Corrected entry: After Obi-Wan cuts Darth Maul in half and he falls into the pit, You see Obi-Wan and his lightsaber is off, a couple of seconds later you see that his lightsaber is on, with no sound of it reactivating.
Tailkinker
13th Jun 2005
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
15th Jun 2005
X-Men 2 (2003)
Corrected entry: Magneto only escapes his prison by ripping the excess iron out of the guard's blood, which Mystique injected. There was an even better opportunity to escape earlier, when Miss Nagai came in and attacked Cyclops. Miss Nagai has an adamantium skeleton, just like Wolverine, and he could've easily ripped this metal out instead.
Correction: Indeed, and had he not been in the process of being gassed into unconsciousness at the time, he might have done that, but the whole gassing thing can really foul up your concentration. Besides, there's no evidence that Miss Oyama (please note the name) went any closer than the antechamber while he was still conscious - from the fact that they perform the scans there, it's fair to say that Magneto can't manipulate any metals in that room.
23rd Jun 2005
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Corrected entry: The final scene of the movie shows Vader and the Emperor looking out at the Death Star being constructed. This doesn't fit with the storyline as there is almost 20 years between episodes 3 & 4, that is quite a slow construction. Compare this to the time in which the second and more powerful death star is almost finished. Some time could be accounted for through prototype versions and testing, but not 20 years.
Correction: This has already been covered elsewhere - considering that major building projects on Earth can take several years to complete, it's hardly unreasonable that it could take the Empire, even with their more advanced technology, twenty years to construct a battle station that's seventy-five miles across, involves at least one completely untried technology (the planet-destroying superlaser) and many other technologies on a scale previously unheard of. The second Death Star's construction would be quicker, as they'd have learned from building the first one, but it is quite clearly not even close to being finished - the amount of construction that's seen is quite consistent with a build time of two to three years.
Correction: Besides, the Death Star may not have much steel. Other materials would be present. For example, titanium alloys replace steel on Earth, and composite materials can be substituted for steel in some cases. While steel is strong, lighter materials are better suited for objects that need to be moved.
22nd Jun 2005
Aliens (1986)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Newt and Ripley are in the room with the face huggers, Ripley tries to escape by banging a chair against the glass window full force. However, it merely bounces off. But, when one of the marines dives at the window, it smashes. How is this possible?
13th Jun 2005
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Corrected entry: When Darth Maul kicks Obi-Wan off the walkway, he falls off the walkway feet first. In the next shot, he falls down head first. (01:50:50)
Correction: Firstly, he falls off sideways, not feet first. Secondly, he falls a pretty long way - remember that Maul also falls to a lower walkway (Qui-Gon jumps down to join him), and Obi-Wan still has to leap upwards to get to them. We certainly don't see the entire fall, making it entirely plausible that he twisted in mid-air during the part of the fall that's off-camera.
12th Jun 2005
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Corrected entry: On the bridge of Grievous' ship, Obi-wan cuts the head off of a magna droid and it keeps fighting. However, right before Obi-wan faces off with Grievous on Utapau, he cuts off the head of a magna droid and it falls dead.
Correction: The magna droid on Utapau is already badly damaged, so the loss of the head is enough to finish it off - in the prior encounter, the magna droid is otherwise in perfect shape, so is able to continue fighting.
5th Jun 2005
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
Corrected entry: As Ford and Arthur fall out the Vogon airlock, the Guide explains that someone can survive in vacuum for thirty seconds if they hold their breath. Actually, the opposite is true: if one exhales all air one can survive for several seconds. If one holds one's breath, the increased internal air pressure would cause a human to explode.
Correction: The Guide contains little or no information on human beings, which is why Ford was on Earth in the first place. This information would have been perfectly accurate with 95 percent of the intelligent space-faring species in the galaxy - it's not the Guide's fault if we're physiologically strange.
4th Jun 2005
Back to the Future (1985)
Corrected entry: In the escape from the Libyan chasers, watch the ending of the chase. Marty already pushed the car to 90 on the analog speedometer, but the digital barely even made the jump to 88.
Correction: Analogue speedometers are not, as a rule, particularly accurate, hence Doc's choice to put in a digital version. It's not unreasonable that the two could differ in their reading by several miles per hour.
4th Jun 2005
Hannibal (2001)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Clarice is asking Barney where all of Dr. Lecter's belongings from the hospital are, Clarice mentions that Dr. Lecter's drawings are missing. The drawings are not missing. Clarice gave them back to Dr. Lecter at their final face-to-face in "The Silence of the Lambs."
Correction: Lecter didn't take his drawings with him when he broke out, so they were left with his other possessions, which would have been stored away somewhere. Presumably they are no longer there, implying that somebody, probably Barney, has removed them from the storage facility and sold them.
4th Jun 2005
Face/Off (1997)
Corrected entry: When Castor Troy (as Sean Archer) defuses the bomb at the L.A. Convention Center, the time stops at two seconds on the bomb's display. Immediately following this, there is a live newscast, and the reporter praises Sean Archer for diffusing the bomb with "one second left."
Correction: It's highly unlikely that the reporters would have been allowed to actually see the bomb in question - Troy presumably told them that there was only a second left. It's not as if he's going to care much about accuracy.
3rd Jun 2005
Chicken Run (2000)
Corrected entry: At the end when Ginger gets Nick and Fetcher to steal tools from the Tweedy's so they can build their plane, why didn't she simply get them to do some more damage to the pie machine in order to buy some time in making the plane?.
Correction: Character mistake, not a movie mistake.
30th May 2005
Tarzan (1999)
Corrected entry: The elephants talk about piranhas and how they only live in South America not in Africa. But how do the elephants know this in the first place?
Correction: They heard all about it from some passing birds that had visited South America. Elephants are notorious knowledge junkies and always like to discuss matters both important and trivial with anyone they should happen to meet.
29th May 2005
Alien Vs. Predator (2004)
Corrected entry: When the chief Predator turns the woman's face in the scene where they take the body of the dead Predator on to their ship: He turns the woman's face with his hand to look at the 'tau' mark but we are shown this in visible light where as we all know the Predators can't see for toffee in visible light, so this shot should have been shown through the Predators visible wavelength. But would he have been able to see it in his own wavelength?
Correction: Logically, yes, the Predators must be able to see such a mark. If they couldn't, there wouldn't be any reason for them to use it to mark themselves - what's the point of a mark of honour that can't be seen.
24th May 2005
The Abyss (1989)
Corrected entry: When they are filling Bud's suit with the pink liquid and he panics, one of the seals says "we all breathed liquid for 9 months, his body will remember" or something like that. But this is incorrect. In the womb our lungs may well be filled with amniotic fluid but we don't use them to breathe at all, all the oxygen comes from the mothers bloodstream via the umbilical cord.
Correction: He's trying to reassure Bud that it's going to be alright - if he has to stretch the truth to do that, that's what has to be done. Bud would hardly appreciate it if Monk got technical at this point. Anyway, although not for 9 months, we do technically "breathe" in the womb. During the last few weeks before delivery, the fetus begins moving amniotic fluid in and out of its lungs. This matures the lungs and strengthens them for use once born. It also coats them with a surfactant that will prevent lung collapse when the newborn takes it's first breath. That is way babies are sometimes smacked or suctioned to remove the remaining amniotic fluid from their lungs (that was not expelled during delivery - especially in Cesarean section deliveries).
22nd May 2005
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
Corrected entry: It takes the girls six weeks to cover 1200 miles, approx 20 miles per day, but they had no water with them.
Correction: You are aware that this is a true story, right? The girls scrounged from farms and aboriginal hunters that they encountered along the way, taking what little food and water they could find in order to continue their journey. Just because we don't see it, that doesn't mean that it didn't happen.
25th May 2005
Alien Vs. Predator (2004)
Corrected entry: There is no explanation as to what initially causes the heat bloom that is detected by the satellite or how this is supposed to lure people to the area when it is presumed that this would be detected even though it is way under ground, and who or what knows that humans have reached the level of technology to detect things from space?
Correction: The heat bloom is caused by the power generators in the pyramid firing up. In case you missed the first two Predator films, the Predators have been visiting Earth on a fairly regular basis to hunt - they could hardly miss the presence of orbital satellites and, with their advanced technology, would be able to figure out their capabilities with ease.
23rd May 2005
Alien Vs. Predator (2004)
Corrected entry: In the scene where the dead Predator is laid to rest on the slab in the space ship: shouldn't the other Predators be able to see the Alien inside him wriggling about, as they did a few times throughout the film? So therefore they would not have walked off and left him alone.
Correction: They have to intentionally scan the body to see it - it doesn't show up with their normal vision. Apparently they didn't scan their dead comrade - possibly a mistake on their part, but that's a character mistake, not a movie mistake.
24th May 2005
Star Wars (1977)
Corrected entry: If the Death Star did take 18-20 years to build, then it would impossible for them to finish the second Death Star, as there wasn't 18-20 years in between episodes V and VI.
Correction: Well, as is pretty obvious by watching the film, the second Death Star isn't even close to being finished. Standard building practice is to complete the basic structure, then fit out the interior, which generally takes longer than the structure does. As can be seen, the basic structure's not complete, so the interior's going to be mostly a shell, other than the superlaser (installed as a priority) and the support structures that it needs. The second Death Star isn't even one quarter complete at the time of the Rebel attack. It's going to be quicker to build the second one, as construction techniques developed during the building of the original can be applied from the start, so it should be expected that it would take less time, even though the second Death Star's rather larger than the first one. Assuming that they started shortly after the destruction of the original (which isn't explicitly stated - they might have started earlier), it's entirely plausible that the Empire could have built the second Death Star up to the point seen in the film.
23rd May 2005
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Corrected entry: Darth Vader has the red button on his chest on the right side, but in the original movies it was on the left.
Correction: It's hardly unreasonable to think that there would have been some modifications (upgrades, damage fixes) to his life-support suit in the years between the films.
22nd May 2005
Star Wars (1977)
Corrected entry: At the end of Episode III, we see that the Death Star is in the early stages of construction. If Luke is around 18-20 years old, are we to believe that it took almost 20 years for the Empire to finish the Death Star?
Correction: Yes, we are to believe exactly that. It's a construction project on a scale unprecedented even with their technology levels. It can take us years to construct large buildings, so it's hardly unreasonable to think that, even with their advanced technology, it could take the Empire twenty years to build a space station that's 75 miles across and involved at least one previously untried technology (the planet-destroying superlaser) and the use of several others on a previously unheard of scale.
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Correction: There is no shot of Kenobi with his lightsabre off - in one shot, the beam follows the line of the wall, making it less clear, but it is there.
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