Corrected entry: Why don't the McAllisters simply contact their local Police station (or have someone from the US Embassy do it for them) and have them arrange for Kevin to be looked after until one of them can get back?
Chanteuse66
7th Jul 2009
Home Alone (1990)
6th Nov 2008
Jerry Maguire (1996)
Corrected entry: Most people are familiar with the iconic line, "You had me at hello". However, it is factually inaccurate. Jerry never actually says "hello" to her.
Correction: Actually, he says it twice, to the group of ladies that are in his home, the second he walks in the house. He didn't say it to his wife DIRECTLY, but she had been kneeling by the sofa (where he couldn't see her at first) and she heard him.
25th Sep 2008
Mac and Me (1988)
Corrected entry: The aliens can bring Eric back from the dead, but they can't repair his spinal cord?
Correction: I see your point, but the actor (Jade Calegory) was only pretending to be dead. In real life, however, Jade has spina bifida, and actually needed the wheelchair. There wasn't any way to change that for the movie.
10th Aug 2008
The Mummy (1999)
Corrected entry: There was no solar eclipse visible anywhere near the Middle East in 1923.
Correction: The eclipse was caused because Imhotep was regenerating. An event that happens in a fantasy, as a result of a fictional character's actions, cannot be considered a factual error.
Correction: "Magically" creating a solar eclipse would mean altering the rotation of the earth and its orbit around the sun. The earthquakes would be beyond imagination and the resulting tsunamis and devastating climate changes would wipe out the few survivors. Some things are beyond magic. This is one of them.
But using magic he could "easily" (at least judging by his powers in this film) cast a shadow over the sun - it doesn't have to be the moon. Especially given that the sun stays dark for a while, whereas natural eclipses are over quite quickly.
Actually creating a solar eclipse would require moving the moon, not the Earth. It's not "beyond magic", magic is magic.
Correction: The ancient Egyptians worshipped the Sun as their ultimate god, Ra. Given that their "magic" seemed to function remarkably well (well enough to resurrect desiccated mummies after 3000 years, anyway), there's a slight chance that the ancient Egyptians were slightly more in touch with the magic of celestial mechanics than we are today with our dogmatic Science. I mean, if it happened that they were correct about the Sun being a God, then perhaps they were knowledgeable in summoning the Sun's cooperation in their magical endeavors.
10th Aug 2008
My Cousin Vinny (1992)
Corrected entry: In the final courtroom scene, Vinny writes a note and gives it to the sheriff just before calling Lisa to the stand. While testifying, Lisa reveals that a Pontiac Tempest had to be the only car possible to make the tire marks. Next, the sheriff returns to the stand and testifies that "on a hunch" he runs a check on a blue Pontiac Tempest, which just happened to be involved in another crime. How did the sheriff know, and how did Vinny know to have the sheriff check on a blue Pontiac Tempest if Lisa didn't reveal this information until after Vinny wrote the note?
Correction: Vinny apparently knew enough about cars to have made the connection about the Pontiac Tempest. Obviously, his note was asking the sheriff to check if any cars of that make had been involved in any other crime. Then while the sheriff did so, Vinny had Lisa give her testimony. The sheriff's claim to have checked "on a hunch" was slightly tongue-in-cheek. However this certainly indicates that Vinny did figure it out, and used Mona Lisa to present the evidence in dramatic, awesome, fashion. He likely could have gotten the acquittal by walking Wilbur through the evidence. So when he later said in the car driving away that he had was upset because he didn't do it himself wasn't really right. He had to figure it out to know to put her on the stand.
You see the lightbulb go on when he is looking at the tire track pictures and jumps to ask for a recess.
1st Jul 2008
Kindergarten Cop (1990)
Corrected entry: When Detective O'Hara comes into Kimble's class to speak about "stranger danger," she doesn't speak with the Austrian accent she possessed when dining with Dominic. Dominic, however, does not question this or show any surprise.
16th Jun 2008
Dave (1993)
Corrected entry: When the tour guide is leading the group through the White House, she says that 42 presidents have occupied it. However, when Vice President Nance is sworn-in, the newscaster in the background says he is becoming the 45th US president.
Correction: George Washington never lived in the White House--it was first occupied in 1800 by John Adams. Grover Cleveland was president twice in non-consecutive terms, counting as both the 22nd and 24th President. So the tour guide's statement is accurate because even though there had been 44 presidencies, only 42 men had actually resided in the White House as president.
9th Jun 2008
Tango & Cash (1989)
Corrected entry: In the grenade scene on top of the roof, Cash tells Tango that he knew he was crazy and that he heard he was a real "section 8". Section 8 is a government program that pays partial rent for low income families.
23rd Feb 2008
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Corrected entry: In the scene where John is stealing money from the ATM, he tells his friend that "My Mom is a psycho, blew up a computer lab." At that point in the film Sarah hasn't blown up the lab yet, so she could not be locked up for it.
Correction: John must be referring to a time that Sarah tried to stop the creation of Skynet by blowing up the Cyberdyne labs and got caught, which led to her being committed - not the group attack on the lab that happens later, after Sarah's rescue.
13th Jan 2008
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Corrected entry: In the half-room, Wonka angrily tells Charlie and Grandpa that there is no lifetime supply of chocolate due to stealing fizzy-lifting drinks and touching the fan which needs to be 'washed and sterilized.' But how did Wonka actually KNOW that Charlie and Grandpa did the above, since they were alone at all times and there were no Oompa-Loompas or CCTV cameras watching them? Also, when Charlie and Grandpa rejoin Wonka and the others, Wonka is carrying on without any suspicion whatsoever and he doesn't question them till they get to the half-room.
Correction: It's not hard to imagine Wonka having a security system that would have let him know what happened with the fizzy lifting drinks - it wouldn't necessarily be visible to anyone. He never mentioned it to Charlie because he intended to use the incident as a sort of "final exam" to test Charlie's reaction and see if he was worthy to take over the factory.
28th Jan 2004
The Villain (1979)
Corrected entry: Kirk Douglas is stuck to the front of the train and comes out of his boots. But,in the next scene where he pouring gunpowder,he mysteriously has reclaimed his boots. How is that possible if he flew out of them in the prior scene?
Correction: The whole movie is reminiscent of a "Roadrunner/Wile E. Coyote" cartoon, with impossible gags (like the wagon passing through the side of the rock when it's painted with a "tunnel."). Cartoon characters are always being crushed, cut in two, and losing things, etc, but are back to normal within a few seconds. That's what happens here with Cactus Jack and his boots.
5th Aug 2006
Hoodwinked (2005)
Corrected entry: When Red sees Granny flying through the Sky (by parachute), it cuts to Red's Point of view, and it's clear that Granny is not holding the parachute's handles.
Correction: The point is that we're seeing what happened from Red's point of view. She didn't see the parachute, so in her version of events, we don't see it either (much like the way the Wolf's roaring at Red is different depending on who's telling the story).
26th Aug 2003
She-Devil (1989)
Corrected entry: Ruth destroys the house because Bob has listed it as one of his assets. But by the time she destroys it, he no longer lives there. She could have stuck Bob with the kids, whether or not the house had been destroyed, so there was really no reason for her to do it.
Correction: She destroyed the house to keep him from benefitting from it in any way. If she'd simply left the kids with him, it's possible that he might have sold the house for a nice profit. And with such obvious arson, the insurance company would never have paid out, which means he'd get no money for it that way either.
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Correction: They did exactly that - contacted the police, who went to the McAllister home to check on Kevin. However, Kevin was scared and hiding under the bed and didn't answer the door, leading the officers to believe that no one was there at all. They left, saying, "Tell 'em to count their kids again!"
Chanteuse66