Corrected entry: Old Count Orlok seems to spend a lot of time in daylight. Walking around the ship and then carrying his coffin through the town at the end of his ship's journey.
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12th Dec 2004
Nosferatu (1922)
10th Dec 2004
Runaway Jury (2003)
Corrected entry: When Fitch's assistant is escaping from Nicholas Easter's apartment, Easter smashes the windscreen with an iron pole, but a few seconds later suddenly the windscreen is whole again. (00:55:20)
Correction: This was already corrected once. Easter smashes the driver's side of the windshield, but there are very few cracks on the passenger side. He hits the driver's side again, smashing it further, but he never hits the passenger side. Car safety glass is designed so that the whole thing doesn't shatter in one blow like plate glass.
10th Dec 2004
The Mummy (1999)
Corrected entry: Imhotep's eyes are brown. The American he attacks after his resurrection has blue eyes. So when Imhotep takes the American's eyes, why aren't his own blue now, even BEFORE he fully re-generates his body?
7th Dec 2004
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Corrected entry: The ship was built using the idea and the functions of the original Galaxy Quest show's ship. On the original Galaxy Quest show, they used "beryllium spheres" to run the ship. So, how would it be that there is a planet with these "alien miners" that actually make these spheres if the idea of the spheres came from a television show.
Correction: If the show's creators did some homework and discovered that a beryllium sphere would make a pretty good energy source for a spaceship, odds are decent that another civilization could develop a beryllium-sphere-based spaceship and would mine beryllium to fuel their own ships. Star Trek does this with matter-antimatter reactions.
4th Dec 2004
National Treasure (2004)
Corrected entry: When Ben decides to steal the Declaration of Independence before Ian, he plots to have it moved to the Preservation Room for easier theft access. Ian's plan is to steal it from the same room but how does he know that the document will be in the Preservation Room and not on display or in its vault?
Correction: Nowhere is it stated or shown that Ian was headed for the Preservation Room. He just catches up with Ben in the hall outside that room, probably on his way to the Declaration's vault. There are only a few extremely high-security areas within the National Archives as depicted here.
21st Jun 2004
The Stepford Wives (2004)
Corrected entry: The exercising Stepford Wives manage to drop their poles neatly on the hard floor without bending over and without making a sound.
Correction: The DVD version of the film was edited so that the wives have enough time offscreen to do this. This mistake no longer applies.
18th Sep 2004
The Terminal (2004)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Viktor is with the food transporter in the kitchen, a camera standing on a column is visible above him.
Correction: The kitchen is equipped with security cameras. No mistake here.
1st Dec 2004
The Game (1997)
Corrected entry: We learn that everything was staged by CRS but are we to believe they are so good that they predicted the exact spot that Nicholas would jump from? They even got a big X on the mattress in which he could have jumped from any point of that roof. Even 2-3 meters to the left or to the right would lead him to fall not on the mattress but on the floor and die.
Correction: How can we believe that CRS could predict every one of Nicholas' actions and thoughts throughout the entire movie if they can't precisely determine where he would land if he jumped off a building? Something about Nicholas' psyche made him choose that point to jump at and CRS determined this ahead of time. Feingold says that if Nicholas didn't jump properly it was his job to throw him off - this is a safety measure in case they didn't call it correctly.
25th Jun 2003
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
Corrected entry: In season 7, the first Ubervamp to escape the Hellmouth and attack Buffy is incredibly strong and hard to kill - in the end it's pure luck that lets Buffy defeat it. In 'Chosen', people (including the civilians) are killing Ubervamps all over the place with ease; if they're this easy to kill, why did Buffy struggle so much with the first one? Granted, Andrew says in the meantime that Ubervamps can actually be staked, but Anya adds that it's like pushing a stake through solid steel. Buffy couldn't stake one of them the first time, so how can the Potentials (who haven't anywhere near as much training or muscle power as Buffy) can do it with ease?
Correction: The Potentials have the same raw strength Buffy does but less training thanks to Willow's spell. Buffy had trouble staking the first Ubervamp because she put only the force necessary to kill a normal vamp behind the blow, which wasn't enough to break through the Ubervamp's chest. It's very normal in everyday actions to only use enough muscle power as you would expect to otherwise. Once they know to stake Ubervamps with enough force to go through a normal vamp's back, they have less trouble. All the non-Slayers kill Ubervamps with decapitation.
12th Jan 2004
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
End Of Days - S7-E21
Corrected entry: How did Buffy know where to find the Potentials when they are attacked in the sewer? The First only told her that there had been an explosion, never mentioning a location, and none of the others had talked to Buffy so they couldn't have told her.
8th Jul 2003
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
Corrected entry: In 'Selfless' Anya wants to reverse her wish that killed 12 people and is unable to do it, but during 'The Wish' we were told that all you have to do is destroy her power source and all her wishes will be reversed (Anya has to have a power centre - we see in the episode 'Older And Far Away' that ALL vengeance demons have one). Even though the gang don't know this any more (they wouldn't have any memory of researching it), surely Anyanka herself would know her own weakness?
Correction: First, Anya may not want to destroy her power center because it would reverse every wish she ever granted, not just the most recent one. Second, breaking the power center would also make Anya a human. The point of the episode is that Anya has to learn to live in her own way and pay for her decisions, and to this end she believes that D'Hoffryn killing her would be justice. Asking D'Hoffryn to reverse The Wish is the only way for the developing character to resolve the conflict.
24th Aug 2004
The Stepford Wives (2004)
Corrected entry: When Christopher Walken dies, his head keeps appearing attached and away from his body several times during the shots.
Correction: Walken's head never reappears attached to his body. After Joanna knocks it off, Claire picks up the head and tries to reattach it, but fails and leaves the head approximately where it belongs. The next few shots show the head lying above the torso, but from that angle it's impossible to say that they are connected.
26th Nov 2004
Ghosts of Mars (2001)
Corrected entry: Why do the "possessed" kill? Surely it would be better to capture and use people as hosts for more parasites?.
Correction: They're not smart enough or organized enough. They turn on their own when they show weakness, have no strategizing beyond mad rushes, and use whatever sharp metal instruments they find lying around. Planning to expand their ranks just isn't within their capabilities.
25th Nov 2004
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
Corrected entry: Moore points out the distressingly close relationship between Saudi Arabia's ambassador, Prince Bandar, and the Bush family. But Moore does not explain that Bandar has been a bipartisan Washington power broker for decades, and that former President Bill Clinton repeatedly relied on Bandar to advance Clinton's own Middle East agenda.
Correction: Moore doesn't defend Clinton as the epitome of presidential virtue and certainly never denies that the Clinton administration had dealings with Saudi Arabia. The point is that the relationship between the Bush administration and the Saudis has had a direct effect on American foreign policy in a post-9/11 world. Demanding that Clinton also be blamed is a red herring.
22nd Oct 2004
Ella Enchanted (2004)
Corrected entry: As Char is running from the stampeding girls and knocks Ella down, he says "shush, shush." Ella shouldn't have been able to talk unless ordered afterwards.
8th Sep 2004
Ella Enchanted (2004)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Char and Ella are in the hall talking with Edgar, Edgar tells Char that the crown maker wants to see him for a fitting. Yet, when they are in the room talking ("I'm going to ask her to marry me" etc.), Char is trying on a cloak, not a crown.
Correction: As long as the crown maker had access to the prince for the fitting, it's not unreasonable that any other clothing merchants would jump on the opportunity to fit the prince, as long as he was already there.
25th Nov 2004
Shrek 2 (2004)
Corrected entry: When Shrek visits the Fairy Godmother, she refers to the "happy endings" of several story books, including The Little Mermaid and Sleeping Beauty. Since these story characters really do exist in Far Far Away, presumably she's talking about events that have already happened to them. Yet, when we see Sleeping Beauty at the ball she's still asleep and has no husband with her; and The Little Mermaid steals a cuddle with the (supposedly repulsive) Shrek at the very start of the film - not the action of a happily married mermaid.
Correction: The story of Sleeping Beauty in the book is necessarily incomplete (having been published before her death) and may not include recent events like a divorce and/or relapse. The mermaid who cuddles Shrek is merely a mermaid, not necessarily the Little Mermaid, and the above argument would also still apply.
8th Jun 2004
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Corrected entry: In L.A., when the janitor removes his headphones after the tornado, his shadows do it a little bit before him.
Correction: The shadow is properly synchronized, but the light on the man is from below so it makes his hands look like they're higher than they actually are. Therefore it looks like his shadow hands reach his ears before his real hands do, but it's an illusion.
9th Feb 2004
Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003)
Corrected entry: In the scene where the white coach is outside the bus looking for the black coach after the flares have been dropped, look in the top center of the screen. Off in the distance, on the top of the hill, you can see police cars with flashing lights, obviously where the road has been shut off for shooting the scene.
Correction: There's certainly a flickering light of some sort, but there's no indication that there is a hill of any kind there - it's just too far away to tell. The light isn't broad red-and-blue flashing like police lights but an inconsistent white and maybe green light in a small triangle-shaped pattern. It's impossible to say that this is a police roadblock, maybe a radio antenna.
Correction: Most state troopers have a solid blue light. Those are definitely blue lights.
21st Jan 2004
Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003)
Corrected entry: When the bus driver reaches out to touch the four pronged spike thing that punctured the tire she barely touches it and cuts her hand, but the man who touches it next pulls on it hard to remove it from the tire and doesn't get cut, and he has his hand around the same part that cut the bus driver.
Correction: They don't grab it in the same place. The driver grasps one of the prongs and gets cut. The next man holds it not by the prongs but the grip in the center, which is not sharp. His palm touches the flat part of the prong and isn't cut while he pulls it out. He continues to hold it very gingerly so the prongs don't cut him while they examine it.
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Correction: Nosferatu is based on Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. In this novel, vampires are free to travel in daylight but cannot change shape during the day. Orlock wouldn't have any problems. The only way he can be harmed by sunlight is sunrise while feeding on a virgin sacrifice, as described by the book.
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