BocaDavie

Corrected entry: As they are leaving the Geonosis arena rescue of the Jedi, Yoda turns to Mace and says, "If escape Dooku does, rally more systems to his cause he will". Why didn't they just order the gunship's pilots and gunners to take out Dooku right then and there? Dooku was still standing on his balcony watching them fly off. Even if the gunships were under continued blaster fire by the droids below, wouldn't the goal of taking out Dooku justify the danger of remaining in the area? Instead, they fly off some five miles away to engage the Federation army and starships.

Correction: This is a question, not a mistake. Remember what Yoda says: "If escape Dooku does." not "If lives Dooku does.". It is implied that Yoda wants Dooku captured alive; Yoda obviously has a sence that there is a bigger plot afoot and wants to find out by questioning Dooku.

BocaDavie

12th Sep 2009

The Money Pit (1986)

Corrected entry: Throughout most of the movie the house has a roof. However, after four months of work, with scaffolding still up and work still in progress, we see several views of the house from the backyard and there is no roof of any kind visible from any angle. We knew the roof was leaking, but it was at least there.

Correction: Walter discovers that the house is infested with termites. At some point during the construction it must have been determined that the roof would need to be removed and replaced.

BocaDavie

12th Sep 2009

The Money Pit (1986)

Corrected entry: In the scene where Walter slides down the scaffold and finally into the pool we hear solo voices and a chorus which, as the next scene makes clear, are coming from a recording session being conducted by Max. But there is only the orchestra present at the recording session. The singers are nowhere to be seen.

Correction: The singing could be a recording that the orchestra is playing the background music for. This way the orchestra can practice their part without needing the chorus to be present.

BocaDavie

Corrected entry: When the Smiths are preparing themselves to take on the final set of enemies at the end of the film, they are in what appears to be a wooden shed. Why do the bad guys not simply shoot it? They've got a lot of guns, including at least one rocket launcher. They should have been able to manage it between them.

Correction: Character decision, not a mistake. The bad guys know the two are cornered inside the shed, they have time to set up their positions around it and wait for them to come out. Firing blindly at the shed would not ensure hitting them.

BocaDavie

7th Sep 2009

Broken Arrow (1996)

Corrected entry: After Hale arms the nuclear weapon (and only has thirty minutes to dispose of it), he and the park ranger decide to lower the weapons into the mine shaft (and potentially get trapped down there with them because bad guys are coming). Instead of using the elevator, why not just drop the bombs into the shaft? If the armed one doesn't explode, fine. If it does, big deal; it's at the bottom of a half-mile deep mine.

Correction: If they dropped the bomb down the shaft and it detonated the force of the explosion would travel up the shaft and release radiation into the surrounding area. Their intention was to push it deep into a side tunnel to prevent this. If they dropped it and it failed to explode Deakins could retrieve the bomb and continue his plans.

BocaDavie

7th Sep 2009

Julie & Julia (2009)

Corrected entry: In the very last scene, as Julia Child excitedly tears open the envelope holding her first book, finally published, it is painfully obvious that the envelope was a bubble-wrap sort which wasn't invented yet. The padded envelopes of the day would have been filled with lint-like padding that, given the way she opened it, would have had the added cinematic benefit of dusting the entire scene.

Correction: I saw nothing resembling bubble-wrap in the envelope, not that it would matter. "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" was published in 1961, bubble wrap was invented in 1957.

BocaDavie

29th Mar 2003

Help! (1965)

Corrected entry: When the boys are in the restaurant, Clang slices their table in half. One of the boys' soup bowls is cut in half as well, but the soup stays in the bowl instead of spilling out.

Correction: This is a deliberate joke - they are showing that the blade is so sharp and cuts so quickly that it passes through the bowl too fast for the soup to spill out.

BocaDavie

Corrected entry: Several times throughout the film the subtitles will read "Oui", which would be OK except that they are already speaking French and the subtitles should be translated to English.

newtrekkilover

Correction: This is an intentional joke, not a movie mistake; the director is implying that everyone should know that "oui" means "yes" because it has already been translated so many times already in the subtitles.

BocaDavie

Corrected entry: Jay told Jill that the dating card belonged to Andy, but wouldn't she recognize her own boyfriend's writing?

Correction: Just because they are dating does not mean she can identify his handwriting.

BocaDavie

Corrected entry: After killing Howe, Zorin drops the gun on the desk - with his fingerprints on it. Quite stupid for a genius I'd say. It should be Bond's fingerprints for Zorin's set up to work, so the plot doesn't even benefit from it. (01:27:40)

ichabod

Correction: Even a genius can make mistakes, and it's not "quite stupid"; just one aspect of the crime that he hadn't thought completely through. Not that it matters; his own fingerprints are probably not on file, so if his plan worked the police would find three dead bodies and a gun with an unidentifiable set of prints on it.

BocaDavie

Corrected entry: When Homer is in the hanging noose his arm is stuck in a tight position. The next shot shows the rest of the family and when we cut back to Homer, he is suddenly free of the noose completely! That is impossible for a normal person to escape that quickly - only a master escape artist could do that. (00:34:30 - 00:35:20)

Wills87

Correction: "Normal person" being the operative words there, which Homer is not. Homer did have one arm free; he could have grabbed the rope above the noose and pulled himself up, loosening it to the point where he could pull his head and trapped arm out. Since all of this takes place off camera it is pure assumption to say that he could not have freed himself.

BocaDavie

13th Sep 2004

Moonraker (1979)

Corrected entry: In the Venice scene, Bond uses a hovercraft gondola. Such a vehicle should have air intakes for the lift fans in its bottom. So, it'd have sunk without some sort of inflatable pontoons, which it didn't possess. Also, when the vehicle rides on the streets, there's no sign of propeller or so - lift fans can only hover a vehicle, they can't push it forward.

Correction: Retractable plates would cover the lift fans during normal operation to keep it from sinking. We see the hovercraft gondola drive forward in the plaza so we know it has some form of locomotion; possibly a wheel mounted beneath it.

BocaDavie

Corrected entry: In the opening scene the banker's assistant easily lifts the very large suitcase supposedly filled with money with one hand/arm. If that suitcase was full of money (paper) it would weigh well over 30 kg and he would not be able to handle it that easily.

Jacob La Cour

Correction: This makes assumptions based on the strength of the banker's assistant and the weight of the case; neither of which we know. It is extremely unlikely that they used an empty case for the shot of him lifting it, then cut to fill it with the money so they could show it full immediately afterward.

BocaDavie

27th Aug 2001

Moonraker (1979)

Corrected entry: Bond and Dr. Holly Goodhead escape from a fiery death under a space shuttle by running through a convenient ventilation shaft. However, the flames from the shuttle exhaust would use up all the air in the shaft and suffocate them. That's if they haven't been killed by the fumes from the shuttle's solid fuel boosters or even killed by the sheer noise of the shuttle blasting off.

Correction: All assumptions. The ventilation shaft is open at the far end allowing air to flow in and replace any oxygen burned off by the shuttle exhaust. The air flowing in would also vent fumes away from Bond and Goodhead. Apparently they were able to survive the noise of the shuttle's lift-off.

BocaDavie

28th Aug 2009

Moonraker (1979)

Corrected entry: The third probe enters the atmosphere long after Bond and Goodhead in the shuttle, though it's pretended earlier that they have to enter at a steep angle to keep track of the probe.

ichabod

Correction: Wrong. It is the FIRST probe that enters the atmosphere; which becomes the third one they destroy. Since it was launched first, it enters the atmosphere first and they must use a steeper angle of descent to reach it. Not a mistake.

BocaDavie

26th Aug 2009

Broken Arrow (1996)

Corrected entry: Near the end of the film, Hale and Teri are on top of the train engaged in a gun fight with one of the bad guys. At one point the bad guy has the good guys right where he wants them, his gun pointed at them and ready to take them out. But instead of simply firing away at them - as he had just done seconds before - he yells at them to "freeze". This then conveniently allows Hale to do the "fall-down-and-grab-the-gun-out-of-Teri's-pants" trick and shoot the bad guy. The decision by the bad guy to suddenly act like a police officer by having them "freeze" makes absolutely no sense. It can't be characterized as a character mistake since he had just been shooting to kill seconds earlier. It was only done to give the good guys an "out" in this situation.

Brittle Fingers

Correction: Definately a character decision; the circumstances have changed from the previous attempt to shoot them. In the event described here the shooter had a clear shot at the subjects and opted not to shoot them in the back (probably wanted to see their faces when he fired; he is quite evil, afterall). In the previous attempt while they were fleeing he did not have a clear shot; he had to keep firing hoping that a round would hit them.

BocaDavie

26th Aug 2009

Spaceballs (1987)

Corrected entry: When Lone Starr and Barf rescue Vespa and Dot early in the film, Barf descends down a ladder to the roof of the Mercedes. The door opens up, he introduces himself, etc. and then he, Vespa, and Dot climb up the ladder with Vespa's luggage. This entire scene is completely impossible because both Vespa (human) and Barf (half dog, half human) would not be able to survive in outer space without an astronaut-type suit. The average temperature in outer space is approximately -455 degrees Fahrenheit. Also, space is a near vaccuum, so there would be no air to breathe. Thus, Barf would've never been able to make it out of the Winnebago to rescue Vespa and Dot alive.

Brittle Fingers

Correction: In this parody of the Star Wars films it is logical to assume that Lone Starr's Winnebago has shields that it can extend around Vespa's ship. Force fields are used extensively in the Star Wars saga to maintain an oxygen atmosphere in areas that are open to space.

BocaDavie

Correction: This is a slapstick comedy movie, and Barf casually entering the vacuum of space without a suit is the filmmakers giving the middle finger to reality for the purpose of a joke.

Phaneron

26th Jul 2009

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: When the SWAT truck is pushed into the river, you can see the shadow of the helicopter that's filming the shot on the wall just above where the truck fell into the river.

Jack Vaughan

Correction: Or is it the helicopter that is supposed to be guarding the convoy? No way to tell, but since they did have air support it stands to reason that the shadow could be from that helicopter.

BocaDavie

Corrected entry: Blofeld advertises his clinic as being able to cure allergies by hypnotism and counseling. This is rubbish - an allergy is the body's own immune system overreacting to a foreign protein; it has nothing to do with feelings of revulsion or fear. (In fact, that's a phobia.) Blofeld's claims are bound to cause widespread suspicion and investigation, something an International Criminal Mastermind could probably live without.

Correction: Wrong. Blofeld does NOT advertise his clinic. It is a privately owned mountaintop laboratory used as front for him to develop his virus. None of the test subjects he is using are filing any complaints against him, so there would be no investigation. As for hypnotism curing allergies, he is obviously curing them using conventional means and only telling them that they must be hypnotized to be cured; then programming them to spread the virus while they are under hypnosis.

BocaDavie

8th Feb 2003

2010 (1984)

Corrected entry: For aerobraking to work, the ship must enter the upper atmosphere of Jupiter. At no time does the ship come close enough to Jupiter to cause the friction needed to portray the flaming ball shown in the movie. (00:35:22)

Correction: This is a complete assumption, they never say specifically how close they are to Jupiter's atmosphere or how close they need to be in order for the aerobraking to work. Scientific research on Jupiter has revealed that it's atmosphere is over 1000 km thick; from what we see in the movie the ship may very well be just inside the upper atmosphere.

BocaDavie

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