Jez

27th Aug 2001

The Game (1997)

Corrected entry: Nicholas (Michael Douglas) sits at the airport when a guy in the seat opposing him is staring at him. Nicholas asks if he can help him and the guy says nothing, he just keeps looking at him. After that, Nicholas notices that his pen is leaking ink. The next shot, you see him cleaning his shirt in the restrooms. This is obviously a different shirt, since the colour is different and it has little stripes on it. (00:31:00)

Correction: The shirt is the same; we see in a close-up before the leak that it has a fine checked pattern, which appears as plain pale blue from a distance, and in the restroom the lighting is dim, making the colour appear slightly different.

Jez

27th Aug 2001

The Matrix (1999)

Corrected entry: During the scene with Neo firing the mini-gun you can see both the empty cases and the disintegrating chain for holding the bullets falling down in the shot from behind his feet. However, when the shot changes to under the helicopter, none of the dark grey links are falling, only the cases. (01:44:00)

Correction: Using frame-by-frame you can see that the little grey links ARE falling with the cases in the shot taken underneath the helicopter.

Jez

12th May 2004

Van Helsing (2004)

Corrected entry: When Van Helsing tries to hide the monster from Dracula, he uses two coaches: one is empty to deceive the vampires. When the coach with the monster departs, Van Helsing is actually there. This is the proof that both coaches start from the same location. But when the empty coach falls into the canyon and Van Helsing rides on with the horses, only a bit later the second coach comes through the forest. But there was obviously only one bridge over the canyon and it would have taken a long time to ride around it.

Correction: There could easily have been another bridge across the ravine, to the left of Van Helsing's path, behind the camera.

Jez

27th Aug 2001

Pearl Harbor (2001)

Corrected entry: When Evelyn first enters Pearl Harbor, there is a tall building that clearly says, "Est. 1953." Obviously this is a little ahead of the times.

Correction: I've scoured the film for this building, and it really doesn't appear to exist. Unless someone can find proof (i.e. a screenshot or timecode), it's got to be marked as invalid.

Jez

27th Apr 2003

Jurassic Park III (2001)

Corrected entry: Grant was exposed to tear gas when Eric saved him...he didn't inhale much but he would still be coughing so violently that he wouldn't be able to speak coherently or eat without problem for quite a few hours at least.

Correction: That was a smoke grenade, not a tear gas canister.

Jez

19th Feb 2004

Jurassic Park III (2001)

Corrected entry: At the beginning when they lift off in the hanglider you can see that there are numbers on the top of the hanglider. I couldn't see these when they were in the air.

star wars freak

Correction: The lettering is on the underside of the parawing, not on the top, so you can only see it when it's viewed from below.

Jez

17th Feb 2004

Jurassic Park (1993)

Corrected entry: In the scene where Hammond and Ellie are in the dining room eating ice cream that was melting due to a lack of power to the freezers, overhead fans are operating. Where did they get power?

Correction: Not all the systems went off - the lights are on as well as the fans. This is before they have actively deactivated the whole park; the freezers losing power must have been a side-effect of Nedry's meddling.

Jez

23rd Nov 2003

Love Actually (2003)

Corrected entry: When Sam is watching the TV screen showing the awful Christmas song video, there is a reflection of him and another boy in the TV screen. However, when it cuts to show his face there is no one else around him.

mandy gasson

Correction: There are two reflections, but they are both of Sam; one in the TV screen itself, and another, slightly offset, in the shop window (which is between Sam and the TV).

Jez

8th Nov 2003

Star Wars (1977)

Corrected entry: This mistake is for all the original trilogy. The Millenium Falcon has its cockpit on the side and not in front of the ship, so you should be able to see the side of the ship from within, but you can only ever see space.

Dr Wilson

Correction: The front bulkheads of the Falcon angle away from the cockpit enough to be out of the forward field of view. It wouldn't be a very good design if the body of the ship obstructed its own pilot's visibility.

Jez

9th Nov 2003

Monsters, Inc. (2001)

Corrected entry: If Boo was the first child to enter the monster world, then how does the CDA know their detecting machines works?

Correction: The monsters regularly go into children's bedrooms, and could safely test their devices while the kids are asleep. It's not as if they've never seen a child before: they rely on them for power after all.

Jez

Corrected entry: Just before the bug asteroid hits the Roger Young, Carmen and the other pilot are rapidly examining their instruments to determine where the gravity field is coming from. Yet, moments later, we see that the asteroid is coming from straight ahead of the ship and is fully visible through the front windows of the bridge. Couldn't one of the pilots have seen it coming?

Correction: Surely both the cruiser and the asteroid are travelling at immense speeds, seeing as they are moving across huge interplanetary distances. This means that the asteroid would be upon them in no time at all without them observing it quickly enough.

Jez

Corrected entry: When Smith and Neo are running towards each other in the rain at the beginning of the Super Brawl, it shows a shot of Smith's feet from behind and the rain soaked gorund in front of him. Nowhere can you see Neo running towards him.

Correction: I noticed this but looked a bit more closely - the rain and darkness combine to give very short visibility, especially seeing as this shot is low to the ground. You shouldn't be able to see Neo from this perspective.

Jez

Corrected entry: When Neo goes to visit the Oracle before he returns to the ship, there is a pack of cigarettes on the table when the Oracle is speaking with Neo. It moves around throughout the scene without her ever moving it.

Correction: The Oracle moves it to get a cigarette out. The rest of the time it remains where it was put.

Jez

Corrected entry: In the scene where Neo and Smith are fighting inside the building, Neo gets thrown against a wall and there is a circular depression formed. Smith and Neo then attack each other which results in Neo being thrown in the opposite direction and yet he ends up landing on the same wall with the same depression.

Correction: He is thrown straight back, NOT in the opposite direction. So he would have hit the same wall again.

Jez

Corrected entry: In the scene when Neo fights against Agent Smith in the rain you can see in one shot it is raining against Neo but in shots of Smith it's raining against him too, despite them running in opposite directions.

Correction: It is raining vertically downwards, with no apparent wind. The drops hit Neo and Smith because they are running into them, so the effect is correct.

Jez

22nd Sep 2003

Underworld (2003)

Corrected entry: The film is set in an unnamed eastern European city - see the cars' number plates, the street signs and Michael's address on the computer - yet interior scenes have predominantly English signs ("South Terminus", "Exit").

jle

Correction: Whichever city they are supposed to be in, all the characters talk in English, so it's acceptable for all signs and notices to be 'translated' into English too.

Jez

28th Oct 2003

Jurassic Park (1993)

Corrected entry: Right before the scientists see the dinosaurs for the first time, Ellie is looking at this plant leaf and saying, "This has been extinct since the ____ period." If it's an extinct plant, how could they duplicate it? Mosquitoes don't drink chlorophyll - there's no way it could have been preserved if everything worked the way they said. No organic material from an extinct plant from either the Jurassic or Cretaceous period has ever been found, and given that plant material decays very quickly, it never will be. The engineers did not use some magical "other method" to clone plants because there aren't any.

Correction: As has been pointed out on this site before, inventing deux ex machina explanations for plot holes and factual errors does not invalidate them. No organic material from an extinct plant from either the Jurassic or Cretaceous period has ever been found, and given that plant material decays very quickly, it never will be. The engineers did not use some magical "other method" to clone plants because there aren't any.

Correction: The video they watch (with Mr. DNA) only explains how they recreated the dinosaurs, which were the main attraction of the park. The engineers used other methods to make the right environment for the animals, but as it's not half as exciting, the viewer never finds out exactly how.

Jez

Correction: The simplest and most likely explanation, once you accept the logic of this movie in the first place, is that the engineers are removing Plant DNA directly from the amber.

dizzyd

Amber is fossilized tree sap, anything fossilized doesn't hold any DNA. However, it is possible amber holds trapped plant parts (called 'inclusion'), from which DNA can be extracted. Theoretically.

lionhead

17th Sep 2003

Underworld (2003)

Corrected entry: In the first gunfight sequences of the movie that occur on a subway station and that eventually move on to the train itself, Selene ultimately throws herself out the window of the rear door on the last car of the train to quicken her chase after a Lycan; shattered glass flies in every direction, naturally. A short while later, another foot chase ensues by another Vampire/Werewolf pair, and they invariably reach the same area at the rear of the train, and just before they both crash out of that same last door, the glass on the door can be seen still intact.

Correction: The glass is still broken when the second pair arrive at the door.

Jez

Corrected entry: One question. If they are to maintain 'Radio Silence', as Gene Hackman's character mandated shortly after the F/A-18F is shot down, why then do they continue to talk on the radios non-stop?

Correction: They maintain radio silence until Burnett reaches the rally point and informs the carrier of this fact. However, the situation then changes, and he NEEDS the (infrequent) radio exchanges so that he knows what to do next.

Jez

Corrected entry: When Burnett is talking to the admiral over the radio, he explains that he ejected while doing Mach 3. He must have switched planes because the Hornet's top speed is nowhere near that.

Correction: Burnett is carrying out a jokey exchange with Reinert, and exaggerates for effect.

Jez

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