Corrected entry: In the Well of Souls, Marion's underwear changes from white to black.
Will
27th Aug 2001
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
27th Aug 2001
From Russia With Love (1963)
Corrected entry: When they're in the boat, the girl looks forward, sports a quizzical expression, licks her finger to test the wind and then asks Bond where they are going. Now, this all happens when the boat is still moving, so unless the wind is really really strong, the only direction that one could determine from this particular technique would be "forward".
Correction: When Tatiana asks 007 where are they going, she asks this in reference to where 007 is intending to take her, and not in reference to which as to which way the wind is blowing: The licking of her finger does not indicate any specific direction as to which way the boat is going to travel, and is merely a lighthearted gesture made in jest.
27th Aug 2001
From Russia With Love (1963)
Corrected entry: They use the fuel to blow up their pursuers. Didn't Bond say that they needed that fuel in an earlier scene?
Correction: What 007 actually said was "well we've got plenty of fuel, with a bit of luck we should be there by tomorrow morning": But since they are being chased by the spectre men, dumping the fuel and setting fire to it proved to be an effective way to get away from those pursing boats: It would have been difficult to imagine that 007 would be concerned about having enough fuel to complete the journey when he was getting rid of those barrels of fuel.
27th Aug 2001
From Russia With Love (1963)
Corrected entry: Before the exploding helicopter falls around Bond he has a hat on. In the next shot the hat is nowhere to be found.
Correction: As the helicopter explodes, Bond leans back against the rocks behind him and raises his left arm, it while he is raising his arm that he knocks the hat off his head: He probably forgot about the hat in all the excitement, or simply could not be bothered to pick the hat up and put it back on.
21st Mar 2002
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Corrected entry: When Willie goes to save Shorty and Indy when they are trapped in the room with the spikes, she is wearing her silk pj's. However, when she is captured by the worshippers, she is wearing the outfit she wore at the dinner they had that night.
Correction: In the actual scene, only Indy and Short Round are captured, Willie is seen disappearing through a hole in the cave wall, at this point we can see that she is wearing the silk pyjamas. Even though the film does not actually show Willie being captured, it's obvious that she is also taken by the Thuggees, and while Indy and Short Round are being held captive in a cage, Willie is being prepared as a sacrifice, and she is in fact given a new dress, specifically for the sacrifice. Its not the same one as the dress used in the dinner, as you can see that there is not a separate skirt, the headdress is different, and much more.
17th May 2003
Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
Corrected entry: After Talos shipwrecks the Argonauts, Jason is floating with the figurehead of Hera. She tells him to look at Talos' ankles to find a weakness. The weakness is in fact a huge valve on the back of one of his heels, not ankles, as we later see.
12th Dec 2002
Thunderball (1965)
Corrected entry: At Shrublands, Bond confronts Count Lippe, who sets the speed of the traction table to dangerous. Bond goes into a room where Lippe is in a Spitz Bath. Watch the sign as Bond goes into this room, as it changes when he leaves, from Spitz Bath, to Heat Treatment.
Correction: The room that Bond enters, actually says Massage and not Spitz bath, you can see a picture to the left of the door as Bond enters. He does not close the door but leaves it open, he leaves through a different door that he has to open, on the other side of the door it says Spitz bath and heat treatment, you can also see that it has a different picture by the side of the door.
14th May 2003
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Corrected entry: While they are in the German camp around the well of souls, Sallah is trying to blend in with the other native workers. As he passes a long table of Germans eating, a few call out in German for water (Wasser) yet he replies in English "I'll go and get you some water" a number of times. Not very undercover.
Correction: The scene is set in Egypt, and Sallah is Egyptian, so when the German soldiers want water, he is not going to reply to them in German. He would reply to them in Arabic, but for the sake of expediency with the dialogue, Sallah is speaking in English. Since he is also native to the area, he is also dressed accordingly.
27th Aug 2001
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Corrected entry: When Indy is fighting the German guy near the plane and the guy gets ripped apart by the propeller blades his blood is splattered all over the cockpit window where Marion is, yet when Indy goes to get her out the cockpit window is completely clean.
Correction: The blood that gets splattered is on the screen of the rear cockpit, where the tail gunner is and not at the front, where the pilot would sit. If you notice carefully, the propellers are facing backwards towards the rear of the plane, this is where Indy and the big German are fighting, when the German gets cut up by the propeller the blood lands on the swastika on the rear tail fin. Marion goes to the front cockpit via the fuselage of the plane, (the two cockpits are not separate) and this explains why when Indy releases Marion from the front cockpit, the window is clean and is not covered with blood.
19th Mar 2002
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Corrected entry: In the fight scene at the airplane, Marion is locked in the cockpit with the dead German pilot (located at the front of the plane). In the next shot when a truck of German soldiers approach, she begins shooting them from the plane's gun turret (a separate cabin located in the rear of the plane). In the next shot, when Indy is done fighting the big German, Marion is once again locked in the cockpit (located at the front of the plane).
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Correction: There is not one clear shot to support this, at no time is it possible to see what Marion was wearing underneath the dress that Belloq gave to her, nor can this be determined when she was hanging on to the statue just after Toth threw her into the well of souls.
Will