Hancock

Hancock (2008)

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Corrected entry: Near the beginning we see Ray drinking a cup of Dunkin' Donuts coffee. There are no Dunkin' Donuts coffee shops in the greater Los Angeles area.

Maria Santos

Correction: Ray just reused the cup that he had from a prior purchase. There's no reason why he can't have been in another city on business, at some point in the past.

Correction: At that time there were no Dunkin Donuts in California.

Maria Santos

Corrected entry: (Spoiler Alert) Hancock is shot after losing his powers because he's been spending too much time around the other super heroine. And she's aware of this. She knows for a fact he's losing his powers, and she's well aware that this has happened several times before, which is why she left him in the first place. So what on earth possesses her to walk into the hospital and up to Hancock to tell him that face to face? She could have called the hospital, or given the message to her son or husband, since she knows full well that Hancock becomes vulnerable when she's around and she knows he's injured. She left him in the first place so he could heal up, so why would she choose to visit him now instead of at least waiting a few hours? (Hell, she left him alone for years, a few hours won't kill her.)

Correction: Character choice, not a movie mistake. She didn't know that people were coming to kill him. Obviously not able to get through to him on the hospital phones (people who are shot don't usually receive phone calls), she figured she would be safe to meet him briefly and explain why she can't be around him anymore.

Corrected entry: When Hancock saves Jason Bateman from being hit by the train, he flips the car onto its roof, crushing it. In the next scene, he drops Jason Bateman and his car off at home and the roof has no damage to it.

Correction: First, the car is never shown to be "crushed". Second, Hancock is easily strong enough to pound out any dents that would have been made.

Phixius

Corrected entry: Hancock is all bulletproof, of course. But that shouldn't make his new, black superhero suit prepared by his PR manager bulletproof, too. When he is going into the war-zone in the bank robbery sequence, you can see the bullets bouncing off his suit, making no hole whatsoever. However, we know that his superpowers do not extend to his clothes, evidenced by his sunglasses being broken by bullets, and all his clothes burnt off due to a fire.

Correction: We do not know what the suit is made of. It could be kevlar which would make it bullet proof.

papajim

But his suit doesn't even scratch or scar. Even Kevlar scratches and dents. There should be some kind of mark on it.

Corrected entry: Hancock throws the French child high up in the air (after it called him ass'ole several times). When it comes back down, he catches it with his arm. It really doesn't matter what stops a fall from such great height, an arm or the ground; the child would be dead for sure. (00:26:50 - 00:27:25)

Correction: Not necessarily. The ground has no "give" while an arm can catch the child, and give way, absobing energy. Anyway, people have fallen from heights as high as 15000 feet, and hit the ground after a parachute didn't open, and survived.

Continuity mistake: In the scene when Mary visits Hancock for the first time at his house, she arrives from the air and crashes down on the ground, after a discussion inside they both walk outside together and Mary is shown getting into a car. In the next shot shown from above the house the car has disappeared and they both fly into the air.

mayhem

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Suggested correction: No, we see her drive up in the car, not fly in. But you are right that when we see them take off the car is missing.

jimba

You must have seen a different version of the movie I saw her land there, it's on Netflix.

You're right. I just saw the version on Netflix and she flies in, while the version from disc I have shows her drive up with a minute of dialog between them next to the car that is not in the Netflix version. I find it very surprising that there are two versions with that major of a difference.

jimba

An extended cut was released on DVD and Blu-Ray which has a couple extra scenes as well as modified scenes (including Mary driving to Hancock's). Netflix would have shown the theatrical cut version. (Or if I had to venture a guess, the UK release version as Netflix has a tendency to use those versions for some reason).

Bishop73

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Trivia: Will Smith has his own signature line, which is called 'Oh Hell no.' He says it at least once in almost all his movies, including this one.

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Question: I'm not sure if I was seeing things but during the fight between Hancock and Mary, when it goes all windy and stormy, at one point it cuts to some people who are screaming and running away. I thought I saw a figure that appears to be made out of rocks or similar material and about 10 foot tall, it wasn't our hero or heroine as they were not in that scene so what on earth was it?

Answer: I saw it, too, and wondered. He's a street performer in L.A. that just happened to be around during filming. See: http://io9.com/5023487/hancock-giant-robot-mystery-++-solved.

johnrosa

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