Corrected entry: Though the movie is directly based on Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, with virtually identical plot points and characters, all the character names were changed to avoid copyright problems.
Phoenix
18th Feb 2004
Nosferatu (1922)
16th Feb 2004
Underworld (2003)
Corrected entry: All of the Lycans in the movie were animatronic, only the morphs were CGI.
Correction: Not true, the Lycans were portrayed by people in costumes, only the faces were animatronic. If you watch the features on the extended cut it shows how they used leg extenders to make the actors taller and walk more like a wolf.
23rd May 2004
Van Helsing (2004)
Corrected entry: Really poor CGI job on the first Dracula Bride's death scene - her face looks pasted on and out of proportion with the rest of her body, even before she starts to disintegrate.
Correction: This would be a great mistake, had it not been that her body was shriveling up before it disintegrated, which is why her head was much bigger than the body. You can tell because for the first portion of the shot, her body is in perfect scale, but shrinks a little bit when she starts to wriggle and scream.
22nd Apr 2004
Forbidden Planet (1956)
Corrected entry: Robby insists that the crew wear seatbelts when they get on the transport for the first time, but when they arrive at Morbius' dwelling, none of them are wearing seat belts.
Correction: When they arrive at the residence, you can see them unbuckle their seatbelts, except for the middle passenger that had no seat.
6th Apr 2004
Dracula (1992)
Corrected entry: Something is very off about Jonathan's escape from Dracula's castle. He steps out of a window and onto a small ledge. For effect, he looks down at his feet and sees the cliff plunging down from his position. Jonathan then creeps sideways until he reaches a corner. As he rounds the corner, he appears to almost roll off it, as though it was a flat surface, and hits the water almost flat as well, rather than vertically. It seems that the crew used a standard set for the first few shots and then laid the set down for Keanu Reeves to creep along on his back for the later shots.
16th May 2004
The Fifth Element (1997)
Corrected entry: When Korben breaks the police winch, it breaks the device off the mounting and pulls the entire thing out of the police car. The weakest part of the connection (and therefore the place where it would break) would not be the winch mounting but the hook and loop inside Korben's car, which aren't meant to take the strain that the winch mount would be required to. Imagine if this happened every time a subject bolted - that's a lot of winches to replace and reinstall. (00:36:20)
3rd Oct 2004
Hellboy (2004)
Corrected entry: When Hellboy tosses Manning under the door in the crypt maze, slow-mo shows the wire pulling Manning is visible at his neck just after he starts sliding. (01:30:55)
Correction: As stipulated in the rules of the site, if you need to use slo-mo in order to spot something, then it's not a valid mistake.
12th Dec 2003
The Producers (1967)
Corrected entry: When Bialystock, Bloom, and Liebkind light the fuse under the theatre, it explodes much sooner than it should have, considering the distance they were from the dynamite and the rate the fuse burned at onscreen.
12th Dec 2003
The Producers (1967)
Corrected entry: When Bialystock and Bloom are in the boat in the park, the boat has only one oar. Such a rowboat would only go in a circle.
24th Mar 2004
King Kong (1933)
Corrected entry: When Kong throws the boulder in the island village and the car in New York, they fall onscreen very slowly for such heavy objects.
Correction: This entry is silly. all objects fall at the same rate of speed because of gravity. only an outside force such as friction or propulsion can change that.
5th Apr 2004
Dark City (1998)
Corrected entry: The spirals that appear constantly in the movie are Fibonacci spirals, drawn in a ratio that accords to the Fibonacci sequence (1,1,2,3,5,etc). This sequence represents the basic organizational principles of life.
Correction: The poster must have just made this up, as it's completely wrong. The spirals in the film don't look anything like Fibonacci Spirals (which I can best describe as an array of wide, interlocking arcs). The poster may have been thinking of the Golden Spiral, which also appears in many places in nature, but the spirals in the film don't really look anything like that, either.
23rd May 2004
Van Helsing (2004)
Corrected entry: Hyde's bullet wound appears and disappears throughout the scene.
Correction: Hyde's bullet wound is there during the entire scene. It is just in shadow much of the time.
9th Jun 2004
Independence Day (1996)
Corrected entry: More than one character refers to the Roswell crash as occurring in the 1950s, but the actual date was 1947.
Correction: Two characters make this error, and both are excusable human mistakes. Judd Hirsch's character makes the first mention and he is clearly having difficulty remembering exact details. The second time is the Secretary of Defense who is more concerned about the ludicrous nature of the plan being suggested than giving an accurate history.
3rd May 2004
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
Corrected entry: Considering how many hundreds of bats were trying to bust into the bar, there's an awful lot of empty space to move around in and turn your back on. Since the vampires' human forms are bigger than the bats and the swarm of bats filled the hall nicely, that bar ought to be packed wall to wall. (01:23:20 - 01:30:45)
Correction: First of all, not all the bats necessarily turn into vampires. There could be some hundred bats that were just bats, and would consequently take up less space. Secondly, it depends on what kind of vampires they were. Since you never see any of them turn from bat into vampire, there is also the possibility that they resemble Bram Stoker's Dracula in that sense, and that one single vampire does not turn into a single bat, but rather a swarm of them (which does not decrease their total mass, but spreads it around). If, say, one vampire becomes 20 or 30 bats, there should be enough room for them when they regain their humanoid form.
6th Jan 2004
Alien 3 (1992)
Corrected entry: When Ripley is falling into the molten metal, the sound of the splash occurs before she actually hits it. (01:47:25)
3rd Dec 2004
The Terminal (2004)
Corrected entry: At the romantic dinner, Viktor's coworker lights the candle with one hand. In the next shot his other arm is extended to steady the lighter. (01:24:25)
Correction: Actually, he uses his right hand to light both candles and his left to steady it.
5th Jun 2005
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
Corrected entry: As Ford and Arthur fall out the Vogon airlock, the Guide explains that someone can survive in vacuum for thirty seconds if they hold their breath. Actually, the opposite is true: if one exhales all air one can survive for several seconds. If one holds one's breath, the increased internal air pressure would cause a human to explode.
Correction: The Guide contains little or no information on human beings, which is why Ford was on Earth in the first place. This information would have been perfectly accurate with 95 percent of the intelligent space-faring species in the galaxy - it's not the Guide's fault if we're physiologically strange.
7th Oct 2004
Hellboy (2004)
Corrected entry: Liz demonstrates her control to Hellboy by lifting her hand in front of her face and lighting up. In the next shot her hand is lower, in front of her chest and extended. (00:44:40)
Correction: There is a fairly long shot of Hellboy speaking in between the two shots of the hand position. There was more than enough time for Liz to have moved it.
9th Jun 2004
eXistenZ (1999)
Corrected entry: The carriers that gamers use to hold their pods are actually ski boots. (00:03:45)
Correction: As the pods are obviously being marketed to be 'hip' and 'trendy' (or whatever) it would seem appropriate to have them come in a kitsch case. I happened to think this detail was quite amusing - a prediction of a possible pretentious trend of the future.
24th Jul 2004
Army of Darkness (1992)
Corrected entry: When Ash first makes his new robotic hand, it whirs and clicks loudly as it crushes the goblet. For the rest of the movie his hand never makes a sound. (00:23:00)
Correction: Ash is seen making adjustments to the hand when the girl brings him the "horseblanket" shirt. He was getting rid of the clicks and whirs.
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Correction: Although they tried to avoid copyright problems, they didn't manage it completely. A judge decreed that all copies and the negative had to be destroyed; however this was impossible to enforce in Germany and so a copy survived.