Corrected entry: When Ryan is in the Soyuz capsule, several items are seen inside the capsule. For example, sticky notes, pens, guides to using the capsule, fire extinguisher, etc. When Ryan discovers she needs to get rid of the parachute in order for the Soyuz capsule to leave, Ryan puts on a space suit, opens the airlock and removes the ropes connecting to the parachute. After the debris storm, Ryan returns to the Soyuz capsule and it can be noticed all of the items are still there inside the capsule. Wouldn't these items have been sucked into the vacuum of space when Ryan released the airlock earlier on? After all, there is nothing restraining them. (00:53:30)
Quantom X
18th Aug 2014
Gravity (2013)
24th Jun 2014
The Simpsons Game (2007)
Corrected entry: Bargain Bin: As Bart looks up the Simpsons Game cheat guide on the internet, Homer budges in, opens the DVD player and places a Duff can on top of it. No one ever touches the DVD player, but it starts to close anyway.
6th May 2014
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Corrected entry: Other than for convenience for the script, there is absolutely no reason the Borg needed to wait until they got to Earth to use the time vortex to go into Earth's past. They could have made the journey back in time long before they decided to make their attack, then surprise Earth with no one to stop them.
Correction: There is nothing in the movie that suggests that was their plan in the first place. The Borg cube didn't launch the sphere and begin the time vortex until after their cube was about to be destroyed because of Picard's instructions on how Star Fleet should attack. The Borg would no doubt have been monitoring Star Fleet communications and would have known the Enterprise was ordered to stay out of the conflict, thus not expected the Enterprise to arrive with Picard's knowledge on how to defeat them. Thus it is reasonable to assume that when the Enterprise did arrive and Picard ordered the fleet to attack their weak spot, the Borg initiated a Plan B, and then sent their forces back in time. The Borg would have known, especially with their queen among them, that traveling to the past would be risky for their future, also due to the unpredictable chain of events that would have been caused by them changing their own history even, calling their forces out of the Delta Quadrant long before they originally were going to. Thus it is, as Spock would say, logical that their initial plan was to attack Earth with their superior Borg Cube, wipe out Star Fleet and take over Earth with Picard and the Enterprise a long way away from the battle, his ship being the only one with weapons designed to fight the Borg. But when Picard disobeyed orders and the Enterprise arrived at the battle anyways, the Borg had to change their plan.
It is indeed a plot hole. There is absolutely no reason for Borg to fight the federation again (and lose again) when they have time-jump technology in the first place. The "Enterprise Factor" which changed the outcome of the battle, absolutely doesn't matter. It is a lame explanation against an earlier timejump. To be honest it is even a second plot hole (to explain the first one). Picard did not share his Borg tactics with federation long before? What if Picard would've had a heart attack a year before? The precious Borg tactics would be lost and Earth lost to the Borg. Thus changing timeline for the Borg being Plan B cause it is even too risky for Borg, well I don't know, in the end they did it. I don't think Borg think it is too risky for their own future, cause there are other Plan B's, for example sending 10 ships next time and let the "dangerous" time-jump stuff beside.
Correction: Picard had shared information with Starfleet. The reason The Enterprise factor is in play here is Picard could hear the Borg speaking and figured out their vulnerability.
5th May 2014
After Earth (2013)
Corrected entry: When the son has been infected by an insect, his father tells him to inject himself with the clear liquid ampoule first, then the other one, but the son is blind, he can't see the difference between the two ampoules. Nevertheless, he injects himself with one, then the other, not knowing if it will work or not, and he doesn't tell his father he can't see.
Correction: You said it yourself, he doesn't tell his father he can't see. So the dad doesn't know, or doesn't know he has gotten to that point yet. The father wouldn't be sure how long ago exactly the boy got bitten nor how long it would take for the poison to react to his particular anatomy. Thus he would be telling him by colors in hopes that he could still see them, and since the son didn't say he couldn't, naturally the father would assume he still could see. As to the son getting it right as far as which one in the right order, was all luck of the draw.
27th Oct 2013
Jason X (2001)
Corrected entry: In the sick bay, Kay-Em has taken Jason's arm off, then takes off a bigger chunk of his right shoulder, left leg, and finally, about 95 percent of his head. Seeing that Jason falls on the table where the nanotech reconstruction takes place, why didn't they pull his remnants off the table? Even though it was severely damaged and at an angle, common sense would say that it was still hooked up the power, and might somehow reactivate.
Correction: They were in the rush of the moment. When Jason was knocked back, he basically trashed the room and the nanotech table. As they were in a hurry to get off the ship, given it was apparently very broken medical equipment and a guy with half his head blown off, they just simply didn't take the time to think about that with the ship about to blow up.
19th Apr 2004
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (1969)
Corrected entry: Where did the Ape Man get the Scooby mask?
19th Feb 2013
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
Corrected entry: CIA agent Dan proposes finding a phone number of a terrorist's mother to a CIA higher up and is granted permission to pursue this lead. During that scene he is clean shaven (back in Washington DC). When he arrives in Kuwait to buy the information he is shown at a night club with a full beard. Did he actually wait several months to pursue this lead? (01:11:05)
Correction: Facial hair growth rates are different from person to person. The amount of beard he has is not an accurate depiction of time passage. I know a guy who could grow that much or more of a beard in just a week or two. There's no indication just how much time has passed, from him to organize his actions, travel over seas, and stage his lead following which does take time. Nor is it indicated how fast his beard would grow. It could have been just a couple weeks, not months.
15th Jan 2013
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
Corrected entry: When Maya is calling Dan in Langley, she is wearing a badge on her waist. The badge shows the side with her picture. The next time the badge is visible, it is turned the other way, showing the side with a magnetic strip. (01:09:10)
21st Sep 2008
The Invisible Man
Corrected entry: Anything that is not a living part of the Invisible Man is visible; for example, the food he eats is visible until it is digested. However, for some reason his hair, beard and the tips of his fingernails, though nothing more than dead cells, are invisible. Several scholars have noted this as a mistake.
15th Sep 2013
X-Men (2000)
Corrected entry: When Logan crashes through his windshield, he lands over 60 feet away from the truck, far too far considering the speed of the truck and strength of impact.
10th Jan 2007
Blade Runner (1982)
Corrected entry: When Rachel is playing the piano, the shade of her lipstick changes when she lets her hair down and again in subsequent shots. It goes from bright red to almost none at all when she kisses Deckard. (01:08:00 - 01:09:00)
Correction: It's not in the same timeframe. Deckard fell asleep exhausted. He wakes up at this point rested and ready for a kiss, saying he dreamt of music, the music she was playing. And she is wearing different clothing, her shirt at least. Time has passed and she has dressed down, obviously that would include removing lipstick and make up. She is letting her hair down even.
3rd May 2010
Blade Runner (1982)
Corrected entry: When Deckard is waiting for his noodles and reading the paper at the beginning it is only 'raining' around him, not elsewhere on the set. (00:08:25)
21st Aug 2013
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Corrected entry: When Jar-Jar drops the wrench after electrocuting himself we can see it fell into the hole of the engine but he retrieves it in the front intake (jammed, of all things) which is more than a foot away from the hole.
8th Aug 2013
Planes (2013)
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.
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.
17th Apr 2013
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
Corrected entry: After Storm Shadow releases Cobra Commander and Firefly comes to break them out, the Warden shoots a tank and it explodes. Storm Shadow's back is severely burned. In the next scene they are outside and Storm Shadow is being helped out of the building, his back has no visible damage. (00:38:40)
8th Apr 2013
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
Corrected entry: When Roadblock burns the fence with his special gloves he doesn't make the complete circle with his hands, stopping just before the bottom. Not a problem if they just folded the cut shape forwards, but they push out a complete cut circle. (00:01:50)
Correction: It simply just didn't show him burn the bottom. Even at the first cut once he starts burning the fence, his hands have suddenly progressed much further down the fence, and each shot his progression jumps ahead again. It was simply condensing the time and did not need to show him melting through the bottom. When the piece falls out, the bottom is glowing red hot indicating he did burn it as well.
9th Jul 2013
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
Corrected entry: In the early White House meeting you can see the reflection of a big moving camera in the mirror behind the guy with glasses. (00:06:50)
30th Jul 2013
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Corrected entry: Just before the pig-lizard is teleported and then explodes, one of the Thermians says that the equipment has never been tested. So how did the humans get onto the spaceship in the first place?
Correction: They used the goo pod things. Remember when they sent Jason back to earth? He stepped on a pad, and goo formed around him and he was shot through a black hole. Same thing happened for the humans getting to the ship. It was even shown in the movie when the Thermian girl hologram ordered several pods to blast the humans to the ship.
11th Mar 2013
Seven Psychopaths (2012)
Corrected entry: Christopher Walken says "I like you Quaker" just before he kills the guy, but he has no way of knowing he's the Quaker.
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.
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Correction: No, because she could not just open the hatch without equalizing the pressure first. Other wise it would have been very dangerous and sucked her out, potentially damaging her suit in the process and having her lose control and be sucked out into space. Before opening the hatch, she had to either compress the air in the capsule back into the ship air storage, or have the air pumped out into space slowly to not affect the inside of the ship. Thus when she opens the hatch, the pressure was equal to zero, with no air to rush out, taking any items with it.
Quantom X ★
Actually yes, if the door was open air would rush out. Pressure being equal to zero doesn't create a wall, or barrier of any kind that keeps the air from rushing, and taking items with it.
If pressure is zero then there is no air that would rush out.