Corrected entry: When the baby sitter calls 911, the dispatcher basically blows her off. If she was calling 911 in real life that hysterical, the dispatcher would have sent out a unit to check on her.
Rlvlk
23rd Jul 2006
When A Stranger Calls (2006)
17th Jul 2006
Back to the Future (1985)
Corrected entry: Seeing as Marty changed his future, shouldn't the photo of himself, his brother and sister be different?
Correction: Not really. The events of that day, leading up to the picture being taken, could have been the same.
11th Jul 2006
Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005)
Corrected entry: After baby Tom is born and the family is leaving the hospital, they put him in a forward facing child seat. All children under 20 pounds should be in a rear facing child safety seat. Many hospitals will not let you leave unless a nurse has checked to make sure that you have the proper equipment and that it is safely installed.
Correction: Not following the rules\laws is not a mistake. And "many" hospitals is not all.
9th Jul 2006
State Fair (1945)
Corrected entry: In the scene where it is going around the fair and various people are singing, there are two people in a love boat. They pass under a bridge coming towards the camera, and there is a sign on the bridge telling them to remain seated that they couldn't possibly see unless they twist around and look back.
Correction: Stupid sign placement isn't a mistake, it is real life.
28th Jun 2006
Death Becomes Her (1992)
Corrected entry: When Ernest drops the vial when he's suspended on the broken pipe, it makes a sound of glass hitting on stone. Yet Ernest lands in the same place where the vial fell and lands on the decorative glass roof above the pool; there is no stone.
Correction: As mentioned in another correction, the vial didn't necessarily hit the exact same spot as Ernest. It could have hit the roof, a ledge, or something else solid.
24th Jun 2006
Aeon Flux (2005)
Corrected entry: When Aeon finds Una as a cloned baby, Trevor explains to her that they implant a cloned embryo into a woman when she is ready to have a baby and nine months later she has a baby. However Una was killed only a few days ago, nowhere near the nine months that Trevor mentions.
Correction: They are killed when it is time to give birth. That is why people are disappearing.
18th Jun 2006
Kindergarten Cop (1990)
Corrected entry: At the end of the movie when Kimble first enters the classroom, he has a very clear limp. Then when Joyce comes in and begins to kiss Kimble, his limp disappears as he picks her up and begins to spin her around in circles.
Correction: Emotions can make you forget about your pain. Endorphins, adrenaline and the like are released during some emotional moments.
14th Jun 2006
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Troi, Data and Worf are going up the stairs, to follow the man with the gold brick, into Key Stone City after getting off the train. When they just got off of the train there is a sign on the railing of the stairs with "subway" written on it. In the same shot there is another sign on the railing with the text "New York City Transit System" on it. (00:24:30)
Correction: When they arrive at "Vertiform City" and "New Vertiform City", they are actually a star and a pulsar: sources of vertiron particles. They said that there were pieces of many different holodeck programs running all at once. For this reason it is not truly a mistake.
1st Jun 2006
X-Men 3 (2006)
Corrected entry: Somehow, Angel manages to get from New York to San Francisco, just in time to save his father. Of course, this takes place about half an hour after the other X-Men arrive in a super sonic jet. Even with some feathery wings, that's quite a distance in such a short time.
2nd Jun 2006
Over the Hedge (2006)
Corrected entry: You would assume that animals that are smart enough to take a cooler off the top of a car and drive the exterminator's truck would be smart enough to walk down the hedge to the next house that doesn't have any security setup in the backyard.
Correction: Obsessive compulsive disorder- not just for people. Besides, that would be a character mistake.
1st Jun 2006
Christine (1983)
Corrected entry: The restored Christine has yellow and black late '50s standard California license plates with the number CQB 241. The only time the letter Q was used at that time was on special plates for ham radio operators, and even then it was a different style; the type of Q they used on Christine wasn't introduced until the late '60s.
Correction: Filmmakers have to use fake numbers to avoid lawsuits (just like fake adresses and phone numbers).
The CQB stood for close quarters battle.
While true, they have to make fake plates, it doesn't invalidate the mistake because the mistake is saying the Q seen wouldn't have been used. It would be like using a fake phone number that started with "0."
20th May 2006
Sneakers (1992)
Corrected entry: Dr. Janek's chip has computer information on it that can break any other code. Therefore, the code is copyable. So why does anybody else only worry about that getting one chip, considering that the characters could easily make any number of copies and save it to disk?
Correction: Beacuse they would still need that one chip to make copies.
28th May 2006
Fantastic Four (2005)
Corrected entry: When the crew first arrive on the space station we hear an announcement: "ETA to cosmic event." ETA stands for Estimated Time of Arrival, which means he said Estimated time of arrival to cosmic event. Makes no sense.
Correction: People say stupid things like "ETA to the Tsunami". You understand what is said but it comes down to a grammatical (character) mistake.
27th May 2006
Troy (2004)
Corrected entry: Mid-film we see Hector carving a lion from wood for his son, which would be strange as the Trojans never conquered beyond the Mediterranean. What most people don't know is that lions once lived around the Mediterranean but climate and population changes forced them down into Africa.
7th May 2006
Final Destination (2000)
Corrected entry: After they got kicked out of the plane, the pilot says to the police officer that nobody gets back on the plane, and that it is his call. He only has 3 stripes, so he is only a First Officer, and has virtually nothing to say on the plane when the Captain (4 stripes) is still alive.
Correction: Just like when President Reagan was shot, Secretary of State Alexander Haig that he was in charge (since Regan was hospitalized, the VP wasn't in town). He thought he was 2nd in line and not 4th. (VP, House Speaker, Senate president pro tempore, Secretary of State) Character mistake, not a movie mistake.
7th May 2006
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Corrected entry: It states in the book that ghosts can't eat or drink, so how is the Mandrake Potion administered to Nearly Headless Nick?
Correction: I'm sure the great wizards at Hogwarts could find a magical way. Some items can be left to the imagination.
12th May 2006
Lilo & Stitch (2002)
Corrected entry: Just after Lilo buys Stitch at the animal shelter, there is a scene with Jumba and Pleakly talking outside. The two aliens are talking in relatively loud voices, but notice that Stitch does not react to them talking until Pleakly whispers his line "How good is his hearing?" The writer obviously put that reaction there to answer Pleakly's question, but it makes no logical sense that Stitch would only react to the whisper, and not to any of the rest of the conversation between Jumba and Pleakly. (00:27:30)
Correction: It is quite easy to ignore someone, no matter how loud they are talking. And it is pretty much "human nature" to react to the whispered question "How good is his hearing?". Call it showing off if you want.
12th May 2006
Lilo & Stitch (2002)
Corrected entry: When Stitch is captured by the Grand Councilwoman and her troops, he is put in restraints. Later, when the Grand Councilwoman releases Stitch, she simply presses a button to open the restraints. Since they're chasing Stitch and treating him as a highly dangerous creature, it makes no sense to put him in such easily opened restraints. (01:13:55 - 01:16:25)
Correction: It makes perfect sense in a cartoon universe.
6th May 2006
Alien Resurrection (1997)
Corrected entry: The scientists claim they procured blood samples on the Prison colony that allowed them to recreate Ripley. If you used blood to clone Ripley, then you'd get a clone of Ripley without a chest-burster inside her. The chestburster doesn't alter DNA.
Correction: 1) I don't recall any DNA blood tests being given in any of the previous movies, so you don't really know if the chest burster does or does not alter the DNA in any way. 2) In an inscet colony, any egg laid has the potential to be a queen. When a new queen is needed, certain eggs are treated differently to produce a queen instead of a worker. Since Ripley was implanted by a queen, maybe the intent was to produce another queen and who knows what happens to a person's DNA implanted with a queen.
There are different theories about how the facehugger actually impregnates its host. It may implant an embryo, or it may inject a mutagenic liquid that causes host's own cells to transform into alien embryo. The latter would also explain why aliens inherit the traits of their host, and would also explain why the blood sample resulted in cloned Ripley with embryo inside.
26th Aug 2003
Heartbreak Ridge (1986)
Corrected entry: During the second Field Training Exercise, when the Recon Team jumps out of a CH-46 helo, Swede and Gunny Highway paused for a conversation for several seconds while the rest are doing the actual jump. A delay like that would throw them way off the Drop Zone.
Correction: They were never shown landing. There is no time reference so we don't know how long it took them to rejoin the others. It could have been minutes, hours or even days between the scene in the plane and the scene of the platoon together again.
Correction: There was a news story a short while ago about a 911 operator being fired for doing exactly that. It's real life, not a mistake. Some news stories: http://www.jems.com/products/articles/102586/.
Rlvlk