Corrected entry: In the beginning of the movie when Mikela is walking away from Sam and his broken car, there is a shot where Sam is saying, "No, no, no, don't let her walk away" and the car starts. In that shot, the passenger side door is open. In the very next shot where Sam gets out and closes the hood, the door is shut.
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5th Nov 2007
Transformers (2007)
2nd Nov 2007
Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
Corrected entry: Farrell's own cellphone was Nokia E61. In the car, Farrell used his car-lighter charger to charge the battery of the stolen Nokia 9300, which has different charger connector than his Nokia E61.
Correction: The fact that Matt (Farrell) uses his own car-lighter charger, which he carried around with him, implies that he also carried around with him other other computer/phone related bits and pieces. This is shown by the fact that he has a "soft" keyboard with him which he uses later on in the movie. Therefore it would be safe to assume that he has an adapter plug in his bag to charge any phone or any other device with his car-lighter charger.
30th Oct 2007
Transformers (2007)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Sam and his friend go to the lake party, when they are leaving, Sam's friend crawls through the window to get into his car. Then the shot goes over to show his friend through the drivers side window, and the passenger door is standing open, which would not make sense if he just crawled through the window.
Correction: Why not ? There is enough time for him to get seated and open the door so he can put his feet up. Just because he crawled through the window it doesn't mean he can't open the door. His friend is acting like a fool so jumping through the window then opening it a moment later fits his character.
6th Oct 2007
Transformers (2007)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Sam Witwicky meets Barricade and hits the door and falls on the ground, in the shot after he says "Ow, that hurt" you can see a driver inside Barricade closing the door.
Correction: You're supposed to see the driver. Who do you think Sam is talking to when he gets up ? It is the same driver you see in the drivers seat when Barricade picks up Frenzy at the airport. It is a "hologram" to represent a driver/police officer.
13th Aug 2007
The Fifth Element (1997)
Corrected entry: In the scene where they are talking about the temperature of the evil planet thing, the sensors really must be bust as it is reporting -5000 degrees, which would be impossible as the lowest temperature possible is 0 degrees kelvin, -273.15 celsius or -459.67 fahrenheit.
Correction: True, those are the lowest possible temperatures. However, they don't actually specify what temperature scale they're using - it's possible that a new standardised scale has been developed which uses -5000 as the equivalent of absolute zero.
The only scientific scale defines "zero" as "no energy." So if future humans use another scale, they would be inferior to us.
17th Apr 2007
Prison Break (2005)
Corrected entry: Previously the Special Service has denied that Paul Kellerman has been working for them, so obviously he is under a false name. In episode 18, LJ correctly finds out that his real name is Owen Kravecki. Later in series 2 though, when Kellerman meets his sister, she calls him Paul. Wouldn't she call him by his real name, Owen?
Correction: Owen Kravecki is his false name. The same Owen Kravecki that works for the Bison Jerky factory. The secret service only denied that Paul Kellerman had worked for them, and it doesn't mean his real name isn't Paul Kellerman. The secret service doesn't call their agents by false names.
in the second last episode of season 2 Paul wrote a letter to his sister Kristy Kellerman as shown.
6th Feb 2006
King Kong (2005)
Corrected entry: In the end of the movie when Kong falls and everyone is surrounding him. Mathematically speaking, with his size and weight and the height of his fall, he should have left some kind of crater or indentation in the pavement where he landed, and there should be some casualties who did not manage to get out of the way of his fall. Instead he left a nice clean corpse for everyone to marvel over and take pictures of.
Correction: A minor point, this mistake hasn't really got anything to with Math, its all about the Laws of Physics. These laws will show that Kong should have bounced when he hit the ground. We don't see it screen but it would have happened. So Kong would have bounced and landed again in another position from where he initially "landed". Who is to say Kong didn't make an impact crater of some sort, there are far too many people around to show the extent of damage of the ground. At that height (from the top of the Empire State building) the people on the ground should have seen him falling and moved out of the way accordingly. There were police watching the events above and would have seen Kong falling and warned people to get out of the way. As for the clean corpse, this may be the only true mistake, however showing a mangled giant ape on screen would hardly be appropriate.
27th Jan 2006
Jurassic Park III (2001)
Corrected entry: The very first scene of the movie is a plane flying by. The next shot is a guy looking at it with binoculars, and we see the reflection of the plane is right-side-up. Binoculars reflect things up-side-down. (00:01:00)
Correction: Binoculars are made of a series of convex lens. The front lenses are the larger pair of convex lenses. A convex lens reflects objects the correct way up. It is concave lenses that reflect things up-side-down.
31st Jan 2006
Jurassic Park III (2001)
Corrected entry: The velociraptor resonating chamber that Billy shows Dr. Grant is actually a dog's resonating chamber. (00:12:10)
Correction: The machine used to fabricate the resonating chamber of the Velociraptor is completely fictitious. No-one really knows what the resonating chamber would look like. Therefore, who is to say that the resonating chamber of a dog and Velociraptor are not similar? Seeing how both animals are capable of making loud barking and squawking noises, it makes sense that they could be similar in shape and size.
11th Jan 2006
Rush Hour 2 (2001)
Corrected entry: At the very last scene when Carter and Lee are talking in the airport, you can see people looking directly at the camera and the actors in the background. One woman even looks at them then looks away as not to be noticed by the camera.
Correction: In the movie world, there is no camera. They are in a public place, i.e. the airport, a very busy public place. People in public places are allowed to look around, stare at certain objects and even look a other people around them. By looking in the direction of the camera, it could simply be that they are looking at "something" in that direction.
3rd Jan 2006
Jurassic Park (1993)
Corrected entry: In the scene where the Brachiosaurus is standing on its back legs and comes down again you can see the earth shaking. During that little quake, the 3 characters are standing perfectly in balance. Better yet, the woman even turns around to face the other. They should be falling or at least terribly lose balance. (00:21:25)
Correction: Not necessarily. The characters see the Brachiosaurus stand up and were prepared for it come back down. Although a Brachiosaurus was said to have weighted about 70 tonnes, at worst the Brachiosaurus put about half its weight onto its front legs when it came down. Hardly a major earth shaking event.
4th Jan 2006
Armageddon (1998)
Corrected entry: Shortly before Stamper detonates the nuke we see a computer screen at NASA which shows the asteroid nearly at "Zero Barrier". Only 1 minute later, the screen is visible a second time and the two halves of the asteroid are already beyond the tangent where it would have hit earth on a straight flight. Earlier in the movie it is said that it'd take the asteroid about 3 hours and 57 minutes to get from zero barrier to hit earth. So it's impossible for the two halves to be beyond that line. (02:12:45)
Correction: This is far too obvious to be a mistake. There is no indication that thei "1 minute" was in real time. We see the screen with the two halves when the guys at NASA are celebrating. They are only celebrating after they are sure the two halves are clearly going to miss Earth.
30th Dec 2005
I, Robot (2004)
Corrected entry: After Del has been to the Lake Michigan landfill site and the NS-5s start to attack, he jumps back onto his bike and flicks his left foot up to engage gear. The gears on the bike are 1 down 4 up, so 1st would have been better than 2nd for a fast escape.
Correction: This is a character mistake. What a character "should have" done is not a movie mistake. Del simply was too panicked to think and put the bike into 2nd rather than 1st.
8th Dec 2005
Sahara (2005)
Corrected entry: Clive Cussler, the original author of the novel "Sahara" that this movie was based on, sued the studio because he felt that the producers had taken too many liberties with the screenplay (e.g. removing/changing crucial scenes or information and adding unnecessary material.).
Correction: This isn't exactly true. (a) The lawsuit is actually on hold due to many reasons, including Clive Cussler's health issues, so the full terms of the lawsuit are still unclear (b) the lawsuit involves not giving Clive Cussler final script approval and that the studio went ahead with shooting the film without his approval. (c) removing scenes occurs in every book to film transitions. Therefore can hardly be grounds for a lawsuit.
6th Dec 2005
Batman Begins (2005)
Corrected entry: When Batman throws his first explosive on the speeding train, it hits the window and the glass breaks inward. It should break outward.
Correction: They're not explosives. They are small metal pieces, in the shape of a bat, that he also used earlier on in the film (to destroy the lights). The windows break "inwards" because of the speeding train causes wind to blow "inwards". Just like wind blows "inwards" when you pull down the windows while driving your car.
Correction: That's the physics of how glass windows break. Broken glass will move towards the direction it was hit from (that is to say if an object is moving towards the right when it hit the window, the glass will move to the left). If the window is broken from the inside, the pieces will fall inside. The only reason glass falls to the other side is because as it breaks and falls on top of itself, sometimes it's unbalanced and topples backwards.
4th Dec 2005
Rambo: First Blood (1982)
Corrected entry: After Rambo crashes over the police road blockade with the army truck, he drives back to the town with relative ease. Why didn't the police chase Rambo back to the town?
Correction: Many things are apparent that can easily account for this. (1) Rambo was presumed dead thus most of army personell had already left. (2) Rambo injured most of the town's police officers and hence they were not on duty. (3) Rambo did crash into the blockade and hence those vehicles could not give chase. The crash would have destroyed any radio/communication device they had.
4th Dec 2005
The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
Corrected entry: When 'the kid' is talking to Neo in Zion about joining a crew the 'plug' on Neo's neck is gone.
23rd Sep 2005
Lost (2004)
Corrected entry: During the second half of the Season 1 Finale "Exodus", Hurley is rushing to the airport to make his flight. When Hurley's car suddenly breaks down on the way to the airport, there is a close-up of the dashboard, and in clear green numbers we see "42KM 23C 15KPH speed". The dashboard display then quickly switches to flash the green numbers "42 KM 8/4KPH (8 changes into 4). When Hurley makes it to his gate it is number 23.
Correction: Again, the reoccurrence of these numbers are fairly obvious plot points. Listing every time these numbers appear in the show is unnecessary. The fact that at least one these numbers will appear in almost every episode indicates the relevance of these numbers to the island. No need to point out every occurrence.
27th Nov 2005
War of the Worlds (2005)
Corrected entry: When Ray and the kids hide in the smaller room in the basement, he shuts the door and everything goes black. But in the larger part, he had the lights on, so the lights from the bigger section of the basement should have shone through in that slit under the door. However, there was no light.
Correction: There was a huge explosion. So big in fact that there was a huge fireball in the "main section". This explosion destroyed almost the entire basement. Surely all the lights would have been destroyed.
22nd Oct 2005
Sahara (2005)
Corrected entry: Near the end where the villain is flying in the helicopter shooting at the landlocked ironclad ship the heroes are holed up in, he obviously missed thousands of massed Twareg warriors just over the sand dune. (01:47:00 - 01:49:00)
Correction: Who says he missed them? His main objective was to kill Pitt, Al and Eva. As it was stated in the movie, he was probably running low on fuel and wanted to kill them before he did. What was he going to do? Kill all the Twaregs first?
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Correction: Submitted and already corrected. It has been established that it is very likely that Bumblebee closed the door himself. Although a self-closing door may seem strange however the "car" has already done some "strange" things. For example using the passenger door to push another car (at Bolivia's Car Lot). It is likely that that door closing by itself may not seem strange to the characters.
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