Corrected entry: Blink only uses her portal ability defensively (i.e. to escape). In theory, she should be able to single-handedly destroy all the sentinels by cutting them in half with her portals (as shown in her death scene when a portal severs a sentinel's arm) or at the very least create portals below the sentinels' feet and cause them to fall down mountains, etc. The only reason she didn't use her skill offensively was because the script writers needed the sentinels to be a threat to the mutants.
Phixius
1st Nov 2014
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
29th Oct 2014
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
Corrected entry: Xavier finally re-enters Cerebro room and dusts-off his helmet - dust would have no-way of accumulating like that in a secret basement air-tight room.
29th Oct 2014
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Corrected entry: During the castle siege, the orcs place a few containers of explosive in the sewer outlet. As the carriers leave the tunnel, you can see multiple orcs in the immediate area with torches that would be able to ignite it right away with nearly no chance of being stopped rather than an orc running in like an Olympic torch carrier, drawing extra attention which catches Aragon's attention to try bringing him down. It of course is much more visually entertaining this way, but made no practical sense when there were already torch bearers right there.
Correction: Thermite cannot be ignited with a simple match or lighter. Something that burns much hotter, such as magnesium, is required in order to start thermite burning. In a similar manner, these bombs were very likely made with a material that couldn't be ignited with a mere torch in order to avoid an accidental premature detonation. This torchbearer therefore likely had the one and only torch which was burning whatever was necessary to light the bombs up.
6th Oct 2014
Godzilla (2014)
Corrected entry: When the US special forces team is approaching the Russian sub that a MUTO has dragged into the jungle on Hawaii, team members are wearing night vision goggles. But they are also using flashlights.
Correction: The night vision in night vision goggles can be turned off. Likely, the loss of depth perception and monochromatic display provided by night vision goggles was enough of a drawback in the jungle that they decided to use flashlights instead, but they still had to carry their goggles that they already had on somewhere; might as well do so on your head, where they go.
19th May 2014
Godzilla (2014)
Corrected entry: The military wants to use a nuclear bomb to lure the creatures away and then detonate it. They say they want it 20 miles offshore to be safe. Later in the movie, the main character manages to get on the boat with the bomb to pilot it away from San Francisco. They show the time left on the bomb is about 13 and a half minutes. He would have had to been going 90 mph to get 20 miles away in that time, and the boat he was on would have never been able to go that fast.
Correction: So he didn't make it twenty miles. They never say he did, so this isn't a mistake. Besides, twenty miles wasn't just to clear the blast radius, it was to prevent radiation from the nuclear fallout from reaching civilians and causing problems later. They'll treat radiation poisoning now, but at least no one died in the blast.
20th May 2014
Godzilla (2014)
Corrected entry: When the soldiers go to Yucca mountain to look for the other MUTO, they find a hole where it had busted out and was heading to Vegas. Why didn't they see this gigantic creature across the desert while on the way to Yucca mountain?
27th Dec 2008
Twilight (2008)
Corrected entry: In the last scene with Victoria, she's looking through the window at Bella and Edward at the prom. But if they were at such close proximity, Edward should have heard Victoria's thoughts, as he does near the end of Twilight: Eclipse.
21st Oct 2014
Prometheus (2012)
Corrected entry: Temp when the ship is on the surface is listed for the atmosphere as 2.724 K which is -454.7628 F. How in the world do all those clouds and presumably flowing water exist with the rest of the atmosphere stated as 72% N, 21% O, and traces of Argon if it's that cold?
Correction: Those clouds don't have to be made of water vapor; they could be dust or some other gas condensing in the extreme cold. Since the water is only "presumably flowing" and not "absolutely flowing", that observation is irrelevant.
22nd Oct 2014
Divergent (2014)
Corrected entry: When Peter says "Yeah, Stiff, take it off," his lips don't move, he just smiles.
7th Oct 2014
Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
Corrected entry: Cade, Shane and Bumblebee are in the room with the cars in the KSI building, and Bumblebee is stressing out. Joshua Joyce then appears with a tour group and confronts Cade and Shane to not make any mistakes, then leaves with the rest of the tour group. Bumblebee then, very loudly, transforms back into his Autobot self. There is no way Joyce could not have overheard this. He had only walked behind a small screen and was only a few meters away. Considering Joyce is power hungry and had just had a go at Cade and Shane for messing with the cars a few seconds ago, the most realistic thing for him to have done was go back and see what had happened if he had heard this. (01:06:50)
Correction: We don't know the layout of interior, maybe they tour group had to pass through a door way into another room. The large area appeared to be a testing/demonstration room of some kind, so it's not out of the question that it was insulated for sound to prevent any loud noises during demonstrations from causing a ruckus elsewhere in the facility. Also, we don't know exactly how far away Joyce and his tour group were, they may very likely have carried on with the tour and gotten quite a distance away from that room.
6th Oct 2014
Dark Skies (2013)
Corrected entry: The family in the film are obviously struggling financially, especially to pay their mortgage. However, they have a huge iMac, a Macbook and have the money to install a complex security system with extra locks, several alarms, motion sensors and CCTV cameras all around their house. It doesn't make sense that they would have the money to afford these things.
Correction: People aren't always responsible with their money. Besides, if they feel genuinely threatened then they may have decided that the expense of the security equipment was worth getting behind on a few bills. They apparently HAVE money (or credit), they're just not spending it responsibly.
28th Sep 2014
Ender's Game (2013)
Corrected entry: At one point, Colonel Graff states that Napoleon "conquered the known world." This is far from true. The British had a sprawling empire, and there were many independent nations that were "known" at the time.
21st Sep 2014
Home Alone (1990)
Corrected entry: There is no such thing as a fully booked flight, especially a long-haul flight like the one Mrs. McCallister needs. Two or three seats are always kept spare in case of emergencies like this one. If not required they are given or sold cheaply to airline employees. If an airline would not find her a seat the U.S. Embassy in Paris would. One phone call from an embassy staffer and Mrs. McCallister would be on a flight. She is not stupid - she would know exactly what to do.
Correction: Airlines routinely remove passengers from flights in order to accommodate people who require emergency transport. Just ask Dr David Dao, who was forcibly dragged off a United Airlines flight to make room for another passenger. His is just the most notable case. In fact it happens all the time.
If someone thought to call the embassy.
If Mrs McAllister didn't - and nothing in her character suggests that she is so stupid as to neglect such a vital fact - the one of the airline staff to whom she tells her story either would have told her to or would have done so on her behalf. That is an essential part of their training. As one poster said, it happens all the time.
Correction: Unless two or three of the other millions of people in all of Paris happened to have some sort of an emergency (or even faked one to get a seat) and also needed a flight that same day. Not terrifically unlikely, especially during the holiday season.
Not terrifically unlikely, terrifically impossible. There are eighty flights from Charles de Gaulle airport to the east coast of the USA every day and a similar number from Paris Orly. Mrs McAllister would be on one of those flights even if that meant forcibly removing a paying passenger to accommodate her. That's not my opinion, it's a fact.
I recognize the validity of the 'Emergency Flight Accommodation" deals mentioned above, but here's the thing-a major part of the movie (however unbelievable) is that nobody except Mrs. McAllister recognizes that the situation is an emergency. Take the earlier scene, where a cop is sent over: He knocks on the door a few times. We know that Kevin is home, just hiding under the bed. With no answer, he mutters into his walkie-talkie to "count their kids again", and drives off. That's. It. No further investigation, no repeat police visit. It's basically like Mrs. McAllister is an unreliable woman-who-cried-wolf. Given this, why the hell would an airline in this same 'world' start jostling passengers around and messing with its itinerary? Now that I think about it, a lot of this movie is like a nightmare about a Cassandra Complex, lol.
21st Sep 2014
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Corrected entry: Sarah and John Connor are switching the only gas mask while the police is trying to storm the research institute. Gas is everywhere, so while switching the mask it would fill up with gas before they put it back on their faces, making the entire exercise pointless.
Correction: Air inside the mask can get out, but air outside the mask cannot get in. Their lung capacity is greater than the volume of air the mask can hold. So all they need to do is use the deep breath they were holding while they weren't wearing the mask and exhale it once the mask is on. That will push all of the "bad air" out of the mask.
7th Sep 2014
Dredd (2012)
Corrected entry: In the scene where the judge asks Ma-Ma who the problem judge is, she replied that she did not know. Judge Dredd had announced his name to the entire building over intercom not too long before that time. (01:01:10 - 01:06:05)
Correction: Judge Lex does not ask Ma-Ma who the problem judge is, he knows it's Judge Dredd. He says it'll cost her a million credits and she questions this (she says "one million?") He is basically asking her do you know who Judge Dredd is and she says no, she does not know his reputation or what kind of judge he is, nor the extent of her problem. His reply is he does know who Judge Dredd is and that's why it's going to cost her one million credits.
26th Aug 2014
Pitch Black (2000)
Corrected entry: After Riddick has shaved his head, it is baby smooth, no stubble to be seen, but approximately 30 minutes later, he has stubble on his head and face, and as the film progresses (over a timespan of just a few hours), there's lots more stubble, lots more.
20th Aug 2014
Man of Steel (2013)
Corrected entry: In the beginning, Jor-El climbs on board the back of a four-winged flying creature, and he says one word, "Up." And the creature, instead of going up, goes straight down.
7th Aug 2014
The Book of Eli (2010)
Corrected entry: The first scene of the movie shows leaves falling from dead trees like it's snowing. If it was 30 years later, the leaves would have all long since fallen off. An argument could be made that the leaves are instead ashes falling. But the trees would not be smoldering after 30 years. Also, when Eli stands up, it's obvious that they are leaves are falling off him.
Correction: I didn't see any leaves falling off Eli when he stood up. No, trees would not have been smoldering for 30 years, but who says the fire burned 30 years ago? Forest fires happen all the time from natural causes. In a world this dry they'd be even more frequent.
In addition to this, who's to say that there wasn't a recent fire in the area or that they were showing Eli at a time immediately following the Apocalypse. This would be a clear indicator of the length of his journey to the West. One could only imagine that it had begun in the East fun in the East.
Correction: It is nuclear fallout, an unknown time after the nuclear explosion(s). At the time, he is wearing a mask to protect himself from it.
9th Jul 2014
Honey I Shrunk The Kids (1989)
Corrected entry: Wayne puts the trashbag outside of the fence, but the kids are inside the fence when they leave it.
6th Jul 2014
Toy Story (1995)
Corrected entry: Near the end of the movie when Buzz and Woody are in the sky with the rocket, it is not clear how exactly the tape becomes detached from Buzz's body. It detached from his figure as soon as he opened his wings, but this doesn't explain how the tape was removed. Wouldn't Buzz have removed the rocket earlier if he could have?
Correction: The tape was right over where Buzz's wings come out, so by opening his wings, the tape was snapped off. Buzz didn't think to do it earlier because at first he was too despondent to care and then he was more worried about the immediate need to escape than about the rocket that presented no danger so long as it wasn't lit.
Actually, when Buzz feels happier and more willing to save himself, it would have been easier to run away before Sid woke up and then use his wings to cut the rocket off.
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Correction: All Sentinels are able to reproduce the effect of any power used directly against any one of them. Blink deliberately avoids using her power offensively to prevent them from gaining this extreme advantage until the very last, when the Sentinels are either going to win it all or be erased from existence anyway.
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