Corrected entry: On the DVD in the shot where Mongo punches out the horse, the microphone is visible in the bottom right corner of the screen.
Corrected entry: How did M know the phone number of Scaramanga's junk AND that Bond and Goodnight were aboard AND that Bond had completed his mission, at the end of the film?
Correction: The most obvious explanation is that Bond himself called in (while off-screen) to report his mission completed, but that for some reason he could not talk to M at the point. M is then simply returning his call on the phone number Bond left, to get a more detailed report.
Corrected entry: Shortly after the plane has landed you notice two oddities: the fire services leave more or less immediately after landing and another plane is taxiing to leave the airport. A major emergency of this nature would probably see the airport closed for a while.
Correction: As this was an accidental collision and the jet had landed safely, the danger is, for the most part, over. The fire crews might be leaving quickly, but the taxiing jet may simply be relocating to another part of the airport, having arrived recently or simply to move away from the damaged jet. Also, a closed airport isn't motionless and deserted. Internal operations like moving planes and equipment would still continue unless an imminent threat were still posed, which is not here.
Corrected entry: Near the end of the movie, Paul Newman is seen descending the stairwell and avoiding fire as is extends from one of the doorways. Unfortunately he is using the metal handrail with his bare hands but it doesn't seem to be very hot.
Correction: The fire from the doorway does not come in contact with the handrail anywhere near the places that Roberts is touching it. And for all we know it could be very hot; just not hot enough to burn his hands.
Corrected entry: To avoid lawsuits the makers of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" put a piece of tape over the brand logo on the chainsaw that Leatherface used, and it is still a mystery what brand of chainsaw was used in the movie.
Correction: The chainsaw used in this film was a Poulan 306A, with a piece of black tape covering the Poulan logo in order to avoid a possible lawsuit. (Source: Interview with Tobe Hooper).
Corrected entry: When they are questioning the senator about the dead prostitute you can clearly see the corpse breathe when he sits next to it. (01:12:40)
Correction: She is breathing because it is a set up. The Senator is drugged and slightly delusional, taking time to even recognize Hagen. The hooker is in on it, as Michael Corleone is very unlikely to order a woman to be murdered due to his principles and his sympathy for a woman's death (Apollonia). This is why her breathing is extremely noticeable.
Correction: That's not her breathing - it's her body flexing as the senator moves about, and the mattress moves slightly as he does.
Corrected entry: Right before Doctor Frankenstein (Gene Wilder) gives life to his creation he is standing behind the monster on the platform giving his speech. While he is giving his speech you can see the "dead" monster breathe, not only once but several times. (00:43:35)
Correction: You must have really good eyes, because aside from the camera movement and angling, there is nothing that shows the monster is breathing.
Corrected entry: When Casey is in the store asking what the Certificate of Authenticity meant, the salesclerk mentioned that they all have their own unique code, but the doll she shows Casey inside the store has the same number code as Eve.
Correction: It's not unlikely that the doll is the same one that was bought for Casey's birthday.
Corrected entry: Near the beginning of the movie, Larry and his friend are fixing a car. Larry asks Mary, who is sitting on driver's bench, to turn the driving wheel, but she has fallen asleep. Larry wakes her up, and Mary starts to turn the wheel, without knowing that Larry wants her to turn it.
Correction: Not true at all. When she wakes, she grabs the wheel and bobbles it a bit as she clasps her fingers at the top, draping her forearms down the sides of the wheel, then rests her chin on her hands to await instructions. She doesn't turn the wheel 'til asked to by Deke.
Corrected entry: In the scene when Lu-Jin and her husband are running away from officer Turner, Lu-Jin is holding a shot gun and her husband is holding a revolver. After a few shots, her husband is holding both guns.Now watch it: on those few shots, Lu-Jin isn't switching her shot gun.
Correction: Her husband holds the both weapons in an entirely different scene. The scene in which Lu-Jin holding the shotgun ends without her holding the shotgun, and switches to another, where she, the officer the hold hostage and her husband are waiting outside the car. Only then the husband is holding both weapons, implying that she handed him the shotgun off-screen.
Corrected entry: In the scene where two motorcycles and a police car are driving the ransom uptown to the hijackers, they get into an accident. The car and one motorcycle are wrecked. In the next scene, the same two motorcycles speed off with the money.
Correction: There are THREE motorbikes, two ahead and one behind the cop car. One of the front ones wrecks.
Corrected entry: During the aftermath, at a scene at the hospital, we hear someone trying to get blood donors saying they are in desperate need of blood type AB-. But people with blood type AB are considered "universal recipients" because they can receive any type of blood. Therefore, type AB blood would be the LAST type that the hospital would be desperate for. Sure, under ideal situations, it is best for people with type AB blood to get the same AB blood, but for an emergency situation, it would be fine.
Correction: If you listen carefully the guy asks for AB negative blood which is the rarest of all blood types. AB+ are universal receivers, AB- are not.
Corrected entry: In the opening shot of Union Square from above, all pedestrians have very long shadows. Later we learn that the action took place during the lunch hour. The sun should have been higher and the shadows shorter.
Correction: The shadows in the scene are pointing nearly North, actually just east of North, Indicating the time is roughly about 1:00pm. Also, based on the length of the shadows and the clothing people are wearing, it appears to be winter. There's no mistake here.
Corrected entry: When Sid arrives at the church for Tim's wedding, his minivan starts rolling away backwards after he parks it, obviuosly not putting the handbrake fully on. But when the camera angle changes, it has stopped moving.
Correction: Having been in the transportation industry for 14 years, I can assure you this kind of thing does happen. It can stop moving because the ground levels out, or it hits a curb or rock with a tire.
Corrected entry: When the cops are breaking into Charles Bronson's apartment, there is a Mezzuzah on the door jam. That signifies it is a Jewish household. But at his wife's funeral at the beginning of the film, there is a priest presiding.
Correction: It is entirely possible that the previous tenant was Jewish, and Bronson's family either didn't notice it or never bothered to take it down.
Corrected entry: When the score is 8-0 guards, the cons score and go for two and get the two-point conversion. However, the scoreboard shows a score of 8-7 and this is also announced by the radio announcer. It is never corrected as more points are added. The score should have been 8-8.
Correction: Until recently, the conversions were 1 point no matter what. Since this takes place in the 70's, the score is correct.
Then why did the guards have 8?
The guards scored a touchdown and had the extra point blocked. Then they got a safety. That's 8.
The guards scored 2 on a safety.
Safety= 2 points.
While the NFL adopted the 2-point conversion in 1994, the 2-point conversion has been around long before that, and throughout the 70's. College football adopted the 2-point conversion in 1958. The AFL used the 2-point conversion in the 60's prior to the NFL/AFL merger. In the film, it was a semi-pro team and they could have chosen to adopt the 2-point conversion.
Correction: Because they had a score, missed conversion and a safety.
Corrected entry: Doolittle says they travelled 14 light years to get to the Magellanic clouds. These 2 galaxies are really about 170,000 light years away. (00:07:30)
Correction: He didn't say he travelled 14 light years from Earth. We have no idea where his starting point was - it could have been anywhere in the Universe.
Corrected entry: Early on, while Jack Nicholson is contemplating a dry riverbed, the camera pans around him, giving the audience a clear view of some huge red and white electricity pylons in the distance (the film is set in the 1930's).
Correction: Not sure on the authenticity of the towers in the back (and being red and white. heheh.), but This was Los Angeles, 1937. The Hoover Dam was completed in 1935. I'm pretty sure the city had electricity before that, too.
Corrected entry: When Myrtle first buys the dog, it is very small, like a puppy. When they get to her apartment, the dog has grown substantially.
Correction: When we first see the dog in the apartment it's still a small puppy. We then see the dog grown bigger to show that some time has passed.
Corrected entry: When they are at Belgrade, Poirot asks where Mrs. Hubbard is, and the conductor tells him that she is two compartments away. Poirot responds that she is still too close, which seems to imply that she was even closer the first night. But if you watch carefully as they get on the train at Istanbul, you can see that Poirot is nowhere near Mrs. Hubbard.
Correction: On the first night, Poirot had to share compartment 4 with Hector MacQueen (Anthony Perkins). On the night of the murder, he had moved to a private compartment which was 2 compartments away from Mrs. Hubbard.
Correction: I"ve checked carefully and I can't see it.
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