Corrected entry: In the scene in the cave when the Invisible Man shows up, he is of course naked so he won't be seen. Not only do they happen to have a spare coat for him, but either one of the other members remembered to pack a pair of sunglasses and the Invisible Man's face cream, or the Invisible Man had those items on him (which should be impossible).
Corrected entry: After the bombs have been exploded in the Nautilus, and Nemo has (miraculously) managed to get the ship back to the surface you see three very distinct holes in the hull of the ship. But in the next scene you can see the ship again from the same position, but this time without even a trace of the holes.
Correction: Well, we are treated to a rather lengthy intermission scene in which Dr Jekyll tends to the wounded and Tom Sawyer taps a few valves. I think this is when they repair the ship.
Corrected entry: In the first scene where we see him, Mr. Hyde pants fit well, but his shirt is torn to rags. It is quite hard to believe that he would change his pants, but not his shirt, after the change.
Correction: It's easier to wear loose pants that are too big than shirts that are too big. Besides, pants are a lot more essential to keep modesty after reverting back to Jekyll than shirts are, so he'd obviously dress accordingly. (After all, this comment could easily apply to any Hulk comic, and indeed the LoEG comic itself.)
Corrected entry: The League are driving around the collapsing Venice, smashing into pillars, through walls, etc. Not only does the car not suffer a single dent, but it remains white and gleaming.
Correction: Captain Nemo was well known in many of his stories to be such a brilliant scientist that some of his inventions, such as the Nautilus and the Nemo Mobile, could repair themselves and resist damage. The only reason the Nautilus was damaged severely was because the explosion came from within. Had it come from without, it would have been unscathed as well.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Dorian has supposedly killed Mina, when she is 'killed' her hair is curly, yet when she gets back up once Dorian has removed the sword, her hair is straight.
Correction: If you will notice, throughout the movie Mina's hair and overall "look" changes when she is in her vampire persona. She would have calmed down after he stabbed her, and she reverted to her "usual-looking" self.
Corrected entry: In the scene when Sawyer is driving the car in order to catch up with the collapsing buildings in Venice, Quatermain jumps from the car while travelling at least 50 mph. Yet he lands and remains on his feet without tumbling. They may be extraordinary, but I believe the laws of physics still apply to the entire team.
Correction: One man never ages (that is, his body never breaks down at all and miraculously heals itself), another turned himself invisible, and yet another completely restructures his body (back and forth from normal to hulking, and quite often, too) with some chemicals. Yes, I can see how the laws of physics apply to this world.
Corrected entry: Moriarty brought the League together to steal their abilities: he gets abilities from Nemo, Mina, Jekyll and the Invisible Man. Dorian Gray is his plant on the team. But why does he bother to recruit Quatermain? Having him on the team doesn't help him any. (Sawyer doesn't help either, but he's an uninvited guest sent from the US).
Correction: The League are supposed to believe that they are a real team, authorised by the British government and performing a real mission. Such a team would need to have a leader, which is where Quatermain comes in. None of the others would be plausible in the role - Nemo wouldn't be trusted by the government because of his previous piratical activities, Jekyll is unreliable, Mina is (a) an unknown quantity and (b) female, either of which would disqualify her from the role, and Skinner is a criminal. Without the presence of a credible leader, the other members of the League might become suspicious that all was not as they had been told. As such, Quatermain is recruited, despite any potential problems that he might cause. In fact, it's even more simple: They needed Quatermain to catch Mr Hyde. They actually SAY that in the movie.
Corrected entry: When Phantom was at the zeppelin warehouse/factory and the scientist told him the zeppelins are filled with hydrogen, Phantom shot one of the zeppelins and it exploded in flames, the fire should be blue in colour instead of orange because pure hydrogen gas burned produces blue flames.
Correction: It is not a mistake that the Zeppelins burned with a yellow flame. Bright yellow flames were seen at the famous Hindenburg disaster, which is now thought to have been caused (both the colour of the flames, and the disaster) by aluminised cellulose acetate in the airship's skin. Hydrogen burns with a very pale flame, which would be virtually invisible in daylight (or the well-lit hanger in the movie). See: www.hydrogenus.com/advocate/ad22zepp.htm.
Corrected entry: This is 1889, as they've established most people ride horses or walk. Most of the characters have never even seen a car before. Yet, somehow, Tom Sawyer can suddenly handle one like an expert.
Correction: While none of the other members of the League are likely to have encountered cars (Harker and Skinner seem to be quite reclusive, Quatermain's been in Africa for years), it seems highly likely that Sawyer, as a well-travelled government agent, would be familiar with such vehicles and would know how to drive them.
Corrected entry: The term 'car' is an abbreviation of 'horseless carriage', the old name for a car which would certainly have been in use unabbreviated at the time of the film. When the team first see Nemo's ground vehicle, Nemo calls it 'an automobile'; it seems that none of the team have seen one before, so Nemo's statement would be their only reference for what this vehicle is called. But later, Sawyer and Quartermain both refer to it as a 'car' even though it has never been called this, nor even called a 'horseless carriage'.
Correction: Given that most of the team aren't familiar with such vehicles, it doesn't seem remotely unreasonable that they might have discussed it off-camera, maybe en route to Venice. The term 'car' could have come up in those conversations - Sawyer, who's already familiar with such vehicles, might well know them by that name.
Corrected entry: Hyde swims underwater and pulls a lever in the engine room that opens the drain. It looks tough for him to move the lever, he puts all his strength into it and it takes him several seconds. It's a pretty meaty lever. But the sub's designed to be operated by normal human beings - how would a regular person ever be able to operate that lever?
Correction: The most obvious assumption is that the linkage or drain parts have been damaged by the explosions, rendering them nearly immovable.
Corrected entry: How does Jekyll know that there's a lever in the engine room that opens the drain?
Correction: He was on board the Nautilus for several days, so theoretically he could've learned about that feature.
Corrected entry: After Alan and Tom chased Mr. Hyde to 'recruit' him, Tom picks up a Hyde-sized hat. Dr. Jekyll wouldn't keep one around, to avoid suspicion.
Correction: Perhaps not, but Mr. Hyde would, and as we see, Hyde likes to get his own way.
Corrected entry: Early in the film, Sean Connery needed his glasses to shoot down one of the assassins that ran away. But in the scene on Nautilus, where Sean Connery was shooting the targets, he didn't need his glasses to shoot them. However, at the end of the movie, when Phantom escaped, Sean Connery showed his broken glasses to Sawyer to indicate that he can't shoot Phantom down.
Correction: Quatermain was just probably practicing/training his skills aboard the Nautilis, hence the glasses were unnecessary (or it was intentional). On the other "shooting scenes", he needed/must hit the target and no mistake should be made, so he needed his glasses to be more accurate.
Corrected entry: In the Scene where the League goes to recruit Dorian, there is a gun battle. During this, Dorian is riddled with bullets and kills the man who shot him, who, while falling over, rips Dorians shirt off (to reveal the bullet wounds dissapearing). However, when Dorian turns back around, his clothing is back to normal. Although I knew of the curse, I don't think that the invincibility would apply to clothes as well.
Correction: There appears to be something of a gap between Dorian having the clothing torn off and his next appearance - he can suddenly be seen descending the stairs. Presumably the League took a small break after the battle to allow their host to go upstairs and don undamaged clothing.
Corrected entry: The "automobile" was already invented in 1885. Yet the league didn't even know what they saw when they saw the automobile of captain Nemo, while it was the year 1899.
Correction: While the automobile was invented in 1885, they were hardly a common thing to see around the place. Quatermain's been in Africa for years and neither Harker or Skinner seem like the type to get around much, so it seems reasonable that they wouldn't be aware of this sort of thing. It's worth noting that Sawyer, who, in his role as government agent, presumably gets around a fair bit, does seem familiar with them, to judge from his driving display later on.
Corrected entry: Sawyer said that he was a government agent from America, if M wasn't really working for the British government then why would the American government even know about the League to begin with?
Correction: From the fact that he's effectively stalking the League at the beginning of the film, he's not there at the invitation of the British Government. It seems likely that the US government have gotten wind of the League's formation through intelligence means, and have sent Sawyer to investigate. Once he linked up with the League, he accepted the lie, as they all did, that the group was assembled by the British government.
Corrected entry: When Quatermain shoots the last of the assassins at a great distance when they came to kill him he walks down the stairs to where the assassin fell and in just a few steps there are 2 men dropping the assassin at his feet. There was no way possible they could have gotten the assassin that quickly to Quatermain's location.
Correction: Quatermain waited on the veranda with Reed while the assassin was retrieved, then came down to meet them as they arrived back.
Corrected entry: After the scenes in Venice, Dorian steals the Nautiloid (single-person sub attached to the Nautilus) and it's a big point in the movie that he does this. The Nautilus chases after him in the next scene and when the camera pans around the Nautilus it still has the Nautiloid intact.
Correction: There are two ornamental things on the Nautilus, one conceals the Nautiloid and the other is merely a decoration; it's this one we see in the pan-around shot.
Corrected entry: When the league are talking on the Nautilus's conning tower it is daylight, but this doesn't seem to worry the vampire.
Correction: Mina Harker is a character from the books of Bram Stoker. In these books vampires can walk in sunlight safely, they are only weakened by it, not killed.
Correction: They had to anticipate that he'd show up eventually, so it would make sense that they did bring the necessary equipment to (a) keep him warm and (b) allow them to interact with him more easily.
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