Corrected entry: What keeps the zombies from eating each other?
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27th Aug 2005
Resident Evil (2002)
18th Aug 2005
The Stepford Wives (2004)
Corrected entry: When Nicole Kidman's character finds out that Bette Midler's character has been turned into a Stepford Wife, Bette Midler puts her hand on a hot stove. Nothing happens to her hand, and she feels no pain. However, at the end when they destroy the microchips, Bette Midler's character goes back to normal, showing that she wasn't a robot, but affected by the chip. It is physically impossible for her not to burn her hand if she wasn't a robot when Nicole Kidman finds out she's a Stepford Wife. Also, if some of the Stepford Wives were robots and some just had microchips, then why would Faith Hill dance crazily as if she were a robot, and her boobs would get larger and smaller, but at the end of the movie she was only affected by a microchip, too?
Correction: As has been corrected at least twice so far, the women ARE robots. Their human brains are transplanted into robot bodies and then equipped with programmed microchips. Mike is LYING during the presentation because this process is much more drastic than the microchip insertion alone and could turn potential customers off. When the microchips are fried the women's brains are freed of the programming, but they're still in robot bodies much like Mike himself.
18th Aug 2005
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
Corrected entry: Mina should not be a vampire. People only become vampires when they die as a result of having their blood drained as a vampire. Mina survived the events of Bram Stoker's book.
Correction: The characters aren't lifted exactly from the books, they're approximations that are interpreted to fit the film's needs. You could also point out that Skinner isn't the real Invisible Man, that Hyde was physically smaller than Jekyll (and they both died), and that Dorian Grey's portrait didn't actually make him invulnerable (quite the opposite, in fact).
28th Jul 2005
The Incredibles (2004)
Corrected entry: When Mr. Incredible first fights the Omnidroid, his suit gets cut by the robot. What takes him so long to realize he needs to get it fixed. Assuming he took his suit to every "meeting" and used it for a job, he would have realized the cut and gotten it fixed sooner.
Correction: Mr. Incredible goes to exactly two meetings with his new employers and only wears the original suit to the first one. After the first job he uses the time normally spent at the Insuricare job to work out in the train yard, returning home at 5 so his wife doesn't notice anything different. Getting the cut fixed isn't emergent at all.
22nd Jul 2005
Eurotrip (2004)
Corrected entry: Scott has a photo of Mieke and his/her cousin Jan, not knowing who is who. In German (which Mieke always uses when writing Scott) such mistake isn't possible; there are distinct words for male and female cousin. (00:14:40)
21st Mar 2002
Blade Runner (1982)
Corrected entry: In the scene where the female replicant is shot and goes through the windows her shoes change from high heels to flat from shot to shot.
Correction: Her shoes are always flat in every shot.
26th Aug 2004
Blade Runner (1982)
Corrected entry: When Deckard hassles Hassan the snake dealer for information, he asks who bought the snake of the scale he was presenting. Hassan tells him it was Daffy Lewis in the 1st sector. When Deckard is at Daffy's bar and calls Rachel, he tells her that he is at Daffy Lewis' place down in the 4th sector.
Correction: Both times it is Taffey Lewis' in the 4th sector.
19th Jun 2005
The Incredibles (2004)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Helen goes to the principal's office, she doesn't have the baby with her, but in the next scene, driving home with Dash, the baby is in the backseat.
Correction: This has already been corrected. Helen leaves the baby in the back seat while she goes into the school to talk to the principal. It's Helen's (rather severe) parenting mistake, not a movie mistake.
13th Jun 2005
28 Days Later (2002)
Corrected entry: In the closing minutes of the film, the Infected begin to starve to death as some of the characters predicted. But wouldn't they have died of thirst within three or four days of being infected (especially through using so much energy), rather than several weeks by starvation?
Correction: The infected don't live the whole 56 days, just as Jim is not in the coma for the whole 28 days. The first generation of zombies infect the second generation during the initial panic. The second generation arises and hunts any survivors, receiving hydration and nutrition from their blood and flesh. Fewer third-generation infected arise because there are fewer hosts for the virus in the area, and there is an even smaller fourth generation and so on. Therefore, though the first generation would have long since died, the newer generations can extend the threat of infected because they have become infected relatively recently.
Where is it stated that they devour survivors? Or are a few bits from biting each person enough to sustain them?
13th Jun 2005
National Treasure (2004)
Corrected entry: Franklin wrote letters when he was sixteen containing "clues" (ie. capitalizing letters) to the location of the treasure. The clues referred to "Pass and Stow," the two craftsmen who recast the Liberty Bell. However, the Bell was not even ordered by the people of Pennsylvania until 30 years after Franklin was 16, so he could not have known that "Pass and Stow" would have cast the bell, or that their names would be on it.
Correction: When Franklin wrote the Dogood papers he did not embed the code in it. When the code trail was being constructed they used the Dogood papers by searching through them for the correct letters and noting their coordinates. You can do this with any document as long as it has all the letters you need. It just so happened that the last letter in the code was a capital; not all of them were.
2nd Jun 2005
Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)
Corrected entry: Just after Neal and Dell settle into the hotel room, we see Neal in the shower. He opens the shower curtain and see clothes and towels and the dirty sink, etc. Now wouldn't he have seen all that stuff before getting into the shower?
Correction: No, Del made that mess while Neal was in the shower. They were both in the bathroom at the same time.
28th May 2005
The Incredibles (2004)
Corrected entry: The robot slashes Mr. Incredible's arm, leaving a big cut, but the cut doesn't bleed.
22nd May 2005
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
Corrected entry: In the final episode, Willow turns all the Potential girls into Slayers, so they can fight the army of uber-vamps. This is obviously wrong because of episode 7.11, "Showtime", when one uber-vamp alone beats the bejeezus out of experienced slayer Buffy. There is no way 30 or so newly-formed slayers could've taken out thousands of uber-vamps, much less the humans who kill several themselves.
Correction: This has already been addressed. The reason that the first Ubervamp was so difficult was that they weren't sure how to kill it. Buffy thought it couldn't be staked; turns out she just needed to put much more force behind the blow. When the Potentials become Slayers they have the same strength. Buffy was also forced to fight the first Ubervamp without weapons. When the ordinary humans are fighting at the end they are all armed with heavy blades to decapitate the vamps.
25th May 2005
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Corrected entry: Anakin's clothes catch fire when on land, despite being exactly the same distance away from the lava as he was when standing on the droid earlier.
25th Apr 2005
Angel (1999)
Corrected entry: Angel's crew (except Lorne and Conner) revert back to thinking that they're 16 years old following Lorne's spell. Cordelia however already knew Angel when she was 16, yet she acts as if she doesn't know him already. (See Season 1 of Buffy).
16th Jan 2005
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
Corrected entry: When Nemesis kills the STARS members in the theater, why doesn't the roof cave in when Nemesis blows it up? With the large frame holding up the theater sign, it would be almost impossible for the roof not to fall in.
Correction: The rocket doesn't blow up the roof, it blows up the sign. The explosive force escapes upward rather than exerting itself downward - path of least resistance.
14th Mar 2005
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
Corrected entry: When the Nemesis first acquires the S.T.A.R.S soldiers in their base camp, he is able to instantaneously count them in a single glance. The problem is that some of them weren't directly in his line of sight. Even if he had equipment to scan through walls, he then should have been able to acquire the rooftop sniper.
Correction: He has equipment to scan through walls, possibly infrared. He doesn't see the sniper because he's looking forward and level when he does the target scan, not up. If he had done the target scan from farther back the sniper would have been in his field of vision and he would have seen it, but the scan occurs at a single time and not continuously.
22nd Sep 2004
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
Corrected entry: Towards the beginning, a massive crowd of zombies chase a blonde girl up the stairway of a building and all of them end up on the roof. She is saved by the cops in the helicopter, who shoot many of the zombies. But, when the scene is over, there are only about 20 dead zombies on the roof. Where did the rest of them go? They didn't retreat back down the stairs nor did they jump off the building.
Correction: I paused the movie at every point showing the zombies and never counted more than 12 chasing her. That's more than enough people to choke a stairwell.
7th Feb 2005
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
Corrected entry: Pay attention to the actions of the cowboy sniper on the roof. He shoots a zombie, reloads, shoots the zombie again and reloads. Before he saves LJ he reloads again. Why did he reload when he had a round ready to be fired?
Correction: The sniper shoots, reloads, and shoots again for the kill. Then he empties the chamber (we hear the shell being ejected) and takes a swig of beer, but doesn't reload (no targets). Therefore the chamber is empty when he reloads to save LJ.
13th Mar 2005
Mean Girls (2004)
Corrected entry: When Cady bumps into Ms. Norbury on her first day of school, coffee is spilled all over the teacher's shirt. However if you look closely, you'll see the VERY deliberate way Ms. Norbury holds the coffee cup, horizontally so that it is still spilling, instead of picking it up right after it falls against her shirt.
Correction: Actually, I do that, too. Sometimes it's better to let the bad thing happen than try to correct it in a panic and fling coffee all around the room. The shirt's ruined anyway.
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Correction: Resident Evil's zombies crave fresh, living meat, not the putrefying meat of other corpses. They're motivated to attack by hunger, so they only attack living things that look and smell appetizing. This is why JD is mostly intact even though he was in an elevator full of zombies - after they bit off enough to kill him they stopped eating him.
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