Sol Parker

9th Nov 2003

Rat Race (2001)

Corrected entry: In the helicopter, Tracy, the pilot, is sitting in the left-hand seat while Nick Shaffer sits in the right-hand seat. This is correct for an airplane but wrong for a helicopter when the pilot sits in the right-hand seat.

Yoshi

Correction: Not true, I know of several pilots who normally sit in the left hand seat, it shouldn't matter either way, there are controls on both sides in most choppers.

Sol Parker

7th Jan 2004

Rat Race (2001)

Corrected entry: Jon Lovitz and his family were going to the Barbie museum (mostly to pacify the daughter, as it was pretty out-of-the-way), and had to take a detour. The two brothers Blaine and Duane happened to pass the Lovitz family van outside the Barbie museum and hence sabotaged it, but wait - why were the brothers going down that direction anyway? Even if they were heading on the same route to get to Silver City, why would they also take the same detour?

redbaron2000

Correction: The Barbie museum was not out of the way, the restaurant with the bathroom was, Lovitz didn't want to stop at the restaurant to let his daughter use the restroom because it was three miles off the main road.

Sol Parker

25th Mar 2004

Rat Race (2001)

Corrected entry: At the beginning of the film John Cleese has no way of knowing that the planes are going to go down, so how does he manage to get his assistant to the train station before the contestants arrive at the end? Even the fastest helicopter would not have been able to cover the 560 miles in the 10-20 minutes Grisham did it in. A fighter jet couldn't do it. We know it is a very short length of time because a) we can see the radar blips on the screen are very close to the target when Grisham is sent and b) Enrico's train just announced that the next stop was Silver City (even accounting for longer distances between stations, it appears to be relatively short).

Correction: After the radar is back up, Cleese's character tells Grisham to take his other private jet. The contestants were 50 miles away when the order was given.

Sol Parker

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