Corrected entry: When Dr. Marr arrives on the Enterprise, she states that she's excited because there have never been survivors from an attack from the Crystalline Entity. They also state that the Entity consumes all organic matter (including bacteria) and leaves none behind. Later, when Dr. Marr and Data are inspecting the cave the colonists took refuge in, she states that on two other planets, victims took refuge in caves and still perished. Now if the Entity consumes all organic matter (including bacteria) and there were no survivors, how would they know where the colonists took refuge, or even if they took refuge there at all? If all organic matter is gone, then there would be no trace of the colonists remaining.
Gary O'Reilly
13th Jul 2010
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
9th Mar 2010
Alien Vs. Predator (2004)
Corrected entry: At the end of the film, the Lord Predator hands Lex a "sword". This is a complete departure from their usual procedures to give a "warrior's gift" because it is their own technology. The Predators never allow their technology to fall into human hands.
Correction: Says who? This film is a different continuity to the AvP games and comics, as well as the Predator films. There's no information on the predators of the film AVP except for the information given in the film.
22nd Aug 2009
District 9 (2009)
Corrected entry: At the very end of the movie Christopher returns to the mother ship and pilots it away. No explanation as to how he could have done so with a giant hole in the side from the original rescue of the aliens.
Correction: All a hole in the side of the ship would do is decompress a section of the ship around the hole. Force fields and/or pressure doors would limit that to a very small part of the ship (this is an advanced alien spaceship we're talking about, even submarines and ships of ours have them). And even if these didn't work, Christopher and his son are inside a self contained module.
15th Jul 2009
Family Guy (1999)
Corrected entry: When Peter goes back in time to when he was eighteen, Brian points out Lois and refers to her as "eighteen-year-old" Lois. In the episode "Let's Go to the Hop", in the second season, Lois mentioned that she is two years younger than Peter. She would actually be sixteen when he is eighteen.
Correction: Brian's just gone back in time and is now seeing the woman of his dreams as a hot teenager. He made a mistake, that's all.
2nd Jun 2009
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Corrected entry: Why didn't the liquid metal Terminator get sent back in time wearing cloths that were also made of liquid metal? The Terminator is already made of a material that can both travel back in time (is organic) and can morph into other things (is metal). Obviously it wasn't because Skynet had no records of what styles would look unusual at any given time period because even a machine would know that being completely naked is more unusual (thus more noticeable) than being oddly dressed.
Correction: What's the point? He's going to kill and replace someone anyway, probably extremely quickly. Morphing some clothes would just waste time and energy. Plus being naked is more likely to draw someone of authority to you (police, paramedic, whatever) which is a more useful person to kill and replace than some random guy.
15th Sep 2008
Bottom (1991)
Corrected entry: The episode 'Culture' focuses for some time on Eddie attempting to teach Richie how to play chess. However, in the earlier episode 'Apocalypse', Richie already knows how to play chess, as he offers to teach Death/Eddie the rules. Eddie conversely claims he doesn't know the rules, but this could just be to help him refuse Richie's offer.
Correction: You just corrected your own mistake. Richie doesn't know how to play chess. He offers to play chess against "Death" because he thinks, if nothing else, it'll prolong the inevitable. Eddie then claims he doesn't know the rules because he can't be bothered playing chess, he just wants the money. Richie tells him he'll teach him how to play because that means he can make up whatever rules he wants to ensure he wins.
29th Aug 2008
28 Days Later (2002)
Corrected entry: If the rage virus takes hold of people within seconds, then how is it possible for the virus to spread to other towns, cities, etc? It couldn't, unless people could still drive, or walk long distances.
Correction: Why not? There's nothing to suggest that people infected stay in the same town they were infected in. In fact, the sheer lack of people in London at the start of the film (there are a lot of infected there, but not the millions of people who actually live in London, especially taking into account refugees from other parts of the country) strongly suggests that the infected disperse quite widely. The attack on the mansion later in the film also shows that the infected roam around the countryside.
29th Jun 2008
I Am Legend (2007)
Corrected entry: At the end he says that 1% of people are immune. That is 1% of 6 billion, and that is 60 million, not 12 million.
Correction: The actual line in the movie is "...LESS than 1% immunity", not exactly 1 percent. He's making a point of how small the level of immunity was, not making an accurate statistical analysis.
10th May 2008
Iron Man (2008)
Corrected entry: After facing the silver robot, Tony Stark is lying on the roof of his building as his heart electromagnet is flickering on and off due to low power. In the next scene, Tony Stark is fine. However, he needs the magnet to survive. There are only two in existence; the one dying in his chest and the one in the incinerated machine below. Since Tony Stark is the only one who seems to know how to build a new one, and since neither is available to keep him alive, how is he apparently just fine in the next scene with a working heart machine?
Correction: In that scene, the electromagnet is completely off at the start. It then begins to flicker back to life, and at the end of the scene is shown pretty much back on again. It's supposed to show that he had a pretty close call, but pulled through. He could easily survive the 1-2 seconds where the magnet is completely off (as shown earlier where his advanced power supply gets stolen).
5th May 2008
Iron Man (2008)
Corrected entry: One scene shows two children eating ice cream cones on a ferris wheel. Amusement parks/carnivals do not allow food on the rides.
Correction: Just wrong. I've been on plenty of ferris wheels with ice cream, drinks and other snacks (such as cotton candy).
7th Apr 2008
I Am Legend (2007)
Corrected entry: If pretty much everyone but Neville and a few colonies of survivors are dead, who is running the power plants so that he can have electricity in his house? And where does he get gas for his vehicles? Okay, he could siphon it out of other cars, but even that would start to run out after awhile. He does a lot of driving around.
Correction: There is a pretty clear shot in the movie that shows him having several generators in his house that are powering everything. And petrol is *everywhere*. Other cars, transport tankers, the tanks underneath gas stations etc. He even has access to a naval base, where there would be many fuel stores. The film also takes place in 2012, by which time there could have been advances in fuel efficiency, in terms of more efficient engines, or fuel additives.
24th Mar 2008
I Am Legend (2007)
Corrected entry: In the movie, the medicine to cure the virus is called a vaccine. But vaccines can not cure someone who already has a virus: they can only cure someone if administered before the symptoms occur.
Correction: This is representative of Neville's state of mind. He failed to make a working vaccine back when a vaccine would've done some good (before the virus had dominated the planet and there were still people who could be administered with it). His mind is stuck on this failure and he can't rest until he makes up for it, so he repeatedly refers to it as a vaccine due to being stuck in the past.
11th Mar 2008
Father Ted (1995)
Corrected entry: The host of Eurosong instantly manages to tidy himself up before going on stage, shaved and all. Moments prior to that, he looks like he spent the night in a ditch.
Correction: This is actually the joke. You can hardly accuse Father Ted of being a show based entirely in reality.
18th Feb 2008
The Truman Show (1998)
Corrected entry: Given that there is a clear difference with "hidden cameras" showing a ring around the outside of the screen, there are a number of shots that would not have been possible given the angles and location where the camera moves around the actors. The best example is when Truman freaks out on his "wife" and they move into the living room and you see a camera following them around the room when it's only the two of them.
Correction: The movie is not made from the point of view of all the hidden cameras. If it were, we would never see the people in the bar, the people at home reacting, the "director" making decisions etc... The various "hidden camera" shots are only inserted into the film to show that he is truly being watched everywhere. The film itself is filmed normally, because it's *about* a show that watches Truman 24/7, not the show itself.
29th Jan 2008
Family Guy (1999)
Corrected entry: In the opening titles, as the Griffins are dancing up the stairs, Lois is nowhere near Stewie, but in the next shot, she is holding him.
Correction: This is the introduction to the show. It is not supposed to have continuity. Why would a regular family have showgirls and an enormous staircase either?
7th Jan 2008
Aliens vs Predator: Requiem (2007)
Corrected entry: Near the end of the movie on the hospital roof, Dallas is delaying the aliens so that the others can escape via helicopter. At one point an alien "drools" on his head for quite a while. Now we all know alien spit and blood are corrosive. Why didn't anything happen to him?
Correction: Alien *blood* is corrosive. The spit or drool isn't. Otherwise, there'd be a constant trail of melted floor following the aliens, which there isn't. This is consistent with the whole Alien series.
31st Dec 2007
Bicentennial Man (1999)
Corrected entry: Isaac Asimov's famous "Three Laws of Robotics" are stringently enforced within this movie. However, when Andrew is told to jump out the window by Amanda early in the film, this would have been in direct conflict with the law that states that a robot "must protect itself and cannot do self-harm unless to protect a human from harm." Andrew jumping out the window cannot reasonably be explained as protecting any human from harm.
Correction: The three laws are: 1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. Ordering Andrew to jump out of a window is part of the second law (must obey human orders), and since it doesn't conflict with the first law, he has to do it. The third law (protecting its own existence) doesn't count if a human orders the robot to harm itself.
28th Nov 2007
South Park (1997)
Fantastic Easter Special - S11-E5
Corrected entry: When Mr. Marsh is being taken away outside the lodge, the leader of the ninjas asks him who he gave the rabbit to. When Marsh won't tell, the man says, "Search the area, the boy [Stan] could not have gotten far." But seconds earlier, he did not know that Stan had the rabbit.
Correction: It's not hard to figure out that if you raid a building looking for something, one person escapes, and you don't find the object in the building, then the escapee has the object. He could also just want Stan to use as a bargaining tool.
28th Sep 2007
Back to the Future Part III (1990)
Corrected entry: Throughout the films, the time jump occurs at the end of the flaming skid marks. But, when Marty crosses the bridge near the end, the flames go right across the incomplete section even though the DeLorian has already gone at the start of them.
Correction: This is just wrong. For a start, the very first time jump we see in the first film ends up with Marty and the Doc slap bang in the middle of them. If the car disappeared at the very end of them, they'd have been run over. See: http://www.hhcc.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/Back_to_the_Future.jpg.
16th May 2007
Collateral (2004)
Corrected entry: When Vincent shoots the two guys who stole his bag, he also retrieves Max's wallet. How should Vincent have known that they also robbed Max off his wallet?
Correction: Well for one, it can be pretty safely assumed that if two thugs who have a gun have just robbed a cabbie (who's tied to his wheel) of a laptop, they'd take his wallet as well. Secondly, who said Vincent already knew? He was just checking to make sure, and he found it.
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Correction: Synthetic clothes, equipment, luggage, any non-organic items the people had on them would be piled up in the caves. Once you know you're dealing with something that consumes all organic material, it wouldn't be hard to figure out what happened when you find a pile of polyester shirts and piles of keys and such lying in a cave.
Gary O'Reilly