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Corrected entry: When Charlie opens his "birthday present" he rips the front open and is disappointed. Yet the tickets are placed on the back of the bar, as seen at the start of the film. But Charlie immediately breaks the bar and hands it out, without checking the back.

Corrected entry: (SPOILER)When the new doctor is examining Duke he refers to Allie as "Miss Hamilton", which is never explained (in the credits she is Allie Calhoun). This might be fine if he were addressing her directly (since she seems unaware of her family), but since he's talking in private to her husband, it comes across as incredibly rude. It seems a deliberate act, since who she married is a 'secret' until the end of the film.

Corrected entry: It's accepted as canon that when the tripods first were buried, it was before humans had evolved. In that case, why are the Martians focusing solely on destroying humankind? They wouldn't even necessarily know that humans are intelligent since they are so self-assured and yet there are no instances of other animals being vaporized, investigated, loaded into tripods, etc. If the Martians were planning this before we were anything more than bipedal monkeys, what makes us so special?

Corrected entry: Why does Clark find it necessary to cut the Ukrainian fence at all? When the guards discover the hole, we can see that Clark began the cut nearly a foot from the top of the fence. In fact, it is barely 8 feet high - with no barbed wire and a smooth bar at the top. Climbing over it (as opposed to cutting it) would have prevented the guards from detecting his presence. Maybe this is why they don't trust him with an email account.

Show generally

Corrected entry: When the sisters are in the nightclub P3 they can hear everything they say to each other really well. If you are in a nightclub you have to shout over the music but they can talk normal and hear every word the other says.

Corrected entry: How come Charlie didn't get any publicity after he found his golden ticket? Everyone else did.

Corrected entry: In the beginning when Jo and her parents are in the storm cellar, Jo's dad is trying to hold the door shut for dear life. Finally he gets sucked away by the tornado, leaving Jo and her mom sad and alone in the cellar, but completely unharmed nonetheless. Why was it such a priority to hold the door shut if nothing gets sucked out of there, and nothing is harmed in any way, when the door is gone?

Corrected entry: At the very end of the movie when Ceci and her father are driving away, you see them ignore a stop sign that is painted on the road and not stop.

Season 1 generally

Corrected entry: In the first season of the show, the phone changes 3 times. One time it is just a white phone, then it is a blue phone, then it is a white phone again with the numbers on the side.

Shannon Moran

Corrected entry: EMP bursts only affect things within a limited range. Yet when Ray drives down the highway we see cars all the way down the road crippled for miles. This could have only happened if an EMP burst had struck at regular intervals down the road to affect cars for such a distance.

Corrected entry: It is doubtful that the Declaration of Independence says "Original Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776" on the back as Abigail states, because in fact no where on the front of the document will you find the phrase "Declaration of Independence." The founders of the USA referred to this document as "The Unanimous Declaration"

Corrected entry: While being sucked into the interior of one of the tripods, with a soldier hanging onto one of his hands, Tom Cruise (off camera except for the hand held by the soldier) somehow uses the other hand to pull the pins of two grenades, leave the grenades within the tripod, and retain the pins in his same hand.

Corrected entry: In the scene where Gracie is at her book signing, Priscilla says that "other kids are doing their [book reports]on Beyonce or Brittany". But Beyonce doesn't have a book out, Brittany Spears does.

Corrected entry: During the beginning when the kids are being dropped at Ray's, they say he was a half an hour late and it is now 8:30, but when Ray and the kids go inside shortly after, there is a brief shot where behind Ray's head you can see a clock displaying the time 5:00. Note: The clock is not digital).

Corrected entry: In the scene where Ray and the kids arrive at the mom's house, Ray decides to make sandwiches. He gets the bread and dumps the package out, which is about half a package. If you look, you will notice that the piece where one side is all crust, is missing. There is one of those on each side of a loaf of bread.

Corrected entry: At the start of the movie Brad Pitt is driving a Cadillac. Later when he is racing to make it home before Angelina Jolie, the front view of his car as he slides into the driveway is a Lincoln. It isn't until much later in the movie that he steals a Lincoln limousine.

Corrected entry: Tom Cruise and family emerge from the basement where they have holed themselves up through the night of the initial tripod attacks. A jet has crashed. Destruction is everywhere, yet the van they've been driving has been unscathed, sitting where they left it, among the ruins of the house, the jet, and everything else around it.

Corrected entry: After the signal from Vega has been established to contain an encrypted message, some of the world's most skillful cryptographs are set to decrypt it. After weeks without any success, Mr. Hadden finally reveals the solution to Ellie - the squares making up the message have to be put together like cubes rather than in a 2D grid. This seems fair enough from a cinematic point of view, because it gets Ellie back on the track. However, it is hardly logical. In reality, one of the first things a skillful cryptograph would do when getting those squares with markings in the corners would be to try putting them together like cubes. Thus the message would have been decoded in much less than a week.

Corrected entry: When Marty is in the Delorean ready to go back to 1985, he gets upset that Doc Brown tore up the letter and that he didn't have enough time to warn Doc about his future death. When Marty realizes that he can use the Delorean to go back early and warn Doc Brown of 1985 that he will be killed, Marty says,"Ten minutes oughta do it." Marty actually gives himself eleven minutes.

Corrected entry: When Angela arrives at the hotel after leaving the hospital, the desk clerk tells her "Angela Bennett checked out last Saturday night." The only information on the screen - we see him reading from it - is that "This guest has checked out." There is no reference to any dates, times, room number, billing, or anything else that a hotel reservations system would include on such a screen (even back in 1995 when the movie was released). He couldn't know the day she checked out, unless he remembered the guest personally, in which case he wouldn't be checking the computer. (00:39:05)