Corrected entry: The blob of artificial skin Rupert starts with is very small and thin, but doubles in amount and thickens considerably.
Greg Dwyer
8th Mar 2016
Bicentennial Man (1999)
23rd Feb 2016
The Girl Next Door (2004)
Corrected entry: Matt never asked Danielle or Kelly whereabouts in Vegas the adult videos convention was, so he could not know where to find Danielle.
Correction: It would not be difficult information to find once he was in Vegas. Probably every cab driver in the city would know about it, as well as there likely being billboards or information on the internet.
16th Nov 2015
My Cousin Vinny (1992)
Corrected entry: The FBI's expert testimony about the tire marks and the conclusion that the rubber residue and the rubber from the boys' tires was "identical" is actually inconclusive and misleading information. The expert's testimony established that the tire in question was the most common tire on the market. So any matching of chemical analysis data is at best anecdotal evidence. (01:00:00)
Correction: That's the point that Vinny makes afterwards. It's called "circumstantial evidence" and it can be used to help convict someone.
30th Nov 2015
The Big Bang Theory (2007)
The Pants Alternative - S3-E18
Corrected entry: Sheldon refers to the "Hillbilly Peace Prize" in connection with Penny. Sheldon would have corrected anyone else who said such a thing. He would point out that that word "hillbilly" refers to people who dwell in rural, mountainous areas in the US primarily in Appalachia, the Ozarks, and other less well-known mountain chains. Nebraska, where Penny is from, is rural, but being a Great Plains state, has no connection at all to the term, not to mention a lack of mountains.
Correction: Hillbilly is also an insult to those who live in farming and rural areas, which Penny's story certainly invoked.
8th Oct 2015
Road Trip (2000)
Corrected entry: The movie takes place in New York yet Kyle's car has a West Virginia license plate on the back. Since they are seniors, Kyle should've got New York plates 4 years ago as required by the DMV.
Correction: If he's from West Virginia, the car is likely registered there and therefore valid in New York.
28th Jun 2015
12 Angry Men (1957)
Corrected entry: All of the jurors were talking about how the old witness below heard the body hit the floor, and then at that second, feet running toward the door. However, they also mention how the knife was wiped clean. This just doesn't add up. How could the knife be wiped clean when the killer never stopped to wipe it clean?
Correction: Exactly. The story told to the jury by the prosecution doesn't make sense. As for the fingerprints, if the killer wore gloves, there would also be no prints.
21st Jun 2015
Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003)
Corrected entry: The hospital scene is impossible. All hospital workers, regardless of rank, work 12 hour maximum shifts. The guy that sold her to the trucker would have been off shift while she was in his car trying to "wiggle her toe." The movie states a 13 hour time frame in the car. Its impossible. At the end of the RN's shift, he would have been noticed dead. No way that 13 hours could happen without a major police investigation, which would include finding his vehicle in the parking garage. Plus, even in the scrubs she stole from him, she would not be able to wheel her way into the parking establishment without proper ID.
Correction: Maximum 12 hour shift? Tell that to residents who stay at work for two days straight. Add in that there is no reason he would have been noticed missing unless he was called and failed to respond. If he was something like a janitor or other non-essential staff, he could easily have been thought to have gone home early. No one would call the cops after such a short time.
27th Jul 2015
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Corrected entry: When John tells the Terminator to stop the bike, he pulls off the road into a side-street, then off the side-street and behind a building before stopping. After he says that he's programmed to obey John's commands, every order John gives him from then on is carried out immediately. So why would he take so long to obey the command to stop the bike. Granted, not stopping in traffic would be an issue of John's safety, however, once they've pulled off the main street, that's no longer a factor and he should have stopped immediately. (00:38:50)
Correction: The Terminator is charged with protecting John's safety. Stopping on the street is more dangerous than in a parking lot. Remember that when John tells him to put the gun down, he gently sets it down instead of dropping it.
1st Jun 2015
Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)
Corrected entry: There's no way on earth Riggs and Murtaugh would still be cops in this film after the end of Lethal Weapon 2 where they both threw down their badges and went on a bloodbath, killing men who were protected by the US government. If anything, they would both be serving hard jail time.
Correction: First, the South African government (and the US government along with them) would likely be doing everything they could to sweep the incident under the rug. No one wants the general public to know about the money laundering, drug smuggling, and murder of police officers. Second, Riggs and Murtaugh were charged with protecting the government witness (Leo) and they had to get him. Third, the injuries suffered by Riggs and Murtaugh easily show that they acted in self defense in the exercise of their duties to investigate criminals.
11th Apr 2015
Batman and Robin (1997)
Corrected entry: How does Alfred get Barbara's measurements for the Batgirl suit before she even got on a plane to fly from England to Gotham City? He hasn't seen her in years and we can assume that Barbara didn't just voluntarily give her Uncle Alfred her measurements.
Correction: If you've been making clothes (or in this case Batsuits) for years, you can easily learn to tell someone's measurements by sight.
10th Apr 2015
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Corrected entry: Captain America's shield is made from vibranium. When the Winter Soldier shot a grenade at it the shield would have absorbed the shockwave from the blast. Therefore Captain America wouldn't have gone flying off the bridge like he did.
Correction: The vibranium shield absorbs vibrations. A shock wave, however, is simply a mass of air moved by the explosion. It would push him.
9th Apr 2015
Clueless (1995)
Corrected entry: 12 minutes into the movie when Cher and Dionne are writing a letter to Miss Geist, Travis comes out of an office with Miss Geist and she tells him to remember to bring their class textbooks (leading to believe she is his teacher). Later at 29 minutes, Travis invites Tai to the Valley party and asks Cher if she is in his class with Mrs/Mr Dema (leading us to believe Travis is in Dema's class, even though it was stated earlier that Travis has class with Miss Geist). (00:12:00 - 00:29:00)
Correction: It's possible that she is an adviser or counselor for him instead of a teacher, or that Dema and Geist teach similar classes, or that Travis, being a marijuana user, forgot. Or that he was simply mistaken. It's also possible that he simply used it as a pretext to invite Tai to the party.
29th Mar 2015
The Witches (1990)
Corrected entry: When Luke asks his grandmother if she had ever seen the Grand High Witch, she replies that nobody ever has. Later, in the film, at the hotel Helga sees the Grand High Witch and says there's something familiar about her. Plus, when the witches are turning into mice, Helga points to the Grand High Witch. Since Helga never saw her before, there's no way she should know exactly which of the witches was really the Grand High Witch.
Correction: Luke knew she was the Grand High Witch and told his grandmother. It's not exactly difficult to describe someone who looks like Anjelica Huston. Plus she did see her, when she distracted the cat with her yarn.
Earlier in the movie, before Luke is turned into a mouse, him and Helga are in the dining room and when Helga sees the Grand High Witch in disguise, Helga says that she looks familiar but can't seem to place her.
21st Feb 2015
Almost Famous (2000)
Corrected entry: When William tries to interview Ed in front of the Topeka auditorium, we see a few kids hanging around in the background. In the closing sequence of the movie, we see a close-up shot of the very same kids bargaining over concert tickets - however, this scene allegedly occurs one year later, during the 1974 Stillwater tour.
Correction: So it's a group of friends. No reason they wouldn't still hang out a year later.
25th Jan 2015
Face/Off (1997)
Corrected entry: Castor said he burned all the people who knew about the surgery, but he didn't burn the surgeon. And at the end, the surgeon who switches their faces back is the same one. So why couldn't he just ask him to reveal the truth?
Correction: It's not the same surgeon. The surgeon is behind Tito and Miller as the gasoline is poured on them. His picture is also in the newspaper Castor shows Archer in the prison as having died. Archer is also told after Castor dies that the FBI is bringing in a surgical team from Washington.
23rd Dec 2014
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
Corrected entry: When Peter lunges for the Infinity Stone, he reaches out for and catches the stone with his right hand, yet for the rest of the scene, the stone is in his left hand.
Correction: When he is on the ground with the stone, he holds it with both hands, then transfers it to his left hand when he stands up.
3rd Dec 2014
Bully (2001)
Corrected entry: "Bully" is set in 1995, but Alli's mustang is a 2000 model.
Correction: The crime that inspired Bully happened in 1995. The movie is set in 2001.
19th Nov 2014
The Waterboy (1998)
Corrected entry: When Bobby is asking coach Klein for a job, if you look at the board you will see the game play. There are 12 players on the board for offense, when only 11 can be on the field. (00:13:10 - 00:16:15)
Correction: Coach Klein is obviously in serious mental decline. A mistake like this does not seem out of the ordinary for him.
1st Nov 2014
Outbreak (1995)
Corrected entry: As we all know, at least those of us who bother to keep up with the news and scare stories about the current Ebola crisis, while viruses such as this do continually mutate it is simply not possible for them to substantially change their mode of transmission and "go airborne" overnight. This one, rather bizarrely, suddenly grows microscopic hairs. Total nonsense. It's never happened that quickly, and it never will, as a fundamental mutation such as that would take very much longer indeed. Panic ye not!
Correction: That's not what they say. They make it very clear that the host monkey is infected with both strains of the virus and just happened to transfer one to Jimbo and the other to Rudy.
24th Sep 2014
The Big Bang Theory (2007)
The Locomotion Interruption - S8-E1
Corrected entry: Sheldon says he was in a fire while taking a train through Des Moines. The largest Des Moines in Iowa has not had passenger rail service since 1970, and the much smaller Des Moines in Washington and New Mexico have never had it at all.
Correction: There may not be a station operating in Des Moines, but there are passenger rail tracks that go through it, stopping at Osceola. The fire could have happened on the train, as he does not specifically mention being at a station there.
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Correction: Given that this is a future technology, we have no idea how it works. It could be something that increases in size as it's molded.
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