Trivia: The tinker that startles Charlie outside the gates of the factory quotes from the poem "The Fairies" by William Allingham. "Up the airy mountain, Down the rushing glen."
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27th Jun 2007
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
23rd Jun 2007
Bridge to Terabithia (2007)
Continuity mistake: When Jesse and Leslie are looking for his dad's keys, they open her purse to let out the blue light. The purse jumps between Jesse's hands and Leslie's hands between shots.
10th May 2007
Spider-Man 3 (2007)
Question: This might be explained in the comics, but why does Peter Parker appear to be immune to death? He gets repeatedly slammed into walls all the time, and then he is pounded repeatedly by the giant Sandman and lives. I know that spiders are very strong relative to their size, but you can still squish 'em.
3rd May 2007
The Godfather (1972)
Trivia: Francis Ford Coppola's original choice to play gangster Hyman Roth was James Cagney. He begged Cagney to take the role, even visiting him at his home, but Cagney turned him down.
24th Apr 2007
The Deep (1977)
Trivia: Author Peter Benchley has a cameo as a U-boat crewman in the prologue (extended version).
23rd Apr 2007
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Trivia: Stanley Kubrick's daughter has a cameo as the young girl sitting behind Lady Lyndon at the magic show.
18th Apr 2007
Eragon (2006)
Audio problem: There are several times in the film when Brom and Eragon can be seen mouthing the words "he" and "him" when referring to Saphira. This is most obvious in the scene where they have fled from the Ra'zacs and get off their horses.
10th Apr 2007
Cold Case (2003)
Continuity mistake: At the end of the episode, when Elizabeth Stone is arguing with her daughter at the top of the stairs, her shawl goes from around her arms, to across her back, to completely gone several times from shot to shot.
1st Feb 2007
Heroes (2006)
Revealing mistake: The money that Micah dumps out of his backpack is very obviously fake. In fact, the $20 bills have Benjamin Franklin's portrait on them.
25th Jan 2007
Apollo 13 (1995)
Trivia: Ron Howard's mother and father have cameos in the film. Ron's father, Rance Howard, plays the priest who keeps a vigil with the family, and his mother, Jean, plays Jim Lovell's mother.
25th Jan 2007
Apollo 13 (1995)
Factual error: The NASA "worm" logo shown in the film was not created until 1975.
17th Jan 2007
Bound for Glory (1976)
Trivia: Bound For Glory was the first production to make use of the Steadicam.
1st Jan 2007
A Sound of Thunder (2005)
Continuity mistake: The name on Travis' helmet switches between 'Ryer' to 'Travis' several times throughout the movie.
1st Jan 2007
A Sound of Thunder (2005)
Continuity mistake: When Travis goes to visit Dr. Rand to tell her what happened, she sticks a shotgun through the opening in the door to drive him off. Once he explains who he is, we hear the door unlock. In the next shot, when Travis walks in, Dr. Rand is instantly on the other side of the huge penthouse.
24th Oct 2006
Airwolf (1984)
Airwolf (a.k.a. Shadow of the Hawke) - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: When Stringfellow and Dominic first board Airwolf at the Libyan base, String gets in on Airwolf's right side, and pilots from there. When they land to rescue Gabrielle in the desert, he is in the left hand seat as the chopper lands and gets out of the left hand side.
18th Oct 2006
Annie Hall (1977)
Trivia: In the scene in which Alvy and Annie are watching people in the park and Alvy comments, "Oh, there goes the winner of the Truman Capote Look-Alike Contest," the passer by is actually Truman Capote, in an un-credited cameo.
3rd Oct 2006
Apollo 13 (1995)
Trivia: Ron Howard's wife appears as one of the nuns in the VIP crowd for the launch.
3rd Oct 2006
Rocky (1976)
Trivia: Due to budget constraints, members of Sylvester Stallone's family were used to play certain minor parts; his father appears as a bell ringer, his brother was used as a street corner singer and Stallone's first wife was the set photographer.
3rd Oct 2006
Airplane (1980)
Trivia: The Zuckers' mother makes a cameo as the woman who is trying to put on makeup as the plane gets jolted around. (00:42:10 - 00:58:10)
2nd Oct 2006
Meet the Feebles (1989)
Trivia: Peter Jackson ran out of budget money during production, so the Vietnam flashback was filmed, under a separate budget, as 'The Frogs of War', and then incorporated into the film.
Chosen answer: I'm not sure about the comics, but the science behind Spiderman is real. He embodies all the characteristics of a real spider, only amplified by genetic mutations (remember that the spider that bit him was not just any spider) and adjusted to his size. He can still be "squished" just like your standard house spider, although it would take a LOT more power...more than most of his adversaries are able to produce. This is why it took BOTH Sandman and Venom taking turns to wear him down.
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