Corrected entry: During the scene where Ann Archer is driving around looking for her daughter she passes a house with a Santa and reindeer in it's yard. This seems out of place as it does not appear to be Christmas time, unless it is someone who leaves their decorations up all year. (01:36:00)
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9th Sep 2005
Fatal Attraction (1987)
21st Dec 2006
Hard Day's Night (1964)
Corrected entry: The desk sergeant tells the patrolmen, "Get Lloyd George (Paul's grandfather) over there next to the mechanic in the cloth cap and I'll sort this lot out will you". They bring Paul's grandfather over to sit next to Ringo but there's no one else there. (01:08:45)
30th Aug 2005
The Shining (1980)
Corrected entry: In the scene after Danny goes to room 227, Jack is typing, but you can tell by the group of typewriter keys he hits that he isn't typing "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But later after Wendy leaves the room, he is typing that phrase. (00:43:00 - 00:45:00)
Correction: Your sequencing is off - the scene where Jack is typing, and then is interrupted, and then types again, happens *before* Danny goes to room 237 [not 227]. He is seen typing when Wendy interrupts him after Danny has gone to room 237, but he does not go back to typing - he sits at his typewriter staring blankly into space. So the scene you describe does not exist. And even if the scene did exist the way you describe it, it's not a mistake for him to change what he's typing - it could be said that this was the beginning of his madness.
25th Mar 2006
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Corrected entry: The Frenchmen with the accordion says, "Dien Bien Phu is a trap" but the closed captioning is wrong and reads "that serious". (02:08:20)
Correction: That is a subtitling error, and not a mistake within the movie.
26th Feb 2007
The Shining (1980)
Corrected entry: It was 8:20AM when his plane landed and when Dick Hallorann calls his friend Larry at the garage the clock on the wall reads 9:07. When Larry asks him how long it will take to get there he says about five hours but in the next scene where we see him driving to Durkin's garage, it's obviously the middle of the night. (01:39:00)
Correction: So he was wrong about how long it would take him - not uncommon in a snowstorm.
14th Mar 2006
No Way Out (1987)
Corrected entry: In Kevin Costner and Sean Young's famous scene together the limousine has tinted windows when seen from the outside and clear windows in their close-ups.
Correction: The scene was shot in the same limousine they used for the exteriors. It's fitted with one way glass.
27th Jun 2007
The Shining (1980)
Corrected entry: From the first shot to the last, Stanley Kubrick includes many references to special numbers. 12, 24, 21, 42 and 1, 2, 4 and 5 and it's multiples can be easily spotted close to 200 times. - - 1) We see Jack ax the bathroom door 12 times. 2) Wendy stops at line 21 on the page in Jack's typewriter. 3) We hear Wendy thumb through 24 pages of Jack's novel. 4) Wendy swings the bat 42 times. 5) Jack's locked up in storeroom C-1. 6) 2 girls, 2 elevators, 2 boilers, and 2 identical sides in Jack's vision of hedge maze. 7) Jack holds up 4 fingers in the last picture. 8) Jack says "5 months on the wagon" and The Overlook is closed between10/30 and 5/15. - - This is just the tip of an iceberg. Taken as time codes they point to shots in the movie and when the time code hits a :12 or :21 visions are seen (most almost exactly :24 seconds in duration). When the time code hits a :24 or :42 a cast member discovers something (durations end almost exactly with :12, :21, or :24 seconds). Just take a look at the vision in the very last shot of the movie (2:21) "Overlook Hotel July 4th Ball 1921" with a duration of :24 seconds, and you'll see what I mean. However, the timecode will only be accurate for NTSC versions of the film, as PAL versions are slightly sped up due to the differing frame rates. Go to the Forum-Mistakes-Check this out, for more examples.
Correction: Unless it can be shown that the completely random and unrelated numbers 12, 24, 21, 42, and multiples of 1, 2, 4 and 5 (which narrows it down to, literally, infinite numbers) held some significance for Stanley Kubrick, or for anyone, this is not trivia. One could take those numbers (or any numbers) and find them in any film, if one is insane enough to actually search for and chronicle them.
1st Aug 2007
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Corrected entry: As the Lion spots the guards sneaking up behind them his mouth is moving and he's saying a lot more than we hear, that has been edited out. (01:22:00)
Correction: Not necessarily. That is an old movie tactic for demonstrating great fear; a character moves their mouth but are so terrified they cannot actually speak.
4th Mar 2007
The Shining (1980)
Corrected entry: As both she and Jack hear the Snow cat engine quite there's no reason whatsoever why Wendy doesn't scream out the bathroom window to Dick Halloran as he parks right outside it, like she yelled to Danny several shots before. This decision definitely benefits the plot despite making no sense. (02:05:25)
Correction: ##There indeed are several reasons why she doesn't call out for help when she hears the Snow Cat: a) she is standing near the door, not the window, and is still concerned about fending off Jack at the door; b) once Jack moves away and doesn't become a threat, she could call out, but she's still in shock and not thinking straight; and c) she would probably figure out she might not be heard over the roar of the engine.
9th Sep 2005
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Corrected entry: The raft was barely big enough for three people, so they wouldn't have been able to fit Stuart (and supplies) if she had lived. (00:10:30)
Correction: You're assuming it was the only raft on board. Most likely they had 2, in order to hold 2 persons each plus supplies. One may have been damaged or deemed unneeded because of Stuart's death.
21st Mar 2006
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Corrected entry: As Captain Willard talks to the sergeant about getting some fuel he says, "I carry priority papers from Com-Sec intelligence II-Corp". "II-Corp" is left out in the closed captioning. (01:05:20)
Correction: Subtitles often omit words if there are too many to fit on the screen; this is a subtitling choice, and is not a mistake.
21st Dec 2005
King Kong (2005)
Corrected entry: In the aerial shots of Manhattan during the airplane attacks there's much less snow on the ground than in previous scenes shot below.
Correction: You can't really see the amount of snow from the air, even in the country. It's even harder to see in the city. What looks like a lot of snow on the ground only looks like concrete from higher altitudes.
1st Nov 2007
The Shining (1980)
Corrected entry: Stanley Kubrick makes use of color to indicate when certain characters are "Shining". Surroundings and possessions which are entirely yellow or red are obvious and have been noted by many but never fully understood. In the novel oranges were what Dick Hallorann smelled when he "Shined" and being that smell can not be adequately brought across to a theater audience Stanley Kubrick made the brilliant decision to use the two pigments a painter mixes together to make the color orange. Most commentators see these shots, as Jack in the yellow VolksWagon or with the red Calumet can behind his head in the storeroom, and still don't know what's going on. Red and yellow equals orange, "Shining", and all you have to do is, as the MM motto goes "open your eyes" and look at the movie to see this.
Correction: This cites no source for this information that can be considered authoritative. Without such, it is speculative at best, based purely on the occasional appearance of particular common colours. There is invariably a tendency to wish to read significance into aspects of films and this submitter has clearly taken it further than most; his assertation that most people simply fail to understand Kubrick's subtlety is at best pompous and at worst an indication that they are simply seeing significance in something that has none, a far better explanation as to why "most commentators" fail to pick up on such things.
18th Sep 2006
War of the Worlds (2005)
Corrected entry: As Tom Cruise yells , "Get off the car" to the mob in Athens NY and the guy in the red flannel jacket is on the roof. In the next shot he's standing next to the driver's side door. (00:54:20)
2nd Jun 2006
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Corrected entry: After the severe injuries that she received earlier in the production Margret Hamilton closes her eyes in anticipation of the orange smoke that engulfs her as she disappears from the roof after she throws the ball of fire at the scarecrow. (00:46:25)
Correction: Why exactly isn't the witch allowed to close her eyes? I haven't gotten severe injuries and I would've shut my eyes if smoke was about to engulf me. There's no reason for her not to close her eyes.
It also should be noted that the Tin Woodsman scenes were actually filmed before Margaret Hamilton was severely burned from fire. She had not yet had a bad experience with it. After she was burned, she refused to have anything to do with smoke/fire for the remainder of the film and a stunt double was used from then on for any fire scenes needed. Her closing her eyes was simply a natural response as human eyes have trouble staying open when smoke is around.
1st Sep 2005
The Shining (1980)
Corrected entry: It took Jack 60 seconds to break down the first door.. After the 17th ax swings he only has a little bit of the door chopped out and if you look closely his ax is in the center of the door panel. In the next shot they cut to inside the apartment as he finally breaks through, now it's on the left side of the door panel. (02:01:00 - 02:01:40)
Correction: So it takes him longer than you think it should to chop down a solid wooden door. He is drunk, or hungover, perhaps. Not a film mistake.
21st Jul 2007
The Shining (1980)
Corrected entry: Jack runs away from the woman in room 237 and if you look out the front door the hallway is lit up. When he finally runs out of the room the hallway is now dark. (01:15:55)
21st Jul 2007
The Shining (1980)
Corrected entry: In room 237 the chairs and table on the right side of the bedroom are dark. When the old woman follows Jack out of the bathroom he walks through the bedroom again and all of these items are now lit up. (01:15:25)
23rd Feb 2007
The Shining (1980)
Corrected entry: The shot of Dick Hallorann in the jet is not right. If you look at the drink in front of the woman sitting next to him it's motionless. Anyone who has flown in an airplane knows that any liquid in an open glass vibrates. (01:36:05)
Correction: Nonsense, I've flown in many many airplanes and that isn't always the case.
10th Jul 2007
The Shining (1980)
Corrected entry: Wendy's reaction to the old bloodied gentleman in the back of the lobby is great but if you look closely there's no reason for it as he doesn't move or make a sound while she's obviously facing the other way. (02:12:40)
Correction: Look again. He raises his glass in a toast and asks her "Great party, isn't it". So he both moves and speaks.
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Correction: Exactly. Sometimes people do that, or they may have put up their decorations early. Not a movie mistake.