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Correction: He's being chased by the CIA taskforce operating out of the Berlin headquarters, which is also where they take him after the arrest. The fact that they are using German arrest teams makes sense.

Friso94

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Corrected entry: The Police Commissioner addresses terrorists and introduces himself as "Chief Inspector".

Correction: Chief Inspector is a specific rank in the Metropolitan Police which is way lower than Commissioner - this is possibly a mixup with term Chief Constable which is used in other UK police services.

Sierra1 Premium member

Correction: He is a chief inspector. Police Commissioners in the UK are very different from the USA.

No he's not a Chief Inspector (identified by 3 Bath Stars) - that rank is nowhere near the head of any police force. Most UK forces are headed by a Chief Constable. The Met is headed by the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis.

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Corrected entry: When the inspection team goes into the Rogue One shuttle and then the Rebel team comes out of the shuttle in the inspection team's disguise, no one near the landing pad or in the building notices that two stormtroopers have disappeared from the group, the Imperial Officer has grown a beard in less than 5 minutes, and an Imperial Droid has come into the group.

Correction: It is entirely feasible that two of the stormtroopers would stay on the ship, and that anyone standing around the perimeter could miss the facial features of the officer. The delivery of a droid could well be the purpose for the cargo ship arriving.

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Corrected entry: When Deadpool falls into the dumpster he has no swords, he left them behind. When he climbs out, they are on his back. They disappear again as he walks down the stairs to his apartment.

Correction: The swords are not on his back when he climbs out, only the sheaths, which is consistent with the rest of the scene.

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Corrected entry: The film takes place in 1977, but when Holland March shows a guy a printed photo of Amilia's licence it says "Birthday 1979."

Correction: A California license in the 1970s had a section at the top left that reads "expires on birthday...". It means her license will require renewal on her birthday in 1979. The image has just cropped part of the writing off so only the word "birthday" remains.

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Corrected entry: At the beginning when the trolls escape from the tree, the escape tunnel was destroyed by the Bergens' digging. When Poppy and Branch go back to Bergen town, the tunnel is suddenly unblocked.

jaydowg23

Correction: It's possible the Cloud unblocked it.

Greg Dwyer

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Corrected entry: Throughout the first battle at "Hacksaw Ridge" some of the men are seen pulling the pins of grenades with their teeth. In actuality, the pins on the grenades (both modern and old ones) take at least 7 pounds of force to release the pin. If someone did that, they'd either cause severe damage to their teeth or maybe lose a couple.

Matdan97

Correction: As a dentist, I can assure viewers that normal, healthy teeth can easily withstand the 7 pounds of lateral force needed to maintain a grip on a grenade pin loop while it is pulled. A more likely hazard is that an excited soldier might crack a tooth while biting down on the split ring loop attached to the pin.

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Corrected entry: After Batman pulls Harley out of the submerged car he carries her to land and she has dry hair.

Correction: There is nothing dry about her hair.

MasterOfAll

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Corrected entry: Judy Hopps leaves a pair of earbuds on a table in her room and goes to begin her first day as an officer of the Zootopia Police Department. That evening when she returns to her room, the earbuds are gone.

Correction: The table the earbuds are on is in the dark, making them hard to see, but they are there. The submitter may be thinking the earbuds were on the other table away from the door, which is in the light and no earbuds are seen, but that's the wrong table.

Bishop73

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Corrected entry: When Kirk and Jay-lah appear on the bike they are already travelling at speed. This is impossible, as they would have had to enter the transporter room at speed, not possible with the Franklin's transporter.

Correction: In the first movie, the transporter was used to rescue Kirk and Sulu in the middle of a long fall...They didn't splatter on the transport pad when they materialized, so it's reasonable to assume the transporter can compensate for relative velocity of the object being transported...And it also would be reasonable that an object can be beamed giving it a relative velocity as well.

Blathrop

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Corrected entry: When the vandal is spraying the Ghostbusters logo on the subway, he is using one spray can, but paints the ghost logo in black, white and red.

Correction: He has a can of spray paint in each of his hands. One black and one red. He uses his left hand to spray the black and his right to spray the red.

lionhead

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Corrected entry: The plane's engines start during push-back. In real life, that is not done for safety reasons. The engines should be started after push-back.

Correction: Engine start during push-back is absolutely normal procedure.

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Corrected entry: When Jason Bourne is supposedly in London when he's in a van with the agent - look out the windshield and the Luxor pyramid hotel in Las Vegas is visible. He doesn't go there until the next scene. (01:15:45)

Correction: It's not the Luxor, it's a pyramid-shaped retail building at 161-165 High Street in Watford, north-west of London. It used to be a video store, and is now an outdoor gear store (Cotswold Outdoor).

Sierra1 Premium member

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Corrected entry: When the new president talks to the world on shortwave radio, some kids are adjusting a TV antenna in one shot. Shortwave radios wouldn't work with TV antennas, they use two significantly different frequencies. Shortwave is a much longer wavelength and would require larger antennas to work.

manthabeat Premium member

Correction: As any shortwave listener will tell you, quality receivers will work with just about any length of antenna. I have $10 receivers which work just fine with the 24 inch built in antenna.

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Corrected entry: During the newscast after the girls are taken 3 photos are shown. Casey's photo looks to be a screen shot of her in the car whilst the abduction was taken place This is an impossible photo to have on the news.

Correction: Like you say, it looks to be that. But it's just a picture taken in a car, could have been shot in any car, anytime. Nowhere in the picture do you see it's from the same moment of the abduction, at all. So there is no reason to suspect it is.

lionhead

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Corrected entry: When Newt chases one of his creatures through Central Park, the park is covered in snow and people are ice skating on a frozen pond. At any other time directly before or immediately after this scene and throughout the movie, there is no snow anywhere, and people are dressed for moderate weather.

raywest Premium member

Correction: You can see snow piled up on stoops and in alleys. It's just been stomped into slush, and swept or shoveled away where people walk and cars drive.

Phixius Premium member

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Corrected entry: When the duo discover the bird, you can see what looks like a crew member moving behind a tree trying to get out of shot.

Correction: It is not a crew member moving, you can see either Zig or Zag's (Ricky and Hec's dogs) legs in the bush.

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Corrected entry: Calvin throws the weapon at Phil because it won't fire and he catches it. Phil drops the mag and inserts a new mag and racks it. You can see and hear the last round fall from the weapon. (01:33:00)

Movie Medic

Correction: So how exactly is this a mistake? The round was jammed, Phil cleared the stuck round. No mistake.

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Corrected entry: When the ship temporarily loses all gravity, Aurora, who is swimming, is lifted out of the pool along with the water. Jim is sleeping in his cabin, and he and other objects float into the air. Gus, who is also sleeping in his bed, only has his arms lifted up. His body and the blanket stay completely stationary. He is not strapped into the bed, nor is the blanket tightly wrapped to the bed. When gravity is restored, his arms flop back down.

raywest Premium member

Correction: In that scene, the blanket doesn't appear to move at all, while (as you said) his arms float into the air, which suggests that the blanket itself is held down magnetically (or through some other mechanism). His bed may have this extra feature because he's a crew member.

sfbiker1

Even if your explanation was accurate, which there is no evidence for, Gus' body, other than his arms, would show some effects of the lost gravity. His head would move, his body would attempt to lift up and be shown to be restrained by the "magnetic" blanket holders.

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Corrected entry: At the end before the credits, when the green baby is floating down the river and the human finds it, you can see the wire strung above that they used to guide the raft into shore. (01:59:05)

Correction: It is a fishing rod, it is meant to be there.

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