Corrected entry: In space there is no sound at all, so we couldn't hear the explosion of the spaceship.
Tailkinker
22nd Jul 2006
Mission to Mars (2000)
22nd Jul 2006
Titanic (1997)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Jack is going to sketch Rose, before she gets on the couch she hands him a coin: a Roosevelt dime, minted in 1946.
Correction: This has already been corrected at least once - it's a Barber dime, entirely correct for the period. Please check these things before submitting.
13th Jul 2005
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Corrected entry: Keisha Castle-Hughes, from "Whale Rider", can be seen in this movie as the queen of Naboo during Padme's funeral. Her scenes took one day to film.
Correction: She's in the credits - this is not valid trivia by any stretch of the imagination. And as she only appears in very few shots in one short scene, it's hardly worthwhile to point out that it could all be done in a single day.
27th Aug 2001
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Corrected entry: The same actor plays Nute Gunray, one of the Naboo pilots, one of the Senators, and the Jedi Ki-Adi-Mundi.
Correction: Information that can be gleaning simply by watching the credits is not good trivia.
18th May 2002
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
Corrected entry: At the beginning of the other films after all the text has gone up the screen, the camera scrolls down. But after the text on this film, the camera scrolls up. It is the same as in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Correction: Something that can be seen by anybody watching the film is hardly valid trivia. And this can hardly be unique to those two films.
23rd May 2002
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
Corrected entry: At the beginning when Amidala meets with Palpatine and Yoda, two guards are standing in the corners of the room. They're dressed identically to the Imperial Guards from ROTJ - a hint as to what's coming...
Correction: Foreshadowing is a pretty standard story-telling technique that occurs throughout the saga. There's no need to point out every single example of it, particularly as they can readily be seen by anybody watching - that's not what trivia's about.
19th May 2002
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
Corrected entry: After Obi-Wan dives through the window, the next morning as Padme's packing we see from outside and inside shots little robots flying in a replacement sheet of glass and welding it into place. Nice attention to detail, Mr. Lucas...
Correction: Pointing out something that's, frankly, pretty obvious in the film is not valid trivia.
4th Mar 2005
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
Corrected entry: In the first scene where we see Palpatine in his office, look closely to the design of his chair. It is the same chair Palpatine is sitting in the Death Star in Return of the Jedi but with an extra top. Nice touch of Lucas to show that Palpatine will eventually become the Emperor.
Correction: That's called foreshadowing. Perfectly standard storytelling technique which occurs throughout the saga and certainly doesn't need to have every single example of it pointed out.
12th Jul 2006
Doctor Who (2005)
Corrected entry: Rose is kept alive because the daleks think what she knows may be useful to them. However to get the information from the scientist they tell him to kneel and extract the info they need from his brain. Why didn't they just do the same thing with Rose?
Correction: As is spelled out in the episode, the Daleks keep Rose and Mickey alive because they both carry the temporal energy required to open the Genesis Ark. While they only need one of them to actually open the Ark, the Daleks are intelligent enough to keep them both around in case of problems.
9th Jul 2006
Runaway Bride (1999)
Corrected entry: The scene where Richard and Julia are deciding on a price that he will pay for her story, is and obvious reference to Pretty Woman were they are deciding what he will pay for her company for the week. In both movies he says 'Done.' when they reach and agreement.
Correction: People haggle over prices in many films and 'done' is not exactly an uncommon phrase when concluding a deal. Without some extremely specific references to the earlier film, this cannot be considered valid.
9th Jul 2006
Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (1989)
Corrected entry: Three people involved in this film have won the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award. They are George Lucas, Harrison Ford, and Sean Connery.
Correction: So what? I'm sure that it's not unique in that regard. Trivia is about the film, not about coincidences relating to those who made it.
9th Jul 2006
Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)
Corrected entry: Just in case anyone overlooked it: the Beethoven sketch is and purposely full of anachronistic items.
Correction: This is blatantly obvious to anybody watching it, so doesn't need to be pointed out.
10th Jul 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Corrected entry: In the first film the P burned into Jack's arm is on the underside of his wrist, seen when Commander Norrington grabs his arm. in this film it is seen on the top of his wrist while he is writing.
Correction: It's on top of his wrist in the first film.
8th Jul 2006
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
Corrected entry: When Obi-Wan and Anakin jump off the gunship in front of where Dooku went in two clones jump off after Obi-Wan and Anakin are off, but where do they go?
Correction: In the following shot, when the Geonosian fighters destroy the gunships, they can also be seen to fire at the landing platform. One of the two clones can be seen falling from the platform - it's fair to assume that the other was also killed.
18th Jun 2006
Back to the Future Part III (1990)
Corrected entry: In the second film, we learn that Marty's future was drastically altered by a car accident with a Rolls Royce, the driver of which apparently suing Marty for damages. When we see the accident, Marty was meant to be racing down a highway, with the Rolls failing to give way coming out of a side street. This means that it was actually the Rolls Royce's fault, and the driver can't have sued Marty. (He would still have broken his hand, but his financial situation would have been much better off in the future).
Correction: Marty's taking part in an illegal street race - had he ultimately participated he'd have been traveling considerably above the speed limit and without anything resembling due care and attention. As such, some if not all of the blame would be attached to him, leaving him completely open to being sued.
18th Jun 2006
Doctor Who (2005)
Corrected entry: Season 2: Episode 10 - Love and Monsters: Elton said that when he was young, he went downstairs and found the Doctor there. However, the Doctor has only looked like he does now for maybe a year or less because he keeps regenerating and changing his looks, so when Elton saw him he should have looked completely different.
Correction: The whole time travel thing's really passed you by, hasn't it. The Doctor can show up practically anywhere and any when he wants to.
13th Jun 2006
The Da Vinci Code (2006)
Corrected entry: The story of this movie is inspired by a book called "Holy Blood, Holy Grail", by three writers called Leigh, Baigent and Lincoln. Notice that one of the characters in the movie has Leigh for a first name, and Teabing, an anagram for Baigent, for a surname.
Correction: Actually, in a recent court case, Brown argued successfully that the earlier book did not inspire his tale when the authors of the prior work attempted to sue him. He claims to have become aware of the other book during the writing of "The Da Vinci Code", and the character name is an obvious nod to those writers, but it was not the source of inspiration.
11th Jun 2006
Hercules (1997)
Corrected entry: When Hephaestus is shown making lightning bolts for Zeus, he is standing straight and tall. According to Greek mythology, though, Hephaestus was a cripple.
Correction: By site policy, differences between a film and its source material are generally not considered valid mistakes.
10th Jun 2006
The Shining (1980)
Corrected entry: The texture of the carpet fabric decorating the Overlook Hotel,is the same as the carpet in the house of the evil child Sid in Disney's Toy Story (1995).
Correction: Pointing out that another film contains an homage to this one is not valid trivia for this film, but for the one that contains the homage. The makers of this film had nothing to do with it.
6th Jun 2006
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
Corrected entry: In the scene when Anakin and Padme's spaceship approaches Naboo, if you look closely, you can see Hudson Bay and the East Coast of North America under the clouds. The image of Naboo was stock footage of Earth. Also, Geonosis (in a later scene) appears to be stock footage of Jupiter.
Correction: Having checked through the film, I can find no shots where either Naboo or Geonosis bear any significant resemblance to Earth or Jupiter - there is, in fact, no shot of Anakin and Padme's ship approaching Naboo that I can find; the first shot is of their ship landing at the spaceport. And, given Lucas' attention to detail when it comes to effects, it's hardly likely that he would resort to the use of stock footage of a readily identifiable planet, particularly when he already has images of Naboo available from Episode 1.
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Correction: As is pointed out every single time something like this gets submitted, the use of sound in space is a standard movie convention and is not considered a mistake.
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