Corrected entry: When Lara emerges from the water and climbs up the ladder onto the boat in Greece the camera shows her jumping on the boat twice. She gets to the top of the ladder and jumps on the boat, the camera switches angles and she jumps onto the boat again.
iceverything776
18th Feb 2004
Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003)
31st Jul 2004
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Corrected entry: The red smoke that makes the witch disappear effect begins coming out of the ground about a second before the witch gets to her mark.
Correction: The witch is the one making the smoke. She's magical she can make the smoke come up 5 minutes before she intends to leave if she wants.
22nd Jul 2004
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Corrected entry: Couple of deliberate mistakes. A billboard appears in the cemetery at the beginning of the movie and Brad has socks on when Frank N Furter turns on the magnetic floor - socks don't magnetize to the floor.
Correction: First, the billboard is outside the church grounds. Second, many commercial cemeteries have billboards advertising themselves or public service announcements - which a billboard promoting the town would be. Third, it's not a magnetic floor - it's a Sonic Transducer as is clearly labelled on the switch. Plus, only submit one mistake at a time.
11th Aug 2004
The Village (2004)
Corrected entry: The reader in the town hall when handed the note looks at the note, reads it then asks "Who wrote this?" yet she then proceeds to read the note and announces the author as Lucius. If the name of the writer of the note was in the note "Why did she ask who wrote it?"
Correction: She only glances at the note and doesn't read the entire thing. Lucious' name is towards the end of the note, she may not have seen it from just glancing at it.
18th Feb 2004
Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003)
Corrected entry: "Pandora's box" is submerged in a powerful acid. Yet Terry somehow manages to get the box out and we are never shown how. I guess he had acid proof rope.
Correction: You mean like the naturally acid-resistant polypropylene or nylon ropes you can buy at any hardware store? It would not be unreasonable for him to have one of those with him.
18th Feb 2004
The Great Escape (1963)
Corrected entry: After the men escape they are all standing at the train station because the train was late, or there was a hold up of some kind. Was this possibly a ribbing kind of gesture at the term used in Nazi Germany "The government stinks but at least the trains run on time"?
Correction: That wasn't about Nazi Germany, it was about Fascist Italy. The phrase "He made the trains run on time" was coined by one of Mussolini's propagandists, and became widely believed, although there was little or no truth to it (source: Montagu, A. and Darling, E. (1967) The Prevalence of Nonsense, Dell/Delta, New York. Page 19).
I believe (but I'm not 100%) that Patton once said the Nazis made the trains run on time when, after the war, he was questioned about not removing them from official posts in the Austrian Government. That is from memory and I might be wrong.
Correction: The late trains were directly due to the POW escape. The Germans were scouring the countryside searching for the escapees and knew they'd be trying to board trains and other public transportation. They'd be checking every station and depot in the vicinity as well as boarding buses and train coaches to search them, thus delaying the regular transportation schedules.
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Correction: No, she jumps once. She does pull up herself twice, though, which is a mistake already listed.
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