Revealing mistake: When Ryer and Rand jump off Rand's window and down to the street, they land on a tree. Notice the severed branches; instead of being broken [presumably from the falling bodies], they are cut rather smoothly.
Allister Cooper, 2011
2nd Jun 2009
A Sound of Thunder (2005)
2nd Jun 2009
A Sound of Thunder (2005)
Trivia: This is the first film that Edward Burns appears in, one which he neither wrote nor directed.
2nd Jun 2009
The Krays (1990)
2nd Jun 2009
A Sound of Thunder (2005)
Other mistake: When we see Middleton's bootprint, there is only one. There should be more than one bootprint as he goes along, even from one boot, as he walks toward the group to rejoin them.
19th May 2009
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
Trivia: Though Alec Baldwin's character never introduces himself, in the script his name is Blake.
15th May 2009
Bangkok Dangerous (2008)
6th May 2009
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)
Question: Near the end, in the lab, Victor Creed tells Kayla that her powers of persuasion will not work on him. Why is that?
6th May 2009
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)
Question: Does Colonel Stryker have more than one son? Assuming he is the same character played by Brian Cox in X-Men III, he has another son in a wheelchair that can't be Wade.
Chosen answer: First of all, Stryker was in "X2", not 3. Secondly, Wade was never his son. Stryker only has one son, named Jason. In this movie he can be seen encased in ice (to protect people from him), but it is obviously him (note his eye colour - one brown, one blue). It's far from unthinkable that sometime between this movie and "X2", his father's experiments on him put Jason in a wheelchair.
7th Apr 2009
Twilight (2008)
Trivia: Cam Gigandet, who plays James, once stated that when he auditioned for a part in the film, he won and was originally cast as Emmet. However, he preferred to play James, and he got the role. He refers to James as the vampire's vampire.
4th Apr 2009
Pearl Harbor (2001)
Factual error: As with the film Tora! Tora! Tora!, in Pearl Harbor we see that two American fighter planes took off to fight the Japanese. In reality, a total of six American flights actually took off to repel the invaders.
1st Apr 2009
Raging Bull (1980)
Trivia: After boxing, Jake LaMotta became a stand-up comedian. Former WWF Champion Bruno Sammartino writes in his autobiography that he would sometimes sit and listen to Jake speak. He writes, 'His [LaMotta's] stories could bring many tears to your eyes.'
30th Mar 2009
Raging Bull (1980)
Trivia: Even though the last match featured was between Jake LaMotta and Sugar Ray, the latter was invited to be best man(!) at one of LaMotta's marriages. There is a charming black and white photograph of both LaMotta and Sugar Ray in tuxedos. They were all smiles as Sugar Ray adjusted Jake's bow tie.
30th Mar 2009
Raging Bull (1980)
Trivia: The film was amusingly satired by Mad Magazine as Raging Bully - truly an apt title.
30th Mar 2009
Raging Bull (1980)
Trivia: During the final match with Sugar Ray, a veteran ringside observer seated in the front row counted between fifty to sixty punches that Sugar Ray delivered to Jake LaMotta. Even after Jake was defeated, it was not all bitter: After the fight, the fans sang 'For he's a jolly good fellow' for him.
30th Mar 2009
Raging Bull (1980)
20th Mar 2009
Punisher: War Zone (2008)
Trivia: The Chinese tattoo on the Asian gangster's face reads tien di, which means heaven and earth.
20th Mar 2009
Punisher: War Zone (2008)
Trivia: During the funeral for the fallen secret agent accidentally killed by the Punisher, the priest reads out a biblical passage. That is Psalm 90, written by Moses.
12th Mar 2009
The Unborn (2009)
Trivia: When Sofi wakes up before dawn, she recites a brief thanksgiving prayer to G-d. In Hebrew it is called "Modeh Ani", loosely translated as "I acknowledge", and it is the first prayer uttered by observant Jews after waking up in the morning.
10th Mar 2009
Titanic (1997)
Trivia: Kate Winslet badgered and bribed director James Cameron into getting this role the following ways: Once she sent him a rose with a card. Another was when she rang him up while he was driving in his Humvee and tearfully said, 'You don't understand! I am Rose! I don't understand why you're trying out someone else!' She eventually landed the role.
10th Mar 2009
Manhunter (1986)
Trivia: While Will Graham is on the tree, he sees a carving of a Chinese character on the trunk. That character is pronounced zhong in Mandarin, and it means center or middle.
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Chosen answer: Her power works by manipulating parts of the mind. Since Victor and Logan both regenerate her power can't affect them because they essentially "heal/regenerate" the part she is manipulating. Granted Prof. X threatens Logan with this in the original movies, but he is much more powerful, or could have been bluffing.