Corrected entry: Ella must do as she's told, but during the scene after her step-sister makes her shoplift, Ella's stepmother orders her to tell the truth AFTER the step-sister told her to lie. So why did Ella ONLY tell the lie? She should also have been forced to tell the truth, since her step-mother ordered her to.
Kaite13
22nd Apr 2004
Ella Enchanted (2004)
7th May 2004
Van Helsing (2004)
Corrected entry: Friar, so far as this poster knows, is a term used to denote male members of the Catholic Franciscan Order - monks. Carl's making a distinction between the two is incorrect. It's possible he's trying to state that he hasn't taken his final vows yet (which would make sense, as he has no tonsure), but in that case he wouldn't be called Friar, and he'd still be bound to the same vows as a monk (as long as he dressed/acted/considered himself a member he'd have to act like one - it's part of the training).
Correction: Monks were known as 'Brother' and the head monk as 'Father'. They were attached to a monastery, and had to stay there, taking vows of chastity and poverty. Friars, on the other hand, would travel around certain areas, making 'house calls', if you will. They were allowed more licence than Brothers and Fathers, and were allowed to drink, feast and have fun with the women (not officially allowed to, of course, but the church didn't exactly frown upon it).
10th May 2004
Van Helsing (2004)
Corrected entry: When Van Helsing and Carl first arrive in Transylvania, we see a shot of Anna planting her feet on the well and talking to VH and Carl. On her right leg, tucked under the laces of her boot, is a white-handled knife. Later, when she takes Van Helsing to her house and is loading up on weapons to hunt Dracula, we see her pick the same knife up off a table and slide it into her boot - where it should already have been.
Correction: Anna pulls the knife out to slash at one of the Brides who is carrying her off. The Bride drops Anna onto the roof and Anna loses the knife as she falls. She probably has a matching knife back at the house and so just replaces the one she lost when she gets home.
11th Aug 2003
S.W.A.T. (2003)
Corrected entry: When Street first introduces his modified ramming device, he says it would be affixed to a truck bumper and rammed into the wall. When they use it, somehow, an explosive charge has been loaded into the back to force the grappler through the wall. Now, considering it is a hollow tube, supported by (admittedly, four strong) humans, wouldn't the result be that the hook hits the wall and bounces back, perhaps leaving a dent? Do those four people really have the stopping power necessary to hold the tube firmly enough so that the hook is fired through the wall? How cheaply are homes built in So. Cal.?
Correction: Firstly, Street was talking about the ram rod connected to the truck via a towing cable. Secondly, the explosion is not that strong. Thirdly, the house is mainly wood based, we are able to see this when the wall is pulled down.
5th Aug 2003
Whale Rider (2002)
Corrected entry: The father and grandfather are arguing after the slide show, and the father goes to pull down the white sheet that was hung over some drapes to act as a screen. He pulls it down, along with the rod and orange drapes that the sheet was hanging from. The camera cuts back to the grandfather, back to the father again, and the drapes are back up in place and hanging perfectly straight, and there wasn't enough time for him to rehang the drapes.
Correction: They never show the entire of the drapes again. You only see a little bit which could very well still be hanging straight and only the very end was broken.
17th Nov 2003
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
Corrected entry: When Aubrey gives the boy a book on Nelson, the boy asks about a certain battle and Aubrey tells him it is on a certain page. In 1805 and before, most books did not have page numbers, or those same numbers were incorrect. He's much more likely to have used the printer's signatures or just have flipped through the book to the correct page. I'm not saying he wouldn't have had a book with numbered pages (or those pages wouldn't have been correct), but Aubrey would likely have been in the habit of NOT using page numbers.
Correction: The poster's point is approximately a full century off. Up until the end of the seventeenth century, printed books were normally numbered by signatures (a combination of letters and numbers marking quires and the leaves within a quire) or foliation (numbered by leaves - recto and verso - rather than separate pages). During the eighteenth century, however, publishers switched to pagination, often in conjunction with signatures. There would have been nothing remotely unusual about a paginated book in 1805.
8th Sep 2003
The Order (2003)
Corrected entry: Heath's priest buddy (Mark Addy) began encouraging Heath to leave the order and marry Shannon S's character right after they got to Rome. Then, Heath decides to do just that. Suddenly, Mark Addy changes his mind and says he should stay - giving an impassioned speech in the hospital about their mission, training, etc. Why the big change of heart? They were already fighting the Sin Eater at the beginning, and so far as I can see, nothing had changed.
Correction: This is not the case at all. Mark Addy is trying to convince Heath to kill the sineater after Heath decides there is no problem with what the sineater does.
8th Sep 2003
The Order (2003)
Corrected entry: Why, oh why would a priest who was committed to exorcising demons and banishing ghosts raise two demons to live in his front hall? What was the purpose? Even after he was excommunicated, he wouldn't do something so stupid as that, surely.
Correction: Wrong.. We are not sure if the priest brought up the demons. This part of the movie is really never explained. Even Alex (Heath) isn't sure.
Corrected entry: After Elizabeth has first seen the crew of the Black Pearl in the moonlight and she runs back to Barbossa who steps gradually into the moonlight to reveal himself in his skeleton form, his teeth change. The teeth on the skeleton Barbossa are noticeably straighter and whiter than his human form.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Will is trapped in the hold of the ship, before it blows up, you can see the emergency air hose between two planks of wood (possibly barrels, but they seemed pretty flat to me).
Correction: I looked really hard for this when I saw the film at the cinema for the second time, all I could see was a piece of rope.
Corrected entry: In general, sailors of both legitimate and illegal trades in that time period didn't know how to swim--for one, they thought it bad luck, and for another it was a waste of energy (if they went overboard at sea and the ship couldn't fetch them before they sank, they'd be dead before they could reach shore). Also, at the end, when Sparrow starts to swim to the Pearl, he does a freestyle (Australian Crawl) stroke. That method of swimming wasn't invented until the 1800's - it's called the Australian Crawl for a reason. Had he known how to swim, Sparrow would have done a breast stroke (hands in front, push forward and out) to get to his ship.
Correction: This doesn't mean that no pirate ever learned how to swim. It sounds like the kind of thing Jack would know, and as for him doing an Australian Crawl-- is it so hard to believe he could have come up with it on his own? People swim any way they want.
Corrected entry: How did Will know his father was dead? Sparrow had been dumped overboard prior to his death (because Turner had the cursed treasure, which was post-Sparrow), and I can't imagine Barbossa writing a letter of condolence to the boy and his mother.
Correction: He doesn't know, which is why he moved to the Caribbean to find his father.
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Correction: Ella's stepmother doesn't order her to tell the truth. She orders her to say who did it. The curse would have made Ella keep a previous command unless it was contradicted by a newer one. Since her step-mother's command doesn't directly contradict Hattie's order to say that it was her friend's fault, she would have had to obey both commands and tell that it was her friend who told her to steal.