Corrected entry: When Jake shows Sy the action figure he picked up in the store, there is a shot of the figurine in the box. The title and text on the box is almost all in Japanese writing, including a little yellow text box, on the top right of the plastic covering, and in the shot of the back of the box, most of the writing is in Japanese as well. It's unlikely that a product that was released in a major American mall, would leave most of the writing on the product it was selling, in a foreign language. While many stores import products and leave the writing in the foreign language, malls like the one in the film would never import items like this, unless it was on special request. It wouldn't see much profit from importing an product like that.
Bishop73
13th Feb 2005
One Hour Photo (2002)
10th Feb 2008
Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach (1988)
Corrected entry: After the party where Harris gets burned by the brandy, there is a left panning shot of the beach which focuses on the large curved hotel. The next shot zooming out of the arch shows the hotel to be a blatant painting. (Note the frozen waterfalls on the pool.)
Correction: Lassard and the other man are standing in front of the real life Fountainebleau Hotel mural painted by Richard Haas in the 80's (although in 2002 during renovations the wall and mural were taken down).
24th May 2015
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
Corrected entry: During the initial Sentinel attack, there's an error regarding Blink's portals, and the inconsistent way with which they are routed. We see a Sentinel lured into one, turn around, and then try to go back through it. However, simply turning around to reenter the portal should have resulted in the Sentinel being back in his original location, ie. on the far side of the first portal, facing away from Blink. But instead we have the Sentinel ending up on the closest side, facing towards Blink. (00:06:55)
18th Aug 2014
The Dead Pool (1988)
Corrected entry: When the killer stabs a newspaper picture of Harry, the rubber knife blade bends.
Correction: It's not a rubber knife. It's a boning knife, which is designed to be flexible. When the killer is slicing the newspaper with the knife, he puts so much pressure on the knife that the blade bends as it should (although most rubber knives aren't sharp enough to slice up newspaper as he does).
19th Sep 2010
Sudden Impact (1983)
Corrected entry: Near the end, Mick and the other two bad guys are chasing Sondra to the carousel. Mick shatters the glass door with his rifle on the right. after a chase,she runs to the same glass doors only to shatter the left door this time, while the right door is now intact.
Correction: It's not the same doors. It's the doors on the other side of the carousel. You can tell because not only is the surrounding area different, but the door style is different. The first door (which had the keys in the lock) had a push bar across each door. The second doors (which have no keys in them) have door handles but no push bar.
12th Jan 2010
Sudden Impact (1983)
Corrected entry: In two scenes, at the pistol range to get used to his Automag pistol and in the hotel room when Harry has lost his model 29, S&W and is getting his Automag pistol. In both scenes, Harry picks up the Automag pistol, then a magazine and pushes the magazine into the pistol butt. Both times the magazine has no cartridges in it. You can see the spring through the witness slot on the side of the magazine. The pistol won't fire if there are no cartridges in the magazine.
Correction: Both times it's very clear both magazines have cartridges in them. The first time you do see some of the spring near the bottom, but this is because the magazine isn't fully loaded. In one shot when he's loading the magazine into the gun, you can even see the cartridge at the top.
31st Jan 2007
The Enforcer (1976)
Corrected entry: In the scene in the church where Harry needs information from a priest, he throws him into a confessional so hard that the wall separates revealing how flimsy it is. (01:22:55)
Correction: It's not the wall that separates. The inside of the confessional was lined with soundproofing tiles, like those you'd see on a ceiling. It's the tiles that move, which would happen in real life. It's the construction style of how they're placed that causes this, just like how easy it it to push a some ceiling tiles up.
25th Oct 2005
Magnum Force (1973)
Corrected entry: During Davis' combat pistol round, we see him shoot a standup target from the target's perspective. He fires twice, but we see a second bullet hole pop out before the second shot is fired for a total of three holes from only two bullets.
Correction: The target was shot at once prior to the camera cutting to the target's perspective, so in total it was hit 3 times with 3 bullets, thus the 3 holes.
6th Mar 2011
Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007)
Corrected entry: When we see Carson Clay in the audience for the first time during the premiere of his movie, you can see Sabine two rows behind, when she has not arrived at the premiere yet. She is still driving with Mr. Bean.
Correction: No, that's not her. It's just a random girl sitting next to Stepan's father.
9th Sep 2007
Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007)
Corrected entry: When Bean is chasing the chickens on the bike, his basket is filled with only fruits. A few moments later his video camera appears in the basket.
Correction: When he first grabs the bike, the camera isn't in the basket, but the next shot, which is of him much further along in the chase, the camera is there (but he had plenty of time to put it in there to video tape what he was doing).
4th Aug 2006
Mr. Bean (1989)
Corrected entry: When the magician pulls the scarf from Mr Bean's jacket, you can see that the scarf is already in Mr Bean's jacket and the magician just takes it out. But since Mr Bean showed up late to the magic act, the magician would not have had any chance to put the scarf there before Mr Bean came up to the stage.
29th Jul 2007
Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007)
Corrected entry: It is impossible to walk to Gare de Lyon from La Défense because where he is dropped off is an elevated pedestrian zone and at the end of it is the motorway and metro line - no footpath.
15th Feb 2011
Dirty Harry (1971)
Corrected entry: Scorpio is not charged with any crime due to inadmissible evidence. There is no reason why he could not have been charged with assault on a police officer, and with shoot to kill a police officer, given he assaulted Harry and shot Chico, who both were witnesses.
Correction: Everything about that night is tainted evidence and therefore not admissible, but not only that, the DA wasn't willing to try to prosecute on any crime because of Harry's actions.
Scorpio's face was covered with a ski mask so Harry or Chico couldn't identify him for assaulting or shooting a police officer. I did find a 1997 constitutional law paper from the University of Chicago (Dirty Harry and the Real Constitution, Michael Stokes Paulsen) that argues Scorpio could be tried and convicted.
27th Aug 2001
Dirty Harry (1971)
Corrected entry: The route that the Scorpio makes Harry take to the cross would definitely take longer than 20 minutes. In the movie he runs Harry all over town on a trek that would take many, many hours.
Correction: I couldn't find anything that suggested the entire running around event took 20 minutes. In fact, afterwards when Harry goes to the doctor about a patient with a knife wound, he says the girl only has an hour to live, meaning it was 2am. He started trekking around at 9:30pm.
18th Apr 2004
Dirty Harry (1971)
Corrected entry: The blackmail note Harry finds after the first murder is pinned to an antenna. When the note is projected at the Mayor's office there is no trace of the rather big hole in the middle. (00:05:30)
Correction: The note wasn't pinned, it was held on by a clip on the side of the note. There was never any hole.
1st Jun 2015
The Fugitive (1993)
Corrected entry: The judge sentences Kimble to death by lethal injection. The judge does not have the power to decide the method of execution.
Correction: In 1993, Illinois used lethal injection as the only form of execution. The only time they would use the electric chair was if something happened where lethal injection was not viable or did not work, however, it was never a primary option. Therefore, there were no other methods for anyone to choose and judge was merely letting Kimble know how he will be executed.
20th Jun 2016
The Office (2005)
Lecture Circuit: Part 2 - S5-E15
Corrected entry: In this episode Angela complains about the amount of leave time a woman gets when she has a baby. To which Meredith says 'she's right, I had my second kid just for the vacation'. But through the entire series, before and after this episode, Meredith has only had one child, a son.
Correction: Meredith only has custody of one child, her son, Jake. However, she has a daughter, Wendy. Wendy's father (one of Meredith's ex-husband) has custody of her.
10th Apr 2015
Apocalypto (2006)
Corrected entry: Heads and bodies rolling down a flight of stairs would disperse, causing a triangular stain on the steps. The film has an inverted triangle. I assume the flight of steps is level.
Correction: The triangle is painted on, just like the lines running up the stairs on the edge are painted blue.
27th Dec 2008
Apocalypto (2006)
Corrected entry: When the prisoners are being led through the city, there is a shot of a horse's skull on a vendor's stand. Horses were not native to the Americas, but were introduced by the Spaniards.
Correction: This is a perpetuated myth similar to that of "slaves built the pyramids". The heavy Spanish horse was introduced, but native horses have been in the Americas since 12,000 BC. There have been written accounts of visitors having seen horse and wagons in such places as ancient Mexico (Hui Shen tells of his account in the 5th century). And some native Americans tell of stories of their ancestors having horses before the Spaniards arrival.
13th Jun 2016
God's Not Dead (2014)
Corrected entry: When Josh is talking to Reverend Dave in the church, he tells him there are about 80 students in his class and that he doesn't think any of them would ever step foot in any church, and the fact that no other students refused to write "God is dead" at the beginning of the philosophy class supports this statement. Roughly 70% of America's population is Christian, which would mean, statistically, at least 50 of the students in the class would be of the church-going variety. Although it helps to make Josh's swaying of his fellow students in his favor as it relates to his debate with Professor Radisson more dramatic, the idea that he would be the only Christian in a room of around 80 people at an American university is highly improbable.
Correction: These are not 80 random US citizens. These are individuals who chose to be in the class. A person with strong enough faith in their Christianity may choose not to take his class, or drop the class when they found out who the teacher was. Additionally, it's generally looked at as 70% of households in America, not 70% of every man, woman, child, and infant. As such, parents who claim to be a Christian family may have a child who denies he or she is Christian (many atheist and agnostics were raised in religious homes). However, as Josh states, the students wouldn't set foot in a church, which doesn't exclude them from considering themselves Christians. There are those who believe in Christ and the Bible, but detest organized religions. However, all of that doesn't ultimately matter since it's just Josh's own guess based on the fact everyone wrote "God is Dead" and not based on him having asked each student or having a knowledge of their personal beliefs.
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Correction: First off, the scene takes place at SavMart, not the mall. So, as you stated, stores (like SavMart) do import foreign toys, and since it's not a major American mall, there's nothing wrong with the toy having Japanese writing. Often stores that carry these types of foreign toys do so because they're actually cheaper, thus saving not only the company, but the customers, money.
Bishop73