Corrected entry: When Jack is chased by the 'black tiger' when he first wanders around the forest, he jumps into the water to save himself. At night, he managed to light up his torch using the supposedly wet matchbox. (00:33:15)
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21st Dec 2009
Avatar (2009)
30th Nov 2009
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)
Corrected entry: Scrat and Scratte were riding the rocket up to the ice world. They both grab the acorn, Scrat yanks it out of the rock, Scratte falls away, but shouldn't Scrat fall, too?
Correction: No, because he's still sat atop the rock(et), where as Scratette fell off because she lost grip of the acorn, Scrat never did.
3rd Oct 2009
Taken (2008)
Corrected entry: When the father is talking to the kidnapper, the kidnapper says 'good luck' and hangs up the phone. The sound is of a handset being hungup, but the daughter was using a mobile phone when talking to her father. (00:28:55)
Correction: No its not, it's the sound of the mobile phone being smashed up as evidenced later on when Brian finds it.
24th Aug 2009
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Corrected entry: When Fredrick Zoller is wooing Shoshanna in a cafe, you can see gothic letters GD on his shoulder stripes. That means, that he is a soldier of "Grossdeutschland" division. Later (in a cinema) he tells, that he killed his 300 enemies in Italy, but this division has never fought in Italy.
Correction: Would be a good submission, other than there is nothing onscreen to suggest he has only ever been in the Grossdeutschland Division, and could quite easily have gotten his kill tally in another division altogether.
22nd Aug 2009
Terminator Salvation (2009)
Corrected entry: How come the resistance didn't use the signal that shuts down machines on Marcus when he escaped from their facility? You could say they did try to use it off-screen and it probably didn't work as the signal is fake and Marcus is probably protected by its effect. But if the resistance finds out the signal won't work on all machines they would call off their attack. So why didn't they try to use it on Marcus?
Correction: Firstly, this is entirely worded as a question, and should have been submitted as such, but the answer is quite simple twofold. The resistance have no idea if it will shut down Marcus for the simple reason that he has an organic brain, not a neural net processor, and secondly, they don't yet want to disable something they don't fully understand. Marcus is an anomaly and a very interesting one to them, because he largely shouldn't exist.
15th Aug 2009
The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)
Corrected entry: The young Clare doesn't have the same beauty mark and mole on her face as Rachel McAdams does as older Clare.
Correction: Moles can occur anytime in a person's life, and we are meant to interpret that Clare got the mole as she got older. Not a mistake.
5th Aug 2009
The Hangover (2009)
Corrected entry: This concerns Doug being on the roof and the mattress being on the roof. First, the guys assumed that Doug had "thrown his mattress out of the window". How could you throw a mattress out of a window and have it land on a roof? Secondly, when the guys are waiting for the valet outside of the hotel and notice the crew of people removing the mattress from the roof, wouldn't those workers up there have noticed Doug on the roof? Wouldn't Doug have yelled for help?
Correction: Firstly, the guys never ever said that it was 'thrown from a window', the man they spoke to suggested that's how it came to be on the statue. Secondly the statue is significantly lower than the top of the roof, so there is absolutely no mistake for Doug to have thrown the mattress off the roof, and DOWN onto the statue. Because the workers only went as high as the statue, they would have been nowhere near the roof, and Doug is suffering from the effects of heat and isn't in any position to yell for help.
29th Mar 2009
Knowing (2009)
Corrected entry: When Caleb is outside and Nicholas Cage is on the phone inside, he notices Caleb talking to the strange men in the car. When he runs out to stop them, he yells out "Taylor" instead of "Caleb".
Correction: No, he yells out, "Hey there".
Both of you are incorrect and to be sure I turned on closed captioning. Soon as Cage walks out of the house he said "Caleb, who was that" boy replies "just some guy " then Cage asked "what'd he give ya?" So he said Caleb soon as he walks out...and never says hey there.
13th Jul 2009
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
Corrected entry: When the main soldier is in a airplane or helicopter you can see a large chunk of green screen behind his head.
Correction: I'm sorry, you're going to have to be a lot more specific than that, please try again and resubmit with more detail, its just too vague.
9th Jul 2009
Terminator Salvation (2009)
Corrected entry: At the end of the film when Marcus offers his heart to John Conner to save his life, what are the odds that he is an exact match for John. Many tests have to performed on a potential heart transplant patient to determine the tissue type matches and won't reject the heart. Also, it cannot be performed on the "fly" in a make shift army hospital tent. It requires many surgeons and trained transplant personal in an extreme sterile environment and takes many hours to perform.
Correction: As we don't see the actual operation take place, it's pure speculation as to just how sophisticated the medical facilities were and how many experienced medical staff were on hand to perform the operation. There is also no onscreen reference for how long the operation took. And finally, whilst it might seem a stretch that Marcus was a perfect donor for John, it's not impossible, and if it's not impossible, it's not a mistake.
5th Jul 2009
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
Corrected entry: When Mikaela is hot wiring the car to escape from the female Decepticon, Sam shouts, "Go, go go, Megan, go." That's the actress' real name, not the character's name of Mikaela. (00:54:10)
Correction: Incorrect, Sam said "Go, go, go, make it go."
30th Jun 2009
Terminator Salvation (2009)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Marcus is escaping the resistance base he jumps a motorcycle over a pile of dirt, but there are already several tracks leading off the jump.
Correction: So the area has been ridden on by motorbikes before, how is this a mistake? It's rough ground which is best suited to motorbikes, and the bike Marcus steals is near to the rough ground, which would suggest its been used there before. Not a mistake.
3rd Jun 2003
Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)
Other mistake: When John and Zeus are being chased by the German guys in the car, John asks Zeus to pull out all the fuses in the fuse-box. The next shot is a quick shot of the speedometer etc. and it is lit up. Surely if all the fuses were out it wouldn't be lit?
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Suggested correction: No, the car would interpret missing fuses as blown fuses and would display a light to highlight the error.
In German cars, the lid of the fuse box shows a table listing the purpose of each fuse. The engine control unit, fuel pump and the dashboard also have fuses that you should avoid to pull.
23rd Jun 2009
Terminator Salvation (2009)
Corrected entry: In T4, Connor takes out a moto-terminator, flips it upright, gives it gas and speeds away changing gears. Why a rolling death machine would have handles and foot gears for gas and acceleration is beyond me.
Correction: An event 'being beyond you' is never a good start to a submission. It's well known in the Terminator universe that Skynet started by adapting and improving human designs and machines. That Skynet has chosen to take a human designed motorbike and build upon it a high speed Terminator might seem strange given its lack of effectiveness, but the history of using human technology is already evident. Even aside from that, having handles, etc. means the upcoming T-800 models can use them for rapid transportation too.
23rd Jun 2009
Terminator Salvation (2009)
Corrected entry: In the beginning when Skynet detonates the bomb in the underground facility, it creates a mushroom shaped cloud. That seems to start down in the hole. This is unlikely. The mushroom shape comes out of the airflow that goes back to the center of a large detonation. (Hot air from the blast moves outward in all directions and cold is then sucked back in from underneath the explosion.) Setting off an explosion in a sealed (ventilation shafts and other exits wouldn't provide sufficient and symmetrical amounts of air) underground shaft shouldn't create a "nice" mushroom cloud that seems to start down in the shaft .
Correction: Your submission hangs entirely on the premise of whether there was sufficient cold air down in the facility to give the explosion its mushroom cloud characteristics. Seeing as there is nothing onscreen to support your 'ventilation shafts and other exits' hypothesis, its pure opinion as to whether the explosion would occur as it did onscreen.
21st Jan 2006
Raise the Titanic (1980)
Corrected entry: When the real Titanic sank, the first funnel broke off and fell into the water. This was reported by many eyewitnesses, including passengers and officers. In the movie, the first funnel is intact and it is the second funnel that is broken off. I read somewhere that the movie makers did this for aesthetic reasons. Still, it is a factual error.
Correction: Many of the 'eyewitnesses' also said that the Titanic didn't break apart when clearly she did. Raise the Titanic never was nor ever claimed to be a historically accurate depiction of the Titanic.
23rd Jun 2009
Terminator Salvation (2009)
Corrected entry: When the guy comes out and is attacked by the ripped-in-half terminator, he gets attacked, the half terminator rips off his boot, the guy gets to the gun and kills the half terminator, then he walks off without getting his boot.
Correction: Already submitted and corrected. The scene of the 'guy' i.e. John Connor walking away from the helicopter with both boots on isn't meant to be taken as an immediate shot from the one before, time has passed between him killing the Terminator and the next scene. It is not necessary to show every single intervening action by a character.
26th Jun 2009
Star Trek (2009)
Corrected entry: During the discussion on the bridge about how to attack Narada, Spock says he will beam aboard and "steal back" the red matter device. However, at this point, Spock does not know that the device was stolen from elder Spock in the first place.
Correction: Simply a figure of speech, it doesn't necessarily imply that Spock knew that elder Spock was the originator of the device.
23rd Jun 2009
Terminator Salvation (2009)
Corrected entry: Inside Skynet's headquarters, when Marcus throws the table through the glass plate, you can see the wires the table hangs from.
Correction: Utter rubbish. Absolutely no wires are present on the tiny sized table that Marcus hurls through the screen.
14th Jun 2009
Terminator Salvation (2009)
Corrected entry: The small terminator nuclear reactors are detonated and blow up Skynet. Nuclear reactors have no explosive content, only radioactive, the result of John Connors blowing them up would have been a very toxic room and nothing more. In the past Terminator movies, if the T's had been walking around with a huge explosive device inside them, certainly some for them would have blown up in destruction.
Correction: They are never described as 'reactors' though that might be the implication. Blowing up the fuel cells is obviously a catalyst for anything else in the facility to blow up.
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Correction: Firstly, its JAKE not Jack, and secondly, being a soldier, he would be equipped with weatherproof and waterproof matches. Certainly military forces today have them, even more likely they would have them in the future.
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