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The Last Song picture

Corrected entry: In the scene where Ronnie meets Blaze and Blaze tempts her to steal the orange shirt, Ronnie pays for the shirt after talking to Jonah and then walks away empty handed, only to be seen with the shirt on in the next scene.

Correction: While Ronnie is paying her brother the money for keeping quiet to their father, the sales lady puts the shirt in a plastic bag and ties it. You see Ronnie grab the bag and walk off.

EstraMo

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Corrected entry: At least twice in the film you hear that uniforms are only worn on uniform day - once from the principal of the school and once from Meiying. Yet several different scenes show Dre in street clothes while the students from the same school are wearing uniforms. When Dre is almost beaten to death by Cheng and his friends they are all wearing uniforms, Dre isn't. When Dre and Meiying play hooky from school she is wearing the school uniform and Dre isn't.

TracyGiirl

Correction: Dre was new to the school and not yet familiar with the uniform schedule. If you remember, he wore his uniform on his first day while the other children were in street clothes, so it's very plausible that he would wear street clothes not knowing it was uniform day.

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Corrected entry: At the very end he is introduced onto the ice as 30, but his uniform has 40 on it.

Correction: The announcer says "forty"

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Corrected entry: When Moose and Chamile are playing charades, she talks about their fifth grade teacher. But in the "I Won't Dance" scene, they say they met at MSA in their freshman year.

Correction: Actually no she doesn't. She says they talked about college their whole senior year.

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Corrected entry: In the scenes where the Ghost Writer is driving to Professor Emmett's house, the BMW's navigation system immediately begins providing the Ghost with audible directions. If the Ghost's predecessor travelled to Professor Emmett's and was killed at some point on his return, the BMW navigation system would not still be trying to guide a driver to that destination again. First off, the BMW navigation system resets once the destination is reached - it stops providing audible guidance. Second, even if it did not reset, there is no way that any driver would have put up with listening to the GPS guidance system trying to redirect him to Professor Emmett's during his entire return trip. Every 30 seconds the system would have been barking orders such as "Take the next exit" or "When possible, make a legal U-turn."

Correction: We never know if the first Ghost actually arrived to Prof Emmet. This was a repeated assumption from McGregor but never really confirmed. The fact that the navigation system was still set on this target destination inplies that he never reached target. Exactly as you say, it resets after the target is reached. If he was abducted from the ferry on his way out, the car was left empty and the abductors did not get any indication, since the engine was off, that the sat nav had a set target. The person driving the car from the ferry and back to the garage would have noticed, but if he was a novice as McGregor himself in the handling of sat navs ( he would of course not need to actualy follow the direction to be able to check the set target), he would not understand or care about the ongoing audial directions.

Airborne60

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Corrected entry: When Desmond Elden is shot in the head in the garage of the ballpark, the SWAT member pulls the charging handle of the rifle which wastes a round that hasn't been used. Even if he ran out of ammo he would not have to pull the charging handle but simply slap the bolt release on the side of the rifle after changing magazines.

Correction: Not necessarily. It's entirely possible that the rifle jammed and the trooper pulled the charging handle to clear it. Unless you can see from the side that the bolt is open or closed, this mistake can't be confirmed.

Grumpy Scot

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Corrected entry: When Nick is in the "Sup Dawg" place, he gets a call on his IPhone. When they go back in time, he is on the ski slope (trying to get a signal) with a flip phone.

RodThaBod

Correction: Lots of people have and carry more than one cell phone.

rswarrior

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Corrected entry: When Nikolai's minigun if seen firing for the first time, the barrels aren't moving at all.

lionhead

Correction: This is because of a common stroboscopic optical illusion known as the "wagon-wheel" effect; caused by temporal aliasing. The best known example of this is when the wheels of a stagecoach appear to be stationary when in fact they are rotating, because they are rotating at exactly the same speed as the camera shutter, i.e. 24 times a second.

THGhost

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Corrected entry: In the beginning of Date Night, the family is at home in suburban New Jersey. A television is on, showing the all news channel, NY1. Problem is, NY1 is a time warner cable channel only available to New York City subscribers.

Correction: This is not true as NY1 is available to Time Warner customers in NJ that are located in Bergen and Hudson county.

jerimiah

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Corrected entry: In the scene after the wedding when they are having breakfast Charlotte says she is waiting for Trey who is at golf to pick the children up and not Harry.

Correction: This is incorrect, She says Harry.

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Corrected entry: Declan's ex girlfriend was named Kaley, but when he actually met her in Dublin, he called her Janet.

Correction: Declan calls his ex-girlfriend Kaley when he mets her in Dublin not Janet.

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Corrected entry: When the nuclear missile explodes onto the spacecraft Oliver was looking at it through a telescope. He would definitely have been blinded in one eye because of the flash and in severe pain, yet he doesn't show any sign of trauma or pain directly after.

lionhead

Correction: He yells and puts his hands to his eyes as he jerks his head away from the eyepiece. What part of that is that NOT a sign of pain?

Phixius Premium member

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Corrected entry: In the scene where Brandon asks Olive out, the picture on Olive's desktop is constantly changing throughout the scene. This also occurs during the scene where Olive's mom gives her Brandon's gift.

Brad Premium member

Correction: This is because her desktop background is playing a slideshow of pictures.

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Corrected entry: The maintenance guy fell onto the elevator. When they finally open the elevator, the maintenance guy's body is not on top.

Correction: The dead body is hard to see but he is lying on the elevator; you can see his leg and the guy's brown colored shoe.

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Corrected entry: When Knives is in the bathroom dying her hair blue, she puts the dye on the right side of her head (from your point of view). Then when she's looking in the mirror, she turns around and suddenly its on the left side. From then on in the movie though, its back to the right side of her head.

sweavers

Correction: When she dyes her hair it's on her left side. When she is facing the mirror... from her perspective it's still on her left side. When she turns around it's still on her left side.

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Correction: Jack mentions in the movie that his son was definitely not up to the task of being able to take over as the family patriarch, leaving Greg to be the only remaining choice.

jerimiah

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Corrected entry: When Bob is playing the recording to the other spy, he is holding the phones and puts them together at the wrong end. This is wrong because it would mean that the speaker of the phone is talking into the other speaker and not to the microphone.

Correction: He simply puts them close together. In cell phones, the speaker is loud enough and the mic is strong enough that they don't have to be in direct contact, especially if Ian's cellphone is on speaker mode.

Bishop73

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Corrected entry: The film is set in England in the latter years of the Victorian era, which ended with the death of Queen Victoria in 1901. Alice and her father both use the word "bonkers." According to Webster's New World Dictionary, that word was not in use until 1945-50.

Correction: As an English BA I can say it is entirely possible that the word bonkers was in conversational use long before it was put down in writing (which would be a requisite for the dictionary citation), as many words take a long time to slip into literary consciousness/approval, especially with the expectation to follow Standard English back in that period. Given that Alice's father is shown as a maverick, it is likely that he would use such unusual words in conversation.

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Corrected entry: When Vector is bragging to himself in his bathroom after stealing the shrink ray, he fires it at the sink. The sink shrinks, but there should be water spraying out of the pipes. There is none. Same thing with the toilet.

darkhawk

Correction: The metal bends to accommodate the change between affected and non-affected parts of the pipe system without breaking. The same physics are demonstrated when Gru's ship is hit by the shrink ray. The ship shrinks in sections without breaking apart. Neither the toilet nor the sink should have broken pipes.

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Correction: I usually go for a week without shaving with little discernible hair growth.

rswarrior

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