Corrected entry: The whole reason Gertie was allowed to perform Sweeney Todd was because she caught Ollie and Maya in the shower together, and threatened to tell Pop unless Ollie agreed. However, Pop found out about it later anyway, so Ollie did not have to let her do Sweeney Todd.
rswarrior
20th May 2009
Jersey Girl (2004)
15th May 2009
The Ugly Dachshund (1966)
Corrected entry: Frightened by Brutus, the great dane, Sergeant Karmody climbs up a tree and winds up spending the night asleep in the tree. The next morning when Mark discovers him, he remains clean-shaven. No whiskers have grown overnight.
Correction: Some men's whiskers do not grow as quickly as others. I am 44 years old, and only shave 2, at most 3 times a week. Overnight without shaving, I still haven't even grown a 5 o'clock shadow.
18th May 2009
Angels & Demons (2009)
Corrected entry: No helicopter can climb more than 5-6 km, and even at 5-6 km height a 5 kiloton bomb would destroy a city. The Hiroshima bomb was actually triggered at a height of about 500-1000 meters to maximise the effect.
Correction: Not true. A helicopter has been flown as high as the summit of Mount Everest, a height of 29.000', or 5.5 miles (9 kms). While most helicopters fly well under that ceiling, in the mountains where I live, it is common to see helicopters flying over 18.000' (just under 6 kms) to clear the tops of mountains.
15th Sep 2004
The Transporter (2002)
Corrected entry: In the first chase scene, just before Frank launches the BMW off of the narrow bridge, there's a shot of his feet at the pedals showing him mashing the gas pedal while we hear the engine revving and tires squealing. Shouldn't he have had the gas to the floorboard already? How have the tires been spinning up until then?
Correction: On a car with a lot of torque, such as his performance enhanced BMW, it's not necessary to have your foot to the floorboard to get the tires to spin. In the past I had a car that could spin its' wheels at 1000 RPM with my foot pressing the brake, when normal idle speed was 750 RPM.
18th May 2009
Jumanji (1995)
Corrected entry: When Carl's squad car gets folded in half by the plant, as the car tips on its side, you can see that the driveshaft isn't connected to the rear axle.
Correction: Well, yeah. The car got folded in half. It's well within the realm of possibilities the driveshaft would let loose under those conditions. A driveshaft is only held in by a splined tube connected to a universal joint. Stretch the axle away from the driveshaft, and it easily comes loose.
The splined tube goes into the transmission tail housing and easily pulls out. The universal joint is normally fastened to the rear axle by four bolts and is not easy to simply pull out. When the car folds, The driveshaft is still in the transmission and loose from the rear axle. The opposite of what should happen.
10th May 2009
He's Just Not That Into You (2009)
Corrected entry: When Janine Gunders calls her husband on his cell phone from her cell phone, the caller ID says "Janine home", but in fact she called him from her cell phone and not the home phone.
9th May 2009
Recess (1997)
Corrected entry: When Gretchen is finding information on the first baseman, it shows her picture and says that her name is Tracy Logan, which is a girl's name. But, in the episode "The Trial", they screamed out "Let's give Spinelli the swirley" in a man's voice. The character's looks can be anyone, male or female.
Correction: Tracy is a unisex name, not just a girl's name. Example: New Orleans Saints cornerback Tracy Porter.
13th Mar 2009
Supernatural (2005)
Death Takes a Holiday - S4-E15
Corrected entry: Sam and Dean Astro-Project out of their bodies so that they can see and save a Reaper. They are out of their bodies, walking down a street as ghosts, but their breath is visible due to the cold weather outside. Ghosts have no body to generate warm or hot breath.
Correction: First, it's astral projection, not Astro-projection. Second, ghosts are not proven to exist, as such we don't know their physical or spiritual characteristics well enough to judge if the have body heat or not. Some reports of supposed ghost phenomenon have reported cold spots in rooms, some as hot spots in rooms. Seemingly contradictory, but just more evidence that we don't really know what they are supposed to be like in characteristics.
6th Mar 2008
Ashes to Ashes (2008)
Corrected entry: In episode two in the nightclub, after Visage have performed "Fade to Grey," their lead singer Steve Strange says, "I hope you enjoyed our new single, 'Fade to Grey.'" "Fade to Grey" was in fact a chart hit in the Autumn of 1980, so would have been old news in the Summer of 1981.
Correction: If it's the last single they released, it's still their "new" single. And it's not unusual for a single to still be playing live, or on the radio, less than a year after it was a hit.
10th Mar 2009
The Transporter (2002)
Corrected entry: Was there ever any satisfactory explanation given as to why Lai was in the bag in the first place? Certainly it got Frank Martin mixed up in the plot - but when she was reunited with her father, he was pleased to see her (far more than vice versa) and he wasn't angry that she'd apparently been sold to Wall Street. If it was his intent that she be sold like that, he would simply have handed her back over to him; if not, what was his motivation? I have trouble understanding this.
Correction: She is in the bag because the baddies didn't want Frank to know what he was transporting, as per his rules. It could have been a large suitcase, but the important thing was to keep her quiet and hidden. Her father had business dealings with Wall Street, but certainly didn't expect her to be kidnapped, thus his relief at seeing her in one piece.
25th Apr 2009
Changeling (2008)
Corrected entry: Reverend Briegleb broadcasts a radio show from the pulpit. Shots alternate between him speaking in the church and the transmission being heard on the radio, suggesting it is a live programme and therefore not being edited. In the shots in the church, there is substantial echo. When we hear the transmission on the radio, there is no echo to be heard. (00:14:00 - 00:15:00)
Correction: Which is exactly what happens in real life. The microphone at the pulpit picks up his voice directly, from a short distance, and broadcasts it immediately to the airwaves. Because of the acoustics in the church, the live audience could hear an echo that is not heard on the broadcast, since they have a large open reverberating space to try to hear his voice.
27th Dec 2008
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
Corrected entry: After their planning session has ended, the scientists are loaded into helicopters and hover or move above ground relatively near the expected impact site. Though dramatic, this action is completely illogical. They would have to go underground, or at least as close to the ground as possible, to perhaps stand a chance of survival. The shock wave associated by even a small object impacting at that speed would be greater than a blast produced by any nuclear bomb, and it certainly wouldn't be survivable in a helicopter (that would at least crash and probably disintegrate in mid-air after being impacted by a hypersonic wavefront), but it might be possible to survive the blast underground. Putting them in helicopters is, given the expectations, equivalent to suicide. Not one even protests - and they are supposedly some of the best scientists in the world.
Correction: One of the scientists does say something about it, and he is told essentially that if they can't stop the object, everything will be dust anyway. Everything implying the entire planet, not just Central Park. So, sending the scientists to the impact site would do no harm, and may in fact do good. If the planet survives the impact, having the scientists there makes sense to study the object as soon as possible. If the planet doesn't survive the impact, it doesn't really matter whether they were underground, in a helicopter, or suntanning in Bora Bora.
27th Apr 2009
The Ugly Dachshund (1966)
Corrected entry: Officer Karmody catches the Garrisons speeding on a city street and missing a stop sign, and writes a citation. Several weeks later, he tells Mr. Garrison that he's now a sergeant and is no longer on "highway patrol." Highway patrolmen cover only the freeways and highways and can not issue citations on city streets.
Correction: He was on highway patrol, not a highway patrolman. Besides that, this movie was made in 1966. In 1971, four highway patrol officers were killed in a restaurant parking lot in California while investigating a report of someone waving a weapon. Obviously, at that time at least, they were not limited to covering only highways and freeways.
31st Dec 2008
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
Corrected entry: In the scene when Kathy Bates' character is looking at a computer monitor in a room, the camera shot start from behind the LCD monitor and goes around it to her face. On the back on the monitor, there is Microsoft sticker. Microsoft does not make any type of LCD monitor.
Correction: And it would be impossible for someone to stick a Microsoft sticker on the monitor? At work, on one of the radios, someone has stuck numerous banana brand stickers. It doesn't mean Chiquita made the radio.
17th Jan 2009
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
Corrected entry: Before the impact, the scientist all put on hazardous material suits. Why? They were expecting an asteroid (or similar) to impact Manhattan with cataclysmic results. Their primary concern should be survival, not the investigation of a dangerous crater, certainly not without any prior unmanned or satellite reconnaissance. It's almost as if they were actually expecting an extraterrestrial visit.
Correction: They've been tracking the object with telescopes and such, and have seen it alter course, and not follow a typical asteroidal orbit. They already know it's not likely an asteroid. So, they take precaution against possible hazardous material.
24th Apr 2009
Fast & Furious (2009)
Corrected entry: When the first chase starts and they disconnect the trailer from the rest, the truck would stop in real life. Since they have air brakes, the air would leak out and brakes would lock up - on all the trailers and the trucks.
Correction: No, only the trailer would stop. There is a tractor protection valve that stops the air from leaking out of the tractor when the gladhands are disconnected, and the trailer supply air is going through the airlines.
24th Jan 2008
Chuck (2007)
Chuck Versus the Sizzling Shrimp - S1-E5
Corrected entry: A title card at the beginning of the episode identifies the location as the Chinese Consulate in Chinatown, Los Angeles. The Chinese Consulate is at 443 Shatto Place, west of Downtown Los Angeles and even farther west of Chinatown.
Correction: Addresses and buildings are often substituted, and is a standard filmmaking convention, not a mistake.
7th Apr 2009
Marley & Me (2008)
Corrected entry: When John is parking his car, you can see a set light at the back glass window.
Correction: During which scene? And in which car? He drives a lot, and in different vehicles in the movie.
21st Apr 2009
No Country For Old Men (2007)
Corrected entry: Chigurh calls Moss's mother-in-law from a pay phone. When he hangs up the phone we do not hear the coin mechanism cycle in the phone, even though the camera is very close to the phone.
Correction: If he used an operator, and a credit card, there would be no coins to drop.
Highly doubtful a hired professional hitman would use a credit card to make a phone call.
21st Apr 2009
Passenger 57 (1992)
Corrected entry: When the terrorists radio the small airport telling them to get the runway ready for them to land, the air traffic controller denies the copilots landing request. In an emergency situation, ATC is not allowed to deny a plane landing.
Correction: Not true. If a landing is possible, they must be expedited to the closest airport able to take them. If, for example, a runway is out of service, or the aerodrome is too small to handle a large airliner, they wouldn't be able to land there.
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Correction: Ollie had already told Gertie she could do it. Ever tried going back on your word to a child? Gertie's not going to think of the repercussions of Pop already knowing, all she's going to remember is Ollie said she could do it. No mistake.
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