Corrected entry: This relates to the APUs defending Zion. Okay, I counted at least 60 APUs, during the scene where Mifune does his speech(Twelve rows of five abreast). 60 APUs, two guns per APU, makes 120. Plus, there are guns on the tower in the dock, I counted eight turrets with four barrels apiece, so another 32. Now, just estimating, the hole made by the digger is 5-10 meters across, 20-40 feet. The bullets would have to be depleted uranium 'tank-buster' shells to destroy the sentinels. My problem is this: with the number of bullets being fired into the digger entrance, how did any sentinels actually get through to Zion? I'd think the sheer number of bullets flying, plus all the shrapnel and collisions forming from sentinels being destroyed, none would get through.
Tailkinker
3rd Aug 2004
The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
30th Jul 2004
Face/Off (1997)
Corrected entry: It makes no sense that Archer's wife takes a risky blood sample from Troy, when it would have been easier to simply take some from the real Archer, who enters the house bleeding.
Correction: It makes perfect sense. She's only got Archer's word on what Troy's bloodtype is, so taking a sample from him is hardly likely to convince her - he may have the same bloodtype as her husband, but so do millions of other people. However, she knows what Archer's bloodtype is, so, if she takes a sample from the man claiming to be her husband and it's not correct, then that's conclusive evidence that he's not who he says he is.
26th Jul 2004
Spider-Man (2002)
Corrected entry: What exactly is the Green Goblin's plan in his last scene where he dies? By standing up, he has aligned himself between his knifed hoverboard and the brick wall, which eventually kill him, but as he controls the hoverboard and knows what is about to happen, why has he put himself in harm's way? Had it gone to plan, both he and Spiderman would be impaled. If he would have jumped it, why didn't he anyway, nothing stopped him. Whilst crazy, Goblin is a very clever character who has planned this move, so why does he stand up?
Correction: He stands up because the glider's going to come in low enough to hit him anyway - it'll be much easier to avoid if he's up on his feet. He's expecting his glider to impale Peter, which would slow it down, giving him enough time to get out of the way. Peter leaping out of the way was completely unexpected, distracting him for long enough for the glider to hit him instead.
27th Jul 2004
Shrek 2 (2004)
Corrected entry: It is in the evening when Shrek takes the Happily Ever After potion and falls asleep. The next morning he reads on the bottle that for the potion to work he needs to be kissed by his true love by midnight on the day he takes the potion so he goes to find Fiona, but hasn't midnight already passed?
Correction: The potion doesn't kick in immediately, but sometime during the night. Most likely, its effects start at one midnight, giving the imbiber exactly 24 hours to get the kiss. That would seem suitably fairy-tale-ish.
26th Jul 2004
I, Robot (2004)
Corrected entry: The police chief said that a robot had never committed a crime but a thief could tell a robot to commit a crime for him or he would kill himself, as the robot would have to do it according to the three laws.
Correction: That does appear to be a potential loophole, yes, but either it's never actually happened, in which case the chief's statement is correct, or, if it has occured in the past, then it seems quite likely that the police would consider the thief rather than the robot to be the guilty party, as the robot is being coerced into carrying out the crime, in which case his statement is still not unreasonable.
24th Jul 2004
Shrek 2 (2004)
Corrected entry: So how exactly was the Fairy Godmother's plan supposed to work? If everything worked out just fine for her, Fiona would still switch back to an ogre at midnight (lacking the kiss with the other potion drinker Shrek), certainly not the form of her Charming would love to have on his side. (Okay, could be another plot hole covering potion to fix that ;)).
Correction: The aim of the Godmother's plan is for Fiona to love Charming. Fiona being an ogre isn't the problem, it's that she loves Shrek - Godmother's entire plan is to change that. Once Fiona loves Charming, then the Godmother can work on changing her back to human form, but, during the events of the film, that's a secondary consideration. The love potion may automatically make him her true love anyway, killing two birds with one stone.
26th Jul 2004
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Corrected entry: In the book The Hobbit, the three trolls that captured the dwarves are turned to stone by being exposed to daylight. The extended DVD of FOTR has a scene which touches on this. However, there are plenty of trolls fighting in the daylight battles in ROTK.
Correction: Different types of troll - the ones seen towards the end are Olog-Hai, a special breed of troll created by Sauron. They're stronger, more intelligent, and can survive in sunlight, unlike the common trolls of the type encountered in the Hobbit.
22nd Jun 2004
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
As You Were - S6-E15
Corrected entry: Sam, Riley's wife, says that it took him a year to get over Buffy. At this point in the season, it has barely even been a year since Riley left.
Correction: Riley leaves in episode 5.10 ("Into The Woods") and returns in 6.15. As each season represents a year, then this gap ought to be around 15 months. Riley says that they've been married for nearly four months, which ties in reasonably closely with him taking a year to get over Buffy.
8th Jan 2004
Phone Booth (2002)
Corrected entry: In the end of the movie, the sniper is seen walking away with a gun case. Just about any police officer knows what a gun case looks like and the sniper would have immediately been stopped and checked.
Correction: Firstly, the police have their suspect, identified by Stu, and he's dead - they're not looking for anyone else. Secondly, the caller has been established as both intelligent and highly methodical - he would undoubtedly have made certain that he had appropriate documentation to reassure the police that he holds the rifle legitimately before he took any risks that might bring him into possible contact with the police. Even if the police did stop him and check him, it would just be routine (after all, as far as they're concerned, they've got their man) and they'd find nothing incriminating to hold him on.
22nd Jul 2004
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Corrected entry: Why does the driver of the train continue to proceed along the track? Surely he would stop as soon as he heard the noise of Doc Ock and Spiderman fighting?
Correction: Why would he stop? It would make much more sense if there's a problem to try to get the train to the next station, where people can actually get out, rather than leaving them on an elevated track with no possible exit.
16th Sep 2003
Band of Brothers (2001)
Crossroads - S1-E5
Corrected entry: When Winters shoots the SS kid at the start of the episode, we see a close-up of his face and gun and when he shoots we can see the bayonet on the end of his gun wobble as if it was made of rubber.
Correction: The bayonet is wobbling back and forth, yes, but this is due to the slightly loose joint attaching it to the gun - if you look carefully, the bayonet itself isn't bending in any way, it's just moving slightly around its joint.
6th Jul 2004
Underworld (2003)
Corrected entry: How did the Lycans know the exact location of the safe-house that Michael was in? Selene told Michael that they take the Lycans there and remove the silver bullets in order to question them. After questioning they put the bullets back in. Since the vampires would put the silver bullets back into a Lycans body the lycan would eventually die and therefore it would be impossible for any knowledge of the safe-house or any others to be discovered.
Correction: Given that Kraven is in league with the Lycans, it's not remotely out of the question that he might have revealed the location of the safe house at some point.
5th Jul 2004
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Corrected entry: More than once the Headless Horseman ignores Ichabod Crane because he wasn't after him, however he kills the midwife's son just because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. It doesn't make sense.
Correction: As we don't see the specific instruction, we don't know precisely what orders the Horseman had. However, as both Elizabeth Killian (the midwife) and her husband need to be eliminated, it's likely that the Horseman was simply told to take out the Killians, rather than referring to them by individual name - this instruction would include the child.
Correction: They 'wife-witch sister' states she was sicking the horseman on people who discovered the secret - when she found out the midwife and husband knew she sent him, maybe the boy was taken to make he hadn't overheard as well.
1st Jul 2004
Finding Nemo (2003)
Corrected entry: When Nemo goes into the filter for the second time to try and block it, the other aquarium fish panic and try to get him out, by using the long thin plant again. However, the only way for Nemo to reach this plant would be to block the filter, so would have no need of rescue. In other words it's impossible to escape the filter once he's in it without blocking it, so the other fishes' plan to get him out was a bit pointless.
Correction: The other fishes know that Nemo was successful in blocking the filter briefly last time, so it's reasonable for them to assume that he'll manage it again - getting the plant is to pull him out afterwards, assuming that it's all going to go wrong like it did last time. Besides, there's nothing else that they can do - it's better to do something, even if it might be pointless, than do nothing at all.
2nd Jul 2004
Alien (1979)
Corrected entry: At the beginning of the film when they come out of their hibernation chambers, they all get up and are walking fine and a couple of characters are clean shaven. Surly if they were in the hibernation thing for many years they would have grown excessively large beards and also would have been very unstable when walking. Just like in real life where astronauts find it difficult to walk on their return to earth.
Correction: The hibernation chambers, as the name implies, slows down the body's systems to an extremely low ebb - as we see at the beginning of the second film, Ripley, who has been in hibernation for 57 years, doesn't appear to have aged in the slightest. As such, no beard growth would have occurred. With regard to muscle wastage, the crew needs to operate the ship effectively within hours of awakening, which wouldn't be possible if they couldn't stand up. As such, we can assume that the hibernation chambers were capable, in some way, of preventing this from occurring.
When the crew are in hypersleep they are technically not alive, they are frozen and then monitored by mother because when Kane woke up and asked where they were Brett mentioned that they were going back to the old freezerinos meaning back to hypersleep.
29th Jun 2004
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Corrected entry: When New York City is in the eye of the storm, we see the Empire State Building freezing from the top down. However, when the characters are running back to the fire place in the library, the frost is following them lengthways through the corridors.
Correction: It's all down to airflow - the cold is coming from the upper atmosphere, so the Empire State Building would freeze from the top down. The interior of the library, however, would freeze in the manner depicted as the cold air flowed (horizontally) down the corridors, away from the windows and doors.
21st Jun 2004
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Corrected entry: On all the closeups of the Ring in Mount Doom, there are numerous flashes in the chamber that look like lightning flashes, or some other form of "blue" light. There wouldn't be any light of that color in the chamber because it is all fire and lava.
Correction: It's a chamber that has seen substantial amounts of magic used there - namely the forging of the Ring itself. Who's to say what sort of odd discharges there might be, particularly as we're focusing on the Ring - the target of all that magic power.
21st Jun 2004
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Corrected entry: We are told both by Galadriel and Aragorn that the Ringwraiths were once 'great kings of men'. This is not entirely accurate as the second-in-command of the Witch-King, Khamul, was once an Easterling (not a 'great king of men').
Correction: Easterling is merely a term for the men of the East - they're not orcs or anything like that. Khamul was presumably one of their kings, making the description quite accurate.
15th Jun 2004
Pitch Black (2000)
Corrected entry: The planet that eclipses the sun comes into position very fast. If the eclipse comes on fast, it would also go away equally as fast. Even with the width of the planet taken into account, it would be over in a matter of minutes or hours. Yet Fry explains that the planetary model they found shows how the darkness would last for a long time. Scientifically, this is not so. Also, the other sun is still out there. For a lasting darkness, both suns would have to be eclipsed.
Correction: Both suns are eclipsed, which is why it's dark. The two planets are orbiting in the same direction, so it will take some considerable time to 'overtake' to a point where the sun becomes visible again. While the eclipse does begin quite quickly, the ringed planet is both very large and close, maximising the eclipse shadow, which would lead to an eclipse of considerable length - certainly not minutes or hours.
And, remember, the Imam said the two planets move as one.
14th Jun 2004
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
Corrected entry: The character of Colonal West is an uncredited character. This character is portrayed by Rene Auberjunois, the same actor who plays Odo on DS9. Any actors appearing in a ST movie out of character are uncredited. (Neelix as the Holodeck Mate'd in ST: First Contact, and Tuvok on the bridge of the Enterprise B in Generations) However, this came out before DS9, so he must have already been signed on to the series.
Correction: Very unlikely - the film came out in 1991, and DS9 didn't premiere until two years later. It would be unheard of for an actor to commit that far ahead - it's highly likely that the character hadn't even been developed at that point, let alone cast. The real reason is that Rene's scenes were cut from the original cinematic release, hence no credit. They were restored for video and DVD releases, where he remains uncredited, possibly because he was in DS9 by that point. That being said, your basic point is incorrect - despite playing Worf in the Next Generation at the time, Michael Dorn is credited for this film (he's listed as "Klingon Defence Attorney", but is named in the film as Colonel Worf, possibly an ancestor of his usual character).
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Correction: Sheer weight of numbers. The initial entry group would be cut to pieces, but, as time passes and the defending guns need reloading, simple chance dictates that eventually some will get through. Once that occurs, the defending firepower will have to split, as some have to focus on the Sentinels within the dock. It's also probable that the Sentinels within the dock will manage to take out some of the defending guns prior to their own destruction. With less guns and multiple targets to consider, less firepower is trained on the entry hole, allowing more Sentinels through, and the whole thing spirals out of control from there.
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