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5th Nov 2007

Transformers (2007)

Corrected entry: In the scene at Hoover Dam where Sam is talking to Simmons, the clock in the background shows 11:35. The camera changes two or three times and then the clock shows 11:43, but actually only about 10-15 seconds of actual time have passed.

Correction: It's called movie time. Unless the time goes backwards, it can't be a mistake.

shortdanzr

27th Aug 2007

The Rock (1996)

Corrected entry: Alcatraz does not have narrated tours by guides. They use a self guided tour where you get a walkman and listen to a tape.

Correction: However, it is possible to arrange a tour through the park system for a specific large group. My high school did that.

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Corrected entry: Near the end of the film where Jason Bourne meets Pamela Landy at the building where the secret program started, it is light out as he hands her the evidence to convict Noah Vosen. A few scenes later as Jason jumps out of a window to escape, it is night-time.

Correction: And in that time Landy managed to fax the report out of the building and Bourne found the doctor, had several flashbacks, learned everything, and ran out. It is feasible to get dark.

shortdanzr

Corrected entry: John McClane is a Police Officer, and of all the people in the world, a Police Officer should know that its been virtually impossible to hotwire a modern car for nigh on ten years, and even less probable to try it on a high value BMW.

Correction: Really? because someone did it in the news in my city last week.

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Corrected entry: The scene where Elizabeth and Will put the bomb in the skeleton and shove him out of the moonlight so he explodes is impossible. If he were truly solid, there would be no oxygen in his stomach for the fuse to burn off of, therefore he would just have a bomb sitting around in his stomach.

Correction: Considering these pirates were cursed and would go from skeleton to body form by sunlight, are you sure they follow all rules of physics and life?

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Corrected entry: In the scene where Jane is watching the wedding video, there is a shot where we see the screen. You hear John saying "I, John", but his lips don't move.

Correction: Try it, you can say that without moving your lips.

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Corrected entry: When Will Turner is pulled up from the well in the beginning of the movie, his hair is hanging down in his eyes. When they show him again his hair is all slicked back. Both his hands are tied to a wooden plank so he could not have fixed his hair.

Correction: And if your hair is sufficently wet (which his was), you can flip your head back really fast and your hair will end up like his. I have longer hair and can do that without hands.

shortdanzr

24th May 2007

The Core (2003)

Corrected entry: At the end when Josh and Rebbecca are at the bottom of the ocean, she says they could be 800 miles deep. Being a geologist, Joshua must have known that the deepest point in the ocean is about 6.8 miles deep and therefore had to correct her. And that would be the Marianas trench. The place where they entered the crust. (01:54:45)

Dragon

Correction: She says they are 800 feet deep but might as well be 800 miles deep. She's just pointing out how hopeless the situation is.

shortdanzr

1st Apr 2007

Paycheck (2003)

Corrected entry: When Affleck discovers that the thing he built is a time viewing machine, there is a long monologue where he explains that seeing into the future is wrong, could be catastrophic, etc. and concludes that he must destroy the machine. Practically a few seconds later when he arrives at the machine to destroy it, he says, "Let's see what our futures hold" and uses the device. If he just came to the explicit decision that future-vision is wrong, to the point of setting out to destroy the machine at the risk of his life, why in the world would he himself choose to view the future? There's no suggestion of "temptation" or anything, he just walks up to it and stupidly contradicts everything he just said.

Correction: In order to properly destroy the machine, he has to figure out what is going to happen in the immediate future.

shortdanzr

23rd Mar 2007

House, M.D. (2004)

Show generally

Corrected entry: Cameron, Chase and Foreman frequently perform MRIs, CAT scans and regular X-rays. In order to do that you need to be a radiologist, which none of them is.

Correction: When you go to med school, most of the time you are taught HOW to do these procedures, you just don't do them usually. Doesn't mean they don't know how not to. Besides most of these test are done by radiology TECHNICIANS nowadays (with only a few months of schooling sometimes.)

shortdanzr

23rd Mar 2007

House, M.D. (2004)

Show generally

Corrected entry: Chase, Foreman and Wilson wear ties almost all the time. Any doctor working with infecteous diseases knows that ties are huge bacteria herds and that doctors should absolutely not wear them. In fact, most hospitals forbid their doctors to wear ties. While some doctors may not know this, Chase, Foreman and Wilson work closely with House, who is an expert on the subject and would most definitely know about it.

Correction: Just because they know it shouldn't be there does not make it a mistake. I am a paramedic and I can tell you a LOT of things occur that we know SHOULDN'T happen. And I know MD's and RN's with ties, and long finger nails and long hair (unbound) all the time.

shortdanzr

Corrected entry: In the scene at the end of the movie where Gracie says "This is solo," she takes a bite of a donut. In the next shot she is no longer chewing and in the shot after that she's chewing again.

Correction: That is Gracie being the uncouth person she is and talking with food in her mouth.

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Corrected entry: When Thomas Crown goes to the Police station to identify the criminals, he signs a statement. At the end of his signature he dots the page as if to dot an i in his name. There are no i's nor anything to dot in "Thomas Crown". There is, however, in "Pierce Bronson". (00:31:30)

Correction: Or he could just have a dot at the end of his signature, lots of people do (my father did and he didn't have a need to).

shortdanzr

11th Jan 2007

Troy (2004)

Correction: This film is loosely based on the Iliad, not a direct copy. As such, any book/film differences aren't valid.

shortdanzr

11th Jan 2007

Twister (1996)

Corrected entry: In the scene where Hunt and Paxton's crew drive onto a smaller side road surrounded by cornfields, Rabbit says he can't figure out what road they're on, and depreciatingly calls it "Bob's Road" as he scours his maps. However, in the forward shots, you can see they're actually driving on a paved road, complete with black-and-white highway signs.

Correction: That doesn't mean that he can find the name of the road on the map. There are plenty of roads around me that are paved with signs, but good luck finding a name on a map.

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Corrected entry: When Dr. Robert Langdon and Agent Sophie Neveu arrive at Chateau Villette in the armored vehicle, the helicopter pan across the chateau shows the building lit up with accent lighting. When Dr. Robert Langdon answers the three questions correctly and Sir Leigh Teabing allows them entry, the chateau is dark and then the same accent lights turn on to welcome their entry.

Correction: The accent lighting might be motion sensor activated and had been triggered earlier by someone fixing something on the house and then went off. When Langdon and Neveu show up, the sensor is triggered again. Happens at my house all the time.

shortdanzr

8th Jan 2007

The Core (2003)

Corrected entry: Towards the end of the movie, when Dr. Keyes and Beck were going back through the earth towards the surface, they said they were going twice as fast as they were going when they went into the core. Now, judging from the speed Virgil was going when they were headed for the core and how the pressure on your body lessens the farther you go up, the lack of pressure should have caused the veins in their bodies to burst, causing them to die almost instantly.

Correction: They are also in a specially designed ship to take them there. It is conceivable that they stayed at core pressure all the way up and had to go through decompression after they reached the surface, similar to deep sea divers.

shortdanzr

27th Dec 2006

National Treasure (2004)

Corrected entry: In the shot where Ben is telling Riley the passcode is "Valley Forge", he says "It's Valley Forge. You press the in L twice." What he should've said was, "You press the L in twice."

Correction: He actually says "It's 'Valley Forge.' She pressed 'E' and 'L' twice." Gates was referring to the keys that Abigail would have pressed when she entered her password earlier.

shortdanzr

26th Dec 2006

National Treasure (2004)

Corrected entry: When Ben is dipping his fingers into the glass before he tested the ink with the smiley face he made on the table, you can see between his fingers the coin he gave Abigail.

Correction: That's because he hasn't given it to her yet.

shortdanzr

20th May 2006

The Da Vinci Code (2006)

Corrected entry: At one point, Sophie gets thrown to the ground and gashes up her right knee. She's shown cleaning it on the plane later. However, for most of the movie after that, she has no injury on her knee. It doesn't show up again until toward the end.

Correction: It is possible that it had stopped bleeding (it did look very minor) and therefore, as soon as she washed the blood off, it wouldn't be nearly as noticeable.

shortdanzr

And she wasn't cleaning it on the plane it was on the bus.

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