Corrected entry: When all the bad guys meet back up after spending time locked up (the scene where they're playing with the assault cannons provided by Clarence)it is night time, and Clarence announces that "Robocop is in the steel mill, lets go" When they arrive at the mill, it is a very blue sky we are treated to.
Tailkinker
27th Jul 2004
Robocop (1987)
21st Sep 2004
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
Corrected entry: When Ed Rooney presses the phone button to take Ferris' call he says nothing but Ferris speaks right up to ask him to get his sister to get his homework assignments. How did Ferris know Rooney was on the phone?
Correction: Ferris would have been put on hold, so was most likely having to listen to music. When Rooney pressed the appropriate phone button, Ferris would be taken off hold - the music would have stopped, so Ferris would know that somebody was now listening - as he'd presumably asked to speak to Rooney, he simply assumed, correctly, that that was who he was speaking to.
23rd Sep 2004
Shrek (2001)
Corrected entry: Isn't it odd how Fiona's green dress keeps fitting perfectly, despite the fact her body expands and shrinks everyday?
Correction: Not really - it's part of the magic of her changes.
Correction: She probably wears stretchy clothes.
15th Sep 2004
Aladdin (1992)
Corrected entry: When Jafar does his little ditty he says "Say hello to your precious Prince Ali" and transforms Aladdin into his beggar self. Jasmine acts shocked, but she already knew that Aladdin was "the boy from the marketplace," so she shouldn't be surprised to see him dressed as he was in the marketplace.
Correction: She's surprised because, up until then, she'd believed that he was Prince Ali, who'd just been incognito down in the market (just as she was). Finding out that he'd lied and he really was just a beggar is understandably a shock.
14th Sep 2004
Back to the Future (1985)
Corrected entry: When Marty saved his father from being run over by his grandfather, he had automatically altered the future. Shouldn't he and his siblings have disappeared altogether?
Correction: The timestream, as portrayed in the films, is quite resiliant and resistant to change, which is why Marty doesn't vanish immediately. As time passes in the new configuration, that resilience is overcome and things begin to disappear from the timeline, beginning with his older siblings (who are closer to the point of disruption) and ending with Marty himself. Fortunately Marty is able to get the timeline back onto a course that includes him and his siblings before that happens completely.
1st Sep 2004
Jurassic Park (1993)
Corrected entry: At the beginning, we can assume that there are at least three raptors inside the container. But when the raptors push the container forward and drop the gatekeeper down, we can see some workers went inside the container or, at least, in front of it. If so, why didn't they stun the raptor that is holding the gatekeeper? Furthermore, they didn't get killed by the other raptors.
Correction: Wrong assumption straight off the bat - there's only one raptor in the container, namely the large female that they mention introducing into the group. No workers go inside - nobody in their right mind would put themselves right in front of an annoyed dinosaur, so they wouldn't really be close enough to stun her if they were in front of the container - it's far safer to try and stun her through the sides where there's a wall between you and her.
3rd Sep 2004
Highlander (1986)
Corrected entry: The Highland scenes are set in 1536, and earlier Nash tells Brenda he was born in 1518 which would make him 18. However, when he is being run out of the village, Nash tells his cousin that "we've been kinsman for 20 years."
Correction: When you're being banished by everyone that you hold dear, being precise is hardly going to bother you. With the years given, Connor could easily be close to nineteen, depending on his date of birth and the date in question - twenty years is close enough.
5th Sep 2004
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Corrected entry: Doesn't the Terminator know what human tears are? After all, he does have "detailed files" on human anatomy.
Correction: He knows WHAT they are - what he asks is "WHY do you cry?" Human emotional responses would be dismissed as irrelevant by the machines so he wouldn't be likely to carry information on those.
3rd Sep 2004
Aliens (1986)
Corrected entry: In the scene when the marines are making their first sweep of the complex and Hicks says "looks like they bagged one of Ripley's bad guys here," how do they kill the alien? If they used weapons where are they? Why didn't the marines use them when the drop ship crashed and they only had four pulse rifles with about 50 rounds each?
Correction: They say, during the survey, "looks like small-arms fire" which probably means light pistols, plus there are references to seismic survey charges, which would be small explosives. As to why the marines didn't use them - they never actually found the pistols, and it would be a little difficult to use explosives after the colonists have already blown them up.
4th Sep 2004
Star Wars (1977)
Corrected entry: If the Death Star was the size of a small moon, it would have its own gravitational pull. This renders the Core Generator in the center useless for the Empire.
Correction: Hardly. The Death Star may be the size of a small moon, but you have to bear in mind that it's mostly hollow. Mass-wise, it's not going to remotely compare to a moon made of solid rock; the gravitational pull is going to be negligable, hence the need for the Core Generator.
3rd Sep 2004
Minority Report (2002)
Corrected entry: When Lamar shoots Colin Farrell, where was a pre-cog ball?
Correction: It's explained quite clearly in the film - unless the three precogs are together, it doesn't work. As Agatha is away from the twins, off with Anderton, there's no precognition, so Lamar can kill Witwer without being picked up.
The question still remains though: why was there no pre-cog ball of Witwer's murder rolling, before Agatha was kidnapped by Anderton? Witwer's murder happened a few hours after Crowe's death, hence the pre-vision of Witwer's murder could have easily occurred a few hours after the pre-vision of Crowe's death.
The decision to murder Wither was not made until after Agatha was taken. As stated at the beginning of the film premeditated murder gives them more time to look at the visions and decode the information, crimes of passion only give them minutes.
Well yeah but they aren't attained only after the decision is made by the perpetrator. Anderton got his ball well before he even knew he would do anything. His ball came hours before the intended murder, so should Lamar's. I like this question.
But with Anderton there were events that lead to the murder that happened before he knew anything, like Burgess hiring Crow to be the victim. So somehow the Precogs pickup on that and created a ball. With Wither there was nothing before hand that would trigger the Precogs.
The PreCrime system works by the PreCogs scanning for people with the intent to kill and then determining details. Burgess' intent to murder Witwer came well after Agatha was disconnected, when he discovered that Witwer knew about the framing of Anderton. Therefore, there couldn't have been a ball, as the system was offline.
Correction: It's because Burgess' murder of Witwer would count as a red ball since he doesn't have any reason to murder Witwer until Witwer reveals he's getting too close to uncovering the truth. By the time the precogs would normally have foreseen such a murder (remembering the movie states red ball killings only have a few minutes worth of warning) Agatha has long since been removed from the equation so yes, it makes sense Witwer's death isn't picked up ahead of time.
22nd Jul 2004
The Game (1997)
Corrected entry: On the rooftop, Nick shoots his brother Conrad then tries to kill himself by stepping over the edge of the building. You can see from the shots that it's a very high building, yet when Nick hits the big 'cushion' on the floor, he gets up and there he sees his brother and Christine, along with several other people that were on the roof when Conrad 'died'. Unless they, too, jumped down or something, they couldn't have gotten down there so fast.
Correction: Nick is instructed to lie on the airbag for some time, while they get to him, remove the breakaway glass from his body and he's checked over by the paramedics. A reasonably fast lift would be able to get them there in time.
25th Aug 2004
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Corrected entry: Boromir's horn magically splits in half for no apparent reason.
Correction: It's damaged during the fight - just because we don't see the actual specific moment of the split doesn't make this an error.
29th Aug 2004
Alien Vs. Predator (2004)
Corrected entry: It has been shown in Alien 3 that the aliens won't hurt someone who has an alien inside of them. This doesn't seem to be the case in this movie. After the Predator is impregnated by the face hugger lots of aliens attack him, including the Queen. The Queen even impales him with her tail, which it seems should have killed the alien inside of him although she somehow managed to miss it.
Correction: It's shown in Alien 3 that they won't hurt someone who has a alien Queen inside them - remember, it's established in that film that Ripley's hosting a queen. Queens being obviously rather important, you can see why they'd want to preserve the host. The same consideration obviously doesn't apply to someone hosting one of the standard type of alien - after all, they can always make more of those. Queens are clearly a special case.
25th Jun 2004
Hulk (2003)
Corrected entry: Near the end of the movie, when Bruce has been captured by the military, General Ross claims that he will incinerate him on the spot if he shows any signs of transforming again. At this point, Ross is well aware that the change is triggered by anger and/or emotional distress, yet he sits back and does absolutely nothing as Bruce's father works him into a veritable frenzy.
Correction: There's no contradiction here; while Banner Snr is putting Bruce through the wringer, Bruce is upset, but still staying reasonably in control. Ross has ordered the incineration if Bruce shows any sign of transformation - he hasn't, so no incineration. The change only begins after his father has already wrecked the incineration unit.
22nd Aug 2004
The Fugitive (1993)
Corrected entry: When Tommy Lee Jones goes to the one-armed man's apartment, the one-armed man enters and says "I hell to hope you are a cop" instead of "I hope to hell you are a cop."
Correction: No, he doesn't - he says "I sure as hell hope you're a cop".
15th Jul 2004
Hollow Man (2000)
Corrected entry: When the guy is lying in the corridor bleeding and Sarah (the veterinarian) says he needs blood, she goes back to the lab and starts pulling out bags and bags of whole blood. Problem: They're not authorized to work on humans, so the blood she's planning on pumping into this poor soul (without checking his blood type), is from either a gorilla or a dog.
Correction: They're not authorized to work on humans, no, but, bearing in mind that they're going ahead with a human trial anyway, they would undoubtedly have surreptitiously obtained some human blood supplies in case of problems.
6th Aug 2004
Dark City (1998)
Corrected entry: The City is perpetually set at night, because the Strangers are allergic to sunlight. Every time the clock strikes midnight in the film is when the Strangers "Tune" the City and change things, etc. After each Tuning, the clock (which is stopped at midnight) continues moving past twelve. There are two problems with this: one, there is no daytime in the six or so hours after midnight, which is to be expected for an average city, like this City is supposed to be (as opposed to some place like Alaska). The other problem is that very little - TOO little - time elapses between Tuning sessions, and surely somebody who didn't have their memory changed between Tunings would find it strange that it was suddenly midnight again (and I mean somebody other than John Murdock). This is a very big flaw in one of the most pivotal aspects of the plot.
Correction: The strangers, who appear to have some reasonably powerful psychic abilities, have fixed things so that the people in the city don't notice the inconsistencies in their environment - no daylight, never leaving the city (and not even knowing how to) and so forth. Given their total control over the city, it's not unreasonable to assume that they could manage this. The only time anyone notices is when Murdock, who's outside the Strangers' control, points it out to them - the rest of the time, they either fail to notice at all, or they rationalise it away. Some sort of mental block is presumably involved - probably psychically reinforced during every tuning session while they're sleeping.
12th Jul 2004
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Corrected entry: In the scene in Hagrid's hut when Harry, Ron and Hermione are leaving we can hear Cornelius Fudge say "the Hippogriff known as Buckbeak is to be executed at sundown." However they exit to execute him not even five minutes later, no where near sun down as the sun is visible in the sky.
Correction: The actual execution is to occur at sundown - therefore, all preparations for the event must occur prior to sundown. Buckbeak is merely tied up so that he can't wander off, he's not actually physically restrained in any significant way, and he's hardly likely to hold still while the executioner swings a large axe at his head. Hagrid is presumably required to tie Buckbeak more securely, so that Macnair can do his job - given that Buckbeak is hardly likely to be happy about this, this process may well take some time. Bear in mind the executioner's axe-swing was never aimed at Buckbeak - only the pumpkin due to being frustrated.
8th Jul 2004
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Theoden rides into Dunharrow, he asks "Where are the riders from Snowborn?" the answer is "None have come, my lord"; this is impossible, since Snowborn is a river or stream passing right next to the Rohirrim encampment. What this means is that they cannot come since they would have already been there.
Correction: It doesn't mean anything of the sort. The Snowbourn River does indeed run past Dunharrow, but it then runs north and east across Rohan, past Edoras, until it finally meets up with the Entwash. The Snowbourn that Theoden refers to, which is presumably a settlement of some description that takes its name from the river on which it lies, could be anywhere along the route.
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Correction: While they'd want to get nearby quickly, in case Murphy tried to make a run for it, they might well have decided not to actually enter the steel mill until daylight. Murphy is most likely capable of seeing in the dark - it would make sense to have given him some sort of low-light capability - whereas they can't. No sense in giving him a tactical advantage.
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