Corrected entry: Helicopters work by creating a low pressure zone above the rotors, by forcing the air down. In other words, sucking air away from the top side. Since the helicarrier is basically a giant helicopter, it's lifted by rotors, it should be sucking air in from the top. But judging by the way Banner's jacket blows, it's blowing air out.
rswarrior
2nd Oct 2012
The Avengers (2012)
23rd Apr 2012
Big Miracle (2012)
Corrected entry: Barrow, Alaska is north of the Arctic Circle. As such, at the time of the year (October) that the movie is set in, there would be no daylight (it would be nighttime 24/7). Yet there are many scenes that take place in the daylight.
Correction: Barrow is not dark 24/7 in October. That occurs in December. Even at the end of October, Barrow gets 6 hours of daylight.
31st Oct 2011
Christine (1983)
Corrected entry: In 1958, Plymouths could be ordered with radios (as was Christine in the movie). However, radio technology at that time still used vacuum tubes and vacuum tubes take time to warm up. Transistor (solid state) radios require no warm up time and produce audio instantly when turned on, but transistor radios were not used in cars until the early 60's. Typically, vacuum tube radios takes approximately 5-10 seconds for audio to be heard after the radio is turned on. In the assembly line scene (as well as later scenes), the radio is turned on and music is heard instantly but this is simply not possible with a vacuum tube radio.
Correction: The car is possessed. Evil doesn't follow any rules.
Apart from the tagline of the movie, we are not given any indication Christine is possessed by an external force. She was born evil and sentient.
Correction: Arnie cobbled the car together with parts from Darnell's wrecking yard. Also, there are a number of companies that make modern electronic radios with the face plates of the original car for car restorers.
The car radio came on the instant it was turned on on the assembly line in 57. It played Buddy Holly, Not fade away.
9th Apr 2012
Titanic (1997)
Corrected entry: After Molly Brown says, "Well there's something you don't see every day," we get a slow shot zooming in on the ship. Pay close attention to the door on the right side of the screen, just above the waterline, you can see lots of water gushing out. Water doesn't do that; it wouldn't rise above the sea level.
Correction: Yes it would if the pressure below decks is higher than atmospheric pressure. Or the water is being expelled by the ship's pumps, in an effort to slow down the sinking.
16th Apr 2012
Titanic (1997)
Corrected entry: When asking Jack about his rootless existence, Rose's mother lifts her wine glass. She holds the glass around the stem. There are two brief shots of Molly and Jack (lasting 5 seconds) and when we see Rose's mother again, she is drinking from the wine glass, but now holding around the cup itself. Yes - she could in theory have put the glass down, changed her grip and lifted it again during the 5 seconds - but much more likely, it is a continuity error.
Correction: More likely doesn't mean absolutely, and 5 seconds is plenty of time to change grip.
16th Apr 2012
Titanic (1997)
Corrected entry: Cal and Rose's cabin is on the port side of the ship. On the morning of 14 April, when they are having breakfast, the sun comes in through their windows directly from the side, and actually a bit from the front. As the ship was sailing West, that puts the sun in the Southwest where it only is in the afternoon.
Correction: That far north, at that time of the year, the sun is always in the southern part of the sky, both morning and afternoon.
10th Apr 2012
The Next Three Days (2010)
Corrected entry: After John makes the decision to leave their son behind (with his parents) in order to make their escape, Lara attempts to kill herself by jumping out of the SUV. It is nearly impossible to open a vehicle door while the vehicle is moving faster than say 20-30 mph because of the wind resistance. They are cruising at highway speed, yet she simply flings the door open with ease.
Correction: At 20 to 30 mph, I can open my car door easily. At highway speed it is more difficult, but it can be done, especially if you get a burst of adrenalin.
31st May 2006
The Island (2005)
Corrected entry: When Lincoln draws the boat he has been seeing in his dreams, the Renovatio, the sketch he draws has rough lines, and, while appearing complete, it is not finished. Later, the sketch is shown again, but this time it is very detailed, with smooth outlines and shading. Lincoln did not return to finish the drawing at any point. The final sketch looks like it came from an auto-cad program.
Correction: We don't see what Merrick does with the drawing after Lincoln leaves. He could have tried to source where the picture came from, and had it "finished" by a CAD program to determine the origin of it. He had plenty of time, and the motivation to do this.
28th Aug 2008
The Island (2005)
Corrected entry: As the train axles fall off of the trailer, they move much too rapidly into the vehicles behind the truck. In reality, they would have the same velocity as the truck from which they fell, so, while slowing down from friction, they would continue to roll in the same direction as the traffic.
Correction: Except that the wheels are initially going in the opposite direction than the truck. They are going backwards, not in the direction of traffic, so inertia would have them continue in the same direction, which would be toward the trailing vehicles, not with the direction of traffic. Essentially, the rail wheels are leaving a stationary platform relative to the traffic, since, even though the truck is moving forward, the trailer they are on relatively speaking, has no movement.
29th Mar 2012
Paul (2011)
Corrected entry: When they steal the firework to act as a signal, the display was playing the same 5 tones used to communicate with the aliens from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Correction: This isn't so much trivia as an homage to the scene in Close Encounters as an inside joke. The whole movie references many different science fiction movies.
21st Mar 2012
Drive (2011)
Corrected entry: While test driving the stock car you can hear the gears changing while the gearshift lever remains stationary.
Correction: Many cars, not just race cars, have paddle shifters on the steering wheel, and the gearshift doesn't move.
1st Jul 2008
10,000 B.C. (2008)
Corrected entry: In the scene where D'Leh kills the mammoth, he throws a spear at it which sticks in quite far and does not droop. A throw from a man would not pierce a mammoth's skin very deep if at all and when the second spear is in the mammoth, the first is nowhere to be found. As for the second spear, even if its rough wooden frame didn't snap under the force of several tons of tough skinned mammoth hurtling into it at a severe angle, it did not hit an area, nor did it go deep enough to damage any vital organs. Had it been a steel shafted razor edge, it may have gone right through the sternum into the upper chest cavity, where it still wouldn't hit a vital organ. And even though the fall drove the spear into a potentially life-threatening position, the mammoth would not have fallen, negating the death in its entirety. (00:15:05 - 00:15:45)
Correction: Most of the mistake is conjecture, but even if not, some suspension of disbelief is required. Just as most cars in an action movie would be destroyed in a jump, we have to accept a hunter killing a mammoth as artistic license.
14th May 2011
Fast Five (2011)
Corrected entry: In the scene where the team needs Reyes's fingerprints to open the safe, Gisele goes in a bikini towards Reyes on the beach and sits on his lap. He puts his left hand on the thong, and they use the thong to get the fingerprints to open the safe. But actually the safe opens with his Right Hand prints, as one would have noticed in the earlier scene.
Correction: Just because Reyes used his right hand once onscreen doesn't mean the safe isn't set up to use either handprint.
It's impossible to get fingerprints on tissue like that.
20th Sep 2011
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
Corrected entry: Howard Stark says that the shield of Rogers is made out of a ''completely vibration absorbing'' material. However, when Carter shoots at it, it has a very distinctive echo to it. Since sound is nothing but vibrating air, the shield is vibrating.
Correction: Vibration absorbing doesn't mean there is no vibration, only that it is absorbed. In the same way shock absorbers on a car don't stop the shock of a pothole to the suspension, but absorbs and softens the jolt, vibration absorbing would soften the impact and mitigate the vibration.
23rd Mar 2011
The Blues Brothers (1980)
Corrected entry: At the beginning of the big chase, the Good Ol' Boys are driving a long Winnebago. When their driver says he has a problem, we see their view as they weave through the surrounding police cars. There is no way a vehicle that long could weave through cars that close at such a high rate of speed without colliding with any of them. (01:43:25)
Correction: And yet, all of the movie's stunts were real - no CGI involved. Evidently, if they weaved through the cars without hitting them, it actually happened.
30th Jul 2011
The Boondock Saints 2: All Saints Day (2009)
Corrected entry: When Connor, Murphy, and Romeo have the shootout with the Mobsters at the bar, you'll notice that only a few of the Mobsters were actually shot. Some of the others just dropped to the floor without injury.
Correction: Perhaps to attempt to escape the barrage of gunfire?
3rd Sep 2011
Bad Teacher (2011)
Corrected entry: When Cameron Diaz first meets Justin Timberlake, you can see lots of green in the reflection of his glasses, which would be the nice big green screen.
Correction: Or the anti-reflective coating on the plastic lenses of his glasses, which appears green when looking at glasses from the front.
22nd Mar 2011
TRON: Legacy (2010)
Corrected entry: At the fight at "the end of the line bar" when Kevin Flynn enters, we see over twenty rebels killing guards scene by scene. The fight is almost won but Kevin Flynn escapes with Sam and Quorra and then a guard steals his disc. Although there were over twenty rebels in the bar and only this guard, none of the rebels who worship Kevin Flynn try to retake his disc from the guard or Castor/Zuse. Actually you can see that all the rebels are getting out of the scene in a hurry when the guard shoots his rope. The bar is completely empty when Castor/Zuse is performing some lovely dance moves.
Correction: Once Zuse had the disc, no rebel would dare to try to get it back. Especially after they saw Zuse was trying to make a deal with Clu. At that point they thought they had lost, and there would be no point in trying to fight.
2nd Sep 2011
Batman and Robin (1997)
Corrected entry: Batman couldn't possibly have his own credit card. Obtaining a credit card requires proof of identification and a billing address, neither of which Batman would submit for obvious reasons. And although the Bat-credit card may be a jokey reference to the 60s TV series, Batman still demonstrates his intent on using the card to secure his bid for a date with Poison Ivy, which means that in the context of the film, the credit card is functional.
27th Aug 2011
The Jackal (1997)
Corrected entry: When the Jackal gets the stolen Canadian passport doctored in England, the wrong form/spelling of the French word for "Canadian" (as in citizenship) is written in the passport. The doctored passport says Canadienne (extra n and e) which is the feminine form of the word, when it should read Canadien, which is the masculine form of the word.
Correction: I'm a Canadian male, and I just looked at my passport. It reads Canadienne as well. The nationality of a person is feminine, it doesn't matter what sex they are.
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Correction: While it's true a helicopter rotor uses reduced pressure above the rotor to produce lift, a rotor in a hovering [which is what the carrier is doing as it begins converting from sea to air] or vortex ring state, will produce updraft at the tips of the rotors, which is what is causing Banner's jacket to blow the way it does.
rswarrior