Corrected entry: In the scene where Cuba Gooding Jr. and Dustin Hoffman are in the helicopter and Dustin is about to jump onto the Japanese freighter, Cuba's character goes out of his way to say that there's no place to land the helicopter and Dustin will have to jump onto the freighter. Cuba says he's got plenty of fuel to wait while Dustin checks out the freighter. Dustin reluctantly makes the leap, landing on a lifeboat. Dustin looks around, finds the pic of the monkey and the scene ends. Next we see Cuba and Dustin landing the chopper at the news station. How did Dustin get back on the chopper?
wolfchild
2nd Apr 2004
Outbreak (1995)
Correction: They conveniently fast-forward without showing it, but in reality it would've taken hours to do all those steps to reboard the helicopter. That's assuming it was even possible.
8th Oct 2003
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Tula's mother is peeling potatoes for the dinner where there are to meet Ian's family, Tula stresses they will be there in 1 hour. Tula's uncle walks in with an entire lamb to be put on the spit. When Tula pulls up with her future in laws the lambs is fully cooked. Fully cooked in only an hour? Does not seem possible.
Correction: It's not fully cooked when they arrive. It is done much later-after the two separate time progressions while Ian's parents are drinking. They are fully drunk and swaying before the meat is brought in by Gus.
26th Feb 2004
American Wedding (2003)
Corrected entry: Michelle and Jim came from the same high school, so why is it that her parents flew in for the wedding from out of town and had never met anyone from Jim's hometown?
Correction: She could have been living with relatives for any number of reasons. I had a friend in high school whose parents lived a state away and she lived with her grandmother.
5th Jan 2004
The Full Monty (1997)
Corrected entry: When the dress rehearsal is ended by the police, Lomper and Guy escape. However, the next day some girls recognise Guy while he is jogging, mentioning that he was in the paper with the others. (01:11:50)
Correction: They put in pictures from the video, which Guy was in.
1st Jan 2004
Monsters, Inc. (2001)
Corrected entry: Why does Mike need to put in a contact lens after going to work? Surely if his eyesight is bad, then he would have needed to put one on before leaving the house. After all, he wanted to drive to work, supposedly with bad eyesight.
Correction: He could just need a corrective lens for reading, which he has to do for work.
23rd Dec 2003
Tango & Cash (1989)
Corrected entry: When Cash dresses up as a woman to escape the police, it is just amazing that there happens to be a pair of women's high heeled shoes that fit him, and a black plastic dress in his size, and lucky for him somebody has a wig lying around. How long did it take for him to create this disguise? He had to shave his legs, arms, back and chest. You don't do that in 5 minutes. (01:09:00)
Correction: He didn't have to shave everything. He just needed to get out and away quickly in the dark of night.
19th Sep 2003
Serendipity (2001)
Corrected entry: The actual average "shelf life" of a piece of U.S. paper currency is about 18 months. But the action in this movie is supposed to take place over a few years. During that time, the $5.00 bill with Jon's name and number on it almost certainly would have been pulled from circulation and destroyed due to normal wear and tear; in fact, if it ended up in a bank's inventory and the "mutilation" were discovered, it almost certainly would have been pulled even sooner.
Correction: There are many explanations to this. The money really just needed to be out of circulation for some reason or another, for a while. I just recently sent out over three dozen bills back into circulation that I had had in a box for almost 10 years. And I also once found a $20.00 bill in the inside pocket of a fairly old jacket that I got at a thrift store. So, there are definitely ways that the bill could have remained/made back into circulation, and given the nature of the film it would have taken one of those routes.
16th Nov 2003
Love Actually (2003)
Corrected entry: There is no finalization (as with the other story lines) between the woman who has the mentally ill brother and her coworker. What was the outcome of that relationship?
Correction: We see the last scene with them as him saying a slightly reluctant goodbye. She says a sad goodbye and bursts into tears. I think that we are supposed to pretty much assume that nothing becomes of the relationship.
9th Nov 2003
Love Actually (2003)
Corrected entry: The small black board on the door of the kid's room is mounted practically as high as Liam Neeson's eye level; how can the kid possibly reach it in order to leave any one-liner?
Correction: There are plenty of ways that Sam could get to the sign. He could have a step stool in his room (like I did to reach higher shelves) or the bathroom (like my young cousins) to properly wash up and brush their teeth. Or he could simply stretch and reach to remove and hang the sign. I have to do this with two "Special" signs that I have to hang every day at work where the hang pegs are about four feet above my head. (Plus, the sign is barely at Liam Neeson's chest level.)
9th Nov 2003
Back to the Future (1985)
Corrected entry: When Marty first goes to Doc Brown's house in 1955, Doc mocks Marty's claim that he has come back in time from 1985. When Marty tells him Ronald Reagan is President in 1985, Doc mocks him again and says "I suppose Jane Wyman is First Lady." Ronald Reagan divorced Jane Wyman in the late 1940s and married Nancy Davis in 1952. The fact was well known to anyone who kept track of movie stars so if Doc knew who Reagan was married to the first time, he would know in 1955 that Reagan had been married to Nancy Davis for three years by the time of the scene.
Correction: He's mocking Marty. He is saying that it would be about as believable for Jane Wyman to be first lady with Ronald Reagan as it would be for Ronald Reagan to become president in the first place.
23rd Oct 2003
Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
Corrected entry: When Austin looks back at his days in the academy it looks as though Basil and Austin are the same age, but when it goes back to 2003 you can see that Basil is older than him with those wrinkles.
Correction: They seemed to be the same age at the beginning of the first movie as well. Then Austin was frozen and didn't age for all of that time while Basil did, hence the difference.
20th Oct 2003
The Princess Diaries (2001)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Mia's mother and Grandmother are in their homes watching Lilly's show, Mia's mother looked shocked when Mia never showed up for the show but she knew full well Mia was going to the Baker Beach Bash.
27th Sep 2003
The Goonies (1985)
Corrected entry: When Data falls into the pit where the spikes are at the bottom, he sets off a device where a set of plastic teeth catch the roof of the pit and save him. Plastic teeth like that would not catch a spike at the top of the pit and still hold Data up.
Correction: The idea is that Data takes regular things and modifies them to work for his inventions.
25th Apr 2002
D2: The Mighty Ducks (1994)
Corrected entry: There is no possible way that within the 30 second time-out the ducks took, to have what "goldberg" and "russ" do, which was switch pads. There is no way that "russ" could've put on the leg pads, blocker, glove, and other pads in 30 seconds.
Correction: They don't switch pads, Goldberg still has all of his on for the rest of the movie. They just take out Goldberg and strap pads onto Russ.
9th May 2003
D2: The Mighty Ducks (1994)
Corrected entry: The Ducks have their press conference at the Coliseum, they hang out in Beverly Hills, Bombay is staying in Malibu, and the team's practices and games are in Anaheim. These locations are MILES apart; it would take Bombay over an hour to get from his rented house to practice. Not very good planning on Hendrix Hockey's part.
Correction: When Bombay is walking into his new place, he specifically asks the Hendrix guy if he shouldn't be closer to the ducks.
13th Sep 2003
Mama's Family (1983)
Corrected entry: When Thelma, Fran, and Naomi get up on stage and lip-sync to "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy," they do a coordinated dance. In the real world (i.e., not a musical), three people can't decide to do a dance together on the spur of the moment, and somehow spontaneously know all the steps to a three minute dance.
Correction: They don't decide to do the dance on the spur of the moment-earlier in the episode, Thelma tells Vint that they were planning on pantomiming to the record, which means they would have rehearsed the dance.
Correction: It's a TV and movie convention, you just have to suspend disbelief otherwise 99% of the dance numbers in TV shows and movies would never exist.
At the 6:46 mark of the episode, Thelma tells Vint that Naomi, Fran and herself are going to pantomime dance as the Andrew sisters and has him sit down so she can show him the dance that they have choreographed when she is interrupted by Buzz and Sonia telling her they voted to have a "punk" dance with the group Medication.
This was a fundraiser dance at Edgar Allen Poe H.S. in Raytown. They were trying to "save" the school auditorium/gym. The punk band did not arrive, so Thelma, Fran and Naomi went on stage to save the dance. Prior to the students voting to have the punk band to perform, Buzz and Sonja, had given the idea of a 1940's USO Revival. T, F and N had already practiced this lip sync and dance routine w/the belief they would perform it. Also, 40 yrs ago who didn't lip sync and try to copy Michael Jackson?
It's a convention of musicals, where singing and dancing are fanciful or are depicted as performed by characters who are actors that have rehearsed a performance. It doesn't apply to this scene of a non-musical sitcom where the characters are aware that they are singing and dancing on the spur of the moment, and have not prepared for it in advance.
27th Aug 2001
American Pie 2 (2001)
Corrected entry: In the scene with the super glue. Jim's left hand gets stuck to himself straight away, but then after a couple of minutes he goes over to the video recorder and takes out a tape which then sticks to his other hand. Would the glue not be as dry in his right hand as it was in his left hand? If the glue was still wet he should be able to free himself. (01:04:10)
Correction: Superglue is an 'anaerobic adhesive,' meaning it won't totally dry until it is out of contact with oxygen, typically when it comes *in* contact with something else. I have had superglue on my finger while working on a project that stayed wet and then when I touched an x-acto knife it stuck immediately to the knife. I have also left puddles of superglue on pieces of paper that I dip things into and it doesn't dry until I push the pieces together.
22nd Aug 2003
Lilo & Stitch (2002)
Corrected entry: Lilo is 5 years old throught most of this movie (She blows out 6 candles in the end sequence). Nani is quite irresponsible to leave a 5 year old alone, even with a dog.
21st Jul 2003
Teen Wolf (1985)
Corrected entry: Though the vampire legend gets changed when convenient for the plot, werewolf legends have always centered around changing with the moon. How does Michael J. Fox change during the day?
8th Jul 2003
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Corrected entry: When Harry and Ron are thrown from the car after falling out of the Whomping Willow, if you slow it down you can easily see a blue hand on each side of the car literally pushing the boys out.
Correction: That is the seat of the car tipping to the side to expell the boys. You can see the seats leaning out when Scabbers is thrown out.
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Correction: Before Dustin jumps onto the boat he asks how he's going to get back up. Cuba then replies for him to have the boat crew clear him a space to land the chopper.
wolfchild