BocaDavie

Corrected entry: When Johnny takes the Fantastic 4's Powers to counter Von Doom, he's completely capable of controlling each member's powers. However, in the times before when he's accidentally taken their powers, he has been completely incapable of controlling them (such as when he takes Reed's ability to stretch during the London Eye scene, he lays on the floor unable to stand).

aLiVE92

Correction: Yes, because when he first took their powers accidentally he had no experience using them. When he takes all of their powers to counter Von Doom he has had experience using everyone else's powers. Also, as you mention, he first gets their powers accidentally; when going against Von Doom he has a specific mission in mind and is highly motivated to focus the powers on the task at hand.

BocaDavie

Corrected entry: Xavier and Magneto attempt to recruit Wolverine but, in the first X-Men movie Xavier has no prior knowledge of Wolverine, despite the fact that it is in the future.

Correction: Xavier apparently knew of Wolverine in the first X-Men movie but chose not to say anything about their meeting in 1962. He knows that Wolverine is very distrustful of anyone from the time before he lost his memory; telling Logan that they had met sometime in the past would only raise suspicions.

BocaDavie

Correction: The first film takes place roughly 40 years after this film in the original timeline. It's not unreasonable for Xavier to forget about someone he met once very briefly in that span.

Phaneron

Corrected entry: When the Enterprise goes to warp speed, the exterior shot shows the stars in motion, however, this should only be visible from inside the Enterprise, as the ship itself is in motion.

jbrbbt

Correction: This submission assumes that the camera is stationary. The effect that they are trying to achieve is that the shot begins by having the camera follow the ship into warp, but the ship gains speed much faster than we do. From the viewer's perspective 'we' are also going into warp but the ship is so fast that it speeds off into the distance.

BocaDavie

27th Jun 2011

Live and Let Die (1973)

Corrected entry: In the scene when Kananga is slashing Bond's arm, it appears that there is blood on the knife and Kananga is just 'painting' it on Bond's arm.

Correction: There appears to be no blood on the knife at all when he is making his first cut; after that the appearence of blood on the knife is the blood from the initial cut(s).

BocaDavie

27th Jun 2011

Jurassic Park (1993)

Corrected entry: When on the tour, the two cars pass by the T-rex enclosure where they see a goat raised into it from below. Then, they pass by without seeing the dino. Later in the movie they pass by the same enclosure going the opposite way. The cars would continue on their journey and not backtrack. If they did go backwards on the path to get back to the visitor's center, the cars would be facing the other way.

kevkevtheman

Correction: There's obviously a turn-around section (off camera); a loop in the track designed to allow vehicles to return to the center in an emergency without having to back up the entire way.

BocaDavie

27th Jun 2011

Goldfinger (1964)

Corrected entry: Even if Goldfinger managed to make it back to the helicopter after changing into the military uniform, there is no reason for Pussy to still be inside it considering she had already changed sides, she would have escaped the moment the army rushes in.

jbrbbt

Correction: She did not need to escape; she just needed to stay where she was until the Army completed their mission. Where else would she go? The helicopter offered some protection (away from the shooting )and a means to remove the bomb from the area quickly if it could not be disarmed.

BocaDavie

Corrected entry: Agent XXX had been informed that her lover had been killed after becoming involved in a British Secret Service operation, yet her very next mission she finds herself working with a British agent and never considers it a coincidence.

jbrbbt

Correction: She knows it is a coincidence; she just doesn't voice her concerns about it on camera.

BocaDavie

27th Jun 2011

Thunderball (1965)

Corrected entry: At the beginning of the film Bond manages to get away with the help his Aston Martin DB5, which should be impossible since Bond crashed that car into the wall of Auric Goldfinger's factory in Switzerland.

jbrbbt

Correction: Throughout the history of Bond films James Bond is provided with a new car whenever one is destroyed. This was obviously a different car.

BocaDavie

Corrected entry: Eric manages to move a large satellite dish a few miles away, yet in X2, while in the plastic prison there's plenty of metal within that sort of range.

Correction: But nothing in visual range when he's in the plastic cell; he needs to see the item he's moving in order to manipulate it - or be extremely close to it in order to sense it. He couldn't sense the overload of iron in the guard's blood (X2) until the guard was standing right next to him.

BocaDavie

22nd May 2011

Wall-E (2008)

Corrected entry: The design of the Axiom doesn't make any sense. In order for it to have artificial gravity The Axiom must rotate (like when you swing a bucket of water over your head and the water doesn't fall), but the Axiom doesn't rotate yet it has artificial gravity.

dux

Correction: It is a convention of science fiction films that gravity can be generated from the deck plating inside the ship; a future technology that does not rely on centrifugal force to generate artificial gravity.

BocaDavie

Corrected entry: Wai-Lin passes Bond the 'detonators' for the mines they planted on the stealth ship to destroy it; but the mines they planted were timed mines, not remote mines, and Carver had already sent his men to have them removed anyway.

Correction: Timed mines with a remote detonator back-up; in case they needed to set them off earlier than planned. If Carver's men had removed them they would probably not be aware that there was a remote detonator, since they appeared to be timed charges.

BocaDavie

Corrected entry: In the final battle with Reliant, Spock states that Khan, while brilliant, demonstrates that his thinking is two-dimensional, prompting Kirk to have Sulu take the ship "down" below Reliant's flight path, only to come "up" behind it later, allowing Khan's dramatic defeat. The problem here is that Khan isn't from the 19th century, he's from the late 20th century, where air combat is common, as is combat in 3 dimensions under water. Even if Khan fought most or even all of his battles on land, he is a genius, and would certainly have knowledge of aerial combat, even if not direct experience with it. Not to mention there's no way Reliant never had to maneuver in 3 dimensions while he was on it. To suggest he could not think in such a manner is absurd. (01:29:45)

Correction: Having knowledge of air combat and having experience with air combat are two completely different things. In all of their encounters they are fighting on the same plane. Spock is making a valid observation; he isn't saying that Khan 'could not' think in three dimensions, he is saying that Khan is demonstrating two-dimensional thinking.

BocaDavie

Corrected entry: In most of the scenes where we see Chitty flying, she has only one propeller - in the rear. However, as Potts and his family are about to leave Vulgaria, Potts says "Stand back from the propellers!" as the wings deploy, and we can see two large propellers at the wingtips that were not there in the earlier scenes.

Correction: The wing propellers are concealed in compartments that run along the edge of the wings. When they take off at the end you can see the tops of the wing propellers as they unfold upwards from the compartments.

BocaDavie

Corrected entry: Doc Brown can build a time machine but is unable to figure out how to build a still to extract pure ethanol from Whisky in order to use as fuel for the DeLorean. He stated to Clara that he is a "student of all science" so this should include chemistry. Chemists know how to build a still. Doc, however, tried to fuel the car with strong Whisky without distilling it.

Acteon

Correction: He needed a quick solution and thought the whiskey would work. Apparently his expertise does not include the workings of internal combustion engines or he never would have tried it. Pure ethanol would also probably not have worked in the DeLorean.

BocaDavie

Correction: They did not have time to build anything, they were in a hurry to leave before Doc gets killed.

Correction: He would with no problem be able to get that thing to run on ethanol, just a different air fuel ratio bigger injectors so just make bigger holes in the ones you have. Just to run it one time would be no problem.

Corrected entry: Counter to a previous claim of factual error . In various scenes on both the Discovery spaceship and the Pod, angular momentum CAN be preserved without rotating the whole Discovery ship, as was claimed, if there were unseen counter-motions (as in a possible "sub floor" rotating in the opposite direction as the visible floor). The same principle can explain how the pod rotates without any visible thrust from, for example, gas jets. Rotation can be all mechanically achieved, with motors, and all angular momentum is preserved as the ship avoids appearing to rotate against the background stars. What we see is all plausibly accurate according to Newtonian Mechanics.

Correction: Good point, but this is a section for posting mistakes, not non-mistakes. If you are claiming that a previous post for a factual error is incorrect you would need to correct that submission, not post the correction as a mistake.

BocaDavie

21st Feb 2011

Red (2010)

Corrected entry: Upon receiving documents from Henry, the Records Keeper, inside the vault, agent Cooper turns and immediately makes a phone call while still inside the vault. Given the location of the vault as it is shown in the movie and the fact it is a vault, it is highly unlikely a signal would get through.

Hex

Correction: "Highly unlikely" is not a movie mistake. Since the movie depicts him making the call you would have to prove that the signal could not get out of the vault for it to be a mistake.

BocaDavie

3rd Feb 2011

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Corrected entry: In the operating room scene the doctor is about to make his first incision in Doc Ock's body and examines the x-ray carefully, but not the patient. Doc Ock is not on a respirator (so he is not properly anesthetized) and also not even hooked up to an IV - although there is an IV bag and pole in the room.

Sangie

Correction: No one is making an incision; it was determined that they would try cutting off the metal arms first before attempting surgery. Since they were not cutting into his flesh during this phase of the operation (and they had no idea that the arms would 'come to life') they did not need him anesthetized.

BocaDavie

27th Jan 2011

True Grit (2010)

Corrected entry: After Maddie Ross gets bitten by the rattle snake, LaBoeuf has to stay behind because they only have one horse and Cogburn needs to get Maddie help immediately. Cogburn tells LaBoeuf he will be back for him. However, when Maddie and Cogburn are leaving they ride right by the dead Ned Pepper's horse which was well within walking distance for LaBoeuf.

Correction: Ned Pepper's horse was down in the valley, a considerable distance from the hilltop overlook. LaBoeuf was basically incapacitated after being assaulted by Tom Chaney; Cogburn must have doubted that LaBoeuf could make it down to Pepper's horse. Even if LaBoeuf could make it down to the valley there was no way to know that the horse would still be there.

BocaDavie

3rd Jan 2011

Grease (1978)

Corrected entry: During the race at thunder road just before the car that Danny is driving leaps he drives through a puddle splashing the camera lens.

Correction: Having water splash onto the lens could well be intentional by the director (and therefore not a mistake). The concept is known as 'breaking the fourth wall', and is sometimes used to help bring the audience into the action.

BocaDavie

Corrected entry: There is a scene midway through the film where Anakin and Padme are spending quality time together in a field, with a backdrop of huge waterfalls surrounding them. Those are awfully quiet waterfalls. Through this entire scene they speak at a normal volume, but if they were that close to that many high waterfalls, they would have to shout.

Correction: It is a convention of film making to focus on the characters dialogue and reduce the noise of any background objects, like when you can hear two characters talking in a crowded restaurant. Also, they are far enough from the falls so that the noise would not interfere with their conversation, without even having to take into consideration the acoustics of the area. I stood much closer to Niagara Falls than the characters are to the falls in the movie and could carry on a conversation without raising my voice.

BocaDavie

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