Jon Sandys

17th May 2009

Angels & Demons (2009)

Corrected entry: The CERN scientist is killed at the start of the movie so his eye can be used to bypass the security system. Yet his body is found *inside* the secure section the eye would give access to. Meaning either the assassin broke into that secure section then took out the eye (impossible) or else attacked him somewhere outside that secure section, removed his eye...but then dragged his body along for the ride anyway.

Correction: As Vittoria approaches the secure room, she walks past a part-open door. She then accesses the secure room and finds the blood and eye. There's then a cut as she reacts, panicked, and we then see her standing in this part-open doorway, looking at the body. Clearly we aren't shown her walking back to this other room, but that's where the body was left - outside the secure area.

Jon Sandys

29th Apr 2009

Twilight (2008)

Corrected entry: At the beginning, when Charlie and Bella are walking into the house and just about to go up the stairs, if you look at the upper right of the screen towards the living room, you can see presumably a crew member standing there, as no-one else is meant to be in the house.

prncssfpwr

Correction: It's just a jacket hanging on the back of a door.

Jon Sandys

11th Apr 2007

Casino Royale (2006)

Corrected entry: In the torture scene, LeChiffre tells Bond that he needs the account number from Vesper and he will easily get it by torturing her. However, before the torture scene, LeChiffre threw Vesper out of the car and onto the road whereupon Bond wrecks his car and is captured. It makes no sense for LeChiffre to risk Vesper's life by throwing her out onto the road in front of Bond's car until after he gets the account number from her. If Bond hits Vesper with the car, she's dead and the account number goes with her. It only makes sense for LeChiffre to cause Bond to crash by throwing Vesper onto the road if LeChiffre knows that Bond will miss her and crash; but of course there's no way for LeChiffre to know that.

Correction: That's only a mistake from our point of view earlier in the film - given Vesper's involvement, there's no way to be sure that she's not given him the number voluntarily already, meaning he doesn't actually need her alive (callous but true) so can take any risks with her he likes. Regardless at most it's a character mistake.

Jon Sandys

18th Jul 2006

Superman Returns (2006)

Correction: Except we don't know how his powers were removed - considering they're a by-product of our yellow sun (and that they were restored later) they can't just have been taken away from him. Most likely they were somehow suppressed, meaning that they were still present within him, just unusable, and that would mean they could still be passed on to a child.

Jon Sandys

7th Jan 2006

King Kong (2005)

Corrected entry: Wireless framed glasses were not available during the supposed time era of the film.

Correction: They most certainly were: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rimless_eyeglasses.

Jon Sandys

5th Jan 2006

King Kong (2005)

Corrected entry: In the end, Anne climbs to the top of the Empire State building on a ladder that breaks where Kong then saves her once more and gets her up the rest of the way to the top. After Kong falls however, Jack some how makes it to the top despite the broken ladder.

Correction: No reason there couldn't be another ladder on the other side...

Jon Sandys

2nd Aug 2005

Blade (1998)

Corrected entry: At the end of the first fight scene when Blade has nailed Quinn to the wall, why doesn't he disintegrate having been nailed to the wall with the silver stakes as other vampires had before?

Correction: Blade himself expresses surprise at having difficulty killing Quinn, and says that silver's not worked before, hence trying fire this time. He would have stayed around to check the job was finished but the police showed up.

Jon Sandys

Correction: The reason he didn't disintegrate was because both times the silver stakes got him in the shoulders, Blade even says later to Karen "aim for the head or the heart"

Joey221995

13th Apr 2005

Black Hawk Down (2001)

Corrected entry: In the conversation scene between Mr. Atto and general Garrisson, we see sunglasses and an ash tray placed on the table. In the next shot the ash tray moves to different place and the sunglasses switch position.

killin_kellit

Correction: The two shots of the table are from opposite sides of it, which is why they appear to have swapped sides.

Jon Sandys

29th Mar 2003

End of Days (1999)

Corrected entry: In the first scene that we meet Arnold (when Kevin Pollack meets him in his apartment), Arnold starts throwing all kinds of stuff into his blender for breakfast (an obvious ripoff of "Men at Work"); the blender is filled to the absolute top, but then is a good 3-4 inches from the top of the container when he puts the lid on.

Correction: The final thing he puts in is a slice of pizza, which doesn't fit into the blender too well, leaving the gap at the top. When he presses the button, the bit of pizza gets sucked into the rest of the mix (we actually see this happen), leaving the gap above the liquid more visible.

Jon Sandys

15th Jul 2004

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Corrected entry: In the scene immediately after Peter decides he's not going to be Spider-man anymore, he stops to buy a hot dog from a street vendor. As he walks away from the vendor's stand, he lowers the hot dog out of the frame while he watches the cop cars go wailing by. When he raises his hand back into the frame and takes a bite of the hot dog, you can see that there is no longer a hot dog in the bun. Nothing to do with Tobey Maguire being a vegetarian, as the sausage was tofu anyway.

Correction: On the DVD at least, at no point do you see enough of the bun when it comes back into frame to tell if there's a hot dog in it or not.

Jon Sandys

Corrected entry: In both movies after watching the dead get up and shamble around people always call them "those...things." Hardly anyone uses the term "zombie," though just about most people alive has seen a zombie film in their lives.

Grumpy Scot

Correction: A discussion in "Shaun of the Dead" explains this perfectly. Shaun's friend asks "any zombies out there?", and Shaun says "don't use the Z word - it's ridiculous!" Despite the evidence of their own eyes, people are loathe to admit that something previously only used in fiction might exist in reality.

Jon Sandys

27th Sep 2004

Star Wars (1977)

Corrected entry: This is only on the new DVD. When the 4 Tie Fighters are attacking the Millennium Falcon, there are shots of the Tie Fighters with a faded red box that surrounds them.

Correction: That's a generic DVD artefact problem caused by the video compression - it's only more pronounced in this scene because the background is a fairly solid black. It'll be most obvious on LCD screens.

Jon Sandys

6th Jul 2004

Reservoir Dogs (1992)

Corrected entry: At the end of the movie when Joe, Nice Eddie and Mr. White have their guns drawn, Joe is pointing at Mr. Orange; Mr. White is pointing at Joe; and nice Eddie is pointing at Mr. White. They all shoot and they all go down, but no one is pointing a gun at Nice Eddie but he still goes down. Director Quentin Tarantino in a Bravo Channel interview was aware of the goof, but left it in.

Correction: Watch in slo-mo, and you'll see it makes perfect sense. Joe shoots Mr. Orange, and Mr. White shoots Joe a few frames later. Eddie then shoots Mr. White - as Mr. White falls he manages to turn his gun slightly and actually gets off TWO shots as Eddie, killing him too.

Jon Sandys

OP is correct. Chris Penn once explained that his blood squib went off earlier than planned, forcing him to fall to the floor before time. Penn said that Keitel was supposed to shoot Tierney and then him, but the squib on Keitel went right off after shooting Tierney, so he went down before he shot Penn, whose squib went off anyway, so he had to fall too. It was bad timing but Tarantino decided to keep the scene in.

30th Jun 2004

Shrek 2 (2004)

Corrected entry: When Shrek and Fiona first arrive at Far Far Away, one of the doves flies into a wall and then crashes to the ground at the feet of the King and Queen, no-where near a wall.

Kara

Correction: The King and Queen are standing underneath the castle, which consists of various balconies and towers - perfectly possible that the wall the bird hit just doesn't extend down to the ground.

Jon Sandys

Corrected entry: In the scene where Will Turner is breaking Captain Jack out of prison, he only raises the left side of the jail door out of the hinges to help Jack escape, but that's impossible since the jail doors are locked - when the door falls away it falls to the hinged side showing the door unlocked.

Correction: When the camera shows Captain Jack Sparrow picking the lock with a broken bone you can see that the lock is an old deadbolt lock of some kind so when Will pulls the hinges out he is able to pull the door backwards so that the two doors are no longer inter-locking.

Jon Sandys

12th Oct 2003

Friends (1994)

Correction: Joey's video camera is quite a large one - it could easily take a full-size VHS tape.

Jon Sandys

4th Sep 2003

Friends (1994)

The One with the East German Laundry Detergent - S1-E5

Corrected entry: In this episode, when Monica and Joey are at the restaurant and Monica is talking to the other girl in the bathroom, the latter says that Bob is "really great in bed," to which Monica states that Ross didn't even tell her when he lost his virginity. However, in the previous episode when Ross remembers that it's the anniversary of he and Carol...consummating their physical relationship, he says he told EVERYBODY (including Monica).

Correction: He may have told her that they'd slept together, but she didn't know it was his first time - she probably assumed it was important just because it was Carol.

Jon Sandys

Corrected entry: When Houston asks the space station to confirm that Northern Europe is clear, they look over at Italy and confirm that it's clear. Italy is part of Southern Europe.

Craz

Correction: They say "we're over Europe", not "northern Europe".

Jon Sandys

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