Question: What happened to Barry's dad?
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29th Aug 2013
Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (2013)
29th Aug 2013
Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (2013)
Question: When shown, Barry's mom's tombstone does not have her date of birth or death on it. Is this a mistake? I believe it's standard for American graves to bear these dates.
Chosen answer: It is standard, but not always the case. It all depends on what the deceased's family wants. There's no law to state that there has to be a DOB and DOD on the marker.
27th Aug 2013
Batman Returns (1992)
Question: Why is Penguin's blood green?
Answer: It isn't. If you look at when he dies you will see that he has cuts on his face that are bleeding red. The blue liquid is more like a bile, probably similar to saliva.
Chosen answer: It is part of the mutation that caused his peculiar appearance.
27th Aug 2013
Batman Returns (1992)
Question: One question answered on this movie says that Penguin died because he was out of the cold. Another says he just prefers cold. So does he need cold or not and why did he die?
Chosen answer: Penguin died due to the wounds he sustained during the missile explosions earlier.
27th Aug 2013
Meet the Browns (2009)
Revealing mistake: At the end of the episode when Leroy is trying to get a cat to come down off the house, it jumps at him and he gets into a "fight" with the cat going at his face. It is painfully obvious that the cat is just a stuffed toy and David Mann is just controlling it.
27th Aug 2013
Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (2013)
Continuity mistake: While fighting Black Manta, Batman stands next to an orange car as he blasts away with his pistols. Between shots, the front seats of this car change from separate seats to a bench seat. (01:01:45)
27th Aug 2013
Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (2013)
Continuity mistake: When Flash goes around the decapitated statue of himself in the Flash museum, he stops and you can see a glass door behind him that is broken. The bottom-most part of the break is not to the bottom of the door frame, but a few inches to half a foot away. It then cuts to a view of his feet, and you see the same door behind him. Now the bottom part of the break in the glass is now right at the bottom of the door frame. (00:03:25)
27th Aug 2013
Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (2013)
Continuity mistake: Reverse Flash smacks Flash over to the edge of a building. The building is heavily damaged from the war and crumbling. The edge is broken off and jagged, but averages out to a straight line. A few moments later, when Reverse Flash puts his foot on Flash, the broken edge of the building has become much more jagged and uneven. (01:05:40)
26th Aug 2013
Batman Returns (1992)
Question: What exactly happened to Vicki Vale between movies? She's mentioned a couple times in this one, but it's never said what happened.
Chosen answer: The same thing that happens to all the women in Bruce Wayne's life who learn his secret: She eventually realized that she would always be second to Batman, and never know if he'd make it home each night, so she left.
Answer: They broke up. At one point in the movie, Bruce tells Selina that he had a girlfriend (Vicki), but, and I quote, "It didn't work out."
26th Aug 2013
Batman Returns (1992)
Question: Who is Max Shreck from the comics, or is he even from the Batman comics?
Chosen answer: Shreck was a character created for the movie. The part was originally intended to be Harvey Dent, and the explosion at the end would scar him, paving the way for Two Face in a third movie, but the filmmakers opted for an original character instead. The name comes from a German actor who played Count Orlok in "Nosferatu".
26th Aug 2013
Batman Returns (1992)
Question: Why must Penguin be in cold to survive?
Chosen answer: He doesn't need to be in cold to survive. He just prefers it since he's lived in the cold his entire life.
26th Aug 2013
Batman Returns (1992)
Question: Why is Penguin coughing up green stuff before he dies? And is that his blood?
Answer: It is poison from Shrek's factory.
Chosen answer: It is suppose to be his blood.
26th Aug 2013
House of Payne (2006)
Question: Which episode is it that they're going to be shutting down 3 fire stations, and at the end, they decided to turn #5 into a museum?
Answer: Season 8.
26th Aug 2013
Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
Continuity mistake: Towards the beginning of the film, Mike is in a diner with a woman. A group of people walk up and they have a conversation. Mike sets down his white cup on the table. This cup continually vanishes and reappears throughout the scene. (00:12:05)
26th Aug 2013
Batman Returns (1992)
Question: After she falls, what exactly makes Selyna Kyle go nuts? And what is she trying to do to her apartment?
Answer: The film keeps it ambiguous. There are two ways to look at it. Scenario A- She literally died and is brought back to life by the alley-cats somehow, adapting some of their traits. Or... Scenario B- The trauma of falling and sustaining a head-injury, along with her paranoia after Schreck tried to kill her, has driven her mad, and she uses her connection with cats to build a new persona. (Which is supported by the fact that all the things she claims "kills" her with each of her "nine lives" wouldn't actually have killed her. Ex. Her one fall is broken by the kitty-litter truck. Max doesn't hit her in any vital organs when he shoots her. Etc.) Her destroying her apartment is her lashing out at all the things she used to hold dear- her vision of a normal life, etc. It's symbolic of her purging the past and embracing the future. (Plus, oftentimes when people throw fits, they'll smash stuff up).
Chosen answer: She just died, and came back to life. The shock drove her mad. She really isn't doing anything but destroying it.
26th Aug 2013
Batman: The Brave and the Bold (2008)
The Scorn of the Star Sapphire! - S3-E5
Continuity mistake: While talking to Batman on her hand held device, Carrol looks up at the sky. The outline of her name tag is grayish blue. For a couple frames, the outline of her name tag turns black, then back to gray. (00:05:25)
26th Aug 2013
Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (2013)
Question: If Reverse Flash can't kill Barry in an unaltered time line because he will mess up his own past, then why is he trying to kill him in the beginning of the movie before the Flashpoint change? He traps Flash in the Flash museum and places explosives on him with intent to kill.
Chosen answer: Reverse Flash knows he'll be wiped out of existence, but he doesn't care. He's so obsessed with killing Flash in a satisfying way that he's willing to sacrifice his own life to do it. That's why he stays completely calm when the Flash moves the charge to his shoulder and tells him he'll die too. This is further evidenced by the fact that he didn't care that Aquaman's WMD would kill him along with everyone else.
Which still makes no sense... because then why doesn't he just go back in time and kill him?
26th Aug 2013
Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (2013)
Continuity mistake: After Reverse Flash stabs Flash in the leg with the broken rebar, Flash picks up a rock and slams Reverse Flash in the face with it. In the wide shot of this, the rebar is a solid gray bar. It then cuts to a closer shot as Flash grabs it, and suddenly there are screw like lines swirling around it. (01:04:45)
25th Aug 2013
Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (2013)
Continuity mistake: Reverse Flash stabs Flash in the leg with a broken rebar. In the side shot, Flash throws his head back. It cuts to a close up of Flash, and he throws his head back again and screams. It cuts several times between a close up and a side shot at this point. In the side shots, Flash has his lips open, but gritting his teeth hard. In the close ups, Flash's mouth is wide open. (01:04:40)
24th Aug 2013
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2011)
Question: Is this supposed to be a sequel or a reboot? It takes place as if it's a sequel, kinda like the Hulk movies, but there are so many changes and differences it's like a reboot... like the Hulk movies. So sequel or reboot?
Chosen answer: This is a sequel. The only major difference from the first one is the Devil's human appearance.
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Chosen answer: According to DC wiki (http://theflash.wikia.com/wiki/Henry_Allen), Barry's mum was killed by Professor Zoom - due to the lack of evidence his dad Henry was accused of her murder and eventually died in prison. But when Barry went back to stop the other Flash from saving his mum, we can see there was a burglar in the room who was approaching her, so there isn't really an explanation to what happened to Barry's dad in Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox. There's only an explanation in the comics.
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