Corrected entry: The plant found by Wall-E in the safe is green. Plants, however, won't generate any green chlorophyll if there hasn't been any light since it started to grow.
Joshua Skains
7th Jul 2008
Wall-E (2008)
20th Aug 2009
District 9 (2009)
Corrected entry: We see Chris distill a drop of fuel, and he states that after 20 years of searching he finally has enough fuel. Later on, Wikus opens the fuel cell and is sprayed with a good amount of fuel. Though Chris knows that the fuel is responsible for changing Wikus into a prawn, Chris doesn't mention once that he'll now need to get more.
Correction: We do not know that what sprayed Wikus is in fact the fuel. It makes no sense that the fuel itself would make that kind of change (DNA restructuring). It is entirely possible that was just a defense mechanism to protect the small amount collected.
11th May 2009
Star Trek (2009)
Corrected entry: If the red matter created the black hole and created a time/space tunnel for Nero's ship and for Spock's ship to go back in time, material from the supernova star should have come through also.
Correction: This is an opinion, not a mistake. We don't know the laws of physics for what does and does not go through the red matter created singularities.
9th Jul 2008
Wall-E (2008)
Corrected entry: At the end of the movie, Wall.E compacts the whisk from earlier in the movie into a cube. But, EVE broke the whisk and, yet, the whisk is completely intact later on.
Correction: There is no way to know this was the SAME whisk as he had a LOT of repeats. He had an entire box of forks and another of spoons. We know this because of the funny scene with a spork.
29th Jun 2008
Wall-E (2008)
Corrected entry: When Eva and Walle are in the rain and Walle covers her with an umbrella, Walle is to Eva's left. When Eva goes over her security camera and watches Walle cover her with the umbrella, Walle is facing her.
Correction: The skin of Eve is complicated, as we can see the "search" lights work through the skin with no visible lenses. It is safe to assume the camera systems are fairly complex and 360 degrees of recording.
7th Jul 2008
Wall-E (2008)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Wall-E and Eva are flying through space together outside the ship and the fat characters see them, John first has a blue suit, and right after he is wearing a red one. (01:05:45)
Correction: It is fairly well established the red/blue mechanisms in the suits were instant and seemed to change in many different conditions, so for all we know it kept changing.
6th Aug 2006
Superman Returns (2006)
Corrected entry: An electromagnetic pulse (EMP), such as those caused by the crystal reactions, affects unshielded electronic equipment because it induces a voltage surge in their components, effectively 'frying' them. All affected devices are damaged permanently and would never work again, not even after a few minutes, as they portrayed to do so here.
Correction: Who said it was a pulse with the exact same properties as a nuclear EMP? For all we know, the wave simply saps out electricity.
21st Jun 2006
The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
Corrected entry: When one of the mutants is on top of Brenda in the bed (when her brother and brother-in-law are about to come in and right before they see the father set bon fire), the mutant holds up his knife, which obviuously is rubber because it flops back and forth. (00:53:30)
Correction: That's not a knife. It is the antenna of the Walkie-Talkie Radio he was using.
27th Aug 2003
Crimson Tide (1995)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Gene Hackman regains command of the Alabama, he tells his loyal officers to inform their men personally that he is again in command of the ship. As soon as they turn around to go back to their stations, Gene Hackman picks up the intercom and tells the entire ship that he is again in command. So why did he want his men to do it, if he was going to do it himself?
Correction: He makes an intercom announcement which he then wants his officers to *personally* communicate otherwise it may not be believed.
20th Dec 2005
The Island (2005)
Corrected entry: Lincoln and his sponsor have identical moles on their faces. This would be highly improbable since things like moles and birthmarks, although influenced by genetics, would appear randomly at different places on different clones of the same person.
Correction: They specifically mentioned a full scan is done of the sponsor. Since skin can be harvested as well, the clones could be constructed with birth-marks, etc. They formed them as adults, so they are not normal clones, they are exact copies.
11th Aug 2004
The Manhattan Project (1986)
Corrected entry: A neutron-emitting "initiator" is needed to set off a nuclear bomb, but there is use (or even mention) of such in the movie.
Correction: This was a different type of bomb that used compression through the explosives that were placed around the core like a soccer-ball.
6th Nov 2003
The Manhattan Project (1986)
Corrected entry: Very early in the film, the percent purity of the processed Plutonium is shown being ranked on a graph by mass in atomic mass units. Much later that same measurement is shown being graphed in terms of alpha emission energy.
Correction: That doesn't mean they weren't simply looking at different meassures at the next point in the movie.
6th Nov 2003
The Manhattan Project (1986)
Corrected entry: Paul Stevens finds an anomalously large number of mutant five leaf clovers on the lawn outside the secret weapons laboratory, which is presented as evidence of the large quantity of highly radioactive plutonium within. If the radiation were leaking out in large enough amounts to cause that many mutations in the plant life, then surely everyone both inside and immediately outside would be as good as dead.
Correction: The concept is supposed to be that small plant life, especially one as simple as a four-leaf clover, is far more sensitive to changes in the environment and dangerous toxins than more complex life like humans. It is this very reason that coal miners took small birds with them into the mine shafts. If they hit some dangerous gasses, the bird would die first. It is unknown if any of these people have or would eventually show signs of radiation poisoning as it is never covered in the film.
27th Aug 2001
Roxanne (1987)
Corrected entry: During the scene when Charlie has to come up with 20 put-downs about having a big nose (in the bar), he rattles off 19 insults and asks "How many is that?" A gentleman in the bar yells, "Fourteen, Chief!" Then Charlie proceeds to give six more insults for a total of 25.
Correction: This isn't really an error. Perhaps the man wanted to get Charlie to say a few more.
22nd Jul 2005
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Corrected entry: The film is set in Britain, as is evident by the British money, but there are a couple of cars driving on the right hand side of the road.
Correction: We can assume there are cases of one-way traffic. There are cases in the US where you would see cars in the farthest lefthand lane in one-way streets.
22nd Jul 2005
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Corrected entry: Wouldn't Wonka and the Bucket family call the Glass Elevator a "Lift" since they live in England?
Correction: And the Russians in Hunt for Red October should have been speaking Russian all the way through. I think we can give some artistic wiggle-room in this case since many Americans (of which the target audience is) may not know what a lift is. Also, it's called an elevator in the first movie and the book as well. In fact, there's a second book called "Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator".
23rd Jul 2005
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Corrected entry: When the crates are being loaded onto the trucks from the conveyor belts in the opening sequence, they are being loaded into the center of the truck. However, in the next shot the crates are stacked up on the sides of the truck.
Correction: Perhaps someone was in the truck re-arranging them.
23rd Jul 2005
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Corrected entry: On one of the machines in the "inventing room" there is a gauge labeled "PRESSURE" that is missing the pointer.
Correction: As odd as that factory was, can we really call this a mistake?
23rd Jul 2005
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Corrected entry: When Mike is playing the video game at his house, he is using the joystick and we can see from the screen that the game he is playing is an FPS (first-person shooter). An FPS would never be played with a joystick because you need to control what direction you are facing as well as what direction you are moving. This is why modern controllers have two control sticks. If it was an older game (where you cannot look up and down, so there are only 3 "degrees of freedom" instead of 4) then there would be only one control stick but separate "strafe" keys would be needed, and joysticks do not have those.
Correction: Oh please. This is a bit extreme. Some time back, I played Doom all the time with a simple joystick. You can also get regular joysticks for PS2/Xbox as third party products.
20th Jun 2005
Boogeyman (2005)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Tim is using the nail gun to board all the doors shut, there is no cable connecting the nail gun to a compressor, which he would need in order for the nail gun to work.
Correction: I have a Nail/Staple gun that doesn't use air and is powered by rechargable batteries.
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Correction: There was light. It wasn't pitch black.
Joshua Skains
It was sealed inside a minifridge, therefore, no light can get in.