Corrected entry: Lister says that killing your past self will cause you to die, thus making it impossible to go back in time to kill your past self in the first place. So how was JFK able to kill himself at The End of the episode? If he killed himself, he would have still survived as he wouldn't have been unable to go back in time and kill himself in the first place, the same was as the crew survived their attack.
Tailkinker
27th Jan 2004
Red Dwarf (1988)
10th Oct 2006
Superman (1978)
Corrected entry: This occurs just after Superman saves the town in the valley from being washed away by the flood from the broken dam. He stops and listens, and hears Lois. Just before the scene changes and he goes to rescue her, his lips move as though he is saying "Lois" but no audio is heard. No subtitle is on the DVD either.
Correction: So, he mouths her name when he hears her. Nothing wrong with that - people don't always speak out loud.
7th Oct 2006
National Treasure (2004)
Corrected entry: When Ben's grandfather tells him about the treasure, notice how when it flashes back to Egypt, the grandfather's left eye stays a little bit longer over the unfinished pyramid.
Correction: Pointing out things that can be easily seen in the film is not valid trivia.
6th Oct 2006
Barb Wire (1996)
Corrected entry: Throughout the movie, Barb Wire's constant refrain is "Don't call me Babe!" This trademark that she uses was actually taken from the Barb Wire Dark Horse comic book. David Hogan then used this to make Barb Wire's character more darker.
Correction: Amazing. A film based on a comic-book that uses quotes taken directly from that book? Who'd have thought it. Hardly valid trivia, though.
4th Oct 2006
Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006)
Corrected entry: Dev has a hidden tribute to David Beckham embedded into his character. Dev has a tattoo on his hand that says Victory; David Beckham has one on his hand that says Victoria, his wife's name. Dev's wife is named Rhea. Put his wife's name and the tattoo into an equation, Victory + Rhea = Victoria.
Correction: Unless you can cite some interview or other source that shows that this was intentional on the part of the filmmakers, then it's purely coincidental, which invalidates it as trivia.
21st Sep 2006
Mystery Men (1999)
Corrected entry: In his audition, the Waffler burns his face with his waffle iron. However, this is impossible since the iron isn't plugged in.
Correction: Well, as he needs to take it with him on his forays into crime fighting, obviously he found a portable way to power it.
19th Sep 2006
Inside Man (2006)
Corrected entry: The entire premise of the movie rests on the fact that the leader of the gang of "robbers" sole purpose in invading the bank is to gain possession of papers from Christopher Plummer's private safe deposit box. These papers, we learn, reveal his past ties to the Nazis and have been hidden in a safe deposit box which has not appeared in bank records since the building was built. (1) How did the gang become aware of the existence of the papers at all, and (2) how could they have possibly learned where to look for them?
Correction: Films are not required to spell out every plot detail, and there are no actual holes here, just unanswered questions. The simple answer is that there are real-life organisations devoted to tracking down ex-Nazis and those who profited from dealings with them (who have proven successful in bringing a number of individuals to justice). Case's presence in Europe at the right time and subsequent wealth would be a matter of public record, and would undoubtedly have been enough to raise some degree of suspicion with whatever group ultimately hired Russell's team to 'rob' the bank. The most likely course of events is that they infiltrated somebody into Case's company, who then looked for evidence of his misdeeds. Upon finding the anomaly of an unlisted safety deposit box in Case's own bank (which, frankly, is not the most intelligent place that Case could have chosen), they informed the organisation about this; they deemed it worthy of investigation and, with no other options, took the drastic step of faking a robbery in order to access it.
19th Sep 2006
Xanadu (1980)
Corrected entry: There were over 60 Xanadu Dancers in total, for the Xanadu Roller Disco scene.
Correction: Something that could probably be determined by simply watching the film, or looking at the end credits, is hardly interesting trivia.
19th Sep 2006
Xanadu (1980)
Corrected entry: The exterior of Los Angeles' Pan-Pacific Auditorium was used in film for shots of the Xanadu nightclub. The art deco Streamline Moderne building burned down in 1989, though a front spire section was saved and used on the recent Pan-Pacific park community center building which now stands in its place.
Correction: Pointing out filming locations is hardly interesting trivia - everything had to be filmed somewhere and the information about the fire has no relevance to the film in question.
19th Sep 2006
Mission: Impossible (1996)
Corrected entry: When Ethan is hanging from the ceiling of the computer room suspended just above the floor he watches sweat build up on the corner of his glasses then drop. When he catches the drop he is seen to breath a sigh of relief, then there is a cut to Luther also breathing a sign of relief back in the control position. Luther would not have been able to see the drop build up on the glasses from a camera in the glasses.
Correction: No, he couldn't have seen the drop build up, but he could certainly have seen Ethan catch it, so a sigh of relief is quite reasonable.
11th Sep 2006
Firefly (2002)
Corrected entry: Kaylee gets shot in the stomach and rushed to the infirmary, where Simon works on her for some hours. Then, once she's stabilized, Mal goes and opens Simon's shipping container, in which his sister is stashed. Several scenes later, Kaylee finally wakes up from her anesthesia while Mal is with her, and makes some comment about how pretty River is lying there, even though she (Kaylee) has been unconscious the entire time River's been out of the crate. She should be asking who this stranger is.
Correction: It's blatantly obvious throughout that scene that Kaylee's doped to the gills, so she's not exactly firing on all cylinders. Even if she wasn't, Kaylee's about the most easy-going person on the ship, and it seems entirely in character for her to observe how pretty River is before worrying about who she actually is, particularly as, given that the girl's asleep in the sickbay, she's clearly not an imminent threat to the crew or ship.
22nd Aug 2006
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
Corrected entry: When the TX (disguised as Kate's boyfriend) punches it's arm through the police officer, it grabs the wheel and takes control of the vehicle. When the vehicle arrives, you see the TX get out of the rear of the vehicle, meaning she was in the back seat driving the whole time. In the back seat, the TX may have been able to control the stearing wheel and maybe the gearstick, but she would not have been able to control the accelerator, brake or clutch, making driving the car virtually impossible, not to mention stopping it. (00:51:30 - 00:54:35)
Correction: The T-X is partly made of liquid metal - it would be easy for it to simply extend itself under the seat to work the pedals.
7th Jul 2006
Superman III (1983)
Corrected entry: Two former "Our Gang" members appear in the movie. Jackie Cooper (Perry White) appeared in 15 of the shorts in the early 1930s, and Annie Ross (Vera Webster) was in "Our Gang Follies of 1938" when she was known as Annabelle Logan. She was the little girl singing "Loch Lomond".
Correction: It's hardly unusual for actors and actresses to appear together in more than one thing. Without some greater significance, like a scene which they both appear in which makes an intentional nod to whatever their prior work was, this cannot be considered to be valid trivia.
8th Aug 2006
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
Corrected entry: As the hanger is bombed, the film shows both landing gear legs of the P-40 rising together, while in real life one landing gear leg retracted first.
Correction: This is hardly a standard P-40.
5th Aug 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Corrected entry: At the beginning of the movie, the characters are singing "Fifteen Men on a Dead Man's Chest". However, Robert Louis Stevenson did not write that little ditty until 1883 ("Treasure Island"), long after the movie takes place.
Correction: It's believed that Stevenson may have based his work on a pre-existing song. Apparently that's the case in the POTC reality.
4th Aug 2006
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Corrected entry: Jack's daughter grew up in Riverton, Wyoming yet speaks with a Southern accent. While Jack is from the South, her mother isn't, and it's not very likely that she wold have picked up the accent growing up with only one Southern parent.
Correction: Not very likely doesn't mean impossible, so this can't really be considered a mistake.
31st Jul 2006
Blackadder (1986)
Corrected entry: Several times in this episode reference is made to Bosworth Field as the battle site, but at the time of the actual battle in 1483 it was known as Redmore or Dadlington Field.
Correction: Historically-set programmes and films routinely update the language, terms and names used in order to be understandable by present-day audiences. This is simply an example of this standard convention and thus cannot be considered a mistake.
29th Jul 2006
Independence Day (1996)
Corrected entry: That alien suit is rather odd: it needs to be cut open with a razor sharp knife, then the alien is covered in a fleshy mass, however the suit is so weak an alien gets knocked out when it gets punched.
Correction: There doesn't appear to be any sort of movie mistake here, just an opinion.
Corrected entry: When the crew of the Black Pearl go to the cave the first time and are unloading valuables, Pintel says to Riggeti that once the curse is lifted they will buy him a new glass eye. Riggeti responds how the wooden eye splinters something awful. How can the wooden eye bother him if he has the curse of the Black Pearl and he can not feel any pain?
Correction: It's made blatantly obvious throughout the film that the pirates do feel pain; there are numerous occasions where they scream or otherwise react to something painful - its pleasurable things that the curse denies them.
25th Jul 2006
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
Corrected entry: When the TX is on top of the hearse and she is chopping through the roof, a shot will come up where Terminator is swinging the hearse from side to side. A wheel comes off and rolls up the bank but the hearse keeps going.
Correction: That's not a wheel, just a hubcap.
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Correction: It's a temporal paradox - a mainstay of time-travel stories. As time travel doesn't exist, writers are allowed to handle these things in their own way. In this case, the Kennedy from a timeline where he survives is brought back to shoot his prior self. The moment that the bullet hits, reality shifts onto a new timeline, parallel to the other one. The living Kennedy's timeline no longer exists, but it doesn't erase the fact that it did exist - the crew don't lose their memories of the events that took place there and so forth - and so there was a Kennedy who survived Dallas who came back to alter the timeline.
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