Best movie corrections of 2012

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days picture

Corrected entry: When Greg's father finds out that Greg lied about getting a job, one of the workers state that they don't employ minors. However they employed Holly as a tennis coach. She happens to be a "minor".

Correction: That is different. What if Holly volunteers to teach kids tennis, and doesn't get paid? Then she's not really 'employed', she simply uses the county club's tennis courts.

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Corrected entry: Adam, the main vampire, claims he was 5000 years old. Judas was the first vampire as said in the movie and he was born somewhere around the year 0. That's 2000 years ago.

Correction: Judas is not said to be the first vampire in this film (he was in 'Dracula 2000', but not here). The story of Judas is told to explain how silver can kill vampires - that his act of betrayal caused silver to be a cursed substance and harmful to cursed creatures such as vampires because of the affront to God it represents.

Vader47000

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Corrected entry: It's established early on that Paul speaks pretty fluent Ukrainian, but when he's blinded by radiation sickness, he seemingly cannot understand the soldiers' commands to stop. He's blind, not deaf.

Correction: He does understand them, he just continues to walk towards them saying that they need help.

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Corrected entry: Jessica and Jason are at a bar in 2009 and "Need You Now" by Lady Antebellum is playing in the background. This song did not come out until 2010.

Correction: The song was first released in the US on August 11, 2009. The incident regarding the scene happened Dec. 30th 2009.

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Corrected entry: Regarding Craft 4605-FP . After Quaid flies the craft to the Fall he is assigned to Hangar Bay 3 (this is on "top" of the Fall). When the Fall arrives at the Colony, the "top" is now the "bottom". Melina takes command of Craft 4605-FP to help Quaid and to escape. How did Craft 4605-FP get from a hangar bay on one end of the Fall to the other?

PastorMike

Correction: The helicopters all have the same number, 4605 being the make or model number and FP identifying it as Federal Police. You'll notice this best during the escape from the police towards the end, both helicopters (one taken by the chancellor and one by Quaid) are labelled 4605 FP.

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Corrected entry: The daughter's phone changes colour. When the dad is trying to ring her and she is swimming in the hotel pool, you see a black iPhone ringing. Later and for the rest of the movie her iPhone is white.

Correction: They have edited this mistake in the DVD as it is constantly a white iPhone I noticed the mistake so was looking during the DVD.

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Corrected entry: When the agents come to Marta's house and try to fake her suicide with her handgun, Aaron arrives in time to knock the gun away from her head. The gun discharges twice before it knocked from the assailant's hand. Marta picks up the gun and repeatedly fires the weapon as she runs to the staircase. She fires off five shots for a total of seven shots fired from her gun. Her gun is a revolver and only holds five or six rounds depending on the calibre.

Correction: There are 7 & 8 shot revolvers like the Smith & Wesson model 627.

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Correction: This can hardly count as trivia since the point of the movie was Donny (Adam Sandler) was just 13 years old when he impregnated the mom.

Bishop73

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Correction: This happens just after Valjean had died and the shot cuts back to Cosette and Marius where we see Fantine walking out of shot. But in the next shot we see Fantine is in the same position she was before.

Casual Person

Correction: The first person is correct. Just when Jean Valjean passes, Anne Hathaway is seen running behind a dresser to get into place to walk with Jean Valjean's ghost (She even mentioned in interviews that she had to run out of the shot during this scene). Seeing as how Fantine is a ghost, she would not need to run out of a scene behind Cosette and Marius as they are mourning Valjean's passing.

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Corrected entry: At one point in the film the family is eating dinner and Pi's father complimented his wife for the lamb dish she served. Then later, on the boat, the family refuse to eat meat because they are vegetarian.

Correction: The father eats meat, but the others don't. Thats why after complimenting the lamb, he says "You're all missing out". Further, onboard the ship, Pi's mother says "My sons and I are vegetarians" when served by the French chef.

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Corrected entry: The movie takes place after 9/11, but at the end when Lieutenant Rourke's wife is placing his letter to their son on the mantle, if you look at the plaque with his name on it the dates are June 28, 1973 - Sep 29, 2010. How did he die in a mission that happens over a year, when he supposedly died the first time? (01:40:40)

str8razor

Correction: 9/11 is September 11th 2001, and he died on September 29, 2010. 9 years after.

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Corrected entry: When the Iranian at the airport calls California to confirm the movie cover story, Siegel and Chambers are just returning from lunch. There is an 11 and a half hour time difference between Tehran and Los Angeles meaning it must be about midnight or later in Tehran, yet the plane takes off in daylight. (Jack O'Donnell also uses a ruse about someone's kids in school during the same timeframe.).

Correction: They are NOT returning from lunch, they are returning from drinks (they say as much in an earlier scene when they leave the studio after finding out the operation is off), and them keeping the "studio" open late hours is also touched on earlier in the film when someone walks past Alan Arkin and make a statement about how late he is working. So, it's very plausible that they would be there with the mentioned time changes. And the ruse about the school is in reference to Buckhead, GA (a section of Atlanta) which is in a different time zone altogether, and likely a boarding school, as this is one of the most exclusive sections of Atlanta, and the agent is assumed to work out of D.C.

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Corrected entry: When Ted goes to visit the Once-ler for the second time, he does not have a bag of marshmallows. When he arrives at the Once-ler's house, he does.

Correction: No, the first time he visited he brought the offering of the old snail and such. Then the marshmallows the second time.

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Corrected entry: When Alice is having her 'Artie and Dianne' rash, she is suddenly wearing glasses, without anytime to put them on.

Correction: She is wearing her glasses the whole time during this scene.

stan

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Corrected entry: At the start of the movie, Fix It Felix Jr is at the back of the arcade and facing the door. Sugar Rush is two or three machines down. However, at the the end of the movie, Fix It Felix Jr is facing Sugar Rush, they are opposite each other.

Correction: This is not correct. At the beginning, when the a Sugar a Rush game is added (during the 30-year time lapse), it's next to the whack-a-mole game, and in front of Wreck-it-Ralph (as in closer to the door) and not a couple games over. It's set at an angle so that they're not facing each other, but still in the line of sight of each other, so that Ralph and Vanellope can still see each other.

Bishop73

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Corrected entry: In the beginning of the scene where the red-headed dwarf dies, Snow White's hair has a small plait in the front, but towards the end it disappears.

Correction: It's just tucked behind her ear.

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Correction: This round, metal device is actually part of the creature's head. You can see that the blood (which is actually digital) comes from the side of it, not the device itself, and even see the "gunshot" light up the inside. Modern squibs (which are used to simulate gunshot effects) look nothing like this "device."

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Corrected entry: The three characters are playing with Legos near the beginning of the film. They are sitting next to a mirror, and we see Andrew building his Lego structure. Andrew is reflected in the mirror but the Lego structure is not, indicating the use of CGI.

manthabeat Premium member

Correction: Matt is sitting in front of the mirror in the position where the reflection of the Lego would be, and therefore obscures the view at that position.

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The Campaign picture

Corrected entry: When the News is talking about how Cam punched a baby, the picture behind that baby could not have been taken, because all the camera people were behind them.

Correction: One man with a camera is standing behind the mother with the baby and other people. This man can be seen in the shot with a closeup of Zach's face looking at Will and crouching.

velky vezir

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Corrected entry: In the scene where the Stooges jump off the roof, in slow motion you can see 3 dummies fall and land on the actor below but in the next shot the real Stooges actors are on top of him as they get up.

59211john

Correction: This is more of a call-back to the original shorts. There were many times where there were obvious dummies used for scenes similar to this.

Frizzo the Clown

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