Brad

Corrected entry: After Rey saves BB-8 from the net on Jakku she leaves a perfectly good net behind - odd choice for someone who scavenges for a living.

Correction: As we've seen, Rey's buyer only accepts technology- engine parts, droids, etc. A net is virtually useless. Plus, Rey already has a net on the side of her speeder.

Brad

Corrected entry: In the end where it zooms out and shows the Oompa Loompa narrator, you can see the machines used to shake the snow on the house.

Correction: That is exactly the point. It's part of the factory and it's not snow, it's powdered sugar.

Brad

23rd Apr 2014

Independence Day (1996)

Corrected entry: Although Goldblum is an off-the-scale genius, no time elapses between his father giving him the virus idea (the dialogue about "catching a cold") and Goldblum, who has been up all night drinking nearly all of a bottle of cheap scotch, announcing the demonstration of the working virus on the captured alien fighter-craft. Genius or no, the virus and communication program to deliver it into the alien system (potentially the hardware could have been developed to connect it up though as that need not depend on the virus idea) could not magically appear in his laptop without the time, however short for a drunken Genius, to develop it on that laptop and get it working. Instead a few minutes development time would be plausible and longer would even have been believable. Even off-screen elapsed time to type the virus into the laptop on the basis of it working first time isn't provided for in the film. (01:36:15)

Simon Clinch

Correction: There is off screen elapsed time for Goldblum to develop the virus. After he wakes up the sleeping guard, we cut to the same room, filled with hordes of people, showing that some time has passed.

Brad

2nd Dec 2013

Transformers (2007)

Corrected entry: Aside from leaving an opportunity for the sequel, it made no sense for the Autobots or the military to sink Megatron to the bottom of Laurentian Abyss rather than destroy/dismantle him completely.

Teru_Kage

Correction: Given Megatron's size, alien composition and the complete lack of knowledge behind his workings, dismantling him would've been near impossible. If it took the army a number of tries to find a weapon that would damage a Transformer, imagine how long it would've taken to destroy one completely. Dumping him in the Laurentian Abyss makes perfect sense given the complete lack of information.

Brad

They would have known enough his design to dismantle if they had really been studying him for that long, thus dismantling is not impossible. Of course, If they were going to dump him, it would probably make more sense to dump him in lava, that way he would simply melt.

24th Sep 2013

TRON: Legacy (2010)

Corrected entry: CLU's plan was to lure Sam into the Grid to A) Open the portal to the outside world and B) Lure Kevin Flynn from hiding. So how is it that CLU wasn't aware that Sam had arrived until Rinzler hurt him and discovered that he was a User? The moment Sam came to the Grid, the portal would have activated, which would have been a sure sign of his arrival. And considering that the only place that Sam could arrive was at the Flynn's Arcade within the Grid, shouldn't CLU have set up guards to wait for Sam's arrival and capture him immediately?

Teru_Kage

Correction: We have no evidence that CLU wasn't aware that Sam was in the Grid. We see him watching Sam play Disk Wars, but he never acts surprised. He asks Sam to identify himself for the sake of appearances. And there were guards waiting outside the arcade to pick up Sam. That's why the Recognizer was there.

Brad

Corrected entry: *Spoilers* - Shortly after Kirk is killed by the radiation in the warp core, Dr. McCoy realizes that Kirk's cells can be regenerated by Kahn's blood. McCoy desperately tries to signal Spock to tell him not to kill Kahn because they need his blood to save Kirk. Apparently McCoy totally forget that they have 72 other genetically-enhanced members of Kahn's crew on board the Enterprise to harvest blood from. He even removes one of Kahn's crew from their cryo-stasis chamber so that he can use it to keep Kirk's brain cells viable; he actually had a genetically-enhanced man right there on a bed in sickbay to harvest blood from.

BocaDavie

Correction: Khan's crew were frozen in cryo sleep for years. Removing them from cryo sleep willy nilly like that would most likely cause them to die. McCoy even states this shortly after the discovery of Khan's crew. Blood from a living member of Khan's crew stands a better chance to save Kirk's life and frankly the time it would take to unfreeze and revive a crew member would be extensive and time that they simply don't have.

Brad

12th Jan 2013

Prometheus (2012)

Corrected entry: The attack by the mutated Fifield on the ship was deleted from the theatrical edit. This has led to an unknown fate to one of the extras: When Shaw meets Weyland for the first time, he is accompanied by 2 mercenaries. But only one mercenary accompanies Weyland to the engineer, leaving the second mercenary behind. He would have been on the ship until the end, and the captain never gave an order to abandon ship.

Correction: I don't know what movie you were watching, but the Fifield attack scene WAS in the theatrical edit. And it's not a mistake for the mercenary to be on Prometheus when it crashes.

Brad

Corrected entry: When Gordon and other cops are exiled from Gotham, they step onto the thin ice and start to walk. Any cop would have learned at the academy that you can greatly diminish your chances of falling through the ice by lying down and crawling, distributing your weight.

zeptimius

Correction: Keep in mind, there were men with guns watching them. The idea was to kill them, so they probably weren't given that option.

Brad

They were probably smart enough to know that if they didn't walk, Bane's men would've shot them anyway.

17th Aug 2012

Spider-Man 3 (2007)

Corrected entry: The last part of the movie consists in Peter trying to get off the suit, and it is shown to be very difficult and painful. Even Eddie has problems with that. Curiously, Peter took off the suit a couple of times before and saved it in his trunk. so it makes you wonder why only later he has problems taking it off.

Dr. James

Correction: The suit has problems being removed at the end because it knows that Peter wants to get it off. Before, he happily accepted it, so no problem.

Brad

Corrected entry: When Sam and Mearing are on the plane, he tells her that the Autobots have no way of leaving the planet, although he knew that Optimus went to the moon to retrieve Sentinel.

Correction: It was never made clear in the film that Sam was aware of this. He wasn't even around when the idea of the Autobots going to the moon was discussed.

Brad

Corrected entry: In this movie we learn that all the Primes (I. E. Optimus) had to die for The Fallen to rise. But in the next movie we find out that Sentinel Prime is alive but in a coma, on the moon. So in this movie when Optimus is killed, The Fallen should not be freed.

Eyexpress333

Correction: Sentinel Prime wasn't alive. He was in stasis lock. It's nothing like being in a coma. It's a near dead state where you can hardly be considered alive. He needed to be recharged with Energon to be alive. Plus, Sentinel was thought long dead since The Ark disappeared many years ago.

Brad

Corrected entry: *Spoiler* At the end where Optimus attacks Megatron after Megatron kills Sentinel Prime, Megatron drops Sentinel's body right next to him. In the next shot after Optimus says "Time to find out" Sentinel Prime's body disappears.

Correction: That's because Megatron didn't kill Sentinel Prime. He merely ripped the top half of his helmet off. Sentinel could've easily moved away from the battle before Optimus killed him.

Brad

5th Apr 2011

Friends (1994)

The One With Ross's Denial - S6-E3

Corrected entry: In the scene where Rachel asks Phoebe if she can live with her Phoebe claims to have a roommate called Denise. However in a previous episode 'The one in Vegas part 1' Rachel and Phoebe are talking about walking around the apartment naked and Rachel says "you live on your own" to which Phoebe agrees saying "Yeah, why do you think it takes me so long to answer the door".

Correction: The whole point of this joke is that Denise doesn't exist.

Brad

Corrected entry: In the scene where Neo has his talk with the Architect you can see scenes from the original Matrix on the TV screens that cover the wall.

Correction: The camera shows this a few times, so this isn't trivia.

Brad

15th Nov 2010

The Island (2005)

Corrected entry: After Dr. Merrik calls the contamination alert for the facility we see a scene where he is talking to a clone from the Echo generation, Ghandu 3 echo after Ghandu starts questioning the "contamination" and the "lottery" Merrik then injects and kills Ghandu with a drug into his neck which was used to kill Lima in the begining but at the end of the film when the clones are escaping the facility right behind Jones you see a very much alive Ghandu in the backround.

Correction: It is never specified that the drug was lethal. It could've been a sedative.

Brad

Corrected entry: In the shot showing a closeup of Mark's computer screen, the year is incorrectly shown as 2009, when the scene is supposedly happening in 2003.

RymoMymo

Correction: Well, that shouldn't be too hard to spot, given there are only a thousand shots of his computer screen. Please specify which shot this is.

Brad

18th Aug 2010

Spider-Man (2002)

Corrected entry: In the scene where Osborne is talking to the reflection in the mirror the real Osborne's jaw moves when the reflection is talking. (01:13:15)

geekster

Correction: That's the point. Osborne is both the reflection and the real man.

Brad

16th Aug 2010

Finding Nemo (2003)

Corrected entry: The name and address on the diver's goggles are P. Sherman, but when Nigel comes to tell Nemo in the tank that his Dad is on the way, he calls the dentist Diver Dan. The goggles have to belong to the dentist because the other diver has blue goggles.

tsimer

Correction: This is simply a nickname from Nigel, nothing more. Diver Dan is a 1960s TV series.

Brad

Corrected entry: It is mentioned several times that only the Avatar can go to the spirit world, and speak with the spirits themselves. Yet, Commander Zhao, and several other humans, are able to not only find the Moon and Ocean spirits, but Zhao is even able to kill one of them.

wizard_of_gore

Correction: There's a dfference between the spirit world and the spirit's forms in the real world. It is stated in the film that the water and moon spirits in the cave are spirits who have inhabited regular bodies on Earth. The spirit world is where the dragon spirit exists and where the spirits have real power.

Brad

19th Jun 2010

Minority Report (2002)

Corrected entry: John Anderton is a wanted man. The precogs have implicated him in the future murder of Leo Crow and put out an all-points bulletin on him. They are able to track his movements through retinal scanners placed all over the city and two chase sequences show that they will send disruptive squads of nearly a dozen members and risk extensive property damage just to arrest him. That premise is made clear. What isn't made clear, however, is why the facility hosting the precogs, the central hub of this operation, allows John to use his old eyeballs to just waltz right in through the back without so much as even a warning going off? For that matter, why is there only one single, effectively unmonitored (one loopy caretaker with a manual alarm on a far wall does not a security system make) door to what is probably the single most valuable government asset? Why hasn't the system been updated to remove his access to key areas? And most importantly, why does the system have a flush mechanism that dumps the precog out to an unsecured location? The audience is expected to accept that these are very competent policemen that have enough planning and expertise to stop every single murder within the region for several years, but also that they would leave such a glaring security hole in their system.

Alex Montenegro

Correction: Precrime didn't know Anderton was going after the precogs until it was too late. Not everyone knows about the Minority Report system, as evidenced by Anderton's reaction. As for not updating the database to deny Anderton access, maybe they simply didn't have time in the rush to capture him. Regarding the flush mechanism, again, they had no idea it would be used to transport the precogs out of the building. It's simply there to drain the water and nothing more.

Brad

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