Corrected entry: After Doug has finished moaning to his friends about not getting into the air force, his girlfriend can be seen in the background smiling. This is a bit out of character I would think. (At first I thought she might have been smiling at the voice on the PA but the voice is obviously Knotchers, whom she despises).
BocaDavie
28th Jun 2004
Iron Eagle (1986)
27th Aug 2001
Iron Eagle (1986)
Corrected entry: 45 minutes into the film, Colonel Masters is berating his son, Doug, for pulling unauthorised maneuvers, as they flew in an F-16. Doug says, "Come on dad!" His father replies, "Don't 'Come on me' Dad" instead of "Don't 'Come on dad' me".
20th Jul 2008
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
Corrected entry: When preparing for the HALO jump, Bond is told that there is a danger of him getting tangled in his parachute and drowning when he hits the water. This is extremely unlikely since he is already breathing from the cylinders on his back via regulator which is firmly attached to his face. There's no way the parachute or any of the cords would be able to constrict the HP air hoses on the diving gear.
27th Aug 2001
Titanic (1997)
Corrected entry: Among the items recovered from the ship is an old hand mirror. While suspension of disbelief allows us to accept that a mirror could last this long intact, the fact is that submerged in water, at that pressure the mirror would have turned streaked if not turned totally black. (00:16:40)
Correction: I visited a huge exhibit of artifacts brought up from the Titanic that included bottles, glasses plates and personal belongings. Many of the artifacts, after being cleaned up, were in excellent condition. It appears that after all those years at the bottom many metal and glass objects were able to survive unscathed. As early as 1835 mirrors were created by depositing a thin layer of metallic silver onto glass; silver would not streak or turn black, regardless of the pressure.
12th Jul 2008
The Naked Gun (1988)
Corrected entry: Towards the end of the movie when the baseball scene is showing highlights as the song "I Love L.A" plays, you'll notice in one scene when a grand slam happens that 4 players cross second base. This is impossible since only the batter and the man on first should cross second base.
19th Jul 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: As the Joker begins the explosions to destroy Gotham General Hospital, bricks are raining down all over the street, yet the car and ambulance parked in front suffer no damage.
Correction: Watched this scene closely twice now... the Joker is standing a good distance down the street when he sets off the explosions, and there are no good close-up shots of the two vehicles after the explosions. It's not possible to tell the extent of the damage, and it is also possible - although unlikely - that the two vehicles didn't get struck with any of the debris.
4th Nov 2002
Robocop (1987)
Corrected entry: When Robocop is in the convenience store about to arrest the guy robbing the store, the robber shoots Robocop several times with a machine gun. Robocop walks up, grips the end of the gun, and bends it down. Basic physics dictate that either the robber would be lifted up or the gun would be prised out of his hands rather than the gun barrel bending, unless the robber weighs a ton and has an amazingly strong grip.
Correction: Unknown what the gun barrel is made of, but it appears to be very thin (exterior circumference) and would be extremely hot after the robber fired so many rounds. This combination, along with the robber keeping a tight grip on the weapon with both hands and Robocop very quickly bending it, could allow the barrel to bend in the manner portrayed.
Rubbish. A machine gun barrel made of a metal soft enough to be bent in the way we see would be ripped apart the first time a bullet transited through it at supersonic speed.
1st May 2003
Robocop (1987)
Corrected entry: After Murphy dies, the screen goes black and there is a very cool sequence of scenes from RoboCop's point of view. In one of them, though, a female Security Concepts/OCP suit says, "Bring in the LED" and a green light-grid covers the screen. A technician then "secures" each corner with a screwdriver, but as he does each screw, the grid gets progressively closer to the screen, until it has disappeared. What kind of device would move each time a corner is tightened?
23rd Jul 2003
Robocop 2 (1990)
Corrected entry: In the first Robocop film, RoboCop took on ED-209 and then he was shot by around 20 police officers for a total of around two minutes of screentime. Although cosmetically damaged, he was still operational and carried on. So how on earth can a little boy easily shoot off his hand with a few short bursts of a machine gun? If it was that easy to shoot his hand off, why didn't Ed or the police do it in the first film, and destroy him bit by bit?
19th Nov 2003
Robocop 2 (1990)
Corrected entry: Why is RoboCop 2 unable to speak? Surely if RoboCop 2 was to stumble upon a crime it would have to make some form of communication with the perpitratiors. If the makers of the robot bothered to put a computerised image of Cain's face on the robot, then surely they should have made a voice for him too? The digital image of a face is basically useless, and wouldn't have helped much in say a hostage situation or an assault on a building.
27th Aug 2001
Robocop 2 (1990)
Corrected entry: At the end of the movie, Robocop rips Kane's brain out of Robocop 2 and smashes it on the ground. Only after that, the representation of Kane in Robocop 2 then dies. How could Kane, who is the brain, still control or react to his brain being smashed? Shouldn't Robocop 2 have died immediately when the brain was ripped out of him?
4th Nov 2002
Robocop 2 (1990)
Corrected entry: When Robocop is broken in pieces by Kain's crew, they take Robocop to the police station and a man throws the pieces of Robocop out of the car with one hand even though Robocop is very heavy. Several men are needed to carry Robocop in a scene later.
5th Mar 2002
Robocop 2 (1990)
Corrected entry: When Robocop goes after Kain in the mill, they shoot off Robocop's hand, pick him up with a magnet, put him on a table and lock his hands and feet down. When they start to cut him up, they cut his leg off and it somehow falls to the floor, even though it was supposed to be locked to the table.
9th Feb 2008
You Only Live Twice (1967)
Corrected entry: When Blofield's base is exploding, external shots are shown which blatantly show lava flowing down. This is video of a real volcano erupting.
13th Jan 2004
You Only Live Twice (1967)
Corrected entry: How could Blofeld have kept an efficient operation in Japan when he personally killed his own top two officers, 4 and 11, over such trivial matters as whether they succeeded in killing Bond? After all, when 4 was being killed, Bond was already in his custody, so exactly where did Osato fail? doesn't that leave a big power vaccum at the top?
1st Jul 2008
Wall-E (2008)
Corrected entry: In several scenes where one of the characters is holding a cigarette lighter, the tip of the flame is rounded but the reflection on the robots shows the flame coming to a point.
Correction: I've watched this movie four times and cannot see this error. Remember, it is a Zippo-style lighter; the flame is wider along the length of the casing and much more narrow along the width. The reflection of the flame may appear to come to a point as the angle between the lighter and the reflective surface changes.
24th Jun 2008
Iron Man (2008)
Corrected entry: When Tony is having his chest generator replaced Pepper pulls out the magnet. When he has to use the old generator again after the new one is stolen the magnet is not replaced.
7th Mar 2005
Titanic (1997)
Corrected entry: When Titanic cracks in two, one of the funnels is rectangular, not round.
15th Jul 2008
The Sound of Music (1965)
Corrected entry: In the final scene of the The Sound of Music, Maria, Captain Von Trapp, and the children are walking on a mountain. If you look at the grass by where they are walking, the grass looks like heavy wind is blowing on it. This wind probably isn't natural because the mountain does not look that high. I believe it is cause by the helicopter they used to shoot the scene on a real mountain.
15th Jul 2008
Jurassic Park (1993)
Corrected entry: When the insurance man runs into the bathroom, and is eaten by the T-Rex, why would they have bathrooms on an automated car tour where you're not supposed to open the doors anyway? Even if it were an emergency staff bathroom, it probably wouldn't have multiple stalls.
Correction: Remember, "probably" doesn't qualify as a movie mistake. It must have taken dozens of workers to construct the paddock; a double-stall toilet would be logical. Since they decided to make it a permanent toilet (instead of a porta-potty) it would make sense to leave it there for maintenance workers and park employees.
Correction: They also might have stops for visitors. A lot of visitors would want to stop and see the T-Rex.
Plus, when you gotta go you gotta go.
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Correction: Yes, a bit out of character. She could have been thinking about something funny at the time. Either way it is a character flaw, not a movie mistake.
BocaDavie ★