The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Corrected entry: M tricks the League into forming so he can steal their special attributes from them, but while most of the League joined by choice, the film makes it clear that the invisible man was taken by force (eventually agreeing to stay because they promised him a cure). Why didn't M just take skin from him when he was captured? (00:18:00 - 01:08:15)

Reservoir Dog

Correction: He needed him to take the fall for stealing Dr. Jekyll's formula.

Correction: He is not driving along the streets, he is on the path between the houses and the canals, presumably where people would disembark from the gondolas and walk to nearby houses. There are paths under the archways to get from door to door but they are not roads.

Corrected entry: In the beginning when the tank comes charging out and runs over the young officer, he is standing facing the middle of tank, yet when he is run over, he is magically under the left tank tread. (00:02:00)

Correction: His hat is under the left tread. The rest of him is never seen.

Corrected entry: When Alan Quatermain is running through the castle, he says he was told to turn right at the column. However when he says this he turns to the left and runs that way. (01:22:50)

Correction: Alan & Tom get lost. The dialog is something like Alan "Skinner said to turn right at the column" Tom: "Which column?" Alan: "This way." They get lost, which gives us a guided tour of the complex.

Corrected entry: When the camera turns to show the bombs underneath Venice, we see that a BIG majority of them are NOT attached to any building supports or foundations; they are centered below the grate in the open, so how can M hope to sink the entire city of Venice if most of them just explode and take the necessary load bearing supports with them? (00:53:30)

Correction: It's mentioned that, using Leonardo da Vinci's blueprints of Venice, The Phantom can figure out a place to plant a bomb that will take out the whole of the city.

Corrected entry: When Mina is lying on the bed after Dorian "kills" her, you can see her eyes following something out of the frame. Ok she's not really dead but surely she knew not to move her eyes? (01:31:40)

Correction: She was watching for any of her associates entering the room. None of them would be able to kill Dorian, so she'd have to get up quickly if one entered the room, or warn them to stay away. A little risky, but even if Dorian noticed her she'd still be upright quick enough to stop him taking another stab at her.

Corrected entry: The double rifle that Quatermain uses is designed for stopping large and dangerous animals at short range; almost always less than 100 yards, and usually less than 75 yards. It would not have the accuracy to make the kind of shots that Quatermain pulls off constantly throughout the movie. And before anyone says that he could have had one of the barrels customised for long-range accuracy: true, but there is no sign of the special long-range sights he would have had to have fitted; the sights seen in the movie would have been virtually useless at those kind of ranges, no matter how good a shot Quatermain was. (00:11:30)

Correction: Quatermain has excellent eyesight, so he wouldn't need any special sights fitted. This is shown by him having to use glassesto shoot the man running away after the fight at the beginning, as, due to his age, his eyesight was failing.

Corrected entry: In the scene where Allan Quatermain is on the bridge of the Nautilus teaching Agent Sawyer to shoot at distant targets, Sawyer uses Quatermain's rifle. Disgusted, he leaves Sawyer on the bridge about to take a shot - when left alone, Sawyer puts the rifle butt down on the deck, rests his hand and chin on the muzzle and gazes out to sea. No one experienced with firearms (as Sawyer is supposed to be) would do this with a gun - loaded or un-loaded. (00:46:50)

Correction: Sawyer is cocky and thinks he knows all there is to know about firearms. It seems resonable that he'd expect the gun not to go off.

Corrected entry: After Hyde is captured in Paris and chained inside the Nautilus, he turns back into Jekyll, and his oversized pants are so big that Jekyll has to hold them with his hands. However, near the end, after Hyde battles his evil counterpart at the fortress and then turns back into Jekyll, the pants are exactly Jekyll-sized. (00:38:00 - 01:36:30)

Correction: Both pairs of pants are "Jekyll-sized." In the holds, Jekyll is not holding his pants up; he is just holding his arms at his waist.

Corrected entry: When the Nautilus is about to sink Hyde dives down into the ship and opens a shutter at the bottom. Miraculously, the water flows out through the shutter instead of pouring in, as it does through all the holes made by Gray's bombs. (01:09:25)

NancyFelix

Correction: He doesn't open a shutter, he manually turns on the bilge pumps because the automatic switch was damaged by the bombs.

Gary O'Reilly

Corrected entry: There are no white Siberian tigers. Only Bengal tigers have the gene that makes some the white variety. Bengal tigers live in the rainforest, not in Siberia. (01:17:15)

Correction: The whole thing with the tiger goes back to an earlier part of the movie where Quatermain describes himself as an old tiger who knows when it's time to go. It's supposed to be an illusion, something only he sees and therefore does not need to be ecologically correct. THe tiger was probably white purely for aesthetic.

Corrected entry: When Nemo and Dr. Jekyll are in the pit when the bombs explode they are being attacked by the monster "Hyde" and the bombs blow a hole in the brick wall behind them. The wall disappears for a moment and then re-appears so they can escape through it. (01:37:25)

MCKD

Correction: The hole in the wall through which Nemo and Dr. Jekyll escape stays till the end of the scene.

NancyFelix

Corrected entry: When Skinner is invisible, he may not wear or carry anything on him, since these items remain visible. But the invisible assassin who attacks Sawyer in the fortress pulls a knife from out of thin air. (01:29:30)

Correction: When Sawyer's attacker "appears" the knife moves into the frame from below, not out of thin air.

NancyFelix

Corrected entry: When the German soldiers emerge from the tank in the Bank of England they appear to be wearing uniforms from WW2 in 1899. (00:03:15)

Correction: This was probably intentional, to make them look beyond "state-of-the-art" of the time (like the automatic rifles).

Corrected entry: When Dr. Jekyll turns back into himself after saving the submarine, as he walks into Nemo's dining room you see Quatermain standing there clasping his hands in front of him and when the camera angle changes to a wide view Quatermain now has his hands behind him.

MCKD

Correction: In this scene, Quatermain is not seen standing still - he lifts the table back into position, then moves two chairs up to it, then the group moves to receive the message from Skinner. Nowhere is Quatermain standing with hands clasped. Perhaps at another point in the movie?

Phoenix

Corrected entry: How did M manage to produce 8 of his own Nautilus in such a short time? Surely in such a short time, even with 1000 men he wouldn't get that done. Besides, in order to copy it succesfully Dorian would have taken 100's, even 1000's of photographs of the entire ship. Since he made it the 'old' way, surely someone would have noticed him dragging that thing around on such a big ship. And isn't it strange, nobody stays on the bridge during night-time? What if another ship would cross their course?

Correction: Skinner's description of the fortress shows that the 8 Nautili are not completed, but only a rough framework. Given the technology at M's command, the creation could be largely mechanized, making multiple reproductions easy. As for the photographs, there are a legion of scientists working under M to create it, therefore Dorian probably only needed to photograph certain key parts of the ship that the other scientists couldn't discover (though the steering wheel does seem an odd choice). Finally, Nemo tracks the Nautiloid with an obviously sophisticated system - there's no reason to believe that this is unable to detect intercepting ships at a sufficient range and alert the crew.

Phoenix

Corrected entry: When Sean Connery first meets M at the meeting place of the League, his hat and coat are as dry as a bone, even though it was raining very heavily outside . (00:13:40 - 00:14:30)

Correction: He didn't walk very much in the rain. He went up the stone steps leading into the building and that was it. Judging on his comment "Where are we going? Australia?" they were walking indoors for a good distance, which could have let his coat dry sufficiently.

Corrected entry: When the hunters's place in Africa explodes, and with such huge explosion, the natives instead of running away (or even fall or protect themselves because of it) they go running towards the burning place. Moreso, it seems that they run towards the place a split second BEFORE it explodes. (00:12:10)

Correction: It seems to be natural instinct to run towards something that explodes. When the plane crashed into the Pentagon, people rushed to it to get a better look. Also, it can be assumed that they all were running to it to see if they can 1) help people who survived, or 2) put out the fire.

Corrected entry: In the scene where the League is in Dorian Gray's library, before the fight with Fantom, the Invisible Man has his hat off and pours himself a drink, only his face is covered in make-up. After the fight, he is shown with his entire head covered in make-up.

Correction: When the fight starts, the Invisible Man rubs the white make-up off. After the fight, when we see him again, he's had time to put more on.

Corrected entry: When Hyde saves the Nautilus from sinking, his clothes are all ripped up from the process of changing. But in the next scene he is in a full clean suit and the table that had slid during the explosion was just being moved back. Hyde wouldn't have had time to change into a new suit in the time that it would have taken them to put the table back.

Correction: There is nothing to suggest that the first thing anyone did after the Nautilus was saved was to put the table back in place. Any number of things could have gone on in the meantime, including Dr Jekyll changing into a fresh suit.

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Mina Harker: Ideas. [Stabs him in the lower parts.].

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Trivia: American agent Tom Sawyer was created in the film so to attract an American audience.

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Question: I don't get what happens at the end. Does Sean Connery come back to life? Someone please explain.

Answer: After Quartermain is buried, we see a witch doctor performing magic above his grave and the clouds darken indicating something is about to take place. The witch doctor is chanting "Return" and the grave begins to shake. Although we do not see Quartermain come back to life it is most definitely hinted that he did and left room for a sequel which never came to pass.

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