jle

27th Aug 2001

Heathers (1988)

Correction: Yes it is. "... by their pursuing their game in those frigid Polar Seas, on the very coasts of that Esquimaux country where the convivial natives pledge each other in bumpers of train oil."

jle

Corrected entry: In the scene where Sam is climbing up the stairs of the Orc tower to rescue Frodo, Sam is confronted by a contingent of Orcs coming down. Apparently elven swords are orc-blood resistant, for after skewering at least two Sam's blade is still bright, clean silver.

Correction: The sword is Sting. It's true to the book for it to stay clean.

jle

18th Nov 2003

Feeling Minnesota (1996)

Corrected entry: In the scene where Jjaks and Sam fight, the gun Sam holds to Jjaks' head is different from the gun Jjaks knocks out of Sams hand to the floor. (00:37:55)

Correction: I think the 2nd gun is meant to be Jjaks'. It is the one we saw him rob the gas station with; and it looks like it falls out of his waistband in the struggle.

jle

2nd Dec 2003

The Lion King (1994)

Corrected entry: "Mmm...tastes like chicken." How would Timone know what chicken tastes like? There are no chickens in Africa.

redbaron2000

Correction: There are lots of chickens in Africa. http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/003/W8989E/W8989E01.htm.

jle

Corrected entry: When Lara and Terry are talking about betrayal, Lara has blood on the collar of her jacket and the neck of her T-shirt. During some of the shots where they are attacking the helicopter, the blood is not there.

jle

Correction: In some shots it is partially hidden when the clothing folds, but the blood is always there.

jle

Corrected entry: When Sheridan is bandaging Lara Croft in the cradle of life, you can see him putting the bandages over what looks like a wristwratch. In the next scenes the bandages have moved higher on her arm and you can see the wristwatch. She could have pulled it up, but there are no traces of blood or anything on or around the wristwatch, it is totally clean, while earlier blood was dripping all over her hand.

Correction: The bandages never cover her watch; they are always between it and her elbow.

jle

Corrected entry: When Lara and her partner are going face forward down the rope, they are actually anchored to the rope as one can see the rope being lowered with them attached; esp. his rope on ground level.

MGD

Correction: That's right. The ropes are on some sort of pulley system, so they are holding on the ropes and being lowered, not sliding down them.

jle

Corrected entry: When Lara and Terry are 'hot dropped' into China their drop-pod is shown skitting along a lake like a skipping stone, careening towards a mountainside, totally out of control. Is that the way it was designed to operate? Isn't that a bit dangerous? And to leave the pod they eject while it's in 'mid-skid.' Considering that they had no way of controlling the pitch and yaw, ejection might have sent them down, sideways, or forwards. In this case they went UP and immediately DOWN - but physics dictates they would have been travelling forward with the same velocity as the drop-pod, which would have likely sent them into the mountainside to crash and die a painful, well-deserved death.

Correction: That was the way it was designed to operate. The plan is that the pod is destroyed so that the Chinese can't find it. Of course, the Chinese are perfectly capable of finding the little bits, but that's a different matter.

jle

Corrected entry: In the fight with the Chinese bad guy in the cave, Laura stabs his foot with the bayonet on her rifle. In the next cut she lifts the rifle and the bayonet is gone.

Correction: She breaks it off and leaves it in his foot.

jle

Corrected entry: When Lara and Terry escape from the Shay-Ling on the ropes they use no gloves or any device to help clinch their hands on the ropes. Had they really gone down all that way using their bare hands to squeeze the ropes, they would have had no skin left in their palms upon reaching bottom.

Correction: They are not sliding down the ropes; the ropes are on some sort of pulley system, so they are holding on to the ropes and being lowered.

jle

Corrected entry: In the Luna Temple when Laura first approaches the map sphere, the metal stand it is on already has hand prints in the dust - where did they come from if no one has been there in over two thousand years?

Correction: I can't see any prints. Timecode and/or screenshot?

jle

Corrected entry: At the beginning of the movie, Lara climbs aboard the dive boat, shown in two shots that are meant to be consecutive. The first shot shows her reaching the top step of the ladder, and she is smiling. The second shot is at a different angle, she is still climbing the ladder, and she is not smiling.

Correction: She's smiling as she's teasing the men about being wet. When she has finished speaking her smile turns into a pout. Then the shot changes and she is still pouting. The continuity is okay.

jle

Corrected entry: During the Freeway scene, the number plate on the car that Trinity is driving changes from "DA 2003" to "DA 203" and back at various intervals.

Correction: It is always "DA 203"

jle

Corrected entry: In the scene where Neo catches Trinity, Trinity is falling from a building with her feet pointing towards the building. Neo should catch her with her feet pointing to his left side, but when he puts her down on a nearby roof top, her feet are pointing to his right side. I can't remember seeing him flip her around in mid-air.

Correction: Definitely wrong, this one - he flies in from behind us, and catches her from her right side. As such her feet are pointing to his right, and they still are when he sets her down.

jle

Corrected entry: In the scene where the angels are going through the surfer dude's things, he is in his towel next to his car, and Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu are checking him out from under the car. He gets into his car, then in the next shot, Drew Barrymore is still looking up his towel at him, as if he were still standing next to the car.

Correction: She just glances up after the door closes. She isn't looking up his towel because she has a very different expression on her face.

jle

Corrected entry: In the scene where the girls are dancing in the bar at the harbour, Lucy Liu pulls off her right glove with her teeth at the start of the routine and a few shots later she slaps her bum with that hand and it is gloved.

Correction: After she has pulled off the long glove with her teeth there is still another glove on her hand - that's the one she is wearing when she slaps her bum. There is another shot of a bum being slapped by a hand with a long glove - but that's a different dancer since she's wearing a different colour dress.

jle

Corrected entry: A truck containing a camera and crew is visible on the bridge during some of the leaping bike shots within the dirt bike race sequence.

Correction: There is a truck up there but it is not out of place (it is a road leading to the docks) and there is nothing to suggest it is a crew truck.

jle

Corrected entry: In the freeway chase scene, when the agent jumps off the bonnet of the car it goes flying, when it shows a side view of the car flying past put it on pause. You can blatantly see a white car complete with a camera company logo, and the camera man out the window.

gandolfs dad

Correction: The white car is the police car that the agent jumped out of. The logo is the police shield. I can't see a person, but if there is one it would be the agent driving the police car - as you can see in the next he is watching the action.

jle

Corrected entry: In the scene where Neo fights all the Smiths with the pole, he jumps up in the air and impales a Smith with the pole on the ground. When he lands he gets punched back and then runs horizontally in a circle on the Smiths, using the pole as post to hold. If you watch closely, you will notice that the pole disappears when he gets punched, only to reappear right before he runs around with it.

Correction: The pole is there in every frame; in some it is moving quickly and is very blurred.

jle

Corrected entry: At the start of the film, a chopper falls off the truck and we see that the rotor blades are folded up as it begins to fall. A few seconds later when it is falling the blades have unfolded.

Padzter

Correction: The shot which starts with the helicopter leaving the truck with its rotors folding continues to show them unfolding.

jle

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