Corrected entry: If Bourne has all those passports, surely he would use a fake one when running away from someone trying to kill him if he suspected they might be part of a government agency, which he would know to be able to check passports.
pross79
22nd Nov 2005
The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
16th Nov 2005
The Program (1993)
Corrected entry: The team plays Georgia Tech in the last game of each season. However, the University of Georgia has played Georgia Tech in the last game of the season for the past 25 years.
Correction: Just because it is the last game of their season, it does not mean it is the last game for Georgia Tech, they could still be playing UGA the next week.
26th Sep 2005
Back to the Future (1985)
Corrected entry: How does Doc know that lightning will hit the clock tower at precisely 10:04:00? Since the minute hand only advances once a minute, it's possible that the clock was struck anytime between 10:04:00 and 10:04:59.
Correction: Actually the gears inside the clock tower would tell you how many seconds had passed, so assuming that the story about the clock tower was researched correctly they would be certain that the bolt hit at 10:04 precisely.
30th Aug 2005
Eurotrip (2004)
Corrected entry: When Scotty tries to write back to Micha after she blocked him, he decides that he must go to Germany to find her, since Micha blocked Scott's email address. If Scotty really wanted to reach her, he could have emailed her from another email address.
Correction: She could have set up her account to block every email unless the email address is on a list that she allows to email her, in that case any other address would be blocked as well.
Correction: Or he could have mailed her a letter, since he had her family's physical address in Berlin.
13th Jul 2002
Christine (1983)
Corrected entry: While on the assembly line in the beginning, Christine's air filters were brass colored. After Arnie buys her and she restores herself, they're chrome. Doubtful he found them in Darnell's junk heap.
Correction: He could have found them on a junked car, or he could have bought them somewhere, he probably would not have been able to find every part he needed in the junk yard, so it makes sense that he would have had to buy a few new parts.
20th Jul 2004
The Hole (2001)
Corrected entry: What is the power source in the underground bunker where most of the action takes place? Given the number of lights it can hardly be a battery and it's unlikely to be a generator.
Correction: The bunker would be connected to the power grid in the area, and it would continue to get power from the local power grid until that power was cut off by whatever event required the use of the bunker. It would then switch to a generator or a battery or both, it would also probably be set up to use less power at that time by using fewer lights, etc.
27th May 2005
Six Days, Seven Nights (1998)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Quinn is flying Robin and Frank to the island, they are wearing lifejackets, she asks if they are necessary, and he says only if we crash. Later, when Quinn is flying Robin to Tahiti, she is not wearing a lifejacket. Even when the weather gets rough, Quinn doesn't give her a lifejacket. They decide to turn around; still no lifejacket. They are going down, the radio is fried and they can't send out a distress call and still he doesn't give her a lifejacket.
Correction: This is just poor judgment on the part of the characters, also we did not see the whole flight maybe he asked her to put it on and she refused.
23rd Apr 2005
The Karate Kid III (1989)
Corrected entry: By the time we see Daniel in Karate Kid III, Daniel has gained a lot of experience in karate. In Part I, Daniel won the championship for the All Valley Tournament, which supposedly means that he knows karate best in the Los Angeles area. In Part II, Daniel defeats Chozen in a fight to the death, and Chozen is a real karate master (as is evident when he beats up his students in Part II). With all this experience in karate, why is Daniel so easily beaten up by Mike and his friends? With all he's learned, he should be able to defeat them easily. (With Mr. Silver and Kreese, that's understandable since they are very experienced as well.).
Correction: It is pointed out by one of the trio of bad guys that the techniques he uses will not work against Barnes; they even make fun of the move he used to win in the first movie. So he is easily beaten because they have come up with different moves, and counters to his moves, so he will have to learn new techniques.
20th Mar 2005
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Corrected entry: The main zombies may have killed Johnny, but the zombie didn't bite Johnny. Johnny killed himself by banging his head the the flat headstone. So the mysterious virus shouldn't have gotten into Johnny's system. The only way of becoming a zombie is when the zombie itself bites you.
Correction: That's not true, any person that died for any reason became a zombie, unless of course the brain was damaged too much. After all the first zombies did not get bitten.
12th Mar 2005
Payback (1999)
Corrected entry: When the Triads kill the cabbie and the big thug with the bandage on his ear, Porter holds a body up against the window to protect his self. There is no possible way that when automatic weapons are being shot from no more than 10 feet away that none of the bullets would go through the body and hit Porter.
Correction: Depending on the caliber, the bullet type, the muzzle velocity you couls easily fire dozens of times at a body and not have any rounds go through.
17th Feb 2005
The Sum of All Fears (2002)
Corrected entry: When the call comes for the bombing of the aircraft carrier, you think that there would be a chain of command with sort of checkpoints to ensure accuracy and to ensure something terroristic would not happen. They probably did this to keep the plot flowing, but it still seems illogical.
Correction: The commander of the airbase was paid to get his pilots to attack the aircraft carrier by the Germans, remember he lied to them about the Americans nuking Moscow, the pilots would assume that their base commander got his orders from his superiors. Also he was killed for this at the end of the movie.
18th Jul 2004
Along Came Polly (2004)
Corrected entry: Container toilets can't overflow like it does when Reuben blocks the drain with the towel. The container volume is always smaller than the toilet by design. (00:34:25)
Correction: If the water in the bottom of the toilet does not drain at all and the water from the tank starts to fill the bottom, then you could over flow the toilet, especially if the volume of whatever you had in the toilet was high. In this case the towel and the waste, plus 2 full tanks of water would easily over flow the toilet.
30th Nov 2004
Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)
Corrected entry: Earlier in the movie they say it is a four-hour drive from Chicago to Midland. Once they arrive at the train station in the Midland, the family is there to greet them. How fast were they driving?
Correction: The train could have stopped several times along the way or not taken a direct route to Midland. If this is case you could easily drive there faster.
2nd Sep 2004
Alien Vs. Predator (2004)
Corrected entry: Supposedly the original human civilization that worshipped the Predators was destroyed when the Predators under trial lost against the Aliens and set off their bombs, decimating the city and killing all humans and Aliens in the surrounding area. How did the trial temple survive? At the end, it was destroyed by the same type of bomb, so it's not immune to the weaponry. If the Predators rebuilt it recently they wouldn't have bothered to include human script on all the walls to explain its purpose.
Correction: We see from the architecture in the pyramid that the predators where visiting cultures all over the planet. Eqypt (north Africa), South America, Asia. So the one that was destroyed in the flashback, was just one of the places on the planet that they used, not the only one.
11th Aug 2004
The Village (2004)
Corrected entry: If the people of the village are not allowed to go into the woods, how do they have wood to burn?
Correction: The woods was a perimeter, they would be able to use wood from trees inside the perimeter. We never saw how big the area was, there could have been many trees inside the perimeter.
30th Aug 2003
Seabiscuit (2003)
Corrected entry: While Pollard is undergoing surgery in the Baltimore hospital, seated together in the waiting room are Mr. and Mrs. Howard, Tom Smith, and Seabiscuit's groom. The Howards and Smith are white, the groom is black. In 1937, Baltimore was just as segregated as any city in the Deep South. The groom would never have been allowed in the white folks' waiting room. (01:31:00)
Correction: Baltimore is in northern Maryland, not the south and it was never a segregated state.
22nd Jul 2003
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Catherine is in the back of her van she calls 911 for help. They show her looking at the scene of the phone with no signal bars, yet she starts to talk to someone.
Correction: Most phones only show signal strength for the network that your phone is on, but if you dial 911, they will connect you to another network that has service in the area you are in.
21st Nov 2002
28 Days Later (2002)
Corrected entry: The eventual outcome is that the infected are wiped out because they do not eat. This is indicated at the end of the film (56 days later) and a statement by Christopher Eccleston. It makes no sense that the infected are so possessed with rage that they have enough sense to drink and not to eat. Dehydration would wipe them out in a week. Perhaps 7 days later is not a good title?
Correction: Not everyone that was infected got infected on the first day, those that are dying at the end of the film could have been infected recently. And those that were infected 56 days ago were probably long dead.
5th Jul 2002
Independence Day (1996)
Corrected entry: After Randy Quaid flew into the Alien ship and it blew up, what happened to all those Alien Fighters which greatly outnumbered the American jets? There seems to be no further thought of the hundreds / thousands of Alien Fighters in any of the different locations where the Alien Ships are being taken down.
Correction: In the movie it was said that the Alien ship that was on earth did not work until the mother ships arrived. It's possible that the destruction of the mother ships rendered them useless again.
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Correction: He uses the passport with his name on purpose, so they will take him into custody. He is then able to get info and steal the phone. He knew he would be able to escape when he needed to.
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