Tailkinker

23rd Jul 2008

Mamma Mia! (2008)

Corrected entry: Right after Sam, Bill, and Harry arrive and they are all in the goat house with Sophie, they hear Donna humming something, which prompts Sophie to run out abruptly. Listen more closely to what Donna's humming. It's "Fernando", another hit ABBA song.

Correction: The entire soundtrack to the film consists of ABBA songs. Pointing out one of them, even one less obvious that those that are actually sung, is not a valid use of trivia.

Tailkinker

23rd Jul 2008

Mamma Mia! (2008)

Corrected entry: During the song "Slipping Through My Fingers", Sophie is walking out of the shower and has cut herself shaving. She then lies back on the bed and Donna puts a band-aid on the cut. Right after she does that, there's another shot of Sophie, who leans back, and at that point, her nipple is briefly visible peeking out from her towel.

Correction: At the moment, this is trivia, and not terribly interesting trivia at that. Please explain why this should be considered a mistake.

Tailkinker

23rd Jul 2008

Jumper (2008)

Corrected entry: After David jumps to where Griffin is, he states that he has just jumped through Griffin's 'jump scar'. Previous to that scene, David was unaware any other jumpers existed. How does he know what a jump scar is?

Correction: Because he creates one every time he jumps. He knows what they are, he just didn't realise that he could use them to follow a fellow jumper because, as you say, up to that point, he didn't know there were any others out there.

Tailkinker

19th Jul 2008

Glory (1989)

Corrected entry: The film's epilogue says that "the fort was never taken". While this is true, it is due largely to the fact that the Confederates simply abandoned the fort two months later.

Correction: Did you think this through? I mean, at all? You admit that the statement in the epilogue is accurate, yet still try to claim it as a "factual error"? It's absurd. Regardless of what subsequently happened, the fort was never taken. True fact, by your own admission.

Tailkinker

17th Jul 2008

Wanted (2008)

Corrected entry: Near the end of the film, Fox shoots every remaining member of the Fraternity, including herself, with a single curved bullet. The idea that a single bullet fired from a handgun could penetrate through-and-through the heads of a dozen adults - something that most heavy-duty rifles couldn't do - is simply impossible and incomprehensible.

Correction: You're unhappy about the idea of a bullet passing through the heads of a dozen adults, while being fine with the fact that it's travelling in a circle, which many people would say was, well, to use your phrase, impossible and incomprehensible? The Fraternity members routinely do things with bullets that violate the standard laws of reality, this is simply another example of that ability.

Tailkinker

Corrected entry: When Harry, Hermione, and Ron go up the stair case, and end up in the third floor, you see there are three floors in view, plus a stair case going down, connected to the last visible floor, so in reality, it really wasn't the third floor.

Correction: In the UK, we don't start numbering right from the bottom. We start with the ground floor, which would be the first floor under the US system, then number as you go upwards. So, our first floor would be the second floor in the US and so forth. As such, the third floor that they refer to would be the fourth floor in US terminology, which fits with what's seen on-screen.

Tailkinker

Corrected entry: When Banner is in Mr. Blue's office in New York for the experiment, you can see a black cable coming out from under his wig in the back. As he goes through the changes to become the Hulk and raises his head, you can see the cable which is to pump air into the face apparatus that transforms/distort Banners face.

Correction: Banner's hooked up to monitors, to keep an eye on the changes that he's going through. As such, it's hardly unreasonable that there would be cables running to his body.

Tailkinker

Corrected entry: There is a scene after Verbal describes Keyser Söze where Kujan leaves the office and discusses with the cops the fact that Edie was meeting with a lawyer. Kujan asks "Kobayashi?" and the other two cops nod agreeingly, including the one who apparently knew that she met with a lawyer (and presumably who the lawyer was). However, how could she have met with a lawyer named Kobayashi if we find out that Verbal got the name Kobayashi from the bottom of Kujan's coffee glass at the end?

Correction: A lawyer meeting with a group of known felons on behalf of a criminal mastermind is hardly going to be stupid enough to be using his real name - Kujan's experienced enough to know that Kobayashi is an alias. The police have found out that Edie Finneran is in town meeting with a lawyer. Kujan's not asking if Kobayashi was the name; he's asking his colleagues if they think that this lawyer could be the mysterious Kobayashi that Verbal mentioned. They're agreeing that, in their opinion, they could well be one and the same person.

Tailkinker

Corrected entry: When Bruce Banner ("Mr. Green") is chatting with "Mr. Blue" he receives a message, and on the screen it says "Encrypting". It should, of course, say "Decrypting".

Correction: Nope, completely wrong. If Bruce was receiving an encrypted e-mail, then "Decrypting" would be the correct term, but he isn't. He and Mr Blue are using an encrypted chat system. As such, before they can chat, the necessary encryption protocols have to be set up, so "Encrypting" seems entirely appropriate.

Tailkinker

Corrected entry: When the army locates Bruce in Brazil, he is warned by his dog when it starts barking. Bruce was clearly asleep, and his chasing down continues all day long, as we see some scenes where the sun is rising, then at midday when there are children in the streets, and finally at night when he comes across the guy at the soda factory.

Correction: Bruce is asleep because he's tired after work. It's late in the day - the sun is setting, not rising and we never see a shot that can be identified as midday. The chase simply runs from early evening into nightfall.

Tailkinker

Corrected entry: When Bruce says they shouldn't do anything that can be traced, like credit cards or cell phones, the army is saying the same thing, that he's too smart to get caught. And then he sends an unencrypted, insecure email with all of the data he got from the USB drive. This alerts the authorities and they're off to New York. Bruce and Betty end up meeting Mr.Blue, so what was the point of sending an extremely insecure, traceable email if they could've just handed the USB drive to the guy?

Correction: Bruce is using an e-mail address that he thinks is entirely unconnected to him. As such, it would be foolish to add encryption, which could just draw attention to the e-mail if it were intercepted. As it is, it just seems like technical data being passed between scientists, which happens all the time. Bruce sent the data before the meeting was finalised - ergo, at the time, he didn't know that he'd be able to just hand it over.

Tailkinker

Corrected entry: Booth mentions that JFK did not want Secret Service agents on the bumpers of the car. This is a misconception. His agents repeatedly stated that JFK was more than happy to accept all security that was provided. The only thing he asked was if the security bubble over the car could be taken off when he met people, as he liked to do that. He did not insist on this, however; his security team decided it was fine - with disastrous results, of course.

Correction: This is irrelevant to the film. The film is a work of fiction and this is merely a character expressing an opinion - it does not need to be disproved. Please confine trivia items to information that actually has significant bearing on the film itself.

Tailkinker

Corrected entry: There have been rumours since day one that JFK had a deathwish as Booth states in the film. This was never the case. The secret service and his friends and family have repeatedly stated that this was not true and that it was the figment of conspiracists' imagination.

Correction: This is irrelevant to the film. The film is a work of fiction and this is merely a character expressing an opinion - it does not need to be disproved. Please confine trivia items to information that actually has significant bearing on the film itself.

Tailkinker

Corrected entry: Intentionally or not (and very ironically either way), prominently visible in the background during the final fight between the Abomination and the Hulk is a store called "The Harmony Furniture Store".

Correction: If something's prominently visible in a film, then it doesn't need to be pointed out here.

Tailkinker

Corrected entry: The British Marine officer is walking beside the General, both are in dress blues. A British officer would never slouch, he would be walking ramrod straight. Also, I would swear, they were wearing identical uniforms.

Correction: This is an opinion. Please provide evidence that no British officer would never, under any circumstances, walk in anything other than a ramrod straight posture and resubmit. As for the uniform issue, already submitted and corrected.

Tailkinker

29th Jun 2008

Red Dwarf (1988)

Holoship - S5-E1

Corrected entry: During Rimmer's initial conversation with Nirvannah, after he boards her ship, she tells him that it is considered "the height of bad manners" on the ship to refuse sex with someone. Later, after they have had sex, Rimmer suggests a "tie-breaker" (a euphemism for sex again). She unashamedly brushes him off by saying she has "things to do", thus contradicting her own moral standards.

Correction: Nirvanah hasn't refused to have sex with Rimmer - she's already done it, several times. She simply can't continue to do so, as she has duties to attend to. No rudeness there - everybody on the ship would understand that duty ultimately has to take precedence.

Tailkinker

Corrected entry: Some odd (if not very disturbing) coincidences surrounding the movie, released in 1971. Lana Wood plays Plenty O'Toole and dies by drowning in the movie. The person who was supposed to be drowned in the movie was Tiffany Case, played by Jill St. John. In real life Lana Wood's older sister Natalie Wood died by drowning (November 1981). At the time Natalie was married to actor Robert Wagner. Ten years later (1991) Robert Wagner remarried, to Jill St. John. Interesting side note - Natalie had a dire fear of drowning, Lana was a certified diver.

Correction: Coincidences happen all the time, it's just a fact of life that sometimes things coincide; simple probability dictates that this happens, and even apparently extreme coincidences are purely just something that happens. As a result, coincidences are not really terribly remarkable. And they're most certainly not considered valid trivia.

Tailkinker

22nd Jun 2008

Doctor Who (2005)

Correction: So the original statement turned out to be wrong. These things happen; characters make mistakes.

Tailkinker

23rd Jun 2008

Doctor Who (2005)

Doomsday (2) - S2-E16

Corrected entry: The Daleks and Cybermen are pulled through the breach because of the "background radiation" that they gained when travelling between the two worlds. However, the Cybermen that were converted in the real world did not travel between worlds, so therefore had no background radiation on them, so should not have been pulled through the breach.

Correction: The people converted haven't travelled between worlds, but the technology that's been grafted onto them has. The technology's pulled through the breach like everything else, taking the convertee with it.

Tailkinker

23rd Jun 2008

Star Wars (1977)

Corrected entry: In the scene where the rebels are in the briefing room for the attack on the Death Star, the guy explaining the attack says that they will need Proton Torpedos because the exhaust port is ray shielded. When Luke finally gets the torpedos in, there are not any ray shields. (01:40:35 - 01:57:00)

Correction: Just because they're not visible, it doesn't mean that they're not there. You'll note, if you pay attention, that shields in the Star Wars universe are invisible unless they're actually being fired upon, in which case their presence can be detected by the reaction of the laser blasts. Proton torpedoes just go straight through with being affected.

Tailkinker

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