Corrected entry: When Peter has the fight with the chicken in the part where they are on the overpass and the chicken lands on the truck then, the truck is driving away from the overpass but Peter doesn't move in the next shot it shows Peter on the same overpass but the truck the chicken was riding on again drives under the same overpass Peter is on with the chicken on the same truck.
Gary O'Reilly
13th May 2007
Family Guy (1999)
13th May 2007
The Matrix (1999)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Agent Smith shoots Neo in the block of flats, he is forced backwards against the wall. This is an impossible move, as the bullets would just pass through him.
Correction: He's not forced back against the wall. He staggers back, because he's just been shot in the chest. He's not going to simply stand still. When Smith is shooting him repeatedly, he's just twitching and jerking around out of pain and/or shock, not because the bullets are knocking him around.
21st Feb 2007
Red Dwarf (1988)
The Last Day - S3-E6
Corrected entry: The Cat wakes up the morning after the party with a hangover and not a hair on his head out of place. (00:18:45)
Correction: This is the cat. His heartbeat is literally a music beat. He spent over a day creating a special spacesuit when he thought he was going to meet women. Having perfect hair, no matter the situation, is entirely within character.
16th Dec 2006
Family Guy (1999)
Corrected entry: When Peter enters Chris' room and accidentally thinks Chris is Lois, he quickly stands up and tries to change the mood by asking Chris questions, one of which is, "Did you do your homework today?" Chris nods his head yes, and Peter comprehends, despite the fact that he is blind.
Correction: He doesn't comprehend. He just gives a response to whatever answer Chris would have given, since he can assume that Chris would've given him an answer. Peter is just saying anything to get out the room, and the timing of Peter's response to Chris' nod can be explained by the fact that Peter knows the pace of a conversation.
21st May 2006
Equilibrium (2002)
Corrected entry: It seems that every single person in this future society has to administer their dose of prozium at exactly the same time, however, in the scene in the car at the beginning of the movie, the clerics' watches beep but no one outside of the car stops to take their shots.
Correction: It SEEMS that they take them at the same time. We only see one shot of many people doing it. It's likely that people of different professions would need to take different doses at different times. The Clerics are fighting routinely and so would be far more biologically aroused than most of the population, which would mean they'd be taking either a different dosage (so they'd be on a different timetable) or the same dosage more often.
27th Jan 2006
Bruce Almighty (2003)
Corrected entry: How could God have made Bruce come to him on the 7th at 7 if he can't mess with free will?
Correction: It's never said that God can't mess with free will, just that he won't, and that he won't give Bruce the power to do so either. Anyway, he doesn't need to mess with free will. He could set a chain of events in motion that culminated in that, events that are so seemingly irrelevant that it wouldn't be noticed by us. After all, he IS God.
6th Dec 2005
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
Corrected entry: During the 'burly brawl' scene you can see at certain points that the 'metal' bar bends most noticeably when Neo kicks the bar at agent smith and it rebounds of agent smith.
Correction: These are literally superhuman beings (inside the Matrix at least). Bending a metal bar is nothing for them, especially Neo. Look at the strength he displays in knocking a Smith clone into a second story window with one arm. Bending the bar a little with a kick is nothing.
4th Nov 2005
Red Dwarf (1988)
Corrected entry: Throughout the whole show, Kryten alternates between obeying Rimmer because he outranks Lister, and obeying Lister because he's a human whereas Rimmer is a hologram.
Correction: We don't know exactly what protocols he's forced to obey. It may just be in certain situations (Kryten seems to side with Lister a lot more when it's "Life or death", perhaps with a Hologram's decisions would be biased, since they're already dead) that he's programmed to do this. Also, considering that it was Lister who repaired him at the start of series three (and has repaired him again at least once since), there are likely to be one or two faults in him.
21st Dec 2004
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Corrected entry: If you look past General Turgidson during one of his speeches at the round table, you can see a 'stand-in' Dr. Strangelove sitting on the far side, long before the character is even introduced in the story.
Correction: Why is Strangelove being there a mistake? He's a top presidential advisor, of course he's going to be in a meeting of such importance, especially since the meeting is about a nuclear strike and Strangelove appears to be very knowledgable about Nuclear weapons. Just because he doesn't have anything to say until he's properly introduced doesn't mean he wouldn't be there, waiting to be called upon.
26th Aug 2005
Futurama (1999)
Corrected entry: In the final part of the "tear-jerker" sequence at the end, the pizza shop owner is seen to be elderly and walking with a stick. The sequence starts the day after Fry was frozen (when the pizza shop owner appeared to be middle aged) and is only supposed to last 12 years - the pizza shop owner ages too fast.
Correction: We don't know how old he is to begin with, or what illnesses he has suffered from over the years. He may have been 60 to start with, and there is a quite significant change in most people between 60 and 72. He may have been in a car crash, developed a debilitating disease, anything.
True, and in Bender's Big Score, he is in a wheelchair and coughing by 2010.
29th Aug 2005
28 Days Later (2002)
Corrected entry: When Jim is in the boiler room with the other soldier waiting to be executed, the soldier is talking about infection not being able to cross the oceans and seas. This is later proved to be the case when we see the fighter jet scouting the area. One problem with that. There is, however, a way for infection to cross the sea. Euro Tunnel was built before the movie came out, and it connects England to France. The infected could have run through that, and there goes Europe. Since the tunnel was a means of escape, people would try to use that to get out of England and not destroy it. Even if someone had thought about destroying the tunnel one of the key points of the movie was that people were caught off-guard by infection, so they couldn't have. There wouldn't be time to destroy it.
Correction: The soldier also says something to the effect that the rest of Europe would quarantine England rather than risk infection. We know that England knew the infection was going on (rather than being overrun before being able to react), we know that at least some places put up resistance, and it's highly likely that other countries were trying to help with rescue efforts (the prime minster and his cabinet, as well as the Royal family, and anyone else they could get). The Channel Tunnel isn't something you could run through in a few minutes, and it's likely that London was one of the last places to fall (after all, it's the capital). France probably blocked up the tunnel as soon as the nature of the infection was realised. They wouldn't need to destroy it, just a 3ft concrete wall at their end of it, with soldiers posted as guards.
26th Aug 2005
The Simpsons (1989)
All's Fair in Oven War - S16-E2
Corrected entry: In the episode "Selma's Choice" Lisa suggests artificial insemination to Selma proving she knows how a baby is made, then why in this episode she goes off screaming after Bart tells her how after reading the Playdude magazines?
Correction: She knows how an egg is fertilised. It doesn't mean she knows how the sperm get there naturally.
20th Aug 2005
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Corrected entry: When getting dressed to go to M.J.'s play, there is a cute scene showing Peter staring into his closet, looking back and forth in the closet, trying to decide what to wear. A reverse angle of the closet's contents shows that there are only two items hanging there, the 'Spidey' suit, and Peter's one-and-only dress shirt/coat/ tie. The gag, of course, is that he is trying to decide what to wear, when it is obvious that he is going as a 'civilian', so he should wear the street clothes. However, after the play is over, Peter (who logically chose to wear his street clothes) is shown running down an alley, and he does the 'opening the shirt to reveal the 'Spidey' suit underneath' maneuver, and swings away on a web. Well.if he wears the costume underneath his street clothes most of the time, why was he looking in the closet trying to decide between the two of them when he knew he was going to be wearing them both?
Correction: The gag isn't "deciding what to wear", it's supposed to show how he's struggling to decide whether he should wear his Spidey suit underneath or not, as he's still wondering whether he should give up being Spiderman or not. It's a tougher decision than it seems because if he DOES wear the Spiderman suit underneath his normal suit, then he's under pressure to go off and be Spiderman if he sees anything happening on his way there (and thus disappointing MJ) but if he doesn't wear it, there's no way he can go off to save people anyway, so he'd make MJ happy, but potentially cause other people to die (as he did with his uncle). It's a lot deeper than a simple "he can't decide what to wear" gag.
31st May 2004
Bottom (1991)
Corrected entry: The dating agency woman never ejects Eddies dating tape from the machine, although a few shots later she puts Richie's video in without any bother.
28th Jul 2005
The Incredibles (2004)
Corrected entry: When Bob cuts Dash's plate into pieces, the table isn't harmed at all, but Bob says, "First the car, now I gotta fix the table."
Correction: We don't SEE the table being harmed because of the things in the way, but in the next shot, the knife is quite stuck in the table as it's standing up by itself (as if it's been pushed deep into the table).
21st Jul 2005
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Corrected entry: When Obi-Wan gets Qui-Gon's light saber and cut Darth Maul in half, when he falls he doesn't fall cut in half. They have to wait until they press standby to get the cut in half dummy. Basically even before Darth maul would fall he would be cut in half.
Correction: Since no one has ever been cut in half by a lightsaber, we don't know that. The two halves could have "stuck" together, from the blood and fluids acting as a glue of some sort. We also don't know the phisiology of Maul's species (Zabrak), so we simply can't make assumptions about how long it'd take for him to fall into two pieces.
21st Jul 2005
Jurassic Park (1993)
Corrected entry: When Grant and the kids approach the electric fence they need to climb, Grant throws a stick at the wires and says, "I guess that means the power's off." his New Zealand accent is plain. He uses an American accent throughout the rest of the film.
Correction: We don't know exactly where his character comes from. He may have been born in New Zealand but has picked up an American accent since, but in high stress situations his old accent resurfaces (I know a few people like that). He may even just accidentally slip into other accents from time to time. I've lived in the West Midlands my whole life but sometimes (for a line or two) I speak in a London accent or something for no readily apparant reason.
20th Jul 2005
Family Guy (1999)
Corrected entry: When Peter gets kicked out of the beer factory, he comes home drunk to find Meg chained to a huge weight so she can't get away from the piano which Lois is forcing her to play. When Peter sits down and starts playing, Lois realizes how good he is and she tells Meg she's off the hook and to go try the Clarinet. Yet Meg gets up and runs away. What happens to the chain and the weight? If Meg could run this fast when she was tied up, why didn't she just try before?
20th Jun 2005
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Corrected entry: For someone who needs a mask in order to breathe, Vader does a good job of screaming loudly while on the operating table.
Correction: As shown by the fact that he's still alive for what must be quite some time before Palpatine arrives to "rescue" him, it's pretty clear that he doesn't *need* the mask to breath, but it makes it far easier for him to do so. He can probably breath enough to scream while lying down, but a sith lord who can't really move about much isn't much good.
30th May 2005
Stand By Me (1986)
Corrected entry: When Chris shows Gordie his gun he states that it's a colt .45. At the end of the movie, Gordie fires it once, then cocks the hammer for a second shot. A colt .45 should do that automatically.
Correction: Earlier on in the film he also states that the gun is unloaded, and it turns out that it isn't. It's likely that he got the name of the gun wrong as well.
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Correction: No. The truck does move. Peter runs quickly ahead (faster than the truck) to another overpass, which the truck goes under, and Peter jumps off, with the joke being that Peter somehow overtook the truck.
Gary O'Reilly