Corrected entry: The bar/pub sure is packed for having no cars in the parking lot.
Rlvlk
13th Jan 2006
The Crow: Wicked Prayer (2005)
1st Dec 2005
Drawn Together (2004)
Corrected entry: This episode features Captain Hero being thrown from a horse, snapping his neck, and becoming paralyzed just like actor Christopher Reeve (as an obvious spoof on his role as Superman). However, Reeve died two months before the episode was to air, so Comedy Central pulled it. It was also not released in the first season's DVD Box. It eventually aired a year after it was made.
Correction: This episode is scheduled to air as the 2006 season opener on 26 January. They are admitting in the previews that it has been delayed 1 year.
9th Jan 2006
Hercules (1997)
Corrected entry: In Disney's Hercules 1997 movie the facts are wrong. It portrays Hera as loving Hercules. One problem with that. Hera never gave birth to Hercules. Alcemene did. Hera disliked Hercules intensely and caused him to have to do the 12 labors. I understand it was a kid's movie, but they could have gotten it factual partially.
Correction: It is a myth. Heracles (Greek name) never existed. They can change up the myth to meet their storylines and as you stated it is a kid's movie not a documentary. Even Gladiator was not held up to such standards and it involved real people.
7th Jan 2006
Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
Corrected entry: The world in which the movie takes place is one completely free of the written word - Montag is shown "reading" comics that contain no written characters, only images. Books are of course completely forbidden. Yet when Montag takes books home, he has no trouble reading even difficult volumes, and his wife is at one point shown reading aloud from a soap opera script. Where did they learn to read?
Correction: Books may be illegal, but they still exist. That's what the firemen do: burn the books when found. They could have easily learned to read from contraband books or taught by their parents via contraband books.
26th Dec 2005
Charmed (1998)
Corrected entry: Piper alters Leo's date of birth on his birth certificate so he can obtain a passport, however, obtaining a US passport also requires a Social Security Number, which would have been retired when Leo died in 1942. A simple credit check can determine if someone is attempting to use a retired SSN, passing the State Department's background check with one would be impossible.
Correction: From the Department of State's website: "To obtain a passport for the first time, you need to go in person to one of 7,000 passport acceptance facilities located throughout the United States with two photographs of yourself, proof of U.S. citizenship, and a valid form of photo identification such as a driver's license." No mention of SSN.
11th May 2002
Spider-Man (2002)
Corrected entry: It may just be me but, when Peter suddenly stops wearing his glasses shouldn't his aunt and uncle have noticed? Mary Jane notices at school yet the people that have raised him never say anything. (00:18:00)
Correction: Maybe they said something to Peter when the camera wasn't rolling. Peter is never shown using the bathroom, but I have to assume he did. He is never shown doing laundry, bathing, and many more routine and needed things. Do you really want to see any of that in a film?
15th Dec 2005
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991)
Corrected entry: When Carolyn sneaks into Sue Ellen's office and finds her driver's license, you can see the license is printed on plain white construction paper instead of the thick plastic real licenses are made out of.
Correction: They weren't always made of thick plastic. They weren't even ALWAYS laminated. New crimes bring about changes.
13th Dec 2005
Drawn Together (2004)
Corrected entry: In the 'Black Chick's Tongue' musical interlude, there is a scene where Foxxy notices Clara's earrings. In the background, the three male housemates who are watching the making-out obviously look past Foxxy's left side; and unlike before and after that particular spot, Foxxy and Clara are not inside the pool.
Correction: It is a reality show. Reality shows quite frequently takes bits of film from one part of the day and add it to other scenes beacuse it makes for better TV. Some scenes are even re-enacted without the real people in it: actors are used.
12th Dec 2005
Ladder 49 (2004)
Corrected entry: Jack is married to his wife for ten years, meaning that they must have first met in the early '90's. But his wife's hair and clothes never change style throughout the decade; the clothes she's wearing in the supermarket around 1992 look exactly like the clothes people wear today in the 2000's, although styles back then were quite different (baggy shirts, shoulder pads, etc.).
Correction: Some people don't really care what is in style and what isn't. They wear what they like.
7th Dec 2005
Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
Corrected entry: They continue to show the effects of the radiation slowing the ageing of the planets' population and making the entire enterprise crew feel younger, and I believe there was a statement about old scars healing. Now that's fine enough but Geordi was born blind, as explained in one episode. He was not blinded in a accident or anything like that. Reverse ageing should have no effect on his eyes because he never had them in the first place so therefore nothing to regenerate.
5th Dec 2005
Drawn Together (2004)
Corrected entry: When Captain Hero wants to ask Bleh out for a date, Princess Clara makes it (more or less) subtly clear that he should not mistreat her by loading a shotgun. When she picks the gun from above the fireplace, she opens and loads it like a breech-loading shotgun; but when she sits beside Captain Hero, she cocks it like a pump-action gun. It must be either one or the other.
Correction: It is a collection of cartoon universes under the control of "the artists". If they want to put a pump action on a breech loading shotgun, they can. It is their fantasy universe.
5th Dec 2005
Drawn Together (2004)
Requiem for a Reality Show - S1-E4
Corrected entry: When a starving Captain Hero asks Foxxy for cookies, he is emaciated; but when Foxxy forces him to do erotic dancing, he suddenly has his usual beefy physique back. But since Foxxy would not even part with the cookies before he would do it, how could Hero get so fit again?
Correction: It is a collection of cartoon universes. They admit that they are at the complete mercy of the producers and cartoonists. Like, in season 2 when their house is destroyed and it is repaired in 1 second as the cartoonist drags his paint brush across it.
3rd Dec 2005
Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Murtah is fighting with the two guys in his garage he shoots them with a nail gun. These nail guns run on compressed air, yet there is no air hose attached to the gun. You can see this when he raises the gun to shoot the guy through the plastic.
Correction: It is a cordless nail gun. It uses a black powder charge, like a blank round for a gun, to power the gun. Both cops pull their guns on the contractor in an earlier scene when the nail gun is first used.
13th Oct 2003
Space Cowboys (2000)
Corrected entry: If the satellite is that dangerous, why not just shoot it down with a tactical nuclear missile? It would destroy the satellite and its missiles and 1000 miles up is more than enough to ensure that radioactive fallout would not re-enter the atmosphere. Or better yet, strap a nuclear device to the side and blow it up by remote instead of going to all the trouble to disarm it. The satellite doesn't react to physical contact, only radar.
Correction: How many other satellites, worth billions of dollars, would be destroyed by the EMP? What would effect the loss of communication satellites have on the world's economy? Loss of weather satellites? Loss of spy satellites?
27th Nov 2005
Apollo 13 (1995)
Corrected entry: At the beginning, when they are discussing the Apollo 1 fire in January 1967, they state that 18 months after the fire Apollo 11 lands on the moon. In actuality, it is 30 months (2 1/2 years) after the fire that Apollo 11 lands on the moon.
Correction: Already submitted and corrected mistake. This was Walter Cronkite's real-life mistake on the air.
21st Nov 2005
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
Corrected entry: After Austin has destroyed the fembots he is found by Vanessa and two soldiers. From the berets and insignia they are members of the parachute regiment. Why do they both salute differently, both wrong? One uses a Royal Naval salute (that is palm face in) and one like the US armed forces (palm face down), while the British Army (which the paras are a regiment of) and the RAF salute an officer with the palm facing out.
Correction: People in the military salute wrong every single day out of stupidity, nerves, or any of a number of reasons.
7th Nov 2005
Category 7: The End of the World (2005)
Corrected entry: After Paris is ravaged by the storm at the beginning of the movie, the team of experts in Washington, DC is watching a new report that the storm system decimated much of the American Midwest. The new report is captioned, "C6 storm leaves destruction of Las Vegas to Chicago." C6 is a reference to the "Category 6" of the first film's title. However, there is no such thing as a Category 6 storm; the maximum is Category 5, no matter how much more powerful a given storm is than the threshold for that classification. In fact, the storm described in the first film was a Category 4 hurricane.
Correction: This might be a bit long: The Saffir-Simpson scale is not sent down by God, it is man created. According to Robert Simpson, co-creator of the scale, the scale stopped at 156mph for 2 reasons: 1) The damage inflicted by wind speeds above 156mph pretty much looks all the same. 2) Cat5 storms WERE pretty rare. There is debate, and has been for some time, about changing the scale or modifying it. In whatever fictional timeline the movie exists, the scale could have been easily altered and increased. http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/051020_hurricane_winds.html.
13th Nov 2005
The Princess Bride (1987)
Corrected entry: The Machine is powered by a water wheel that takes a while to get going (not to mention how long that flood gate took to open and whatever moves the water down the slough). However, when the Count switches it off, and an instant later the camera cuts to a wide shot - the Machine has stopped completely. It should have slowed gradually to a halt because of inertia.
Correction: It could have a built-in braking mechanism that kicks in when the gate is closed.
13th Nov 2005
Goldeneye (1995)
Corrected entry: If the second Goldeneye satellite blew up in space, surely it would've triggered the nuclear device within to blow up, causing the EMP surge anyway.
Correction: Surely not. The high explosives surrounding the fissionable material are precisely engineered to explode simultaneously and crush the material. Any nearby explosion would not be enought to cause the material to implode and start the chain reaction.
11th Nov 2005
Maid in Manhattan (2002)
Corrected entry: When Jennifer Lopez and Bob Hoskins are preparing the luncheon in Ralph Fiennes' apartment, Lopez can be seen handling the glasses from the top. Anyone trained in hospitality and working in a five-star hotel knows to pick up a glass from the base - not the rim from which the guest will drink.
Correction: Comes down to character mistake, not movie. Even well-trained people make mistakes.
Correction: They took cabs? Buses? Other free public transportation? I've been to more than a few clubs where the lot was empty but inside was full.
Rlvlk