Corrected entry: There are multiple times during the basketball games, when Scott is doing some fancy passing, when it would be really easy for the opposing team to steal the ball, but they don't because, well... the script doesn't call for it.
Krista
9th May 2003
Teen Wolf (1985)
22nd Mar 2004
Darkness Falls (2003)
Corrected entry: When Kyle and Kaitlyn kiss in the beginning, she wipes her mouth and says a first kiss shouldn't taste like blood. But it's a closed-lip kiss, and Kyle has no blood on the outside of his mouth.
Correction: Kaitlyn pulls her kiss away from Kyle because she does not want to open mouth kiss Kyle, for that would taste like blood. This is what she meant. To prove this, this was their 2nd close mouth kiss in that scene, so she couldn't call this kiss the first kiss anyway.
18th May 2004
House of Cards (1993)
Corrected entry: The moon is shown several times over a period of a number of days, but it's always shown as the same shaped crescent.
Correction: The moon is, in fact, not always a crescent. It is shown as crescent to depict the imagination of Sarah, and ultimately her mother. In the scene when the tower is completed, for instance, the moon is, in reality, a full moon, and is shown as such several times. The film alternates between crescent and full in this scene to switch back and forth between the shared imaginary moon, which is crescent, and the real moon, which is full. The next morning, the crescent moon is shown as becoming full.
3rd Aug 2003
Elizabeth (1998)
Corrected entry: The movie implies that Mary of Guise was murdered by Walsingham in bed. In reality, she died of dropsy (the collection of fluid in the body cavities and/or tissues).
Correction: The movie implies it was murder, as Mary of Guise died suddenly and nobody really knows of what cause. It was Mary (so as not to confuse which one, daughter of Henry VIII by Catherine of Aragon) who had dropsy. This caused her to become bloated and led her to believe continually that she was pregnant.
3rd Jun 2004
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
Corrected entry: When Robin, Azeem, and Duncan are walking through Sherwood Forest, they hear noises and Azeem draws his sword. There's a distinct sound of metal on metal, like a straight sword would make being pulled out. But a Saracen sword can't be drawn out like that, since the tip is larger than the base. But if you look at Azeem's sword sheath, it appears to be exactly the shape and size of the sword. It would have to open up sideways or something to conceivably get the sword out.
Correction: The sheath for Azeem's sword is not open only at the top. It has a slit on the back so the sword may be drawn.
4th Feb 2004
The Mummy (1999)
Corrected entry: The fingernail marks shown on the inside of the coffin look to be somewhat deep. Now I'm not sure what that coffin was made out of, but it appeared to be hard and heavy. So it seems that even if Imhotep's fingernails had been as hard and sharp as knives, he'd have had to be running them methodically over and over the exact same spot to make indentations in the lid. Not what you'd expect from someone clawing frantically.
Correction: The wood appears to be coated with tar or resin - perfectly reasonable for a coffin you didn't want to decay in the ground, releasing the beast inside.
25th Jun 2004
Back to the Future Part II (1989)
Corrected entry: When Doc and Marty are in Doc's house in the alternate 1985, Doc sets up Einstein's doggie bed and the dog jumps in. From one angle he starts to turn around to his right, but in the reverse shot he turns to his left.
Correction: Have a look next time you see a dog doing this - the circle rapidly one way, then reverse, then reverse again, and finally settle down. That's exactly what Einstein is doing.
25th Feb 2004
The Wedding Singer (1998)
Corrected entry: Julia's hair and clothing (including her wedding dress) consistently look a lot more 1998 than 1985.
Correction: Not everyone follows the current style of dress and hairstyle at any time. Also, since styles run in cycles, she could conceivably be behind the times as much as ahead of the time.
14th Jun 2004
A Knight's Tale (2001)
Corrected entry: Before one joust, the characters discover that William is about to fight "the Black Prince of Wales, the future King of England." While he was an actual historical figure, the Black Prince wasn't given his nickname until 200 years after his death.
Correction: The song "We Will Rock You" by Queen hadn't been written yet either, yet the peasants are shown to be dancing and singing along with the song. This is a highly fictionalized version of history. So there is no reason why the Black Prince couldn't have had his nickname a little earlier in this fantasy world.
4th Feb 2004
Tremors (1990)
Corrected entry: When Old Fred is eaten, he's holding a hoe. When Val and Earl find him, the hoe is nowhere to be seen. It's been established that the graboids spit out things they can't eat (the generator, the bomb) but we see a wide area around where Fred was, and no sign of the hoe. Yes, it could have been spit VERY far away, but in the other instances the objects are still in the vicinity of where they were eaten.
Correction: Self-correcting entry. Like you said, it could have been spit very far away.
17th Sep 2003
Back to the Future Part III (1990)
Corrected entry: When the DeLorean is destroyed by the train at the end, why does the train smash through it, instead of just pushing it back down the tracks? Even if Marty had put on a parking brake (which we don't see him doing) it doesn't seem like it would be strong enough to withstand the force of the train. Even cars that are sitting perpendicularly on railroad tracks get pushed along by fast-moving trains, so why not a car that's specially designed to move on the tracks?
23rd Jun 2003
Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)
Corrected entry: Martin returns to the empty beach house to looks for clues about Laura's disappearance. While there, he goes through boxes of Laura's papers. But why would these boxes be at the beach house, instead of at the couple's main house in Boston? Or why would he cart them all the way to Cape Cod when he could just look at them in the main house?
Correction: This was a character choice. Simply because something seems odd is not reason enough for it not to happen.
4th Aug 2003
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
Corrected entry: At the end when King Richard makes a surprise appearance at the wedding, Marian calls him by his first name, and remains standing while everyone else bows. It's unlikely that she would show so little decorum, considering he's the king. Being a semi-distant relative would not give her the right to be so casual with him, especially in public, and at a time when sometimes kings' immediate families addressed them as "Your Majesty."
Correction: But considering he's a fictionalized version of Richard the Lionheart, and he seems remarkably informal with her in return, it is a more than safe assumption that the matter has been addressed long since, with Richard asking, if not telling Marian not to be so formal with him. Much like Elizabeth Swann asked repeatedly of Will Turner in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
15th May 2003
Titanic (1997)
Corrected entry: The whole manner in which upper class people speak has been dumbed down for the audience. High society people in the early part of the 20th century had a very refined manner of speaking; whatever they truly meant was masked with something more socially appropriate. For instance, when Rose's mother says something to the effect of: "Here comes that vulgar Brown woman. Let's move before she sits with us," she would have been considered extremely ill-mannered. In reality, she would have given some knowing glances, and said something more like: "It's getting very warm in here. Perhaps we should take a turn on the deck." Her friends, seeing Molly Brown approaching, would know exactly what she really meant. (00:50:40)
Correction: This is a generalisation about a large section of society. It is not possible to say that all high-society people would act in the same way. It's not a movie mistake to make it easier for the audience to understand, it's not different from having foreigners speak English in their own country to avoid subtitles.
14th May 2003
Back to the Future Part III (1990)
Corrected entry: Given that Doc is so concerned about influencing future events, why does he set up shop right in the middle of town (creating a lot of loud and noisy inventions) and attend town meetings, and volunteer to pick Clara up at the train station? He should be a hermit, living as far away from people and civilization as possible.
Correction: It seems like Doc doesn't really care about time travel anymore, and that in the old west he decided to start a new life. It goes along with Doc saying "Well, I figured 'what the hell'" in the first movie in response to Marty asking him about not influencing future events. To him at this point, it doesn't really matter to him.
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.
6th Sep 2003
Elizabeth (1998)
Corrected entry: There is no solid evidence that Elizabeth had sexual relationships with Dudley, or any other man. She was very politically astute, and knew the dangers of damaging her Virgin Queen reputation, upon which much of her strength was based.
Correction: On the DVD commentary, the director happily admits that there is no evidence of a sexual relationship, but that he was exploring the possibility.
22nd Mar 2004
Darkness Falls (2003)
Corrected entry: The post-pubescent actor playing 10-year-old Kyle looks and sounds about 14 or 15 years old. Likewise, the actor playing 22-year-old Kyle looks at least ten years older than that.
Correction: A lot of people tend to look much older than they really are.
14th May 2003
Dances with Wolves (1990)
Corrected entry: Why does Stands With a Fist have shoulder-length, layered hair and bangs? Wouldn't her hair be all long and natural, like every other woman in the tribe?
Correction: It's a Native American custom for someone in mourning to cut his/her hair. Stands With a Fist has recently lost her husband as the movie opens.
25th Feb 2004
A Mighty Wind (2003)
Corrected entry: During the interview with Mitch and Mickey, Mickey's hair is somewhat fluffy and unkempt in her closeup, but smooth and neat in the wide shot.
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Correction: Not necessarily a movie mistake. Who's to say the other team is any good? They could be a bad team and therefore don't realize they're able to steal the ball. You can't comment on what the script calls for unless you wrote it.