Phixius

Corrected entry: When Peter Pettigrew is seen on the Marauder's Map, his dot's footprints are displayed as that of a human's even though he is in his rat form. However, during the credits Sirius' dot is shown changing from human footprints to dog pawprints and back again. Either Peter's prints should've shown up as rat prints or Sirius' should have consistently been shown as human prints.

Correction: That was just something cute they did for the credits, it isn't meant to be taken as film canon. The Marauder's Map shows what is truly there; Peter Pettigrew is a human whatever shape he may take, so his footprints appear on the map as a human's.

Phixius

27th Jan 2008

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Corrected entry: Doc Ock's lab is first shown to be a regular building on a street, but it is later shown to be located on a dock.

Correction: Two different labs.

Phixius

18th Jan 2008

Shoot 'Em Up (2007)

Corrected entry: In the very beginning we see Mr. Smith eating a carrot. He bites the pointed end and eats it. Later he kills the bad guy by sticking the carrot in his mouth and punching it through the back of his head. The carrot, as it's sticking out the bad guy's head, now has no signs of being bitten at all and has its original point on it.

Frank Scialdone

Correction: Smith has more than one carrot on his person. He had a carrot two thirds gone that he was dipping in his soup/coffee when he was sitting on the bench watching the woman run by, then he had another carrot that he bit the end off of. He obviously had another carrot which he used to kill the henchman.

Phixius

18th Jan 2008

Hairspray (2007)

Corrected entry: In "Welcome to the 60's," out in front of the beauty salon, there is a park bench with an advertisement for 'The Dynamites' (who are singing). In the background of the advertisement, there are images of compact discs (CD's) which were invented in the 1980's even though the movie is set in the 1962.

Correction: Those are images of vinyl records. They look "shiny" so they catch the eye better than a black circle. I've seen adds with multi-colored records too, like polka-dots.

Phixius

Corrected entry: In the scene where Bootstrap Bill gives Jack the Black Spot, he tells him "Jones' great leviathan will find you". The Leviathan was a giant sea serpent, prominently found in the Old Testament, with a snakelike appearance. The Kraken is a squid-like monster, exactly how it was portrayed in the movie actually, and an entirely different entity than the Leviathan. As a lifelong sailor and a member of Davy Jones' crew for over a decade, Bootstrap would certainly know which mythological sea creature Jones commands.

Correction: From Dictionary.com: le·vi·a·than 1. (often initial capital letter) Bible. a sea monster. 2. any huge marine animal, as the whale. 3. anything of immense size and power, as a huge, oceangoing ship..

Phixius

Corrected entry: When the Simpson family are at the motel after getting out of the dome, Homer knocks on the door to ask what the secret knock is. The door opens without Homer opening it, and the rest of the family is nowhere within arm's length of the door to open it.

Correction: One of them strode forward, turned the knob, then, as the door was swinging open, strode back to wherever they were so they wouldn't have to greet or otherwise acknowledge him. Every hotel/motel I have stayed in had doors that swung open if the latch wasn't in place; it's so you're less likely to lock yourself out.

Phixius

16th Jan 2008

Spider-Man 3 (2007)

Corrected entry: Near the end when Flint Marko turns himself into a cloud of sand, it flies away into the city. When it flies behind the huge building, you can determine the sheer size of the sand cloud. But the sand cloud only came from his own body and didn't 'borrow' any nearby sand, so the volume of sand shouldn't have been so large.

Correction: Sandman can change his density as well as his size and shape. Tightly packed sand doesn't take up much space; but when spread out there appears to be much more than one might have thought.

Phixius

15th Jan 2008

Surf's Up (2007)

Corrected entry: In one scene, Cody has a poisonous thorn-type thing in his foot. After removing it, "Big Z" needs to neutralise the poison, which he does by (quote) "peeing" on the wound. Big Z is a penguin, a bird, and birds don't pee. Obviously, when creatures have been anamorphized, they will do things that they can't in nature (like talk in English!), but it is still, strictly, wrong.

Correction: And yet no mistake is submitted about the animals speaking in human language. Because it, like the peeing, falls under the category of "suspension of disbelief" and is therefore not a mistake.

Phixius

Corrected entry: The chocolate river is obviously just brown water, it is the wrong texture for melted chocolate or even chocolate milk.

Blibbetyblip

Correction: As we don't know what Wonka's formulas or processes are we can't say with certainty that the fluid in that river is not chocolate. If Wonka can make a candy that never dissolves as you suck on it, certainly he could lower the viscosity of chocolate to make it easier to churn.

Phixius

Corrected entry: When Nicky is searching the government database for 'Neal Daniels' location, his first name is spelled 'Neal'. Later on, when in the report on Bourne's induction into the program, it is spelled 'Neil'. It's highly unlikely a spelling mistake would happen in official government documents.

Ictoabu

Correction: Why not? Matter of fact, it happens all the time. Those documents are typed up by people, just like any other document.

Phixius

13th Jan 2008

Robocop (1987)

Corrected entry: In the scene where the thugs are testing their new heavy weapons, one bangs on the roof of the car and says, "Mount up. "If you watch closely, when he hits the roof of the car, the rear view mirror falls off the windshield.

Correction: If the mirror appears in a subsequent shot (not scene) then that's a continuity mistake; but the mirror falling off to begin with is not a mistake at all. It happens.

Phixius

Corrected entry: When Beckett has Will summoned and makes the offer to get Jack's compass in exchange for his and Elizabeth's freedom, he pulls a pirate branding iron from the fire to emphasize his previous dealings with Jack. When he pulls the iron from the fire, it is red hot. Then the camera goes to Will for one line, then back to Beckett. The iron is no longer red hot. When he turns to put it back in the fire, it's glowing hot again.

Correction: Something as simple as a draft could cause this. The iron cooled off and stopped glowing, but a draft stoked it up again causing it to glow momentarily.

Phixius

Corrected entry: In the scene when Noah Vosen leads the team to Tudor City to capture Jason Bourne, he is using a radio to talk to his team. The camera shows him holding the radio, which has a green LED (receive). When he transmits, the LED should change to red, but it does not.

Correction: I use a radio where I work that has a green LED at all times. It merely indicates that the unit is on and it only turns red if there is a problem with the radio.

Phixius

Corrected entry: In the early scene where Landy was instructing Vosen's team to look, via their computers, at the various pieces of paper inside Ross's apartment, they found the words "Blackbriar" and "per N.D." in those papers, thereby confirming that Ross's source was Neal Daniels. However, the "Blackbriar" papers shouldn't be in Ross's apartment at all because: (1) Ross met Daniels in Turin in the morning (where he got to know of "Blackbriar" for the first time and wrote it in his papers), then returned to London immediately afterwards, then went straight back to the Guardian office where he received Bourne's call and met Bourne in Waterloo station immediately thereafter. He never went home with his papers which were in his bag at all times. (2) When Ross later got shot in the Waterloo station, Bourne was beside his corpse and took all the papers from Ross's bag (including the "Blackbriar" papers). So the "Blackbriar" papers should be in Bourne's sole possession, with no one or nowhere else.

Correction: They were looking at Ross's notes that lead up to his meeting with Daniels, not his notes from the meeting. Obviously he didn't just run into the guy in Turin and sit him down for an impromptu interview, they had arrangements.

Phixius

Correction: Trivia, perhaps, but not for this movie.

Phixius

4th Jan 2008

Hairspray (2007)

Corrected entry: In the scene before "You're Timeless to Me", after Edna sprays steam at Wilbur with the iron, she sets the iron down flat, and never props it back up, which would cause a fire.

Correction: Unless it was off, but still had enough heat left at the time to steam.

Phixius

31st Dec 2007

Bicentennial Man (1999)

Corrected entry: 'Little Miss' (Grace) is shown to be about 5-7 years old at the beginning of the movie, and her sister Amanda is about 5 years older than that. When 'Little Miss' is shown as a young adult 15 years later, she is apparently somewhere around 20-25 years old. However, her 'older' sister Amanda is shown to still be a teenager 'making out' with her boyfriend on his motorcycle. The sister is about ten years younger than she should be according to the storyline.

Correction: Let's say Little Miss was five, and her sister was ten. Fifteen years later, Little Miss would have been twenty and her sister twenty five. Consider these two things: One, children are "leaving home" later and later in life even now. This is the future, and it stands to reason the trend would have continued; especially where these girls' parents are very wealthy. Two, it never says Amanda is still a teenager. She's just immature, rebellious, and acting how you believe teenagers act.

Phixius

Correction: "Little Miss" is Amanda. She is 7 at the beginning of the movie, and Grace, "Miss," is 9. The film jumps ahead 15 years later, making them 22 and 24. Some people can look older or younger than their actual ages.

Ashley Davis

29th Dec 2007

Beowulf (2007)

Corrected entry: Ray Winstone - who voiced Beowulf, provided Beowulf's face, and did the performance capture acting for the modelling for the digital character - is also credited as the dragon. This despite the dragon being a completely digital character with no spoken lines. The reason is that Winstone also provided the performance capture acting for the dragon model! Other characters he modelled for include the "golden man" (a lot of which was cut), and the dwarf (appearing in the anniversary celebration play.).

Correction: Pointing out information that appears in the credits is not trivia.

Phixius

9th Dec 2007

Hook (1991)

Corrected entry: Peter is talking to Tink when she's in her "house". The scene where she becomes normal size, he asks something along the lines of "are you upset", she says "no I'm neither" and THEN Peter asks "or you're sick then." There's no way for Tink to know he's about to give her another option, so the line shouldn't have been "I'm neither," unless it was spoken after his other bit of dialogue.

Cody Bowers

Correction: Peter asks first, "Tink! You in there?" Then he opens up the clock face and asks, "Are you sad?" To which Tinkerbell replies, "No, I'm neither. Please go away." Meaning she is neither sad nor at home. She doesn't want company, so she is telling Peter that she is not home to get him to leave. Ignoring this, or missing the subtlety, Peter then assumes that if she is not sad, then she must be sick.

Phixius

9th Dec 2007

Casino Royale (2006)

Corrected entry: In the scene where Bond is chasing the bomb maker through the construction site, Bond jumps on a 'pneumatic lift' where he breaks off the gas pipe and the 'lift' falls. The 'lift' is seen to change colour from red to yellow twice as we cut between shots.

Correction: The carriage (the guardrails and bars surrounding the part where the worker stands) are always red, and the hydraulics (the part that lifts the carriage up and down) are always yellow.

Phixius

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