Corrected entry: Flynn's arcade had been locked up since the disappearance of Flynn in 1989. When Sam was walking through the arcade, one of the arcade machine was Mortal Kombat, which didn't come out until 1992.
BocaDavie
25th Dec 2010
TRON: Legacy (2010)
2nd Dec 2010
Up (2009)
Corrected entry: Even with creative license, it's too much to accept that Carl could have got the house ready to fly within 12 hours. That's one balloon every two seconds including getting every string cut to a different length, somehow stuffing them all down the chimney, installing a steering system, and finishing all the other things he did before take off.
Correction: True, there's no way he could have done it himself. Nor could he have designed and constructed a support system to lift the entire house using the log holder in the fireplace or obtained thousands of balloons, dozens of helium tanks and the massive tarp to hold them in the middle of the night. He must have had many people helping him, perhaps Ellie's whole family and everyone he worked with at the zoo. They never show any of the set-up process, so it's impossible to say how may people helped him or how he accomplished it in so little time.
As depressing as it may be, most of Ellie's family is probably dead. She dies as an old lady but from illness. We can assume that Carl and Ellie were the same age, so around their 60s or 70s, which means that her parents could possibly be alive. It's been a while since I watched it but she could have siblings, nieces or nephews. Other than that all dead.
3rd Nov 2010
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Corrected entry: In the tea party when the Hatter gives Alice a potion to shrink she gulps and refuses more. Right after that, in the next shot, she continues to cough even though her lips don't move.
18th Oct 2010
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
Corrected entry: When Lt. Valeris is exposed as a conspirator, she states to Kirk: "'Let them die' you said. Did I misinterpret you?" However she could not have known this, because when he said it he was alone with Spock (after the original mission briefing at Starfleet Headquarters). (00:11:05 - 01:23:45)
Correction: Plenty of time after he said that for Spock to pass along that information to Valeris; it would have been logical for him to advise her of Kirk's feelings since they had a direct impact on the mission. Even if Spock didn't tell Valeris you must remember that she was part of a huge conspiracy to keep the war going between humans and Klingons. It would have made sense for someone to be listening in on the conversation in the briefing room. In fact, during the scene where Kirk says that, there is a shadow in the back of the room that many believe to be Valeris listening in. This is best seen in the widescreen version.
21st Sep 2010
Star Trek (2009)
Corrected entry: Just after the Enterprise gets out of warp at Vulcan, and as they are going under the remains and get parts of the engine ripped of you can see that "The Narada" is not there, yet in the next shot it reappears.
Correction: You cannot see it in the shots of the Enterprise going through the debris field; it is either obscured by the debris or off camera. Its does not disappear then reappear; it only comes into sight when the Enterprise clears the field.
8th Oct 2010
A View to a Kill (1985)
Corrected entry: When Bond fires a flare on the ground in through the side door of the helicopter, it crashes into an icy wall and explodes. However, in the next shot, the explosion is over top of the open water.
19th Sep 2010
Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
Corrected entry: How did the plant know Audrey's phone number?
20th Sep 2010
Wall-E (2008)
Corrected entry: EVE's design was always said to be based on iPods. Along with Wall-E using Mac boot sounds, WALL-E also uses an iPod to watch videos on his tapes using some sort of A/V input. The iPod he uses most resembles a second generation iPod which was made all the way back in mid-2002. It is not possible for a 798 year old iPod to have survived that long. Also, the iPod 2nd generation never had a color screen, but it's probable that WALL-E replaced it with a color one.
Correction: An assumption at best; there is no way to know how long an iPod will last or what condition this iPod was in when Wall-E located it. For all we know he may have found it in an airtight container or time capsule, perfectly preserved.
Not to mention all the other electronic devices Wall-E was using that existed before the iPod are still operating.
Also where are you getting 798 years from, if the second generation ipod was made in 2002. In the short BURN-E (which takes place at the same time as the events of the movie) shows that the current year is 2805, so the axiom set off in 2105. You may have confused this with the message from the president of BnL in 2110, which was supposed to be the end of the 5 year mission. I understand this is barely relevant but I am just very nit-picky.
17th Sep 2010
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Corrected entry: Bond and Melina dive from a submersible at a depth of over 300ft. Assuming the sub was kept at surface pressure there are two problems with this scene: 1) The 'ascent' time is far too quick. It should take Bond and Melina 10 minutes to go from 300ft to sea level (i.e. the pressure inside the sub) and that's if you forget about 2) Decompression! Bond and Melina do absolutely NO deco whatsoever upon returning to the submersible. They simply get back in and take their diving suits off. This would kill them. There is no way any diver, no matter how experienced, can INSTANTLY return to surface pressure from a depth of 300ft, having been breathing mixed gas, and not suffer all kinds of diving injuries/ illnesses. The alternative explanation is that the sub was pressurised to the depth on the sea bed, but even so they just pop the hatch open and get straight back out upon returning to the surface. This would have the same results described above.
Correction: The sub was pressurized to match the depth of the St. Georges. They don't show the whole ascent to the surface; for all we know it could have taken hours. The St. Georges is over 300 feet down; after traveling some distance they return to the excavation site which was only about 30 feet deep (Bond and Melina swim to it from the surface when Kristatos is trying to run them down). There was obviously a considerable distance from the St. Georges to the ruins, a journey (and long decompression) they did not show on film.
15th Sep 2010
Casino Royale (2006)
Corrected entry: When Bond and Vesper sail into Venice they are in a yacht with a tall mast that would never be able to make it up the Grand Canal to the Rialto market where we see them as it would never be able to pass under the bridges crossing the canal.
Correction: Not sure what the error is here. The submitter is saying that the boat cannot possibly be there because of the height of its mast. But the boat is indeed at the location where the scene is being filmed; so either the fictional Bond or the real life filmmakers found a way to get it there - even if the mast had to be removed to do it.
15th Sep 2010
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Corrected entry: Any explosive powerful enough to destroy the St George in the manner shown would rip to shreds anyone or anything within about 100m, certainly anyone standing right next to the ship as Bond and Melina were. There is no way they would be able to walk away from that unharmed. A previous correction states that the explosive was only intended to destroy the ATAC. This is irrelevant. The explosion's shockwave ripped through the St George's hull, utterly destroying the wreck of the ship from which Bond & Melina were only a few feet. Any shockwave that powerful would have destroyed them also, not just "stopped" mid water as depicted.
Correction: Watch closely as the explosion goes off. A burst from the explosion pushes Bond and Melina out of the hole in the side St. Georges, the ship itself remains completely intact. At no time do they show that the "explosion's shockwave ripped through the St. Georges hull". You can tell from the size of the bomb (about 4" by 4", about 1" thick not including the timer) that it was not designed to destroy anything larger than the ATAC control panel. As stated in the previous correction the explosion is only big enough to destroy the ATAC, not the entire ship.
11th Sep 2010
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Corrected entry: Contrary to what this movie depicts, explosions actually have their concussive force magnified underwater. Any explosive powerful enough to destroy the St George in the manner shown would rip to shreds anyone or anything within about 100m, certainly anyone standing right next to the ship as Bond and Melina were. There is no way they would be able to walk away from that unharmed.
21st Aug 2010
Star Trek (2009)
Corrected entry: We know that the only thing that is keeping the Enterprise from being sucked into the black hole that destroyed the Romulan ship is the warp engines, whose force keeps them away from it. However, when Scotty ejects the warp core, there would have been nothing to stop the Enterprise from being sucked in as well, because there was a few seconds between the core being ejected until it exploded inside the black hole.
Correction: Not according to the Star Fleet Technical Manual. The warp core provides a stream of high-energy protons that power the warp engines. Once the core is ejected the warp engines would continue to function until the supply of high-energy protons contained within the nacells is depleted. Think of it this way - your car engine will continue to function for several seconds after the gas tank is removed by using up whatever gas is left in the fuel lines.
27th Aug 2010
From Russia With Love (1963)
Corrected entry: When JB shoots down the helicopter, he's wearing a hat. He covers up as the helicopter crashes, and when he is seen again, the hat is gone.
Correction: As he guards his eyes against possible debris from the falling helicopter he pushes his hat back with his forearm. When they show the helicopter crashing the hat must have fallen from his head; if you look very carefully when they show him getting up to leave you can make out the circular outline of his hat leaning against the back of the cave. The loss of his hat appears to be intentional by the filmmakers, he takes the captain's-styled hat from the truck driver and wears it on the boat. It's much more fashionable for a sea voyage than the scala-styled hat he was wearing on land.
6th Sep 2010
Despicable Me (2010)
Corrected entry: When the scientists are testing the shrink ray the elephant should have been shrunk to the size of a germ. Actually everything should have been shrunk to that size, except the moon which was bigger than the earth.
17th Jul 2010
Up (2009)
Corrected entry: In the beginning sequences of Up, young Carl is reading in bed up in the attic bedroom by flashlight after he had his accident. He's sitting up in bed with the flashlight pointed at the book. Yet his face and the pillow are lit up as if there's another light pointing toward his face from under the covers. And the light is so strong that it casts a bright glow out the window in the first exterior shot, but a later shot shows it's dark in the room next to the window. And how does young Ellie send a balloon up the side of the house and teach it to make a 90 degree turn into the bedroom window? Or if she's already up there, how did she know that it's Carl's window, and how did she climb up without making any noise, finding footholds where there are none shown? Finally, when she leaves, she jumps out the window and lands on something solid about 2 feet below the windowsill (her head is still visible). Realistically she would have fallen to her death from that height.
Correction: One submission at a time, please. The flashlight is bright enough to reflect light back onto Carl from the book. It is inferred that after they show the exterior of the house Ellie puts a ladder against it to climb to Carl's window, look inside to confirm he's there, push the balloon level into the room, then jump back onto the ladder when exiting.
24th Aug 2010
Up (2009)
Corrected entry: Why use a hammer to smash all those large glass coin-jars? Carl's risking their skins and eyes from flying shards, and then further injuries while picking up the money that ends up full of sharp glass pieces. He should have just turned the jars upside down. Also, it's strange they expect to pay for major damage to the house (tree crushing the roof) using a few dollars in coins. They must have had insurance - so the glass smashing was just creative license.
Correction: 1. It's very difficult to get change out of a jar. Whenever you turn it over the mass of coins clogs the small opening. 2. There must have been significant frustration involved. Despite their sunny disposition Carl and Ellie must put off their dream trip everytime something goes wrong. 3. No way to tell if they had insurance and even if they did, they could have a huge deductable. 4. Yes, it's creative license. Perfectly acceptable.
14th Aug 2010
Octopussy (1983)
Corrected entry: Q isn't a field agent, so why would they send him over to keep surveillance on Bond while he's in Octopussy's island mansion?
Correction: This is a question, not a mistake. Q was already there to give Bond his equipment. This was a low-risk assignment keeping watch on Bond from across the lake (even though it did prove fatal to Vijay). It is never specified in the series if Q is or is not trained as a field agent, but he does relish the opportunity to get out in the field on several occasions.
30th Jul 2010
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Corrected entry: Why would the best British secret agent not burn Fekkesh's appointment book after he read it to prevent others (he knew there was competition for the microfilm) from knowing the location of the meeting?
5th Sep 2010
Toy Story 3 (2010)
Corrected entry: In Toy Story 2, Woody gets his arm torn by Stinky Pete. Andy carries out a sloppy repair job, leaving Woody with a bulging bicep. In Toy Story 3, Woody appears in immaculate condition.
Correction: Toy Story 3 takes place years after part 2. As Andy grew older he obviously thought he could do a better repair job, or had it re-done professionally. After all, Woody is his favorite toy.
But at the beginning of Toy Story 3 it shows Andy in his room with his little sister at the same age so it seems like it has picked up not long after Toy Story 2, and Woody's arm is perfect there.
But it isn't obvious at all! Woody was an extremely rare toy even before Toy Story 3, but you want us to believe that they can find the EXACT same material as the rest of Woody's shirt years later?
Correction: His arm is filled with cotton wool. Anyone who has done a sewing project might know that placing the wool in wrong can cause it to group together in one area. The least you can do is try to stretch it out from the outside. Andy may have noticed that the arm was to bulged at some point and fixed the wool work.
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Correction: Flynn disappeared in 1989 but they never say that the arcade closed down immediately after his disappearence. In the first movie it's explained that he took on the responsibility of running the arcade after he was forced out of ENCOM. At the end of TRON he's back in control of ENCOM and obviously had someone else running the arcade.
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