Sol Parker

Corrected entry: When the soldiers flip the cross over onto its face with Jesus hanging from it, you can tell his waist is attached to the cross - if it wasn't, he would be hanging down which he obviously is not.

Sol Parker

Correction: The scene where Jesus' cross is turned over for the soldiers to bang the nails against the wood is actually a miracle. Mary Magdalene notices that the cross is suspended above the ground (so that Jesus does not touch the ground or break any bones when the cross is turned over), so she immediately recognizes the presence of God and covers her head, as if she were in the Temple. So, to be correct, Jesus would appear to be still attached to the cross, and that His body would not hang down like the poster suggests.

22nd Nov 2003

Futurama (1999)

Correction: Sense of smell perhaps? It's often said that when people lose a sense, they learn to use the others better.

David Mercier

11th Oct 2003

South Park (1997)

Show generally

Corrected entry: After the episodes "Cartman's mom is a dirty slut" and "Cartman's mom is still a dirty slut," in which we find out that Cartman's mom is actually his father and his mother is yet to be found, Cartman's mom is still always mentioned as Cartman's mom even when the kids say Cartman has no mom, and also they say he has no dad.

Sol Parker

Correction: Cartman has known Liane as his mother for his entire life, and his friends always knew her as Cartman's mom. When people find out that someone was not their biological parent, they often consider the person to still be their parent. And nobody has properly filled the role of a father for Cartman. So, despite knowing that Liane is biologically his father, he continues to feel that she is his mother and he has no father.

Correction: They call her "Cartman's mom" out of habit.

Xofer

18th Nov 2003

Stargate SG-1 (1997)

Proving Ground - S5-E13

Corrected entry: When the girl gives the planet designation for Argos, she gives four digits for the second part of the designation. Planet designations have two sets of three digits.

Sol Parker

Correction: The designation for Argos is P3X-8596. They use three digits for most planets, but not all planets, since it is dependant on how many planets are in a given grid.

22nd Nov 2003

Futurama (1999)

Correction: Remember occasionally one of the kids lives inside Bender's body.

17th Nov 2003

Joe Dirt (2001)

Corrected entry: When the kid has the accident in the Chem. class, he says "This should make ice" and pours the stuff in, but it immediately vaporizes and he says "Oh, poison mustard gas." But how does he know what it is? He thought he was making ice.

Sol Parker

Correction: This is just adding to the ridiculousness of the movie. For example, Joe's new wig at the end, or the whole Buffalo Bob scene. It's just for a cheap laugh.

13th Oct 2003

South Park (1997)

Correction: Almost certainly intentional.

Corrected entry: Throughout the film, we see that the castle is right directly on the edge of the cliff, but in the scenes where the Commodore is proposing and when Jack falls off, both in the same place, we can see rocks jutting out past the castle base. These rocks are not visible when the castle is viewed from any other angle.

Sol Parker

Correction: Not sure which rocks you are talking about, so I will give 2 answers. If you're talking about the ones actually in the water they could be tidal OR they could actually be under the water, but visible from above because the water is so clear. If you talking about the ones connected to the base, I watched the scene and you can see them attached to the cliff and then sloping into the sea.

Corrected entry: If you look closely at the black gates when they are first shown, you can see that this shot was filmed in the dry delta or bed of a river, the strange thing is that there are no tracks other than the ones made by the horses. There should be plenty of traffic going through there.

Sol Parker

Correction: Mordor is a land of poisonous fume and ash. New fallen ash or wind blowing the ash around could account for the missing footprints of marching armies.

1st Dec 2003

Cats & Dogs (2001)

Corrected entry: When the russian kitty throws the spikey ball, it lands in the middle of the room, opens and there are a bunch of spikes all pointing upwards, but when it explodes, all the spikes go to the same side of the room, conveniently toward the couch the dogs are hiding behind.

Sol Parker

Correction: The ball most likely uses the same concept as claymores or directional mines.

Corrected entry: At the beginning of the brawl, if you look at one of the Smiths just to the left on Neo, his face looks plastic. (00:53:45)

Sol Parker

Correction: "Looks like" is a phrase that is used when you are unsure of something, and similarity - often based on perspective - differs from person to person. While you say it is plastic, others might say it's realistic.

26th Aug 2003

Robocop 2 (1990)

Correction: Simple Cain used the darkness to his advantage during the murder scene so it was in his interest to not destroy the door he had no such considerations leaving the building, after all the door is buckled outwards.

Corrected entry: When Neo first starts fighting the Smiths, two grab him by the arms and he does a flip kick thing and kicks two in front of him. In slow motion you can see at least with the left one that he doesn't come anywhere near. (00:53:55)

Sol Parker

Correction: non-linear time(from .5 sec to mins) is a technique used very often in M2, it is a repeated motion w/ different angle.

Corrected entry: When Robin is about to be hanged, it is painfully obvious that the platform of the gallows has no trap door.

Sol Parker

Correction: You don't need a trapdoor in order to be hung. In fact, in 'Robin Hood Prince of Thieves' the people who were hung were shoved off the edge of the platform. A trapdoor is not necessary.

16th Nov 2003

Bulletproof Monk (2003)

Corrected entry: When Kar unwraps the phone cord from his boss's neck, it is still in coiled fashion, how do you choke someone to death without tightening the cord? (01:06:10)

Sol Parker

Correction: Most phone cords even when stretched will return to there coiled state when let go, so although it was tight to choke the guy, it would have become recoiled when it was let go.

Corrected entry: When in the belly of the ship, Will and Elizabeth are talking in the candle light, but if you look at the reflection in their eyes in the closeups, you can see a square white light, most certainly not the flickering yellow of a candle.

Sol Parker

Correction: The door to the hold is open, letting in other light.

Corrected entry: Right after the dead guys clear the battlefield, there are a few shots of the heroes and it is very smoky in the background. Through the smoke we can see rolling hills in the near background. The problem is, these are not supposed to be there, when we see all the overhead shots, it is an enormous flat plain with a river and a city, etc. It just doesn't match up.

Sol Parker

Correction: Minas Tirith, capital of Gondor, is built into a mountainside, which is seen from most shots of it. It follows that it's part of a mountain range with foothills. Pellenor Fields, the plains, lie between Minas Tirith and Osgiliath, while the hills behind Minas Tirith and beside the Fields, where you see the Riders of Rohan line up on. This is why you'd see the hills while looking through the dead guys, who are standing between the camera and Minas Tirith.

Corrected entry: When Gandalf and Pippin are talking about death, there are spots of what seems to be water on Gandalf's sword, they change between shots. It's not orc blood because it is clear.

Sol Parker

Correction: It is possible that it was water drops on his sword. I am sure that some of the people or soldiers were using water to help put out the fires. It is possible that Gandalf was splashed with some water, even though we did not see it specifically happen.

Bruce Minnick

16th Dec 2003

Stargate SG-1 (1997)

Show generally

Corrected entry: There is no way to fit a twenty foot wide circular hunk of metal that far down into the Cheyenne Mountain Complex. We never see anything larger than a personnel elevator so how did the Stargate get down there?

Sol Parker

Correction: In the first episode of series 6 (Redemption), it is explained that there is a retractable roof (remember it used to be a missile complex).

Craig Bryant

Correction: They have the lab in-house, so they don't have to send the samples off to another lab; and they prioritise the cases by importance, so samples from the 'big' cases go first. DNA tests themselves don't take weeks, sending them off to a lab, and waiting for the lab to get around to testing them, does. Them having the lab in-house relies on suspension of disbelief, but isn't inherently a mistake.

J I Cohen

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