Corrected entry: When we see the closeup of Laura's cut leg, the skin around it is nice and smooth. However, any girl can tell you that after spending several days camped out in the library, they would be stubbly at the very least. They can't expect us to believe that she's still been shaving her legs throughout this ordeal.
Corrected entry: The International Space Station is shown taking meteorological measurements and transmitting them to earth. First of all, there are HUNDREDS of weather satellites already in orbit for that purpose, the use of which does not require distracting astronauts from other duties. Second, the ISS does not have sophisticated earth-sensing equipment.
Correction: The astronauts on the international space station are never shown taking measurements, only observing the storm and the effects of it after.
Corrected entry: After the news report about Grand Central Station being closed, the weather man stands in front of a map of the large weather system over Canada. The storm is spinning clockwise, when it should be counter-clockwise in the northern hemisphere.
Correction: Clockwise spinning storms do occur in the Northern Hemisphere, they are just rare events. http://www.usatoday.com/weather/resources/askjack/wfaqtorn.htm http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/ (Most tornadoes - but not all - rotate cyclonically, which is counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise south of the equator.)
Corrected entry: As Jack and Jason trudge on foot to New York, he says "we have forty miles to go" Most people can walk between 2 - 5 mph. Jack and Jason are also using snowshoes with packs on. 20 a day walking would be superhuman, yet they cover 40 miles nearly overnight.
Correction: The conversation doesn't happen whist they are walking, it happens whilst they're inside having waited for the eye of the storm to pass. Also, Jack doesn't say 'we have 40 miles to go', he says 'it's 40 miles to Manhattan'. Finally there's nothing saying that they covered that distance overnight. We only see them spending one more night in the tent but that doesn't mean they didn't spend more nights that we didn't see.
Corrected entry: The tidal wave that strikes Manhattan is shown coming from the west (From New Jersey) as opposed to coming from the east of Manhattan (where the Atlantic Ocean is). Where did this tidal wave originate from, the Hackensack River?
Correction: Look again-the wave is coming from the south. New Jersey is slightly west in relationship to Manhattan. The tidal wave originates somewhere south in the Atlantic.
Corrected entry: In the movie Jack Hall describes that the chunk of land mass that broke off where he was in Antarctica was the size of Rhode Island. In 1992, there was an iceberg that floated away from Antarctica and broke in two and the larger half, given the moniker B-10A, was the size of Rhode Island.
Correction: In the beginning of the movie, they say that they are at the Larsen B ice shelf. The movie was referring to the March 2002 collapse of the Larsen B ice shelf in Antarctica which was also the size of Rhode Island.
Corrected entry: In many of the shots that were supposed to be really cold, or even fairly cold, the character's breath is not seen.
Correction: Seeing breath in the air is caused by humidity in the air, as well as low temperatures, as mentioned in one of the audio commentaries.
Corrected entry: When the tidal wave hits New York there appears to be a large number of people still in the city, as evidenced by the shots of them running from the wave as it pours through the streets. However, when we see an underwater shot of the front of the tanker, there doesn't appear to be a single dead body anywhere in the water. While I appreciate that a number would have been washed through with the wave, surely this would not be everyone. (00:49:15 - 01:02:45)
Correction: The shot you mention is very isolated (that is, it was a close-up). So what's to say that if there were any dead bodies, they would have all been isolated in this one area where the ship just so happens to stop? As you yourself point out, chances are they would have been swept away much further away (even more likely considering the severity of the tidal wave).
Corrected entry: When the wall of water is about to slam into New York, a city bus driver is stuck in traffic in the pouring rain. As he is listening to the weather report on the radio, he looks in his rear-view mirror to see the wall of water coming up behind him. There is not one drop of rain obscuring the view between the outside mirror and the window. (00:47:25)
Correction: There are drops of rain between the window and the mirror, but since the cameras focus is on the wall of water in the mirror, the drops simply aren't in focus. The camera's depth of field is simply not set sufficiently to capture the rain drops, but if you look close enough you can see the blur from them.
Corrected entry: We see a screen of satellites on the GPS receiver throughout the movie. This view does not contain any useful navigational data. (01:39:15)
Correction: The screen actually shows the latitude and longitude very faintly below the circle.
Corrected entry: When Jack and his buddy find the door in the library, where his son is supposed to be, a very bright light is shining through underneath the door. Then he opens the door and the room behind that door is just totally dark. (01:49:15)
Correction: The room is not 'totally dark'; we can see the pink glow of the fire on the frost on the back of the door as soon as Quaid opens it. He was able to see the fire more brightly from the outside because of the contrast it formed with the darkness in the corridor. When the door swings open we can even see the small gap between it and the snow which allowed that small amount of firelight to escape.
Corrected entry: When everybody in the Public Library hears a strange sound and goes out to investigate it, they all go to the front part of the library where you see the entire first floor flooded. However when Sam and the other two men come back from going to the ship and are running from "The Big Freeze" the snow slopes down to the very bottom of the first floor. How can this be? The first floor was flooded and would have frozen over.
Correction: If you're talking about the exterior shots, it's clear that the snow covers at least the bottom floor; the guys have to get in through the very top of one of the arched windows. If you're talking about interior, we see the same room we saw everyone assembled in earlier, before most of them leave on their ill-fated attempt to get out of the city. To get there, running from the floods, they have run up some steps, through a revolving door, and then up more steps - higher than the water, over which they then look out. Either way, this is not a mistake.
Corrected entry: When we see the outside of New Delhi, there is a news reporter outside, speaking in English (he is definitely Indian). If he's Indian, why is he speaking in English?
Correction: A major conference of the type depicted in the film would attract interest from all over the world. The reporter is covering the conference on behalf of an unspecified English language news network - you can see that the logo on his microphone has the word NEWS written on it in English.
Corrected entry: When the tidal wave is slamming New York, it shows that Liberty Island is a mile from shore. In real life it's not very far from Manhattan.
Correction: Liberty Island is in fact 1.6 miles from southern Manhattan.
Corrected entry: During the airline scene (when Sam is consuming all the peanuts) the head flight attendant rushes forward and closes a curtain. However, if this is supposed to be post-9/11 film, there should be no curtains on board the plane. Curtains were removed for the sake of security after 9/11.
Correction: Not true. Since 9/11 and many airlines still do have curtains, especially separating the galley from the rest of the plane.
Corrected entry: When the pilot opens the door of the helicopter and freezes, he shows no signs of pain. I worked with nitrogen gas atmosphere cooled down to just above the melting point of nitrogen (-248°F). When you have your hand too long it there, your skin starts to freeze. This hurts extremely. Temperature is not an issue, it hurts the same, when your skin freezes at -150°F. The pain is about the same, as if you suffer a burn, I felt it, it's a unimaginably horrible deat. (00:41:05)
Correction: He died too fast to feel the pain, or maybe he was too stunned by the cold to show any signs of pain.
Corrected entry: When Jack is talking about the Gulf Stream, the animation shows it flowing from Europe to the Gulf of Mexico. It actually goes in the opposite direction, that's why Europe is warm. (00:06:45)
Correction: Jack was actually referring to the North Atlantic Current which is different than the Gulf Stream. The NAC moves in a counterclockwise pattern between Ireland and Labrador.
Corrected entry: We're given a glimpse of the computer screen on which Tamlyn Tomita is monitoring the progress of the super-cold eye of the storm towards New York City. In that shot, the eye of the storm is in far northeastern Vermont. The camera very briefly turns to Tomita, so she can say that 'the temperature is dropping by ten degrees per second' and then returns to the screen. When it does, the eye of the storm has moved about 250 miles (to Western MA, I think). Even in the exaggerated world of this movie, that storm shouldn't change its location that fast.
Correction: When Tamlyn wakes Tom up, she says "I just received some satellite images from the space station.". Two separate pictures, taken at a far enough time apart (about 30-40 minutes based on the distance of the vortex from the first to second image she sees, and the time she estimates for it hitting NYC) would allow for the changes. The images show that the storm is moving in a southwestern direction, and thus be able to give her a time estimate with a timestamp of some sort on both pictures. Although that would mean that the storm would have to be moving at least 200 MPH. Aside from this she mentions nothing about the weather. She says that the vortex is at least fifty miles in diameter and will hit New York inside of an hour. When she says that the temperature is dropping ten degrees per second, it is just a model of the vortex over NYC on her screen, and about 5 minutes after the images are shown. So going based off the images that are shown, and the size and strength of the storms, it is possible that the storm could be moving near as fast as shown in the movie.
Corrected entry: In the shot where the 'camera' is panning over a city, some birds fly by. As the birds are flying through the city, some can be seen miraculously flying through buildings.
Correction: Look closely, it is just an illusion. The birds blend in with the buildings, so it's hard to see them.
Corrected entry: The people in the library had a fire going during the whole storm. Jack Hall should have seen smoke when he got close to the library, but there was no smoke to be seen. (01:47:45 - 01:49:45)
Correction: There is, in fact, smoke coming from the chimney, it's just hard to see. In one of the commentaries, the commentators also indicate that there is smoke coming from the chimney.
Correction: She might have waxed her legs just before the contest. In that case, it would take more than a couple of days for the hair to grow back.