Grumpy Scot

16th Jul 2008

Wall-E (2008)

Corrected entry: The Law of Conservation of Matter appears not to apply to the Axiom. Large amounts of waste are dumped from the Axiom by the WALL-A robots, but matter cannot be created from nothing. Considering this was originally to be a 5-year cruise, all the supplies would have been consumed long before WALL-E returns 700 years later.

Correction: This overlooks the possibility that the Axiom (particularly its robots) doesn't harvest asteroids or planets automatically to provide raw materials. Order A113 proves that the Earth government knew that Earth might be unsaveable, so the Axiom must have been built knowing that it might never return.

Grumpy Scot

16th Jul 2008

Wall-E (2008)

Corrected entry: Wall-E is clinging to the starship and it flies near a star, which allows Wall-E to get a very good charge from it. Sadly, at that distance Wall-E would have melted down and its entire electronics would be fried due to solar radiation. Even being a robot, he was made to work on Earth, not outside it.

Correction: The fact that he doesn't melt down and receives a charge seems to dispute that. There are no specifications shown as to how toughly built Wall-E is.

Grumpy Scot

7th Jul 2008

Wall-E (2008)

Corrected entry: When Wall E and Eva are floating in space outside the space cruiser they have the plant in their hands. As soon as the plant was exposed, it should have died as there is no oxygen in space.

Correction: This is a common misconception. Exposure to space is not instant death. Heat transfer in vacuum is very inefficient and plants do not use oxygen (they give off oxygen). An average living organism can survive for approximately 30 seconds in outer space and Wall-E had the plant out for only 5-7 seconds.

Grumpy Scot

Corrected entry: After sending David and the others into the other room, Kirk has a nice and private talk with Carol. They should have been even more discreet. Chekov is still right there and is quite awake because he is holding a bandage of some sort to his ear the whole time. Just a short time earlier, in fact, you can hear McCoy saying "He's coming around," and then he hands Chekov the bandage. And even if Kirk had forgotten that Chekhov was there, he would have said something. They are friends and Chekhov would not want to embarrass his friend by listening in on a private conversation.

Garlonuss

Correction: Yes, but they still had the conversation. They might have assumed Chekhov is loopy on painkillers. Chekhov is several feet behind them and has damage to one of his ears as well, he might not have heard a thing. It might be a socially awkward situation, but couldn't really be called a mistake.

Grumpy Scot

Corrected entry: As the Russian guards approach the military base, the caption on the screen reads "Nevada, 1957". As they enter the warehouse, you see a "51" on the door but later in the movie Irana refers back to the incident at the military base as taking place in New Mexico, not Area 51 in Nevada.

Correction: She was referring to the UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947.

Grumpy Scot

Siege, Part 3 - S2-E1

Corrected entry: When Ford escapes from the Atlantis base, he is flying a puddle jumper, which requires the Ancient gene. However, in the season one episode 'Hot Zone', Ford says he does not have the gene, because the gene therapy failed to work. Therefore he shouldn't have been able to fly the puddle jumper.

Correction: The original gene therapy is stated by Sheppard to be 48% effective. Dr. Beckett is almost certainly refining it constantly. It's not necessarily an all-or-nothing, you-only-get-one-try treatment. Some Ancient technology only requires the ATA gene to activate it, after that, anyone can operate it.

Grumpy Scot

27th Apr 2008

Joe Dirt (2001)

Corrected entry: When Joe is doing the crocodile scene, you can tell that the cigarette is fake as there is no smoke coming out of it.

Life700

Correction: Or maybe it went out...?

Grumpy Scot

21st Apr 2008

I Am Legend (2007)

Corrected entry: If 12 million people survived, 6,488,000,000 would become "darkseekers" to be exact, or 5,988,000,000 to count from 6 billion - not 588,000,000 as Roberts suggests, unless the population prior to the outbreak dropped to 600,000,000. The numbers are out by an order of magnitude.

Correction: He's referring to-non mutant survivors. The virus (approximately) kills 90%, mutates 10% and has no effect on 0.2%.

Grumpy Scot

Corrected entry: DVD version. In the elevator scene, after Arnie shoots the T-1000 in the head, you can see the Doctor behind standing against the window. Three seconds later, after the shot inside the elevator where Sarah Connor asks what the fuck is going on, you see the T-1000 again in the next shot, but the Doctor has made a quick exit. (01:00:05)

Correction: If I had just watched the T-1000 walk through a wall of bars and Arnie take 10-15 bullets without flinching, I would make a "quick exit" too. Probably one approaching the speed of sound. And can you see the floor in that scene? He might have fainted and be out of the camera's view.

Grumpy Scot

5th Apr 2008

The Marine (2006)

Corrected entry: As Rome is walking forward and shooting at the police car, the camera switches to an overhead view at Rome and you see the casings being ejected upward into the air and then falling down. This would not be possible, as pistols eject spent casings up and to the right over the user's shoulder.

Correction: When firing semi-automatic pistols, I've had shell casings fly to the left, slightly forward and even had one hit me square between the eyes! Also certain pistols such as the Glock are designed to be ambidextrous and can throw shells straight up.

Grumpy Scot

5th Apr 2008

The Matrix (1999)

Corrected entry: When Neo just enters the apartment room and is shot by Smith, the next shot is when Smith fires the Desert Eagle, but the camera is an overhead shot. You see the casing get ejected straight up into the air. This is not possible as the Desert Eagle and other pistols eject the spent casing upwards and slightly to the right over the user's shoulder.

Correction: When firing semi-automatic pistols, I've had shell casings fly to the left, slightly forward and even had one hit me square between the eyes! Straight up is certainly possible.

Grumpy Scot

21st Mar 2008

UHF (1989)

Corrected entry: The manager of the top rated television station in even the smallest town in America - and the town this film is set in seems to be quite a large one - would have no problem at all in obtaining a $75,000 loan from a bank (in the time the film was set, anyway). Based on advertising revenues alone, $75,000 would be a very modest amount to ask for. The whole premise of the telethon and the fundraising efforts is completely superfluous.

Correction: True, however George's adversary R.J. Fletcher is a big man in the business community with lots of financial connections. He could easily have pulled strings to see that George doesn't get a loan - and in fact this very thing happened in a deleted scene.

Grumpy Scot

According to Weird Al's website a deleted scene shows exactly this happening - RJ Fletcher pulls strings to stop Al getting a loan. The scene is not on the DVD or any other media because, as Weird Al says: "Deleted scenes get deleted for a reason... "

Corrected entry: You would think that a shockwave that could destroy buildings, buses, trees, humans, etc., would also destroy playground equipment.

Jack Kaltenbach

Correction: The nuke and shockwave are both occurring in Sarah's dream meaning they don't have to follow the laws of physics.

Grumpy Scot

Corrected entry: When escaping the hospital, the man that Sarah almost killed (I forget his name doesn't have a cigarette in his mouth until the T-1000 walks through the bars, and a cigarette falls out of his mouth.

Jack Kaltenbach

Correction: Dr. Silberman never had a cigarette. He pulls the protective cover off the needle on a syringe of sedative with his teeth. Then when the T-1000 walks through the bars, it drops out while he is gaping.

Grumpy Scot

24th Feb 2008

Tremors 2 (1996)

Corrected entry: After killing a Graboid, Grady says, "That makes $300,000," meaning they only killed six, but they actually killed, including the most recent one, eleven.

Correction: $300,000 each for Earl and Grady. 12 dead Graboids even though they only show 11 explosions.

Grumpy Scot

17th Feb 2008

Lost (2004)

Season 4 generally

Corrected entry: Season 4, "The Economist" - When Sayid looks over at Naomi's body, her eyes are closed. However, later on he walks over, bends down, and gently closes her eyes himself. I know things are freaky on this island and dead people might not necessarily stay that way (wouldn't be the first time someone we thought was dead suddenly showed up), but I doubt Naomi's eyes popped back open on their own.

Correction: Actually, they do. Open is the human eyes 'default' state when awake. After someone dies, you can close them, but rigor mortis will pop them open again after a short time. They are generally glued or sewn shut before a funeral.

Grumpy Scot

Correction: So? Coming from another country doesn't automatically mean a deep accent.

Grumpy Scot

Correction: He definitely has an Australian accent. American actor James Coburn wasn't perfect, but one can definitely tell it is supposed to be Australian.

raywest

2nd Feb 2008

Family Guy (1999)

Correction: This is a very common technique used in animation to save the animators time and effort. It can't really be classified as a mistake.

Grumpy Scot

31st Jan 2008

Robocop (1987)

Corrected entry: During the botched demonstration of the ED-209 in the boardroom near the start of the film the ED-209 should not have been loaded with live ammunition as this was only a demonstration of its ability to recognize criminals. If the demonstration had been on a firing range or outside it would have made sense but to have loaded it for a showing in a board room beggars belief.

Correction: This simply demonstrates how overconfident Dick Jones and the scientists who built ED-209 were.

Grumpy Scot

Corrected entry: After being revived, Nathan Fillion would had to be placed under psychiatric observation for attempted suicide, and then also would be eligible for facing criminal charges. Under no circumstances would he be allowed to freely leave hospital.

Correction: In such a case, the state or city would have to press charges against him, they must have decided not to. We also don't know how long he was in the hospital. He could easily have been held for a week for observation and then released. There might well have been court mandated shrink visits once a week for him that were simply not shown on film.

Grumpy Scot

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