Corrected entry: In the scene in which D'Artagnan visits Athos for first time in the film, Athos tells him that when he was young, musketeers used to wear black uniforms (in the time the film is set musketeers/bodyguards wear blue ones, as we can see many times). In the scene near the end, when Aramis and Porthos trick the guard in Bastille dungeon by telling him that they have a prisoner, he lets them in, although they wear black uniforms. It is impossible that the soldier would not know that the style of musketeers' uniforms has changed.
LorgSkyegon
23rd Nov 2010
The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)
19th Apr 2010
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
Corrected entry: After Captain Picard guides Jake Kurland safely through his encounter with a planet's gravity, Picard instructs Kurland to report to Mister Riker. Riker is a Commander and the Executive Officer (XO); Mister is a title used as a rank honorific for someone holding a lower rank and not for the XO.
Correction: He is the captain of the ship. He has the privilege to call lower-ranked officers "Mister".
20th Sep 2010
Major League II (1994)
Corrected entry: All ownership changes in Major League Baseball would have to be approved by the other owners in the league. To gain the approval of the other owners, Dorn would have to show a financial ability to keep the team solvent, which he cannot do. Even if he gets past this hurdle and gets the other owners to approve him, there is almost no chance the owners would approve Rachel Phelps' move to buy back the team, especially after her attempts to lose in the first film.
Correction: If the choice is between someone they dislike owning the team and the team devolving into bankruptcy or foreclosure, they could easily approve to avoid the bad press and complications. Also, it is not a legitimate mistake to argue what someone would or would not have done.
If the league doesn't like any of the prospective owners, they can assume league ownership of the team until an acceptable buyer comes along.
25th Sep 2003
The Rock (1996)
Corrected entry: As Mason is interrogated, he breaks the window. Prior to that he takes a coin and draws a circle on the window. The purpose of that must be that when he uses force the window will break where he has made the circle. That does not happen. The window breaks in the center of the circle, not at the rim as intended.
Correction: Mason also draws an "X" in the circle while the camera focuses on Womack and Goodspeed. The glass shatters at the weak point in the center of the "X".
2nd Sep 2010
Mission: Impossible (1996)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Ethan Hunt types the email for Max, he retypes it again in German, using letters like "ä", "ö", and "ü". However, these letters do not exist in the English alphabet, which is why the laptop he's using doesn't have keys on it with those letters, (and neither does Czech by the way, for anyone who would assume that he might have gotten the laptop in Prague). To be able to type the email in German as rapidly as he did, he would have needed a German laptop, produced and sold in German.
Correction: I took German classes years ago in high school. With practice, it is easy to quickly type the commands needed to input foreign characters. Being how he's a spy, it can be readily assumed that he has quite a bit of practice.
2nd Jun 2004
The Core (2003)
Corrected entry: When Drs. Keyes and Zimsky are explaining to the military guys at the Pentagon what is going to happen, Zimsky is wearing a wedding ring (or at least, a ring on his wedding finger). There is no reference to him being married anywhere in the movie, nor is he wearing a ring in any of the other scenes. (The ring is probably Stanley Tuccis since he still was married at the time of the making of "The Core")
Correction: There is also no mention of him being single that would cause this to be a mistake. Just because a wife (or ex-wife, some people still wear their rings) is not mentioned, doesn't mean she doesn't exist. Also, because he seems to be somewhat of a womanizer, he would be less likely to mention his wife.
12th Jul 2006
Starship Troopers (1997)
Corrected entry: Rico is riding on the back of the acid bug, when he blows a hole in the back of it and drops a grenade he is thrown off. As soon as he hits the ground he ducks behind a dead bug that is maybe 3 feet away from him. The camera shows him getting thrown off at a wide angle and that bug wasn't there previously.
Correction: Just watched the widescreen version. When Rico lands, you can see the bug to his front left as he lands.
5th May 2003
Crocodile Dundee (1986)
Corrected entry: In the restaurant scene, Mick refers to someone else's plate and says 'I like the look of that one' and looks to his left. But Richard, on his right, looks to his right so that Mick can hit him with his right hand while Sue is looking away.
Correction: Exactly. Mick points out someone in front of him and to his left. Sue and Richard therefore have to turn right to see the person, because the "fat sheila" is behind them and to their right.
28th Jul 2008
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993)
Corrected entry: When the choir is just about to start the final song, with Rita already performing her introducing solo, the other kids get a message to change their clothes (to take their robes off). When Rita finishes her solo, we see the piano player with changed clothes too. It's not possible for him to take his robe off - the piano music never stops long enough for such an action.
Correction: Just after Rita finishes her intro and before the other kids come on, the hip-hop backing track begins playing and you can see the piano player stand and begin to take off his robe. Look around 1:33:25.
28th Jul 2004
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993)
Corrected entry: In the final moments of the film, the class gets ready to perform a song in a festival. At the beginning of the performance Rita is standing straight in the camera, and the piano player is at an angle to her left. When the class starts singing the piano player is at the classes right.
Correction: Just watched it twice. At no point does the piano move from its position - the front of the stage on the left side.
11th Feb 2005
Conan the Barbarian (1982)
Corrected entry: In the beginning Conan's father is killed. His sword strikes the ground and visibly bends, wobbling back and forth. Not likely with a solid metal sword.
Correction: Actually quite likely. Owning a number of swords myself (including the Conan replica blade), I can tell you that this is quite common for hilt-heavy blades. It's not the blade wobbling. It's the weight of the blade and the force that it hit the ground with compacting the ground and bouncing up.
13th Jun 2010
Tin Cup (1996)
Corrected entry: It seems unlikely that Roy, a golf professional with an immense passion for the game, had never considered entering the US Open until Romeo put the idea into his head.
Correction: Roy has no confidence in himself because he thinks he blew his shot and now just subsists by running his driving range.
7th Oct 2002
Son in Law (1993)
Corrected entry: When the father is about to go fishing he is holding a pot of coffee in his hand about to fill a thermos and the pot is about empty. They then cut to Crawl, then back to the father and the pot of coffee is now full.
Correction: The pot was about a third full when he grabbed it and looked fuller because it was tilted.
1st Jul 2010
Freddy Vs. Jason (2003)
Corrected entry: In the end scene (spoiler) Freddy stabs BOTH of Jason's eyes, obviously blinding him. Yet throughout the rest of the fight Jason knows accurately where Freddy is, even in the final end where he uses his glove against him. Also, when he sinks away you see one eye staring up as he dies.
Correction: The two characters are essentially magical. I wouldn't think a little fast healing would be a problem.
5th Jun 2010
Gangs of New York (2002)
Corrected entry: Right before the last battle scene, when Bill and Amsterdam are both preparing for battle, Amsterdam recites a couple of his words backwards during his prayer.
Correction: It's not exactly a mistake for someone nervously going into a gang fight to flub some words in a prayer.
16th Sep 2003
The Sound of Music (1965)
Corrected entry: Many years ago, Maria von Trapp was asked if the movie was pretty close to real life, and she replied, "Yes, except for one thing." She amusingly explained that when the family was crossing through the mountains, they were definately NOT singing, unlike the film.
Correction: Either she was joking, or this is an error. The movie differs drastically from the truth. The family escaped by train to Italy, not on foot to Switzerland. Also, Captain von Trapp was an Italian citizen and therefore not subject to German conscription, Georg and Maria were married ten years before the Anschluss and had two children together before they fled Austria, the family sang to pay their bills from an Austrian bank collapse, and the children's names were changed.
12th Jan 2007
Down Periscope (1996)
Corrected entry: When the Admirals are going over Dodge's FitRep, Admiral Graham states that Dodge received his tattoo as an ensign. However it is also stated in other scenes that it happened after the Murmansk incident three years ago. One does not go from ensign to Lt. Commander in only three years.
Correction: Commander Dodge only says that after the Mermansk brushing incident he got "a" tattoo. He could easily have more than one.
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Correction: It could be the guard knows exactly who the famous Musketeers are and doesn't begrudge them wearing their old uniforms. Or the guard was purposefully told to let them by by either D'Artagnan or the King.
LorgSkyegon