Corrected entry: After Col. Stewart has crashed the Windsor flight, he communicates with the control tower with the radio handset he used to contact the plane, every other time he uses a separate phone handset.
Twotall
14th Jul 2009
Die Hard 2 (1990)
28th Jan 2009
Gran Torino (2008)
Corrected entry: When Walter goes outside to investigate the gang fight, he is holding the rifle in his left hand, but then it's suddenly in his right hand.
Correction: When Walter interrupts the gang fight, he is always seen holding his rifle in the same position - pointed toward the fat gang member, ready to fire. We never see him prepare for this fight, he just appears in the middle of it, rifle at the ready. His grip never changes until he lowers the rifle, and then he holds it in his left the entire time.
7th May 2007
The Holiday (2006)
Corrected entry: When Cameron Diaz is drinking hot chocolate with Jude Law and his daughters, she has foam on her top lip and when the camera goes away and comes back, there is much more foam than before.
Correction: Like you say, the camera "goes away and comes back". She was out of frame long enough to have taken a new sip of the chocolate, leaving more whipped cream on her lip.
3rd Jun 2009
Tombstone (1993)
Corrected entry: When the Earps are in the Oriental discussing Curly Bill's acquittal, Wyatt relates that Judge Spicer said, "Without witnesses, you can't have a murder." But there were witnesses - Josie and Behan both were shown as eyewitnesses.
Correction: If they were not willing to testify in court, then there would be no witnesses before the judge, and none according to the law.
That shooting had zero witnesses. It took place behind a place off Allen street. Nobody would have seen it.
In real life, the shooting took place in an alley. In this movie, it is in the middle of the street, where Josie and Behan are present.
3rd May 2009
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)
Corrected entry: Wolverine's tags are different to the ones seen in X-Men and X-Men 2, when they are supposed to be the same tags.
Correction: We actually don't know that they are the very same tags. He could have had replacements made at some point.
3rd May 2009
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)
Corrected entry: Stryker shoots Logan with the adamantium bullets to erase his memory, but in "X-Men" the scans of Wolverine showed no holes or damage to his skull. While he's got a healing factor for his natural bones/organs, there's no way for him to regenerate the adamantium covering his skeleton.
Correction: As shown in the movie, his skeleton is not just covered in adamantium, the metal is actually bonded to his bones, and a part of him. So when his bones regenerated, it is not unlikely that the edges of the holes in his skull was bent back into shape and re-bonded.
25th Apr 2009
X-Men 3 (2006)
Corrected entry: We see that Pyro is able to create fire to blow up flying cars. However, in X2, he says that he cannot create fire. He only controls it, which is why he always has his lighter.
Correction: Earlier in the movie we get to see how he has rigged up a small device to his forearm, that functions as a lighter, producing a small flame for him to work with.
3rd Jan 2009
Australia (2008)
Corrected entry: At the scene where Fletcher & Co light fires to scare the cattle, it's night. When the cattle start stampeding it's suddenly broad daylight.
Correction: As mentioned in a previous correction, the fire is lit to start the stampede in early morning, just before sunrise. The sun comes up while the chase is going on.
31st Dec 2008
Australia (2008)
Corrected entry: The Army uniform that Nicole Kidman's character wears is not consistent with the designs worn at the time. The Australian Army did not issue blouses with small twin-creased pockets with button flaps.
Correction: She is not wearing an Army uniform, as she is a civilian. She is employed by the Army (or possibly doing volunteer service), but is not herself enlisted. As such, she can wear whatever she pleases, but has obviously chosen to adapt a semi-military look in her clothing, so as to better fit in.
22nd May 2008
The Princess Bride (1987)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Wesley and Buttercup roll down the hill, when they get to the bottom, they are far apart on the wide shot and close together on the close-up shot.
21st Mar 2002
The Princess Bride (1987)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Fezzik is putting Inigo's head in a bucket of water, every time he dumps Inigo's head in the water, you hear his deep breath. Not when his head is pulled out of the water.
Correction: It's not a breath, it is Inigo trying to shout a protest while his head is under water. It sounds just the way it is supposed to.
11th Sep 2007
The Princess Bride (1987)
Corrected entry: When Buttercup finds Westley in the honeymoon suite and jumps on him on the bed, her stockings and shoes are black. When she jumps from the window into Fezzik's arms, her stockings and shoes are white. I doubt she changed in front of Westley, Inigo, and Prince Humperdinck.
Correction: I just watched this in slow motion, and she is wearing white stockings and shoes the whole time. When she jumps on the bed, you mostly see the black (dirty) underside of the shoes, so this might be mistaken for the color of her shoes, but they are indeed white on top.
18th Mar 2009
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: In the scene just after the Batmobile basically blows up, and the little motorcycle thing is ejected, the building that Batman rides through is Millenium Station, a train station in Chicago.
7th Mar 2009
Watchmen (2009)
Corrected entry: During the prison riot scene, one of the inmates, topless, is set on fire. The fire-proof/retardant "gel" is visible, applied all over his upper torso.
Correction: A human body is not that easy to set fire to - the other prisoners would have had to coat the man in some sort of flammable material in order to burn him alive. In reality it is probably a fireproof gel, true, but within the context of the movie it makes sense that the substance is some sort of flame accelerant.
Corrected entry: When a very wet Indy is getting decontaminated, you see the camera move back and then it shows Indy siting all dry on the chair, talking.
Correction: Yes, this is called a cut between shots, and is quite common in every movie being made. He was of course allowed to towel off after the decontamination, before the questioning started.
18th Feb 2009
Volcano (1997)
Corrected entry: When Dr. Barnes is down in the storm drain with her friend Rachel, who falls through the fissure, Rachel screams "I'm burning up!", despite being at least several hundred feet above the volcanic gas. At other points in the movie, Roark, his daughter, Barnes, and the subway rescue team are all literally within a couple feet of the lava and show no effects.
Correction: Rachel is screaming in panic, because she can feel the heat and is 'afraid' to be burned. She is nowhere near the temperature for combustion, but her panic does not allow her to think that straight. Plus the enclosed space would make the heat more intense than it would have felt to Roark when he was outside.
18th Sep 2003
The Thing From Another World (1951)
Corrected entry: While at the saucer near the North Pole, you never once see the men's breath from the cold. (00:20:45)
Correction: That's because visible breath is NOT solely due to cold, but to air humidity. If the air is dry, it does not matter how cold it is, breath will not be visible.
The last statement of the correction is incorrect, and there's a misunderstanding of the role humidity plays. If the relative humidity of the air and your breath combined is 100%, you'll see your breath. There are two ways to affect relative humidity, higher humidity or lower temperature. Thus, at a certain temperature (usually below 45°F), you'll always see your breath, no matter the humidity.
5th Feb 2005
S Club Seeing Double (2003)
Corrected entry: Bradley tells Jon, Rachel and Hannah to meet the others at 'Mulholland Outlook'. During the press conference, Jon refers to it as 'Mulholland Lookout'. (00:56:20)
Correction: Clearly a character's mistake - Jon just misremembered, or was nervous and mixed up his words.
3rd Jan 2009
Armageddon (1998)
Corrected entry: Just before A.J goes down the chute in the Russian space station to refuel the rockets, you can see an American flag behind him. Odd that an American flag would be on a Russian space station.
Correction: Odd, perhaps, but far from impossible. Someone has made a character decision to bring it on board, simple as that.
The American flag is upside down, indicating a nation in distress. It could be the Russian taking a dig at America.
29th Dec 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: Towards the end of the Batmobile chase when the vehicle is hit by the Joker's RPG, it flips through the air. During this time the underside of the Batmobile is visible and it is completely smooth and looks bolted on, revealing that this car is merely a stunt model.
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Correction: So he chose to use a different handset at one point. That is not a mistake, but a character decision.
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