Corrected entry: While in training with the Sphinx the gang walks across hot coals. When the Spleen walks across the coals, bursts of fire appear. This is implying that he is passing gas as he walks. If this is the case then the bursts of fire should come from his butt and be forced away from his body. Instead the bursts of fire start from the bed of coals and shoot upwards. (00:59:15)
Myridon
12th Apr 2005
Mystery Men (1999)
5th Apr 2005
Alien (1979)
Corrected entry: Take a close look at the masks they are using when they remove the helmet from Kane. The masks they are using to prevent contamination are nothing more than ordinary oxygen masks that one uses at a hospital. This is evident by the hose receptor on the bottom of the masks. In reality these masks would not prevent them from catching any airborne disease that this alien would have. I know they are in a infirmary, but a space ship would/should be better equipped in case it comes in contact with other life forms. (00:36:40)
Correction: While these look similar to current masks, they are part of the highly advanced and miniturized technology of the time - they can do whatever they say that they do.
12th Nov 2003
The Core (2003)
Corrected entry: In the sequence where they launch the Virgil into the Marianas Trench, they hit bottom and fire the lasers at 30,000 feet, when in reality the trench is around 7 miles deep, or about 36,960 feet deep.
Correction: The whole trench is not the same depth, they may have picked this particular spot for some other reason.
28th Mar 2005
Taking Lives (2004)
Corrected entry: When they exhume Martin's body, Angelina Jolie and the two doctors are standing over the body in the morgue without covering their noses or wearing masks. They are inspecting and having a conversation around a 15 year old corpse without a hint of an odor. Most people couldn't stay in the same room as a corpse due to the foul odor.
Correction: The odor of a corpse is caused by the byproducts of the process of decomposition. After 15 years, a corpse would have long ago reached whatever stage of decompostion that was allowed by its situation and not smell any worse than the dirt around it.
10th Feb 2005
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004)
Corrected entry: The mind control device is implanted in a cavity in the victim's tooth. If the victim doesn't have a cavity, they give him one. But after the device is used on Cody, he shows no sign of having a cavity.
Correction: The hole would be filled with the device and then covered with either metal amalgam to match a pre-existing filling or a veneer to match the tooth color thus being undetectable which is the whole point.
17th Jan 2005
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Corrected entry: The newscaster on the television said that all bodies should be burned within minutes or the corpses will come back to life. However, the corpse of the owner of the house didn't reanimate.
Correction: First, the newscaster is not a expert on zombies (no one in the movie really understands what is happening). Second, since in this movie the zombies themselves can be killed, it is possible that some bodies are damaged (internally, invisibly) and do not reanimate.
17th Jan 2005
The Naked Gun (1988)
Corrected entry: An air bag is shown to have deployed in Drebin's car after hitting some garbage cans. Air bags didn't become available in the Ford Crown Victoria until 1990 but the movie came out in 1988. Such a minor impact wouldn't have deployed the air bags anyway even if the car did actually have them.
Correction: Police cars sometimes have more safety features added to them that are not yet available on showroom model cars. Airbags obviously existed in 1988 and there is no reason that one could not be installed as it obviously was.
17th Jan 2005
50 First Dates (2004)
Corrected entry: While getting a ticket from the policeman, Lucy discovers the real date by looking at the newspaper box outside the restaurant she frequents. But if she goes to this same restaurant every day, why didn't she ever notice the daily newspapers there before?
Correction: She might have, but she wouldn't remember it. We find out that every so often she figures out what happens and gets upset, but then forgets about it the next day.
5th Jan 2005
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Corrected entry: During the Dementor's entrance into the train carriage, everything freezes. Because the frost effect is digital, the water level of the glass on the window sill does not change when it freezes. It should have risen as the ice grew in mass.
Correction: First nothing can change in mass, the ice may change in volume but not mass. If the water only froze on the surface or a thin layer all round the outside, the expansion in volume would be very slight. Third, even if the water froze all the way solid, it may have frozen fast enough and to a low enough temperature that it never had a chance to expand to its full volume (as ice gets colder it contracts again after a certain temperature).
14th Dec 2004
Gremlins (1984)
Corrected entry: How did the Gremlins know the lyrics for "Heigh Ho"? They hear "heigh ho" and then sing "it's home from work we go" without having heard the line sung in the film.
Correction: They may have sat through the movie more than once. Also, they seem to be "born" already quite intelligent. They don't seem to need to learn anything else like walking, etc. They could have inheirited racial memories and know anything that Gizmo (who is very old) knows.
20th Nov 2004
Alien Vs. Predator (2004)
Corrected entry: A "Hunter's Moon" is when the moon appears blood red... it's on October 27th.
Correction: The Hunter's Moon is usually the full moon of October or the full moon after the Harvest Moon and happens on different days in different years. It is called this as it conveniently provides extra light for hunters to get in a lot of food before winter sets in. This year's just happened to coincide with a lunar eclipse which made it red, but the 2 phenomenon are not linked.
13th Nov 2004
Thunderpants (2002)
Corrected entry: In the boy's big solo, the stage light shouldn't have fallen so easily. By law all lights are required to have safety chains attached to prevent such an incident from occurring.
Correction: ... and no one EVER breaks a law and forgets to fasten it?
14th Nov 2004
Ray (2004)
Corrected entry: At the beginning, Ray is waiting to board a bus to Seattle and the words "Northern Florida" are displayed on the screen. When Ray gets to Seattle, someone asks him where he is from and he replies that he is from Tampa. Tampa is not in Northern Florida, it's in Central Florida.
Correction: Where he's from has nothing to do with where he caught the bus. He went to school in St. Augustine which is in Northern Florida.
7th Nov 2004
The Opposite of Sex (1998)
Corrected entry: How many people head to the grocery store with their passports? When Lucia follows Jason from the grocery store back to Canada she has no problem crossing the border, but what conceivable reason is there for why she would have had her passport with her when she was only planning on going to the store?
Correction: You don't need a passport to go to Canada from the US, just a Canadian citizenship card.
5th Nov 2004
Memento (2000)
Corrected entry: The name of this film is a pun. "Me mento" in Latin translates as "I lie to myself." These are the words Leonard writes at the end of the film on the scrap paper with Teddy's license plate on it.
Correction: I can find no Latin verb that would have the form mento. The correct Latin for "I lie" would be "mentior" as the ment- stem verb for "lie" in Latin is a deponent verb (an irregular verb that takes the passive form even though not passive).
2nd Nov 2004
Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies (1999)
Corrected entry: One of the thieves robbing the museum wishes he was never born. His wish is granted, but the movie should have ended right there. Since he was never born, the museum would have never been robbed, there would never have been a shoot out that damaged the statue of Ahura Mazda and caused the "fire opal" to be found, hence the Wishmaster would never have been released. (00:06:25)
Correction: You say it yourself - ONE of the thieves, plural. The other guys could have done it without him, or another of their friends would have completed the party.
31st Oct 2004
Van Helsing (2004)
Corrected entry: When Dracula and Van Helsing first meet, Dracula mentions Istanbul. During the time period of the film (1870s), Istanbul would have been called Constantinople.
Correction: While westerners didn't officially adopt the name Istanbul until 1930, the Ottoman Turks started calling it that when they captured it in the 1400's.
31st Oct 2004
Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)
Corrected entry: When the parents are outside the restaurant arguing about what to do next, Steve Freeling says they should keep running. Diane responds with something like "Run where? it followed us here..it will follow us where ever we go". But the Evil Force did NOT follow them there. It was the ghost of Diane's mother warning them of bad things to come.
Correction: So the characters were mistaken, it's not a mistake in the movie.
19th Oct 2004
The Fighting Temptations (2003)
Corrected entry: Aunt Sally's death would have been more believable if the older gentleman had not fallen on her in her casket and showed Aunt Sally was as soft as the living.
Correction: Rigor mortis, the stiffening of the body after death, lasts for less than 48 hours after death. Assuming this was not some rush job funeral, she could have easily "softened up" again.
19th Oct 2004
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
Corrected entry: In the final scene, as Polly lifts her camera for her final shot, there is no lens cap on the camera. Therefore Joe's hilarious line of "lens cap" is not needed, although it makes for an extremely funny ending.
Correction: It's not a mistake for him to remind her about the lens cap whether he can tell if it's on or not. My whole family automatically does this to my mother all the time as she is notorious for leaving the cap on and/or forgetting to turn it on. He's just poking fun.
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Correction: This would only be the case if he had a coal immediately at his butt. In this case, he emits a cloud of gas, the cloud sinks due to being heavier than the surrounding air. When the bottom of the cloud drops down to the zone above the coals where the temperature matches the ignition temperature of the gas, the gas then burns from the bottom up, but by that time the top of the gas is no longer connected to his butt.
Myridon