Corrected entry: The "Turbo Interceptor, the only one in existence" really does exist. It's at the Dodge Museum in Belvidere. Also, it probably could have walked those cars the way it did in the movie...it was a 4 cylinder, TWIN turbo car that made about 500 HP.
Michael Westpy
24th Dec 2003
The Wraith (1986)
24th Dec 2003
The Wraith (1986)
Corrected entry: In the race scene between the wraith and Augey, there's a quick shot inside the cockpit of Augey's Daytona. You see him wearing sunglasses. He wasn't wearing sunglasses when he got into the car, and in the next shot of him, he's got a helmet on, with no sunglasses.
Correction: Augey could have had his sunglasses in his car and put them on while driving. Also, you can see Augey remove his glasses just before putting his helmet on.
24th Dec 2003
The Wraith (1986)
Corrected entry: After Augey's car tumbles down the embankment, the dialogue between the deputies has them wondering who it was "local boy, perhaps?" "Not anymore..." So home come when the scene is ending, they now know exactly who it is (no one went down there, and they made it clear they weren't sure who it was). They say something to the effect of, "Call Loomis...tell him Augey fisher's dead".
Correction: The cop that says "not anymore" knows who it is, the other one does not.
12th Dec 2003
Alien Resurrection (1997)
Corrected entry: Something to note as the flesh alien is being sucked out of the Betty. In the previous films, the drones were designated as Xenophobes or Xenomorphs (skeleton on the outside), very similar to insects. When the flesh alien dies, the last thing we see is a nearly human SKULL.
Correction: An animal with its skeleton on the outside is actually called an arthropod. A Xenophobe is the fear of strangers or foreigners and a xenomorph is a species where the young do not resemble the adult form (e.g. caterpillar and butterfly, or face-huggers and insect-like drones).
23rd Dec 2003
The Wraith (1986)
Corrected entry: When the bad guys first encounter Jamie/Jake in the Interceptor, Augey wants to race him. He says "let me take him THIS TIME". This implies that they've seen the car before and even raced against him. Maybe a deleted scene?
Correction: Augie probably meant that he doesn't get to race often and he wants to race this time.
17th Dec 2003
Alien 3 (1992)
Corrected entry: Something to note about the "dog" alien. Not only does it run around on all fours, and as Ripley says "it's different then the others", in one scene it does in fact act like an adolescent dog. I'm not trying to be vulgar or anything like that, but in the scene where they are leading the alien around, it has killed someone. It looks like it's eating that person, but what it's really doing is gyrating...it has mounted the person the same way a young dog will mount a pillow and "go to town."
Correction: That's not true at all. The alien is eating and ripping at the prisoner. You can see that it's tearing at the prisoner, since the body is flailing as if being mangled. It also isn't remotely close enough to be grinding against the dead body, and a 'making of' feature on the film even states that they had to use the model puppet and add it into the film later to simulate the alien 'eating and tearing at its meal'. The Alien may take on certain characteristics of its prey, but NOT such behaviors.
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Correction: Close, but not quite. The Wraith (or Turbo Interceptor) was a prototype developed by Chrysler and PPG in 1984. It was donated by Dodge to the filmmakers for the movie. It had a 2.2 liter 4 cylinder, with two Garret turbochargers, but it only made 400 hp and 300 torque. There were over 30 cars built for use in the movie. Its' 4.1 second 0-60 time was plenty fast, but the 12.9 second 1/4 mile was not as impressive. In other words, cars like the Barracuda could have kept up or beaten it in a 1/4 mile, but with an observed top speed of 194 mph, it would have beaten the other cars in the long run. The official name was not Turbo Interceptor, but Dodge-PPG Twin Turbo M4S Prototype.