Corrected entry: Toward the end of the movie when Tyler is playing the final baseball game and he gets his big hit, the pitched ball hits the ground just before it is hit. In baseball the ball would have been considered dead and the home-run would not have counted.
Robert Sullinger
10th Apr 2015
Blended (2014)
7th Aug 2014
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)
Corrected entry: Toward the beginning of the movie when the team gets onto the airplane, the Thing walks to his seat (a middle seat) - there is a woman sitting in the window seat and a man sitting in the aisle seat. The man gets up and the woman does not. When the Thing sits down the woman is gone, she then reappears in the next shot.
Correction: The woman leans forward while The Thing sits down. Her purse is visible, but she herself is out of frame.
9th Apr 2012
Silverado (1985)
Corrected entry: When Rae walks down the stairs soon followed by Slick, she stops to talk to her brother Mal. In the background there is a windmill that is not turning despite the fact that you can see the wind blowing on Rae's hair and dress.
2nd Feb 2010
Supernatural (2005)
Corrected entry: Sam switches bodies with a 17 year old kid named Gary. NOTE: Sam has always been taller than Dean. When Dean and Gary (in Sam's body) are walking and talking, Dean looks down to talk to Gary. Since Gary is supposed to be in Sam's body, Dean should be looking slightly up. Also, when Dean finally listens to his voice-mail and hears Sam (in Gary's body) we hear Sam's voice. We should have been hearing Gary's.
Correction: They made a valid choice to be accurate about eye contact between characters instead of accurate about gaze height. But the voice issue would make an excellent separate mistake.
18th Mar 2009
Quigley Down Under (1990)
Corrected entry: In the scene when Quigley and Crazy Cora have passed out due to exhaustion and dehydration (after walking through the desert) they are seen lying on the sand. There is a slide mark where Quigley apparently dropped and slid. The slide mark does look like the path that his torso made, but there are no marks made from his legs and there are no marks at all where he dropped Cora. In fact, she is lying perfectly straight and face up. He was carrying her over his shoulder. It is very unlikely that she would have ended up in this position.
Correction: Unlikely doesn't mean impossible. Since we don't see the actions that cause the impressions in the sand we can't say the way they look or the way the people are positioned are mistakes.
7th Sep 2009
Hocus Pocus (1993)
Corrected entry: When the Sanderson Sisters first return to the house, Sister Sarah reaches up and finds her lucky rat tail just where she left it. It's been 300 years; the rat tail would have decomposed in that amount of time. It has been suggested that since she is a witch, she could have put a resistant spell on it. But we did not see her do that in the movie, and if we do not see it, we cannot use it to explain away the mistake. That "logic" could be used to explain away many of the mistakes caught by the audience.
Correction: You state, "if we do not see it, we cannot use it to explain away the mistake." That's rubbish. In *certain* circumstances that's precisely what we the viewers must do - not everything must be seen onscreen. Sarah says, "My lucky rat tail! Just where I left it!" The fact is, in this particular instance, it actually makes perfect sense that the witch would have used a protective charm/spell on what she claims to be her lucky rat tail, so no harm would come to it.
Correction: Super Grover is right. Just because we don't see them do it isn't an excuse. In fact, we never saw her put the rat tail there (nor did she even mention it), and by that logic it would be a movie mistake for her just to have reached up and taken it. Watching any movie requires viewers to use a bit of their imagination or suspend disbelief but even more so in fantasy based films like this one.
5th Jul 2009
Back to the Future Part III (1990)
Corrected entry: When Doc and Marty locate the time machine in the mine/cave in 1955, the door/entrance to the mine cave is too small to have been used in 1885 to get the time machine into the mine cave. Others have said that Doc had the intelligence and time to disassemble the car/time machine, carry the parts in and re-assemble it inside the mine/cave. The problem with this is that while many parts (engine, doors etc.) could be disassembled, the body and frame can only be disassembled so much, they would still be too large to get through the door. Doc would have had to cut them up, carry them in, and then weld them back together. There were no signs of a welding process (weld bead) on the roof, which is part of the one-piece body. Since the body is stainless steel, the welds could not be sanded down and painted over, and there is no paint.
Correction: We only see ONE entrance to the mine. There could have been several more that were big enough to fit the DeLorean. Also, there most certainly would have been many large entrances back in 1885, when the mine would have actually been in use.
13th Mar 2009
Supernatural (2005)
Death Takes a Holiday - S4-E15
Corrected entry: Sam and Dean Astro-Project out of their bodies so that they can see and save a Reaper. They are out of their bodies, walking down a street as ghosts, but their breath is visible due to the cold weather outside. Ghosts have no body to generate warm or hot breath.
Correction: First, it's astral projection, not Astro-projection. Second, ghosts are not proven to exist, as such we don't know their physical or spiritual characteristics well enough to judge if the have body heat or not. Some reports of supposed ghost phenomenon have reported cold spots in rooms, some as hot spots in rooms. Seemingly contradictory, but just more evidence that we don't really know what they are supposed to be like in characteristics.
20th Oct 2006
Hocus Pocus (1993)
Corrected entry: When the Sanderson Sisters first return to the house, Sister Sarah reaches up and finds her Lucky Rat tail just where she left it. It's been 300 years; the Rat Tail would have decomposed in that amount of time.
Correction: She's a witch, remember? Maybe she put a resistant spell on it.
24th Sep 2006
Back to the Future Part III (1990)
Corrected entry: When Doc and Marty are in the old mine looking for the Time Machine they bust open the sealed entry and find it. The entry is too small to get the Time Machine out. Even if we assume that they made the entry larger, how did the 1885 version of Doc get the Time Machine into the room through the smaller entry back in 1885?
3rd Oct 2005
Flightplan (2005)
Corrected entry: The Airplane (Fictional Model) in the movie was called an A474. "A" is the designation for the Airbus Company which builds commercial airliners. 474 is the reverse of 747 which is a commercial model built by the Boeing Company.
Correction: The aircraft is model E-474. The airline company is named Aalto.
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Correction: It's a kids' league though with changed rules (every kid gets to play) so there is probably some slack when it comes to pitching.