Corrected entry: If Annie was dropped off at the orphanage as a baby and they aren't supposed to have any fun and really don't have any toys or anything, where does she learn how to swim? This is during the depression era. I'm pretty sure these were no community pools. She jumps into Mr. Warbucks' pool the day after she arrives and starts doing a backstroke.
princesskelli
22nd Jun 2003
Annie (1982)
17th Nov 2004
The Polar Express (2004)
Corrected entry: As the train moves away the boy changes his mind about getting on and runs to catch up. He jumps on the train and as he is watching the houses pass by, they pass his house. You know it's his because of the snowman with the mittens. The train car he got onto had already passed his house though while he was standing there.
Correction: Although the boy runs after the train and jumps on, he actually had walked a great distance away from his house towards the end of the train, as the locomotive was stopped in front of his house, and thus it is from his position still possible to pass his house and see the snowman.
13th Sep 2003
Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)
Corrected entry: Right as Robbie's braces start attacking him in the bathroom, his parents realize the presence is back in the house when they see the flashing lights and hear the sounds, and are knocked backwards, etc. They run upstairs to help Robbie, who is screaming, but why, oh why would they tell Carol Anne to stay there and then leave her alone when the spirits were attacking? Don't you think they would know better?
Correction: Aside from the fact that this is the characters' judgement, it is a good point, but we are meant to believe that the parents trust Taylor now, and he is downstairs with Carol Anne. Therefore, it would be safe to leave her there with him whilst they go and help Robbie.
10th Sep 2003
Poltergeist (1982)
Corrected entry: Instead of Steve and the neighbor spending all that time fighting with the remote controls and nobody getting to watch their program, wouldn't it just be easier for them to get up and change the channel on the TV? I mean, I know people can be lazy with their remote controls, but come on...
Correction: It's a fair point, but there's no real reason why they shouldn't do it the way they do. It's not very useful to anyone but it's not a mistake.
9th Aug 2003
Office Space (1999)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Peter skips work and Lumbergh calls his answering machine 17 times, Peter is playing back the messages and deleting them as he goes but sometimes he hits the bottom button of the machine and sometimes he hits the second to last button on the machine. (00:24:50)
Correction: Yes, he does hit two different buttons, but in the first clip of the machine showing the number of messages, you can clearly see that the first button he hits is skip, the second is delete. This isn't that odd of behavior when Lumbergh is being really annoying.
21st Jun 2004
The Parent Trap (1961)
Corrected entry: At the beginning of the film when Miss Inch is sorting the girls alphabetically, there are all these people holding signs with letters like "A-K" and "P-s" etc. One girl comes up to her and Miss Inch says "No dear, you are an 'O,' over there with the 'P to S's'" correct me if my alphabet is wrong, but doesn't O fall before P?
Correction: Miss Inch says "No dear, you're in R over there with the P to S's" Not "You're in O" so Miss Inch was pointing her in the right direction.
1st Jun 2003
Father of the Bride (1991)
Corrected entry: For a city who had not seen snow in 36 years, it seems a bit strange that early the next morning there are children outside playing on sleds. Where did they get them? It doesn't seem likely that any stores would have stocked them when they didn't expect snow.
Correction: It's not uncommon for people in the L.A. area to travel to nearby mountainous communities for skiing and wintry weather. They could have bought the sleds there.
27th Sep 2003
Identity (2003)
Corrected entry: In the scene where they are going through everyone's drivers licenses to see the birthdates, they hold up George York's which is an Illinois driver's license. While they did a really good job making it look authentic, the license is full of mistakes. First of all, the first letter in the Illinois DL number is always the first letter of your last name, but George York's license number started with P. Secondly, the license number consists of 3 sets of numbers and the last digit of the second set and the first digit of the third set are your birth year (Hence if your DL number was H658-9857-6321 you were born in 1976) but George's digits in the number are 5-6 and the birthdate is listed as 5-10-59. Third, the address is listed as Everton, IL 60045. there is no Everton, IL and 60045 is the Zip Code for Lake Forest, IL.
Correction: Yes, but all these are features of Malcolm Rivers's tortured imagination. There are other inconsistencies pointed out to him within the film (the birth date thing, the fact that all their names are states); he just doesn't know all that information about an Illinois license.
13th Jul 2003
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Corrected entry: During the duelling club scene, Snape tells Lockhart that instead of disarming, he should teach the students to block unfriendly spells first. Lockart says it's an excellent idea, and Harry and Malfoy are called up. But then Lockhart still tells them to cast spells to disarm their opponent. What happened to blocking spells first? (01:06:04)
Correction: Lockhart was just humoring him, he didn't actually take him seriously.
30th May 2003
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Corrected entry: If Mr. and Mrs. Weasley are so concerned that the kids will miss the train at 11:00 since they didn't arrive at King's Cross until 10:58, why wouldn't they allow Ron and Harry to go through the platform before they do? Wouldn't they have tried to get them through first so they could get on the train?
30th May 2003
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Corrected entry: Why would Gilderoy Lockhart use Ron's wand to cast a memory charm on Harry, the spell that backfires on him? Even if Ron's wand was intact, any wizard knows that the wand chooses the wizard not the other way around, and if you remember from the first movie, Harry caused quite a bit of destruction trying out wands that weren't made for him. Surely Lockhart shouldn't expect someone else's wand to work for him. (02:01:50)
Correction: Other people's wands don't actually cause destruction in the books - this was just amped up a bit in the initial 'choosing a wand' process for the films. Mr Ollivander, the wandmaker, explains to Harry simply that 'you will never get such good results with another wizard's wand'. The spell only backfires in Lockhart's case because Ron's wand was broken.
30th May 2003
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Corrected entry: When Harry, Ron and Hermione made the Polyjuice potion so they could get into the Slytherin house, Harry and Ron made the sleeping draught potion in the cupcakes for Crabbe and Goyle so they could lock them away and not risk running into them in the house. Hermione was going to turn herself into a Slytherin named Millicent Bulstrode before the spell went wrong, but she hadn't taken any precautions like a spell to not see her in the house. What if she ran into Millicent in the Slytherin house looking like her?
Correction: In the book we are told that Millicent Bulstrode has gone home for the holidays at the last minute, so that's why Hermione doesn't need to be as careful. Of course, this raises new concerns - what would the Slytherins think if she suddenly turned up again? - but that's a book issue, not a movie mistake.
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Correction: There isn't any indication that she'd only been at Warbucks' house for one day. Plus, Kate says to Annie at the beginning of the movie, "All you ever do is run away." Annie has run away from the orphanage multiple times, and is very street-smart. It's not at all unlikely that there was a lake she was familiar with that she taught herself to swim in over the years.