Corrected entry: At the end of the movie, Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning and a whole bunch of other people fall over 50 feet from the sky in a small cage and land in a tree. The branches come through the holes in the pod, but no one gets hurt. Everyone is fine.
Super Grover
13th Jul 2005
War of the Worlds (2005)
27th Aug 2001
Jaws (1975)
Corrected entry: Richard Dreyfus is driving the boat, then playing cards, then driving again.
6th Jul 2005
Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life (2005)
Corrected entry: When Justin's father goes into Justin's room to talk to him about his internet habits near the beginning of the movie, he is wearing a tie. When he comes into his own bedroom from the hallway, he is neither wearing nor holding the tie.
Correction: An unspecified amount of time has passed between the two shots and the tie could have been removed and left somewhere else any time before he walks into his own bedroom - eg his son's room, the bathroom, the hallway. It is unnecessary to have every single moment or action onscreen.
10th Jul 2005
Fantastic Four (2005)
Corrected entry: When The Thing first goes back home to see his wife, he calls her from a phone outside of where they live, they are suppose to be in New York, but the phone he uses says SBC on it, SBC is not the phone company in NY.
Correction: SBC does operate public pay telephones in N.Y., as does AT&T, Verizon and others. They are all the recipient of pay phone service revenues in N.Y.
12th Jul 2005
Liar Liar (1997)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Jim Carrey goes to his son's school he takes him out of class when his teacher is reading a book, but 5 minutes later she is telling the boy to come in from recess. How could the class be at recess when 5 minutes earlier she was reading a book in class? That is the shortest recess ever.
Correction: The book that was being read does not have to be read through to the end, so the teacher stopped mid-story when it was time for the recess break. As for recess being 5 minutes, this is actually quite realistic. In one of my children's schools there are short recess breaks spread across the long school day, with two extended recesses as well.
11th Jul 2005
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Corrected entry: In the extended version, when Pippin is searching for Merry after the battle of the Pelennor fields, he finds Merry's elven cloak. However, Merry is wearing the cloak when Pippin finds him.
11th Jul 2005
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Corrected entry: During the movie, Pippin is wearing his Elven cloak with the brooch. This doesn't make any sense, because in The Two Towers, he left his brooch as a clue for Aragorn when Pippin and Merry had been taken captive by the Uruks.
27th Aug 2003
Original Sin (2001)
Corrected entry: Near the end, when Bonny is making love with Billy, we can see the 'erased' Billy Bob tattoo on her arm. (01:33:00)
Correction: The fact that a former tattoo with Angelina's ex-husband's name is still visible, on Angelina Jolie's (Julia Russell/Bonny Castle) skin, does not constitute a mistake within the storyline of this film.
9th Jul 2005
Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Julia Roberts is on the bus to Iowa, when she is on the bus, she is seated on the right side of the bus. When they show her traveling into town, she is seated on the left side of the bus.
Correction: There is plenty of time for Laura/Sara to change seats if she desires to.
10th Jul 2005
Showgirls (1995)
Corrected entry: When Nomi is performing her first show as a dancer in Goddess, she runs backstage between sets, changes into a blue sequined costume, and puts on a short red wig. Later in the movie we see her putting her wig on for the same number, except this time her wig is black. (01:02:25)
Correction: The fact that Nomi is doing the same routine does not relegate her to wearing the same color wig each time she performs that routine.
9th Jul 2005
Star Wars (1977)
Corrected entry: Why does C-3PO, upon 'returning' to Tatooine, not recognize the place of his creation, or the Lars family moisture farm, where he HAD briefly visited in the first movie.
Correction: At the end of Episode III, Revenge of the Sith, Senator Bail Organa orders Captain Antilles to, "Have the protocol droid's memory erased.", referring to C-3PO. That's why many years later in Episode IV, A New Hope, C-3PO has no recollection of his surroundings or anyone he knew at that time.
7th Jul 2005
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
Corrected entry: The back rest on Caractacus's rockets is a sawed-off baby seat.
Correction: How this qualifies as a mistake, even a deliberate one, is beyond me. The fact that the imaginative Caractacus Potts can re-use something like a baby's seat is rather inventive, and what a coincidence - he's an inventor.
5th Jul 2005
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003)
Corrected entry: Although most of Legally Blonde 2 is set in Washington DC, not one actor went there for the movie.
Correction: It is not unusual that a film takes place in one specific location, but that none of the actors ever actually step foot in or near it during the shoot.
28th Jun 2005
Cinderella Man (2005)
Corrected entry: "Hooverville" is shown to be in Central Park. NYC's "Hooverville" is on the west side on empty land next to the Hudson River.
Correction: The film is accurate. During the Great Depression, the largest Hooverville in New York was located in Central Park.
27th Aug 2001
Jaws (1975)
Corrected entry: When the little boy on the yellow water raft is supposedly eaten by Jaws, you see two boys carrying him out of the water when everyone is clearing out.
Correction: When Ellen asks her husband, Chief Brody, "Are you okay?" behind her there are five boys who wear red swimming trunks, that head into the water. Alex Kintner, the boy who will soon be attacked, is also wearing red swimming trunks. After the shark attack, the boy in the red swim trunks being dragged out of the water is not Alex.
14th Jun 2005
Happy Gilmore (1996)
Corrected entry: In the scene where happy has a bet with the repot men he hits the golf ball and we see a bird's eye view of its travels. It appears to travel an awful distance when in fact, but as we see in the next clip, it only travels to the end of the street.
Correction: This is a common filmmaking technique used to show a particular action or sequence dramatically stretched out for emphasis. When done this deliberately it doesn't even qualify as a "deliberate" mistake.
Corrected entry: In scene ten, Jack Sparrow's prison cell on the Black Pearl, which is in the closest cell on the right, is busted open by the Interceptor's cannons. In scene eleven, when the crew of the Interceptor is captured, the majority of the crew is placed in the exact same cell that Jack Sparrow had been busted out of, on the right side, but the lock has been mysteriously fixed.
Correction: The lock is still broken. When Gibbs says, "Good man!" referring to Bill Turner, the broken twisted bars around the broken lock are visible at the bottom right of the screen, as is the steel link chain that is wound around the existing bars to hold the door locked in place. It is visible on DVD widescreen.
11th Jun 2005
Cinderella Man (2005)
Corrected entry: Right after the movie goes into the Great Depression, Jim Braddock goes out into the kitchen where Mae is cooking breakfast. There is a clock over on a shelf by the stove. Throughout the entire scene, the time never changes.
Correction: Clocks break or simply stop, and many people, myself included, have left the broken or unwound clock untouched for an indefinite amount of time.
3rd Jun 2005
Freaky Friday (2003)
Corrected entry: When Tess/Anna is on TV and it cuts back to the audience, at one point you can see a whole lot of equipment and a person holding a cue card. Normally in TV studios these wouldn't be visible on the actual show.
Correction: Though it is true that normally the production crew and/or studio equipment are not visible on TV talk shows, morning shows, etc., there are numerous occasions in reality where this was/is not the case, whether or not the show is taped or live on the air. Off the top of my head I remember this occurring on The Tonight Show, The Rosie O'Donnell Show and Live with Regis and Kelly.
7th Jun 2005
Recess (1997)
Schoolworld - S4-E21
Corrected entry: When S.A.L tells Principal Prickly that he's retired he says drive safely, but later locks him in his office.
Correction: Perhaps this mistake is over my head, but I don't really see a clear mistake the way it presently reads. If possible, rewrite and recorrect it.
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Correction: So nobody getting hurt is a plot hole? This can be referred to as simply having good luck and it actually happens in real life.
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