Corrected entry: Ancient Egyptians did not have literal "books" like this movie's so-called Book of the Dead. In fact, the Book of the Dead was written on papyrus sheets/scrolls.
iceverything776
18th Aug 2004
The Mummy (1999)
1st Aug 2004
The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
Corrected entry: Pam gets a call on her cellphone in the CIA headquarters. In that building there are no cellphones allowed, and furthermore it's impossible to have them working as all cellphone traffic is blocked due to security concerns.
Correction: Pam is not in the official CIA building that blocks cellphone signals. She is an office building where reception would be poor but not impossible.
24th Aug 2004
The Village (2004)
Corrected entry: A blind girl walking through the woods on her own? She would have been bouncing off the trees like a ball in a pinball machine. There is no way any blind person can walk through dense woods on their own with so many obstacles at ground, waist and head level, whether carrying a stick or not (as she sometimes didn't). Bearing in mind she had never been in these woods before as it was a no go area makes this a totally ridiculous part of the film.
Correction: This is not necessarily true. Although she would be having a hard time it is not impossible for her to do what she is doing even as a blind person. She also is not shown walking without effort. It is also mentioned that she is not completely blind. Either way I have seen many blind people walk through much rougher terrain than a forest with no problems. As for the whole monster encounter, she memorized the terrain where the hole was and was able to go back to it because of this.
8th Jun 2004
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Corrected entry: The International Space Station is shown orbiting form east to west. It actually goes in the other direction.
Correction: The way the camera pans in, it gives the impression that it is travelling from east to west even though when all the scenes show them looking from inside the station the motion indicates it is correctly travelling west to east.
21st Jun 2004
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Corrected entry: In the scene where the tornadoes are hitting Los Angeles, the helicopters could not have possibly flown by the tornadoes because the wind from the tornadoes would have either vacuumed the helicopters in or pushed them away.
Correction: Not necessarily. Several times I have seen video taken from helicopters shooting tornadoes from the air, go to weather.com to see this. From what the movie shows the helicopters have adequate distance to not get knocked down.
24th Mar 2004
Men in Black II (2002)
Corrected entry: We know from the first movie that the small "cricket gun" is very strong because Will Smith flew backwards and the gun made a huge hole in a big truck. However, in the second movie, when Tommy Lee Jones uses the gun to blow off Jeebs' head, it sounds and acts like a regular plasma sort gun, that only fires a plasma or laser beam.
Correction: The reason that the noisy cricket blasted J back in the first movie but not K in the second movie is because that gun can be "dialed up" in power. According to the website for the first movie, rookie agents were often given noisy crickets dialed up to full blast by their superiors to teach them a lesson in perception.
22nd Mar 2004
Goldfinger (1964)
Corrected entry: Shirley Eaton, who was painted from head to foot in gold paint for the famous shots, had to undergo 2 hours of make-up for the scene. During that time, she was closely monitored by medical experts, to avoid the epidermal asphyxiation - skin suffocation - that her character "Jill Masterson" died from. The idea was based on a real Swiss fashion model who painted herself and subsequently died.
Correction: This is an urban myth. No-one has ever died from covering one's whole body with gold paint, white paint, or any color paint. Anyway, go here and look. http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/goldfing.htm.
8th Oct 2003
Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003)
Corrected entry: On the dive boat at the beginning of the film Lara says "Even if half the temple is intact it will still be the greatest find since the pyramids". Presumably she is talking about the Great Pyramids, but when were the pyramids ever lost? (00:05:10)
Correction: She is not talking about the pyramids themselves but the treasures found inside the pyramids.
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Correction: This is more like trivia than a mistake. After all some leniency has to be applied for movie fantasy sake. We have learned a lot about Ancient Egypt but there is tons that we do not know at all with literally hundreds of years lost completely. We can only speculate and guess that they did not use books or "only" used papyrus but the long years of lost Egyptian history leaves a lot to the imagination of the movie makers, thus the Book of the Dead and Living made the way they were to look in the movie. After all, there are no living mummies floating around Egypt either now are there?
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