything; they just want Spider-Man and Gwen to kiss. He just happens to be upside down at the time. There is no indication whatsoever that anyone knows about his and Mary Jane's kiss.

Phixius

29th Mar 2008

The Mist (2007)

Corrected entry: When they finally get the mop lit and they use the fire to fight the creature at the front of the store, the creature takes flight into the ceiling, knocking the bulbs out of one of the fluorescent lights. Both bulbs fall and hit a checkstand, but neither of them break, they just bounce around as if they are PVC tubing (which, for the actors safety, is probably what they were). (01:02:40)

Correction: I've personally seen fluorescent light bulbs bounce like that. It's seems unlikely, but they really can do that.

Phixius

30th Apr 2008

Stardust (2007)

Corrected entry: The runes used by the soothsayers are supposed to have only one carved side. The carved side means that the answer to the question is "yes" while the plain side means "no". Because the chance of getting all four pieces of runes to show only carved or plain side at the same time is hard to achieve, the runes used when the expected answer is "yes" are actually carved on both sides while the plain runes are used when the answer is "no." That way, a minor scene could be completed without wasting time and movie reels. (00:40:45 - 00:41:35)

Correction: That sounds more like so-so trivia than a mistake. Since we can never see both sides of the runes at the same time, and after they've been thrown they'd be impossible to keep track of, this couldn't possibly be seen within the movie. So it isn't a movie mistake, deliberate or otherwise.

Phixius

26th Apr 2008

30 Days of Night (2007)

Corrected entry: Near the start of the film, Eben and Billy find a pile of burned cell phones, the phones having been stolen by the Stranger to stop the people of Barrow calling for help. Later in the film, both Eben and Stella are seen using their cell phones. Why not use them to call for help?

Correction: Because the local towers had subsequently been destroyed.

Phixius

Correction: That's what the force is good for...

Phixius

Corrected entry: While on the cycle Bart pulls some of Homers hair of but after the bomb explodes his hair is back to its usual status.

Correction: It's a visual gag of such commonplace stature that this can hardly be considered a continuity error, especially in a cartoon.

Phixius

30th Dec 2007

Bee Movie (2007)

Corrected entry: When Barry is chasing after the Honey Farms truck, he grabs onto the strap of a backpack belonging to a bicycle rider, and the rider notices this and turns his head. How could a bike rider, traveling at high speed, notice that a bee had landed on his backpack?

wizard_of_gore

Correction: He didn't notice Barry had landed on his backpack. He heard Barry shout and turned to see who was behind him. He didn't see Barry at all or else he probably would have freaked out like everyone else in the movie does when they see a bee.

Phixius

18th Apr 2008

Three Musketeers (1993)

Corrected entry: D'Artagnan says there is no Queen of America when arguing with Porthos; technically the Queen of England would be the Queen of America, since the American colonies were still under British rule when this story takes place.

Correction: The Queen of England was the Empress of America, since the American colonies were part of the British empire. If there had been a Queen of America, she would have been a vassal queen under the rule of the King and Queen of England, and America has never had a vassal monarch of any kind, hence D'Artagnan's argument.

Phixius

Corrected entry: Around the very beginning, while the chipmunks are storing nuts, Alvin gets fed up and starts to stomp on the tree. The wood cutter is heard louder and louder and Theodore says, "You guys, I think he made it angry!" ('He', referring to Alvin.) However, he said 'guys', meaning he was talking to both of them, including Alvin. It wouldn't make sense if he had told Alvin, "I think he made it angry," referring to Alvin.

Correction: I've heard similar in actual conversation. Even so, this is a character mistake at most. Or perhaps he said, "You guys" to get their attention, then, in a split-second decision, decided he wanted to tell Theodore that he thinks Alvin made the tree angry. Either way, this isn't a movie mistake.

Phixius

Corrected entry: In the finale battle at the Black Gates, the good army is in a tight group surrounded by 10,000 orcs. If just 1/3 of those orcs had bows (which we never see in the final battle), and they volleyed into the group, 3000 men would have died right there (if not everyone, including Aragorn, Gandalf, the hobbits, etc). In all three films, the evil side has some sort of bowmen, but for some magical reason the army protecting the great eye and the orcs' leader, seems to have conveniently forgotten their bows. (Regardless of anyone's feelings, its a logical winning move for the orc, one that someone (PJ) left out, and no trees in Mordor to make bows is not a correction.)

Correction: Sauron is arrogant. He assumes there is no need for bows. He takes pleasure in causing suffering and so do the orcs. The orcs would have preferred to kill the intruders in combat rather than at range, Sauron would rather watch them be killed by ravaging orcs instead of an arrow, and "10,000" orcs should be more than enough to easily kill each and every one of these intruders. And, indeed, they would have been if the Ring had not been destroyed in time.

Phixius

10th Apr 2008

The Departed (2006)

Corrected entry: In the scene where Nicholson "hits" DiCaprio's cast with a shoe, he never really hits it. Watch closely, and you'll see him hit the pool table instead each time.

Correction: Indeed, Nicholson does not hit DiCaprio's cast. His assistant does. The force of the blow carries the shoe past the cast after it strikes it and onto the pool table.

Phixius

9th Apr 2008

Equilibrium (2002)

Corrected entry: Preston supposedly switched his weapon with his partner's in the warehouse raid, but he had his gun in one hand and his partner's in the other and never faced away from his partner and never changed hands.

Correction: Brandt offers Preston his gun with his left hand. Preston accepts it with his right hand. After deliberating, Preston hands his own gun back to Brandt with his left hand. Brandt accepts it with his right hand. Brandt pretended not to notice for the benefit of the overall plan to trap Preston.

Phixius

3rd Apr 2008

Shrek 2 (2004)

Corrected entry: When Shrek and Fiona are meeting Fiona's parents for the first time, Shrek notices people in the crowd with pitchforks and weapons. But why did they bring them? They, like everyone else, didn't know Shrek and Fiona were ogres.

Brad

Correction: Those are farm implements and they brought them because they're farmers and just happened to have them with them.

Phixius

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