Corrected entry: At the beginning of the movie, Brian reads the beginning of his essay/letter to Vernon. It reads like this: Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. But we think you're crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. What do you care? You see us as you want to see us. In the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain. The question, "What do you care?", disappears at the end of the movie when he reads it again, yet it's supposed to be the same essay he writes at the end of day.
Myridon
4th Jul 2005
The Breakfast Club (1985)
8th Jul 2005
The Core (2003)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Josh & Serge are called in because of the 32 people who collapsed from pacemakers failing, they are shown one of the bodies with their pacemaker scar. The general complements him on getting it right without seeing the body or the scar. The problem is the scar shown goes down the sternum. The correct scar for a pacemaker would be a small scar under the collarbone.
Correction: The body has an open-heart surgery scar so it's possibly the pacemaker was implanted at the same time rather through a separate incision.
7th Jul 2005
Seinfeld (1990)
Corrected entry: On the Seinfeld season 3 DVD, there is a feature called notes about nothing where along the bottom of the screen it tells you little notes about what is going on. Well in this episode it said they used mirrors to make their "parking garage" look bigger because a real one would be too expensive. When Jerry, Elaine, George, and Kramer enter The Parking Garage, you can see their reflections in a mirror in the top left area of the screen.
4th Jul 2005
Desperate Housewives (2004)
Corrected entry: In the pilot the front door of Mike's house is different from his front door in later episodes.
Correction: People do sometimes buy a new front door without making a big deal about it. They don't have to put in a scene like "Look honey, what do you think of the new front door I put in yesterday?" for every prop that changes.
27th Jun 2005
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
When The Bough Breaks - S1-E17
Corrected entry: With such advanced technology, the Aldeans should've known the effects to the ozone layer their device has.
Correction: With our non-advanced technology, we should know what effect we're having on our environment, but we seem to be doing a pretty good job of being in denial about it.
4th Jul 2005
The Pacifier (2005)
Corrected entry: When Shane first arrived at the house, he saw a troll doll on the pathway to the front door. He kicked it out of the way into the bushes. But later on in the movie, when Zoe's boyfriend tries to sneak into the house, the neighbors come over and complain that they found the doll in the pool filter.
Correction: An animal could have picked the doll up and dropped it into their pool in the intervening time.
Correction: There could have very easily been more than one troll doll. All the kids had to do was throw a different troll into the neighbors' yard at a different time.
23rd Jun 2005
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Violet, Klaus, Sunny, and Aunt Josephine are leaving Curdled Cave after Klaus figured out the code from the "suicide note", you can see a lighthouse in the background. The light from the lighthouse moves around the side of the lighthouse that is facing the children and Aunt Josephine. It takes about 2 seconds to do this. Then the light goes around the back, and it does not reappear for around 6 seconds. The light should take the same time to go around the front and the back.
Correction: Lighthouses do not have a single light that spins at a constant rate. They are designed so that each individual lighthouse has a different pattern, so that lost boats can identify which lighthouse they are looking at by the changing intervals between the flashes.
25th Jun 2005
Flatliners (1990)
Corrected entry: Towards the end when Kiefer Sutherland goes under for the second time and the others rush in to find him, they need injections to aid in his revival. Julia Roberts tells the others that she is injecting "epi. intracardial" and plunges the needle into Sutherland's chest. The area where she sticks the needle IS where the heart should be, however, the heart is surrounded and protected by the sternum bone. If she was trying to inject it into the heart, shouldn't she have done so from a different angle? It DOES appear that the needle went through, but that would have to be a very strong needle to be able to not break, hitting bone.
Correction: The heart is not "surrounded" by the sternum, which is the flat bone that ribs connect to at the front of the chest. The heart isn't even completely covered by the sternum, the heart is wider than the sternum and isn't in the exact center of the chest anyway.
28th Jun 2005
Malibu's Most Wanted (2003)
Corrected entry: When B-rad is "robbing" the store, he takes yellow bottles. After the owner hits him and he finds out that it was a dream, the bottles he holds are deep purple.
Correction: This serves to point out that it is a dream.
27th Jun 2005
Bring it On (2000)
Corrected entry: When the preliminaries are shown there are different clips of many squads at different points in their routines, and one time a Toro girl is thrown in the air over two people, does a flip in the air and is caught, but when they show the entire routine the next day at the finals there is nothing closely resembling this move during the entirety of the routine.
Correction: It is not unusual in exhibition sports like these (ice skating is another) to practice a routine's very hard moves and then decide not to include them during the actual competition.
26th Jun 2005
The Piano (1993)
Corrected entry: Though not noblemen, it's clear that Sam Neill and Holly Hunter are at least upper middle-class people. In the mid 19th century a woman with a bastard child would not have been able to hold her good status, she would have been considered a whore and not suitable for a man such as Neill to marry.
Correction: The wilds of New Zealand is not exactly the same as the high society scene of London, which is why her father was able to find someone there who would marry her (Keitel). So it's not too surprising that there is a second person there willing to marry her.
21st Jun 2005
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Corrected entry: In New York State in "even numbered" election years (such as a Presidential election), more than the presidential/vice presidential candidates appear on the ballot. Other candidates would include the U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate (possibly), State Senate, State Assembly as well as a host of state judicial, county and local candidates. Raymond only pulls down two levers when he votes. Either he didn't care about his running mates right on down the candidate list or he was in a real hurry to get out of the voting booth.
Correction: He may have voted "straight ticket" which is where one lever automatically votes for all candidates of the same party.
10th Apr 2005
Something's Gotta Give (2003)
Corrected entry: On the way to the beach house, Harry stops the car for a moment. Maron tells him, "Make a right." The next shot shows the car moving from a stop, and turning left.
Correction: Actually she says to make a right at the second driveway on the left (which doesn't make any sense, why not say make a right at however many driveways) and instead of making a right, he makes a left into her driveway.
Correction: She tells him to take a right and then a left into the second driveway. It then cuts to him turning left into the driveway. You can tell it's the driveway because it's not paved. The cut is rather abrupt.
It shows him stopping, making a signal to Marin to go right and making a left across the double lined road. In the next shot you can barely perceive that it has made a left into the driveway. This is a glaring mistake.
22nd May 2005
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
Corrected entry: Dr. Kitaj dies when dozens of rats enter his plane while he's flying it. Their biting and scratching causes him to lose control of the plane and crash. But before Dr. Kitaj gets in the plane, an airfield supervisor checks out the plane for him. How did the supervisor miss the stash of rats inside?
Correction: The airfield supervisor was probably only checking mechanical aspects of the plane, not the plane's contents.
12th May 2005
North by Northwest (1959)
Corrected entry: County detectives in Glen Cove, Long Island, question a woman who impersonates the wife of a UN diplomat. Wouldn't they already have enough of a dossier on a man of his position to know that his wife had died several years ago?
Correction: No, county detectives (esp. in the 50's) would not have a dossier of personal information on a diplomat anywhere handy.
9th May 2005
Superman III (1983)
Corrected entry: Lana is making arrangements for a flight to Metropolis and she rings up 'Smallville Airport'. Excuse me?. Since when does Smallville have an airport. The whole point is that its a nice little Kansas Farm Town.
Correction: Many tiny, tiny towns have an airport even if it only consists of a barn and a dirt runway. Smallville being a farming community would need someplace for cropdusters to take off and land.
10th May 2005
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
Corrected entry: Data says that the star they're looking at may be, "a neutron star, possibly a pulsar." Pulsars and neutron stars are the same thing.
Correction: A pulsar is a particular kind of neutron star - not all neutron stars are pulsars.
6th May 2005
Anchorman (2004)
Corrected entry: During the scene where Ron is in the phone booth, an early shot shows a white SUV drive by. The movie is set in the 1970's. SUV's didn't exist.
Correction: Some SUV's that existed in the '70's: Ford Bronco (introduced 1966), Chevy Suburban (introduced 1971), International Harverster Scout (introduced 1961), etc.
3rd May 2005
Reba (2001)
Corrected entry: The show is set in Houston. Reba and Brock have Texas accents, but Cheyenne, Kyra and Jake, their children, do not.
Correction: Reba and Brock were raised in a small town while their children have been raised in a big city. Houston has a huge proportion of people from all over and people tend to develop less of accent there. Also, modern children tend to have less of an accent than their parents in general due to the influence of the constant exposure to the "standard" accent on TV.
25th Apr 2005
Charmed (1998)
Little Box of Horrors - S7-E18
Corrected entry: Katya kills Nina and then takes Nina's form when she visits the Charmed Ones. But why would Katya need to take Nina's form? The Charmed Ones have never seen Nina before, nor did they know anything about her, so she could have just shown up as herself, but maybe not wearing the red leather body armor. Also, why would Katya give the Charmed Ones so much accurate information about herself and about Pandora's Box? The whole setup was done to fool the viewers, but made no sense in terms of trying to fool the Charmed Ones.
Correction: Katya can't know for sure that they've never met Nina. Also, Katya knows that the Charmed Ones have the book which often has pictures of the demons in it and may have seen her (or Nina) while flipping through it. Even though in this case, there is not a picture of her next to her description in the book, she is safer to assume that there is.
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Correction: There are actually a lot more differences in the two versions of the essay than just that. It's definitely intentional and purposeful that he is not saying the same thing and not a continuity error.
Myridon