Corrected entry: The final chase/fight/shoot-out sequence starts in the Presidential Palace, but by the time they are on the roof of the building they are 3 miles away, across the river, on the roof of one of the National Theatres.
Corrected entry: About the middle of the film, there is a shot of Beverly and Elliot walking towards the camera as it scrolls away from them. It is a great effect, seeing as Jeremy Irons plays both characters, and it was made in the late eighties; but it is not perfect. Watch as Elliot walks away, his suit fades away before he leaves the frame.
Correction: I have looked carefully at this scene and can spot no sign of the fading you describe.
Corrected entry: Before Tina makes Melissa's pearl necklace fall apart, between shots the necklace changes position.
Correction: Tina is forcing the necklace to lift upwards in order to make it easier to break the necklace.
Corrected entry: Stan's acceptance letter from CalTech states that he will be required to perform 30 hours a week of work-study. Work-study is actual work - the study part is misleading - and no college, let alone a prestigious college like CalTech, would require its students to essentially work a nearly full-time job.
Correction: Technical colleges almost all have a program where the student actually does work. It's called an apprenticeship in some places, work-study programs in others. They work full time for a certain number of hours, then go back to classs for a time, then work again for their second term of work experience until they are journeyman. My brother the helicopter mechanic did this for 4 years.
Corrected entry: When he's frightened at the airport, Raymond states "Qantas never crashed." Between 1927 and 1951 eight Qantas aircraft crashed and one was shot down by Japanese fighters. A total of 70 people lost their lives. In its modern incarnation Qantas has had a few near misses but no fatalities, but nonetheless Raymond is incorrect, and an idiot savant with perfect recall would not make a mistake like that.
Correction: Perfect recall doesn't mean 100% knowledge of every fact relating to every historical event. Qantas is often referred to as having a 100% safety record (though they never allow this to be used in their advertising - it makes people think they are "due") and doubtless Raymond is familiar with the claim. He isn't familiar with their operations in the forties and fifties, and there is no reason he would be. He can't recall something about which he has not been told in the first place.
Corrected entry: The aliens can bring Eric back from the dead, but they can't repair his spinal cord?
Correction: I see your point, but the actor (Jade Calegory) was only pretending to be dead. In real life, however, Jade has spina bifida, and actually needed the wheelchair. There wasn't any way to change that for the movie.
Corrected entry: When it's night in Australia, a shot of the moon is shown. This is a shot of the moon, viewed from the northern hemisphere. In Australia, the moon is viewed "up sided down".
Correction: Crocodile Dundee II was shot on location in Australia and such a mistake seems impossible. Please advise a time code.
Corrected entry: Wyatt and Tom fly east to Mix's ranch, but the biplane has to make an emergency landing on the Circle C Ranch. The ranch hands inform them that they're about 15 miles southeast of their destination. How did they manage to overfly their goal by 15 miles?
Correction: It's not hard to overfly something when you're not familiar with the plane, or terrain, or landmarks. Ranches look very much alike from the air. To overfly something by 15 miles in a biplane flying 100 NMH (nautical miles per hour) would cover 15 statute miles (which the ranch hand is more likely familiar with) in a little less than 10 minutes, ample time to overshoot their goal, but not so much as to cause the pilots overdue concern. .
Corrected entry: Judy Garland, while waiting for Robert Walker to arrive at the marriage license office in N. Y. City, walks over to a another woman sitting on a bench there and says something to her. You will then notice that this unidentified woman is wearing exactly the same dress as Garland is wearing.
Correction: How is that a mistake? I can walk through any busy mall in a major city and see at least a couple of women wearing the same outfit.
Corrected entry: After the incident on the police motor tricycle Judge Reynolds (who has his son 'inside' him) sits on a chair at the police station with his right arm/wrist cuffed to what looks like a pipe on the wall. Then the solicitor arrives (who is the boy's stepfather) and suddenly Judge appears not to be cuffed anymore and can walk away.
Correction: A policeman can be seen undoing Judge's cuffs.
Corrected entry: Check out the headstones around Kristen's headstone after her funeral. The names are all Freddy victims from previous movies.
Correction: The graveyard seems like a logical place to bury the victims, don't you think? Not really trivia.
Corrected entry: In the beginning when Johnny Five is telling Ben about his upgrades, he mentions that he has a full 500 megabytes of memory. While that may have been science fiction in the 1980's, we know full well today that 500 megabytes would be pathetically insufficient to store the amount of information he accrues, not to mention the capacity for artificial intelligence.
Correction: Some time in the future, a perfectly intelligent android may be able to run on less than 500 megs. Maybe we just haven't figured out the right compression algorithm or something. Besides, how much space artificial intelligence would take wasn't known and almost certainly couldn't be accurately estimated back in the eighties. I think this can be forgiven (like a movie filmed in 1980, set in 2010, but uses 5 1/4" floppies and Betamax).
Corrected entry: In the scene with the limo, where Oliver shocks Tito by stepping on the keys, Tito flies out of the car and looks fried, he has black stuff all over him and he is smoking, but later when they follow the limo to Jenny's house, and Tito is talking to Dodger, he is miraculously back to normal... where did all the black stuff go?
Correction: It was a cartoon take, which is quite normal, considering the movie is a cartoon. Ever seen Elmer Fudd get blown up?
Corrected entry: When the guards at Cable 54 ask, "do you have your authorization cards?" Nada and Frank blow them away. Nada drags the traitor over by his goatee then taps on the glass and says, "it's soundproof". This would have already been established as nobody on the other side of the window reacted to the gunshots. (01:22:50)
Correction: Just because something's obvious does not mean it's a mistake for someone to point it out. It's like someone saying, "You got shot." when someone clearly has been shot.
Corrected entry: At the last supper, the Passover menorah used has seven candles (six candles plus a "shamash," the center candle use to light the others) An actual menorah should have nine candles (eight for the eight nights of Passover, plus the shamash).
Correction: This entry is wrong. A menorah (any menorah) has seven branches. The candelabra with nine branches is properly called a Hanukkiah, and is used only for Hanukkah, not for Passover or any other time.
Corrected entry: At the Christening party for Nico's baby, his partner meets him after arriving late. She calls him "Steve" instead of Nico, his character name.
Correction: It's wrong because there isn't anybody who says the name Steve. Just watched that scene again only to see the mistake, but to my suprise there is no mistake in that scene.
Corrected entry: The word "Eskimo" is not in Moby Dick.
Correction: Yes it is. "... by their pursuing their game in those frigid Polar Seas, on the very coasts of that Esquimaux country where the convivial natives pledge each other in bumpers of train oil."
Corrected entry: In order to find out where Jack is, Marvin calls up the credit card company to find out where Jack last used his card. How did Marvin know the company he called would be the company that Jack has a card with?
Correction: He has the card number - of course he knows which card Jack has. It is clear from the script that the two men know everything there is to know about the other.
Corrected entry: Les' twin sister's name changes throughout the film, in some scenes she is Natalie and in others, she is Natasha.
Correction: Her boyfriend Karl calls her Natasha most likely because Natalie is an "oppressive" American name. It may also be the equivalent of Natalie in whatever ethnic background he is from. Either way, it is deliberate. When Karl comes to pick her up, he calls her Natasha while her mom calls her Natalie in the same scene.
Corrected entry: When Bob is shot and killed at the end of the film, the blood stain is at first small, but when the camera pulls to a wide shot as the credits are about to roll, the blood stain has suddenly become larger.
Correction: It makes perfect sense that a bloodstain would get larger as time goes on. The more blood coming out, the larger the stain. Think about it.
Correction: The final chase/fight/shootout occurs in Montana, at the senator's cabin.