Corrected entry: Spock accelerates to a high speed using the thruster pack to enter the orifice. Once it burns out it's useless and Spock abandons it. Even though, once inside, he witnesses images of endless space, it remains that he's really inside a rather small chamber. How did Spock expect to slow himself gradually before slamming into the far wall of the chamber?
BocaDavie
1st May 2009
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
18th May 2004
2010 (1984)
Corrected entry: The alien intelligence behind the monoliths may be good at sending trite little messages of peace love and happiness, but they have just condemned the human race to extinction, along with every living thing on our planet. They change the solar system to a binary star system, which will inevitably alter the Earth's orbit. This will cause earthquakes that would make the planet uninhabitable, and the climate changes will finish off the few survivors. Turning Jupiter into a star capable of sustaining life will involve somewhow increasing its mass by approximately two hundred and fifty times. Jupiter simply isn't massive enough to become even a small, cold star (known as a brown dwarf) by itself. Using super-dense netron matter won't work: super dense matter is super heavy, that's the whole point. If you don't hugely increase Jupiter's mass it cannot become a sun.
Correction: The power source for the new star is the millions of monoliths that are multiplying within it, generating a form of alien energy that does not exist in the real universe. It apparently has abilities that we cannot comprehend but, like many things in the sci-fi universe, we will just have to accept as working the way it is shown in the movie. It is a fictional technology capable of turning Jupiter into a star without altering it's density and generating just enough heat to turn it's moons into habitable planets.
29th Mar 2009
The Fugitive (1993)
Corrected entry: In the shot right before Kimble jumps off of the dam, you can see the dam is angled out. There is no way he could have cleared it when he jumped.
12th Sep 2004
Wild Wild West (1999)
Corrected entry: After the demonstration of his tank, Loveless requests 1,000 kg of gold from each country who wants to join him in his little war and bring it within four days at his secret lab. Now, since most of them were from Europe, how can they ever bring that amount of gold over to the U.S.? It would take weeks to cross the ocean, let alone days until they reach the secret lab.
1st Mar 2009
Licence to Kill (1989)
Corrected entry: Pam's shotgun is powerful enough to blow a huge hole in a solid wooden wall from three meters away. That's going to give Pam a nasty shock, because a shotgun puts the same energy into the recoil that it does into its projectiles. If it's powerful enough to punch a hole in a wall big enough for her and Bond to climb through, then she is going to be flung violently backwards across the bar.
Correction: Wrong. From Wikipedia: "Although the momentum possessed by a bullet as it leaves the muzzle of a gun is indeed equal to the recoil momentum of the gun (neglecting the momentum possessed by gas molecules and particles also leaving the muzzle), the kinetic energy of the bullet is many times greater than the recoil energy of the gun. For example, a bullet fired from an M16 rifle has approximately 1300 foot-pounds of kinetic energy as it leaves the muzzle, but the recoil energy of the gun is less than 5 foot-pounds. The reason mechanical energy is not conserved is because much more of the chemical energy released during powder combustion is transferred to the bullet than is transferred to the gun."
27th Aug 2001
Licence to Kill (1989)
Corrected entry: When Sanchez whips Lupe for her little affair, he does it vertically. But when Bond is on the Wavekrest, the red marks on her back are now horizontal. (00:02:50 - 00:40:05)
31st Jan 2009
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Corrected entry: In the car. the girl has a scar on her left cheek, then it changes to her right side in the final scene.
29th Jan 2009
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Corrected entry: When Jamal phones a friend on Millionaire, the phone rings several times and almost hung up before it is answered by Latika. In real life, the friend is first called off-air to make sure they are there and available, and then called a second time while the show is taping.
Correction: The show must have called Salim before they started taping - he has the phone with him when the show begins taping and must have gotten the call from the show off-camera. Salim knows that Jamal is trying to find Latika (Jamal's real reason for being on "Millionaire") and must know that the show is going to call his cell again when Jamal needs a lifeline. It's after the show begins that Salim gives the cell phone to Latika for her to take with her when she escapes.
31st Jan 2009
Wall-E (2008)
Corrected entry: As Wall-E returns home for the first time he runs over a newspaper with the headline "Too Much Trash - Earth Covered". The newspaper would not have survived 800 years, or the violent storms that Wall-E has to seek refuge from.
Correction: This assumes that the newspaper is made of paper. The human race abandons the planet sometime in our distant future when Earth is deemed unable to support life, especially plant life. With no trees left it is logical to assume that the newspapers and all the money lying on the ground are made of a material much more resilient than paper.
11th Dec 2008
Jurassic Park (1993)
Corrected entry: When the crew is preparing to enter the tour trucks, John points out the trucks are powered by the track running below it. When he directs Dr. Sattler and Dr. Grant to enter the vehicle, the entire bottom of the rear truck is visible and no connection to the track is present.
Correction: Wrong... Hammond says the trucks run on electricity and they travel along the track in the ground. He never says the trucks get their power from the track; they're powered by internal batteries. A sensor inside the truck uses the track in the ground as a guide to keep the vehicle on course.
2nd Jan 2009
The Naked Gun (1988)
Corrected entry: After Frank Drebin takes Enrico Pallazzo's tuxedo, it fits like a glove even though Pallazzo was considerately larger than Drebin. (01:02:00)
2nd Jan 2009
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Corrected entry: If the Enterprise crew did not know that the Borg were aboard, there would be no reason to lock up Sick Bay, and so the doors should have opened when the Borg drones attempted to gain access. However, the drones had to punch their way inside. (00:24:15)
Correction: This assumes the doors to sickbay will open for anyone (or anything). Sickbay would be a secure area and may only allow access for crew members with their I.D. badges. In my police department everyone has magnetic security badges, each one programmed to only allow access for the area that you have security clearance for. Even if the doors normally open for anyone they probably would have increased the security access at the time to ensure limited contact with the patient from the 21st century.
2nd Jan 2009
Quantum of Solace (2008)
Corrected entry: In the final scene where 007 and Camille are battling against Greene, Medrano etc. there is a complete fire going on near them. In reality the temperature in fire would be about 800-1000 Celsius and no person can survive in this temperature this close in and for the amount of time.
26th Feb 2003
Deep Impact (1998)
Corrected entry: In the scene where the professional astronomer figures out that the comet will hit Earth, he tries twice to log on to email. The server is down both tries. He then gets panicky and makes a floppy of the data and addresses an envelope for mailing. Then gets himself killed while racing down the mountain to mail his package. This is stupidly wrong on several fronts. 1) A pro astronomer would be used to astronomical things happening very slowly. So he would not be in this big of a rush. 2)Being a pro, he would at least double check and probably quadruple check his data over more nights before running off to make the big announcement. 3) His first impulse was to email someone. Therefore he'd have to know enough about email to know that he could screw around with it all that night and into the next day and still have his data to whoever faster than FedEx and three days faster than US mail.
Correction: The submitter gives the reason for the mistake: "He then gets panicky.". People who are panicking will make faulty decisions, like rushing, not double checking data and not waiting for the e-mail to come back up. Yes, very bad decisions - but remains a character mistakes. As an astronomer he is trained to patiently watch the heavens, not deal with crisis situations.
29th May 2003
Deep Impact (1998)
Corrected entry: When the astronauts are getting ready to fly into the 'wolf' astroid, you can hear (and see) the time to impact being counted down. They stop verbally counting down, but if you continue to count you see that the nukes detonate over 15 seconds after they should have.
27th Aug 2001
Titanic (1997)
Corrected entry: When the Titanic first set out in 1912, almost immediately after leaving the dock, the suction of her propellers drew in a neighbouring ship, the New York. It snapped its lines making sounds like gunshots and the ship came within several feet of slamming into the Titanic's stern. Only the quick thinking of the tugboat captains and Smith (who ordered a touch ahead on the port propeller) stopped it from actually making contact. You'd think that this event would've been at least noticed by Jack or Fabrizio who would've had front row seats, yet it's not mentioned at all in the movie.
25th Dec 2008
Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
Corrected entry: In the opening scene, Bond kills a guard by throwing scalpels into his arms and chest. Scalpels are much too light to penetrate even bare skin when thrown, let alone a shirt.
Correction: These were metal-handled scalpels with razor blade-sharp tips, it is pure assumption to state that they were too light to penetrate skin or fabric. In the previous movie Bond hurls a knife across a room and hits a specific date on a calender, showing that he is an accomplished knife-thrower.
23rd Nov 2008
Bolt (2008)
Corrected entry: A man hears barking coming from a shipping carton. He takes a knife and slices the tape that goes across the top of the box. He then opens the two flaps of the box with no problem, even though he had not cut the tape that went over the edges of the box.
4th Dec 2008
Bolt (2008)
Corrected entry: How is it that Bolt has never felt hunger before in his entire life? It's not the severity of the hunger that he doesn't understand. When he gets hungry while he is with Mittens, he makes it clear that he has no idea what the sensation is.
Correction: It is actually the severity of the hunger that he does not understand. He may have had mild hunger pangs in his life, but as an extremely well pampered TV series performer he's never really "gone hungry". It is the combination of the severe hunger and his growling stomach (the first time he's ever heard that) that he has never experienced before.
25th Feb 2003
Earthquake (1974)
Corrected entry: During the earthquake, a man reaches out of the window to try to rescue the two window cleaners, who are clinging to the rig. They fall to their deaths. In reality, these guys would have been wearing safety harnesses that secured them to the rig.
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Correction: A calculated risk on Spock's part, and a character decision - not a movie mistake. He was so desperate to see what was inside the chamber that he assaulted another crew member and stole the jet pack; obviously he figured that the possibility of crashing was worth the risk.
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