Corrected entry: When the computer model gets a hit on the tesseract, Banner and Romanoff move to the computer, with Banner standing on the left of agent Romanoff. When Hawkeye blows up the turbine, Banner and Romanoff have switched places.
Friso94
22nd Oct 2012
The Avengers (2012)
7th Jun 2012
The Avengers (2012)
Corrected entry: After Iron Man takes out a worm "Jonah style", he crashes into a cab and stops about two feet away. There is a quick shot of him inside of his suit. But when he gets up, the cab is nowhere to be seen.
Correction: If you watch closely, Iron Man falls back farther than the cab, far enough that in the next camera angle the cab can't be seen. The cab didn't disappear, he just rebounds off it far it enough that it isn't in the next shot.
Corrected entry: In the chase, Indy pulls out a rocket launcher at one point. Despite fighting the Russians with their own weapons, it is a Chinese copy of the famous RPG-7, distinguished by the lack of a rear grip. Also, these rocket launchers weren't put into service in the Red Army until 1961.
Correction: Submitted and corrected. it is not an RPG 7, but an RPG 2.
19th Feb 2013
Shoot 'Em Up (2007)
Corrected entry: If a human fell from 30,000 feet and lands on the ground without being slowed down by a parachute or something, the body would splatter apart like a water balloon.
Correction: People HAVE fallen from extremely high altitudes and lived. Vesna Vulovic, a stewardess, fell from 33000 feet, in the tail section of a plane, but not strapped into a seat. A WWII pilot survived a 22000 foot fall when his plane was shot down, and he lost consciousness before pulling his ripcord. There are other examples.
14th Dec 2012
Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)
Corrected entry: Jill Valentine is able to turn on machines by looking at them, because that is the only thing she does before the treads start to run when she means to kill Alice.
Correction: In Resident Evil Extinction (the third movie) Alice, while still in possession of her, used a form of telekinesis. The point was to demostrate that Jill had a form of that power too. Bascially Jill is what Alice was supposed to be but Umbrella took the extra precaution this time by adding the chest spider mind control device.
15th Feb 2013
Battleship (2012)
Corrected entry: A satellite which has been designed by NASA to be as light as possible can damage one of the alien spacecraft in such a way that it becomes steer-less, crashes and burns. But the other four are perfectly undamaged while they smashed into water. Water has a relatively high surface tension. So when a satellite can damage a ship that badly, there is no way they would survive such a crash into the ocean.
Correction: In Space, the spacecraft were not prepared for such a collision with any object. Once in Earth's atmosphere the spacecraft were prepared for impact with the water. Slowing down, for example.
Not to mention the space shuttle Columbia was destroyed because of damage caused by a piece of insulation. Atmospheric re-entry can reach a temp upwards of 1650 c or 3000 f while the deceleration can have a force upwards of 7 times that of gravity. It also veered off, an entry that is too steep can increases those forces. One small ding can lead to disaster.
29th Jan 2013
Inception (2010)
Corrected entry: When Eames clings to the back of the snowmobile, he knocks out the driver by smacking his head on the handlebars. But the driver is wearing a helmet, which smashes on the handlebars with a very distinct clunk, this wouldn't harm him in any way.
Correction: While the helmet would protect the driver from any significant damage, the impact force is still considerable and could easily stun the driver for long enough for Eames to push him off the snowmobile.
2nd Oct 2012
The Avengers (2012)
Corrected entry: Helicopters work by creating a low pressure zone above the rotors, by forcing the air down. In other words, sucking air away from the top side. Since the helicarrier is basically a giant helicopter, it's lifted by rotors, it should be sucking air in from the top. But judging by the way Banner's jacket blows, it's blowing air out.
Correction: While it's true a helicopter rotor uses reduced pressure above the rotor to produce lift, a rotor in a hovering [which is what the carrier is doing as it begins converting from sea to air] or vortex ring state, will produce updraft at the tips of the rotors, which is what is causing Banner's jacket to blow the way it does.
2nd Oct 2012
The Avengers (2012)
Corrected entry: Iron Man kicks Thor through a tree, but the rest of the tree never comes down.
Correction: That's because there was no upper half of the tree to begin with. Look at the shot when Thor summons his hammer back after first hitting Iron Man with it during the forest fight. It comes back to his hand, and you can see behind him the jagged top of the stump; the rest of the tree had already fallen before Iron Man booted Thor through it. The shot where Iron Man kicks Thor through it does make it seem like there is a whole tree, because the shot isn't "tall" enough to show that the top of the tree isn't there anymore.
2nd Oct 2012
Thor (2011)
Corrected entry: When Thor catches his hammer just before he fights the Destroyer, he catches it with his right hand. When we see him on the bolt of lightning, he is holding it in his left hand.
Correction: He always holds it with his right hand. When you see him inside the bolt, he has his back turned at the destroyer.
18th Aug 2012
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Corrected entry: When Gordon rolls off into the sewer, one of Bane's henchman says that it is impossible to determine where he'll end up. Yet somehow, Blake, having no idea of what Gordon did in that sewer, goes to exactly the right sewer exit, at exactly the right time, when Gordon was already there, but hadn't yet died yet from hypothermia, and saves the guy. Lucky lucky.
Correction: Blake knows the likely exit point, for the simple reason that he's seen bodies wash out of the sewers there before - a scene early in the film portrays exactly that. Bane's people don't have that information, so THEY have no clue where Gordon might turn up, but Blake does. He can't follow Gordon into the sewers after the explosion - it's too dangerous, so he does the only thing he can, get to the outflow in the hope of finding somebody alive. Yes, he gets lucky in that he gets there before Gordon expires. But characters are allowed to be reasonably lucky without it being a plot hole, and this falls well within the bounds of reason.
9th Apr 2012
Titanic (1997)
Corrected entry: After Molly Brown says, "Well there's something you don't see every day," we get a slow shot zooming in on the ship. Pay close attention to the door on the right side of the screen, just above the waterline, you can see lots of water gushing out. Water doesn't do that; it wouldn't rise above the sea level.
Correction: Yes it would if the pressure below decks is higher than atmospheric pressure. Or the water is being expelled by the ship's pumps, in an effort to slow down the sinking.
9th Apr 2012
Titanic (1997)
Corrected entry: At the end, Rose changes her name to Dawson, unofficially. First, doesn't anybody notice that there is a Rose Dawson arriving in New York who wasn't on the ship when it left? Second, Lewis Bodine says that he tracked Rose down all the way to the twenties. Shouldn't he have noticed that the first record of her was the day the Carpathia arrived in New York? Where she was already 17 or so? Even if she did manage to falsify a birth certificate, shouldn't there be any more records of her?
Correction: The short answer to the questions in this submission is "no". In 1912, passenger manifests were notoriously inaccurate, especially international transports like the Titanic. The ship made two stops before heading across the Atlantic (France and Ireland); people got on and off the ship in both places with poor record keeping. Accounts still today differ on the number of people lost in the accident, mainly because no accurate passenger manifest could be verified. International IDs were non-existent for most immigrant passengers, and many changed their names upon arrival in America. It would not have been unusual at all for someone with a new name to have "emerged" from the rescued passengers, and in the confusion and chaos surrounding the sinking, most immigrant passengers melted into the community. Rose could have reported her papers lost on the ship (a last minute passenger, much like Jack was in the movie) and gotten a new birth certificate in that era without much difficulty.
11th Jan 2012
Fast Five (2011)
Corrected entry: When Brian slams the brakes when he's trying to evade the two cops on the dirt-bikes, the one who lands on his hood first flips over the hood and down the right side of the car. In the following shot, he actually lands on the windshield. (01:44:40)
Correction: He does not actually land on the Charger.Instead, he lands on the windshield of done old car parked beside.
20th Mar 2012
X-Men: First Class (2011)
Corrected entry: When Magneto lifts the submarine, he is the point from which the submarine hangs. But Magneto is hanging from the jet, so basically, that is carrying the submarine. And there is no way a jet, even one that powerful, can lift a submarine in mid-air.
Correction: You're misunderstanding how Magneto's power works. If his body were the anchor, he would not be able to ride pieces of metal that he levitates; that would be like trying to pick yourself up by your belt loops. It's his power alone, not his body, that supports the objects he manipulates.
14th Jan 2012
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
Corrected entry: When Mearing asks Sentinel about the Space Bridge, he says that only he can control it. Yet in the battle of Chicago, he orders other Decepticons to restart the link after Optimus broke it and it's not even a Transformer who restarts it. (00:51:05 - 02:19:00)
14th Jan 2012
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
Corrected entry: On the moon, Optimus and Ratchet are talking normally and the little cars they brought with them are also making all kinds of sound. Odd seeing how there is no atmosphere on the moon, therefore no sound.
12th Jan 2012
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
Corrected entry: In the shot where the Autobots are approaching over the freeway, before the shot of "Major, in coming SOS from Autobots" you can see a driver behind the wheel of Optimus. (00:48:55)
Correction: All Transformers, be they Autobots or Decepticons, are capable of producing a holographic projection of a driver, pilot, etc. This was demonstrated in the first film.
16th Nov 2011
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
Corrected entry: When Optimus and Ratchet are exploring the Ark, they only take Sentinel back to Earth. Wouldn't it make a lot more sense to take as many of the other Autobots in stasis lock as possible back? The Xantium could easily carry some more, since it can take the nine Autobots when they are being exiled, and they can use all the help that they can get.
Correction: The other Autobots on the ship are dead, Sentinel is the only one in stasis.
9th Nov 2011
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Corrected entry: During the first movie, Goldblum says that he has three children. In this one, the girl is his only child.
Correction: I cannot remember any time during the movie where he states that she is his only child. Can you provide a timecode? He said in JP1 that he had been married many times. Maybe this was his only child with that mother.
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Correction: As Bruce Banner walks over to the Monitor, Natasha Romanoff follows him over and stands next to the desk. Bruce remains on the right of Natasha, before the explosion, after the explosion, and even as they fly through the glass windows Bruce remains on the right and Natasha remains on the left. When Bruce and Natasha fall to the ground, Natasha is still on the left and Bruce is still on the right.