Corrected entry: In 'Death Proof', a white 1970 Dodge Challenger is featured prominently in both the dialogue and as the vehicle driven by the three heroines. This is a homage to the 1971 film, 'Vanishing Point'. But a major plot point of the story hinges on a feature the car never had. Zoe Bell's character will lay on the hood of the car, held there by belts attached to the frames of the door windows, but no 1970-74 Dodge Challenger ever had such frames. The car is a two-door hardtop coupe, and it's windows are frame-less (and there is no reason anyone would want to custom add them). This error is magnified by the fact that they used chrome frames where black ones would have been far less 'hacked' looking. The entire error could have been avoided by simply installing a full roll cage in the car, using the bars at the A-pillars to attach the belts to.
rswarrior
13th May 2007
Grindhouse (2007)
22nd Apr 2011
Limitless (2011)
Corrected entry: In the beginning when Eddie and his girlfriend are eating, she says she wants to break up. Then, she gives her credit card to the waiter, but leaves without getting her credit card back.
Correction: This happens in real life, why is it a movie mistake?
23rd Apr 2008
The Car (1977)
Corrected entry: When 'The Car' charges at two oncoming police cars, it leaps up and barrel-rolls sideways over the top of the squad cars. One of the front wheels falls off, but when the Car lands and drives off, all four wheels are fine. (00:56:30)
Correction: The car also has no dents or scratches from doing that. It's a supernatural car, with no driver, no effect from being shot at with revolvers or shotguns, or broken glass when it should have shattered many times over. It's not too much of a stretch, if we accept all that, to have the car replace its' wheel in midair.
8th May 2008
52 Pick Up (1986)
Corrected entry: The "last ten seconds" of Raimy's life actually last 43 seconds, for dramatic effect, of course. (01:45:10)
Correction: Time compression or extension is constantly used in movies to heighten tension, or leave out the boring bits. It's so common a technique, it can't be considered a mistake.
1st Jan 2010
Legends of the Fall (1994)
Corrected entry: William Ludlow writes to his wife on April 13, 1913. She replies to that letter and includes that Samuel and Susanna will be visiting William "this summer". Yet the events involving Samuel and Susanna at William's home include two occasions where Samuel voices concerns for the events taking place in Europe at the start of World War One in 1914. He and Susanna have not been at William's home for a full year as Samuel speaks with Tristan about Susanna, her ideas and their plan to "not wait for marriage" as if it is all fresh and new, and does so after the first discussion of the war. It must be 1914. The only other explanation is that mail takes about six months to cross the country at this time, and Isabelle was replying in the fall of 1913, which would be ridiculous, as even then such mail took just weeks at worst to arrive.
Correction: Everything seems to hinge on the mail being relatively quick and efficient. Mail can get, and does get lost, misplaced, rerouted, or otherwise delayed even in 2009. I have had mail from Korea arrive to me in Canada before mail from California, even though the order was placed the same day. There are many examples of lost mail arriving years after being mailed, the most recent of which I can recall was a letter mailed from the US Midwest, to one of the eastern states during WWII, which finally arrived in the mid 2000's. The letter had fallen behind a bureau or filing cabinet and was not found until the post office was being demolished and rebuilt.
21st Apr 2011
Hot Rod (2007)
Corrected entry: When Rod, Denise and Jonathan are talking at the restaurant, instead of saying 'So, super Rod', he says 'So, super Dave'.
19th Apr 2011
Black Swan (2010)
Corrected entry: Recently, Natalie Portman was nearly sued by her stunt double, who claimed that Natalie didn't deserve the Oscar because she didn't do most of the dancing in the film.
Correction: Not really trivia, not really related to the movie. More of a news item.
19th Apr 2011
Race With the Devil (1975)
Corrected entry: Director Jack Starrett claimed he hired real-life Satanists as cult-member extras.
Correction: Word for word copy from IMDb.
11th Apr 2011
Hanna (2011)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Hanna is feeling the wind in her hair in the camper, her hair blows back and reveals that her ears are pierced. She would not have been able to have her ears pierced had she lived in the Arctic.
Correction: Why not? My sisters pierced their own ears using a sewing needle, ice and alcohol. All household items, even in the Arctic.
24th Jan 2011
Corner Gas (2004)
All My Ex's - S1-E7
Corrected entry: At the end of the episode when everyone is in the interrogation room, Davis lists the mistakes made during the remodeling: the one-way glass was installed the wrong way, the intercom doesn't work, and the door locks from the wrong side. Oscar then discovers that they are all locked in the room. This is how interrogation room doors are supposed to lock, but judging by Davis' intelligence, he probably doesn't know that. (00:18:40)
Correction: So what you're saying is Davis is not smart enough to know the lock is supposed to prevent exit from the interrogation room. Which is in fitting with his character, and thus, not a mistake.
3rd Mar 2011
Star Trek (1966)
Corrected entry: About 19 minutes into the episode, Scotty gives the altitude of the person Kirk and Spock are looking for as approximately 30 meters (approx 98 feet) using accurate Enterprise equipment up from where they are standing on the street. They go to apartment 12B which would be the 12 floor. The stories in the apartment build would have to be slightly over 8 feet high each for it to be the 12th floor. Apartment building stories are at least 10-12 feet each. They should have come out on at most the 9th floor.
Correction: First it was approximately 30 meters, as in an estimate. Round it up to 100 feet, 10 feet per floor, makes 120 feet. An approximation within 20 feet is not unreasonable. Thirty five meters may have been a better approximation to state, but 30 is not an inordinate amount off.
27th Feb 2011
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991)
Corrected entry: When Harley gets to town, the first thing he does is visit his friend, Marlboro. However, there are dozens of biker bars, not to mention hundreds of pool halls all over Burbank, after being gone for two years, how would Robert (Harley) have a clue where is buddy was currently hustling?
Correction: Because they have a favorite bar to hang out in. I lived in a city with hundred of bars, and friends and I went to maybe two.
27th Feb 2011
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991)
Corrected entry: At the bar shootout, hundreds of rounds are fired. The police would have arrived eventually, either by someone reporting gunfire, or a random patron eventually visiting and noticing the death everywhere. The motorcycles parked in the nearby ally would have been seized and stored as evidence. Yet at the end of the move, Harley shows up, somehow reacquiring his motorcycle. Even if he would have went to the police to get his bike, since his prints were all over the bar, he would have been there for days trying to explain his role in the shootout. Not to mention questioned about the death of the airport employee next door.
Correction: Why would the police seize the bikes in the alley when they may have nothing to do with who did the shootout? Their presence is circumstantial at best. Getting fingerprints from a public place like a bar, where thee are likely millions of fingerprints would not be productive, and police probably wouldn't attempt to get fingerprints.
27th Feb 2011
Let Me In (2010)
Corrected entry: When Abby and Owen talk outside, there is no exhalation steam out of their mouths, which obviously would appear in cold winter.
Correction: Breath isn't always seen when it is cold out, it's more an indication of humidity. Just because there is snow on the ground does it mean it is very cold out, and just because there isn't snow on the ground does it mean it's warm. In New Mexico, where the story takes place, it is not humid much of the time. Therefore, there may not be much breath vapor. I work at a place where the last few days it has been extremely cold outside, with and there is little breath vapor. Inside the plant it is warmer, but more humid, and breath is visible.
27th Feb 2011
Twilight (2008)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Bella is talking to Edward just after she comes out of the doctor's office (when Edward, Carlisle and Rosalie are talking), you can very faintly see the rims of her contact lenses. I'm watching on Blu-Ray which makes it more noticeable).
Correction: How is this a mistake? Lots of people wear contact lenses.
10th Sep 2003
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Corrected entry: Connie...the girl that asks Tony if he's "as good in bed as on the dance floor" was played by a then-unknown Fran Drescher, who later became famous on the TV comedy "The Nanny."
Correction: How is this trivia? She's in the credits. All actors got the start somewhere.
3rd Mar 2011
Star Trek (1966)
Corrected entry: In a very strange coincidence, a little more than seven minutes into this episode, which aired March 29, 1968, Spock states there will be a major assassination today. Six days after the original airing, Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis on April 4, 1968.
28th Feb 2011
52 Pick Up (1986)
Corrected entry: One of the first scenes if of Harry in his garage using a pulley to take the roof off his car. Later on the same day driving to visit Cinni the roof is on his car.
Correction: It's "later" the same day. Plenty of time to put the roof back on.
1st Mar 2011
Tooth Fairy (2010)
Corrected entry: In the scene when the are they are playing poker at his apartment, Johnson says "aces over kings" which is a full house. The boy says "flush". And pulls all of the cheetos. A full house beats a flush.
Correction: Not if it's a straight flush or royal flush.
2nd Mar 2011
Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)
Corrected entry: Because this movie was shot in 3D, all of the kicks and punches are real. For instance, the scene in which Alice kicks Bennett's gun away had to be done over and over again. So much so that his hand was black and blue when the final take was made. Ali Larter even broke a finger during the shooting of the film.
Correction: The punches and kicks are not "real". As Ali herself said in an interview, "...learning how to do the stunts, because you can't cheat anymore. You have to come within an inch of someone." Note within an inch, not hitting the other person. Ali sprained her finger, not broke it. If anyone's getting hit for real in the stunts, it's because they misjudged the distance to come close to hitting the other person. Paul Anderson also confirmed that the stunt people have to come closer to hitting the other person than with conventional 2D movies, but any hitting of the other person was accidental.
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Correction: Yes, the error could have been avoided with a roll cage, but it's just as unlikely a guy would install a roll cage in a car not built for racing, as installing window frames.
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