wizard_of_gore

6th Nov 2021

No Time to Die (2021)

Corrected entry: When Bond and Moneypenny visit Q, he takes his cat from the table, puts it on the steps, and it is running up to the second floor. When they enter the living room, the cat is still on the table.

wizard_of_gore

Correction: He has two cats (and a mortgage).

19th Jul 2021

The Tomorrow War (2021)

Corrected entry: The aircraft launched to destroy the city of Miami are F-22 air superiority fighters, which are entirely incapable of saturation or carpet bombing. Even the way they carry out the operation in the movie demonstrates this. They blow up a few streets and that's it. What was the point?

wizard_of_gore

Correction: The air strike was not launched to destroy the city, just the research facility and the area around it. The F-22s would be WAY old by the time of this attack and it's perfectly reasonable to assume from this that the military was using anything it had left in its last stand battle to kill the creatures.

It's stated in the film that the city had been lost/overrun and would be destroyed, ostensibly to destroy as many white spikes as possible.

wizard_of_gore

Corrected entry: When "Snap" Wexley climbs into his ship before the final assault, he is in an A-Wing fighter. However, when Poe calls out to him as Snap crashes, an X-Wing is shown crashing.

wizard_of_gore

Correction: Snap climbs on top of an A-Wing. He is not shown entering it or piloting it. He is also shown assisting other pilots in prepping for launch. He could easily have climbed on top of the A-Wing to help prep it for flight.

Corrected entry: Mr. Dawes Jr. states that the tuppence (two pence) invested by Michael grew into enough to pay off the mortgage on the house. Interest rates over that 20 year time period were about 4%, which would have made that 2p grow to all of 4p. Go nuts and assume an impossibly high return of 15% per annum, compound, consistent over the twenty years. Despite the fact that not even Bernie Madoff offered ridiculously high returns like that, after twenty years the original two pence investment would be worth 39p. As an aside, houses of the time cost about £750, far below current London prices, but still considerably more than 39p.

wizard_of_gore

Correction: In the movie, Mr Dawes said "We did just that, and thanks to several quite clever investments...that tuppence has grown into quite a sum" - so the investment didn't grow by interest alone. Growing a £0.02 investment to £750 is unlikely, but not impossible, especially if the friendly bank president fudged a little and pulled it off losing investments and only counted winning investments. And of course, Dawes could have been telling a white lie to make up for the way Wilkins treated the Banks family and planned to pay off the loan with his own funds.

sfbiker1

Absolutely. The 2 pence was an investment, not a deposit. It is perfectly in keeping with the whimsical magic theme of the movie that the investment should have grown exponentially. Real world investments have done better. A 5 cent Bitcoin investment (about 2 pence!) grew to about $15,000 in less time.

Corrected entry: How do they have an external view of the three Klingon ships that were vaporized? Even if the ships had the ability to transmit external visuals, after the last ship was destroyed, how are they able to see images of empty space where the ships had been? The same thing happens when the Epsilon station is destroyed. Where is the external camera?

wizard_of_gore

Correction: While not mentioned in this film, as it predates TNG by a decade, the major powers of the galaxy all use subspace relays to enhance their communications networks. These relays would logically have sensors installed that allow the relay to monitor both its status as well as its surroundings and transmit that information continuously. One of those sensors for monitoring the relay's surroundings is a camera. Epsilon IX intercepted the transmissions from a Klingon relay, which is how it not only picked up the Klingon status report but also saw V'Ger following the destruction of the Klingons. The Enterprise switched to a relay near Epsilon IX to view the space station's destruction as well as seeing V'Ger afterward.

15th Mar 2019

The Addams Family (1991)

Corrected entry: When Thing tries to use sign language to signal to Gomez that Morticia is in danger, what he spells out is complete gibberish. There are a few Gs, Ns and Es but nothing that resembles an actual word.

wizard_of_gore

Correction: That's the point. Thing is panicking and unable to focus on doing it right.

LorgSkyegon

6th Feb 2019

Batman (1989)

Corrected entry: Vicky Vale is a reporter in Gotham City, but she doesn't know what Bruce Wayne looks like, and at the gala, she asks Bruce Wayne himself if he knows "Which one of these guys is Bruce Wayne?" How does she not know who he is?

wizard_of_gore

Correction: Bruce Wayne is a recluse. Meaning he doesn't go out normally, doesn't do interviews and hardly attends parties.

lionhead

1st Feb 2019

Twister (1996)

Corrected entry: The beginning of the film is set in 1969, and the TV shows a "Tornado Warning." Until 1974, the National Weather Service issued Tornado Alerts, not Tornado Warnings. Warnings came into effect once the Doppler Radar system came into use and could detect rotation.

wizard_of_gore

Correction: "Tornado Warnings" began in 1948 (there's a rich history of banning the term and its use through the subsequent years). However, there's nothing to suggest the warning came from the National Weather Service. In fact, if it did come from the NWS, that would be a mistake since the United States Weather Bureau didn't change their name to the National Weather Service until 1970.

Bishop73

28th Jan 2019

The Orville (2017)

All the World Is Birthday Cake - S2-E5

Corrected entry: Why would the doctors on Rigor 2 refer to the process of removing a baby from the womb via surgery as a "C-Section"? Even though the exact etymology of the word is uncertain, it certainly was derived from Earth names and works (Lex Caesarea). There's no way an alien planet would use the same term.

wizard_of_gore

Correction: The doctors on Rigor 2 are not speaking English. What they are saying is being translated into English by the crew's Union translator.

Bishop73

Corrected entry: Spoiler alert: When Thanos snaps his fingers in Wakanda, it was daytime. Therefore, when Nick Fury disintegrated in the USA, it should have been nighttime.

wizard_of_gore

Correction: Not necessarily. Wakanda is in eastern Africa and about GMT+3, while Fury's car had a Georgia license plate, so he was about GMT-5, namely the locations were about 8 hours apart. We see longer shadows being cast in the Wakanda fighting scenes, so the sun there was lower in the Wakanda sky, and when the helicopter crashes we see another building's shadow on the impacted building so the sun is very low in the Georgia sky. Morning in Georgia and afternoon/early evening in Wakanda is consistent with what is shown.

jimba

Corrected entry: Possible spoiler! At one point, Father Flynn tells Darlene Sweet that he likely has Alzheimer's Disease. The film is set in 1968, and the term "Alzheimer's" as a specific diagnosis was not commonly used until after a 1977 medical conference.

wizard_of_gore

Correction: The term "Alzheimer's" did exist prior to 1977 and was a valid diagnosis. The medical conference mentioned only set to change the use of the term as they began to understand the pathology of the disease and now understood elderly patients could develop Alzheimer's as well, which differs than senile dementia. Prior to 1977, the disease was only diagnosed in patients under 65.

Corrected entry: Owen is dosed with Carfentanil in an amount intended for dinosaurs. At 10,000 times the potency of Morphine, that amount of the drug would have killed him. It's so potent, the lethal dosage for humans is measured in micrograms.

wizard_of_gore

Correction: The amount used was calibrated for a smaller dinosaur like Blue. Also, Zia pulled the dart out of Owen before it was fully injected into his body (the liquid can still be seen in the vial) so he did not get the entire dose, which might have been enough to kill him.

raywest

Correction: The intent was to take Blue alive, so she would not have been given a lethal dose, only enough for sedation. It would not have killed Owen.

raywest

Correction: The quantity needed to anaesthetise the dinosaurs would depend on their size, and the users would have been trained to measure out the necessary quantities. It is likely they would have also adjusted it for Owen so that he was not killed.

Not sure what the amount needed for the dinosaurs has to do with Owen. Any amount that would bring down a dinosaur would certainly kill a human.

wizard_of_gore

The amount used was calibrated for a smaller dinosaur like Blue. Also, Zia pulled the dart out of Owen before it was fully injected into his body (the liquid can still be seen in the vial) so he did not get the entire dose, which might have been enough to kill him.

I suspect that Lockwood never intended for Owen, Claire, and the others to survive once they'd outlived their usefulness, so it's doubtful there was any concern about whether or not the dosage was lethal to humans.

raywest

Corrected entry: When the Enterprise first encounters V'ger, Spock determines that they cannot communicate because V'ger is transmitting at a frequency and speed that is too advanced for Enterprise to interpret. At the end of the movie, when they finally encounter V'ger itself, they determine that it cannot communicate with Earth because it is using 300 year old technology and no one on Earth can receive the signal. Which is it?

wizard_of_gore

Correction: Both. V'ger has been upgraded and has evolved. When they first encounter it, it's communicating with its advanced technology. At the end, it's trying to communicate with "the creator" and so is using its original language.

It still doesn't make sense. V'Ger does not know who the creator is, so why would it attempt to communicate with the creator using only it's original signal type?

wizard_of_gore

V'Ger's original programming was quite specific: collect all data possible and return that information to its creator. Neither V'Ger nor the living machines knew who the creator WAS, and didn't know where the creator would be in the galaxy, but did know what the creator's planet would look like, thanks to the plaque with V'Ger's true name on it. That plaque had the continents of Earth visible, so it wouldn't be a stretch to have the added hardware from the living machines scan for that particular configuration of continents to aid V'Ger in finding the creator's home planet. The signal the Enterprise received from V'Ger earlier in the film is because V'Ger did not know who its creator was and thought the Enterprise was a living being, just like it. The radio signal V'Ger transmitted once it entered Earth orbit is because of V'Ger's 20th Century programming compelling it to do so. Remember, the living machines did not alter V'Ger's programming. They simply made it possible for V'Ger to complete its mission. V'Ger achieving sentience was an unintended side effect.

Correction: He's crazy, he believes those rights give him a lot of power, make him untouchable. He doesn't care about world war 3. Of course it's short-sighted, that's why he is crazy. Crazy is not always stupid.

lionhead

Corrected entry: Ego's entire plain revolves around finding an offspring powerful enough to help him. After searching for hundreds of years and children, he finally finds Star-Lord, and just when he's about to succeed, he screws it up by telling Peter that he killed Peter's mom.

wizard_of_gore

Correction: He only needs Star-Lord's inherited power for his plan to succeed. Star-Lord doesn't have to be a willing participant. Ego even mentions to Star-Lord when he impales him that he can spend a long time functioning as a battery of sorts. One way or another Star-Lord would have turned on Ego, as either Gamora or Yondu would have informed him of all of Ego's dead children.

Phaneron

13th May 2018

The Avengers (2012)

Correction: Loki simply ordered him to build the machine. Selvig otherwise functions as a normal person, and his scientific imperative would have led him to create an emergency shut-off just like he would with any other kind of potentially dangerous machine he would normally build. If there was a scene in which Loki is shown instructing Selvig not to build a fail-safe into the machine, then it would be a plot hole.

Phaneron

23rd Apr 2018

Toy Story 2 (1999)

Corrected entry: In the first "Toy Story" film, it is established that Mister Potato Head cannot "see" when his eyes are detached, but in this film, there is a scene where Buzz uses his detached eyed to peer through a vent and around a 90 degree angle.

wizard_of_gore

Correction: His eyes can still see when they're detached. It's his body that can't see when they're detached. Mrs Potato Head's eye can also see when detached in Toy Story 3.

THGhost

16th Nov 2017

Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

Corrected entry: How it is possible that, despite Loki being on Sakaar for some time, he seems to have no idea that The Hulk is also on the planet? This is given away by his reaction when he sees Hulk in the arena. Loki also has gotten close to The Grandmaster, and there are images of the Hulk carved into the sides of buildings, but he has no clue that The Hulk is the arena champion?

wizard_of_gore

Correction: Loki has only been on Sakaar for a week. We do not know how often the Contest of Champions is held with its champion (Hulk), we also don't know how often Loki left the Grandmaster's home. Also we see that the building with Hulk's head is under construction, so Loki may not have seen it when it was closer to completion.

Also, Loki specifically says he's never seen the champion. He may simply have had no interest in watching the gladiator battles until he had an opportunity to watch Thor fight.

Loki does not have the best relationship with the Hulk and may be in denial of Hulk's fame on Sakaar. Loki may even be paranoid or phobic about the Hulk's presence on Sakaar. Being a consummate deceiver, first and foremost, Loki is probably lying, just to avoid the subject of the Hulk.

Charles Austin Miller

Corrected entry: While in her darkroom, Mason Weaver is shown looking at some 35mm film that has the marking "Kodak 400TX" on the edge. Kodak Tri-X film was not available in 1973.

wizard_of_gore

Correction: Actually it was introduced in 1954 for 35mm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodak_Tri-X.

ctown28

4th Feb 2018

Supergirl (2015)

Correction: They have not specified what the mask is made of. It is likely lined with a dense element, such as lead, which Supergirl cannot see through. Just because we've not seen her try, doesn't mean she hasn't.

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