Corrected entry: When Duke is talking to the sailor from Alabama, Junior, he is informed that Junior's great-grandfather served on the Merrimac. No Southerner would ever have referred to the CSS Virginia as the "Merrimac".
Rlvlk
7th Nov 2005
Operation Pacific (1951)
6th Nov 2005
Hollywood Homicide (2003)
Corrected entry: In the beginning of the movie at the shooting range, all of the shooters are wearing earplugs, but none of them are wearing eye protection. No one ever is allowed to fire at a legitimate range, let alone a Police range, without wearing eye protection. Later when KC goes to the range alone, he has no ear or eye protection. This is possible since he was alone and angry about his father's murder, etc.
Correction: People break rules and do things they are not allowed to do all the time. It's real life. People are injured and killed every single year because they were not wearing the proper safety gear.
2nd Nov 2005
South Park (1997)
Corrected entry: When Cartman bursts into the church to announce the "Cripple Fight", Kyle's parents are inside. What are they doing at church? They're Jewish.
Correction: Perhaps they attended because they were invited? Because it was friendship day? Because they wanted to see a Christian service? Or because of any other possible reason.
2nd Nov 2005
Pinocchio (1940)
Corrected entry: When Pinocchio is made a real boy at the end of the film, he sits up on the bed, and asks his father why he is crying, to which his father replies that it is because he is dead. Wouldn't Gepetto realise that the fact that Pinocchio is speaking to him indicates that he is not dead anymore?
Correction: Grief can make people do stupid things. Even without grief, people do stupid things.
1st Nov 2005
Batman Begins (2005)
Corrected entry: Bruce Wayne's parents both have blue eyes, while his are brown. Two blue eyed parents cannot have a brown-eyed child.
Correction: Actually, they can. Here is a nice long read on eye color inheritance: http://www.seps.org/cvoracle/faq/eyecolor.html And here is a neat matrix that allows you to play with eye color based on parents' eye color and their genes: http://www.athro.com/evo/gen/genefr2.html.
31st Oct 2005
Destination Moon (1950)
Corrected entry: Just after landing on the Moon the crew speak with a radio host on Earth, who says "Mr. Barnes, can you tell us where you landed. The astronomers at Palomar say they could see you if they knew where to point the big eye." This is not true at all. There wasn't a telescope on Earth at that time capable of resolving an object the size of their spaceship at that distance. This is a fact any astronomer would've known even then. (01:07:00)
Correction: And it wasn't possible to fly to the moon then either. If they made spacecraft to reach the moon, maybe they also had the telescope with the proper resolution. It IS a Sci-Fi film.
Corrected entry: Throughout the whole movie, all vampire characters are able to be seen in mirrors, however, isn't it the myth that vampires do not have a reflection?
Correction: Since vampires don't exist, the abilities vampires do and do not have are up to the screenwriters and producers.
27th Aug 2001
Groundhog Day (1993)
Corrected entry: When Bill Murray exits the bed and breakfast on the first day, you'll notice that his later piano teacher is walking towards Gobbler's Nob. The second day, a different amount of time goes by between the time Bill Murray leaves the bed and breakfast and sure enough, the same people are walking towards Gobbler's Nob, including the piano teacher. Did they all adjust their own personal schedule for Phil Connors?
Correction: As Mr Connors states, he has no idea how or why he is repeating the same day over and over. Whether he is a god, or it is God or Father Time or some other force making it happen. Whatever force is making him repeat his day over and over should have no problems rearranging other people's schedules so they run across Phil's path.
18th Oct 2005
13 Going On 30 (2004)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Jenna wakes up and she is 30, watch when she flicks through her mail. You can see a Letter from Sparkle Magazine. This is significant later in the film when Jenna finds out she was the one giving ideas to Sparkle.
Correction: This isn't trivia, it is a plot line in the movie.
2nd Oct 2005
Just Like Heaven (2005)
Corrected entry: Throughout the beginning of the film, Elizabeth encounters David and is trying to remember her past. However, before she remembers anything, she's able to remember something so extremely specific as the key under the fire extinguisher?
Correction: That is simply how memory and memory retrival works, it does not always make literal or logical sense.
1st Oct 2005
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)
Corrected entry: No bookie would allow a member of the sporting event himself to make a bet on the game, because of the fact that the player has the ability to determine the results. (01:23:55)
Correction: How would the bookie know that he was on the Dodgeball team?
26th Sep 2005
Road House (1989)
Corrected entry: The blind guitar player (Jeff Healey) is wearing a wristwatch throughout the film. Did I mention he's BLIND?
Correction: Blind people do wear watches - either ones that speak or ones with numbers in braille.
Correction: Jeff Healey was actually blind - he wore a watch - reality trumps a movie fiction.
23rd Sep 2005
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
Corrected entry: When Dorian is shot by the automatic rifle, he just stands there and takes it without so much as screaming in pain. Later in the film, when Mina and Dorian are fighting, she stabs him in his crotch and Dorian groans in pain.
Correction: People scream in pain in different situations. It is human nature.
22nd Sep 2005
Lord of War (2005)
Corrected entry: Yuri's storage container only has a consumer combination lock with an easy-to-figure-out combination (his son's birthday). To guard his secret supplies, it's highly unlikely that he would use such a simple setup. Any security expert will tell you to use random, meaningless combinations.
Correction: And any security expert will tell you that locks only keep honest people out. The better the lock, the better the criminal needed to get through it.
24th Sep 2005
Just Like Heaven (2005)
Corrected entry: When Elizabeth is "haunting" David, she can't touch or pick up any solid objects. Yet she has no problem sitting down on solid beds, benches and car seats.
Correction: In the DVD commentary, the director explains about believing that as a ghost you can do something easy that you always did when you were alive, such as walk up steps and sit down.
24th Sep 2005
Tron (1982)
Corrected entry: When Flynn hacks the keypad and opens the giant security door, look carefully on the back of the door for a pressure handle similar to those used on Fire Exit doors. This is ridiculous. No one could physically move a metal door of that size.
Correction: It all depends on how the doors were built. The roof of the Toronto Skydome, according to the documentary on its construction, can be opened by one person pushing it.
24th Sep 2005
Casablanca (1942)
Corrected entry: Lazlo says on the first confrontation with Major Strasser: 'I'm a Czechoslovakian', and Strasser answers: 'You were. Now you're a subject of the German Reich'. If that means even the slightest connection with being 'citizen' then it is wrong. The movies legend suggests that Lazlo is from Prague - which in 1941 was in the Protectorate of Bohemia (only the Sudetenland was part of Germany). Not even the Germans living there were subjects of the Reich. They were so called Volksdeutsche and could for instance not be drafted in the Army. The Czechs of course had even less rights. (00:27:00)
Correction: During World War II, Czechoslovakia ceased to exist and was divided into the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia of the Third Reich and the newly declared Slovak Republic. This qualifies him as a subject of the Third Reich. And a "subject" does not imply any citizenship. It implies that you are under someone's control/rule, like a "serf". (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Czechoslovakia)
22nd Sep 2005
The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D (2005)
Corrected entry: Just before they leave the school, Sharkboy or Lavagirl say that the planet Drool is just outside the solar system. But they do not leave the solar system since they did not pass Pluto. They also happened to miss Uranus. They also happen to be travelling faster than the speed of light, since they pass all the planets in a matter of seconds, while light takes hours, and travelling past the speed of light is impossible without creating a black hole.
Correction: The planets do not orbit the Sun in a straight line so it would be easy to not pass all (or even any) on your way out of the solar system. And, according to our laws of science, travelling faster than light (even with a black hole and you cannot create one) is impossible. But, then again, so are LavaGirl's and SharkBoy's very existence. Who knows what can be accomplished with their science.
12th Sep 2005
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
Corrected entry: When Riker is dragged into the pool of goo, his head reappears for just a moment, then is pulled back into the pool. Note that his mouth is open and fills with goo, but his mouth is above the surface. Obviously this is a mask that is pulled under.
Correction: The pool of goo is a living, shape shifting entity called Armus. If Armus wanted to only partially fill Riker's mouth with some of himself, it surely would have been in his power.
17th Sep 2005
The Manhattan Project (1986)
Corrected entry: Paul Stevens breaks into the secret lab to steal some plutonium. After procuring a small container full of the material, he then cuts a small hole through the building's wall with a huge laser. He straps the plutonium to a radio controlled toy car and puts it through the hole. After getting himself out of the building by another route, he then drives the toy car through a drain pipe to re-acquire it. But why go to all that trouble with the laser, etc.? He had to walk out of the lab somehow. Why not just carry the plutonium out with him? The reason, of course, is that the laser looked pretty cool on screen.
Correction: There are radiation detectors at the entries and exits to keep people from stealing the plutonium. Much like metal detectors and sensitive scales at gold processing facilities.
Correction: According to the official CSS Virginia website, some southern sources did refer to it as the Merrimac\Merrimack. BTW, according to them, the proper spelling is Merrimack, after the Merrimack river. http://cssvirginia.org/.
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