Corrected entry: When Markus is travelling to Skynet in San Francisco he is seen travelling south on the Golden Gate Bridge into San Francisco. If coming from Los Angeles there would be no need to use the bridge unless he took a very long diversion around the bay.
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14th Jun 2009
Terminator Salvation (2009)
14th Jun 2009
Terminator Salvation (2009)
Corrected entry: It is said that Kyle Reese is on top of the list of people marked for death. However, when he is captured, identified and singled out by the Terminators, they don't bother to kill him. Even when the facility is under attack by the Resistance, the Terminators prefer to perform some obscure experiment on him in the laboratory, so that there is plenty of time for Kyle Reese to be saved by John Connor.
Correction: You've just answered your own 'plot hole'. Clearly they didn't just want to capture Reese, they had other plans for him as evidenced by the T-600 guarding Reese whilst on the table. It's not a plot hole if in your explanation you've given a plausible reason to counter your own submission.
6th Jun 2009
Terminator Salvation (2009)
Corrected entry: When John Connor flies the helicopter in the first attack sequence, he does not put a seatbelt on. But when it crashes, he releases the seatbelt to then fall onto the roof of the helicopter (it has crashed upside down).
Correction: Pure speculation. The camera shot is framed not to show what Connor is doing the moment he gets in the seat, and it's a matter of at least 8-10 seconds before the helicopter starts lifting off, plenty of time for a clearly experienced pilot to quickly put his seatbelt on.
9th Jun 2009
Terminator Salvation (2009)
Corrected entry: Marcus Wright puts up quite a fight against the T-800, but when the T-800 learns that Marcus's life source is his heart the T-800 delivers a powerful punch to kill off the heart. It was the same kind of casual swing of force that ripped apart an earlier terminator model that was in the T-800's way. However, despite John stating he could kill Marcus's heart with a bullet and the clear superior strength of the T-800, the T-800 it seems is unable to rip through a cyborg despite ripping apart another terminator, one that was arguably more endurable then Marcus was. Not also is Marcus's heart in well enough condition, but it is suitable enough for a life saving transplant for Connor.
Correction: Your whole submission is based on the assumption that the T-600 that the T-800 ripped apart is more durable than Marcus. Clearly the entire fight sequence is at odds with your submission, as the T-600 lasted mere seconds against the T-800 and Marcus lasted SIGNIFICANTLY longer. In fact had the T-800 not analysed Marcus for a weakness, it's likely the fight would have continued. Therefore your submission, worded as it is cannot stand.
2nd Jun 2009
Terminator Salvation (2009)
Corrected entry: In Terminator Salvation, the young Kyle Reese (Anton Yelchin) saves Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington) from a Terminator attack, directing Marcus to come with him before they've even exchanged pleasantries. Reese doesn't learn any manners as he gets older, considering this is the same exchange he has with Sarah Connor after saving her from a Terminator unit in Club TechNoir in The Terminator. The Terminator himself uses a similar greeting with Sarah Connor in Terminator 2: Judgment Day when finding her at the mental institution.
Correction: These are staple utterings in the Terminator movies and are so obvious that they can never be considered legitimate trivia.
7th Jun 2009
Terminator Salvation (2009)
Corrected entry: At the beginning of the movie John Connor sets out to pursue a flying terminator with a helicopter. However, he crashes after a few seconds due to an explosion that was meant as a trap for him and his team. When John climbs out of the wreckage, he sees a mushroom cloud. It's impossible he could escape a nuclear explosion within a few seconds.
Correction: You're assuming it was a nuclear explosion. Large enough bombs will create a similar mushroom cloud, it's not limited to just a nuclear explosion. Further evidence to support it NOT being nuclear, where was the blinding flash from the detonation and pressure wave? Not a mistake.
7th Jun 2009
Terminator Salvation (2009)
Corrected entry: When Marcus is receiving medical attention after stepping on a mine, the combatants realize he is a hybrid. The black guy moves into Marcus' POV and slams the butt of his gun into his face. The screen goes black, indicating Marcus has been knocked out. The next scene also starts with Marcus' POV, indicating he is regaining his consciousness. As seen in the scenes before and after this, hitting him in the face is completely insufficient to take him out (even temporarily).
Correction: He's also just been blown up by a landmine! As evidenced from the overhead shot of Marcus being carried to Kate Connor so she can examine him, he is not looking or acting as if he is unaffected by the explosion. He's sufficiently weakened to allow Barnes to knock him out. Not a mistake.
7th Jun 2009
Star Trek (2009)
Corrected entry: At one point you can see a computer running Windows XP. If you look at the bottom of the screen you can see the distinctive blue and green taskbar.
Correction: Where? What scene? You'll need to resubmit this 'mistake' with a clearer indication as to where it occurs, it's just too vague.
7th Jun 2009
Star Trek (2009)
Corrected entry: When James Kirk is riding his bike to the ship yard, it is a futuristic bike with an apparently clean energy source, but when they show him in a later shot from the front you can see the smoke from the motorbike.
Correction: Smoke, or steam? We are given no clue onscreen as to how the bike is powered, so its rather presumptious to assume the 'smoke' coming from it is not clean.
6th Jun 2009
Terminator Salvation (2009)
Corrected entry: Those motorcycle terminators are able to dodge flying cars and wrecks at reckless speed. However, John Connor captures one by simply pulling a chain across the street.
Correction: Firstly, its not a plot hole, because the movie doesn't fail on this one issue. And secondly John pulled up the chain at the last second, the mototerminator couldn't avoid it because there was rough ground on either side of the road that it couldn't travel on, and the chain was attached to two upturned cars, so it had no choice but to continue into the trap. Not a mistake.
4th Jun 2009
Star Trek (2009)
Corrected entry: At the end of the movie Captain Kirk dumps the core to escape from the black hole. This would have been impossible as the Enterprise was already at warp and dumping the core would have terminated the Enterprise's engines, therefore leading to the destruction of the ship.
Correction: The Enterprise can continue on impulse power which is not derived from the warp core, and considering the warp explosion is the reason for pushing the Enterprise away and the black hole has absorbed some of the energy from the explosion, is why the Enterprise is not destroyed. Not a mistake.
Actually detonating a warp core powerful enough to power a warp drive to move the enterprise at speed much faster than light speed would vaporize the ship as the blast would be as powerful as hundreds of nuclear bombs. Even the black hole shown in the movie would not absorb enough of the explosion to keep the ship from being destroyed. Now you might be thinking"the blast would not vaporize the ship as explosions need oxygen to vaporize things" nuclear explosions do not need oxygen to vaporize things. Only non nuclear explosions require oxygen to vaporize things.
29th May 2009
Star Trek: Voyager (1995)
Corrected entry: When Paris is gasping for air in sickbay several of his dental fillings are visible. It's highly unlikely that dentistry of the 24:th century still uses metal amalgam to fix teeth.
Correction: You're assuming they are metal, they could be made of any material, colouring proves nothing. And personal opinions are not valid entries either.
29th May 2009
Star Trek (2009)
Corrected entry: At the end of the movie, when Spock exits the turbo lift and asks permission to board the bridge, the closing lift doors reveal the reflection of a film crew member.
Correction: Incorrect. It's a reflection of one of the bridge crew stood to the left of the turbolift. The turbolift doors are convex in shape and reflect the bridge on the periphery of the what you see on screen.
23rd May 2009
Rambo: First Blood (1982)
Corrected entry: While Rambo is being asked his personal information in the basement of the police department, look for a young David Caruso (Lt. Horatio Caine on CSI: Miami) as one of the deputies in an early film role.
Correction: How is this trivia? He's onscreen quite clear and obvious to see. Interesting cameos can be considered trivia, but this is neither interesting nor a cameo.
24th May 2009
Star Trek (2009)
Corrected entry: When the Enterprise is in dire danger of being sucked into the black hole, the view window is shown as seriously cracking. In the next scene, as they rocket away, the view screen has no cracks.
Correction: Incorrect, the cracks are difficult to see because of the bright light caused by the warp core explosion, but they are still visible. Not a mistake.
24th May 2009
Star Trek (2009)
Corrected entry: When the Kelvin is attacked by Nero, the chief engineer says that the weapons are down, however in the next scene, when the women get sucked into space you can see the Kelvin's weapons firing even though they're meant to be disabled.
Correction: No, he says, "Weapons offline, main power down 38%", and 'offline' in the Star Trek universe has never meant 'disabled', so it's clear that in the time the Chief Engineer said that, the weapons were brought back online.
22nd May 2009
Star Trek (2009)
Corrected entry: Nero has returned to the past, before his entire world was destroyed; wouldn't it make more sense for him to focus on saving his entire planet, rather than destroying Vulcan?
Correction: Romulus was always going to be destroyed, nothing was going to avert that, and even if there was the slightest chance, he's too wrapped up in his grief for his lost wife and child.
17th May 2009
Star Trek (2009)
Corrected entry: After older Spock does a mind-meld with Kirk and shows him the past, he is shown breathing heavily and dazed. In the next shot, he is completely relaxed and calm like nothing happened.
Correction: Having watched it again, Kirk's breathing gradually returns to normal in all subsequent shots from the end of the mind meld. Not a mistake.
18th May 2009
Star Trek (2009)
Corrected entry: The first shots of the Enterprise in space show it docked at the massive space station with the bridge facing the center of the station. When they show Spock entering the bridge for the first time (when the ship is still docked) you can see the view out of the front viewscreen/window. You should be able to see the huge space station, but all you see is empty space.
Correction: The space station is visible on the viewscreen. As Captain Pike enters the bridge, he walks across the view of viewscreen from right to left, and on the far right side of the screen, you can see the main central hub of the space station.
17th May 2009
Star Trek (2009)
Corrected entry: When the Enterprise arrives in Vulcan space, there is much debris floating around from the previous ships that were destroyed. The Enterprise tries to duck under a large piece, but it scrapes the top of one of the nacelles, knocking many panels off. In later scenes the damage has disappeared.
Correction: Not so. After that scene, there is never again a clear camera shot of the damaged part of the nacelle, therefore it's pure speculation to suggest it isn't still damaged.
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Correction: Another submission that within it gives a very plausible explanation as to why it's not a mistake! As it's never shown onscreen which direction he took, you're making an assumption on the route taken, therefore where is the mistake?
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