Corrected entry: When Madison turns up at the Statue of Liberty, the audience is assuming she has just come out of the water. Of course she may have waited a few minutes for her fin to dry and turn into legs. But her hair is completely dry. I think with all that hair it would have taken a long time to dry.
Jazetopher
13th Dec 2003
Splash (1984)
16th Sep 2002
Cast Away (2000)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Chuck is looking through the dead pilot's wallet, if you zoom in on the drivers license, the pilot's date of birth is listed as 1949. When Chuck buries the pilot, he writes 1950-1995 on the rock.
Correction: Character mistake on behalf of Chuck. He could have either chosen to write it as he did to round out the pilot's age to 45, or if he wrote it wrong, had no way to erase it.
25th Jul 2006
The Princess Bride (1987)
Corrected entry: In the final scene with the grandpa and the boy the grandpa's hair gray (as it was in the rest of the movie) but during a close up when he at the door about to leave his hair is dark brown. It changes back to gray right before he leaves.
Correction: It only appears dark brown due to poor lighting during that shot. If you look closely, you will see that his hair never actually changes color.
24th Jul 2006
Click (2006)
Corrected entry: Also in the breakfast scene with Donna and Janine, Michael tunes out Janine by turning on a New York Yankees baseball game through the "picture in picture" feature on his remote. Professional baseball games don't typically start until past noon.
Correction: The don't "typically" start until after noon, but it still happens. Besides, what is typical about a remote that can stop, rewind, fast forward, and pause time? He can play anything from his life by using the Menu feature on the remote, so what's to say he didn't play a game he missed on TV the day before?
28th Nov 2004
Groundhog Day (1993)
Corrected entry: The scene where the three older women have a flat tire, Phil keeps jacking up the car, but in the shot where you look at the ladies the car is not getting any higher.
Correction: Anyone who has ever used an older style "jack" like the one that is shown can tell you it takes a good amount of time to raise the car with one. The shot from inside the car with the ladies only last about 10 seconds, hardly enough time for Phil to pump the jack a few times, let alone raise the car enough so that you notice it rising against the surrounding background.
24th Feb 2006
The Secret of my Success (1987)
Corrected entry: In one shot, the boss chases "Whitfield" out of the conference room so he could finally see who he is. In the very next shot, "Whitfield" is sitting in his office late after hours. Why didn't the boss just go to Whitfield's office?
Correction: Every time the boss goes to his office, Whitfield is nowhere to be found. The boss chases him because he finally finds him in person at the meeting. He had no way of knowing Whitfield would be working late, and surely Whitfield would have made sure certain people were gone for the night before going to his office. The whole premise of the movie revolves around the joke that he can "be there without being there" and still produce results.
8th Feb 2003
Training Day (2001)
Corrected entry: At the end of the movie when Hawke returns home he passes in front of his garage. About a second later his shadow passes by the garage again.
Correction: Multiple light sources cause more than one shadow of the same object. The extra shadow is caused by more than one light source shining on him (Porch light, streetlamp, etc).
21st Jul 2006
Resident Evil (2002)
Corrected entry: In the laser corridor scene, the laser grid that kills One (the captain) is also assumed to have killed the soldier that had his fingers sliced off. If that's the case, then why is the gear that they brought with them inside the corridor intact? It should have been destroyed with the soldiers.
Correction: The laser grid that kills the captain is shut off by the other team member just as it finishes passing through his body, thus leaving the equipment intact.
20th Jul 2006
Click (2006)
Corrected entry: After Michael's weight gain, he winds up in hospital thin again where he was told that he was lucky he cracked his head on the bricks or they would never had found the tumor. "You are the first person to ever put on weight having chemotherapy." He was fat before they discovered the cancer, and chemo caused the weight, therefore he was having chemo before he knew he had cancer. Seems a little pre-emptive to me.
Correction: He did not put on all that weight during chemotherapy, they are stating that the expected reaction of losing weight during chemo did not happen, and he actually gained some weight during treatment, hence the need for the liposuction that left him with the "flap" on his stomach.
19th Jul 2006
Braveheart (1995)
Corrected entry: After the battle where the British guy is thrown over the castle and impaled into a spike, when Wallace is walking through the dead bodies to kill the British leader, to the left there is a dead man who scratches his leg with his other leg.
Correction: 1) He might not be dead yet, but dying a slow, painful death, and can still move a bit. 2) Dead bodies can still "twitch" and spasm after death as electrical energy stored in the brain is released through the nervous system.
19th Jul 2006
Superman II (1980)
Corrected entry: Just after Lois grabs the branch in the river, she is upstream of the branch in one shot, and downstream the next. In these same two shots, the branch goes from being perpendicular to the water's flow to being parallel to it. (00:48:45)
Correction: Logs float in water, and are subject to move around quite a bit in water in a short amount of time, especially in such violent, rapid flowing water.
18th Jul 2006
Superman (1978)
Corrected entry: Lex Luthor claims the yield of each bomb is 500 megatons, and that the second one is headed for Hackensack, NJ. Given Hackensack's proximity to Metropolis, a 500 megaton bomb would wipe out the entire city, Lex Luthor included. (01:57:10 - 02:01:25)
Correction: This is part of the plan in case Superman gets free of the Kryptonite necklace. He states that Superman cannot stop both of the missiles, and by sending one close to Metropolis, this pretty much guarantees that Superman will have to stop the one closest to him first to have any chance at stopping the other one. As seen in the movie, it proves not to be enough time indeed, as the missile detonates in California.
27th Aug 2001
Money Talks (1997)
Corrected entry: As Chris Tucker and Charlie Sheen are chased through an alley at night they break through the glass of a deli and hide after being spotted by a security camera. The French gangster follows carrying a machine gun and then, upon seeing the view of the store in the monitor, proceeds to shoot out the MONITOR, not the camera. Amazingly this was enough, as the police who get the tape later don't see the French gangster and only see Tucker and Sheen.
Correction: It is never stated that they didn't see the French gangster. They were just obviously more interested in Sheen and Tucker because they already had a positive I.D. on the both of them. They are likely not going to ignore that the French gangster was on the tape with a gun, but most likely they would try and apprehend their main suspects first, and then interrogate them later.
16th Nov 2004
Happy Gilmore (1996)
Corrected entry: When Happy first goes to his happy place, his grandma hits three cherries on the slot machine. In the next scene when she is throwing the coins up, you can see that the slot machine is not on three cherries.
Correction: But since this is all a daydream by Happy anyways, he can imagine it any way he wants, as dreams are not bound by the normal rules.
27th Aug 2001
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)
Corrected entry: Toward the end, just before Bill and Ted's presentation in the auditorium, there is a shot of the stage, with the podium front, centre stage. After a cut to the teacher, it cuts back to the stage, and the podium has disappeared.
15th Sep 2002
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)
Corrected entry: When the jewel is converted into the phone booth about 10 minutes in, there is a slight inconsistency between shots. The phone booth start to take shape from the crystal. The next shot with Rufus in his glasses, if you look closely, the phone booth is fully formed in the reflection, as you can see the word "Phone" at the top of the booth. In the next shot, the phone booth still isn't complete.
Correction: This was done on purpose. His glasses are reflecting a few seconds into the future. This happens one other time in the movie as well.
14th Dec 2001
Ghosts of Mars (2001)
Corrected entry: The scientist at the end comes up with the plan to destroy the nuclear reactor and create a nuclear explosion. However a nuclear reactor is nothing like an atomic bomb. There is no way, short of extracting the plutonium rods and then building a bomb themselves, could they have caused it to explode in the way that was claimed.
Correction: The film is set in the future on a different planet. We are never told what kind of nuclear material is in the reactor. It would seem extremely likely that if we can travel to Mars, and colonize it, we would have discovered new elements on the planet, which could react differently on this planet as opposed to Earth. Given that the film takes place in a mining camp, it's perfectly plausible.
22nd Nov 2002
Ghosts of Mars (2001)
Corrected entry: When Jerico is fighting in the first battle, he is kicking and punching the alien people. But when the first person tries to get him with his sword, Jerico blocks the sword with his gun, and if you slow it down, you can clearly see that the sword bends almost all the way back.
Correction: This looks flawless at regular speed. Slow-mo is a disqualifier according to the rules of this site.
9th Jan 2006
Ghosts of Mars (2001)
Corrected entry: Descanso gets his lower arm taken off with a throwing disc, but there is no blood and he manages to draw his pistol and continue to shoot until his head is removed.
Correction: In some recorded cases of accidental amputation, it was shown that with a swift enough cut with a sharp enough blade, it is possible to not bleed from the wound for at least a minute or two. Descanso's injury would seem to fit this example.
31st May 2005
Candyman (1992)
Corrected entry: When Virginia Madsen is reviewing her second set of slides from the Cabrini-Green she zooms in on a picture which shows the reflection of the Candyman. She does this by adjusting the focus on the lens of the slide projector. The focus on the lens of the projector would not provide zoom capability.
Correction: She only brings the picture into focus to see the image. The zoom is not her doing it, but rather the film's camera zooming in to give the viewer a closer look at what she saw behind her in the slide.
Correction: As mentioned in another correction for this film, since she is a mermaid, i.e. not human, who has a fin that can change into two separate legs when drying, the physical properties of her hair are most likely also affected when out of the water, thus making it dry faster.
Jazetopher