Corrected entry: In the scene where Lee pays a visit to Paul on the basketball court, he and Lacy are both wearing helmets. Lacy gets off the bike and after a little taunting, Lee drives forward. As he rides away from Lacy his helmet is on, there is a cut scene, and suddenly his helmet is off and Lacy is walking away with it. (00:46:20)
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14th Aug 2010
The Expendables (2010)
9th Sep 2006
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Corrected entry: When Caparzo gets shot you hear a dissonant chord on the piano instantly after the shot before he lands on it to create the rest. The only explanation for the sound would be the bullet deflected into the piano but that would only create two notes at most.
Correction: This is one possibility, but the dissonant chord could also be the result of wood fragmentation from the piano itself striking additional strings.
17th Mar 2007
The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning (2007)
Corrected entry: Bo's driving instructor throws his clipboard upward from his lap. The instructional car hits the police car and the instructor recoils from the impact. The next shot is of the airbag deploying with the instructor's pen still in writing position near his lap. The shot after all of that is Bo being tasered. Although the taser was invented in 1969, law enforcement did not start using it until near the turn of the century (especially in relatively small counties). (00:01:45)
Correction: This movie is set in current days (a prequel to the 2005 movie, not the TV show), so the use of the Taser is perfectly logical.
29th Dec 2010
The A-Team (2010)
Corrected entry: In the scene where the reason for the main mission is described, it is said that "Fedayeen thugs have seized what's left of the Iraqi National Mint to run off billions of dollars in unbacked American currency". U.S. currency is a fiat currency system, meaning it is backed by the word of the government to accept it as currency; any falsely printed currency that is identical to official currency would still be "backed" currency in the U.S. (00:23:10)
Correction: You've certainly understood the concept of fiat currency, but apparently not of counterfeiting; if a government wanted to back all currency (real and fake) in circulation, then counterfeiting wouldn't be a problem at all. In fact, it could save a government printing costs! But since a government chooses NOT to print an unlimited amount of money every year, for obvious economic reasons, they specifically wish to control the amount of money in an economy and only wish to "back" the very amount they print and circulate. Therefore, "unbacked currency" as stated by Hannibal simply means money that hasn't been authorized by the USA for circulation through stolen plates and a leftover press.
9th Nov 2009
Hardwired (2009)
Corrected entry: When the Hope accountant is shoved into the van, his visitor name tag is intentionally thrown to the ground and the camera centers on it, showing that it's important. Shortly after, the accountant still has the tag on his suit. (00:52:45)
Correction: The visitor tag was thrown to the ground but it was the one used by Luke to enter the building, not by the accountant. The accountant's tag is not a visitor pass.
1st Jul 2008
10,000 B.C. (2008)
Corrected entry: The men have clean facial hair lines. This could not have happened as they didn't have a tool that could shave as close as a razor.
Correction: Tribes in Africa and in the Amazonian Forest have been using alternative methods for shaving hair in traditional hairdos, including hairlines (also depicted in the movie), using things such as sharpened sea shells, bones, etc.
1st Jul 2008
10,000 B.C. (2008)
Corrected entry: In the scene where D'Leh kills the mammoth, he throws a spear at it which sticks in quite far and does not droop. A throw from a man would not pierce a mammoth's skin very deep if at all and when the second spear is in the mammoth, the first is nowhere to be found. As for the second spear, even if its rough wooden frame didn't snap under the force of several tons of tough skinned mammoth hurtling into it at a severe angle, it did not hit an area, nor did it go deep enough to damage any vital organs. Had it been a steel shafted razor edge, it may have gone right through the sternum into the upper chest cavity, where it still wouldn't hit a vital organ. And even though the fall drove the spear into a potentially life-threatening position, the mammoth would not have fallen, negating the death in its entirety. (00:15:05 - 00:15:45)
Correction: Most of the mistake is conjecture, but even if not, some suspension of disbelief is required. Just as most cars in an action movie would be destroyed in a jump, we have to accept a hunter killing a mammoth as artistic license.
25th Jul 2006
The Aviator (2004)
Corrected entry: The fuel gauge for the speed test is grossly exaggerated for effect. They just got done telling him that there is minimal fuel for weight considerations. Just after takeoff, it reads about 40, which is half full. After the first run it's down around 30. Going into the third run it's near 10. Given the H-1's range of 2,490 miles, even pushing the engine to it's limits shouldn't drain that much fuel that quickly nor should the engine stall at 10. (01:44:40 - 01:46:20)
Correction: The H-1 was modified after the initial test flight. The first model was not intended to fly a long distance. After the initial flight basically the only thing that was not changed was the fuselage itself.
11th May 2010
Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
Corrected entry: Ames writhes in pain on the table while receiving the death penalty. Clyde says that he changed the potassium chloride for "something a little more deliberate". Potassium chloride is the last chemical injected and so Ames would still have been paralyzed by the pancuronium (the second injection) and could not have moved.
16th Oct 2009
Jurassic Park (1993)
Corrected entry: When they first arrive at the park, they see a brachiosaur feeding on the leaves of a tree. When the dino gets on its hind legs to get a hold of the top branch, it could've easily reached the top branch without taking the extreme energy to lift itself. This counteracts anything that would naturally happen but is used to make the impressive landing that it makes coming down.
Correction: Unless you'd care to provide full and factual details of your studies into real-life brachiosaur feeding habits, this is based purely on an opinion, which are not considered valid grounds for a mistake.
While rearing up is at least PLAUSIBLE for most sauropods as the majority of their weight was carried on their hind legs. This is not the case for Brachiosaurs, their skeletal anatomy just doesn't support it. The greater length and robust build for the forelimbs indicates that their weight distribution was much further forward than in a sauropod like say Diplodocus. While it cannot be stated 100% that a Brachiosaurus could not rear up, it would be extremely difficult, and likely carry a high risk of injury for the animal. sources: Evolution and extinction of the dinosaurs Cambridge university press Biology of the sauropod dinosaurs: Understanding the life of giants Indiana Univerity press.
The book is about studies of real fossils. In JP there were genetically engineered monsters. There could have been differences compared to true dinosaurs.
Well since this movie came out before those books did all this information is irrelevant. It's all artistic license.
23rd Feb 2009
The Departed (2006)
Corrected entry: Sullivan shouldn't have had to yell out that he had Costello after shooting him. The other cops would've surely heard the barrage of gunshots and came running as they had already stopped shooting long before. (02:05:45)
15th Feb 2009
City of Angels (1998)
Corrected entry: Seth exclaims that he sees color when he sees his blood as if he had never seen color before. Are we to believe he couldn't see color and yet says how beautiful the world is a few times before becoming human. This is also a problem since angels aren't supposed to feel emotions.
Correction: He's an angel, intangible. Light isn't. He didn't see the same way we do. It's comparable to Pleasantville when the door turned blue. They all agreed that it had always been blue, but now it was *blue*. Seth could always distinguish one color from another, but until he became human he couldn't really "see" color. Also, being able to acknowledge the beauty in something doesn't have to be a matter of emotion.
14th Feb 2009
City of Angels (1998)
Corrected entry: One of the fundamental points in the plot is that humans have free will but angels do not. If angels didn't have free will they would not have the choice to fall from grace.
10th Jan 2009
Babylon A.D. (2008)
Corrected entry: We are told that Toorop's parents' home was "probably destroyed". We are led to believe that this would've been many years before the end of the movie. But when you look at the remains of the cabin you can see all of the old broken wood except for one large wall (right before Aurora smiles at him) that looks like a relatively fresh break. This was most likely from having to build the set and forgetting to artificially age part of it as other breaks look properly aged. (01:30:10)
Correction: Or it was intended to be from natural weather damage, and was therefore made to look like a more a recent break. The cabin didn't likely collapse on itself all at once. Set designers put a lot of attention to detail into what they do; they don't just "forget" to add a detail to one part of the set, when they've added that same detail to every other part of it.
5th Sep 2008
The Last Samurai (2003)
Corrected entry: When Katsumoto tells Aldrin that they have clear passage to Tokyo, he pronounces Tokyo with three syllables (Toe-kee-o) as would an American, whilst the proper pronunciation has two syllables (Toe-kyo). Despite the fact that they are speaking English, this mistake wouldn't have been made by a native Japanese speaker. (01:14:00)
Correction: This is disproven by itself; Ken Watanabe, the actor playing Katsumoto, IS a native of Japan, and as we can clearly hear he pronounces "Tokyo" with three syllables.
1st Aug 2008
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)
Corrected entry: When Kumar kisses Vanessa after breaking up the wedding, everyone claps. For everyone to clap it would mean that none of them were pissed that Colton just got knocked out and broken up with. And if he was so bad that his own family would clap then she'd have surely picked that up by then. (01:37:55)
Correction: This is not the case. There are people in the front rows on the groom's side (presumably his family) that are not clapping. They are looking unhappily at each other. The groom's friend standing next to Harold is not clapping either.
26th Jul 2008
The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising (2007)
Corrected entry: When the rider summons the cold, the window freezes. If window glass were to get that cold that fast it would shatter. The cold does manage to find it's way in and everyone's covered in frost and there are huge icicles in the house. First off, somebody would've woken up if they weren't dead already. Second, icicles need liquid water to grow and they don't grow in extreme cold. Also, even falling icicle's that large would likely injure but not kill someone (the ones that weren't controlled by magic). (01:17:20)
26th Jul 2008
The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising (2007)
Corrected entry: Will is told that the dark cannot enter the Great Hall unless it's invited. Later, Will opens the door when the rider is faking his mom's voice and the rider comes in, however, just opening the door for someone does not make them a guest nor does it invite them in. (01:25:20)
Correction: This is purely opinion-based. You may not see it as an invite to open the door for someone, but many others would say that opening the door for someone who asks to be let in is the same as a spoken invitation. And apparently whoever placed the enchantments on the Hall thought so too.
10th Mar 2008
In the Valley of Elah (2007)
Corrected entry: Detective Sanders tells another detective to "straighten out some wire hangers and buy dixie cups to hang on the ends of them" and hands him money, but immediately after is shown placing dixie cups on hangers to mark a piece of evidence. (00:23:15)
Correction: It simply didn't show her buying them for the purposes of timing.
28th Jul 2006
Final Destination 3 (2006)
Corrected entry: Wendy says that the "hydraulics will rupture" when she's freaking out. If her vision ended after she was falling from the car then how would she know what the reason for the accident was unless she knew how roller coasters worked which is doubtful for an average high school teenager. (01:19:30)
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Correction: As Lacey gets off the bike both helmets are off. We then see Christmas drive forward with no helmet on.