Corrected entry: When the Subaru Impreza WRX that Bryan is driving rolls over at the end of the tunnel, it can be seen that the car is a dummy. It doesn't have any exhaust system or crankshaft for the rear wheels.
rswarrior
7th Apr 2009
Fast & Furious (2009)
26th Feb 2009
Murder Most Horrid (1991)
Corrected entry: Maria is from Brazil, as is stated various times throughout the episode, but has a Spanish accent. (Brazilians speak Portuguese, not Spanish. In the commentary for the DVD, the fact that the accent is Spanish is mentioned several times. No mention is made of the incongruity of the accent with Maria's country of origin, suggesting that this is an oversight rather than intentional).
Correction: Almost all the countries surrounding Brazil speak Spanish. It's well within the realm of possibilities that either Maria or her family speak Spanish so having an accent isn't necessarily a mistake. It depends on what her native language is, and the fact that is from Brazil doesn't negate the possibility that she could have a Spanish accent. Canada is officially bilingual; English and French, but parts of the country there are more people speaking Russian, German, Italian and many other languages than either of the official languages. As a result, you can hear a lot of different accents here as well.
14th Apr 2009
Apocalypto (2006)
Corrected entry: In various close-ups of the male Indians' faces, you will see tiny but thick hairs "growing back again" in the mustache-part of the face like after-some-time shaved. In real life, American Indians couldn't grow beards or mustaches; it was a genetical condition of their race.
Correction: Several of my friends are aboriginal to the Americas, and while they, for the most part, don't have thick facial hair, most do have hairs in the places many other races have mustaches and beards. In fact, a few of them have mustaches, even if they look like an average Caucasian 16 year old's.
22nd Jan 2009
Babylon A.D. (2008)
Corrected entry: On the scene where Toorop's car is getting thrown with rocks from the kids, as the car exits from view, you will see a rock bounce high, falls down, then bounces up for a second time.
Correction: That's not a mistake. The rock is rounded. It likely hit the ground, rolled, hit something and bounced back up. It initially hit the ground below the camera view, and popped back up. We can't see what it hit before it bounced.
2nd Apr 2009
South Park (1997)
Corrected entry: When Randy and Bat Dad are fighting, the referees run over saying that if they don't stop fighting, their team will be disqualified. But Randy is seen fighting in all the other Little League games, so why was South Park not disqualified then?
Correction: Because the refs finally had enough of Randy fighting with everyone, and threaten to disqualify the team.
4th Apr 2009
Quantum of Solace (2008)
Corrected entry: When Dominic leaves the airport, he is in a Rolls Royce Phantom. When he arrives, he is in a Jaguar.
Correction: No it's not, it's a Jaguar the whole time. There wasn't even a Phantom in that scene.
30th Mar 2009
The Skulls 2 (2002)
Corrected entry: At the beginning of the movie it states that "at least four U.S. Presidents are known to have been members", however at the beginning of "The Skulls I" it says that there were three U.S. President members.
Correction: Which implies two things: 1) the secrecy of the society was so tight that not all of the presidents were known to be members and 2) it implies the current president at the timeline of the movie has now admitted or been discovered to be a member.
29th Mar 2009
Johnny Guitar (1954)
Corrected entry: In a scene towards the end of the film Vienna and Emma confront each other for a shootout. The posse has gathered to watch and when "The Dancing Kid" objects to Emma's intentions of killing Vienna, he runs toward Emma and is shot by Emma between the eyes. There is no blood, just a mark on the temple, then he falls to the ground. In the next shot we see the wounded man trying to get up - unlikely. In reality, a head shot is nearly always fatal: at the very least, the person is unconscious.
Correction: Actually, in reality a head shot is not nearly always fatal. People have tried commiting suicide and neither killed themselves, nor been unconscious. Especially with lower powered guns used in the "Old West" which didn't have nearly the stopping power of modern weapons.
6th Mar 2009
The Transporter (2002)
Corrected entry: When Frank is paragliding after the convoy (and overhauling it rapidly) there is a realism conflict. The posted speed limit over most of Europe is at least 110 km/h. To drive too much below that is illegal. However, the top speed of a paraglider is 60-65 km/h, and the stall speed is about 20 km/h. And yet there was no speed difference between him and the truck when he landed (stalling the paraglider to do so). He should not have been able to catch up to the convoy so quickly, and should certainly not have been able to land with so little problem.
Correction: It's illegal to drive too much over the speed limit as well. Just because something is illegal does not mean people don't do it. Truck speeds are usually different, besides which, it takes very little of a grade to slow a truck down. A grade on a road is not usually visible from the air if it is slight, and as such, the truck going slower than the posted speed limit is very realistic, and most probable. The stall speed of any aircraft is affected by wind. If there is a tail wind, the stall speed will be much higher than 20 kmh. There are too many variables to categorically state it is unrealistic. Also, Frank was a trained Special Forces-type officer, and would likely not have a problem landing as much as a recreational paraglider.
There were supposedly 400 people split between 2 trucks. The average weight of a person of Chinese descent is between 171lbs and 131lbs. And we know at least some of the hostages were children. Estimating 200 people at a generous weight of 150lbs per individual, the total weight would only be 30,000lbs. A semi is more than capable of maintaining speed on a grade with a load of that size. My question is what happened to the second truck? Did we forget about that one?
21st Mar 2009
The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)
Corrected entry: When we see the exterior of Philippe's original prison, there is a shot of a cloud moving extremely quickly from left to right, as if someone dragged it across the screen so the full moon could be shown.
Correction: Or it could be a strong wind high in the atmosphere. There's nothing to suggest someone "dragged" it across the screen.
21st Mar 2009
Hot Fuzz (2007)
Corrected entry: During the fence jumping scene as Nicholas Angel is chasing the shoplifter, the first two fences you see his head after he jumps them. But on the last few fences, his head disappears well below the top of the fence.
Correction: Which could easily happen if there is a slope going toward the last few fences. Also, it could happen if he's getting tired (after vaulting fences it does get tiring) and flexes his knees more on landing than the initial fences.
24th Feb 2009
Madea Goes to Jail (2009)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Candy the prostitute is calling for help, she dials the operator and says it is an emergency and to connect her with the district attorney. The call goes through to his cell phone and he picks up. This is not how the district attorney's office operates. She would have been directed to 911.
Correction: A 911 emergency is for a life threatening or crisis situation. It's apparent that she has some connection to the DA, since he took her call, and she felt the emergency was not something she wanted random people involved in. Better to do it this way, than some idiots who have called 911 because their hamburger was served incorrectly at a fast food drive thru.
7th Mar 2009
Watchmen (2009)
Corrected entry: When Nixon's speech is being shown on multiple TV screens (all of them playing at the same volume and within the same shot), there is no time delay between them and none of the foreign networks are translating what he's saying at all.
Correction: Not all foreign networks broadcast simultaneous translations. Besides, this is an alternative universe, and the technology available in this universe's 1985 is very diffferent than ours, so no time delay could very well be possible.
6th Mar 2009
Underworld: Evolution (2006)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Michael is chased outside the tavern by the police, he leaps onto the roof of a police car, leaving a large dent. After Michael runs off into the woods, it switches back to the shot of the police car and the dent is gone.
Correction: Already submitted and corrected. Not only is the dent there, the light bar on top is also crushed.
7th Mar 2009
Hancock (2008)
Corrected entry: When Hancock gets inside the house you can see set lights on his sunglasses.
Correction: Since it's inside the house, there's a chance the reflection could be from lamps or other light fixtures in the house. If you could see the whole lighting stand onscreen, that would be one thing, but reflections of a light could be just light fixtures.
21st Feb 2009
Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009)
Corrected entry: The Mustang in the movie that belongs to Amy is a 1966 model. She tells Paul it is a 1965 model.
Correction: Two things; people often get the year of their car wrong by calling it one year, while it's another. I've personally seen a five year mistake while working at a car parts store. Second, if the car was built in, say, November 1965, it would be a 1966 model, but she may think it's a '65 by reading the door panel information. This is actually a very common mistake made by a lot of people.
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Correction: Rear wheels don't have crankshafts, engines do. The WRX is all wheel drive, and popular in rally racing. There are skid plates available to cover the underside of the car to prevent damage while rallying, in which case, very little of the mechanical components would be seen.
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