Corrected entry: Why not simply escape the dungeon through the secret door from the first film? No need for Aladdin to distract the guards then.
K.C. Sierra
7th May 2007
Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1996)
23rd Apr 2007
Back to the Future (1985)
Corrected entry: When back in 1985 Marty's mom asks if this is the night for the big date, Marty answers "How can I go to the lake when the car is wrecked?" His family reacts by going out and checking George's BMW. Seconds later we see that Marty has his own truck - shouldn't they have been checking on that instead? And if it's because he talks about the car (i.e. the BMW) instead of the truck, they should have wondered why he was going to take his fathers BMW up to the lake instead of his truck.
Correction: They're probably used to hearing Marty refer to the truck as "the truck," whereas George's car is "the car." Once they heard Marty say the car was wrecked, they didn't have time to think logically and conclude, well, the car may be wrecked but you're taking the truck. More likely they were startled and wanted to go check on the car right away to find out what Marty was talking about.
19th Dec 2006
Batman Returns (1992)
Corrected entry: If Cobblepot is called the Penguin, then why does he spit and drool ink? He's not a squid!
Correction: It's not ink. The guy's obviously got some things physically wrong with him, right down to his spit and drool.
From the toxic waste in the lagoon.
10th Aug 2006
Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
Corrected entry: Before DATA is reactivated, Gordi mentioned to the Captain that he removed and replaced some damaged memory engrams, yet when DATA is reactivated he says he's missing the memory engrams.
Correction: Data can tell there was a change because, presumably, the new engrams would not contain the information that was stored in the old ones. Data wouldn't be able to tell what was in the missing engrams, but he could tell they were missing because there would be a gap in his memory.
27th Jul 2006
Superman Returns (2006)
Corrected entry: Listen closely to one of the newsreaders reporting on the new appearances of Superman on the TV in the Daily Planet offices, she mentions a few cities where he has been seen, including Gotham, home to another famous superhero-Batman.
Correction: There's nothing remotely surprising or noteworthy about a movie based on a DC comic making a blatant reference to the setting of another DC comic. There are probably DC superheroes in every one of the cities mentioned in that news report.
24th Jul 2006
Sixteen Candles (1984)
Corrected entry: In Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Ferris Bueller's Day Off and War Games are all filmed in Shermer Illinois and the actors are all in other films together (e.g Anthony Michael Hall and Matthew Broderick).
Correction: There is no Shermer in Illinois. That fictional town/city may be the setting of these movies, but even that's not trivia, as people make up locations all the time (i.e., Derry, Maine for some Stephen King flicks, Kindle County for Presumed Innocent). As for the fact that actors work together on more than one movie with the same director, far too common a practice to be considered trivia.
WarGames had nothing to do with Shermer Illinois That took place in Seattle, Washington then Oregon and Colorado. Nothing in Illinois.
13th Apr 2006
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Corrected entry: When the Knight Bus slows down before the two double-deckers, you can see them and the other traffic around it slow down noticeably as well. The other vehicles also speed up when the Knight Bus does.
Correction: Clearly, the bus is altering the flow of time around it to give it time to make its squeeze. It wouldn't make much sense to slow the Knight bus down only to have all the surrounding traffic slam right into it.
27th Feb 2006
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Corrected entry: When Dumbledore is studying the slashes on the portrait of the Fat Lady, you can see, especially well when the light shines on it, that the actual paining is extremely smooth. But a real paining would have at least some trace of paint brush strokes.
Correction: A real painting probably would. An enchanted painting in a school of witchcraft and wizardry might not.
16th Feb 2006
Forrest Gump (1994)
Corrected entry: In a sequence set around 1970, someone is shown reading a copy of USA Today. The newspaper wasn't created until 1983.
Correction: Just checked the movie and cannot find this scene anywhere. Without a time code, this entry is too vague.
27th Aug 2001
Jurassic Park (1993)
Corrected entry: According to the subtitles at the beginning of the movie, the island is 120 miles WEST of Costa Rica. However, at the end of the movie, they are flying into the sunset...in the evening. If they had enough fuel, they'd be heading to Hawaii. (01:55:05)
Correction: God only knows how many REAL islands there are between Jurassic Park and Hawaii, nevermind the fictional islands they could have been headed to (or maybe even a ship). Since we don't know where they're headed, we can't call this a mistake.
Maybe they're headed for an emergency-mobilized boat with a helicopter landing pad (owned or not by Mr Hammond?).
21st Feb 2006
Titanic (1997)
Corrected entry: When we see the Titanic moving at various times throughout the film, we can see smoke rising from all 4 funnels on top of the ship. However, on the Titanic there were only 3 working funnels, the 4th one was merely for decoration and to make it look more balanced.
Correction: This has already been submitted and corrected. Here's the earlier correction: The first smokestack was fully functional, as were the middle two. The aft most smokestack was a dummy funnel. It provided not balance but lighting and ventilation to the engineering spaces below decks. There were steam valves on it that could be mistaken for smoke while discharging, plus exhaust from the other 3 is blown backwards over the 4th, giving it the appearance of producing just as much smoke as them.
21st Feb 2006
Titanic (1997)
Corrected entry: When Rose has just arrived on Titanic and is unpacking paintings in the living room there are some quite famous Picasso paintings that most certainly were not on Titanic and are still around today.
Correction: The paintings were invented for the film and are similar, but not identical, to famous paintings (by Picasso and Monet). This is explicitly stated on the DVD commentary (the special edition).
15th Feb 2006
A Walk To Remember (2002)
Corrected entry: West and Moore were forced to do several takes of the shot where Landon gives Jamie a tattoo, because it kept peeling off only partly, leaving some of the tattoo still on the paper.
Correction: Lots of props don't work quite right when you're trying to shoot a movie, requiring multiple takes. It's not trivia. Most of the shots in the movie required more than one take.
9th Feb 2006
Back to the Future Part II (1989)
Corrected entry: When Marty's daughter answers the door she lets in Grandma Lorraine and Grampa George. Lorraine says that she brought pizza for everyone. Marlene says "who's going to eat all of that" and Grampa George says "I will." Yet, when the pizza is hydrated, Grampa George is not in the kitchen at the table or in any of the following house scenes.
Correction: Any number of explanations. Grandpa George could have been in the bathroom, for all we know.
Correction: He was to the side, off-camera. There's a deleted scene that shows this.
9th Feb 2006
Back to the Future Part II (1989)
Corrected entry: When Doc and Marty are on their way to get the Jennifer of 1985 Doc says "Damn this traffic. Jennifer, that is the old Jennifer, usually gets home around this time." However Marty of 2015, when his mother asks where Jennifer is, says he doesn't know and that she should have been home hours ago. I don't think it took Doc and Marty hours to get to the house so Doc was way off with his calculation.
Correction: The time a person "usually" gets home is not the same as the time a person gets home on a particular day. The family expected her home hours earlier THAT DAY. That doesn't mean they expected her home hours earlier EVERY day.
8th Feb 2006
Back to the Future Part III (1990)
Corrected entry: When Doc is telling Clara he is leaving and will not see her again, and he tells her he is leaving in a time machine. Clara tells Doc that she also read the Time Machine and is a fan of Jules Verne, but the Time Machine was written by H. G. Wells.
Correction: Clara says: "I understand that because you know I'm partial to the writings of Jules Verne you concocted those mendacities in order to take advantage of me." At no point did Clara actually SAY that Jules Verne wrote The Time Machine. She does not mention The Time Machine at all, nor would she, as it was not first published until 1895, 10 years after the events of BTTF III.
5th Mar 2003
Rocky IV (1985)
Corrected entry: When 'team Rocky' arrives in Russia to train for the Drago fight, Pauly starts to complain about the Spartan conditions. One of the complaints he makes is that he will be missing college football's Rose Bowl game. The Drago/Balboa fight took place on December 25. Prior to the forming of the BSC in the late 1990s, the Rose Bowl always took place on January 1. Hence, he would have been home in plenty of time to catch the game. (00:50:15)
Correction: First and foremost, Paulie is an idiot and a drunk. The idea that he could make such a silly mistake is completely in character. Secondly, he's seen Rocky II and presumably knows that sometimes, after a fight with a particularly tough opponent, Rocky needs a little hospital attention. Paulie's being pessimistic and not too bright. In other words, he's being Paulie. Not a movie mistake.
10th May 2004
Rocky III (1982)
Corrected entry: Huge mistake for any Rocky fan. In the first 2 films, Mickey is represented as an Irish Catholic. In this film, he is given a Jewish funeral.
Correction: Mickey's religion is never referenced in Rocky I or II.
15th Jan 2006
Pleasantville (1998)
Corrected entry: David and Jennifer transfer themselves to Pleasantville without any belongings apart from the remote control. Since there has never been rain in Pleasantville, the umbrella the "Bud" gave his girlfriend when standing outside could only be David's school prop, from "outside" Pleasantville.
Correction: They never had a fire, but they had a fire department and a truck with hoses, and hydrants, and protective gear. They even called it the Fire Department, not the Cat Rescue Department. They have books with nothing written in them. There's no reason umbrellas can't exist in Pleasantville.
2nd Jan 2006
Fantastic Four (2005)
Corrected entry: You can tell that Susan purposely hits the bottle of wine off the table, when she first finds out that she can turn invisible. She gasps before she hits it.
Correction: She gasps because she's invisible. Bit of a shock, to suddenly find yourself invisible. You might even gasp first and knock something over second.
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Correction: But once anyone realized Aladdin's escape from the first film, they probably sealed the door. Especially once Aladdin gets in good with the sultan, he probably told him about the door to prevent future prisoner escapes.
K.C. Sierra