Phixius

Corrected entry: In the scene where Marion is having the drinking contest in her bar, look at her opponent's left wrist. There is a visible mark where the actor's watch strap goes.

Correction: Wristwatches existed in the 1930's.

Phixius

Corrected entry: Having recently visited the National Archives, I find it amazing that Ben and Riley entered the Archives as much as they did. Entry to the National Archives requires waiting in a very long line which takes hours and getting into the rotunda where the Charters of Freedom are requires waiting in line as well. I don't think that Ben and Riley had that much time on their hands.

Brad

Correction: I too have been to the National Archives and there was never a line for me. It depends on what time of year you go. You must have gone during vacation season.

Phixius

Corrected entry: When Indie rescues his father and shoots the Germans, the one that he pushed over stayed on the floor. Surely being pushed over couldn't have caused him that much damage.

Life700

Correction: He probably stayed down to avoid getting shot, since that's what happened to the others.

Phixius

I checked the scene just now - the guard who has some lines is taken out without any sort of proper fight. I ask you, Mitchell and Webb excepted, when do Nazi henchmen EVER decide to take it easy and live to tell the tale instead? At any rate, he's taking a huge risk that the Joneses won't sway the gun on him for good measure.

Spiny Norman

31st Mar 2008

Hairspray (2007)

Corrected entry: Throughout "Good Morning Baltimore", we can hear background singers even though Tracy is the only one singing.

Correction: Musicals are not held to the same "reality" standards that other movies are, at least during the songs. If they were, then the fact that all these people are spontaneously breaking out in perfectly choreographed song and dance routines would be a mistake as well.

Phixius

29th Mar 2008

Family Guy (1999)

Season 1 generally

Corrected entry: Admittedly it would be difficult to understand him, but during the first three episodes of series one, Stewie properly enunciates without any teeth (he grows teeth in episode 4).

Correction: He's a baby that talks, that in itself is a physiological impossibility.

Phixius

Corrected entry: After Dexter bites Larry in the face, there are no bite marks on his nose.

Correction: He's a playful, and obviously very smart, monkey. He wasn't biting to maim, just to tease.

Phixius

22nd Mar 2008

Enchanted (2007)

Correction: With a sitter. We're not shown this because it's not relevant, but it is a given that her father made arrangements for her to be supervised while he went to the ball with Nancy.

Phixius

18th Aug 2007

TMNT (2007)

Corrected entry: In the scene at April's apartment after Raphael is wounded, Donny pulls the blade out of Raph's shell and hands it to April. When she examines it, she says that the general became immortal through the stars of Kikan and his generals were turned to stone and that he lived for eternities in regret to revive his brotherhood. The stone should not have spoken of the myth since the general was frozen in stone for 3000 years.

Correction: If you mean that April was reading this off of the weapon, she wasn't. It's a "myth" she's familiar with and was simply telling everyone the story. If that's not what you mean, then this entry makes no sense.

Phixius

21st Mar 2008

Enchanted (2007)

Corrected entry: In Giselle's animated version, her hair is waist-long. However, in the real world her hair is shorter at shoulder-length.

Correction: Her hair isn't shoulder-length until after her trip to the hairdresser, who apparently cut it.

Phixius

Or it's just stylized in a way that makes it look shorter. Also when she went to the hairdresser, her hair was still rather long but was a lot straighter.

21st Mar 2008

Enchanted (2007)

Corrected entry: When Prince Edward dives down the well, he has his sword pointed upwards before him. However, when he pops out of the sewer hole, his sword is sheathed and his hands are on his waist.

Correction: Remember how long it took for Giselle to become "real"? It took Edward that long too. Plenty of time for him to sheathe his sword.

Phixius

11th May 2007

TMNT (2007)

Corrected entry: Leo was captured as the 13th monster with 4 foot soldiers present. They heard the generals talking about how Winters won't know the difference. Winters should have been informed about Leo from Karai as she stated the foot work for Winters. Karai seems to know the turtles history and the foot report to her.

Correction: She and the turtles are enemies. The generals were able to subdue a capture a turtle, all the better for her and the Foot Clan.

Phixius

20th Mar 2008

TMNT (2007)

Corrected entry: While examining the weapon in Raph's shell, Donny says it's made of obsidian. Obsidian is a glass-like rock and definitely doesn't look like the gray stone the weapon was made of.

Brad

Correction: Yes it does. A simple Google Image Search yields several pictures of obsidian samples that look exactly like that shuriken in terms of color and texture.

Phixius

20th Mar 2008

The Fugitive (1993)

Corrected entry: When the police officer is describing Kimble to a man he thinks isn't him (really is), he says "brown hair". Kimble didn't have brown hair - it was gray.

Correction: Character mistake: he misremembers. Happens all the time.

Phixius

19th Mar 2008

Enchanted (2007)

Corrected entry: Near the end, Pip rolls onto the roof in his little hamster ball. How does a chimpmunk climb to the top floor of a New York skyscraper trapped in a hamster ball?

Brad

Correction: By following, via the elevator, anyone else headed to that floor.

Phixius

17th Mar 2008

Shrek 2 (2004)

Corrected entry: In the first movie, Fiona escaped from the castle with nothing but her green dress. But in this movie she is wearing numerous outfits and is seen packing suitcases. Where did she get them?

Brad

Correction: Some time has passed between the end of the first movie and that point in the second movie. It's not unreasonable that she'd have acquired more than one outfit/possession.

Phixius

17th Mar 2008

Click (2006)

Corrected entry: When Adam Sandler first fast forwards through the sex, it shows that time was moving at normal speed because it only took 3 minutes. Yet when he fast forwards through his promotion, everything advanced one year.

Correction: Skipping to his promotion wasn't the equivalent of fast forwarding, it was a parallel to scene selection. Different method of moving forward, different effect on the space/time continuum.

Phixius

16th Mar 2008

Face/Off (1997)

Corrected entry: When Archer is loaded into the ambulance beside Castor's body near the end of the film, he removes his wedding ring from Castor's hand, where it is obviously a firm neat fit. He puts it on his own finger and it is obviously very loose. Once you wear a correctly fitted wedding ring for several years (and no one wears a "loose" ring for any amount of time), your finger "adjusts" to it and it does not look loose (my own looks like my finger has developed a ring shaped depression in the skin). Unless he lost a decent amount of weight on his hands, that ring is a couple of sizes too big and should really have fitted him just as well, if not better, than it fitted Castor.

Correction: He did not lose weight. They had to trim him down so he'd look like Castor. That's why the ring doesn't fit.

Phixius

19th Dec 2007

Dan in Real Life (2007)

Corrected entry: Dan backs the station wagon into the police car, yet in later scenes the back of the car is shown and it has no damage at all.

Correction: It's an older car, made of metal. The police cruiser is a newer car that has a body with a lot of fiberglass pieces. Stands to reason there'd be no visible damage on Dan's station wagon but it was still able to damage the cruiser.

Phixius

16th Mar 2008

Transformers (2007)

Corrected entry: Keep an eye on Barricade, where a normal police car would say "To protect and serve" Barricade has "To punish and enslave" which quite well illustrates the decepticon's character.

Correction: The camera zooms in on this, so it can't really be considered "trivia" since the filmmakers made a point of showing it.

Phixius

Corrected entry: In the scene where the slave dancer is arguing with Jabba, in some shots of her, one of her breasts has popped out of her costume.

Correction: She's a scantily clad slave dancer; where's the mistake?

Phixius

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