Corrected entry: When the evil Colonel is descending from the burning ship into the robot, first his left shoulder only is on fire, then his right shoulder only is on fire.
BocaDavie
4th Jan 2010
Avatar (2009)
20th Sep 2006
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Corrected entry: When Bond and Luigi meet at Tofana it is overcast. But in the next clip, at the ice rink, the sky is clear. And there can't be a large time gap, since Luigi says that Kristatos is waiting for them.
Correction: An assumption; we don't know how long it was between the two scenes. Kristatos was pre-occupied with watching Bibi's training, he wasn't in a hurry to go anywhere. We also don't know how far it was from their meeting in Tofana to the ice rink. Entirely possible for clouds to have rolled in between the two scenes.
16th Jan 2008
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Corrected entry: The message written on the mirror in Bond's hotel room is far too clear to have been written before the steam got on the mirror. If it had been written before it would have been readable, but there would have been some steam in the letters themselves. No sticky substances are used to create the letters, because if there were, the letters would be visible before the steam came on the mirror, and there would be traces of it left when Bond wiped the mirror clean. Notice he just wipes it over once - and everything is gone.
20th Sep 2006
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Corrected entry: Why doesn't the St. George's advanced military systems detect the mine before it is only a few meters away?
Correction: This is a question, not a mistake. The mine is caught in a huge net loaded with fish that is being deliberately pulled towards the ship by the crew. It wasn't until the mine got very close to the ship that they could tell it wasn't a part of the catch. Because it was an old mine without any functioning electronics it would be very difficult to tell it apart from any other debris that normally gets caught up in the nets.
4th Mar 2002
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Corrected entry: When the Cuban hitman is shot with the crossbow, the arrow hits his back at the wrong angle. It should have been in his side instead of his back.
Correction: We are never shown where Melina is shooting from; the submitter is assuming that she is shooting from Gonzales' side. If Melina was shooting from a foward angle and the arrow hit Gonzales as his body was entering the water head-first (as depicted in the film), the arrow would have struck him in the back.
20th Sep 2006
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Corrected entry: When Bond pats Blofeld on the head in the helicopter sequence, Blofeld is a dummy.
Correction: This would be trivia if you had a source to prove the submission. It really does appear to be a dummy (and obviously they used a dummy in place of a real person when dumping the body down the smokestack). In the scene the submitter describes the subject (seen only from a reverse camera angle for this shot) could be a person sitting very still. Also, it is only assumed that the bald man in the wheelchair is Blofeld; EON productions lost the rights to use the name Blofeld prior to this film.
24th Aug 2005
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Corrected entry: When Locque's car crashes to the bottom of the cliff, it rolls over him as he is thrown out the window. In a later shot, the body is beside the wrecked car.
Correction: Yes, the car came to a rest next to the body after it rolled. The positioning of the car and the body in their final resting places is appropriate for the manner in which we last see the two while they were in motion (before the camera cuts away; the moment where they stop moving completely is off-camera).
30th Sep 2008
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Corrected entry: Bond's climbing method is ridiculous. Instead of knocking in carabiners as he goes, he hammers them in so far above the ground that if he fell, the length of drop would have killed him anyway.
Correction: First, a carabiner is not knocked into the rock; a carabiner is the metal loop hooked onto a spike or camming device. The spikes and spring-loaded camming devices that Bond uses to ascend the mountain are used appropriately. They would have to be hammered in so 'far above the ground' as a safety measure to prevent the climber from falling.
24th Feb 2005
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Corrected entry: When Bond and Melina are being chased in Melina's car, as they drive down the steep hill, Bond makes a witty remark and Melina starts laughing, then in the next shot she has a very serious look on her face.
13th Jan 2004
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Corrected entry: When Bond and Melina are being chased in Melina's car, you can see an aerial view of the chase; and when each of the cars goes around the corner, the picture is sped up slightly.
Correction: Slightly speeding up the film to make things appear to move faster is a convention of the James Bond films, therefore not a mistake - it is intentional.
21st Dec 2009
2012 (2009)
Corrected entry: There are two scenes in which a plane narrowly manages to take off before the ground collapses into the depths of Earth. The problem with these scenes is that those holes would not only swallow the surface, they would also suck in air. Without enough altitude nor enough velocity a plane would therefore be pulled into the new craters. That's why helicopters and small planes are instructed to avoid open-pit mines. And those are just static holes.
Correction: Already submitted and corrected. The continents are breaking apart because the earth's mantle is heating up. The huge land mass falls into the heated mantle; the heated gasses would rise rapidly, counteracting the effects of the downdraught. Indeed, the plane does lose some altitude immediately after the collapse, then is able to climb again shortly after. As for the velocity, you are making an assumption to say that the plane was not going fast enough.
31st Dec 2009
Sherlock Holmes (2009)
Corrected entry: In the beginning of the movie, Holmes is shown trying to create a silencer for a revolver. Due to the way revolvers are constructed, it is impossible to make a silencer for one, with the exception of the M1895 Nagant. Someone that knows enough about physics to attempt to create a silencer would have known this.
Correction: Impossible to completely "silence" the noise made by the gun, but to dampen it by supressing the noise and flash produced by the bullet exiting the barrel. Holmes would then have to work on creating a noise supression device for the cylinder to complete his invention (if he hadn't already); perhaps something similar to the gas-seal system used in the Nagant M1895.
28th Dec 2009
Star Trek (2009)
Corrected entry: Old Spock seems to know that it is 2258. Yet he assumes Kirk should be in command of the Enterprise by then. In the prime universe Spock is from, Kirk doesn't become captain until 2265. And if Spock is simply suggesting that Kirk could be captain now, his knowledge of Starfleet should tell him otherwise.
2nd Jan 2010
Avatar (2009)
Corrected entry: Before the last battle, Jake and his human friends sneak out from the human operating headquarter. They fly to the forest and take away Grace's secret mobile lab. At this scene, Norm's avatar suddenly appear. Norm's avatar should be stay at the human lab. How do he can escape easily from there and join the human friend in the big forest?
Correction: The submitter assumes that Norm's avatar was at the lab. Actually, we haven't seen it through most of the movie; it could be anywhere. We also don't know what happens in the time between them leaving the hanger and arriving at the remote lab; they could have picked up Norm's avatar en route.
2nd Jan 2010
Avatar (2009)
Corrected entry: Col. Quaritch spends a lot of time exercising to remain fit in Pandora's supposed "low gravity". If the gravity were really low enough to cause health problems, the effects would be visible: objects would fall to the ground a lot slower, people would hop instead of running, etc. None of that happens, so the gravity can't be that low.
Correction: By 'low gravity' he is referring to gravity not equal to that of earth. If the gravity was, say, 3/4 that of earth items would fall at a rate indiscernible from the way they fall in normal gravity. Quaritch is not afraid of health problems; he just doesn't want to be weaker when he returns to earth.
21st Dec 2009
Avatar (2009)
Corrected entry: The Hallelujah Mountains - How is it possible for some the floating islands to have such powerful waterfalls? The flow/source seems disproportionate to the size of the island(s).
Correction: This is a question, not a mistake. Since we cannot see the source of the water you cannot assume it is a mistake for there to be "powerful waterfalls". The bizzare gravitational fields holding those islands in place must also be capable of pushing water up to the surface from within the island.
Boca Dixie you didn't explain the error. Where is the source of the waterfall from smaller floating rocks? Magic? This is cosmetic for awe effect but at the cost of it being a serious blunder.
Perhaps very heavy condensation from atmosphere (there is fog everywhere). These waterfalls may not be permanent - some underground reservoir inside islands may be filling up until they are heavy enough to cause the island to tilt, after which the water flows out for some time until empty, and the process repeats. So they just see temporary waterfalls here and there.
21st Dec 2009
Avatar (2009)
Corrected entry: After switching sides, Jake and his crew escape into an area with heavy magnetic distortions so that they can not be detected. This area is also safe from cruise missiles due to the interferences. However, Jake has no problems using the portal to get into his Avatar.
21st Dec 2009
Avatar (2009)
Corrected entry: The movie is set in the year 2154. Humans have developed the technology to travel to a distant planet, yet they still use wheelchairs for paraplegics (Jake Sully)? Wouldn't more advanced technology have been developed to aid paraplegics by then?
Correction: This is a question, not a mistake. They do have the technology to repair his legs, that was never the problem. The problem was that the Veterans Administration refused to fund the operation. That's why Colonel Quaritch is able to bribe Jake to go along with his plan - by promising Jake that if he goes along with the plan Quaritch will get him his "new legs". As for the wheelchair, it is Jake's choice to use it instead of some floating device; he obviously wanted to keep his arms strong, and even refuses assistance from anyone trying to help him.
20th Dec 2009
Avatar (2009)
Corrected entry: In the final battle, the human soldiers are about to drop a bomb on the Tree of Souls, when their ship is taken down by Jake. The ship crashes and explodes along with the bomb. However, the Tree of Souls remains untouched by the explosion as if the ship crashed miles away.
20th Dec 2009
Avatar (2009)
Corrected entry: When they first arrive on Pandora, they must wear gas masks because the air is toxic. Later when Jake and Sully are riding one of the aircraft as humans to go to the new upload location, they are not wearing gas masks even though the cabin door is open and they are in the open air. How can they breathe?
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Correction: The fire is across his back, but mostly on his right shoulder the whole time. The small amount of fire on his left side goes out on its own; the fire on his right shoulder keeps burning and he has to extinguish it manually.
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