Phixius

28th Mar 2007

Collateral (2004)

Corrected entry: Toward the end of the film when Max deliberately flips the cab, it turns over several times before coming to a stop on its roof. But in the shots immediately after, you can see the wheels of the upturned cab are motionless. Surely after such a violent, high-speed crash they would still be spinning for some time after this?

Correction: This isn't a bike. Those tires are connected to a lot of heavy parts. Some of which are almost certainly bent and immobile after a crash like that. It'd more likely be a mistake if the tires *were* spinning.

Phixius

Correction: I'm sure he was aware of the change, or he may well have thought it was a joke and broken character. Plus, the take we see is very unlikely to be the first take.

Phixius

24th Mar 2007

Titanic (1997)

Corrected entry: When Rose writes the note to put in the safe with Jack's drawing, she is using a fine-pointed pen. But when Cal retrieves the note later, the ink appears much darker and thicker, as if it had been written with a felt tip pen.

Correction: Or as though the ink had soaked into the paper...

Phixius

Corrected entry: It is indisputable from multiple explanations throughout the movie and from the 3D graphic used by Admiral Akbar in the rebels' war room that the Death Star's shield emanating from Endor protects the Death Star, not Endor itself. Yet, shuttle Tyderium requests and receives deactivation of the shield expressly for the purpose of landing on the forest moon. If use of the code was simply a checkpoint or other imperial confirmation procedure, deactivation of the shield would not have been necessary, much less discussed.

Correction: http://www.theforce.net/swtc/Pix/dvd/ep6/rotj059.jpg: Look at the 3D maps again: The shield emanates from Endor in a conical shape. For Tyderium to land within the perimeter of that cone emission on the surface of Endor (ie. very near the shield generator), the shield would need to be shut down.

Phixius

14th Jul 2006

Hook (1991)

Corrected entry: This takes place in the scene where you see the scratch on the wall, when they realize the children are missing. If Hook made this scratch on the way into the house, he would have had to crossed the left arm with the hook over his body (or walked backwards). If you look at the direction of the scratch, it must have been on the way in, not out. Looks like it was done this way for the camera shot.

Correction: It actually makes sense that he'd cross his arm over his body. Try it yourself: To get the tip of his hook to dig into the wall, he'd have to hold his arm at a very uncomfortable, awkward, and/or fully extended angle; unless he crosses him arm across his torso. Then he can simply rotate his wrist so that the tip of the hook is angled toward the wall.

Phixius

19th Mar 2007

Legally Blonde (2001)

Corrected entry: If Callahan is a high-powered defense attorney, he probably wouldn't have time to teach a full time class at Harvard. He also wouldn't be teaching a class on embryo's etc, but rather one in the criminal law field.

Joel Amos Gordon

Correction: The fact that he is a "high-powered defense attorney" means he can pick and choose his cases and charge exorbitant amounts of cash so he doesn't need to take very many cases to stay wealthy. As such he'd have all kinds of time to teach a full-time class at Harvard Law. The money he gets from that would mean even fewer cases he had to take on. The "embryo lesson" was only to give an example of what works in the courtroom; things that may prove useful in a criminal hearing.

Phixius

20th Mar 2007

The Incredibles (2004)

Corrected entry: When Frozone and Mr. I are in the burning building, near the beginning of the film, Mr. I asks Frozone to freeze the fire. When Frozone attempts this and fails, he tells Mr. I that he can't because there's no water in the air. This makes no sense because one of the by-products of hydrocarbon combustion (aka fire) is H2O.

Correction: That is true, but what Frozone was getting at was that the air was too dry. It was not supposedly low the level of the molecular compound H2O that kept him from being able to use his power, it was the lack of general humidity. A building on fire is a very dry heat. Just because fire releases H2O does not mean it's enough to counteract the air-drying effects of the fire's high temperature.

Phixius

18th Mar 2007

Silent Hill (2006)

Corrected entry: When Cybil caught on fire, neither the rope or the wood she is attached to catch fire. They are both flammable and should have gone into flames.

Correction: Since they were to be used for this purpose, and they didn't want the body falling into the fire sending a blast of hot ash onto everyone in the room, they were likely covered in a flame retardant substance.

Phixius

18th Mar 2007

Crank (2006)

Corrected entry: When Chevy jumps in the swimming pool near the beginning, he is in there for quite some time yet his phone still works perfectly when he gets into the cab.

Correction: My two-year-old son flushed my wife's cellphone and it still works.

Phixius

18th Mar 2007

300 (2006)

Corrected entry: In the last battle scene, Leonidas tells Xerxes that he has 300 hundred soldiers behind him. when in fact many of the Spartans were killed by the first wave of immortals and various other Persians.

Correction: The number of soldiers rounds up to 300. Leonidas wasn't going to say "I've got 273 soldiers behind me." It just sounds better to say it the way he did.

Phixius

17th Mar 2007

Casino Royale (2006)

Corrected entry: In the final poker showdown, the odds simply are not in favor of the 4 remaining players having such powerful hands. The odds of those four hands occurring simultaneously is 1 in 1,931,990,034,744,000 - or to put it another way, if every human on Earth was in a Texas Hold'em tournament at the same time, that would not happen until the 320 millionth hand was dealt. I know we have to suspend reality to enjoy the movie, but that is a bit much.

Correction: The odds are the same for any given four hands appearing simultaneously. Just because these happened to be good hands doesn't make it a plot hole.

Phixius

Correction: It can and does happen with 5 community cards. I've personally been in a hand where a heart flush, four of a kind and a straight flush to the Queen (my hand), all lost to a straight flush to the King.

17th Mar 2007

300 (2006)

Corrected entry: When Leonidas visits the wise men and the Oracle at the top of the mountain, one of them mentions that it was August, and that Sparta wouldn't fight in that time of the year. August wasn't so named until 8 B.C after Caesar Augustus. Since this movie is set in 480 B.C., the month of August would not have existed yet.

Correction: These people didn't speak English either. The language has been changed to someting we would understand. So whatever the Spartan name for that time of year would have been was translated into modern english: August.

Phixius

23rd Mar 2004

Blade (1998)

Corrected entry: When the blood trails from the corners of the ceiling of the Temple of Arabus, it leaves long lines as it moves to the center of the ceiling's dome, yet for some reason, all the blood trails (after connecting in the center) detach from the corners, and form just one drop. Blood is blood, including Blade's, so there should have been at least minute traces of where the blood had run.

redbaron2000

Correction: Since the temple's ceiling was built for this purpose, it likely had some sort of coating on it (beeswax or somesuch) that kept the blood from clinging to it. That way every trace of the blood released from the Daywalker would reach the vessel for La Magra.

Phixius

Corrected entry: Lucy and Jack end up walking back to Lucy's house when Jack's truck is blocked in at Peter's high-rise apartment. However, Peter's apartment is a very well-known building right off of Lake Michigan, and Lucy's apartment is in a style not found within about 4-5 miles of that spot. Lucy states she is planning to walk to her apartment (even before Jack offers to walk her) - no way would she have been planning to walk between 60-90 minutes in the winter cold.

Correction: If she didn't have any money on her and the truck was blocked, she wouldn't have had much choice, would she?

Phixius

Corrected entry: Superman's strength and other superpowers seem to oscillate a lot between scenes in the movie, and for no good reason. Towards the end of "Superman Returns", he is shown lifting an entire landmass out of the ocean, and pushing it into outer space, all while being exposed to Kryptonite. He is also capable of showing up anywhere in the world nearly instantly, as a reporter comments. Yet in one of the first action scenes, he struggles trying to catch up with a plummeting airplane, and has a hard time slowing it down, managing it just before the plane hits the ground. This should be a trivial task for someone of his abilities, yet no in-movie explanation is given for such poor performance. Of course, the real reason is obvious - the plot requires that Superman saves the day just in the nick of time, to create cinematic tension and resolution.

Correction: He is able to lift the kryptonite island because he just got supercharged by the sun. There's the "in-movie explanation" for that. As for the airplane: He was simply going only as fast as necessary to catch up with it. Then, while slowing it down, he was being mindful of the people on board. As mere mortals, they are subject to the laws of physics. Specifically: inertia. If Superman had stopped the plane too quickly, those people would have suffered the same fate as if he'd let it crash into the earth. There is an old Chinese proverb which Superman adheres to (as do most superheros): "Never use a cannon to kill a mosquito." In other words, Superman only uses as much of his power as he absolutely must to get the job done.

Phixius

Corrected entry: On page 185, it says that all the Ravenclaw Quidditch team players ride Cleansweep Sevens. But on page 188, Wood tells Harry that Cho Chang, who is the Ravenclaw Seeker, rides a Comet Two Sixty.

Issabee

Correction: We're not even told *who* says that all the Ravenclaw players ride Cleansweep Sevens: it's just a random, unnamed Gryffindor. They're either making a generalization (perhaps all the *other* Ravenclaw players ride CS7s) or they're flat out wrong. So it's either not a mistake at all, or it's just a character mistake.

Phixius

26th Feb 2007

Ghost Rider (2007)

Corrected entry: The Caretaker suggests Johnny Blaze not leave the cemetery, saying he's safe as long as he's there, since the demons pursuing him can't come onto hallowed ground. However, Blackheart later confronts a priest in a church, which, presumably, is also hallowed ground. (The final confrontation between Ghost Rider and Blackheart also occurs in a church, but it could be argued that this ground has long since become unconsecrated.).

Correction: The caretaker was correct. The demons pursuing Blaze could not come onto hallowed ground. Which is why they waited outside the church while Blackheart spoke to the priest. Blackheart is a son of the devil, and the devil has been known to stand in the very presence of God Himself. So, it seems a fair enough assumption that the devil's offspring could enter mere hallowed ground while lesser demons could not.

Phixius

But then why wouldn't Blackheart just go to the caretaker himself to get the contract?

He tried to, but Caretaker wouldn't give up its location, so Blackheart decided to force Johnny to convince Caretaker to give him the contract by kidnapping Roxanne.

Phaneron

Correction: Blackheart had no idea where the contract was, so kidnapping Roxanne was the only way to get it.

28th Feb 2007

Ghost Rider (2007)

Corrected entry: At the start of the movie, it's said that every generation 1 person is picked to be the ghost rider, replacing the pre-existing one. In this case the older Rider disobeyed the devil and ran, which means Johnny Blaze shouldn't have been allowed to receive those powers, since they can only go to 1 person at a time and the cemetery guy was the other rider.

Correction: It does not say this. The narrator/caretaker says "every generation has one." Since two generations co-exist, it stands to reason there would be two riders. Either way, the film certainly never states that only one person can have the power at a time.

Phixius

28th Feb 2007

The Hot Chick (2002)

Corrected entry: Near the end of the film, Hildenburg finds the card left behind in the alley from the strip club. This is after the police have been there. Would they not have found it and taken it as evidence?

Correction: Sometimes they miss things.

Phixius

Also, an alley might be littered with several pieces of trash and discarded items. A card from a strip club is not totally suspicious there.

23rd Feb 2007

Crank (2006)

Corrected entry: The only way to keep straight falling is to have your arms and legs spread out. However Chev is able to move his left arm freely to make a last phone call to his girl. He should have been spinning wildly and out of control.

Correction: This is just not correct. The only way to *steady* yourself *while* "spinning wildly and out of control" is to spread out your arms and legs, but you do not need to *keep* them spread to maintain balance. Many skydivers "dive-bomb" the ground with their arms and legs held firmly together without any rotation whatsoever.

Phixius

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