Corrected entry: When the rules are introduced on the video, the announcer says that the island is deserted apart from the teachers and organizers and the playing pupils. So who is running the radio station which broadcasts the workout program that the teacher listens to at the end?
Moose
21st Dec 2003
Battle Royale (2000)
16th Dec 2003
Red Dwarf (1988)
Corrected entry: The whole business about putting people into stasus as a punishment makes no sense at all. What is punishing about being put in a status cubicle and then (in your perception) immediately stepping out when time is several months/years further on (but yourself no older)? Even if you weren't earning your salary during the statis period, you had no expenses either.
Correction: It's a no-fuss way of keeping troublemakers out of the way. You don't have to feed them, you don't have to guard them, they can't injure themselves, they can't shout and make noise. It may be less of a punishment, but it's a lot less hassle for the crew.
Correction: Plus they can't exactly fire Lister when they're off in deep space. They have to wait until they're back to earth.
25th Nov 2003
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
Corrected entry: Moriarty brought the League together to steal their abilities: he gets abilities from Nemo, Mina, Jekyll and the Invisible Man. Dorian Gray is his plant on the team. But why does he bother to recruit Quatermain? Having him on the team doesn't help him any. (Sawyer doesn't help either, but he's an uninvited guest sent from the US).
Correction: The League are supposed to believe that they are a real team, authorised by the British government and performing a real mission. Such a team would need to have a leader, which is where Quatermain comes in. None of the others would be plausible in the role - Nemo wouldn't be trusted by the government because of his previous piratical activities, Jekyll is unreliable, Mina is (a) an unknown quantity and (b) female, either of which would disqualify her from the role, and Skinner is a criminal. Without the presence of a credible leader, the other members of the League might become suspicious that all was not as they had been told. As such, Quatermain is recruited, despite any potential problems that he might cause. In fact, it's even more simple: They needed Quatermain to catch Mr Hyde. They actually SAY that in the movie.
28th Oct 2003
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
Corrected entry: The term 'car' is an abbreviation of 'horseless carriage', the old name for a car which would certainly have been in use unabbreviated at the time of the film. When the team first see Nemo's ground vehicle, Nemo calls it 'an automobile'; it seems that none of the team have seen one before, so Nemo's statement would be their only reference for what this vehicle is called. But later, Sawyer and Quartermain both refer to it as a 'car' even though it has never been called this, nor even called a 'horseless carriage'.
Correction: Given that most of the team aren't familiar with such vehicles, it doesn't seem remotely unreasonable that they might have discussed it off-camera, maybe en route to Venice. The term 'car' could have come up in those conversations - Sawyer, who's already familiar with such vehicles, might well know them by that name.
14th Nov 2003
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
Corrected entry: When Trinity hacks the computer system, the program displays "exploiting SSHv1 CRC32". This is the name of a security bug which exists in the real world. But this in-joke backfires because the bug has also already been fixed in the real world; there is no way the exploit would still work in the time of the Matrix.
Correction: There are many, many systems that are running unpatched, easily-exploited software.
7th Aug 2003
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
Corrected entry: When the T-X meets Catherine in the graveyard disguised as her fiance, she turns back into the T-X right in front of her. Not only is this a breathtakingly stupid idea - obviously done purely to meet the plot requirement that Kate learn about the terminators.
Correction: Not necessarily true. She'd gotten close enough to kill Kate, had the others not intervened. And she would probably be more powerful in her true form - I doubt that she could form her primary weapons from somebody else's hand without turning that hand into her own hand first. And if she does that, she's showing her true form anyway, so it was simpler to just turn back into her self.
7th Aug 2003
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
Corrected entry: The T-850 states that the T-X is smarter than him, yet he outwits her every time they meet.
Correction: We are told that the T-850 has been reprogrammed by humans in the future so it's feasible that they would provide their knowledge of the past to enable greater anticipation and tactics that work in the past - an environment the T-X would know less about.
6th May 2003
X-Men 2 (2003)
Corrected entry: All Storm's previous appearances suggest that, although she can control the weather, she can't make weather effects appear in places where they couldn't normally occur (for example, in the first film, she couldn't just shoot Toad with a lightning bolt while he was in the building; she had to blow him out of the building so he'd be exposed to the sky). So how can she create a snowstorm inside Cerebro 2, deep underground and protected from the elements?
Correction: Actually, the reason Storm could not or did not make a lightning bolt to fry Toad inside the Statue of Liberty is because the Statue is composed of copper, an electricity conductor, and she knew it. If she had caused a lightning bolt,it would have sent electricity throughout the entire structure and fry anyone in contact with the shell of the statue. If you listen to the earlier dialogue, Cyclops tells her to fry Magneto, but Magneto says something about a bolt of electricity and a big metal conductor.
6th May 2003
X-Men 2 (2003)
Corrected entry: Iceman's parents are told that the mutant gene is passed from father to son. This is a contradiction in terms; mutation, by definition, means some change that occurs in the genes AFTER they have been combined from the mother and father.
Correction: However once the mutation has taken place it can THEN be passed on.
Correction: It says that it's "Battle Royale exercises" - if those guys could install all that equipment, they surely could control the radio on the island.