Corrected entry: Jeffrey, the gosling, is always following Wilbur around. So where is he after the fair, when Wilbur comes back heartbroken because Charlotte has died? They never show him again after the scene where the stuttering goose tells him he can't go to the fair too.
Rlvlk
19th Feb 2003
Charlotte's Web (1973)
22nd Dec 2004
The Librarian: Quest for the Spear (2004)
Corrected entry: When Flynn sees the sword set in a stone, he identifies it as Excalibur. But the legendary sword in the stone was not Excalibur. Excalibur was a different sword, given to Arthur by the Lady of the Lake, years after he withdrew the sword from the stone.
Correction: Actually, there is major disagreement in the world of Arthurian legends. Some say that the sword pulled from the stone was Excalibur and others say Arthur received it from the Lady in the Lake. Flynn belongs to the former group.
5th Sep 2004
Big Trouble (2002)
Corrected entry: Why is no-one concerned about a nuclear bomb going off in the sea? Surely it would wipe out all marine life for miles around, and make the area unfit for ships and cargo to sail through, and practically destroy all businesses in/around the harbour? That isn't even taking into account the nuclear fallout. (This is a valid mistake for the theatrical cut of the film, regardless of book, etc., discrepencies)
Correction: The yield of the bomb is never mentioned. From the shot of the suitcase falling towards the ocean, you can't see the harbor, we have no idea where it hit. It is not clear how far it sank before exploding. Their immediate concern was that it did not explode on land and kill people. Fallout would not be a concern for the police or the FBI on the scene. Those concerns would be covered by others not shown in the film.
27th Apr 2003
Bio-Dome (1996)
Corrected entry: The Bio-Dome itself is supposed to be airtight, yet if you look at the bottom of the entrance door you can see light escaping through it.
15th Jan 2004
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Corrected entry: In every shot of Minas Tirith, a city which faces east, with mountains behind it to the west, the sun is shining onto the City from the north. Now this is possible, in very early morning and evening, from May to early August in the Northern Hemisphere...but not at noon-time, and NOT in March (the Ring is destroyed just after equinox, March 25th). We know Middle-earth is Northern Hemisphere since the warmer lands are further south (and Tolkien states in the book that it lay approximately where Northwest Europe is now). In winter, the sun moves southerly and low in the sky. But this was filmed in New Zealand, where winter sunlight comes from the north, not the south, hence so does the sunlight at Minas Tirith in the movie. There's the reason, but still a mistake.
Correction: The Earth has not always been tilted on its axis roughly 23 degrees. The angle of tilt does change approximately every 20,000 years. In the time of the Pharaohs, Sirius was the north star and now it is Polaris. The Earth's rotation has also slowed down thoughout history as did the orbit around the sun. This error is correct if this movie took place in our lifetimes or even in the last 2000 years. But the problem is, it is a mythlogical world on a mythological timeline. We cannot determine what century it took place. Pre-dinosaur, post-dinsaur, pre-Egyptian, pre-Sumarian? Not knowing at what point in Earth's history the movie is set makes it impossible to guess exactly how the sun would shine down on any given spot.
19th May 2004
Star Trek (1966)
Corrected entry: The physics here don't make any sense. If the Scalosians are moving 840 times faster, that means when they walk down a corridor (at 2 miles/hour, their speed) they are really moving at about 1680 miles per hour - that's Mach 2. The Scalosians don't create sonic booms, and they don't have any trouble stopping and turning corners despite the Mach 2 speeds they're moving at.
Correction: Time was accelerated for them too. They had to stand in place for several of their minutes to be seen. They said it would the equivalent of standing still for several hours.
28th May 2005
Pleasantville (1998)
Corrected entry: In the scene where the fireman are saving the cat, they put up a ladder. if you look a the top of the ladder you can see that the hooks are facing outward . as a fireman you would never allow that to happen they would get in the way and you could impale yourself.
Correction: Those ladders have never been used for anything but to pull cats from trees. And besides, nothing bad ever happens in Pleasantville.
28th May 2005
Bring it On (2000)
Corrected entry: At one point in the film, Missy says, "State Regionals, here we come," but any high school athlete, particularly a cheerleader, would know that a Regional Competition takes place within a state, and those placing highest at Regionals would then move on to the State Competition.
Correction: Character error not film error.
Correction: Missy wasn't always a cheerleader, she was a gymnast. She could have easily been confused about the competitions simply because it was new to her.
27th May 2005
Star Trek (1966)
Where No Man Has Gone Before - S1-E4
Corrected entry: When the Enterprise reaches the lithium processing plant on Delta Vega, a deserted planet that even the ore ships only visit every twenty years, why do they have lots of control panels, many rooms, and a BRIG at the processing plant? All of which work? (00:36:20)
Correction: http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Delta_Vega. There is no listing for when the site was built. At the time it was built, it could have been manned and then left to automatic control.
27th May 2005
Star Trek (1966)
Where No Man Has Gone Before - S1-E4
Corrected entry: At the beginning, Kirk is talking about the Valiant having only impulse power so it didn't have enough power to leave the galaxy. Given the size of the galaxy and Kirk later saying that since the Enterprise was now on impulse power "that planets that were only hours away are now months away", it would take the Valiant about 200 years to get to the edge of the galaxy, thus arriving about the same time as the Enterprise. Also, the Valiant would have had to be launched around 1966.
Correction: At some point the Valiant encountered a magnetic storm and was swept towards the edge of Galactic barrier because its impulse engines were not strong enough. It was swept ½ lightyear out of the galaxy, thrown clear, and then turned and headed back into the galaxy. http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/SS_Valiant.
1st Sep 2003
Hudson Hawk (1991)
Corrected entry: Minerva Mayflower says that gold and lead are 1 proton apart. Gold is element 79, lead is 82 - that's 3. (01:04:40)
Correction: Character error, not movie error.
6th May 2005
The Hand that Rocks the Cradle (1992)
Corrected entry: Part way through the movie we find out that the nanny has been breast feeding the baby and used a breast pump to keep herself lactating until she had an opportunity to work for the family. But her own baby died at birth and she underwent an emergency hysterectomy. Under those circumstances her doctor would have given her something to stop her lactating and by the time she'd have been released from hospital her milk should have dried up.
Correction: http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/Lactation#Lactation_without_pregnancy.
16th May 2005
Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
Corrected entry: Pedro is penalized for using a pinata that looks like Summer. But in her speech in the end, she says "Who wants to eat chimichangas next year?" This is pretty easily interpreted as a racial slur, surely the principal would have a small problem with it.
Correction: The debate scene is the last scene filmed in the school. We have no idea if Summer was punished, penalized, or even talked to for her remark.
15th May 2005
X-Men 2 (2003)
Corrected entry: When the X-Men are running out of the dam, Ororo and Kurt are holding Professor X up. Kurt is on his left, and Ororo is on his right. In the next shot, they've switched spots. They could have stopped and swapped places, but that would have slowed everyone down considerably, so they probably didn't.
15th May 2005
Hellboy (2004)
Corrected entry: When the first portal opens, a light is pulled through it and into outer space. That type of light generates a lot of heat, so the bulb would be quite hot. But it's absolute zero in space, so the bulb would have exploded as soon as it passed through the portal.
Correction: Temperature of space is not absolute zero. By the laws of thermodynamics, absolute zero is the coldest possible temperature and immpossible to reach. Lights in freezers and fridges don't explode when you leave them on for hours on end.
21st Sep 2004
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
Corrected entry: On both occasions in season 7 prior to "Chosen", whenever blood is spilled on the seal of the hellmouth, an ubervamp is brought out as the seal opens (e.g. when the First bleeds Spike; when the demon girl bleeds Xander). But, in "Chosen", when Buffy and the Potentials cut their hands to open the seal, no ubervamps are waiting to come out. Instead, the seal opens to reveal a set of stairs that lead them down to where the ubervamps are. That is the only way the Slayers could get to the vamps to surprise them, and the only way the whole ending with Spike could happen, but it isn't consistent with the rest of the season and what happens when blood is spilled on the seal.
Correction: The other episodes, the "First" planned the openings. They guided the people there. And there was a bit of a ceremony, maybe to call an ubervamp to the seal. But, in "Chosen" Buffy and the potentials took the fight to them. The opening was their plan, not guided by anyone or anything.
3rd May 2005
Soul Plane (2004)
Corrected entry: In the courtroom scene, Kevin Hart is involved in a civil lawsuit. A jury reads a verdict, but juries are not used in American civil trials, only criminal trials.
Correction: Actually, juries are used in both. It is up to the plaintiff to decide whether he wants a bench (judge) or jury trial.
17th Apr 2005
The Sword in the Stone (1963)
Corrected entry: The legend of King Arthur is set (loosely) around the early 6th century. Merlin wears glasses, but these weren't invented until around the late 1280s.
Correction: Merlin has incredible wisdom and knowledge, so maybe he independently invented glasses. Plus, it is made very clear in this movie that Merlin is capable of time travel, and has visited the twentieth century, acquiring modern scientific knowledge which he can use to great effect in the time of King Arthur. Even during the movie he declares that he is going to Bermuda, at which point he disappears from the film. In the final five minutes Merlin re-appears in a twentieth century surfer's costume and talks about life in the twentieth century. So he could quite easily have gone to an opticians, had an eye test and acquired spectacles during one of his travels to the future. Plus, one of the leading characters of The Sword In The Stone is a talking owl, who can hold conversations with humans. I don't think there were any talking owls during the Middle Ages, so maybe this film should not be regarded as accurate history.
Correction: He states that he is also a time traveller.
25th Oct 2004
Open Water (2003)
Corrected entry: They are both wearing 3mm wet suits. In the Bahamas, the summer water temperature is about 82 F to 85 F, sometimes cooler. That is about 17 degrees cooler than body temperature. Even with a wet suit, they would have been suffering from hypothermia in just a couple of hours.
Correction: According to hypothermia.org, they would survive over 12hrs in water over 68F. And acording to a kayaking site: 1) survival in water above 80F is indefinite 2) Minimal clothing is neede to survive in water above 80F. http://www.hypothermia.org/inwater.htm.
6th Mar 2005
Sudden Impact (1983)
Corrected entry: Harry and his buddy Horace do some skilled target shooting outdoors, but no real cop would practice shooting without hearing protection, especially when using a .44 caliber Auto-mag.
Correction: Hearing protection is required on the range, not in one's backyard. What a "real cop" would do is up to the individual person. Quite a few people target shoot, hunt, etc. with no hearing protection, real cops included.
Correction: Maybe he got mad because he couldn't go to the fair and never visited Wilbur again. Maybe, he was a small Sunday lunch (it IS a farm). The point is, they don't have to update us on every single character. The story focused on Charlotte and Wilbur.
Rlvlk