Jedd Jong

27th Jul 2009

Ocean's Thirteen (2007)

Corrected entry: Rusty drops a trick quarter for the Five Diamond reviewer to use at the slot machines in the airport. However, McCarran airport slot machines have stopped receiving quarters for years.

Jedd Jong

Correction: It isn't a trick quarter. The machine is faked by the timing of the tokens. McCarran machines still take tokens, don't they?

26th Jan 2010

The Rock (1996)

Correction: While I understand the suppposed connection between movies, I think the reason this method was used in these movies was because it is a common misconception that this particular medicine must be administered this way. Not true at all. It is delivered through a shot to the rear or thigh, as described in military "self aid buddy care" handbooks. The needle on the device is FAR too short to penetrate below the ribs, let alone into the heart. Its just more dramatic this way.

Kimberly Mason

Correction: Beauty and the Beast was the first film to be released after Ashman's death, but it was not the last film he worked on. That would be Aladdin, released the following year.

JC Fernandez

Corrected entry: When the vampires chasing Lucian during the first escape are exposed to sunlight, they vaporise immediately. However, possibly for dramatic purposes, Sonja does not disintegrate (only badly charred) when she is exposed to sunlight.

Jedd Jong

Correction: Because Sonja is Viktor's daughter and is an older vampire than the vampires chasing Lucian. As such, she is going to be much stronger and it will take more to make her disintegrate. This is the same as when Selene is exposed to sunlight in Underworld:Evolution. Both Sonja and Selene are direct fledglings of Viktor, and so their vampire blood has not been diluted by intermediaries.

Corrected entry: After firing the nano-mite missile, Storm Shadow jumps out of the building, falls a couple of stories and catches onto the Cobra ship. However, in the next shot the Cobra ship is at the same floor Storm Shadow jumped out of, and he is just clambering into the ship.

Jedd Jong

Correction: So where's the mistake? The ship was climbing when Storm Shadow jumped, and it took some time to pull himself up and in. Just because the action sequence skipped ahead to keep the action flowing, rather than grind to a halt while we wait for the ship to climb, does not mean there's a mistake. It's an editing technique called pacing.

Phixius

Corrected entry: The SUV on display in the mall would not be filled with fuel at all, let alone enough for Paul to pursue Veck to the airfield.

Jedd Jong

Correction: The dealership loaning or providing the vehicle would have 1-2 gallons of gas in the tank for driving it in and out of the mall, getting it up or off the car carrier, and into or out of the showroom. A new vehicle that size could easily drive 30-60 miles on that small amount of gas. That is well within range of the airport.

Watchful

24th Apr 2009

Hitch (2005)

Corrected entry: "Allegra Cole"'s name was likely chosen as a homage to Allegra Coleman, a fictional celebrity supermodel (much like Allegra Cole) invented by writer Martha Sherrill for the purposes of a hoax magazine article. Model Ali Larter portrayed the imaginary model in Sherrill's feature which appeared in Esquire (November 1996).

Jedd Jong

Correction: The fact that you said "was likely chosen" makes this an opinion of yours and not actual movie trivia.

mrsjaybubba

16th Apr 2009

X-Men 3 (2006)

Corrected entry: The protruding rock that Cyclops stands on when he shoots his optical beams into Alkali Lake was actually a fiberglass prop affixed onto the existing rocks by production designer Ed Verreaux.

Jedd Jong

Correction: Using false terrain is a very common filmmaking practice. This isn't trivia.

21st Mar 2009

Robocop (1987)

Corrected entry: The scene in which Alex Murphy's arms are blown off and he's shot through the head was accomplished using a lifelike prosthetic puppet in the likeness of Peter Weller that could move its face to look like it was "screaming."

Jedd Jong

Correction: That is an incredibly common special effects technique. To be trivia it would need to be something unusual or different than what would be expected. Prior to CGI, all films would have used a similar technique.

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