Corrected entry: Dropping a large gold bar onto a golf green, as Bond does, would have left a considerable dent in the ground, yet it didn't. A standard gold bar weighs about 25lb, so even on a well-tended green, this would have done visible damage.
Nicki
22nd Dec 2004
Goldfinger (1964)
5th Mar 2005
Logan's Run (1976)
Corrected entry: Box's weapons seem to magically appear out of nowhere just before he says "It's my job - to freeze you".
Correction: That's not right - Box fetched the weapons while they were changing their clothes. He already had them in his hands when he said, "This way" and led them into the cave with the frozen people.
28th Dec 2004
2010 (1984)
Corrected entry: When the astronauts reach the Discovery and enter the ship, Max actually breathes the air to determine if it's OK. Since we had Oxygen samplers in 1985, I'm positive that we'd have even better ones in 2010.
Correction: He doesn't breathe the air to see if it's ok. They've already run tests and determined it's ok. They know there is oxygen. They are simply watching him closely as a precaution.
2nd Feb 2005
Casablanca (1942)
Corrected entry: The airplane at the Casablanca airport lands while doing about 10 MPH.
Correction: How on earth did you work that out? There is nothing in the shot that gives you the reference points to judge the speed of the aeroplane. Piston engined aircfaft of the time landed at very low speeds - some such that they could land on top of a slow moving car - a frequent display at flying shows.
21st Jan 2005
Hooper (1978)
Corrected entry: When the movie crew sets up the shot of Adam West jumping off a ledge to save the dog, the clapboard they use has the name of Bobby Byrne on it as Director of Photography for the movie "The Spy Who Laughed at Danger". Byrne is the actual D of P for the movie 'Hooper', so they simply used the same clapboard for the Adam West shot. On that same clapboard you can see where they erased director Hal Needham's name from it and substituted the fictional director's name "Roger Deal", who was played by Robert Klein.
Correction: This is not a mistake. They have all the rights in the world to reuse equiptment.
9th Mar 2005
Animal House (1978)
Corrected entry: During the parade fiasco, Bluto climbs onto the awning of a building to get away from the ROTC geeks. You can see pre-fab steps installed on the awning supports to keep him (Belushi) from slipping.
Correction: They were supposed to be there, to enable parade workers to climb on top of the building in order to hang the "Welcome Alumni" banner over the street, and to take it down afterward.
28th Dec 2004
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Corrected entry: There's a 'Floating Pen' on the PanAm shuttle when Dr. Floyd is sleeping. On the DVD, you can see the thread holding the pen when the camera quickly re-focuses from the stewardess to the pen. Just before the re-focus occurs, go to slo-mo and it's very obvious.
Correction: No it isn't, because a thread was not used. The pen was glued to a disc of glass which was slowly rotated, and a careful cut insterspersed when the stewardess plucks the pen out of the air.
20th Dec 2004
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Corrected entry: In the briefing room on the moon, folks are walking around normally with no apparent effects of the moon's weak gravity. Same for the group of men walking to the monolith in space suits.
Correction: This is an accepted film convention, not a mistake. Films like 'Red Planet' and 'Mission to Mars' were shot years after 2001 and had the advantage of much more advanced special effects techniques, but they didn't attempt to simulate Martian gravity. The same can be said of 'Pluto Nash', shot on a $100,000,000 budget and set on the moon but making no attempt to show the effects of lunar gravity.
1st Feb 2005
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Corrected entry: Very near the beginning of the movie, Mammy yells down to Scarlett from inside a second floor window. Look behind Mammy and you can see the sky behind her, indicating the facade set.
Correction: Mammy is actually leaning out of the window in front of a pale grey roller blind.
23rd Dec 2004
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Corrected entry: The opening shot of this movie is a night shot of Berbelson Air Force Base. The very next shot is of a rotating radar antenna in broad daylight.
Correction: Followed by shots of B52s in flight and other militaria. There is no indication that the radar installation is at Burpleson - it's part of the world wide military machine, the theme of the film, and it could be anywhere.
10th Mar 2005
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Corrected entry: Just before Lacombe is introduced to the committee, they play the audio tape where they recorded the large group of men singing the five tones. But the notes they're singing on that tape are a full step lower than the original singing.
Correction: The recording was cleaned up and enhanced for clarity and it might have changed because of this.
Correction: If the octave the 5 notes are in is too high for their vocal range, they'd have to pitch it lower to be able to sing it.
14th Jan 2005
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991)
Corrected entry: Just before Frank bursts through the door that hits Barbara Bush, you can see the special doorstop mounted on the floor to protect the actress from being bopped in the nose.
Correction: Many doors have such rubber doorstops to prevent them hitting the wall or breaking their own hinges by opening too wide, particularly heavily used doors like one in a public room like this.
18th Mar 2005
Sleuth (1972)
Corrected entry: Shooting someone in the head with a blank (as Andrew does) whether it's at point-blank range or from twelve inches, would likely kill or at the very least cause serious injury to the victim.
Correction: It depends entirely upon the load. Be aware that what you are seeing on the screen is what really happened - a blank was fired close to an actor's head - so there is obviously a safe way of doing it.
25th Mar 2005
Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003)
Corrected entry: In the House of Blue Leaves when O-Ren senses something amiss, she hurls a dart through the paper door. After GoGo goes outside to investigate, she goes back into the room and closes the door, but the dart hole is gone.
Correction: O-Ren hurls the dart through a paper window to the right of the door (the door is a much darker color), and we do not see the window when GoGo exits or returns to the room.
21st Dec 2004
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Corrected entry: If you look past General Turgidson during one of his speeches at the round table, you can see a 'stand-in' Dr. Strangelove sitting on the far side, long before the character is even introduced in the story.
Correction: Why is Strangelove being there a mistake? He's a top presidential advisor, of course he's going to be in a meeting of such importance, especially since the meeting is about a nuclear strike and Strangelove appears to be very knowledgable about Nuclear weapons. Just because he doesn't have anything to say until he's properly introduced doesn't mean he wouldn't be there, waiting to be called upon.
25th Mar 2005
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Corrected entry: Dave exited the ship for an EVA to replace the 'flawed' AE35 unit. Unfortunately, Dave would've received five times the lethal dose of radiation during that brief jaunt. This is typical when in that proximity to Jupiter. Even though Dr. Floyd says "they can't be exposed to that radiation for any longer than four minutes", they'd still die from it within a few weeks of that brief exposure.
Correction: Despite its attempts at authenticity, 2001 is still a science fiction film, and in its reality, Poole's space suit and helmet are made of some futuristic material that provides protection from radiation.
11th Mar 2005
Jurassic Park (1993)
Corrected entry: When Hammond's visitors are viewing the 'movie' about how DNA is extracted, a hypodermic syringe is shown taking a DNA sample from an amber source. It's clear that the syringe is one used exclusively for a tuberculosis skin test. It's even labeled as such because you can see the word 'tuberculin' on it.
Correction: Essentially the mistake is of the characters not the film's creators. We know that in the film the people in the park created the footage to illustrate how dinosaurs were made. It might have not been the most essential thing to get stock footage that the syringe be labelled correctly.
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.
5th Mar 2005
10 (1979)
Corrected entry: The cops who pull George over tell him he should "be careful taking those pain pills with alcohol". Despite that, the way he was mixing the two, he'd be completely unable to walk, much less drive a car. Of course it's a movie, but in reality the cops should have taken George straight to the hospital to get his stomach pumped.
Correction: The key word there is SHOULD. There was a woman in Indiana last month who was arrested for DUI with 3 kids in the car. Her buddy, the high-ranking cop, intervened and released her. My cousin was in a single car DUI accident. The first cop to show up took him home, told him to sober up and come back out and report the accident then.
4th Feb 2005
Heat (1995)
Corrected entry: When Vincent is closing in on Neil near the climax of the film, they're on foot at the end of a runway at LAX. The powerful microwave and infrared transmitters on the ground at the end of a runway can seriously injure and kill very quickly - many people have been maimed or killed by sneaking onto commercial runways. Both Vincent and Neil should have been affected.
Correction: Its hard to say they would have been killed or injured by the transmitters. Certainly they run across the landing areas but it's for a few short seconds. I would think there would be safety devices for incidents in which people may run across the runway or for airport crew to safely cross in case they needed to get onto the landing strip. Fire crews and emergency teams would also be highly exposed if the transmitters were as lethal as that. Length of exposure is the main factor, and they're not standing in their path for long at all.
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Correction: Several problems with this submission. 1. The bar lands flat against the green, distributing its weight evenly. 2. We only see the bar hitting the ground; for all we know Bond may have just dropped it from below waist level. 3. A 200 pound person could jump on a well maintained golf course and not leave a 'considerable dent', their shoe size not being much larger than the side of the gold bar.
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