Corrected entry: When Mikey and Trent are driving to Vegas, the top on the convertible is up. They stop at a gas station and the top is down. They get back on the road and the top is up again.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Hamlet first talks to his father's ghost, we can easily conclude that the intention was to edit this scene in a way that we wouldn't see the ghost blinking his eyes, but he does while he disappears.
Correction: There are no set rules as to how supernatural creatures should act, so there is nothing wrong with the ghost blinking his eyes. He did it for several years while alive, maybe the habit is hard to shed? In addition, there is no certain way to conclude what the film makers' intentions were in this scene, or how this conflicts with what is shown on screen.
Corrected entry: When the police chief hands Barb the grenade, there are Directorate soldiers behind them. Surely they would have noticed he didn't cuff her.
Correction: There is a 50% chance that they would see this, but then a 50% chance they would not. Your mistake is saying the Directorate soldiers HAD to have seen this, but they don't really seem to be looking closely as he "cuffs" her.
Corrected entry: After Sandra is done hitting Jamie and they're sat on the living room floor Jamie says "Why am I weird?" Sandra tells him "Give it a rest", then he says "Well you said it." She hadn't. In the original play script she does call him weird, but when the script was adapted for film the line must have been left out completely or left on the editing room floor.
Correction: The line must have been modified for emphasising the little tongue-fights between mom and son. After the two have an argument Jamie asks Sandra if he's like his father, to which she replies that he's not (because Jamie's father used to beat Sandra) and he's like her. So Jamie teases her and asks her "how am I weird?"
Corrected entry: When Martin's sister is wearing her military uniform, there is no nametag, no ribbons and no career identifier. At a MINIMUM she should have a nametag on her "blues" shirt, but when you are wearing "tabs" (the dark blue thing under her collar) you are required to wear ribbons and identifier. It is the same when men wear their tie.
Correction: The girl wearing the uniform is not Martin's sister, but his childhood girlfriend.
Corrected entry: When the man punches through the windshield, his hand is unhurt. Old windshields were simple plate glass and would have slashed his hand up terribly.
Correction: Safety glass was invented in 1903, and was used in automobiles during WWI. After WWI, it was standard practice by car manufacturers to build cars with safety glass.
Corrected entry: At the end of the song "God help the outcasts", Esmeralda bathes in the sunlight of the rose window. Seen from above, the projected light forms a circle on the church-floor. As the rose window is circular itself, and the church-floor is perpendicular to the church-wall, this is only possible when the sun is at exactly 45° above the horizon (the projection would be an ellipse otherwise). However, the Feast of Fools was held at the end of December or the beginning of January, and in this specific case on January 6 1482, according to the original manuscript of Victor Hugo. The highest point the sun reaches in Paris around that day is maximally 20°, even when taking care of the Gregorian Calendar Reform in 1582. Also, the rose window is not exactly southward, which means the sun will have even lower altitude when shining straight through it. Thus, there's no way the sunlight could form a circle on the church-floor around that day. (00:38:00)
Correction: Actually they do state the date of Topsy Turvy day. One of the lyrics is on the sixth of Januervy.
Correction: Except that there is no claim or even indication by the movie that it takes place in January. It's an adaptation from the book, meaning changes don't actually qualify as mistakes. And unlike the mistake with the spire which is real and didn't exist until 1845, the events of the book are fictional.
Corrected entry: Kate finds a Graboid fossil and explains that the rock is from the Precambrian era (which ran from about 4.5 billion years ago through about 500 million years ago), thus making them literally the oldest complex life-forms in the history of Earth. Cool idea, but it makes no sense. Life in the Precambrian era was mostly bacterial or simplistic organisms such as sea-sponges and jellyfish late in the era. Something like the Graboids just couldn't have existed, both because they're too complex to have existed in that time-frame and also (and more importantly) because there wouldn't be an adequate food source for them to thrive. Sure, maybe they could have existed during the time of dinosaurs, but that only started about 250 million years ago, way after the end of the Precambrian era.
Correction: They retconned this in the TV series, saying that Kate had misdated the fossil, which was actually from the Devonian Period.
I don't think a retcon validates a movie mistake.
Correction: The oldest known life forms. Graboids existed, therefore other life forms existed too, which they ate, we've just not discovered them yet.
Correction: The graboids might not have originated from earth. Like suggested they could be aliens and their species landed on Earth 5 billion years ago.
The movie states that they are from Earth. The suggestion that they're aliens is invalidated in the film itself, as it is proven wrong by the scene in question. Ergo, this correction is invalid. Also, this correction fails to address one of the key issues brought up in the mistake - they wouldn't have a viable food source and would have died out, even if the preposterous notion that they were aliens were true.
Correction: This is speculation at best regarding creatures that don't exist in real life. There's no way to say they wouldn't have adequate food source without knowing what they needed to survive, or how they evolved.
Corrected entry: During the second scene at The Scream, after Buddy twists Reggie's hand, listen carefully and you will hear one of the crew members say "let go."
Correction: Reggie says "let go", not a crew member. His mouth also moves when you hear it.
Corrected entry: In the scene near the start where the laboratory explodes the strength of the explosion is sufficient to lay waste the entire area surrounding the lab and to cause articulated trucks to fly through the air, yet Keanu Reeves manages to survive by taking shelter in a shallow cutting. This would not be possible.
Correction: It is possible to avoid the explosion in a ditch as the explosion would go over the top of it. think like sitting behind a wall with the wind blowing over the top, you dont feel it. the same is true of the explosion and the ditch.
Corrected entry: In the last scene, Peter Gallahger leaves flowers on Gillian's grave to say goodbye. If you look at the dates on the headstone it says Born Sept. 6, 1959, and died September 6, 1994. which would make her 35, not 37, as is stated in the title and in the film itself.
Correction: Gillian died 2 years earlier (the movie is set in 1996), so it would have been her 37th birthday.
Corrected entry: Towards the beginning, when the peach starts to roll down the hill, the aunts get in the car to chase it. We see that aunt Spiker, who is starting the car in the driver's seat, is on the right side of the car. If this part of the movie takes place in England, why is the driver's seat on the right side of the car?
Correction: First off, the driver's seat, is on the right side of the car in England, unless you are talking about the right side, from the perspective of someone looking into the car, from the front. Even if that is the case, it is not illegal to have a car with a left hand drive in England, just as it is not illegal to have one with a right hand drive in the rest of Europe, or the US. As long as you drive the car on the correct side of the road.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Ashtray goes to take the DMV driving test, after the instructor tells Ashtray, "Let's begin" he tells him to make a right on the street. In the next shot he tells him to make "another left" but he never told him to make a left to begin with.
Correction: When the teacher says "Take another left here", this is just telling the viewers that they have been driving for a period of time.
Corrected entry: About half-way through the movie, Binoche, Fiennes, and the Sheik are talking about India. The Sheik makes a joke about "condensed milk sandwiches." Shouldn't he be saying dehydrated milk or powdered milk? Condensed milk is a liquid, dehydrated and powdered milk are dry.
Correction: Condensed milk is very thick; English condensed milk is as thick as corn syrup. It's more than thick enough to be used as the filling in sandwiches, and often was in India in the 1920s and 1930s.
Corrected entry: During the film's intro, Paul McGann tells how his adversary, The Master, was finally bought to trial on the Planet Skaro and sentenced to death. Being put to death on Skaro is certainly not unbelievable, but it is very unlikely a Time Lord would ever venture there as it is also the birthplace of the enemy of all Time Lords, the Daleks. (Skaro is the home of the mutated Kaled race who become the machines.) Time factors aside, (as another person has already stated, time is only absolute on Gallifrey to a Time Lord), Skaro was a planet poisoned at an early age by war. And the sound effects during the Introduction would suggest that the Kaled race had already begun the mutation - therefore making this plot line very unlikely indeed.
Correction: According to Russell T Davies, this happened during the Great Time War when a peace treaty between the Time Lords and the Daleks was attempted. As part of this, the Time Lords handed The Master over to the Daleks for execution. It would be reasonable for the Daleks to do this on their home planet, Skaro.
Corrected entry: When the FBI poster first prints out for Beavis and Butt-Head, under their pictures there are sets of fingerprints. How could they have been able to determine Beavis and Butt-Head's prints, when apparently they've never been booked before? (00:34:10)
Correction: The authorities could easily obtain a sample of their fingerprints from any of the items they touched in their hotel room.
Corrected entry: In the scene set in Australia where the 4WD comes bursting out from the car park and rams into a Police car, one can see that the grille on the Police car was most definitely broken before the 4WD hit it. (00:59:25)
Correction: No it's not. Even in slow motion you clearly see it's fine. The right front light might seem a little(!) damaged, but not the entire grille.
Corrected entry: In the tournament fight scene where Van Damme and the Korean fighter face off in the semi-finals, the Korean fighter is announced as being from China, however in the first round the Korean fighter defeats the Chinese fighter. So they made a mistake by announcing the Korean fighter as being form China.
Correction: Van Damme never faces the Korean fighter. In the first round the announced Chinese fighter (brown pants) defeats the announced Korean fighter (white pants). The Chinese fighter then fights Van Damme. There is no error.
Corrected entry: At The Chinese dinner, the plate of beef disappears then reappears.
Correction: The movie at this time is in chronological order with no edits, but a somewhat flexible camera. A waitress is constantly bringing in new items, and Catherine O'Hara is bombed, soused, smashed, etc. beyond belief. It's very possible that when Dr Pearl was talking, it got moved to another part of the table, then got moved back for any one of Albertsons (Ron or Sheila), or Pearls (Allan or his wife) to grab some more.
Corrected entry: Sandra Bullock first arrives in the film by driving into town prior to the trial of two rapists. After her arrival, the victim's father Samuel L Jackson (Carl Lee) kills the rapists in open court. When Matthew McConnaughey later asks Bullock why she's in town, she says "Carl Lee", yet at the time of her arrival she can't have known who Carl Lee was as he hadn't committed any crime.
Correction: She's referring to why she's staying in town, not why she came into town in the first place.
Correction: This is not a continuous scene. The shots jump from when they're on the road, then in the gas station, then back on the road. We don't see them pull in and out of the gas station. That gives them enough time to put the top down and up between shots.
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