Corrected entry: In the movie's final showdown, Russell flies his airplane directly in the green light. At this point, the alien ship is located directly over Area 51. So when it's going down, the whole area should be covered under millions of tons of "alien steel," since the spaceship is 13 or 15 miles in diameter. But some shots later you see the spaceship a few miles away in the mountains and a jeep driven by people who should be buried under ground.
BocaDavie
16th Jul 2009
Independence Day (1996)
27th Aug 2003
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Corrected entry: In the beginning, after the Wicked Witch talks to Glinda and Dorothy, she goes to disappear into the trap door. You can see she doesn't remember where the trap door is and has to go around in a circle to get to it. (00:30:45)
8th Dec 2003
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Corrected entry: Before Dorothy goes home, she says a long and tearful goodbye to the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion. But originally she was going to fly off in a balloon with the Wizard, and just happened to jump out of the basket at the last second. Wouldn't she have already said her goodbyes before that? (Not that she wouldn't have said goodbye again, but the second time would have sounded a little different.)
27th Aug 2001
Road Trip (2000)
Corrected entry: Before they jump the bridge they say they are out in the middle of nowhere with nothing around for miles. However, after jumping the bridge a highway is clearly visible through the trees to the right of the car.
19th Dec 2001
Road Trip (2000)
Corrected entry: When the guys are walking away from the car, you can see a line of rocks laid out on the road signalling where they should stop.
Correction: They stop walking when the car explodes; but the rocks could have been used to signal the demolitions experts when to set off the explosives. However, since they used rocks instead of some marker that would not normally be found in nature this cannot be considered a mistake; an interesting observation, but not a mistake.
19th Aug 2005
Unforgiven (1992)
Corrected entry: The white horse that Eastwood rides is stallion, not a mare (look carefully).
7th Jul 2009
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Corrected entry: On Discovery, artificial gravity is created by a spinning centrifuge. This is fine, but crew members are shown climbing a ladder into the center, where they are weightless. In reality, they would experience a quite large force perpendicular to the ladder. This is because they still have momentum from traveling with the floor of the centrifuge, but the speed of the higher steps is lower, and the speed in the center is zero.
Correction: True, but you are not taking all of the variables into consideration. Most importantly, how fast is the centrifuge spinning? We don't really know; they never say that the subjects standing at the bottom of the ladder are under full gravity; it may be a fraction of earth's gravity. Second, they take a few seconds to climb/descend the ladder, and they are bracing themselves from any sideways motion while on the trips up and down. Saying they would experience "quite a large force perpendicular to the ladder" is an asumption. It is also not a movie mistake, your statement would have to include both the amount of force that should be pushing them sideways and proof that they could not overcome the force by grasping the ladder rungs tightly.
26th Jun 2009
Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)
Corrected entry: It doesn't make sense that Chief Lutz calls it 'The Alphabet Code' already after the first letter. It's all numbers. The only letter is A on the back - which stands for Adriano's. How would he know whether there would be a second letter with a B on?
25th Jun 2009
Star Trek (2009)
Corrected entry: In the beginning of the movie after Spock beats up the bully, there is a scene with his father. In the first shots in that scene, you can see sunlight shining through his ear. His inner-ear lights up a bright red. The red comes from the blood in your veins going through your ear. However, it is well known and also seen in the scene (blood on his lip) that Spock's blood is green. So shouldn't his ear light up as bright green? (00:14:40)
29th Jun 2009
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
Corrected entry: When the Devastator is climbing up the pyramid and takes the top off, how does Simmons not get hit with all the debris that is falling down the pyramid?
25th Jun 2009
Star Trek (2009)
Corrected entry: When Scotty ejects the warp core and detonates it to escape from the black hole, they ride the shock wave out of danger, then jump to warp speed - without a warp core.
25th Jun 2009
Terminator Salvation (2009)
Corrected entry: After John gets out of the crashed helicopter, a terminator with no legs surprises him by grabbing him by the shoulder and throwing him several feet. This terminator's decision to throw John away from it (giving John a head start) instead of crushing his shoulder or wind-pipe made no sense, as the terminator was obviously trying to kill John.
26th May 2009
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)
Corrected entry: While at the Smithsonian, Larry notes it's about one hour until sunrise. A few minutes later, everyone going back to New York City piles into Amelia Earhart's airplane and she takes off. When they land, it's still dark in the sky above New York City. If it was an hour before sunrise, the sky would not be so dark and New York City is farther east than Washington, D.C., thus would get the sun a few minutes earlier. Also, modern airplanes barely can make the Washington to New York City trip in barely a hour. That isn't including travel time from the airport to the museum. Larry should have fallen out of the sky when everyone and everything around him turned to dust with the rising sun.
Correction: It's about 200 miles from DC to New York, a small plane with a good tailwind could do it in well under an hour (remember, Larry says it's "about" an hour... he could be off by several minutes or even exagerating a bit to get people moving faster). The plane lands at the museum, there is no travel time from the airport. As for the loss of time because they are flying east, New York is northeast of Washington DC, not due east. They are only going about 120 miles east of their origin. The circumference of the earth at Washington's latitude is just over 19,000 miles; if they flew 120 miles east they would only lose 9 minutes of darkness.
27th May 2009
Star Trek (2009)
Corrected entry: Phasers are energy based weapons, yet when Spock and Kirk are firing their phasers aboard the Romulan ship, it constantly sounds like bullets ricocheting off metal.
Correction: The phasers that we know of from the original series fired a laser-like steady beam for as long as the trigger was held down. The weapons in this alternate time-line appear to be firing energy-based projectiles - not a beam, even though they are still referred to as "phasers". The projectiles fired from these weapons apparently make the noises we hear when striking metal.
Corrected entry: When they shipped out the displays to the Smithsonian they needed to use an 18-wheeler tractor trailer. But on their return trip on Earhart's plane, the entire gang was able to fit onto the plane easily. Also, the sheer weight of all of them would've prevented the plane from rising off the ground.
Correction: It does not look like they all could have fit into the plane, but that is an opinion, not a movie mistake. It is also an opinion to say that the plane could not take off bearing the weight of everyone on board. First, you don't have the specs on the plane and second, you don't know how much the "people" weigh. Remember, Larry is the only real person on the plane, the rest are wax figures - maybe even hollow wax - and most likely weigh only a fraction of their human counterparts.
19th May 2009
Cast Away (2000)
Corrected entry: After Chuck is rescued, he is shown clean-shaven and his skin tone is even. If he had a beard for four years on a tropical island, the top half of his face should be tan and the lower part of his face (the part that was covered by the beard) should be pale.
19th May 2009
Terminator Salvation (2009)
Corrected entry: In the scene where John Connor is fighting the T-600 at the downed helicopter, the T-600 rips his boot off. Immediately after destroying the T-600, John has both boots on.
Correction: The T-600 rips off John's right boot. When John scrambles through the downed helicopter you only see his left foot (with the boot on). When he falls out of the helicopter on the other side he clearly is still missing his right boot. After he destroys the terminator he rests for a few seconds, then they show him walking away with both boots on; obviously after he replaced the right boot.
17th May 2009
Angels & Demons (2009)
Corrected entry: Even though the oxygen level of the library is kept at a low level to preserve the books, the room was very large and it would take a long time - even without ventilation - before they would black out.
15th May 2009
Angels & Demons (2009)
Corrected entry: In the third Illuminati church, Langdon asks which way a statue points. As a scholar of religious symbols, he should have known all churches are oriented east, and easily deduced the direction from that.
Correction: He may have known which way the church is facing, but after making a turn or two inside the church before getting to the statue he may have lost his bearings. Also, the statue is not at a perfect right angle or parallel to the entrance of the church and the statue's arm is pointing outward at an angle from the wall. Remember, Langdon is asking which way the statue is pointing, not which way the church is facing. It's very likely that he would ask someone much more familar with the church about which direction the statue is pointing.
11th May 2009
Star Trek (2009)
Corrected entry: Every time someone is beamed to and from the Enterprise, they appear at their destination in the body position they were in when they were transported. But at the film's conclusion, Spock is beamed from a sitting position in the pilot's chair of his craft, and re-appears on the Enterprise's transporter pad standing up.
Correction: There is no rule against moving during the transport sequence - we see it several times during the film (Spock's mother turns round, Kirk and Sulu tumble repeatedly). We only see the very beginning of the transport sequence with Spock - he's then not shown until he materialises on the pad several seconds later. He simply felt the sequence commence and stood up to avoid an undignified arrival.
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Correction: The ship drifted several miles before crashing; they apparently lost control of navigation before losing altitude control.
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