Corrected entry: In the opening scene, just before U.S.S. Kelvin crashes into the Romulan ship, Captain Jim Kirk asks his wife if it is a boy or a girl, and then they discuss what name they should give. Such advanced technology and yet they didn't know the gender of the baby.
Garlonuss
26th Jun 2009
Star Trek (2009)
21st Jun 2009
1408 (2007)
Corrected entry: Sam Jackson says that the whole hotel has magnetic key cards except room 1408, saying electronics don't work in that room. Yet there are working lights, TV, and radio in that room.
15th Apr 2009
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
Corrected entry: It is stated in the film that it takes place 12 years after the events of Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. At the end of that film, Caesar was the only ape who had acquired speech. However, in the 12 years since, not only do all apes speak perfect English, they have developed various European accents, and have a number of scholarly apes among them who discuss philosophy and history.
Correction: It's not true that he is "the only ape who had acquired speech" at the end of Conquest. The female ape specifically says "No" to Caesar. So while 12 years may seem like a short time, we clearly are seeing here that the apes are on the verge of speech by the end of Conquest, and they have been observing humans for quite a while now, so it is conceivable that they would simply continue philosophical debate that they may have heard from their human masters, then branch out into their own concerns. In short, this is a world where apes develop speech in an already evolved world. We can't predict how long it would take them to develop their own culture.
28th Feb 2009
House, M.D. (2004)
Corrected entry: Several references are made to the patient having both male and female DNA. There is no such thing as "male" or "female" DNA. DNA is just a molecule. It's the chromosomes (specifically the X and Y chromosomes) formed from the DNA that determine if someone is male or female.
Correction: What they are referring to is that he has two distinct lines of cells: one with an XY pairing (thus, "male DNA") and one with an XX pairing ("female DNA"). This is a known but rare occurrence. Check out the Polite Dissent site for a doctor's review of the medicine in this episode and others.
23rd Apr 2008
The Shaggy Dog (1959)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Judge Whittaker tells Mr. Douglas to "not turn it into a barnyard," her hand is on the microphone. But in the next shot, her hand is off.
6th May 2007
Spider-Man 3 (2007)
Corrected entry: The symbiote is vulnerable to sound and sonic vibrations. We see this at the bell tower and the construction site at the end. However, When black Spiderman is fighting Sandman in the sewer tunnels, subway trains are shooting past them left and right. Those make tremendous noise when moving at high speeds, far more noise than a single church bell or a couple of ringing metal rods. However, black Spider-Man was not affected at all.
20th Oct 2006
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
Corrected entry: The thumping sounds of the creature's feet in the arena are frequently unsynchronized throughout the scene.
14th Oct 2006
The Burbs (1989)
Corrected entry: When Walter is looking through the window inside his house, the flames from the Klopeks house do not reflect off the glass on his window right. Walter shadows the flames but thats not the way it should be looking at a closed reflected window. (01:23:25)
Correction: Walter is standing inside the house and looking out through a broken window. (Remember, a nearby house had just exploded.) Where the glass is not reflecting the fire, there is either no glass, or it is not angled correctly to reflect the fire from that viewpoint, which is not that hard to imagine under the circumstances.
1st Nov 2006
Star Wars (1977)
Corrected entry: Original theatrical version: After Han, Luke and Leia get out the giant trash compactor, at the bit where they are overlooking the Falcon from the bay, Han says "There she is" and a second after, Chewbacca runs by him and becomes transparent.
Correction: He does not become transparent. It's a glare from lights off to the side of the shot. If you watch a little further, the shot changes to the droids, then the ship, then back to the main group. When Leia says "You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought," you can see the same glare pattern on the back wall, next to Chewie.
4th Jul 2006
Superman Returns (2006)
Corrected entry: Lois's mind was erased at the end of Superman II by a "Super" kiss, but given that, how did she remember that she and Superman slept together?
Correction: We don't know exactly what she forgot. If Clark simply erased everything from the point where she learned his secret, she'd have a large gap that she would definitely want filled. He may have only made her blank out those specific parts that deal with Clark being Superman. Then she'd still have memories of almost all of the last few days and she'd be fine.
24th Mar 2006
Titanic (1997)
Corrected entry: As the little boy is winding the string around his top and is about to throw it he has it upside down (pointed side up), yet when he throws it, it is in the correct position (with the point down).
14th Feb 2006
Groundhog Day (1993)
Corrected entry: When Phil Connors is giving the now deceased street bum mouth to mouth in an effort to save him, he raises his head to take another breath and you can see the breath from the old man rising, even though he is supposed to be dead. And it can't be Phil's as it is rising.
19th Jan 2006
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Corrected entry: In the 'deflector disc scene', Lt. Hawk is grabbed by a Borg, who carries him off to the side of the ship (moving at a very slow pace, due to being magnetically attached to the hull). Only a few minutes later, Hawk reappears, this time fully assimilated and with Borg attachments on his face and head. None of the other people assimilated in this film got their attachments so quickly, and Hawk could not have gotten to engineering, received implants and then climbed back outside in so short a time. And why did he put his space helmet back on after getting the implants? As a Borg, he would not need it, as seen on the other drones working on the deflector disk.
Correction: They neither took him back to engineering nor removed his helmet. The devices that appeared on his face are a result of the nanoprobes that he was injected with. They are the first step in assimilation and have a limited ability to generate these devices and the injection tubules can penetrate most any known form of shielding (according to the Doctor on Voyager). We have already seen the early effects of this stage of assimilation. When Picard shoots the crewman who has been injected and is asking for Picard to help him, if you look at his face, you can see the begining stages of this automated assimilation process.
Corrected entry: Towards the end of the film when the children become adults, the eldest sister's eyes are a very dark brown color. When they fall back through the wardrobe cabinet they go back to their original steel blue color.
21st May 2005
Castaway (1986)
Corrected entry: Tom Hanks is flying westbound across the Pacific with packages in his charge. After surviving a crash and four years on a desert island, he ends by delivering the one remaining intact package to an address in Texas. How did such a package start out by being flown westbound across the Pacific?
Correction: He's returning it to sender. We already know that it was that lady who sent the package since it had her wings on it. He just figures that after four years, the package would not be missed at its destination, but giving it to the sender with the note that the package had saved his life might actually mean something.
19th Feb 2005
Poltergeist (1982)
Corrected entry: One end of a rope is tossed into the children's bedroom. It appears through the ceiling downstairs. The man downstairs is told to take up the slack gently. As we get an overhead shot of the man holding on to the rope, we can see the other end of it, even though that end is supposed to be by the bedroom.
25th Jan 2005
Spider-Man (2002)
Corrected entry: When Peter discovers he can climb walls, there is a shot which shows hairs on the tips of his fingers. For the rest of the movie he has a costume which includes gloves. How is he supposed to climb, now that his fingers are covered with a homemade costume?
23rd Jan 2005
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Corrected entry: If the Marauder's Map showed Peter Pettigrew, it should have shown Sirius Black and two Harry's and two Hermiones as well.
Correction: This is not a plot hole. How do we know that it didn't? Harry didn't have the map at the time. Lupin did. In fact it was because of the map that he knew to follow them to the Shrieking Shack. He saw Peter coming out of Hagrid's hut and ran to follow. He may have simply not noticed that Sirius was there (or at least he wouldn't care about it since he knew he was innocent at this point) and didn't see the two Harrys and Hermiones.
29th Dec 2004
Matilda (1996)
Corrected entry: When Matilda pulls the adoption papers out of her bag, they have her parents' names typed on them below the signature lines. Now if she got the papers out of a book at the library, like she says, how would they have her parents' names typed on them? She hasn't written the names herself, so how did they get there?
10th Dec 2004
The Incredibles (2004)
Corrected entry: When Mr. Incredible slams the car door and breaks the driver's window, it is seen to shatter and fall out of the door as regular window glass would. But automobile window glass is manufactured so that it does not separate into pieces even when shattered.
Correction: You're thinking of the windshield, which is usually a laminated glass preventing it from falling apatr and providing better safety. The side windows, on the other hand are not always made that way. I know for a fact that my brother once accidentally shattered the car door window in our old car and it most definitely fell to pieces. It's tempered so that it doesn't make the dangerous edges that other glasses do, but it falls apart to make it easier for rescue workers to get inside the car after an accident if the door won't open.
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Correction: We can already determine fetus gender with the technology of today, yet many expectant parents still insist on being surprised. I don't see why that would change in 200 years.
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