Corrected entry: When the candidate is shot embracing his mother, it is done with a single shot to his upper back. The subsequent shot that shows the candidate and his mother lying on their backs has the candidate with a wound to his lower abdomen and the mother with a wound to the chest. Since the candidate's wound is an exit wound and the trajectory of the bullet is downward, it would be impossible for it to rise to the mother's chest level.
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31st Dec 2005
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
12th Apr 2005
Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
Corrected entry: It is snowing heavily during the drive in the bus near the start of the film, yet in the shot when you see out the front of the bus from the driver's view, there is no snow falling at all.
Correction: Not true. It's harder to see from inside the bus, since it's backlit by the streetlamps, but there is snow falling. In fact, the outward shot is probably of real snow falling, while the shot inward probably contains fake movie snow.
25th Jun 2003
Mallrats (1995)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Jay and Silent Bob are chased in the alley, Bob pulls out an inflatable doll, and throws it to his side. In the next shot when the cops run in the alley, the doll has disappeared. (00:52:15)
Correction: We never see the entire end of the alley. It could well simply be off-camera to the left.
27th Aug 2001
Frequency (2000)
Corrected entry: During the bit of the film where you see Dennis Quaid in the fire in the old warehouse, there is an explosion and one of the firemen gets caught in the back draught and is thrown to the floor but he is wearing a modern day fire suit when the incident happens in 1969.
Correction: The only fireman who hits the ground in the Buxton fire scene is wearing the exact same kind of gear as everyone else. Considering there were no firefighting scenes in 'modern day' in the movie, it would seem rather unlikely for there even to be a modern suit on set.
27th Aug 2001
Frequency (2000)
Corrected entry: In the scene when the fuel tanker is crash and has flipped, you can see a cable attached to the end of it, pulling it along.
Correction: That's not any kind of a pulling cable, that's the umbilical where the cab used to be attached to the trailer. After the jackknife, the cab separates and is off-screen to the right, moving away, and you see the umbilical snap.
27th Aug 2001
Frequency (2000)
Corrected entry: In the burning fire in the warehouse, Dennis Quaid throws his helmet out of the top floor window then grabs the small child and goes down a helter skelter type slide. Inexplicably he and the child reach ground level before his helmet despite the helmet getting a good head start and a helping hand from gravity.
Correction: Actually, you see the helmet reach the ground once (at 0:41:21), quite a bit earlier than the two do. However, the shot is later repeated, to artistically coincide with Dennis and the child splashing down, and Jim Caviezel's drink hitting the bar floor in 1999 (around 0:42:03).
27th Aug 2001
Frequency (2000)
Corrected entry: In the scene when he wants to interrupt the 2nd murderer he uses a Mastercard to open the door - at that time they were still called MasterCharge.
Correction: In frame-by-frame viewing on DVD, it shows as the era-correct "MasterCharge".
15th Aug 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
Corrected entry: In the episode 'Beyond Blunderdome' one of the vehicles in the Hollywood car museum is Herbie the love bug. However, in 'Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner' the same car is seen in Planet Springfield.
Correction: There was more than one model of the Beetle used in those movies - about 30 for 1968's "The Love Bug" alone! There could certainly be units in these two museums simultaneously.
12th Aug 2004
Catwoman (2004)
Corrected entry: It is revealed that the anti-aging cream causes severe facial scarring and deformations after the customer stops using it, but Sally never experiences any skin problems when she stops using it. She is hospitalized for a fainting spell and is released without reference to any skin treatment/healing she might have gotten there.
Correction: It is also intimated that longer/more generous use of it (cf. Laurel practically bathing in it) leads to more pronounced health problems. Clearly, Sally simply hadn't had enough exposure to it yet.
11th Aug 2004
Catwoman (2004)
Corrected entry: When Patience climbs out of her apartment window to save Midnight from a ledge, she almost falls. But, later in the film, after Patience receives her cat powers and is returning home, she bounds up onto a fire escape, which accesses the window to her apartment. How can the fire escape be there when she has her powers, but not be there earlier the same day to stop her from falling?
Correction: The window she climbs out to rescue the cat is on the main (street) side of the building. The window with the fire escape is in back, over the alley.
11th Aug 2004
Eight Legged Freaks (2002)
Corrected entry: At several points where town's folk are being chased in the mine, Chris mentions that the smallest spark will cause a devastating explosion. He then proceeds to take the motorcycle to rescue his aunt, and then starts the bike for a quick escape. As soon as the bike starts, they'd all be dead as a spark is needed to ignite the petrol, which would also ignite the methane gas.
Correction: Yes, but the spark to ignite the bike's petrol is contained inside the engine's cylinders (hence the phrase 'internal combustion engine'). For the engine to ignite the methane, some portion of its exterior would have to exceed the auto-ignition temperature of methane, which is over 1000 degrees Fahrenheit. Not likely.
29th Jul 2004
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Corrected entry: When Sir Lancelot is running to the castle to save the prince, the same shot is shown many times so he runs up the hill, then appears at the bottom at the start of the next shot.
Correction: Yes. It's an intentional comedic device, parodying similar scenes in other movies, not a mistake. Even the guards appear bemused that he seems to be taking so long to get to them - and then he attacks them suddenly, with no interlude where he's just 'nearby.'
2nd Jun 2004
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Corrected entry: There is no street facing the front of the New York public library as is shown in the movie when the tidal wave is coming down the street to the main entrance.
Correction: Incorrect - The NYPL at this location bridges the entire two blocks from 42nd Street down to 40th. 41st Street comes to an end at 5th Avenue right in front of it, then picks up again behind Bryant Park at 6th Avenue (Avenue of the Americas).
27th Aug 2001
Chasing Amy (1997)
Corrected entry: Ben Affleck is talking in the diner. He is smoking - the cigarette ashes appear then disappear, then appear again.
Correction: There are no examples of this wherein he didn't have time to knock them off/take a new drag between shots of him.
18th Feb 2004
Aliens (1986)
Corrected entry: How is it that the marine drop-ship immediately plunges towards the planet's surface when released from the mother ship, but the mother ship itself appears to be in a stable orbit around the planet? One of the two ships is defying the laws of physics.
Correction: We don't know exactly what transpires between the drop-ship and the mother ship. When the latches release, the smaller ship could be forced away by magnetic repulsion, or use a jet of compressed gas, or some other method of propulsion yet unknown to us. Any way you look at it, once it is lower than the mother ship it will continue to drop at a faster rate.
24th Jun 2003
The Breakfast Club (1985)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Bender escapes from the closet, he is shown crawling above a drop-ceiling, eventually falling through. Bender shouldn't have been able to crawl as far as he did because a drop-ceiling would never support his weight.
Correction: Not true. If he was careful to maintain his weight on the support struts, and carefully distributed across his feet and hands, many drop ceilings would support his weight readily. It was putting all his weight onto one of the tiles that was the kiss of death.
16th May 2003
The Transporter (2002)
Corrected entry: After the lead bank robber shoots his fourth partner, blood is splattered on the rear window, but it isn't shattered. How could the blood come out, but the bullet stay in? (00:04:40)
Correction: It is more than possible for the bullet to have collided with the back of the skull with enough force to spray blood outward, but be deflected either (a) back inside, or (b) outward on a different trajectory that doesn't hit the window.
27th Sep 2003
Identity (2003)
Corrected entry: In the scene where they are going through everyone's drivers licenses to see the birthdates, they hold up George York's which is an Illinois driver's license. While they did a really good job making it look authentic, the license is full of mistakes. First of all, the first letter in the Illinois DL number is always the first letter of your last name, but George York's license number started with P. Secondly, the license number consists of 3 sets of numbers and the last digit of the second set and the first digit of the third set are your birth year (Hence if your DL number was H658-9857-6321 you were born in 1976) but George's digits in the number are 5-6 and the birthdate is listed as 5-10-59. Third, the address is listed as Everton, IL 60045. there is no Everton, IL and 60045 is the Zip Code for Lake Forest, IL.
Correction: Yes, but all these are features of Malcolm Rivers's tortured imagination. There are other inconsistencies pointed out to him within the film (the birth date thing, the fact that all their names are states); he just doesn't know all that information about an Illinois license.
22nd Nov 2002
Witness (1985)
Corrected entry: During the scene when Samuel witnesses the murder in the train station toilet, he hides in one of the cubicles. Danny Glover goes along the line of cubicles pulling the doors open to see if anyone is hiding in them. All the doors open outwards yet when he gets to the locked cubicle Samuel is in, he kicks the door inwards. Only the door lock breaks, not the hinges as you would expect if a door was forced the wrong way. (00:14:50)
Correction: Virtually every public toilet stall I've ever been in has a door/hinge that WOULD swing all the way through, both directions, if not for the latching mechanism in its way. It's very unusual for them to be built with a jamb or any breakable hinge.
17th Dec 2001
The Score (2001)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Robert de Niro blows the door of the safe, the safe door (which is several inches, with big bolts) is blown across the room. But the fragile aluminium boxes inside are not affected by the explosion at all.
Correction: Actually, since the boxes are presumably not watertight, they would have filled with water and received approximately the same pressure wave inside and out, resulting in little deformation. The big door received all the force on one side, which is why it was blown off.
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Correction: First, the candidate is shot in the middle of the back, not the top. Second, the candidate's exit wound is at the top of his abdomen / bottom of his rib cage, not his lower abdomen. When you add in the fact that Liev Schrieber is nine inches taller than Meryl Streep, it sounds very reasonable indeed.
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