Corrected entry: When the rear trailer separates from the semi before the driver jumps out, you see the rear trailer rolling past the 1st trailer to its left, but when the camera angle changes to show the police running to the crash site, the rear trailer is now pushed up against the back of the first trailer. (00:07:35)
johnrosa
26th Aug 2003
Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
22nd Oct 2002
Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
Corrected entry: At the beginning of the movie Axel is riding in the back of the cigarette truck. There is one shot were the camera is pointing out of a police car right behind the truck. Off to the right you can see a different police car crashing through three orange and white construction barricades. In the next shot the truck is seen from the side and the same car crashes through the barricades a second time. (00:06:00)
Correction: This crash is repeated four times in rapid succession from four different angles, for effect. It's not meant to suggest four different crashes - it's simply more dramatic. Not an error.
25th Jan 2002
Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
Corrected entry: When the truck is driven into the alley in the side mirror you can see the police car in the background. But in the next scene the cop car is only just pulling up blocking the entry to the alley. (00:02:20 - 00:04:15)
Correction: If this refers to the opening scene with the truck load of cigarettes, there is no such moment or error. The truck is stopped in the first shot of it, seen from far above as Axel steps out. The mirrors of the truck are never looked into by the camera before the chase is well underway.
16th Jul 2003
Natural Born Killers (1994)
Corrected entry: During the re-enacting of Mickey and Mallory shooting the cop holding the doughnuts, the cop's partner sees the shooting and then runs across the street to shoot at Mickey and Mallory as they drive away. The cop is seen coming from the wrong angle as he runs to the middle of the street. He should have come from the right side of the screen but he came from the left.
Correction: Re-enactments often take liberties and make mistakes (heck, they use a late-80s Mustang in place of the proper 1970 Challenger for the 'dramatization'). It merely shows how blatantly wrong the media can get the facts of an event. Not a movie mistake.
19th May 2004
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
Corrected entry: Crusher asks the computer for, and gets, the clan affiliation of three different Acamarians. Then she asks if any of the Acamarian delegation are from the Trakesta clan and the computer says it has no information on clan affiliations.
Correction: No, Crusher asks if any are from the 'Tralesta' clan. The computer replies 'Clan affiliation is not within provided records', meaning the information requested in her last question has not been provided to Starfleet by the Acamarians. The earlier information was regarding a different clan, and was provided and thus available. The computer answered the question correctly, if not fully by leaving the word 'Tralesta' off the front of the sentence.
19th May 2004
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
Who Watches The Watchers - S3-E4
Corrected entry: Supposedly the model in Picard's ready room is of the Stargazer, NCC-2893. But in a closeup when he is talking to Nuria, the model number shown is NCC-7100.
Correction: Incorrect. At no time in the series was the miniature specifically referred to as the Stargazer. It is, however, a model of the same class of starship as the Stargazer, and since the miniature sits in Picard's ready-room, folks assume it is the Stargazer. Its registry indicates, however, that it is another ship entirely. Perhaps Picard came upon this model by chance, and because it is the same class as his old ship, he keeps it as a memento of his time there.
19th May 2004
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
Corrected entry: As the Enterprise twists so that she is facing away from the matter stream as it is drawn in, Picard orders "reverse engines." That would drive her closer into the stream, not further away.
Correction: Picard orders 'reverse engines' when the ship is oriented just about parallel to the stream. Geordi apparently misunderstands amid the noise of the engine room, answering 'Initiating reverse sequence now', then the ship turns to face away from the stream (apparently the 'reverse sequence' is akin to 'reverse course', not 'reverse engines'). On the bridge, Picard realizes they are drifting rearward into the stream. He doesn't seem upset that Geordi didn't correctly follow the order, but then his focus is on the imminent danger the ship is in. No error.
19th May 2004
Star Trek (1966)
Corrected entry: Garth can apparently shapeshift clothes (or he doesn't wear clothes and the "clothing" we see is shapeshifted skin). But when Garth changes from Cory to Garth, a working phaser appears at his holster - where'd it come from? Or how'd he create it?
Correction: The weapon was concealed while in the form of Cory.
19th May 2004
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
Corrected entry: The Stargazer model in Picard's office changes position each time someone visits him - facing right, then left, then right again.
27th Jun 2005
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
Corrected entry: Jake Kurland is described as a skilled shuttle operator, yet he still manages to unbalance the shuttle's engines.
Correction: Licensed surgeons (whom we can assume are 'skilled' based on their schooling and licensing) have been known to leave surgical instruments inside patients. Pobody is nerfect. Not a 'mistake' or 'plot hole'.
19th May 2004
Star Trek (1966)
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield - S3-E15
Corrected entry: Kirk says Cheron is in an uncharted region of the galaxy. How does Kirk know about it then? Later Spock identifies its exact position when he says the ship is heading for it. Again, if it's "uncharted" how do they know where it is to figure out this stuff.
Correction: Cheron may be an obvious 'marker', a known distant system that has yet to be charted in detail, but the existence and location of Cheron itself is known, much like knowing the moon was above earth centuries ago, but its details had yet to be charted.
19th May 2004
Star Trek (1966)
Corrected entry: When they arrived in the system they said they were heading for the sixth planet in the system of Sigma Draconis, but in his captain's log about halfway through the episode, Kirk calls it Sigma Draconis VII.
Correction: Sigma Draconis VI and VII may have orbits that intersect twice, so that, when first discovered and named, SD VII was seventh from the sun, but on this visit, it is 'currently' the sixth. (See "The Wrath of Khan" for the Ceti Alpha V & VI mis-recognition issue for a similar, not identical, situation.)
19th May 2004
Star Trek (1966)
The Gamesters of Triskelion - S2-E16
Corrected entry: For not knowing anything about the concept of "kissing," Shahna reacts just like a normal human would (closes eyes, leans forward, drops her jaw.)
Correction: Purely a reflex, not a mistake. While she may not have done it before, she seems to respond to it just fine. But then, she is a humanoid, so why expect her reflexes to be that different?
28th Mar 2005
Star Trek (1966)
The Trouble With Tribbles - S2-E15
Corrected entry: When Scotty comes into the messhall holding a bundle of Tribbles, you can see that the middle finger of his right hand is missing. (A result of Doohan's WWII D-Day fight; Normally, the show made every attempt to hide this.)
19th May 2004
Star Trek (1966)
Corrected entry: Kirk switches back and forth between miles and kilometers in this episode (20,000 mile orbit, 200,000 kilometer range of destruction.)
Correction: The distances were described using the system of measure wherein the specific distance can be described by the most round number. Example: If something is 1.1 quarts, he'll just say it's one liter. We can assume humans can handle the conversion in their heads easily in the future.
19th May 2004
Star Trek (1966)
Corrected entry: Spock says that they will be unable to close with the Machine because Enterprise's energy cells will draw its attention, but then later he says it ignores ships such as themselves beyond a certain size radius - which is it?
2nd Feb 2005
Mad About You (1992)
Corrected entry: Depending on the episode, before Paul and Jamie moved in together, Paul either lived A) across the street from Jamie, alone (she trusted him because he had to go home to his dog at night, which would indicate he didn't have a roommate); B) in Kramer's apartment, with no mention of a roommate; or C) somewhere with Ira. Ira also states in one episode that Paul has never lived alone.
Correction: Self-correcting error. A) Many pet owners go home to their pets because they either care to be there for the animal's sake or for their own. A roomate may not be a sufficient substitution to the pet or to the owner. It isn't only about food and water for animal lovers. Besides, if Paul has a dog, he isn't 'alone'. B) No mention of a roomate doesn't mean no roomate, just no mention. C) If Ira says Paul never lived alone, he can mean a roomate or a pet was always there. As for the locations, we find Paul moved a few times prior to living with Jamie. Without specific overlapping of dates (which can also be excused by faulty human memory), there's no mistake.
8th Jan 2006
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Corrected entry: The movie is set in the 21st century judging by the ad for 'The Apprentice' on the side of a bus in an early scene, however in the title fight when Maggie is fighting the German woman a commentator refers to Maggie's opponent as the East German champion. East Germany has not existed since 1990.
Correction: This can simply be a slip of the tongue by the commentator who may have meant to say 'Eastern Germany', just as we USA residents say 'Eastern US' without meaning it to be a separate country. He merely dropped the 'ern', perhaps because HE is an old hat who was calling fights back when there actually was an East Germany. As such, a character error, not a movie mistake.
30th Oct 2003
Starman (1984)
Corrected entry: When the two agents are talking in the emergency autopsy room, Agent Fox tells the officer that all the Cobra attack helicopters are to carry live ammo. However, in the scene at the end when the helicopters are shooting at the heroes in the crater, the helicopters are UH1 Huey gunships, not AH1 Cobras.
Correction: He may have wanted Cobras, but UHs were what was available at that time, in that area. As long as they were armed, I doubt the agent was upset with the substitution. Not a movie mistake, just a military deployments result.
21st Mar 2002
The Siege (1998)
Corrected entry: In the scene where the government leaders are discussing whether or not to deploy the Army to New York, Bruce Willis, as the general, rattles off an assortment of military units and vehicles available. He ends by saying something about every soldier carrying an M-16 A-1 assault rifle. The active Army has not used the A-1 for many years, they switched to the A-2 in the late 80's or early 90's. A general should know this.
Correction: Actually, there's no real reason he would (at his rank, that's a very mundane detail), and if he did know, in heated discussion, there's every reason to believe it possible that he'd revert to 'A1' out of old habit. And speaking to non-service persons, the difference would be insignificant, so that even if he realized a moment later that he'd mis-spoke, he'd have no reason to think anyone else caught it. Or if they did, that they'd care. Ultimately, a character error, not a movie mistake.
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Correction: Not so. The low shot showing the loose trailer bouncing toward the right of the screen shows a wide separation between the first and second trailers. The next time we see both, the angle is higher, further away and rotated 90 degrees around the crash site, making the loose trailer look closer, nearly against the side of the first trailer- but it's an illusion of the camera zoom.
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