Corrected entry: Given that the Fairy Godmother can create potions that make people beautiful and healthy, why would she need to go on a diet?
Moose
14th Jul 2004
Shrek 2 (2004)
24th Aug 2006
Mr. Bean (1989)
Back To School Mr. Bean - S1-E15
Corrected entry: When Mr. Bean's car is crushed by the tank, there is a large crowd standing nearby watching the military display. But when he approaches his crushed car, the crowd has disappeared.
Correction: If you watch the crowd through the smoke, you can see them starting to disperse.
29th Jun 2006
South Park (1997)
Good Times With Weapons - S8-E1
Corrected entry: Kenny only bought one ninja star, and after the fight with Professor Chaos, it's stuck in Butters' eye, so Kenny shouldn't have it anymore. However, when Kenny and the other boys fight the other group of "ninjas", you can see Kenny is still holding a star.
Correction: We are never told how many ninja stars Kenny has bought, only that EVEN he can afford them at $1.99.
28th Jan 2006
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
Corrected entry: At the start of the film, the T-X kills Jose Barrera. Later, the T-850 knows his name and that the T-X killed him; he shouldn't do, because the whole point of the Terminators going back in time to kill people is that those people would never then be able to oppose Skynet in the future. So Jose, having been killed in the past, would never have fought against Skynet and the T-850 would never have heard of him. There is no consistent interpretation of time travel in which the T-850 can have heard of Jose, while not making it pointless for Skynet to kill people in the past.
Correction: Time travel films tend to operate according to their own rules - as time travel is, at best, highly theoretical, there are no hard and fast rules about how things should operate. Both the T-850 and the T-X originate in a timeline where Barrera survived to fight against Skynet - his death at the hands of the T-X means that that precise timeline will no longer come about, but, by the rules followed in the film, that doesn't mean that the two Terminators will suddenly lose all knowledge of it, wink out of existence or anything like that.
27th Dec 2005
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Corrected entry: At the end of the film, Dumbledore announces to the school that Cedric Diggory was murdered by Voldemort. He wasn't, he was murdered by Wormtail, and Harry (who presumably gave them that information) knew that.
Correction: But since Voldemort ordered the killing of Cedric (and most likely would have killed Wormtail had he refused), he is ultimately responsible for Cedric's death. Besides, the workings of a group, such as the Death Eaters or the Nazis during WW2, are often attributed to its leader, even if they do not contribute actively themselves.
13th Oct 2004
Versus (2000)
Corrected entry: When the hero defeats the sunglass-wearing henchwoman and dumps her in the river, he steals her sunglasses and tries them on. But when the villain finds the henchwoman's body in the river, the sunglasses are back on her.
Correction: The thug with the sunglasses is a guy not a girl. Also, Prisoner KSC2303 takes the sunglasses but when the girl gives him a disapproving look he sighs and puts them back. There is no continuity error here.
17th Sep 2005
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
Corrected entry: When Zaphod and Trillian have picked up the Point of View gun, they hear "mice" coming towards them. However, mice were only the projections into our dimension of the beings who built Deep Thought (and commissioned Earth). Since Zaphod and Trillian are now in the dimension where Deep Thought is, they should see these beings as human adults and children, as they appear on the video shown by Zaphod at the start.
Correction: That's true based on the book, but those facts are never established in the movie.
26th Aug 2005
Futurama (1999)
Corrected entry: In the final part of the "tear-jerker" sequence at the end, the pizza shop owner is seen to be elderly and walking with a stick. The sequence starts the day after Fry was frozen (when the pizza shop owner appeared to be middle aged) and is only supposed to last 12 years - the pizza shop owner ages too fast.
Correction: We don't know how old he is to begin with, or what illnesses he has suffered from over the years. He may have been 60 to start with, and there is a quite significant change in most people between 60 and 72. He may have been in a car crash, developed a debilitating disease, anything.
True, and in Bender's Big Score, he is in a wheelchair and coughing by 2010.
2nd Jan 2004
Red Dwarf (1988)
Corrected entry: It's established that Rimmer's shift of technicians get useless, irrelevant jobs (such as repairing chicken soup machines) - so why would Rimmer have been trusted to repair a drive plate that, if not repaired properly, could (and in fact did) lead to the deaths of the whole crew?
Correction: Perhaps it was too urgent to leave for another shift. If the ship was in danger, wouldn't you get the shift on duty to repair it pronto?
3rd Mar 2005
Hero (2002)
Corrected entry: At the end of the film, we see Nameless' body being borne on a bier, covered by a red cloth. His body, covered by the cloth, looks relatively intact. Given that he died by being pincushioned with arrows, wouldn't he resemble either a porcupine full of arrows or a bloody mess from where the arrows were removed?
Correction: We don't know how long afterwards the scene was. They could have had time to remove the arrows and prepare him for burial.
21st Dec 2004
Blade: Trinity (2004)
Corrected entry: When Whistler is typing the code into the computers in Blade's base that causes them to explode, just before exploding all the computers display a message saying "Workstation 1 protected". This is the same for all the computers - why are they all Workstation 1?
Correction: It could easily be interpreted as the database, that all the computers in the hangar are under a domain called Workstation 1 - if the hangars computers were, for example, connected to the Nightstalkers computer, maybe they are under a domain called Workstation 2. Could easily happen .
2nd Dec 2004
The Incredibles (2004)
Corrected entry: Nothing was explained where super-villains go when the superheroes were retired. Presumably the government could not just herd them up with the heroes - if it could, the government have just used the same technique to arrest them all for being villains. It is a very bad plot hole because, if there had been other villains around, Syndrome could have fought them to gain recognition as a hero rather than devising his evil plot.
Correction: Realize first that it's been about 20 years, counting the trials, since the superheroes have been allowed to save people. So, guys like Bomb Voyage may have retired for various reasons (no challenge anymore, too old, etc.). Also, some of them are dead, again for various reasons (showdowns with the government, rogue heroes that didn't listen to the government, etc.). Also, we don't know that Syndrome tested his Omnidroids exclusively on heroes; he may have "hired" a few villains for the project. Finally, guys like the Underminer and anyone else that would emerge were probably too young to become villains when all of the trouble started at the beginning of the film.
This seems all strangely convenient. Superheroes pop up, super villains do too. Then super heroes disappear and the super villains disappear too? I don't think so.
25th Nov 2004
Shrek 2 (2004)
Corrected entry: When Shrek visits the Fairy Godmother, she refers to the "happy endings" of several story books, including The Little Mermaid and Sleeping Beauty. Since these story characters really do exist in Far Far Away, presumably she's talking about events that have already happened to them. Yet, when we see Sleeping Beauty at the ball she's still asleep and has no husband with her; and The Little Mermaid steals a cuddle with the (supposedly repulsive) Shrek at the very start of the film - not the action of a happily married mermaid.
Correction: The story of Sleeping Beauty in the book is necessarily incomplete (having been published before her death) and may not include recent events like a divorce and/or relapse. The mermaid who cuddles Shrek is merely a mermaid, not necessarily the Little Mermaid, and the above argument would also still apply.
13th Oct 2004
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
Corrected entry: At the beginning, the city is being evacuated. We see a helicopter flying around the city. The lights in the buildings are on - why would they be, given that everyone in the city is on the bridge being evacuated? (It's not because they're automatic, because in several of the buildings some are on and some are off.).
Correction: Some automatic lights have motion sensors to turn them off if no one is there, but many don't (or are disabled) even in the same building. I used to work in a building where the motion sensors would start to work only after a certain time at night which would be adjusted according to the work habits of each department, i.e. some could start turning off at 5pm, some 8pm, some 24/7, etc.
22nd Sep 2004
Super Size Me (2004)
Corrected entry: The opening quote wrongly states that Ray Kroc is the founder of McDonald's. Kroc was the entrepreneur who initiated the McDonald's franchising system, but he only did so after McDonald's had already been running for some time. The original McDonald's' site - and, indeed, the "fast food" service system - was founded and operated by the McDonald brothers.
Correction: McDonald's is a corporation. Ray Kroc was the founder of this corporation, regardless of the McDonald brothers' hamburger stand being open first. Therefore, the statement that Ray Kroc founded McDonald's is correct.
9th Aug 2003
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Corrected entry: The Thermians say that the teleporter has never been tested, because it was designed to carry humans rather than Thermians. But they then test it on the pig-lizard creature, which is no more like a human than a Thermian is.
Correction: The Thermians do not say that the transporter was designed for humans. It was designed based on human movements, meaning Fred's movements to transport things. As such they built it but can't operate it properly.
He says it was built to "accommodate your anatomy." Next, he says that now Fred is there, Fred can operate it. These seem to be two different thoughts; he looks at Gwen's chest when he says "anatomy" so I don't think the issue is specific to Fred's movement style.
16th Dec 2003
Red Dwarf (1988)
Corrected entry: In Dimension Jump, Rimmer found (via Ace Rimmer) that he could have been incredibly successful if only he had tried. He was upset and sniped at Ace, but he dealt with it in The End. Kryten met Ace too, and would know this. Yet at The End of this episode, Kryten claims that Rimmer was driven to near-suicide by the (far weaker) revelation that it wasn't his parents who were responsible for his failure.
Correction: Ace tells LISTER what made him and Rimmer so different, not Rimmer. Rimmer never hears or accepts that this is the reason, and blames everyone else for giving Ace breaks he never had. Therefore, to find out that it was his fault, and nobody else's, would be a valid reason to commit suicide.
26th Dec 2003
Battle Royale (2000)
Corrected entry: After Kitano kills Fujiyoshi, he seems regretful and says that he's not supposed to kill the students himself (he says this even though that student was earlier being disruptive). Less than ten minutes later he deliberately kills another student.
Correction: Kitano was being sarcastic, as if to say "Oh well...".
24th Dec 2003
Ringu (1998)
Corrected entry: At the very end of the film, listen to the words spoken by the women in the car. One of them says "RING", in English. That was the point in the film where it was explained what 'ring' meant (the cycle of events caused by the tape being passed on; the bit about it meaning "the ring around the well cover" was added in the US version), but the translators missed it out. (The subtitle is something like "It just goes on and on.")
Correction: The Japanese word "ringu" used in the film is an onomatopoeia. It is used in reference to the ringing of the phone and the ringing of the ears of the people in the film. If they meant a cycle, a different word would have been used. Regardless, the translators missed the real meaning, seeing it as a circle.
21st Dec 2003
Battle Royale (2000)
Corrected entry: At the beginning of the film, we see the end of a previous Battle Royale; the winner is announced on TV in a great media frenzy. But when the hero wins the main Battle Royale, nothing happens at all. (True, he has not really won, but the system thinks he has).
Correction: When the girl wins the Battle Royale, we can assume that this isn't immediately after her victory - a number of minutes or hours after. The same would've happened for Kawada, had the circumstances not been as they were. Also, it could be that they didn't want to show that the Battle Royale system had been cheated.
Correction: There are a few possible explanations. For one, it is not uncommon in fairy tales for magical creatures to be unable to use their own magic to aide themselves. Another could be in the nature of her potions. Perhaps she is simply immune to them, being a magical creature, or perhaps they only work if you genuinely believe they will. This is also a common theme in fairy tales. Knowing the standard, everyday ingredients they contain may prevent her from believing they could work on her.
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