Corrected entry: Spinosaurus was supposed to have straight teeth, yet in the plane sequence when there is a close up of the Spino grabbing Nash's leg, his teeth are curved back.
Super Grover
27th Sep 2005
Jurassic Park III (2001)
26th Sep 2005
The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)
Corrected entry: For understandable reasons, when we cut to the close up of Andy's face during the waxing scene, no strips are actually taken off, though he reacts three times. You can tell because no additional hairless sections are evident when we cut back to the full shot, and because seven patches are taken off during the entire scene, which matches his body as well as the number of used wax strips lying on the bed. If he had actually been waxed during the close-up, he would have had ten patches.
Correction: Just as it is a frequent directorial decision to show action from multiple angles, in order to show the action from a different perspective, it is also common to show people's reactions to the single action, or sequence, repeatedly to heighten and enhance the drama or humor of the situation.
25th Sep 2005
Trick or Treat (1986)
Corrected entry: When Eddie does the laundry, the news broadcaster says "Good evening I'm Maggie Walfernandez and these are tonights top stories" indicating it should be dark out. However in following shots daylight is coming through all the windows and the back door.
Correction: Even news programs beginning at 5:00 pm, reporting on the issues of the day, would refer to it as something like, "Tonight's top stories" or "This evening's top stories," and as such, there is still daylight at that time of day, and for quite awhile thereafter.
24th Sep 2005
Troy (2004)
Corrected entry: When Odysseus leads the Greeks up the stairs and are trying to break through the gate that Paris and other Trojans are waiting for them on the other side, you see Paris draw an arrow and fix it to his bow. However, when the Greeks finally do break through the gate, he is seen in a self-shot drawing another arrow and quickly firing it again.
Correction: In the first shot, Paris raises the bow and nocked arrow - we do not see him let loose (note the distance between him and the window behind). Next shot is a close-up of the Greeks streaming in. In the third shot, as the Greeks begin battling Trojans in the background, Paris heads for the stairs in the foreground where he draws and lets loose the arrow - also seen in the fourth shot close-up (note the closer distance to the window). Between the first and third shots Paris could very well have let loose that first nocked arrow and turned around. No continuity error here.
17th Sep 2005
Back to the Future Part II (1989)
Corrected entry: Marty, Jennifer, and Doc Brown travel to the year 2015. Shortly after landing the Delorean in an alley, if you look at the wall that leads out of it, you will see spray-painted on a wall the words "Class of '16".
Correction: It is quite common to refer to your future senior year of graduation, even while you're a freshman - so a freshman in September of '80 is part of the Class of '84, and that is what he/she will think of for the next four years.
16th Sep 2005
Star Wars (1977)
Corrected entry: When Owen talks to Beru in the morning, she says, "I think so.", but her lips hardly move. (00:26:30)
Correction: Actually, when one says the words "I think so" it is unnecessary for the lips to "hardly move" at all.
2nd Sep 2005
Dumb and Dumber (1994)
Corrected entry: When Lloyd is having his dream sequences, some of the settings involve Aspen, or a ski resort; but Lloyd is still under the impression that Aspen is a warm place.
Correction: While awake, though Lloyd may have the mistaken impression that Aspen is warm, it does not discount the fact that when asleep, anything is possible in dreams. So in his dream, the idea of a snowy Aspen, however inaccurate for him, is still only a dream.
31st Aug 2005
Passions (1999)
Corrected entry: On 8/22/05, Ivy introduced herself to Chris as "Ivy Crane." However, her name has been Ivy Winthrop for several years.
Correction: On the 8/23/05 episode, Ivy said that her last name is Crane, and there are several explanations. To try to deliberately impress the reporter (Chris) for whatever conniving reason, that she was once a Crane (married to Sheridan's brother Julian, no less), or it could have been an accidental slip of the tongue because she spent so many years as a Crane. But regardless of what the reason is, this is still just a character's mistake.
1st Sep 2005
Batman Returns (1992)
Corrected entry: In both scenes with the 'helicopter' umbrella, it shows simply the small spokes attached to the handle. Now, even if there were a motor small enough to drive the 'blades', its not spinning near fast enough, the 'blades' are nearly big enough to move any air, and the absence of a tail rotor would mean that anyone standing on the handle would be rotating the opposite direction as the blades.
Correction: At a certain point there must be a suspension of disbelief, when it comes to particular 'gadgets' in this movie and others like it. To actually put forth an explanation, as to why an umbrella-copter would not have the ability to fly is both silly and unremarkable.
1st Sep 2005
Titanic (1997)
Corrected entry: In the shot just before Jack is about to draw Rose's naked picture, Rose hands Jack a dime to pay for the drawing. However, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the portrait on the dime, was not the president until 1933-45, so a dime in 1912 would not have his picture on it.
31st Aug 2005
The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)
Corrected entry: During the chest waxing scene, the woman doing the waxing is really laughing after the first pull. She manages (barely) to control herself during the next ones.
Correction: The woman laughs when she rips the hair off a grown man's chest - well this is not unrealistic at all, and quite surprising that she doesn't laugh some more with the next couple of tugs. Regardless, this is not a film mistake.
30th Aug 2005
Hot Shots! (1991)
Corrected entry: When Ramada is interviewing Topper in her office, she lists off the difficulties that his father had. She says "In 1971 his Visa card was cancelled." BankAmericard did not change its name to Visa until 1976.
Correction: In this instance it does not matter that National BankAmericard Inc. changed the name BankAmericard to the easy, memorable name Visa in 1976. Since it is the exact same card, it is hardly a mistake to have referred to it as the commonly known Visa card in the early 1990s, when the film was made - even though the card cancellation occurred in 1971, when it was still BankAmericard. Regardless, this is a character's choice of words, not a film mistake.
21st Aug 2005
Troy (2004)
Corrected entry: Near the start when we see Achilles on his ship with his soldiers, the camera cuts to a soldier walking along the rowers, in this shot we don't see the main sail, yet when it cuts to him again coming up to Achilles the main sail is just behind him. We should have been able to see this in the previous shot from the soldiers feet. (00:34:35)
Correction: When this shot opens the camera is way down low, just at the height of the starboard side rowers. The stern rigging at starboard are visible beside these men, when Eudorus' legs come into view, as he begins walking from the stern towards the bow. As the camera continues to follow Eudorus' legs, the base of the mast - which is farther up on deck, would be wholly impossible to see, because many other men's legs are on deck in front of Eudorus' legs, and because of the unusual angle of this shot. In the next overhead shot, Eudorus has already passed the mast and heads to Achilles at forward deck; and as a side note this does not grate with continuity, because it is unnecessary to see Eudorus walk the entire length of the deck on camera.
Corrected entry: In the opening shot when the camera pans towards to ship, note there is no large plank holding a sail, yet when we see Elizabeth and you look in the background, a plank and sail has suddenly appeared. (00:25:00 - 00:50:00)
Correction: In the opening shot of the film, just as it starts panning in on Dauntless in the foggy mist, the spritsail yard - with its furled spiritsail (the "large plank holding a sail"), IS visible in front of the fore-mast sail, directly above the ship's prominent figurehead, at the top of the screen. Much of the length of the bowspirit - from which the spritsail yard hangs, is blocked from view by the figurehead, as the shot is angled up, however, in the following shots on forward deck the bowspirit is more visible (note the figurehead below it).
Corrected entry: When Elizabeth is in the cave and Barbossa goes to cut her hand, he holds his hand on her hand and turns it over, yet in the following shot, his hand is now on her wrist. (01:09:20)
Correction: After Barbossa slices Elizabeth's palm, in the first shot, he squeezes her hand closed so the blood stained medallion is tightly enclosed within her grasp, and as Barbossa grips her hand he turns her hand so it is palm side down, over the Aztec chest. It cuts to two shots of the pirates hooting and hollering - and we do not see Elizabeth's hand. Then in the fourth shot Barbossa holds Elizabeth's wrist, as he forces her to drop the medallion. There is plenty of time between the first and fourth shot for Barbossa to change his grip.
Corrected entry: Just after Elizabeth threatens to drop the gold coin into the sea, her body's direction changes in subsequent shots from turned at a side to facing the captain of the Black Pearl. (00:38:20)
Corrected entry: In the middle of the film when we see Jack and Will looking over their new crew members, Jack gets to Annamaria, and when the camera looks at the ship it's side on, yet when it cuts back for another view of the ship a few shots later, it's pointing in Jack's direction for a perfect camera shot of the Interceptor. (00:59:55)
Correction: When Jack begins to inspect their able-bodied crew in Tortuga, Interceptor is moored in the distance, on open choppy waters, and it visibly moves on the water. As Anamaria says, "I will!" the ship is seen, and four shots later when Interceptor is seen again, it is only a bit turned starboard as it bounces on the choppy waters in the following shots - it is certainly not "pointing in Jack's direction."
Corrected entry: When Elizabeth is on her way to the Black Pearl, the first shot we see is from behind the captain, and if you watch this scene closely you don't see anyone entering the main part of the ship from the right, but when it cuts to Elizabeth there is already the bald pirate on the ship, and Elizabeth is climbing over. (00:36:20)
Correction: In the first shot, Elizabeth is still in the small boat between Pintel and Ragetti. As the next wide shot opens from bridge deck, the small boat is being hoisted by the pirates at starboard side down below and is still below deck rail, as the camera pans back behind Barbossa. In the next shot, the small boat is well above the rail as Ragetti and Elizabeth are at the top of the ladder and walk through the deck rail, while Pintel stands on deck. These three consecutive shots are deliberately cut to indicate time compression for the following: When the small boat pulls alongside the Black Pearl, Pintel, Ragetti and Elizabeth step out onto the ladder mounted on the Pearl's hull that leads to the deck. As they climb up, the boat is being hoisted up beside them, so that by the time they all reach the deck, the small boat hangs above them.
22nd Aug 2005
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Corrected entry: When Aunt May and Peter are talking, while she is packing up her things in her backyard, the cream-colored Oldsmobile can be seen in the garage. This is the same car that was stolen and totalled by the thief that killed Uncle Ben in Spider-Man. Even if the smashed up hulk of the car was retained by May Parker, her financial situation would never have allowed her to get it restored/rebuilt to the condition it is in. And no insurance company would have come close to repairing a car of that vintage. The car should not be there.
Correction: It is impossible to claim that the car "should not be there" when there are a variety of suitable explanations available. She could have indeed paid for the repairs herself for sentimental reasons, perhaps she used insurance money from Uncle Ben's death, or she sold something, or she did it with Peter's assistance, or the car insurance company may very well have paid for repairs. It is unnecessary to figure out how the car was repaired, it simply was. Also, as stated in trivia, the Oldsmobile is Sam Ramie's trademark.
Corrected entry: When Jack has just shot Barbossa, he uses both hands to rip open his vest, to see the blood spot begin to form on his chest. He says,"I feel...cold." and then falls to the ground. The next shot shows an apple falling from his hand. If he was just in a fight, and used both hands to rip open his vest, where did the apple come from?
Correction: When Barbossa walks into the cave at Isla de Muerta, as Pintel says to Will, "No reason to fret, just a prick of the finger," Barbossa tosses the green apple up into the air. They are about to perform the blood ritual with Will, so Barbossa, who we know favors apples, has one ready for the occasion. Later, after Jack shoots him, when Barbossa pulls his jacket open revealing the bloody wound, the camera pans up to his face for two close-ups (with a shot of Jack between), and as Barbossa realizes what has occurred, he reaches into his pocket for his prized apple - out of camera shot. So after he falls, the green apple dramatically slips out of his grip.
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Correction: The fossilized teeth of a real Spinosaurus may indeed be straight, but the dinosaurs in the film have been created through research and DNA gene-splicing. Between the supercomputers, Dr. Wu and the research team at International Genetics Technologies they manage to replicate dinosaur DNA. However, they still are not precisely the same as the originals.
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