pross79

11th Aug 2007

Dawson's Creek (1998)

Home Movies - S3-E4

Corrected entry: During the closing scene, Joey is seated in a chair watching her TV and the video tape Dawson had given her from their childhood. She would need a VHS Player in order to do this, but you can see that there is none on top of their TV. At that time, most people kept their VHS Players right on top of their televisions. It's possible that the VHS Player could have been located somewhere else in the room; but since Bessie and Joey are poor and live in a trailor/house with limited space, it's highly unlikely they would have an entertainment unit with electronics (including a VHS Player) on another wall. Logically it would make more sense for them to keep it on top of the TV in such a small room. But the TV is shown without a VHS Player on top of it.

Correction: I never have had a VCR, or any other component on top of my TV, they have always been under the TV. You don't have to have an expensive entertainment center for this, very cheap stands for TVs are available. They could have it just sitting on the floor, it would still work fine.

pross79

15th Aug 2007

The Number 23 (2007)

Corrected entry: The man Jim Carry is speaking to at roughly this moment refers 666 as number of the devil, the book of Revelation seems to refer Satan and the beast as two different characters. Revelation 13:18 "Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six." This verse seems to contain no mention of Satan. (00:38:00)

Correction: Most people are not theologians, most people associate 666 with the devil.

pross79

15th Aug 2007

Knocked Up (2007)

Corrected entry: When Ben takes the 2 Corona Beers from the bar, (because the bartender ignored him) he left the money on the bar. In the next scene he is drinking the beers and the beers are open. The only problem is Coronas are not twist offs, So how did Ben get those beers open?

Correction: I have a bottle opener on my key chain, but even if you don't have that, you can open them with most disposable lighters, with your keys, or on just about anything that has a sharp corner.

pross79

25th Jul 2007

Dawson's Creek (1998)

Uncharted Waters - S2-E12

Corrected entry: Towards the end of the episode, Pacey is reeling in the big fish. There is a wide shot of the rear of the boat, and everyone is standing there in a bunch. All 5 characters (Dawson, Jack, Pacey, Dawson's Dad and Pacey's Dad) are standing around Pacey as he works hard to catch the fish. So who is driving the boat? Pacey's Dad had been driving, but he came back to help Pacey reel the fish in. No-one else is onboard. But the boat is moving forward at a steady speed.

Correction: It's a pretty foolish thing to do, but you can push the throttle forward and walk away, leaving nobody to steer the boat, but still allowing it to move forward. Not a movie mistake, but a pretty reckless character mistake.

pross79

Corrected entry: In the sequence where Ryan's helicopter has been hit by the blast of the nuclear explosion, an acoustic alarm goes off during the tailspin. This wouldn't be possible, since every electronic equipment fails after a nuclear explosion due to the nuclear electromagnetic pulse.

Correction: A large portion of military and government vehicles, and aircraft are hardened against the affect of an electromagnetic pulse. This helicopter crashed because of the shock wave from the explosion.

pross79

29th May 2007

The Parent Trap (1998)

Corrected entry: In the scene in which Hallie is piercing Annie's ears, she puts an apple under her ear to make it easier to get the needle through and to make it less painful for Annie. However, apple juice is highly acidic, and once the lobe was pierced, it would have reacted with the apple, making it extremely painful (moreso even than was demonstrated by their screaming).

Correction: This is a character mistake, and we don't know how painful it felt to them, so their reaction can not be a mistake.

pross79

Correction: Her ear was already pierced. You can see it when Hallie is jumping into the lake and looks at Annie. It is clear there, but when Hallie is going to pierce Annie's ear, it appears not to be.

29th May 2007

Love Actually (2003)

Corrected entry: What school has a concert on Christmas Eve? Most schools break up around December 20th and finish at lunchtime. Concerts are usually the previous week or a couple of days before the end of term.

Correction: When I was in school, we had events like Christmas plays on Christmas eve, even though school was out for Christmas break.

pross79

I remember being at school on Christmas Eve. Still can't quite believe they did that back then but we were.

Pretend - S8-E21

Corrected entry: The doctor speaks with Olivia about how the girl is older because she doesn't have wisdom teeth and people get them when they are adults. This is what turns the investigation. Although, that is sometimes true, it is not ALWAYS true. My wisdom teeth were removed when I was 16, and I know of friends who have also had them removed before adulthood. So to base it primarily on that would not have been sound.

Correction: Yes, but since it is sometimes true, that led their investigation in another direction, and they found out she was not who she said she was. Also the doctor said she had them removed some time ago because of the way the scars had healed, so even if they where removed when she was really young, this would still prove she was older than she said she was.

pross79

7th May 2007

The Prestige (2006)

Corrected entry: If Alfred's twin was produced by Tesla's machine, Alfred would have understood Danton's trick immediately and had no need to sneak back stage and fall for the set up.

Correction: Alfred's twin was never produced by the Tesla's machine, he was his real biological twin. Alfred never actually had Tesla build any kind of machine for him, it was all a ruse to throw Danton off track.

pross79

Ending Happy - S7-E21

Corrected entry: The wounds on Happy's throat don't substantiate the premise that he was shot through the throat with an arrow. The arrow has feathers on the end, which would have passed through the skin. It would have left a ragged edge, not perfectly round holes.

Boobra

Correction: We can't say that the feathers on this arrow would have broken the skin, they could just as easily folded back and passed through without altering the shape of the hole.

pross79

17th Feb 2007

The Lake House (2006)

Corrected entry: When Sandra Bullock's 2006 boyfriend tells her he's landed a job and is moving to town, he tells her he'll be working for a company as an "in house counsel," but shortly thereafter we see him in a storefront "Attorney at Law" office.

Correction: When we see him at the store front, it is in late 2004, this is when Alex moves out of the house, and gives him the keys, so Kate and Morgan can have the lake house. At some point after that he moves away, then comes back in 2006, this is when he has the in house counsel job.

pross79

Corrected entry: Early in the film, on Gus's boat, Lara points to a map and says: "about five miles.". She's British; Gus is Greek; only the nearest American tourists would say "miles". Should have said: "about eight kilometers".

Alan Rice

Correction: Though Miles, Pounds, and Gallons, are used in America, they are British Imperial Units of measurement, and they are still widely used in England (miles especially - all speed limits signs are in miles), despite the EU trying to force them to convert to the metric system.

pross79

16th Mar 2007

Made in America (1993)

Corrected entry: In one scene, Ted Danson's character tells Nia Long's character that the hospital wants her to donate more blood, as her blood is AB negative, which is pretty rare. True, it is rare, but it's also useless as donated blood, since the only other people who can receive it are other people of type AB - and anyone who is of type AB doesn't need AB blood, they can receive blood A, B, or O.

Correction: Yes, but hospitals like to have all blood types, so they can use the universal blood in emergency situations where they do not know blood type, and use the exact match blood for planned procedures where they know the patients blood type.

pross79

12th Mar 2007

Sugar Rush (2005)

Correction: Though rare, vasectomys are not 100% percent affective. About .15%-1% fail.

pross79

4th Mar 2007

Friends (1994)

Correction: She could have had hair extensions put in, and since we don't see every second of their lives on camera, we could assume her friends already knew about it and did not mention it.

pross79

28th Feb 2007

The Hitcher (2007)

Corrected entry: When the sheriff shoots John Ryder near the end of the movie, he has a bullet proof vest on. Where'd he get this? I highly doubt the police would care if a murdering convict was shot. And he didn't put it on after he killed the cops in the car with him; there wasn't enough time in between that point and the point where the sheriff shoots him.

Correction: Actually police often give bullet proof vests to convicts when they are transporting them, even if they are murdering convicts. Maybe not before Lee Harvey Oswald, but since him they have.

pross79

Corrected entry: When Miller and his men make it to the bunkers after d-day, there is a dead American, how could this be if Americans weren't there yet?

Correction: It was never implied that they where the very first soldiers to reach the bunkers, someone else could have gotten up there first, but was killed.

pross79

21st Feb 2007

The O.C. (2003)

The Escape - S1-E7

Corrected entry: Seth tells Summer that he is Jewish, and we know that Sandy is, which can't altogether be true because if a Jewish man marries outside of the faith then his children can't be Jewish. Only women who marry outside the faith can have their children be Jewish.

Correction: I know someone who converted to Judaism, technically he can not be Jewish either, but he says he is. Only the truly orthodox Jews follow rules like that, many reformed Jews do not.

pross79

16th Feb 2007

Criminal Minds (2005)

The Fisher King: Part 1 - S1-E22

Corrected entry: We are told that an analysis of the DNA from the hair sample held in the evidence bag shows it came from Rebecca Bryant, the first victim of the serial killer they are hunting. Later we see a clear shot of the hair - it is a lock of hair, cleanly cut off, and tied with a ribbon. There are no roots, which are the only parts of the hair that contain DNA - hair shafts do not. They would not be able to harvest DNA from this hair sample.

Correction: That's true, but they probably would have cut off that part and used to to get the DNA, the roots are small and they probably would have had to use it all, but they would still keep the hair it came from as the evidence.

pross79

15th Feb 2007

Dawson's Creek (1998)

Season 3 generally

Corrected entry: Season 3 Ep. 1, "Like a Virgin": Dawson says he could sell his DVD player, and makes it sound as though it is worth $800 to $1,000. Yet whenever they show him bringing home rented movies, they are always VHS format. If Dawson is so into electronics, and ahead of the market with a cutting edge DVD player, why does he only rent VHS movies and his friends only bring over VHS movies to play in his bedroom? Wouldn't he be more excited to use his DVD player, which he never sold?

Correction: At that time you could not find any DVD movies to rent at places like Blockbuster, they only had a few, and they where always checked out, and alot of places did not rent them at all. Also most people did not have DVD players at that time, so they would only have tapes to bring over.

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