Corrected entry: When the white van is at the airport getting its tires shot out we can see that there is water coming out of the exhaust. Water only comes out of the exhaust the first couple of minutes after a completely cold car is started due to the condensation. Warm cars do not have water coming out of the exhaust, and since the van was driven all the way to the casino and then to the airport there shouldn't be any water.
RJR99SS
7th Jun 2004
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
25th Feb 2004
Best in Show (2000)
Corrected entry: After the judge examines Winkie she asks Gerry to take "her" down from the pedestal and walk the dog around. Cookie and Gerry refer to Winkie as "he".
Correction: It is rather hard to tell female dogs from male dogs unless you get real close and look. My male german shepard was always thought to be female even by trained dog judges.
27th May 2004
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Corrected entry: Owen Wilson's face is bleeding before he crashes the car.
Correction: Eli has his face painted in a war paint fashion. Some of the paint is red, but you can see it's not blood because it's all formed in straight lines. After he crashes the car, you can see which is blood and which is the paint.
27th May 2004
Red Dragon (2002)
Corrected entry: When Ralph Fiennes has Emily Watson in his house, and he is going to shoot her and then himself, he decides he can't kill her. You assume he's shooting himself, and we hear a shot, and see blood splatter all over Emily. He instead shot the man he'd already killed earlier in the day. A dead body doesn't leave a blood splatter - if the heart isn't pumping blood, it can't splatter.
Correction: There's still blood in the arteries of the body, it'll still leave splatter from the force of the gunshot. Furthermore, the body has been dead less than an hour, so there hasnt been any time for the blood to congeal either.
29th Apr 2004
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Corrected entry: Why would Mr Wonka's loyal Oompa-Loompas shrink Mike when Mr Wonka was shouting 'No, don't.'
Correction: It's probably because he actually wanted them to. As we see later, Wonka seems to have planned the entire chain of events out. He gives each child a test which all of them fail. He just "keeps up the act" to make it look like the kids aren't being tested.
22nd Apr 2004
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Corrected entry: R. Lee Ermey was an actual Marine Vietnam veteran, but never a drill instructor. He drew upon the DIs he met during basic training in performing his role.
Correction: This is just flat out false. R. Lee Ermey definitely was a drill instructor. He only served as one tour of duty as one, and never attained the position of senior drill instructor as shown in the film, but he was one.
3rd Apr 2004
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
Corrected entry: Barry asks the phone sex lady to call him jack, but she calls him Barry near the end of their first conversation...
Correction: This is just a slip on her part and a bit of foreshadowing for the movie. She knows his real name and all his personal information from his credit card and his social security number and she forwards all this to the matress man.
19th Apr 2004
Innerspace (1987)
Corrected entry: Tuck inserts a clip in Jack's ear so that Jack can hear him. How is it then that when Tuck is transfered in to Lydia that she can hear him? Tuck never put any sort of clip in her.
Correction: She can't hear him, there's a fairly involved scene where Tuck has to play music at an extremely loud volume so Lydia will know that he's inside of her. This is the only way she knew he was inside her, he never actually spoke to her.
14th Apr 2004
Kingpin (1996)
Corrected entry: How is it that Roy Munson can tutor the Amish guy on how to get a strike first time when he first meets him, but then spends the rest of the movie struggling to improve his own game?
Correction: Many of the best sports trainers are actually terrible at the sport they train. They're all just former players who stopped training themselves, and give their knowledge of the sport to somone else.
Correction: Not to mention he lost his dominant hand. He'd never attempted to bowl with his prosthetic before.
14th Apr 2004
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
Corrected entry: If Cameron's dad is suspicious enough of Cameron to note the mileage when he leaves, why doesn't he just take the keys when he leaves, or just hide them?
14th Apr 2004
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Corrected entry: When Alex murders the cat lady, the giant penis remains completely white after he bashes her head in with it. Furthermore, he has no blood on his white clothes after he kills her.
Correction: The penis was a pretty large, blunt weapon. Furthermore alex is young and strong, and the old ladies bones weren't as strong as they used to be. That one good hit Alex got in on her doubtless cracked her skull and cause a lot of damage to the brain, which would leave no blood at all for a few minutes.
7th Dec 2002
Robocop (1987)
Corrected entry: In the scene in the washroom when Ronny Cox's corporate heavy confronts Miguel Ferrer's opportunist young businessman and gives him the third degree, pulling his hair whilst telling him whose boss. When Ronny Cox has finished threatening him, he walks out, and we are to suppose that he has left the washroom. Look at the circular mirror behind Miguel Ferrer and you'll see that Ronny Cox stops, turns around and stands still, possibly waiting for the scene to finish.
Correction: All you can see in the mirror is Ronnie Cox's hand and the shot doesn't give him enough time to stop, turn around in wait. The mirror shot is only shown for about a second. We hear the door open, there's then only a slight pause where Ronny doesn't seem to move, but he could easily be giving one final dismissive look back into the bathroom, then the scene ends.
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Correction: Not entirely true. It depends what the temperature difference between the exhaust and the outside air is. On cold days, and usually at night water will drip out of the tail pipe no matter if the car is hot because the cool outside air will cool off the ends of the exhausts pipe, letting water condensate inside. This scene does take place at night, and in the desert where it gets freezing at night.
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