Phixius

21st Feb 2007

Glory (1989)

Corrected entry: In their first real battle in the woods, Thomas is shot in the upper left arm, yet three days later, after volunteering to carry the flag if the first bearer falls, he is marching forward to attack the fort. In reality, even if the 50+ caliber, 500 grain minie ball (patched balls weren't used in combat) hadn't shattered his humerus, necessitating amputation, it, having struck the medial portion of the arm, would have destroyed the brachial artery or basilic vein, causing tremendous shock, and speedy exanguination.

Correction: Depending on the angle and exact entry point at which the projectile entered his flesh, caliber notwithstanding, very little actual damage may have been done. As he is shown in action a mere three days later, and not deceased from "exsanguination", this must be the case. He is very lucky, no doubt, but certainly not defying any laws of physics or biology for the sake of the film's plot.

Phixius

11th Feb 2007

Red Dwarf (1988)

Marooned - S3-E2

Corrected entry: Rimmer says to keep page sixty one of "Lolita", but Lister pulls out the left-side page and pockets it. As odd-numbered pages in books are on the right side, meaning he must have kept page sixty. You can see the front cover quite is the right way up so the book would not have been upside down. (00:17:05)

Dwarf

Correction: It depends on how the book is numbered. Odd numbers are not *always* on the right. I own several books where page 1 and two face each other.

Phixius

17th Feb 2007

V for Vendetta (2005)

Corrected entry: When Evey is being led into V's torture cell, she is being supported by two persons, one on each shoulder. Assuming one is V, the identity/existence of the assistant is never mentioned/revealed, and the movie implies V works alone. It is acknowledged that the two-person carry perhaps keeps the audience in suspense as to the identity of the kidnapper, and actually improved the movie in that regard (being carried by one and only one person might have been a clue as to V being the kidnapper).

Correction: The movie never implies V works entirely alone. In fact, it shows just the opposite when V requests Evey's assistance on several occasions. It's logical enough the V could have employed the assistance of someone else (perhaps another person who V saved) to help carry out Evey's "cleansing." This was probably the same person who cut her hair, since she is in a fully lit room at the time.

Phixius

15th Feb 2007

Final Destination (2000)

Corrected entry: The CG is very obvious when Ms. Lewton is wiping her teapot then sees the apparition reflected in it.

Correction: I thought this myself at first, but then I realized it was just the lighting that gave the scene that "poor CG" appearance. It looks that way in scenes that contain no CG as well.

Phixius

14th Feb 2007

The Covenant (2006)

Corrected entry: In chapter 8, time 00:22:10, the American flag is hung incorrectly. http://www.usflag.org/flagetiquette.html states that if the flag is suspended over a sidewalk, the flag's union should be farthest from the building. (00:22:10)

Correction: This is a mistake made by the characters who hung the flag, not a movie mistake.

Phixius

13th Feb 2007

Legally Blonde (2001)

Corrected entry: In the scene where Emmett and Vivian go to visit Brooke in prison, Callahan is on the news on the TV behind them. The reporter asks how he plans to discredit Mr. Salvatore, but this is after Elle has already discovered that he's gay and Emmett got him to admit it on the stand.

Correction: So they're running a previously recorded interview to bring viewers up to speed on recently unfolded events. Happens all the time.

Phixius

11th Feb 2007

X-Men (2000)

Corrected entry: In the last shot inside Magneto's plastic prison, when Xavier says, "And I will always be there," the guard's visible shirt pocket has a metal button.

Correction: There is no way to say with certainty that the button is metal, so it must be assumed that it is plastic.

Phixius

5th Feb 2007

The Waterboy (1998)

Corrected entry: Bobby's shoulder-pads alternate between being very high in close-ups and normal when he is on the field.

Correction: They don't change. It's just a trick of perspective.

Phixius

30th Jan 2007

Red Dwarf (1988)

Correction: Holly has always been rather sarcastic. More of a character trait than a mistake.

Phixius

29th Jan 2007

Misery (1990)

Corrected entry: Annie's hearing must be extremely good and she must be extremely fast so that she can hear the sheriff's car so far away, grab the syringe and run to Sheldon's room before the car has reached the house.

Jacob La Cour

Correction: Well, she lives out in the middle of nowhere. Cars don't come by all that often, I'm sure. You tend to notice things like that when they rarely happen. Having lived in the country, I know this for a fact.

Phixius

Corrected entry: When we see the alien spacecraft stop above the Empire State Building, it looks like the very top of the building is not far from the bottom of the ship. How can this be? The WTC buildings were about 1,000 feet high, so to clear those buildings, the bottom of the ship should have been much higher above the ESB. The same thing with the ship over the White House - in order to clear the Washington Monument, it would have had to be higher than it was shown above the White House.

Correction: For one thing, the ships aren't necessarily completely flat on the underbelly; and for another, a race with that kind of technology would have equipped their craft with vertical maneuverability as well as lateral. Simply put: they flew over and/or around the taller structures. Keep in mind that the entire approach is not shown of any one craft.

Phixius

Correction: The needle of ESB is higher than the roof of WTC. If the ship had hit anything, that would be the antenna at the roof of WTC. Actually, they could have shown the scene of the antenna crashing down from great height and people running away not to be crushed by the antenna.

3rd Feb 2007

A Knight's Tale (2001)

Corrected entry: William uses Sir Ector's armor, which still has his device (the emblem on the shield) painted on it. Since Sir Ector was a regular on the jousting circuit, other knights and nobles would have been able to identify the device and expose 'Sir Ulrich von Lichtenstein' as an imposter.

Correction: William only used Sir Ector's armor in the very first match he competed in since he was pretending to be Sir Ector at the time anyway. He kept his face covered so he couldn't be identified. In every competition after that, William competed under his own made up symbol: the Tri-Phoenix.

Phixius

Correction: It is true that Will does use Sir Ector's armour for some time, however, if you look closely in the opening joust, you can see that the emblem painted on the shield is a deer, not the phoenixes we see in the scene where Adhemar ridicules him. Furthermore, there is a deleted scene during the training sequence in which the characters sit around a campfire and come up with the idea for the new emblem.

Correction: Actually, he did compete for quite some time in Ector's armor and you can see the shield and Ector's sign. Adamar makes it a point to insult said armor in front of Jocelyn. Kate also mentions his armor when offering to make him new armor.

Corrected entry: On the second date, when Jenny "persuades" the cab to back up, the driver is not wearing eyeglasses. In the next scene, as the cab wends its way down the street, he is.

Correction: Enough time has passed between shots that the driver could have put the glasses on.

Phixius

3rd Feb 2007

Scarface (1983)

Corrected entry: When Al Pacino, in the Babylon Club, tells Frank that the only thing that gives orders in this world is balls, Frank and Evira leave eventually. Then Manny sits with Al and Al blames Frank for setting him up to grease Mel the detective. Steven asks how he knows this, to which Al replies, "Who else knew about Ribenga? Omar?" If you go to the beginning of the film Al discusses the Ribenga hit with Omar when Omar is in the car near the sandwich place.

Correction: So where's the plot hole? Tony was saying that Omar was dead and could not have set him up, but Frank could.

Phixius

Corrected entry: Matt and Vaughn are playing raquetball in a squash court. (00:14:40)

Correction: Character mistake/decision, not a movie mistake.

Phixius

2nd Feb 2007

That's So Raven (2002)

True Colors - S3-E10

Corrected entry: When Raven is pretending to be the boss of Sassy's, she is talking to the store manager, and the latex cap covering her hair to make her look bald has the seam showing on her forehead.

Correction: The character "Raven" is wearing a costume in this scene (as she does in nearly every episode), not just the actress Raven. This is not a mistake.

Phixius

Corrected entry: The director chose to have one character in the movie that was dead, not a mannequin. If everyone is actually a mannequin except for the Egyptian prince wouldn't he only come to life (not come to life and be repaired by getting all his skin and organs back)? I know the magic does not "repair" him back to the way he was because the bandages he ripped himself off were still old and decrepit.

Correction: As pointed out in another correction: Inanimate objects such as bowls and knives, or in this case, cloth wrappings are not affected by the "magic." Only formerly animate, or representations of animate objects, come to life. So there is no reason the Prince should not have got his skin and organs back.

Phixius

Corrected entry: The crew crashes into the Gobi Desert, which is in Northern China. Yet the people are speaking Cantonese, which is the local dialect for Southern China (Quangzhou/Hong Kong area), instead of Mandarin (the official language) or any of the Northern dialects.

Correction: What people? They're in the middle of an empty desert. If you're talking about the nomads: well... they're nomads. That means they're from all over. They could speak any language, Chinese or not. Just because they currently live in the Gobi doesn't mean they're originally "from that area."

Phixius

25th Jan 2007

Battlefield Earth (2000)

Corrected entry: Terl and Ker constantly refer to humans as 'stupid man animals'. In fact all of the Psychlos have difficulty in recognizing the 'man animals' of being capable of anything much. So who exactly did they think was responsible for the many buildings and structures still standing, cats?

Correction: First, Psychlos are arrogant beings. That alone explains this. Second, the Psychlos find the humans to be inept in relation to themselves. True enough given the Psychlos level of technology. Even with that in mind, it is glaringly obvious that the humans inhabiting the present world are no where near as technologically capable as those who inhabited the world when the Psychlos first arrived. This is more of a plot *point* than a plot hole. At any rate, it's certainly not a movie mistake.

Phixius

8th Dec 2002

Twister (1996)

Corrected entry: Near the beginning of the movie, Jo mentions how NSSL has not seen a storm like this in years. She would actually be getting real-time forecast data from the Storm Prediction Center, SPC. NSSL deals primarily in research, not daily forecasting.

Correction: Regardless of the source of Jo's information, the fact remains that the NSSL still had not seen a storm like that in years. Her comment was "factual" and relevant, and therefore not a mistake.

Phixius

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