Corrected entry: When Milla wakes up in the shower at the very beginning of the movie, she's been lying on the floor in the shower. However you can see her hair is totally dry and perfectly made up, if she had really been lying on the floor for more than few seconds, she would be covered in drops of water which would have been landing on her (even though she's not lying directly beneath the spray, she would still be covered in water, if you have a similar shower, you could try it yourself) (00:08:25)
J I Cohen
12th Dec 2003
Resident Evil (2002)
27th Aug 2001
Carlito's Way (1993)
Corrected entry: During one of the last scenes, as cops chase Carlito through NYC's Grand Central Terminal, he runs past a couple of Chase Manhattan Bank ATM machines. Last time I checked, there were no ATMs in 1975.
Correction: The ATM celebrated its 30th birthday in 1995 (see: http://cgi.cnn.com/TECH/9509/atm/), so it wasn't even brand new in 1975.
Actually the first ATM was 1964.
8th Dec 2003
X-Men 2 (2003)
Corrected entry: In the scene where the X-men's jet had just gotten hit by the missile, and Rogue is thrown from the plane, Nightcrawler warps out and grabs her, then warps back into the plane. Doesn't he later say in front of Cerebro that he can't warp to places he can't see? I don't think he possibly could have seen into the plane from below and behind it.
Correction: It's more that he has to know it's safe to warp to places (ie. know where walls and other objects are), than that he needs to have actual visual contact.
8th Dec 2003
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
Corrected entry: After Austin and Vanessa arrive in Las Vegas, they check into some hotel and unpack. Vanessa and Austin then take out their guns from their luggage. Surely guns aren't allowed on a plane flight, even though it's his own private jet?
Correction: You can travel with guns in checked luggage, as long as the airline is properly informed, the guns are secured, and you have all the relevant permits needed for your destination.
8th Jul 2003
Swimfan (2002)
Corrected entry: Madison used an oral dosage form of testosterone to spike the drug test. Testosterone is almost always a parenteral (injectable) drug because it isn't absorbed readily in the small intestine.
Correction: "Almost always", and it's harder to give someone an injection without their knowledge than an oral dose.
4th Dec 2003
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Corrected entry: The Soggy Bottom Boys was a real band.
Correction: No it was not, but the musicians who performed the songs for the movie have performed under that name since then. See: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=UIDCASS80311232040360380&sql=Brhuh6jp17190.
27th Aug 2001
Jurassic Park III (2001)
Corrected entry: The boy in the film had collected urine from a T-rex to keep raptors away. There's a problem with that: dinosaurs were reptiles and were related to birds. Birds and reptiles do not urinate like mammals; they excrete uric acid together with their faeces through a single excretory opening called a cloaca.
Correction: There's a lot of assumptions there. We can't be sure whether or not dinosaurs urinated, it seems unwise to assume they did not merely because modern reptiles and birds don't.
27th Aug 2001
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Corrected entry: The sheriff has a belt of ammo over his shoulder with huge calibre bullets (.50?) but he's carrying a small rifle. There's no way those bullets fit that gun.
Correction: If you look more closely, you will see that the Police Chief (not Sheriff) is carrying something like .30-06 rounds, which are exactly what you would expect a rifle like that to use. The cartridges are quite long (as military cartridges designed in the early 20th century usually were), but if you look at the actual bullets, they are nowhere near .50.
26th Jul 2003
Narc (2002)
Corrected entry: Towards the end, when Tellis retrieves the Government .45 from Oak's car's glovebox and enters the building, he shoots the gun with an uncocked hammer, which is impossible as the gun is a single action. Also after the two shots are fired, the hammer is still down, i.e. the gun wasn't fired.
Correction: There are double-action clones of this weapon available. See: http://www.sightm1911.com/lib/review/para-ord-745.htm.
27th Aug 2003
Mission: Impossible (1996)
Corrected entry: When stealing the NOC list, why worry about raising the temperature of a temperature-controlled room? If your body temperature can even raise the temperature of such a large room significantly, wouldn't the air-conditioning just kick in to compensate and keep the temperature of the room constant?
Correction: Because the security system is set off by unexpected temperature deviations. This is made very clear in the dialogue. If the sensors for the air conditioning can detect the change, then why can't those for the security system? They quite possibly share the same temperature sensors, anyway.
1st Dec 2003
Bad Santa (2003)
Corrected entry: When Billy Bob Thorton is having sex in the dressing room, he tells the women, "You're aren't going to s*** right for a week." Later on, when John Ritter is recounting the story to Bernie Mac, he states, "He said, 'You aren't going to S-*-*-* right for a month."
Correction: Not really a continuity mistake, more like a story changing in the telling, very possibly deliberate on the part of the character.
14th May 2002
Stepmom (1998)
Corrected entry: The front of the hospital that Jackie goes to is shown and you can see the words York University Medical Centre, which is in Toronto, Canada. However, the movie is supposed to take place in New York.
Correction: A quick check on the IMDB shows that all the filming locations were in New York and New Jersey. The York University website does not list a medical faculty, let alone a medical centre. What was actually shown in the movie was New York University Medical Centre, with the 'New' out-of-frame. There's another scene later where you see the full name.
8th Jan 2003
Hannibal (2001)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Francesco Pazzi calls the Credit Suisse bank in Switzerland he uses an impossible number: 004122xxx instead of 0041800xxxxxx which would be a toll free Swiss number. (00:48:57)
Correction: Probably done intentionally to avoid crank calls, much in the way they use 555 for American numbers.
30th Apr 2003
From Hell (2001)
Corrected entry: During the scenes after Inspector Abberline gives Mary a few pieces of gold for room and board for the night; The scenes 'zooming in' across the table and drawing up to the 'Underpriviledged', you can see at the start of the scene what appears to be a modern razor. During that time period they did not have razor blades in that fashion, all razor blades were straight.
Correction: Actually, the first safety razor was invented and marketed by the Kampfe Brothers in the 1880s (contrary to popular belief, Gillette just invented the disposable blade). See: http://www.creekstone.net/razors/firstrazor.htm.
27th Aug 2003
Shanghai Knights (2003)
Corrected entry: In 1887, when the movie takes place, a machine gun was not called a machine gun.It was referred to as a Gattling gun.The term machine gun didn't come into use until the mid 1920's.
Correction: The Gatling gun was just one of many early machine guns available in the late 19th century, including the Maxim machine gun, which existed at the time the movie was set (but was not adopted by any army until 1889).
10th Nov 2003
Tears of the Sun (2003)
Corrected entry: In the scene where the SEALs are eating the MRE's, feeling guilty, they give them to the natives, and one of them says, "I don't like roast beef anyway". There are plenty of MRE menus, (over 30) but no roast beef version.
Correction: Yes there is. See: http://www.dscp.dla.mil/subs/rations/meals/mres.htm.
28th Nov 2003
Heartbreak Ridge (1986)
Corrected entry: Gunny Highway is drunk in the other room while Mario Van Peeble is told how Highway won the "CMH" in the Korean War. He said their platoon sergeant, Stony Jackson, recommended Highway for the award. First, the award is called "The Medal of Honor." There's no "Congressional" in the title. Second, only officers can recommend soldiers for the Medal of Honor. Stony Jackson's rank was that of an NCO.
Correction: The Medal of Honor is also known as the Congressional Medal of Honor; in fact, the official organisation for recipients is called The Congressional Medal of Honor Society. See: http://www.cmohs.org/medal.htm.
The "Medal of Honor" is erroneously called "The Congressional Medal of Honor", but no military personnel would call it "CMH." Even on the Congressional Medal of Honor Society's website the NEVER call it the Congressional Medal of Honor, in every instance it's simply called "The Medal of Honor."
27th Nov 2003
Driven (2001)
Corrected entry: The day before the Japanese race there is a shot of the grandstand. If you look at the pillars you can see normal numbers written, but the setting is supposed to be in Japan, so it should be Japanese numbers.
Correction: The Japanese have used western "arabic" numbers for over 100 years.
12th Oct 2003
The Manhattan Project (1986)
Corrected entry: In the last few minutes of the film the kid's homemade nuclear implosion bomb is stuck with the timer ticking away toward zero, at which it'll explode and destroy everything within a radius of several miles. Everyone in the lab is frantically trying to figure out how to disarm the bomb without setting it off in the process. In fact, all they have to do is find some crude way to smash the device, ruining the spherical symmetry of the jacket of conventional chemical high explosive surrounding the smaller sphere of fissile plutonium. By destroying the spherical symmetry of the implosion, the nuclear chain reaction will not proceed efficiently. Thus, even if the timer sets off the device, only the comparatively harmless chemical explosive will detonate.
Correction: The "comparatively harmless chemical explosive" would, at best, spread deadly plutonium around (plutonium is highly toxic even without its radioactivity). It would be just like the "Dirty Bombs" anti-terrorism experts are so concerned about, and might cause as much damage to life and property as a nuclear explosion (albeit in a different way). They would try every other option to defuse the bomb, before they did something as dangerous and irresponsible as destroying it.
27th Aug 2001
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
Corrected entry: It's Hadrian's Wall where Freeman and Costner first encounter the Sheriff's men (the tree the mistletoe is growing on is an apple tree. Been there, no doubt about it). So are we to understand that they landed at Dover, schlepped all the way to the Scottish border, and then backtracked to Nottingham?
Correction: Although the location used is Hadrian's Wall, there is no indication that it is supposed to be Hadrian's Wall in the movie. I think it is just supposed to be some sort of boundary wall.
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Correction: You can see that the flow from the shower is not very powerful, and is falling on her ankles, almost a full body-length away from her hair. No visible water droplets are landing anywhere near her head, and anyway, the ends of her hair do appear to be a little damp.
J I Cohen