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Corrected entry: While J is fighting the fish, and it has him pinned against the wall outside, there is an ATM-like machine beside them. When J rips out the creature's heart, it falls over towards the machine. The fish's shadow is cast on the wall, but as it passes over the ATM, no shadow falls on the machine. (00:16:55)

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Correction: The fish does have a shadow as it falls, but it falls about ten feet from the ATM, and the shadow trails accordingly. If you follow the arc of the shadow as it falls, it's on a flat surface, and the ATM sticks out about three feet. Therefore, the shadow would have gone along the side away from the camera's view, and not in front of the machine.

Movie Nut

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Corrected entry: In New Moon, Alice says she can't see the future if wolves are involved. "I can't see past you and your pack of mutts!" (to Jacob regarding when he rescued Bella from the ocean). This is also outlined in the book, where it says that Alice can't see the future if werewolves are involved. However at the end of this movie Alice sees Jacob and Renesmee together in the future.

Correction: In the books Alice says at the very end that because she has spent more time around the wolves she is slowly starting to see them in her visions which would explain why she can see Renesmee and Jacob together in the future.

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Ted (2012)

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Corrected entry: When the news shows Ted being arrested at an airport, Ted gives the camera the finger. When he does this, his hand is censored, but Ted doesn't actually have any fingers.

MikeH

Correction: This is done as a joke, that the media deemed the gesture offensive even without fingers.

Bishop73

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Corrected entry: The machine they use to torture Joseph Gordon-Levitt's friend in order to affect his future self completely contradicts the "ever changing" probability of different futures the movie establishes later. Bruce Willis says the present affects his memories in real time and that is confirmed by Leavitt ending both of them by shooting himself in the end but that contradicts the previous time travel logic they set up. Do you think there was any probability of his friend making it to old age in the future to be sent back when his present self was having limbs and body parts removed in that sedation machine, if anything the future self should have vanished the second the other loopers grabbed him.

Correction: There's no reason he couldn't have survived. He probably would have spent most of his time in hospital or a nursing home, but that wouldn't affect his being sent back when they came looking for him.

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Corrected entry: When Catwoman arrives to blow up the barrier to the tunnel, she puts her glasses/nightvision things down. The shot cuts to the front, and they are up on her head.

Correction: Actually she put them on top of her head and it doesn't cut too the front. They are still there untill she puts them on her eyes again.

lionhead

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Corrected entry: In the scene where M is asked to retire from MI6, she puts down her glass and gets up to leave. She picks up her coat from the back of the chair but leaves her bag on the floor. In the next shot, the bag is no longer there.

Correction: In this scene, M stands up to leave and grabs her coat. After she finishes talking the movie goes to a half shot of Mallory, giving her plenty of time to reach down and grab her bag. As she walks away both of her hands were hanging down and are cut off by the camera.

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Corrected entry: Mavis knows her parents met in Hawaii because she found her father's souvenir postcard. Mavis is 118, which means her parents met in the 1890's at the latest. There were no postcards like that for Hawaii in the 1890's.

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Correction: There's no reason to think this. The US was first introduced to postcards in 1873 (although they were invented in 1840) and the first "souvenir" postcards were sold in 1893 (before Mavis was born). By 1898, over 200 companies were selling Hawaii postcards, so obviously there was a market for them and no reason to think local businesses couldn't create said postcard.

Bishop73

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Correction: Of course you can see the edge of the wig, because Caesar is wearing a wig. The citizens in the capital dress in outlandish costumes, use garish make-up, have strange hair styles often dyed in bright colors, and wear all kinds of odd hats, ornate jewelry, embellishments, hair pieces, and elaborate wigs. It's not meant to be Caesar's real hair.

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Corrected entry: Alex Hopper's brother receives posthumously a Navy Cross (2nd highest award) for attacking the aliens, but Alex Hopper only receives a Silver Star (3rd highest award) for saving the world?

Correction: Military politics. It's a mix of his accomplishments, his rank, and the fact that he paid the ultimate sacrifice. It's actually fairly accurate for the US Military to award higher awards to higher ranks as well as higher awards to those that have fallen.

With an award being given post humorously, shows that they did give the ultimate price. And there are many examples of similar unjusts.

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Corrected entry: The S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier has the number 64 painted on it in several places. 1964 is the year the first Avengers comic was released.

Correction: Http://marvel.com/comics/issue/6951/avengers_1963_1 The first comic was 1963.

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Corrected entry: While Bilbo's squeezing through the rocks to escape Gollum, several of his waistcoat buttons go flying off. They reappear on the waistcoat in the subsequent scene where he reunites with the dwarves.

Correction: Bilbo's green waistcoat buttons get caught and when he reunites with the Dwarves you see that his vest has only one button then. I believe the red outer coat is not the one that lost buttons.

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Corrected entry: When Peter goes to Gwen Stacy's house for dinner, he enters the apartment through the window with his backpack. He leaves the apartment when he hears sirens in the distance by jumping off the roof of the building, and he doesn't take his backpack. However, the next time you see him he is on the bridge, and somehow has his backpack again.

Correction: We saw him jumping from the roof, but not where he landed. He could easily have made a quick stop at Gwen's room, grabbed his backpack and continued to the bridge.

Anastasios Anastasatos

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Corrected entry: Under takeoff and climb, you can hear the engines constantly revving up, starting from the runway and all the way through the rainstorm, when they really should have max and constant rpm long before they actually lift off the ground.

Correction: Modern jetliners do not need to reach max thrust before a takeoff. A reduced thrust takeoff is a takeoff that is accomplished utilizing less thrust than the engines are capable of producing under the existing conditions of temperature and pressure altitude. Rationale AOM limitations, the runway specific criteria of length, altitude and obstacles factored against the actual aircraft weight and existing environmental conditions allow the calculation of the actual amount of thrust necessary to meet regulatory requirements for takeoff. In a significant percentage of cases, the required thrust is less than that which the engines are capable of producing. Advantages The primary advantage to a reduced thrust takeoff is cost savings through increased engine life and reduced overhaul costs. Secondary advantages include fuel savings and that, under certain circumstances, it may be possible to increase the maximum takeoff weight for a specific runway by using a reduced thrust profile.

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Corrected entry: When Merida and Eleanor (bear form) wake up after spending the night at the witch's exploded cottage, she wakes up with a different dress on and has a bow and arrows in her keep. But when they leave the castle she is still in a tattered dress and isn't carrying anything. She could have grabbed a bow and arrows from an armory outside but I can't for the life of me figure out where she got the dress.

Correction: The tattered blue dress? She changes into a green dress before going out to ask the witch to change Eleanor back. And the bow and arrows came from bear Eleanor at breakfast after waking up.

Lily Harrison

Nope she gets chased out of the castle still in the blue tattered dress, she puts a cloak on when it rains outside the witch's hut, then when she emerges in the morning she's in her green dress with her old bow not burned.

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Corrected entry: When Dredd is going through the ammo options and they all indicate empty, you can see that the display on the side of the gun is turned off, when it should have lettering on it. (01:15:00)

Friso94

Correction: The display could not have been off since we only know the gun is empty because we can see the word "Empty" under the type of ammo Dredd has called up on the display. Any other angle in which it appears to be off is just because a bright blue light shining out of your gun in every direction isn't very tactical, so it's only visible from a very narrow angle; we have such technology now, so they certainly have it in this future world.

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Corrected entry: When Shaw programs the AutoMed for an abdominal surgery to remove a "foreign body" the machine proceeds to perform a Caesarian section. Since it was calibrated only for male surgery, the entire female reproductive system would have been considered a "foreign body", and the machine would have performed a hysterectomy.

Correction: The machine was 'calibrated' to perform designated operations on male patients only, which didn't include a Caesarian section. However, Shaw put the machine into manual override [with a lot of button-pressing] and specifically told it to remove a 'foreign body'. One may reasonably assume that the machine was capable of detecting non-human DNA and therefore had the capability of identifying and removing it, regardless of the physiology of the patient.

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Corrected entry: The Riff-Off: There are actually four teams in the game, the Bella's got Cut-Off second, leaving two more teams to compete yet the Treblemakers was declared winners.

cacay21

Correction: The other team didn't enter a song for that category and joined in with the Bella's, so they were also disqualified.

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Correction: In Resident Evil Extinction (the third movie) Alice, while still in possession of her, used a form of telekinesis. The point was to demostrate that Jill had a form of that power too. Bascially Jill is what Alice was supposed to be but Umbrella took the extra precaution this time by adding the chest spider mind control device.

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Corrected entry: Calvin Candie compares a slave to a teddy bear, even though teddy bears were not invented until the time when Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was president.

THGhost

Correction: Calvin Candy actually refers to her as "sugar-bear", not 'teddy-bear'.

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Corrected entry: The Me-262 fighters the 332nd engaged at the end of the movie were armed with 30mm cannon. A hit with one of those shells was enough to bring a B-17 down. An explosion of one in a P-51 cockpit would have shredded Lightning instead of leaving a neat bullet wound in his chest.

Correction: Generally true. But Lightning's wound may be from a small piece of shrapnel from an exploding 30-mm round.

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