Corrected entry: After being stabbed in the shower, Marion's hair is flatly pressed down on her head. Later, when you see her lying dead, her hair is more curly.
Krista
12th Feb 2005
Psycho (1960)
14th Feb 2005
The Goonies (1985)
Corrected entry: At the end, it is Rosalita who saves the Goonies' homes from being sold, because she opens the marble bag to find all the precious jewels and runs over to everyone shouting "Don't sign." There's a huge problem with this though: it's already been established that Rosalita doesn't speak English.
2nd Feb 2005
Carrie (1976)
Corrected entry: During the film you see tons of images of the "crucified Jesus",Carrie's mother going door to door to evangelize people and at the end making the sign of the cross with a butcher knife before she goes to kill Carrie. Only one problem. Catholics don't evangelize so how could Carrie's mother be Catholic?
15th Jan 2005
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
Corrected entry: When Harry sees the cloaked figure drinking the unicorn blood, as he backs away a dark shape with a headlight zooms across the screen in the background. It appears to be a car or motorcycle and is mostly visible over his left shoulder.
Correction: It's Malfoy, running away with the lantern.
29th Dec 2004
Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Napoleon looks at his watch while going to pick up Trisha for the school dance, it says July 17th; but, Preston High school is on summer break at the time (there wouldn't be a school dance in the middle of summer break.).
Correction: Obviously Preston High School isn't on summer break in the film, as half the scenes (both before and after the dance) take place at school. Many places have year-round school, which would account for them being at school in July.
29th Dec 2004
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Corrected entry: When Harry and Hermione arrive back from their 'time changing' Dumbledore does not lock the door to the hospital wing as he said he would when he left them inside the hospital wing, prior to their time travel.
Correction: He may have said this to reassure them, or maybe he didn't realize they would reappear so soon right outside the door. In any case, there's no reason for him to lock it when they're about to go back inside.
25th Dec 2004
A Christmas Story (1983)
Corrected entry: After losing his glasses due to the BB ricocheting, Ralphie "pulverizes" his glasses to the point where one temple is crooked, one lens is gone and the other lens is cracked. Ralphie's mom tells him he can wear the old ones with the crack in them until he can get some new ones. When the family winds up at the Chinese restaurant later that morning, Ralphie's glasses are magically repaired.
25th Nov 2004
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
Corrected entry: Before the hanging at the end, a boy drops Will's sword. Will walks without picking up his sword. Still, the Sheriff's soldiers find him with the sword on him.
Correction: The boy is never actually holding Will's sword, so he doesn't drop it. It seems to be fastened around the back of Will's waist, and when Will spins around, it just falls back against his bum. There is the sound of metal hitting something, so if it was indeed supposed to hit the ground, there is still plenty of time Will is offscreen that he could have picked it up.
25th Oct 2004
Dances with Wolves (1990)
Corrected entry: A skittish wolf like Two Socks would never position himself so close to an Indian scouting party, as is revealed after he is shot by the soldiers.
Correction: I think the point is that his bond with Dunbar is stronger than his natural fear. Not only is he in close proximity to the U.S. soldiers, but even after they shoot at him multiple times he stays where he is, rather than run away. This has to be more frightening than being near a very quiet group of Indians.
29th Aug 2004
Rock Star (2001)
Corrected entry: In the scene where the old singer reveals he is gay, he mentions that someone called 'Kim' in a song is actually a guy. This suggests to us that he wrote the lyrics to this song (none of the other members are gay as there are four girls in the car with Jennifer Aniston, one for each member) yet later in the movie, Kirk says 'AC and I write the songs' and 'It's the Steel Dragon thing'.
Correction: Kirk could have mean that "NOW AC and I write the songs," since they obviously don't think of Chris as anything more than a singer-for-hire. Bobby could have shared the job while he was in the group, or could have just written that one song.
2nd Sep 2004
The Birds (1963)
Corrected entry: When Rod Taylor discovers that his ex-girl friend has been murdered by birds, he goes back home without mentioning this to his mother. Shouldn't Jessica Tandy, as Suzanne Pleshette's prospective mother-in-law, have an interest in the matter?
Correction: He knows how nervous and panicky his mother can be. Since they can't do anything about it, he probably figures the ignorance-is-bliss route is the best one to take.
27th Aug 2001
Jurassic Park (1993)
Corrected entry: At the very end, the T-Rex barges into the Visitors Center and saves everyone from almost certain peril. Only problem is that we didn't hear the Rex walk up to the center like we did everywhere else. (01:52:20)
Correction: There are a bunch of people running around screaming, being chased by raptors. It's very conceivable that the distant sounds of the T-rex approaching, and even when she came into the visitors' center, were drowned out.
19th Sep 2004
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Corrected entry: When Beauty sees in the mirror that her father is hurt in the forest, he's on half snow half grass, but when she finds him in the forest, he's in all snow.
23rd Jul 2004
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Corrected entry: In the scene where helicopters approach LA, (when the city is hit by the tornadoes) one can see a string of pearls of rear lights of cars on their way into the city, whereas just a few cars leave the city.
Correction: In the movie it states that the tornadoes developed very suddenly in the city. The normal, horrendous, L.A. rush hour traffic is stuck on the road into town.
31st Aug 2004
Titanic (1997)
Corrected entry: Cal leaves the necklace in the jacket, and Rose later ends up with it. The elderly Rose says it was a dreadful heavy thing. Yet, she doesn't notice it is there until she is already safe aboard the Carpathian. Surely Rose would have felt the weight of it before then, especially with the coat being soaking wet.
Correction: She may have meant that it was heavy for a piece of jewelry, but since most jewelry isn't that heavy, that's not saying much. Once the coat gets wet (in addition to everything else Rose is going through at that time) it's doubtful that she would have even noticed the little extra weight in the pocket.
4th Aug 2004
Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
Corrected entry: Why did Mark (Colin Firth) just storm out from Bridget's apartment after flipping through her diary? I know it was to buy her a new diary so she could start all over again, but he could have at least told her where he was going...or at the *very* least, answered her when she was shouting out her window to him.
Correction: I've always interpreted this as he's sticking it to her a little - kind of like slapping her wrist for writing bad things about him. But since everything she wrote was basically true and he still likes her, he's not really mad. He's just trying to scare her a little.
7th Jul 2004
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)
Corrected entry: No consumer synthesizer, especially in the 1980's, could imitate a guitar as well as the one Beethoven uses does.
Correction: The only time we actually hear the synthesizer is when Beethoven plays a few chords of what sounds like church music. When he's jamming in the mall later on, and then giving his concert during the report, all his music is covered by the soundtrack which is the guitar music we hear.
21st Jun 2004
Back to the Future Part II (1989)
Corrected entry: Marty throws his hat on the videogame in the Cafe '80's. When the Young Marty arrives, Marty hides himself without taking his hat, and it's no longer on the video game. (00:16:00)
Correction: There's one shot where the hat, on the left side of the video game, is out of frame. The rest of the time when the video game is shown, the hat is just where it should be.
21st Jun 2004
Back to the Future Part II (1989)
Corrected entry: Marty finds himself in Biff's extension of the clock tower in 1985. Marty is waken up by Lorraine. She has shoes on her feet. When she is hit by Biff and she falls on the ground, she has no shoes on. (00:46:00)
Correction: It's hard to see, but if you look frame by frame, you can see that she falls out of her shoes when she falls down.
21st Jun 2004
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Corrected entry: New York is flooded with a tidal wave, yet just several hundred miles down the coast, Washington DC, which is not much above sea level, is not flooded at all, as the president is still in his office just before the major snow storm. A major tidal change of that size would equalize: water would flow to lower levels near DC.
Correction: There is a large chunk of Maryland and the entire state of Delaware located to the east of D.C. If a tidal wave came ashore, this land mass probably absorbed most of it. The narrow Chesapeake Bay may have flooded part of D.C., but not enough to do any real damage.
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Correction: It's possible that when her hair started to dry it began curling up. Mine does this all the time.
Krista