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29th Dec 2013

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)

Corrected entry: During the opening battle when Count Dooku is confronted by Anakin and Obi-Wan you can hear the engines and laser fire from the ships outside. They are in space and a vacuum, where there would be no sound.

Correction: This is a common film convention and therefore is not considered a movie mistake. Rather like how characters can be heard speaking despite being shown on screen from so far away that we should not be able to hear them at all.

26th Dec 2013

We're the Millers (2013)

Corrected entry: In the end of the movie, when they deliver the drugs, Brad says it's all here, but we know it's not, because of the "baby" that was run over by the semi trucks earlier.

Correction: We don't see this meeting take place from the beginning. David undoubtedly told Brad about how this bale came to be lost, along with many other highlights from his trip, as the goods were being brought in to Brad's office.

24th Dec 2013

The Polar Express (2004)

Corrected entry: In the scene where the boy, girl and conductor are on the front of the train, it goes straight down, yet the trees look normal. That would mean they are growing at a 90 degree angle, which is obviously impossible.

Correction: Neither is it possible for a train to travel straight down. It's a fantastical vehicle travelling through a fantastical landscape.

26th Dec 2013

The Legend of Korra (2012)

The Spirit of Competition - S1-E5

Corrected entry: In round three of the last match, Korra opens with dodging an earth disk. This one was going to hit her in the head but it wasn't called by the refs.

Correction: Because it didn't hit her head and the refs are fallible human beings. They just missed it. How many times do referees make bad calls or miss making calls in real life sporting events? This isn't a mistake because it happens in real life ALL THE TIME.

9th Sep 2013

Kick-Ass 2 (2013)

Corrected entry: When Mother Russia places the lawnmower on the back of the police car it continues to run, however that type of lawnmower needs the bar on the handle to be held down for the engine to run.

Correction: Most people I know, myself included, use a clip to hold the handle down so that they can step away from the mower without having to restart it.

20th Dec 2013

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

Corrected entry: During the light sabre duel between Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker in Cloud City, Mickey Mouse's head can be seen on a display panel in the Reactor Control Room.

Correction: Disney had nothing to do with the Star Wars franchise when this film was made so what you're seeing is just three circles which happen to resemble a Mickey Mouse head, not an actual "hidden Mickey" that Disney is known for placing in their films.

26th Dec 2013

Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (1989)

Corrected entry: After Indy has shot dead all the Nazis who entered his father's room in the castle, he takes his father and they go out of the room to find Elsa. When they leave, the 'dead' Nazi in front of them moves his right arm slightly.

Correction: So he's a dying Nazi, not quite yet a dead Nazi. Indy didn't go through the room checking everyone's pulse and declaring them deceased.

18th Dec 2013

The Santa Clause (1994)

Corrected entry: When the "dead" Santa is on the ground, his suit has a belt, which is buckled. Scott picks the suit up and heads to the sleigh. Later when he's in the sleigh and puts the suit on, Charlie says "you forgot the sash" and Scott ties the sash. There is a sash now where there used to be a belt and a buckle.

Correction: The suit Scott wears at the end is also completely different from either of these suits, the elves telling him they've made some modifications to the suit for Scott. The belted suit the dead Santa wore featured his own modifications. When the current Santa dies, the suit reverts to its default form until the next Santa adds his own personal touches. The belt disappeared (just like the former Santa's body disappeared) to be replaced with the sash which the suit originally featured.

5th Dec 2013

The Polar Express (2004)

Corrected entry: If The Polar Express returned the way it came after leaving the North Pole then how did it manage to cross the now un-frozen lake?

Correction: Christmas magic. Just the same way train tracks magically appear outside every child's home as though the Polar Express were a bus or taxi service rather than a train.

6th Dec 2013

Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005)

The Southern Air Temple - S1-E3

Corrected entry: When Aang goes into The Avatar State because he found Gyatso, statues and paintings of the previous avatars begin to glow all around the world, including the Fire Sage's temple. They act as is this was the first time, but Aang already went into The Avatar State before this point, when he thrown off Zuko's ship in the previous episode.

Correction: The Fire Sages are simply responding with astonishment to an event that is still relatively new to them, something that until very recently had not been happening for over 110 years. First time or tenth, it's still awe-inspiring to them.

5th Dec 2013

Kick-Ass 2 (2013)

Corrected entry: The blue truck is ridiculously close to the van. No driver in their right mind would drive that close behind someone (even the most obnoxious tailgater) on the freeway, let alone when there are people firing automatic assault rifles in there.

Correction: It's ridiculous, yes, but unfortunately not unrealistic. I have the severe misfortune of living in the same town and working at the same out-of-town factory as such a one. The guy drives so close behind you that you can't even see his truck's grill in your rearview mirror.

6th Oct 2013

The Wolverine (2013)

Corrected entry: After the samurai mech suit is destroyed, Logan is lying on the ground and begins having another delusion about Jean. During this sequence, his beard is shorter than before, and after that.

Correction: Because it's a fantasy in his head. He's not as sweaty or beaten looking either.

2nd Dec 2013

The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

Corrected entry: In the very last shot of the movie we see the Atlantic Ocean from the Space station. There is no ice on the surface all the way up to Northern Europe and Greenland. If the air got as cold as shown and for that long, at least the surface would have frozen.

Correction: The planet flash froze yes, but it obviously warmed back up considerably since people were able to go outside without instantly freezing to death. The oceans are salt water which has a much lower freezing temperature than pure water. If the surface of the Atlantic froze at the first cold snap, it undoubtedly thawed back out when the temperature raised back into the survivable range.

Correction: Water in motion has a much lower freezing point than stagnant water.

30th Nov 2013

Pacific Rim (2013)

Corrected entry: When Pentecost is speaking to the Pan-Pacific council, Great Britain is shown as one of the representatives. Great Britain is in the Atlantic Ocean, and therefore not a Pan-Pacific nation. (00:17:50)

Correction: Great Britain may not have a Pacific coast, but they are a nation wealthy enough to have their own Jaeger program, and would therefore have a place on the council. It's just the name of the organization, not a requirement for membership.

28th Nov 2013

Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005)

The Siege of the North (Part 2) - S1-E20

Corrected entry: When Aang is talking to Koh, Koh says that the Avatar tried to kill him in a past life, 800 or 900 years ago. Later on in the show, when Aang is on the Lion Turtle, it is revealed that it was Avatar Kuruk who tried to kill Koh. Kuruk was the Avatar before Kyoshi, who was born 400 years ago, as was revealed in The Warriors of Kyoshi. There is a 400 year gap between those events that doesn't fit together. If Kuruk was 400 years old, it would contradict what is stated in Avatar Day, because there, they said that Kyoshi was the oldest Avatar, at 230 years old.

Correction: Kuruk was the last full-realized Avatar before Kyoshi. But just like Aang was trapped in stasis for a century where the world had no Avatar, all kinds of things could have happened to delay the next Avatar's arrival. War or illness could have killed off an unrealized Avatar as a child, for instance. There could have been two or three incarnations that never became full-fledged Avatars. Maybe Koh's dates are a little off. He says 800-900 years ago; a hundred years is an awful big range of uncertainty. This is all conjecture, sure, because there just isn't enough information to support these claims. But so is this mistake's claim that it is impossible for Kuruk to have killed Koh since there is no where near enough information to support that either. If it were stated outright in the show that Kyoshi was born the very first autumn after Kuruk's death, then we'd have a mistake for certain. But it isn't, so we don't.

23rd Nov 2013

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)

Corrected entry: If she "blew every fuse in the house" trying to keep up with Martha May, as she claimed, then why are there operating lights in the house? And if there are working lights, why does Lou carry a lit candelabra in the house?

Correction: Lou is only employing hyperbole with his claim that his wife "blew every fuse in the house", but he carries a candelabra because some fuses really are blown and he needs it to see while in those rooms,.

12th Nov 2013

Evil Dead (2013)

Corrected entry: When David is burying Mia, she speaks with no impairment despite her tongue having been split lengthwise in a previous scene.

Correction: She's still possessed by a demon at this point. Throughout the film she's been doing all sorts of things that ought to be physically impossible for a mortal human to do.

11th Nov 2013

Cars (2006)

Corrected entry: If all the vehicles in the movie have mouths (can speak) and have eyes (can see), then why can't Bessie (the road paving machine McQueen is attached to) speak or see?

Correction: Because she's a machine, not a vehicle. Bessie is a term of endearment not a character name. At no point in this entire franchise is a stationary (or in this case non-self-ambulatory) machine shown to be sentient.

11th Nov 2013

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994)

Corrected entry: Claudia implores Louis to take Madeline (to become a vampire) as she herself doesn't have the strength. Claudia took a toy shop owner, obese woman at a carriage stop, a prostitute, her seamstress and her piano teacher, all unwilling victims. Why does Claudia now not have the strength to take Madeline, a woman who willingly wants to become Claudia's vampire mother?

Correction: Claudia doesn't have the strength to create vampires because she was turned so young. Her ability to kill people is unaffected by her youth.

7th Aug 2013

Pacific Rim (2013)

Corrected entry: Why did it take over a decade for someone to decide to attack the fissure the Kaiju used to travel between their world and Earth? Even if direct bomb attacks failed, wouldn't someone have at least thought of covering tons of rubble over the fissure to block the Kaiju from coming through? Or since it's the only place that the Kaiju appear from, why not set a perimeter of bombs around the fissure and detonate them every time a Kaiju came through? The ending already demonstrated that the Kaiju could be killed via explosion.

Correction: It did not take a decade. It was stated numerous times that similar attempts had been made and all had failed. It can therefore be logically assumed that similar strategies to those this submission suggests were also attempted but each also failed for whatever reason. We weren't show any of this because it's an action movie, not a historical study of the Kaiju wars.

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