Phixius

15th Mar 2008

War of the Worlds (2005)

Corrected entry: As they main characters walk to the ferry, there is a blood donation lady explaining that they are full for certain types of blood. Why are they taking blood donations? The aliens vaporise every part of the human body. The only reason they would need blood is if limbs were torn off (And people shooting people would not be the cause to ask the Red Cross to call for a national blood drive during an alien attack).

Correction: There are plenty of injuries outside limb loss and gunshot wounds that might require a blood transfusion to treat.

Phixius

Corrected entry: Towards the end of the movie, someone mentions that the door to the 'Source' is on a floor of the building that cannot be reached by elevator or stairs. Yet when Trinity decides to go into the Matrix, Link tells her to go to the 65th floor. How would she be able to get there without elevator or stairs?

Correction: She's pretty resourceful. She could have found a way to get to the roof and then down from there, for instance.

Phixius

13th Mar 2008

Crank (2006)

Corrected entry: At the end of the film when Chevy is falling from the helicopter, he breaks the bad guy's neck and he starts falling a lot faster than Chevy. One of Newton's laws states that two items will fall at the same speed. Chevy coudn't have pushed him to fall faster due to him not havving anything to push against, therefore the guy shouldn't have started falling faster.

Correction: Actually, both bodies had downward inertia. If Chevy forcefully pushed the dead man up, Chevy would slightly increase his downward momentum while momentarily decreasing the dead man's because he was pushing with his own inertia and against the dead man's. The actual increase in Chevy's own speed is small, but, when coupled with the slight, temporary decrease of the other man's, the difference appears much greater.

Phixius

10th Mar 2008

Tremors (1990)

Corrected entry: Since Carson City is so close to Perfection (as evidenced in Tremors 4), why didn't Val and Earl make a run for there, instead of Bixby? Carson City was due South, whereas Bixby was to the Northwest, in the direction the graboids were coming from.

Correction: Because there's only one road out of town and it's blocked. They had to go off road, driving a big tractor dragging a trailer with four flat tires. Carson City is close, but Bixby is closer. That's all that matters to them. They figured the graboids couldn't touch them in the tractor and trailer so they didn't care where they were coming from.

Phixius

Corrected entry: Condemned prisoners were crucified naked by the Romans as a final act of public humiliation. Given that it is an 18 cert movie, why would the director skip past this well known fact?

Correction: According the Gospels, Jesus was left with an undergarment. Where known historical fact and Biblical accounts diverge, the Biblical version was favored. Think of it as a movie version of the Gospels rather than a historical documentary.

Phixius

Corrected entry: The first time the adult Lewis meets himself, he would have expected the kid Lewis to show up, having already experienced this meeting as a kid; this means he would not be surprised at all, but he was.

Correction: Adult Lewis never experienced this because child Lewis is changing the past by being there.

Phixius

Corrected entry: Jesus is roped to the cross by his wrists, then nailed to the cross, which is then turned over in order to hammer flat the nails. Baffling and totally pointless: he isn't exactly in a position to try and escape.

Correction: How is this a mistake? That's how it was done. The condemned may try to thrash about hoping to get down, potentially pulling a nail out. No, they couldn't get away, but it'd be a hassle for the guards to have to put them back up. They solve that problem by bending the nails.

Phixius

Correction: The source of the scene is from the Dolores passion accounts of Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich. She never stated the flipping of the cross in her detailed vision. The cross was in fact not flipped over but an exaggeration of the imagination of Mel Gibson regarding Roman torturous crucifixion.

25th Feb 2008

Aliens (1986)

Corrected entry: At the beginning of the movie, when Reidecker is discussing Newt's parents' prospecting claim with Al, he refers to them as "a mom and pop survey team" as if he did not know who they actually were by name. However, this remote colony had only 158 members, so they would have all known each other very well.

Correction: Why would they have known each other very well? I work with about 20 people and only know 3 of them.

Correction: He's describing the team. Saying "a Bob and Shirley survey team" doesn't make any sense.

Phixius

12th Feb 2008

Transformers (2007)

Corrected entry: When Maggie Madsen leaves the Pentagon to find Glen Whitmann because she wants Glen to decipher the signal used by the Decepticons, Maggie takes a taxi that has the license plate of 202-83P and the colors of the taxi are a mix of white and black. When she arrives at Glen's house, the taxi's license plate starts with L and the color is all white. (00:45:00)

Correction: Glen's house is far away and most taxi companies won't travel outside a predetermined area without charging an enormous surcharge. She had to take more than one cab to avoid paying that.

Phixius

Corrected entry: When Fat Bastard is gassing the guards at the Ministry of Defense, he seems to be unaffected by the gas despite not wearing any protection.

Correction: Such is the case with many people's gas: they seem completely unaffected by it even though it forces everyone else out of the room. Also: it's a joke.

Phixius

11th Feb 2008

The Mummy Returns (2001)

Corrected entry: Another timeline mistake - when Anck-sun-Namun is convincing the three henchmen to open the chest on the train, one of them says four men opened the very same chest nine years ago, referencing the four Americans from the first movie, which was in fact seven years ago (The Mummy took place in 1926 and The Mummy Returns took place in 1933, thus seven years' difference).

Correction: Character mistake.

Phixius

10th Feb 2008

Minority Report (2002)

Corrected entry: The whole plot with setting Anderton up for murdering Leo Crow doesn't make sense. The strength of the Precrime system is that murders do not get committed at all (as there are none in Washington). Yet when Crow was hired, he was told he will have to be killed. When Anderton refuses to kill him, he kills himself. But the fact that the murder was, in fact, committed and that Precrime was not able to stop it, even though they had plenty of time to, would actually prove that the system is not foolproof. Lamar Burgess would therefore sabotage his own effort to prove how the system is faultless and should be extended.

Correction: 1.) The murder has to actually be intended for the precogs to pick it up. If Leo hadn't really been setup to die, there would have been no report by them. 2.) There was no murder, it was a suicide. That's the titular "minority report". The female precog, Agatha, saw the events that actually took place, whereas the other two saw Anderton murder Leo. This isn't a plot hole, it's a plot point. 3.) Anderton was accused of killing Crowe by the precogs, Crowe died, and Anderton was incarcerated for it. The spin that Burgess put on the whole affair proves, as far as the public is concerned, that Precrime is foolproof: no innocents go to jail.

Phixius

Corrected entry: In the scene where Whoopie asks them to sing "Mary Had a Little Lamb," about four students sing it. When she asks the blonde girl to sing, she says she doesn't know "Mary Had a Little Lamb." Yet she just heard four people sing it, so why wouldn't she know it?

Correction: You can hear a song on the radio, but that doesn't mean you've now got it committed to memory, especially if you're nervous.

Phixius

It is those 5 words. Most of them sing only the words "Mary had a Little lamb"

brianjr0412

She couldn't memorize 5 simple words (Mary had a Little lamb) to memory? Really, come on.

brianjr0412

It's not just those 5 words, it's the whole verse/song. The girl was stressed and didn't remember it.

Jon Sandys

30th Oct 2004

Gilmore Girls (2000)

P.S. I Lo... - S1-E20

Corrected entry: When Lorelai wants to go into the market Rory asks if it is Wednesday, since that is the only day she knows Dean doesn't work, and Lorelai says no. The next day, when Lorelai picks up Rory, someone says something about seeing them tomorrow. Their dinners are always on Fridays, it must therefore be Thursday, and the market conversation took place on Wednesday and Lorelai was wrong.

Correction: Or lying to get her daughter to go into the store and stop making a fuss. Even if she was wrong, so what? If it's plausible that Rory didn't know what day it was, why couldn't Lorelai not know as well?

Phixius

12th Mar 2005

Gilmore Girls (2000)

Rory's Dance - S1-E9

Corrected entry: Miss Patty wakes up Dean and Rory at the dance studio and tells them it's 5:30 AM. When Rory runs home through the snowy streets, it's quite light out. But at no time during winter in the northeast is it light at 5:30 AM. In reality, she'd be running home in complete darkness.

Correction: No, she wouldn't. The city (or town if you will) lights reflect off both the clouds in the sky and the snow on the ground, filling the entire area with ambient light. This happened where I live two nights ago. 3:00 AM and it looked like ten minutes before sunset.

Phixius

6th Feb 2008

Superbad (2007)

Corrected entry: Evan tells Seth in the cafeteria, "I have to go meet my counselor to pick my classes for next year." Seth is a senior going to Dartmouth next year. You don't go to a high school counselor to pick classes (or even make recommendations) for your freshman year at college.

Correction: He didn't say the high school counselor, he said his counselor. Many colleges send reps to high schools to help students with the enrollment process. Evan is talking about the representative from the college he plans to attend.

Phixius

6th Feb 2008

Superbad (2007)

Corrected entry: Evan states that he and Seth have been best friends since they were 8 years old (which is approximately second grade). Seth later explains why he doesn't like Becca - we see the flashback to fourth grade in which Seth's picture of "genitalia" was seen by Becca, sending Seth the principal's office, Seth into counseling, etc. If they were already best friends, how could Evan not known of this big event in Seth's life, which was made public by Seth's trip to the office?

Correction: Kids get sent to the principal's office all the time. Given the nature of this event I really doubt the details were divulged to the other fourth grade students. It's not likely Seth talked about it before now, given how uncomfortable he is while telling Evan about years later.

Phixius

5th Feb 2008

Monsters, Inc. (2001)

Corrected entry: Around the end of the movie, Sully has Boo activate all the doors so that they can get to Boo's door. However, having activated most doors around the world (some have been destroyed), there is no mention of anyone from the human world trying to access their closet, and coming upon the factory. We know that the doors work on both sides, as this is how Sully and co. get around from one location to the other.

Correction: We follow Sully, Mike, and Boo for the duration of the doors being active. Just because they didn't encounter anyone stumbling upon the factory does not mean no one did. We, the viewer, just didn't see it. If you opened up your closet and saw a huge open space on the other side that's never been there before are you likely to leave the door open for very long? I wouldn't.

Phixius

3rd Feb 2008

Hannah Montana (2006)

Correction: Citing the credits is not trivia.

Phixius

3rd Feb 2008

Spider-Man 3 (2007)

Corrected entry: During Flint's final flashback of killing Uncle Ben, there is a tear rolling down Uncle Ben's face when he gets shot. Then the camera turns to Flint, and then back to Uncle Ben falling, and there is no tear on his face.

Correction: Because it continued rolling down his face, even while the camera was on Flint, and subsequently rolled off his face.

Phixius

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