Corrected entry: The sheet of paper that Johnny's comrades press against the water tank says that "Johnny Rico" was killed in action. An official federal document would supposedly not have a nickname like "Johnny" on it.
Twotall
31st Jul 2004
Starship Troopers (1997)
26th Aug 2005
Spider-Man (2002)
Corrected entry: In the scene near the beginning when Peter does his little trick on the stairs when he's coming down for breakfast, we see Uncle Ben drinking tea/coffee, he looks in Peter's direction, and in the following shot he is looking in his direction again. (00:18:20)
Correction: Uncle Ben is doing a double take because Peter surprised him just as he was taking a sip of hot coffee.
26th Aug 2005
Spider-Man (2002)
Corrected entry: At the beginning in the museum scene, in one shot when the class moves on and Peter and MJ are left alone, Peter asks "Can I take your picture? I need one with a student in it." When he begins to take pictures, when the camera cuts to a view of MJ, she is smiling and looking in another direction, not at the camera. (If someone was taking your picture, you would be looking at the camera. MJ is not). (00:09:00)
Correction: So? I have many times looked away from the camera when someone was taking my picture. If MJ and Peter feels that the picture is better (for instance, more natural than a stiff, posing heads-on shot), it is their choice.
23rd Aug 2005
The Karate Kid III (1989)
Corrected entry: After Daniel finally signed the application at the bottom of the cliff, he tells Barnes and his two buddies to pull him and Jessica back up. If Daniel and Jessica needed to depend entirely on somebody at the top in order to come back up, why did those two dummies both descend by themselves?
19th Aug 2005
Friends (1994)
The One With Ross's Library Book - S7-E7
Corrected entry: When Ross talks about dirty names, just as he says, "Wendy Vagina," the producer's name, Wendy Knoller, appears at the bottom of the screen. Knoller is a naughty word for "has sex" in Norwegian.
Correction: No, it is not. 1. The naughty word you're referring to is spelled with a "u", not an "o", and the pronounciation becomes VERY different when you change this in Norwegian. Most Norwegians when reading "knoller" would pronounce it with an "å"-sound, changing the meaning to "hills" or "roots". 2. Even if this entry had been true, it is a small coincidence and not really trivia.
18th Aug 2005
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
Corrected entry: In the first shot of the scene where the Emperor tells Vader to send the fleet to the far side of Endor, the stars seen through the great window move very fast. In the next shot, they don't move at all. (00:51:45)
Correction: Like the Emperor says, the Death Star is "fully armed and operational". In other words, if its engines were functioning, they could be causing this by rotating the station and then halting.
27th Jul 2005
The Simpsons (1989)
Corrected entry: In this episode Marge flies to Australia in a plane. Doesn't she have a Fear of Flying?
Correction: Yes, but in the episode where her phobia was first introduced, she was also seen to overcome her fear through therapy. Lots of people have Fear of Flying and still manage to keep it in check when they have to.
1st Aug 2005
School of Rock (2003)
Corrected entry: When Dewey is getting ready for teachers night and Ned opens the check and finds out Dewey's secret, Dewey admits to Ned that he took a job as him and told him how the kids rock, he then talks about Lawrence on keyboards but calls him "Larry."
Correction: Larry is the common nickname for people named Lawrence.
28th Oct 2003
Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (1989)
Corrected entry: That camouflage bridge at the end is in fact just a rock bridge painted to blend in with the other side of the canyon. Fair enough. That doesn't alter the fact that when Indy looks down into the void there is nothing there, just blackness. Camouflage or not, the bridge should be visible when looking straight down.
Correction: The bridge is actually invisible. The special effect used when the movie was made was a real bridge cleverly painted, that's true, but the effect was made to show how the bridge is invisible until you have the courage and the faith to step out onto it. So when Jones is looking down, he is actually seeing through the stone slab, and when he manages to step into the void and hits the bridge it becomes visible to him.
1st Aug 2005
Boston Public (2000)
Corrected entry: In episode "Chapter Sixty-One" Ronnie's at the bar together with her new admirer. He orders them beers. Then Zack arrives and Ronnie leaves with him, and says thank you for the beer. She never actually got one.
Correction: No, but the beers would still arrive, and her date would have to pay for them. Ronnie is only being polite, thanking him for what he was buying for her, even if she did not have time to drink it.
21st Jul 2005
War of the Worlds (2005)
Corrected entry: When Ray, Rachel and that other guy are in the basement after the aliens eye has come and gone, they see a ripple in the water. They then see aliens coming down to the basement. These aliens would have to be down there in the water before making the ripple.
Correction: No, they would only have to make something drop into the water, such as a pebble or other loose debris that is lying around after the destruction.
21st Jul 2005
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Corrected entry: Obi-Wan & Anakin manage to pilot what's left of General Grievous' star destroyer to a survivable landing on Coruscant. As they do, the ship is steered towards a long, straight landing strip in the city. Since when do spaceships & aircraft in the Star Wars universe need landing strips? Everything, including even the largest ships, use advanced hovering technology, and can make pinpoint vertical take offs & landings.
Correction: A couple of explanations for this arise: 1. There is no guarantee that every civilization has the hovering technology, or that they are willing to use it. The landing platforms must be able to accomodate all kinds of craft, even if there appears some without hovering capability. 2. Technology is developed over time, and the landing strips might just as easily be a leftover from the days when few ships had the VTOL technology. And furthermore, not every ship has the capability to land. "The largest ships" that you mention does not have this, as they are built and operate entirely in space. It would be very impractical to attempt to land a Super Star Destroyer (seen in "Return of the Jedi") or a Nebula-B frigate (the hospital ship from "Empire Strikes Back") on a planet surface.
21st Jul 2005
Shrek 2 (2004)
Corrected entry: When Shrek reads Fiona's diary, on each page after it says she wants a real prince, it says "Mrs. Fiona Charming." This means she must have known who Prince Charming. So how was she so easily fooled into thinking Prince Charming was Shrek. Even though it was years later, people don't change that much, especially Prince Charming who's very picky about his appearance.
Correction: Prince Charming is the generic name for a fairy-tale prince. The Fairy Godmother simply named her son Charming to ensure that he would marry a princess. Fiona, on her hand, would expect _a_ prince, who would in her daydreaming bear the generic name.
19th Jul 2005
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Corrected entry: The chip is shown several times during the movie and the T-800's one is mentioned at the end of it. But where's the T-1000's one? He's shot (even in the head), crashed, burnt, frozen, takes the dimension of a paper sheet to look like the floor and even explodes but he still works perfectly showing no system failure. And he also shows no need of power or battery whatsoever.
Correction: No one ever states that T-1000 has a chip, or even that he needs one. He is a much more advanced model, remember? For a machine made from liquid metal, that can take any shape it wants, it is not a long stretch to assume that its memory is part of its molecular structure or similar. And just because we never see him powering up, it does not mean that he never does.
13th Jan 2004
Unforgettable (1996)
Corrected entry: In the scene where they are interrogating Ray Liotta after his wife was murdered, they say that his blood alcohol level was "2.5". This would mean that 250% of his blood was alcohol. I think they meant .25.
Correction: As they do not give a unit of measure, this can be interpreted in many ways. The most logical (and most common way to express alcohol level in blood) is that the number expresses the level of alcohol in promille (1/1000) per liter of blood. 2.5 promille means that he'd be fairly drunk and disorientated, though probably not unconscious. There is also a flaw in the submitter's math here. If 2.5 = 250%, then 0.25 would be 25 %, which would mean that Liotta's character would have approximately 1.5 litres of pure ethanol floating through his veins (and 50 times what is considered a fatal dose, 5 promille)...
13th Jul 2005
War of the Worlds (2005)
Corrected entry: The aliens buried their machines some thousands of years ago. Precisely when isn't clear but well before human civilization got going. Yet they just so happened to bury them in and around major cities that would be built many thousands of years later. And by complete chance they put one right under the middle of an intersection in New York. The speed of the attack makes clear that these things didn't emerge randomly in the countryside, forest or jungle. They were marching through major cities from the word go.
Correction: First of all, it is only the ones we see who are "marching through major cities", and only one of these is shown breaking out of the ground so conveniently near an intersection. There are thousand of tripods that are never shown on screen, and most of these could easily have been emerging in more desolate areas. It just would not be very interesting to see. Secondly, human settlements follow certain patterns. We are reliant on fresh water (so we settle near rivers), we prefer temperate areas (and avoid deserts and the arctic), and we want to settle close to food sources and the natural resources we need. If the aliens knew this much about humans (which they could easily learn by studying our ancestors), it would be easy to calculate where the major settlements would be built.
13th Jul 2005
War of the Worlds (2005)
Corrected entry: When the family arrives at a small town where they catch the ferry, there are loads of missing persons notices. However, the fact that electrical equipment works in that town suggests the aliens had not reached that part yet. As such, nobody in the town would have gone missing and placing a missing person notice in a town where the person hasn't gone missing is completely useless.
Correction: Of course not. As we can see in the film, thousands of refugees have been fleeing that way, and thousands more are coming. These fleeing people would still hope that their loved ones were alive, even if they were separated earlier on, and so would leave these notes in a desperate hope that someone could reunite them. A very faint hope, that they should still be alive and arriving in the same town as their family, but better than leaving no clue and thereby abandoning all hope.
24th Nov 2002
The Shining (1980)
Corrected entry: When Jack is sitting at the bar and orders a drink, he takes his wallet out of his back right pocket. Just before that scene when he is walking into the Gold Room, you can very see (thanks to a short jacket and snug jeans) that there is no wallet in his back pocket. After that scene when he goes into Room 273 you can again see that he has no wallet in his pocket though there would have been no time or reason for him to leave it anywhere.
Correction: This is because he does not really have his wallet when he talks with Lloyd (the bartender) in the Gold Room. Two possible explanations to this: He imagines the scene in his cabin fever and alcoholism, or the Overlook is sending him these images to be able to tell him that his credit with the House is fine, i.e. that the spirits of the hotel trust him and value his service. The wallet is in his room the whole time, and actually contains money (as seen in the scene where Grady spills Advocaat on him, when he has retrieved it and gone back to the bar), but he does not carry it around since there is nothing to buy up there.
11th Aug 2003
The Karate Kid (1984)
Corrected entry: After Daniel is thrown down the embankment on his bike, damaging it and hurting his head, he is seen the next day walking with Ali and her friend. He explains that the plaster on his head is due to a bike accident. "What kind of bike do you have, Daniel," says Ali's friend, "Honda, Suzuki, what?" "No," he says, "it's a Miyagi Turbo, actually." However, Mr Miyagi has not yet fixed his bike, and Daniel barely knows him. He does not discover the mended bike and make friends with Mr Miyagi until the next scene. (00:26:50)
Correction: Even if he barely knows Miyagi, he knows OF him (since Miyagi is their janitor, and fixed their sink earlier on). When the girls believe he drives a motorcycle he does not want to admit it is a pedal bike, and so he makes up a name for an MC, using the first Japanese name that springs to mind. After all, it sounds cooler if people think you drive a rare motorbike than an old 10-speed racing bike.
I think you missed the point of what the person pointed out. The point is he ties Mr. Miyagi to his bike before Mr. Miyagi had even fixed it. It's out of sequence.
17th Feb 2004
The Shining (1980)
Corrected entry: When Jack is at the ball and the waiter spills on him, he has a stain on his right pant leg, mid thigh. When the waiter attempts to clean him up, the spot disappears without the waiter touching the area.
Correction: It is very questionable how "real" the scene is. Jack is delirious with cabin fever and alcoholism, so he might be imagining many of these scenes, and the other people at the party are all ghosts. Either way, the stain is not really there, but the spilling of Advocaat was necessary to make Grady and Jack connect and have a conversation. Once the hotel has achieved this purpose, the stain is no longer needed and can disappear.
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Correction: Rico's first name IS Johnny. It is what his parents chose to name him at birth, and so, it shows up like that on all records of him.
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