Corrected entry: Similar to Cars, this movie takes place in a world populated by living machines, not humans or animals. So considering the fact that Dusty is a cropduster, who or what are those crops meant for? And what's the point of having planes that are passenger jumbo jets? Non-flying vehicles like cars and boats would be too large to fit inside a passenger plane.
Teru_Kage
8th Aug 2013
Planes (2013)
25th Jul 2013
Inception (2010)
Corrected entry: "The kick" is the feeling of falling that is supposed to jolt a person awake. As demonstrated by Yusuf, even with heavy sedation Arthur woke up every time he started falling from his chair. Yet at the start of the movie, Cobb fell all the way into the bathtub before waking up. And it wasn't the fall as much as the water that woke up Cobb (water began to spray inside the Japanese temple, meaning that Cobb was still dreaming when he hit the water and was incorporating the sensation of the water into his dream). In fact, why was the bathtub even needed if all it takes is a fall to wake someone up? Wouldn't it have been safer to place Cobb's chair on a padded carpet to soften his fall, rather than have him choke on water and risk drowning?
Correction: It is evident that the kick doesn't always work in the initial sensation. Like in the dream part towards the end when the van smacked against the bridge. That was supposed to be the kick, but it failed. It is also stated that the sedative they are using in the main part of the movie when on the jet is "a very powerful sedative". And the chemist even said he specially engineered it. So it is logical to assume that there are different types, powers, and effects of different sedatives. the one Cobb was on in the beginning was likely one that needed the water as insurance that a fall didn't work or was suppose to be lifted by water anyways.
4th Mar 2013
Skyfall (2012)
Corrected entry: In the Istanbul chase scene, when Bond reaches the the motorcycle the owner is still standing next to it. Yet in the next cut when Bond gets on the bike, the owner is no longer seen.
Correction: As Bond takes the bike you can just see the man take a step back and let go of the handle bars, then Bond gets on it and rides off.
1st Jul 2013
Man of Steel (2013)
Corrected entry: Heat vision is directed by the person's field of vision, so in the climactic scene why did Zod struggle to turn his head when he could have simply moved his eyes?
Correction: This is an assumption. It is never stated within the film that the heat vision seen in this film is within the field of vision. All cases of heat vision being used in this film has the users head fixed on the target.
24th May 2013
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Corrected entry: How is it that the battle between the Vengeance and the Enterprise took place for so long without anyone on Earth providing assistance? Shouldn't Starfleet have some sort of planetary defense contingency against a starship (or fleet of them) appearing within the Earth's orbit?
Correction: Admiral Marcus was still in command of the Vengeance during the initial battle; he had the authority to order all ships to stand down - something he would need to do so that no one could come to the aid of the Enterprise.
24th May 2013
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Corrected entry: Scotty entered the Jupiter construction site of the USS Vengeance without anyone noticing. Given that the base was a top secret facility run by Section 31, it is highly unlikely that it wouldn't have security system on high alert monitoring all approaching ships. And Scotty didn't know ahead of time what he was looking for, so it's not likely he would have had the foresight to mask his approach.
11th Jun 2013
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
Corrected entry: Valeris informs the crew that her comrades will make sure to jam ship to ship transmissions, yet minutes later the Enterprise is able to contact the Excelsior. In addition, why wouldn't the Excelsior contact Khitomer to warn them of the impending assassination attempt? (01:27:40 - 01:30:35)
Correction: Valeris specifically says "ship to shore" not "ship to ship." Different communication protocols and hence one could be jammed without necessarily causing a problem with the other. And as to why Excelsior didn't contact anyone, that may or may not be an error. It would depend on how the ship to shore transmissions were being blocked. In order to block the Enterprise's communications at all without an active agent on the ship anymore would require blocking the transmission at the receiving end. In this case, they probably had communication to or from Khitomer blocked, since that is infinitely easier than blocking all communication in the whole quadrant. And if that's the case, Excelsior would be just as unable to warn Khitomer and stop the assassination as Enterprise was.
26th Jun 2013
Inception (2010)
Corrected entry: Cobb says that he can't see the faces of his children in his dreams because the last image he saw of them in real life was from behind. This doesn't make sense because his mind could easily reproduce their faces from his numerous memories of them. If his dreams were limited to the last image he ever saw, then everyone he dreams about should only be represented exactly the way he last saw them, which would mean Mal should look dead in all his dreams.
Correction: Ah, if only sub-conscious minds worked that predictably. There are no strict rules like that when dealing with our dreaming minds. In Cobb's case, he's simply plagued by guilt, hence his sub-conscious won't let go of Mal, constantly inserting her into his dream and torturing him with a lost love that he can't stop blaming himself for. But that same sub-conscious self torture won't let him see the faces of his kids because that would provide him a comfort that deep down he doesn't feel he deserves. There are rules for our sub-conscious selves, but they're not as cut and dried as you're trying to make them.
11th Jun 2013
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
Corrected entry: Why would Valeris leave the bodies of Burke and Samno in the halls to be discovered so easily? Wouldn't it have been better to stow their bodies away to delay discovery as long as possible (at least until after the Peace Conference)? (01:23:50)
Correction: Because it would be illogical. She had to do away with both of them at the same time (if one goes missing, the other might get suspicious and talk) and perhaps she didn't have the time to plan an arrangement where she could meet with them and arrange a hit. So her best bet was to sneak up on both of them and shoot them. It's a lot easier and faster to shoot two people and run away than it is to drag two bodies through the ship's corridors and risk discovery.
11th Jun 2013
Alien 3 (1992)
Corrected entry: How did the stowaway facehugger impregnate the dog (or ox, depending on which version of the movie) after it had already impregnated Ripley with the Alien Queen? Alien 1 & 2 had already established that facehuggers die shortly after impregnating a host. Not only would it be impossible for the same facehugger to impregnate 2 hosts, but it should have died after impregnating Ripley.
11th Jun 2013
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
Corrected entry: After Spock and McCoy rig the photon torpedo to lock on to plasma discharge, why did the torpedo only detect Chang's vessel and not the Excelsior's? (01:41:10)
11th Jun 2013
Prometheus (2012)
Corrected entry: Shaw found David's head and body in the same place that they'd fallen after the Engineer attacked him. But considering that the entire spaceship had just violently crashed, shouldn't the parts of his body been tossed all over the chamber?
24th May 2013
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Corrected entry: The movie takes place in the year 2259. Every reference to Khan's hibernation stated that he was frozen for "300 years", which would mean that genetically engineered superhumans were created in the year 1959. Naturally, there's some leeway when someone refers to "300 years" but even setting the threshold to 250 results in the year 2009. It would have been more convincing if they had set it at "200" or "over 200 years".
Correction: The 300 years is accurate, because this movie does not take place in our universe. There is a significantly different history between the Star Trek universe and ours, including time that has already passed for us. In the original series Khan's crew was frozen for 300 years (give or take), and this had to be kept the same for continuity reasons. More specifically, it is explicitly stated in The Wrath of Khan that Khan and his followers left Earth in 1996. That puts it at 260 years. One simple rounding job away from 300.
22nd Apr 2013
Oblivion (2013)
Corrected entry: How did Beech know to quote the exact same (and only) line that Jack read from the book he found in the library? He had no way of knowing whether Jack had read the book, let alone the exact stanza from a specific poem.
Correction: Because Beech watches Jack closely through binoculars, we can assume that he knows which book Jack took, and has probably had plenty of time to read it himself. That quote is Thomas Macaulay's most famous, so it's not a stretch he would go for that quote from Macaulay's book.
11th Mar 2013
Star Trek (2009)
Corrected entry: Considering the time it took for the fleet to travel from Earth to Vulcan, coupled with the fact that Vulcan had started feeling seismic activity even earlier, we can conclude that it takes a fair amount of time for the Narada's drill to penetrate a planet's structure. There should have been plenty of time for Vulcan's defense force (or even a shuttle craft) to fly up and shoot the drill, as Spock did at the end of the movie. For that matter, why didn't the Enterprise shoot a torpedo or fire phasers at the drill? Same goes for Earth.
20th Mar 2013
Star Trek (2009)
Corrected entry: After realizing that the Jellyfish was on a collision course, ordering the Narada to open fire wouldn't have helped at all; destroying the Jellyfish would have led to containment breech of the red matter, which in turn would have swallowed up the Narada as well. A better option would've been to simply warp away. From the previous scene, the Narada was able to jump to warp in a matter of seconds to pursue the Jellyfish, meaning that jumping to warp is a relatively quick and easy task. Even after the missiles were fired, Nero still had plenty of time to order a warp retreat.
Correction: Characters are allowed to be fallible, to make wrong choices without it being considered a mistake. Nero's angry, he wants to see Spock dead, and, being a miner by profession rather than a warrior, lacks the training to overcome his anger and consider his options rationally. If this leads him to make a wrong call, that's just him screwing up, not a plot hole.
13th Mar 2013
Star Trek (2009)
Corrected entry: If Spock had not shown up at the end of the movie to offer his services, Kirk would have left spacedock without a First Officer. Starfleet wouldn't allow the flagship of the Federation to go on a mission without a complete command crew.
Correction: In the pilot episode of The Next Generation, the Enterprise picks up its First Officer, Commander Riker, at Farpoint Station. Captain Picard even makes reference to this in his log, that they will be picking up 'Key Personnel' also including their Chief Medical Officer.
Correction: Why not? They did it in The Motion Picture. Clearly it's no big deal to pick up an officer for an empty post after leaving Earth.
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Correction: Even in the Cars movies, the vehicles ate stuff. Like in Cars 2 when Mater ate the spicy stuff in Tokyo and made a fool of himself and McQueen. Also in the same movie, Mater, Shiftwell and McMissile travelled on a jet airliner. Obviously not for humans, but the jets still transport smaller vehicles.
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