Corrected entry: After Gina's monologue on "real women," she, Willie, and Tommy stand outside the grocery store and you can see behind the two guys a Valentine's day decoration plastered on the store window. Later when the entire gang are at Mo's house before their reunion you can see on the fireplace mantle several displayed Christmas cards. The entire film is supposed to take place in the span of only a few weeks and its unlikely that the decorations from the two holidays would both be up in the same short timespan.
wolfchild
28th Apr 2006
Beautiful Girls (1996)
10th Jul 2005
Fantastic Four (2005)
Corrected entry: Dr.Doom picked his mask from some sort of store. Thus, it was unlikely to be made of titanium or some other heat resistant alloy. The heat generated by the fire during the final battle is big enough to melt Dr.Doom himself, yet the mask is intact. It should have melted first.
Correction: The mask was actually shown to be a gift from his home country of Latveria. It can be seen in his home earlier in the movie and you can see the plaque on it when he smashes the case to get it out. So there is really no saying what the metal was, that the mask was made out of. And since Doom didn't actually melt in the final battle - it actually seems to solidfy the alloy that has taken over his body (and as evidenced by the play with electricity in the cargo hold, showing that there is still life in him). It seems entirely probable that the mask could survive as well.
16th Nov 2004
That Thing You Do (1996)
Corrected entry: When the band is at the hotel in Hollywood, a reporter asks them "Why don't you have long hair like The Beatles?" The movie is supposed to have taken place in 1964, The Beatles didn't have long hair at that time, it wasn't until a few years later.
Correction: The mop-style haircuts that the Beatles had when they first became popular were considered long at the time. This was a time when the norm was buzz cuts and military style cuts were the big style on men. Their "long" hair is one of the things that made parents at the time dislike them, thinking that it was a bad influence on their kids.
29th Aug 2004
Sweet Home Alabama (2002)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Melanie is in the backyard at the Carmichael plantation looking for Bobby Ray, Colonel Murphry says he cant find the fuse, Bobby Ray then pulls it out of his back pocket but he wouldn't have had time to put it there between the time when he sees Melanie and runs around the bushes to her.
Correction: They have already used the fuse, lit it and set off the anvil before Melanie shows up. Why would Bobby Ray keep the fuse out and be holding it while they are setting up and lighting the one to go off? The likely course of events is to take the fuse out of your pocket, take out the one that you need, put the fuse back in your pocket and then continue to work with and light the fuse you took out. So, the fuses would have been in his pocket when Melanie arrived.
13th Jul 2004
Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
Corrected entry: After the scene where the boys trick Benedick (Kenneth Branagh) into thinking Beatrice is in love with him, they sing a song around the fountain. Benedick is supposed to be hiding behind the bushes, but Branagh (as the director) is visible when the camera pans around the fountain.
Correction: First off, this happens right before the tricking of Benedick. Second, he is not standing there as the director, he just happens to be standing in sight watching the singers. It does seem out of place since he is seen hiding before and after that shot. But, there is way more than enough time for him to get back to his hiding place in the time that it happens. It also really wouldn't matter if anybody saw him because they all know that he is there anyway.
6th Jul 2004
Maverick (1994)
Corrected entry: In the final hand of the final poker game, the crooked dealer deals the Commodore four-of-a-kind, and deals Angel a straight flush. Why would the dealer, who works for the Commodore, deal Angel a better hand than the Commodore? Even though Angel and the Commodore are working together, you would think the Commodore would want to win his own tournament, and therefore have the dealer deal him the better hand. The Commodore even looks surprised when he sees that the dealer has dealt Angel a better hand than him, so it wasn't something that he intended.
Correction: It would look more fixed if the Commodore won his own tournament. Since he is working with Angel then it would make sense to have a skilled "favorite" be the winner since he would get his money either way. And as far as acting surprised - it would look kind of goofy if Angel laid down his hand and the Commodore just sat there like he didn't care that it was better. He is putting on a show.
Correction: Given the looks exchanged, it seems that Angel had gone in with the dealer to switch out the deck and win the final game.
Correction: If there was a fear of it looking fixed if the Commodore won his own tournament, why would he bother even entering it? He could have just had Coop steal the money no matter what happened. Besides, there's no mention of the dealer helping the Commodore, only that Coop was to steal the $ if anyone other than the Commodore won.
He entered the tournament to be a good sport since he was hosting the tournament. Celebrities enter celebrity tournaments all the time with no expectation of actually winning.
3rd Jul 2004
The American President (1995)
Corrected entry: Sydney calls Pres. Shepard "Chief Executive of Fantasy Land" in the meeting room. So he tells her he wants to see her in private in a less intimidating place so he tells Janey to take Sydney to the recreation room. However, she takes Sydney to the Oval Office.
Correction: That's not a mistake, deliberate or otherwise. It becomes apparent that President Shepard gives his own names to the rooms of the White House. He calls it the Rec Room on purpose and Janey takes her to the correct room. It's a joke and also helps to show the laid back personality of Shepard.
22nd Jun 2004
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Corrected entry: In the scene when all the kids are leaving for Hogsmeade, you can see that Harry's face is pressed against the inside of the big clock tower overlooking the entrance to Hogwarts. Later on in the movie, when Harry and Hermione are back in time, the camera zooms through the same clock and you can see that the back is covered by lots of equipment. How did Harry have his face pressed against the glass?
Correction: When you see the scene later in the movie you can see a ledge that is right next to the face of the clock with the gears behind the ledge. Since in the earlier scene you can see the gears working behind him one can presume that he is standing on the aforementioned ledge.
15th Jun 2004
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Corrected entry: When Harry and Lupin are practising the Patronus charm alone, the second time Lupin closes the boggart back into the chest he neglects to lock it in.
Correction: It is opened and locked by magic, as is shown in the close-ups of it opening. After Lupin closes the trunk the second time he leans on it, hits the top of it with his hand, and has a few more moments on and near the trunk while the camera is focused on Harry sitting on the steps. It would have been very easy, during this time, for Lupin to have magically locked the trunk.
23rd May 2004
While You Were Sleeping (1995)
Corrected entry: In the scene when Peter is proving he remembers things. He states he was born in 1959, and he states he was senior class president of 1981. That makes him about a 22 year old senior.
Correction: He means that he was the senior class president in college - not high school.
22nd May 2004
The Princess Diaries (2001)
Corrected entry: If Mia's such a goody two shoes and teacher's pet, then how come all the teachers don't know her name? They think that she's invisible and call her "Lily's Friend".
Correction: Nobody ever says that Mia is a teacher's pet. It is actually pointed out that pretty much the entire school thinks that she is invisible. It's part of the joke. Plus, the woman that calls her Lily's Friend is the principal. Lily does a cable access show through the school so probably knows the principal quite well. There is no reason that the principal would know Mia by name. My high school principal sure didn't know all of his students' names.
1st Sep 2003
Weekend at Bernie's (1989)
Corrected entry: During the entire time of Larry and Richard moving Bernie around and even dropping him off the railing of the house his toupee never falls off.
Correction: There are adhesives that are more than strong enough to hold a toupee on through all of that. I know one guy who wears a toupee and can keep it on for days at a time with no problems.
16th May 2004
Spaceballs (1987)
Corrected entry: When Dark Helmet lifts the door on Princess Vespa's car and it falls on him, look at the trooper in the background. He buckles over as if he were laughing.
Correction: He's not doubling over in laughter-all of the troopers are covering their crotch out of fear of what Dark Helmet might do to them. When the door crashes down, many of them grip their crotches tighter since Helmet has been embarrassed again.
22nd May 2004
Footloose (1984)
Corrected entry: How is it that, in a town where dancing has been forbidden for years, at the end of the movie, everyone's able to crank out the newest, most popular dance moves flawlessly?
Correction: Dancing wasn't forbidden on televisions. And kids could have certainly seen the moves and practiced them in secret. As we see many times, people dance all over the town and never get caught. Just because dancing is outlawed doesn't mean people don't do it.
11th May 2004
Pleasantville (1998)
Corrected entry: Since the citizens of Pleasantville don't know what, if anything, is outside of Pleasantville, then why is there an American Flag flying outside the high school?
Correction: They still know that they live in the USA. Whether they know anything about it or not.
7th May 2004
Top Gun (1986)
Corrected entry: Maverick followed Jester below the Hard Deck, yet only Maverick got into trouble.
Correction: Because Jester was the target and could do that - Maverick followed him below the Hard Deck and then engaged his weapons - a direct violation of the rules.
A "hard deck" is technically the ground, in regards to the training exercise. So Jester certainly went against the spirit of the rules by essentially crashing his plane to avoid Maverick. When you consider the fact that, by doing so, he put Maverick into the position of following him (and when you have extremely egotistical, adrenaline pumped pilots chasing you...they are going to be apt to follow you), he essentially put everyone at risk. That said, Jester could have gotten his discipline off screen, so this really can't be considered a mistake.
Corrected entry: I know Jack was able to fold the handcuffs in half to slide down - but how did he get off? There must have been something the pole was attached to at the end... and he just drops off. Shouldn't he have hit something at the other end of the rope?
Correction: The handcuffs don't go over the rope with his hands on either side. If you watch closely, he throws the chain of the handcuffs over the top of the rope and then holds on to that as he slides down. Then, when he gets to the bottom, he simply lets go of the folded chain. It took a few times watching that scene to figure out how he did that. As for not hitting something at the end, the rope continues for a bit longer, to whatever it is tied to, but Jack simply lets go of the folded chain when he's near enough to the ground, and hits the ground running.
18th Apr 2004
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Corrected entry: There's just no way on God's green earth that Viola could have gotten that long, very thick hair into the tiny wig she wears when disguised as a man. I couldn't do it with my hair, and it's much, much shorter and thinner.
Correction: I have very long thick hair (down to my waist) and working in theater I have had to get it into plenty of wigs. You do it by creating what are called pin curls all over your entire head. You take small sections of hair and twist it into a coil until it starts to slighty twist itself. You then curl it into a coil and pin it to your head in with two bobby pins placed perpendicular to each other. You do that with all of your hair and you can then put on any style of wig and not see the hair underneath. All high quality wigs are also designed to hold a little bit of extra hair right at the back of the head and still look natural.
6th Apr 2004
Finding Nemo (2003)
Corrected entry: This error relates to the whale that gives Dory and Marlin a ride near the movie's end. A whale's spout is actually water vapor from its lungs. It's a common misconception that whales take water through their mouth and squirt it through their blowholes. While this may or may not be physically possible, it's not done on a regular basis at all - it would be akin to a human snorting water out his nose.
2nd Apr 2004
Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
Corrected entry: When the ball comes down in New York, Jonah is sleeping to make it look like it is midnight in Seattle. Fireworks are going off in Seattle at what would actually be 9pm there.
Correction: I live in California and at least one station plays the ball dropping in New York at Midnight our time, like it's just dropping, every year. It could very well be midnight in Seattle and a station is just playing the ball dropping.
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Correction: I took the Christmas cards off of my entertainment center at the end of March. It's a character mistake rather than a movie mistake.
wolfchild