Corrected entry: Japanese SIS identifies the island that the Ning-Po stops at is called "Matsu" and is in the direct route between Kobe and Shanghai. The actual island of Matsu is just off the coast of CHINA, northwest of the island of Taiwan. Now, even assuming that it's the actual island in the movie, Bond takes Little Nellie and says he wants to take a quick look over the island. There's no way Little Nellie makes it that far on it's on-board fuel.
rswarrior
30th Jul 2010
You Only Live Twice (1967)
Correction: Re the corrected entry. This is not entirely accurate. Tiger says they have identified the island, 'we have identified the coastline in the photograph, it is an island called Matsuo and lies on the direct route between Kobe and Shanghai' And while he can't confirm that the Ning-Po has stopped there Bond says 'I want to take a fast look at the island now ' So indeed the plan is to look at Matsu.
3rd Aug 2010
House of Wax (2005)
Corrected entry: I'm assuming the present was in 2005, the Sugar Mill was off the map for 15 years (since 1990), but in front of Bo's auto shop, there's an updated Pepsi Machine (1998 design). I don't see why two insane brothers that kill outsiders would bother updating things like that. (00:30:50)
Correction: Who says the brothers updated it? The vending machine route manager would be the one to update the vending machines. If Pepsi was still being sold (either by the brothers buying it, or tourists that have been passing near or through the town) the manager would have no reason to pull the machine or stop stocking it.
3rd Aug 2010
The Crazies (2010)
Corrected entry: When Judy and David get on the school bus, David gets in first and sits by the window while Judy sits on the outside. In a different shot, while the school bus pulls into the military zone, Judy and David have switched places.
Correction: There's plenty of time between the shots for them to have switched places.
3rd Aug 2010
The Clock (1988)
Corrected entry: Judy Garland, while waiting for Robert Walker to arrive at the marriage license office in N. Y. City, walks over to a another woman sitting on a bench there and says something to her. You will then notice that this unidentified woman is wearing exactly the same dress as Garland is wearing.
Correction: How is that a mistake? I can walk through any busy mall in a major city and see at least a couple of women wearing the same outfit.
15th Aug 2010
Armored (2009)
Corrected entry: In the scene where the money is loaded on to the armored vehicles, the money is first taken out of one metal box and put into two others. This is never the case in secured transports of large sums of money. The money is always placed in the box in the vault by the sender. The box is locked and sealed and will only be opened by the recipient in the vault to were it is delivered. Security guards do not handle the money, they just transport it. Also, one vehicle would have been sufficient to transport the box the money was initially in.
Correction: Not all companies have the same procedures. At the place I worked, the money was signed over, the security guard/courier was responsible for it to delivery. The sender did not pack the money, in fact didn't even handle the money, and the courier had to count and pack it. This was for all sums of money, and one trip I made from the airport to the vault took over 1 hour for a 5 minute drive due to the amounts involved. On occasion, we would split large amounts of money between a couple of cases, and different trucks to lessen the impact if a truck was robbed.
16th Aug 2010
The Runaways (2010)
Corrected entry: While in Japan, they drive on the right side of the road instead of the left as they do in Japan.
Correction: The only shots of them driving are either at the airport or hotels, or through a tunnel, in an imported Cadillac limousine. Since it is imported, the driver sits on the left. The airport, parking areas, and tunnel could easily be one way lanes.
15th Sep 2010
Astro Boy (2009)
Corrected entry: In the scene where, down on the surface, Astro Boy revives a construction robot and brings him back with the others to Hamegg, Hamegg uses a device to gauge how much energy the construction robot has. Then, he accidentally points it to Astro, and the device goes wild! The others ask what just happened, but Hamegg says that nothing's the matter. Just as the scene ends, we see Hamegg giving a very wry smile, and a few strands of hair on his head perform a slightly-skewed devil's horns, somewhat of an indication of the fact that he plans to do something bad with Astro.
Correction: This is foreshadowing, not trivia.
2nd Jul 2010
Kick-Ass (2010)
Corrected entry: In the scene after Kick Ass meets Hit Girl and Big Daddy for the first time, D'Amico is examining an iPhone with a photo of Big Daddy on it. One of his goons explains that the photo is the last one the owner of the iPhone took before his death, but the screen says that the photo displayed is photo 7 of 16. If it was really the last photo ever taken, it would be 16 of 16, assuming that the goon hadn't played around with it before showing D'Amico.
Correction: You just answered your own mistake. "Assuming that the goon hadn't played around with it before showing D'Amico." None of D'Amico's goons have been shown to be overly bright, and it's not unlikely that one or more of them would take more pictures with the camera before showing it to D'Amico.
29th Aug 2010
The Boondock Saints (1999)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Rocco kills the peons and the bartender, he shoots the first guy, and then he pulls back the gun as if he's going to hit the second guy. Then the second guy is shown being shot. But the time between Rocco pulling back the gun and the guy being shot is too big, considering the scene was in slow-motion.
Correction: This entry is confusing. The time between pulling back and the guy being shot is too big, because (?) it was shot in slow motion? Isn't that the point of it being slow motion? The shot was stylized for dramatic purposes. Normal time doesn't apply here.
3rd Aug 2010
The Book of Eli (2010)
Corrected entry: When Denzel meets up with the woman with the shopping cart close to the beginning, he walks through a tunnel. It shows a few shots of him and the woman talking; during some of these shots, the entire tunnel disappears from behind him.
Correction: It's an overpass, not a tunnel, and the approaches from both sides have been destroyed/eroded leaving only the arch. The different angles wouldn't always show the arch.
24th Aug 2010
Battlefield Earth (2000)
Corrected entry: Seeing how the Psychlos have spent centuries conquering Earth in search of gold, how could they not know anything about Fort Knox sooner? Couldn't they have demanded of the humans to reveal the location of this precious mineral?
Correction: They conquered the Earth's military in 9 minutes. It's more than possible the remaining humans either wouldn't know anything at all about Ft Knox, or, even if they knew something about it, wouldn't know where it was, or where the gold is stored.
27th Aug 2003
Battlefield Earth (2000)
Corrected entry: Travolta sends Pepper and crew to mine gold. He gives them all the equipment for mining including a working spacecraft. In essence, he is setting a "Batman Trap" by providing them the means of escape. The group waits for Travolta to depart and almost immediately leaves to train and gather weapons. For some reason Travolta doesn't notice that they are flying around the country or doesn't care.
Correction: You just answered your own submission. The Psychlos don't care that humans are running around the country. Humans are nothing more than trained animals to them. In their arrogance, they don't think humans possess enough intelligence to formulate a rebellion.
18th Mar 2009
Battlefield Earth (2000)
Corrected entry: When Jonnie and the other humans raid Fort Hood, a US Army base, for weapons and supplies, they acquire several caches of weapons, among them Colt 9mm SMGs, evidenced by their undersized magazines and short barrels. The US Army does not field such a weapon, so why would it be in a US Army base? (01:37:00)
Correction: The movie doesn't occur in modern time, but in an unspecified future. It's more than possible the weapons could have been stored at Ft Hood sometime during the 1000 years of Psychlo occupation.
27th Aug 2003
Battlefield Earth (2000)
Corrected entry: The "cavemen" learn to fly Harrier jets simply from reading the instructions manual. And if this isn't amazing enough, they also manage to perform maneuvers that professional Harrier pilots are not able to perform.
Correction: They didn't learn everything from an instruction manual. They practiced in a simulator for 7 days before the final battle.
18th Mar 2009
Battlefield Earth (2000)
Corrected entry: At the end of the Denver air battle, one of the cavemen (presumably the leader) pursues a Psychlo gunship, and attempts to engage it, but when he runs out of missiles, he gets in position to ram the Harrier into the gunship. Before he crashes into it, he presses the Eject button, yet it doesn't work and he along with the plane slam into the gunship. Strangely, he is seen later during the end scenes, after Psychlo is destroyed. The ejection system was explicitly shown not to work, and even if it did, he wouldn't have been able to clear the plane in time before it impacted the gunship. (01:33:55 - 01:43:55)
Correction: There is nothing to indicate the eject button didn't work. The scene cuts immediately after hitting the button, then the shot from outside shows the jet hitting the Psychlo ship. The shot cut quickly, true, but just because we don't see the seat ejecting is no reason to think it failed. Since he does show up during the end scenes, it's safe to assume he ejected safely.
13th Mar 2009
Battlefield Earth (2000)
Corrected entry: Before the revolt, Ker has a discussion with Terl about the gold that ends in Ker's hand getting shot off. Yet Ker does not scream in pain, nor does any blood gush from the wound. Plus, the wound appears to have been cut with a knife, it is so precise and unlike a gunshot wound. (01:26:25)
Correction: He doesn't scream because Psychlos have a high tolerance to pain. No blood immediately appears, but we don't know the Psychlo's physiology or how long it may take to bleed. The weapon is an alien technology, we don't know how a wound is "supposed" to appear when a hand is shot off.
2nd Sep 2010
Gran Torino (2008)
Corrected entry: When the white kid, Trey, gets harassed by the three black guys when he is walking down the street with Sue, Trey calls the black guys "bro." There is no way Walt Kowalski could have heard this part of the conversation as Walt had not even pulled up to the stop sign. So his dialog with Trey should not have taken place because there is no way he could have heard it. The part in question is "What's with all that bro sh*t anyway? You trying to be super spade?"
Correction: He didn't have to actually hear him say Bro when he saw how obsequious he was to the black guys. By his actions and being a sycophant, Walt classified his actions as "Bro shit", as in Trey acting like a bro when he wasn't.
3rd Sep 2010
Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
Corrected entry: Peggy Sue laughs out loud at the fact that her father bought an Edsel, presumably because of her future knowledge that the car was a total flop. But the car failed precisely because people thought it was ugly THEN; it didn't become ugly in retrospect.
Correction: There's no mistake. The car was a flop then as it was later seen to be. She doesn't have to be laughing from future knowledge.
22nd May 2010
Clash of the Titans (2010)
Corrected entry: In the last beach scene you'll see Pegasus flying in. The real horse's footprints are on the beach on a spot where the flying version has not been.
Correction: Those aren't hoofprints, but rocks, wave ripples and divots on the beach. Pausing the Bluray, it's possible to see the marks are too random to be prints.
2nd May 2010
Clash of the Titans (2010)
Corrected entry: In the last scene, where Io is resurrected, her chest is very uneven, and disproportionate to the rest of the movie.
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Correction: The key phrase is "assuming it's the actual island." There's nothing to confirm it is the actual island.
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