ChiChi

5th Dec 2001

Taxi Driver (1976)

Corrected entry: At one point when Travis is in his room doing what he does he rips the arm off his white shirt. A minute later, the sleeve is back on.

Correction: We can assume that the shirt Travis has on at the end of the scene is a new, different shirt than the one that he cut the sleeve off. The cut shirt is for his plan against the Senator.

ChiChi

The whole scene shows him preparing for what he melodramatically wants to be his last heroic gesture. We see him sharpen the knife, cut the sleeve with it, and strap the knife to his boot, and write a farewell letter telling Iris that he'll be dead when she reads it. It can't be another shirt. He's not changing shirts to write that letter.

Sammo

27th Aug 2003

The Color Purple (1985)

Corrected entry: Late in the film, Albert takes one letter out of the mailbox from the Immigration and Naturalization Service. In the typed address, the numbers '02' can be seen after the state of Georgia. ZIP codes were not in use until the mid-1960's, not in 1937. In addition, the '02xxx' ZIP code is for Massachusetts, not Georgia.

Correction: There is no zip code shown for either the return address or the delivery address.

ChiChi

24th Jun 2003

Orange County (2002)

Corrected entry: In the credits of the movie they have Shaun's friend who died listed as Lonny but in the movie whenever they show Lonny's surfboard it is spelled Lonni.

Correction: The surfboard does read 'Lonny' The 'Y' is just printed in a funky style.

ChiChi

Corrected entry: In the scene where Frank Jr.'s mother spills wine on the rug, Frank Jr. is told to get a towel. He runs quickly into the kitchen, however, when he returns he walks in slowly holding a glass of milk. (00:12:05)

Correction: Frank has a towel in his left hand, the milk is in his right.

ChiChi

22nd Jan 2002

The Omen (1976)

Corrected entry: Right before the wife falls out of the hospital window, we can see her struggle to get her nightgown over her head because of the cast. However when she falls out of the window, she has no cast at all!

Correction: Look closely. There is a white cast on her right arm throughout the whole fall.

ChiChi

Corrected entry: In the scene where Richard Gere's friend is proposing to his girlfriend, she refuses and he swallows the ring. If you listen to him, as he licks his lips, you can hear the ring scraping against his teeth.

Correction: It's not the sound of the ring scraping his teeth, it's the sound of him licking his lips after he swallows the ring.

ChiChi

I agree. Straight up. There's a click. Thank you for answering. That was really bugging me. I couldn't believe he really swallowed it.

22nd Nov 2002

Murder by Numbers (2002)

Corrected entry: At the beginning of the film we see Sandra Bullock arrive at the crime scene, she is wearing a black turtle-neck type shirt under her jacket. The next scene we see her in is when she arrives at her boathouse with Ben's character, presumably coming from the crime scene, only now her turtle-neck is blue, and Ben's clothes are different as well.

Correction: Cassie is wearing a black scarf around her neck, the ends coming down the front of her body covering her shirt. It would make it appear that she had a black turtleneck on. When she gets to the boat, the scarf is hanging open, both ends down over her jacket. The partner is wearing the exact same clothes he had on at the crime scene.

ChiChi

Corrected entry: In the scene where Mikey's biological father pays a visit to the house, John Travolta opens the door to him. They have a heated conversation and then there is a scuffle in the hallway and Travolta ejects him. When Molly returns later there are visible signs of a struggle (painting by the door is askew, hat hanging above painting is knocked out of place etc.), however when Mikey's father was ejected, nothing had been touched. Obviously the scene dressers went in and messed everything up, assuming it had been banged into in the fracas.

Correction: There is a very physical struggle in the entryway. James and Albert struggle and a plant and some papers are knocked off the entry table. James also pushes Albert into the corner near the door and items are knocked down.

ChiChi

8th Jan 2002

Air Force One (1997)

Corrected entry: During the takeover scene as the last two surviving Secret Service agents are getting the President into the escape pod the first one gets shot in the back as he's closing the door behind the President and punching in (what I assume are) the escape pod launch codes. As he's falling dead the door reopens and remains ajar as the second Secret Service agent turns around and returns fire. They cut away then cut back to the second Secret Service agent continuing to return fire and all of a sudden the door is shut and locked.

Correction: The President doesn't escape on the pod. It's not shown, but the viewer has to assume that the door is closed and locked after the President leaves the pod, to remain on board. It's a diversion so that the terrorists think that he has escaped.

ChiChi

8th Jul 2003

I Am Sam (2001)

Corrected entry: It is very, very unlikely that Lucy's foster parents wouldn't have found a way to prevent her from climbing down the creepers and toddling over to Sam's place in the wee hours of the morning again and again, thus most probably saving her life under any normal circumstances. (01:51:55)

NancyFelix

Correction: After several escapes, the foster parents put bars on Lucy's windows. Right after Lucy discovers this, she attempts to leave through the front door and Randy is waiting at the table with a snack for her.

ChiChi

10th Feb 2003

I Am Sam (2001)

Corrected entry: In the scene where Rita hands Sam her husband's suit for court it has a red tie around the neck but when he comes in for her to tie it he is wearing a light blue tie. (01:20:00)

Correction: The room is in odd blue shadow because of the lighting, but the tie is definitely a light-colored stripe, the same as when Sam comes out after putting the suit on.

ChiChi

27th Aug 2001

15 Minutes (2001)

Corrected entry: Before Emil kills Eddie, he tells Eddie his plot. He tells Oleg to turn the camera off after he has already told Eddie that he will kill him. This would have been on the tape that was given to the news media. In the United States, demonstrating malice aforethought proves that one is not temporarily insane, it shows that they know exactly what they are doing and that they have thought out or planned how to do it. This is defined as murder in the first degree. No court in the US would have ever found Emil unfit to stand trial and he would likely go down for murder one.

Correction: The original tape given to Hawkins edited out that part of the tape. At the end of the movie,in front of the courthouse, Oleg shows the tape to Hawkins showing Emil knew what he was doing before he killed Eddie.

ChiChi

Corrected entry: When Michael Douglas & Annette Benning are entertaining the French President and his wife in the ballroom, they show Annette speaking French to their guests and her hands are in front of her. The next scene shows Annette from behind while she is still talking and she is fiddling with her ring. The third scene is back showing her from the front and her hands are not fiddling with her ring.

Correction: I don't see Sydney doing anything with her hands in the rear shot. You can't even see her hands.

ChiChi

Correction: This is true we are watching this movie right now. When the President of France is explaining regarding the rules of Louie and Marie Antoinette. Camera in front she is clasping her hands together from behind she is playing with the ring on her left index finger. Then to the front hands clasping again.

Corrected entry: In the scene where Douglas' daughter helps him tie his bow tie before the state dinner, he calls her something Suvy insted of Lucy.

Correction: He calls her 'Sweetie' not 'Suvy'.

ChiChi

16th Oct 2003

The Hours (2002)

Corrected entry: When Laura leaves after dropping Richie at Mrs. Latch's she is seen driving in her car for quite a while. When the camera cuts to Richie running after her she is still much closer than she should be. (00:59:50)

NancyFelix

Correction: Mrs Latch's house is on a corner. Laura turns the corner in front of the house as she drives away. You can see in the background, through the windows of the car, that she's still relatively close to the boy as she makes this turn. He breaks away from Mrs Latch just as Laura completes the turn, making her still quite close to the house.

ChiChi

11th Jul 2003

That Thing You Do (1996)

Corrected entry: In the hotel gift shop Faye says hello to Lamarr, calling him by his name before he introduces himself to her. And she acts like she has never heard his name before.

wolfchild

Correction: It's not Faye that says hello to Lamarr, it's the store clerk. Then, he introduces himself to Faye.

ChiChi

27th Aug 2001

Don't Say A Word (2001)

Corrected entry: At the dock before setting off for the island, which lies a short distance away, it's light outside. When they arrive at the island, it's dark.

Correction: It's dusk. The sun is very low on the horizon as seen in the shot where the cam angle is in front of the boat. It's possible for it to go from semi-light to dark in the space of 10-15 mins.

ChiChi

27th Aug 2001

Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

Corrected entry: At the very end of the movie Tom Cruise is talking to his wife in the toy store. If you look while he is talking, his collar moves from open to closed then to open again.

Correction: Look more closely. When his arms are by his side, the collar is open, but when he crosses his arms over his chest, the collar pushes together and appears to be closed. He unfolds his arms again, and the collar opens again.

ChiChi

23rd Dec 2002

Don't Say A Word (2001)

Corrected entry: The whole movie is based on the fact that they need the number the girl has,yet they have no idea what the number is from. How would they even know she had this number? They don't know where she is, they don't know what the number is, they just somehow know that there is a number.

Correction: The men know that the jewels are with the body. They know that Elisabeth traveled with the body to the island (newspaper clipping). They know that the number is the body/grave identifier. They just don't know what that number is.

ChiChi

23rd Oct 2003

About Schmidt (2002)

Corrected entry: On his way out of the Woodmen building Warren sees his files ready for disposal. The way the boxes are stacked changes between shots: On the side where you saw three brown boxes among the white ones are now only white ones. (00:15:25)

NancyFelix

Correction: The first shot of the boxes is from the front, and you can see more of the brown boxes. The second shot is a view from the side of the stack, thus showing only the brown boxes that are on the end of the stack.

ChiChi

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