Corrected entry: When the rebels find the message in Hauser's mind, Cohaagen and his men appear almost immediately. The rebel base is supposedly miles from civilization in a poisoned city. Plus the signal in Hauser's head was the signal the revealed Mathias' location. It should have taken hours for them to arrive.
Bishop73
29th Aug 2012
Total Recall (2012)
18th Apr 2013
Total Recall (2012)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Hauser and Melina are running through the elevator shafts, as Lori attempts to enter the shaft, one of her synthetics is destroyed by an elevator, thus leaving her with 2 of the original 3 synthetics. Just before the one of the synthetics hooks on to the bottom of the elevator to follow Hauser and Melina, there are 3 synthetics with Lori. Where did the extra one come from?
Correction: If you watch the scene again, you'll see there were 4 synthetics with her to start, not 3. And when she says "go" to one of the synthetics, it takes off and there are 3 more behind her.
29th Aug 2012
Total Recall (2012)
Corrected entry: Hauser did not have to have his memories erased and become Quaid. He was already trusted by Melina before becoming Quaid and he was already set to meet with Matthias. Then, after needlessly giving his top agent the memories of a factory worker, the Chancellor pairs Quaid with his number two agent, Lori, yet keeps her in the dark about the Quaid/Hauser connection - even though the goal should be for Lori to let the other side find Quaid.
Correction: Hauser found out about the Chancellor's plan and wasn't going to kill Matthias, so despite having a meeting set up, it was against the Chancellor's plan. And once Lori found out who Quaid was (during the phone call that we didn't hear), she said Hauser was suppose to be dead. So she was left out of the loop for a number of things, she was to focus on the mission, not the person.
4th Feb 2005
I, Robot (2004)
Corrected entry: When Del Spooner jumps down from the control panel level of VIKI to get to her brain and inject the nano-robots, he tries to slow his fall by holding onto the glowing pipes. He lets go rather far from the platform above. Considering that he is already falling very fast, he should have landed very hard and cringed from the impact, but he merely landed and absorbed the impact by bending his knees. That would not be possible.
Correction: That's not what happens at all. He already slowed his decent significantly so when he dropped down, he wasn't going "very fast". Nor could you classify his drop as being from "rather far". But he does more than just bend his knees, he rolls, which significantly reduces the shock.
7th Nov 2014
I, Robot (2004)
Corrected entry: When Dr Calvin terminates the empty shell NS5 instead of Sonny, why didn't VIKI notice and take action, even to notify the watching Robertson of the fact?
9th Sep 2002
Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
Corrected entry: Shouldn't the Mini-Shaguar, being an English spy's English car, have its steering wheel on the right? (00:59:20)
Correction: While it does appear to be on the left, there is only one seat, so there really is no right or left side. Even in right-hand drive cars the steering wheel is slightly to the left relative to the center of the driver's seat (to accommodate things like the air vent).
19th Feb 2013
I, Robot (2004)
Corrected entry: After Sonny is taken in to custody, John and Del are standing talking outside the interrogation room and you can see Sonny through the glass door. You can also see images from the CCTV along the top of the glass door. After Del winks at John and he goes inside the interrogation room, it shows a shot from behind Sonny just as the door is closing. You can see that the door is no longer glass, it has changed to a solid gray door.
Correction: What you're describing is two different parts of the door. The first, where it's glass, is from outside the room. The second, solid gray, is from inside the room. This is nothing more than advanced technology mimicking a one-way mirror in an interrogation room, where inside the room it's a reflective mirror and on the outside it's see-through glass.
1st Aug 2004
I, Robot (2004)
Corrected entry: At the beginning of the movie, Spooner turns on his CD player-ish thing and the music starts (timestamp at 0:00). Two or three seconds later (with no interruption in the music), the player is seen again, showing a timestamp of 10 seconds.
Correction: 8 seconds elapse from when Spooner hits play to when we see the music player with the timestamp (not 2 or 3 seconds). When we first see the timestamp, it reads 0:08, then continues to count up to 0:10, but we see it go from 0:08 to 0:09 then to 0:10.
1st Sep 2007
I, Robot (2004)
Corrected entry: In the beginning of the Ovaltine Cafe scene, the TV on the wall shows the d.o.b and d.o.d of Lanning. It says 1921-2015, but at the beginning of the film the year is shown as 2035. According to the TV Lanning would have been 94 years old when he died, but he was said to be 114 years old.
Correction: It reads "1921-2035".
16th Feb 2011
I, Robot (2004)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Sonny jumps out of the bin and knocks Spooner's gun out of his hand, he then picks it up and points it at him. As he turns to run toward the hole in the window, the gun is not in his hand during the slow motion scene of him running, but it magically reappears in his hand as he is flying out the window.
Correction: You see the gun in his right hand the whole time. From when he flips, runs, and jumps. Even when the camera angle changes you can see the shadow of the gun when its body is blocking the view of its hand.
27th Dec 2014
After.Life (2009)
Corrected entry: When Eliot goes into the morgue and Anna is lying on the table, Eliot takes off his black dress shoes, slips on a pair of white rubber shoes, and puts on a white coat. Then he approaches the table Anna is lying on, walks around the table, and the black dress shoes are back on his feet.
Correction: After he puts the white rubber shoes on, all the other shots when he's at the table, he still has them on. You can tell because they don't have the back and his heels are exposed. However, he's wearing black socks and his shoes are in the dark and shadows, making it look like his other black shoes (with the exception of the exposed heels that his other shoes did not do).
Bishop73. If you watch closely, you will notice that he takes the black shoes off. Then when he walks around the table, he is still wearing the black shoes that he took off.
6th Feb 2016
The Walking Dead (2010)
Corrected entry: The walkers on this show are able to tear through a person's flesh as if they were made of tin foil, yet they are unable to break through glass doors and windows unless a large group of them are pressing their collective weight against them. Additionally, if the walkers' bodies are so frail that they can be obliterated by a fire hose, bisected by a rope or completely run themselves through on a sharp stick while walking at a very slow speed, then they shouldn't be able to rip or bite into a person's flesh without tearing off their own fingers and jaws in the process. If anything, the human characters should be able to rip apart walkers with their bare hands.
Correction: The premise of the walkers is their insatiable need to feed, so when they're around flesh, they'll feed vigorously. When faced with obstacles, they don't have the brain function to overcome them, so while they could physically destroy objects, like glass, they don't attack it vigorously like flesh. And since they don't feel pain, they'll walk themselves through sharp sticks in an effort to move forward or toward flesh. And just because they're easily destroyed doesn't mean they can't rip through soft tissue themselves, because different forces are in play. But there have been times when people have killed walkers with their bare hands. It's just risky because they don't want to be accidentally bitten or scratched.
5th Feb 2016
Better Call Saul (2015)
Corrected entry: At the very end when Mike's daughter drives up alongside his car, the registration shows 06/12. Even if this is the expiration, which I assume, that date doesn't coincide with the premise of occurring 6 years prior to Breaking Bad. (00:41:10)
Correction: There are two stickers, the top one has the date 02/12 and the second has the date 02/6. However, in both sticker, the first number, "02" is the year. 12 and 6 are the months. There is never an 06/12 dated sticker.
25th Mar 2012
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Corrected entry: In the scene where The Dude is driving while smoking a joint he notices someone following him in a blue VW beetle. He then takes a right turn to see if the beetle continues to follow. The shot where he is looking in the rear view mirror to watch the car turn shows the beetle turning left onto the street The Dude has just turned on instead of right. (01:05:25 - 01:05:55)
Correction: The VW does turn right, it's just the way filming the rearview mirror reverses the image. When a car makes a right-hand turn around a corner, the corner is next to the passenger side and away from the driver (in left-hand driver cars like the VW is). In the shot of the VW in the mirror we see the driver is on the viewer's left and the corner is on the right, away from the driver.
31st Jan 2010
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Corrected entry: In the beginning of the movie, Jeff Bridges walks into the bowling alley and takes his bowling ball out of his bag. After a few moments, they show Jeff Bridges again and he again takes the ball out of his bowling bag.
Correction: When you see him take it out of the bag, it's so he can get a hair clip. You see him put the ball back in (before he pulls his hair back).
14th Jul 2013
Bonanza (1959)
Corrected entry: About 3/4 of the way through the show, Ben takes the dog tags from two soldiers as proof they are ready to give up. The problem with this is the US Army didn't start using them until late 1906, and Bonanza is set in the 1860s.
Correction: In 1906, the circular aluminum disc was introduced for use by the U.S. Army (and then made mandatory in 1913.) However, at the time of the Civil War, soldiers in the Army would carry various forms of identification. However, Cartwright never calls them "dog tags", he says "name tags." And you can see they are made of paper, not engraved metal, to fit the time period.
9th Mar 2016
Frasier (1993)
Corrected entry: This episode shows Niles wants to organise a anniversary dinner for him and Maris, but back in season 4 episode 22 he went through hoops to sign divorce papers and in the end he did in fact sign the papers. So this anniversary dinner seems odd and out of place for the situation currently going on with them both - why would he organise a anniversary dinner for a woman he is divorcing?
Correction: At the end of s04e22, Maris calls Niles and says the divorce papers were a bluff and by signing them it threw her off, so she was willing to go to couples counseling. In later episodes it's revealed counseling was going well. (And just because he signed the papers doesn't mean they became officially divorced).
4th Mar 2016
The X-Files (1993)
Die Hand die Verletzt - S2-E14
Corrected entry: Scully does a internet search for Miss Paddock's prior teaching experience and this search claims "Substitute; Grossmont Union High School Dist. 1998 - 1994." I suppose it should have been 1988 - 1994, or 1994 - 1998.
Correction: The text reads 1990-1994, not 1998. The font used places a diagonal line in the 0, to distinguish it from an O. You can see the same style 0 in the next line where it says 1980.
8th Mar 2016
Friday the 13th (1980)
Corrected entry: Officer Tierney says "Not bad enough it's a Friday the 13th, but a full moon, too." The year 1980 only had 1 Friday the 13th, in June, and it was not a full moon.
Correction: The film takes places in the summer of 1979, not 1980 which is when it was released. July 13th, 1979 was a Friday and the full moon occurred on July 9th (Monday). A full moon typically lasts 3 days, and since Tierney is a cop and not as astrophysicist, he still considers the moon to be full.
18th Feb 2013
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Corrected entry: In the shot following the stadium explosions, Bane enters the field and takes the back judge's microphone to address the stadium. This is not possible because back judges do not carry microphones, only head referees do.
Correction: This was not an NFL or NCAA game, they were fictitious teams in a fictitious football league where the back judge has a mic.
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Correction: There's nothing to suggest Quaid/Hauser wasn't being followed. They were nearby the whole time and ready to enter once it was confirmed he was with Mathias. When the message played, it was just a classic villain move of letting someone know they're about to attack, not the moment Cohaagen found out their location.
Bishop73