Phixius

Corrected entry: In the scene where Zaphod, Ford, and Arthur are trying to run away from the spatula like creatures on Vogsphere, they constantly get smacked in the face for saying "I think." However, a few scenes later, when the lunchbell on Vogsphere rings, a Vogon says "I think I'll have soup today." He should have gotten smacked for saying "I think," but nothing happens.

Correction: They don't get slapped for saying "I think." They get slapped for having an idea. Deciding to have soup is not an idea.

Phixius

9th May 2007

Spider-Man 3 (2007)

Corrected entry: When Spider-Man first goes to save MJ from Venom and Sand-Man, there is a panning shot of the crowd turning to look at him. In the crowd is a fireman who lifts a small child up so he can see. The shot switches between the crowd and Spider-Man, and every time it goes back, it shows the fireman lifting the child again.

Correction: There is enough time between shots for the fireman to have lowered the child. Perhaps the fireman was amusing the child by lifting it up and down. Or perhaps the child said something that the fireman couldn't hear so the fireman brought the child back down to listen. There are numerous reasons why this would occur.

Phixius

9th May 2007

Resident Evil (2002)

Corrected entry: At the start of the movie the suit guy carrying his coffee gets bumped into from the back of his right shoulder, causing to spill his coffee over his shirt. When Spence is having his flashback and starting to remember things you see him bump into the suit guy from the back of his left shoulder.

Foff44

Correction: We saw it the way it happened the first time, then we saw it the way Spence remembered it the second time. No one's memories are flawless, especially if they're just recovering them after having been hit with amnesia-inducing gas.

Phixius

8th May 2007

Spider-Man 3 (2007)

Corrected entry: The Sandman and his wife both have blue eyes. Their daughter has brown eyes which is genetically impossible since blue eyes are recessive.

Correction: A simple Google search proves this wrong. It was once thought to be true, but today is known not to be.

Phixius

Correction: Both my parents and my sister have brown eyes, mine are blue.

Which is exactly the opposite of what the mistake is describing. If a child has a dominant trait, one of the parents would need to carry it and would not express the recessive trait.

8th May 2007

Spider-Man 3 (2007)

Corrected entry: Venom knows everything that Spider-Man knows, since the alien costume was once part of Spider-Man. How did Venom know about Sandman's dying daughter, if Spider-Man and the police only think Sandman is a violent murderer? As a photographer, Venom would not have access to Sandman's criminal file, and Peter refused to look at the file at the police station.

Correction: We don't know how long Venom had been tailing Flint before he propositioned him. It would make sense to dig up something that would persuade Flint to help him.

Phixius

Bad Water - S1-E7

Corrected entry: When Sully and Dr. Quinn head out to look for the source of the poison in the water they make rest during the night. Michaela is washing herself using a mirror. When she puts it down, the mirror reflects on her head and chest, indicating the usage of stage lights, as moonlight isn't strong enough to reflect so brightly in a mirror. (00:13:00)

Ronnie Bischof

Correction: Sure it is. I've been outside at night and was astounded to see my clearly defined shadow, when the only light source was the moon.

Phixius

Corrected entry: When Brian and Rome are racing Fabio and Fonzie for the pink slips, look at the speedo just after Brian applies his nitrous. It's already at 120-140ish. A few shots later, you see Brian change gear, and the speedo moves up to where it previously was.

Correction: "A few shots later" gives him plenty of time and opportunity to have slowed down for any number of reasons.

Phixius

7th May 2007

The Holiday (2006)

Corrected entry: In the scene where Cameron Diaz is looking for a place on the Internet, there is a window with all the countries names and flags next to it. The flag for South Africa is still the old flag, which was changed in 1994.

Correction: This is a result of the website failing to update its graphics, not a movie mistake.

Phixius

7th May 2007

300 (2006)

Corrected entry: I found it curious how none of the Greek hoplites in this movie wear any armor (besides their shields and helmets). The Greek hoplites were famous for being particularly heavily armored, and the Spartans were better (and more uniformly) equipped than most as they were dedicated soldiers and not mere militia. Instead, they all have bare chests to show off their masculine figures and well developed torsos, even when such a lack of protection for the torso and abdomen would be a serious disadvantage in that kind of intense close combat.

Correction: This has already been submitted and corrected. This is not a documentary. It is a highly stylized and fictionalized account of an actual event. These "Spartans" may look and act any way their creators wish them to.

Phixius

7th May 2007

Timecop (1994)

Corrected entry: Near the end of the movie, when 2004 Walker returns to the present, he sees that the sign 'Parker Datalink Systems' is restored and the one stating 'McComb Datalink Systems' is gone. Hard to believe, since the 2004 McComb had killed his old partner, 1994 Parker, the day before the sequence of events took place that restored the timeline of Walker and his wife. Unless the business miraculously stayed in the Parker family after the death of the patriarch. (01:29:35)

Correction: David Dunbar Buick founded the Buick line of automobiles, but he was with the company for a relatively short time before losing control of the business, yet it remained "Buick." Same thing here. A company isn't necessarily named after the person currently running it; it was just McComb's arrogance that had it changed in the first place.

Phixius

Correction: Young McComb was killed when he contacted older McComb. When that happened, older McComb ceased to exist. Everything he ever did was erased including his time travel.

7th May 2007

Ocean's Eleven (2001)

Corrected entry: Wouldn't Benedict or any of the security staff recognise the same people (the team as different characters) going around the casino all the time, e.g. the Utah twins as the balloon man and the guy he is arguing with, and at another point, the two of them as Mr. Zerga's bodyguards?

Correction: Benedict is very busy and isn't likely to notice anyone in particular unless his staff points them out. As long as the individuals aren't doing anything threatening, the staff aren't likely to remember them either since they see literally thousands of people a day.

Phixius

8th May 2007

Spider-Man 3 (2007)

Corrected entry: After Spider-Man floods the storm drain sand man is in, he begins to disintegrate, as does any sand in water. He tries to pick up the locket of his daughter, yet is unable to, due to his liquefying form. He is then washed through the sewers as disintegrated sand, but when he reforms himself at the other end he's somehow got the locket in his hand.

Correction: Because the locket got washed out with him. Once he was able to reform, he did so with the sand the locket was buried in, bringing it back to him.

Phixius

6th May 2007

Spider-Man 3 (2007)

Corrected entry: When the cop is chasing Flint, the tarp above them flutters, causing the cops to climb a ladder. When the cop climbs the ladder the next shot shows him with a shovel that's appeared from nowhere.

Correction: He got the shovel off of the back of the truck. Since we don't see his entire climb, he must have grabbed it on his way up.

Phixius

6th May 2007

Spider-Man 3 (2007)

Corrected entry: When Eddie Brock is taking photos of Gwen Stacy hanging from the girder, he is using a telephoto lens that the Chief looks through for a close-up look at his daughter. Only a moment later when Spider-Man brings Gwen to the ground he instantly has a regular lens on his camera.

Correction: It is not a "moment later." There is a lengthy rescue scene, during which Brock, while off camera, could have (and most certainly would have) changed the lens from telephoto to close range, since Spider-Man and Gwen were coming closer.

Phixius

6th May 2007

Spider-Man 3 (2007)

Corrected entry: During Peter and Marko's final scene together where Peter gives Flint forgiveness, Flint says something like "I'm sorry I killed your uncle." There is no way for Marko to have known that the man he killed was indeed Peter's uncle, for Marko only knows him as 'Spider-Man', and not 'Peter Parker'.

Correction: Sandman was working with Venom, and Venom knew Peter's identity. It's a given that Venom told Sandman who Spider-Man was. Then, given what Spider-Man had said to him before about Ben Parker, Sandman put two and two together.

Phixius

6th May 2007

Spider-Man 3 (2007)

Corrected entry: In the first Spiderman movie, JJ is told that when they featured Spiderman on the cover they sold out, he wanted more pictures of him, but was told "Eddie has been on it for weeks and just can't get a shot of him" Now when the first movie came out all of us comic geeks knew it was in reference to Eddie Brock. But in Spiderman 3, Brock is a "new guy" trying to get a job and had to introduce himself.

Correction: Eddie was freelance, just like Peter has been. It is perfectly reasonable to assume that no one in the office had met him except Robbie, since Robbie's job is directly related to the photographs that appear in the Daily Bugle. Just because Peter went to JJ personally doesn't mean everyone does.

Phixius

2nd May 2007

Open Season (2006)

Corrected entry: In the scene where Elliot is in Boog's garage, he holds a hanger to his head in place of his missing antler to get radio reception- thus implying that he knows about the missing antler. Later, when Elliot sees his reflection in the water after meeting his old herd, he is shocked by the fact that he's missing his antler.

Correction: This in no way implies that he is aware he is missing an antler... it just means he has poor proprioception.

Phixius

Corrected entry: At the end, after Shredder has taken the ooze and his suit has changed, look at the 'muscles' he's grown. They're just painted onto the cloth.

Correction: This is so obvious it was almost certainly intended to be just a design on the cloth. If they wanted muscle definition, they'd have just used a muscle suit like they made for the turtles (but leave off the shell...).

Phixius

"If they wanted", yes. They did not because it was a cost-cutting measure and in a movie like this for a final fight that lasts about a minute they could get away with the Power Rangers look. I am not sure you can say it was a design choice but more like a budget constraint. In the context of the movie the fact that he suddenly has a painted-on shirt does not make any sense.

Sammo

30th Apr 2007

Dogma (1999)

Corrected entry: When Azrael kills the woman so he can make her house their headquarters, he moves to the thermostat and comments on how air conditioning is fantastic, but he turns the controller to the right (clockwise). In order to turn the air on, the controller would need to be turned back, or counterclockwise to achieve a lower temperature.

Michele Hedges

Correction: This is part of the joke. Azrael, though he sings the praises of air conditioning, has still been in hell so long that he has become accustomed to higher temperatures. He turns the dial to where it is most comfortable for him, anything cooler would be too cold. Sort of like how Californians might complain about how insanely cold a Minnesota winter is, but Minnesota natives don't really notice it that much.

Phixius

7th Sep 2004

Red Dwarf (1988)

Ouroboros - S7-E3

Corrected entry: Lister says that, as long as his "ouroboros" cycle continues, the human race can never become extinct. But this is not true: someday Lister will die. The baby he fathered will not replace him, because he sent it back in time, where it starts its lifespan at the same time as him (and thus dies at the same time as him). The cycle is self-reinforcing, but not self-perpetuating. Thus, when Lister dies, the human race will indeed be extinct. (00:28:15)

Moose

Correction: He doesn't say the human race can never become extinct, he says, "you and I goin' 'round and 'round in time"... "we're sort of a holdin' pattern on the human race." He only means they're helping it survive just that much longer.

Phixius

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