Corrected entry: Barrow, Alaska is north of the Arctic Circle. As such, at the time of the year (October) that the movie is set in, there would be no daylight (it would be nighttime 24/7). Yet there are many scenes that take place in the daylight.
Corrected entry: If the shooter was parallel to the victims, on the bridge, then the police would have known where the shots had come from. Especially the water-bottle shot. If the shots had come from a 90-degree angle (as compared to shots from the parking garage) they would have definitely known it.
Correction: They did know where the shots had come from. The reveal was not that they came from a different location than supposed, but that the man framed knew better than to shoot from the location the shooting came from, thus helping to prove his innocence.
Corrected entry: When Will and the girl discover they are siblings, she gets up and walks away. It shows Will look to the right (his left) and contemplate this reality. The very next shot, with no time for position change, shows her with a window behind her. The window is reflecting Will, who is now looking up with his head leaned back.
Corrected entry: When the helicopter crashes and Sean gets his phone out of a plastic bag it is an iPhone. Later when Henry asks Sean for his phone to take a picture of the island map it is a Blackberry. Then later when Sean takes his phone out it is an iPhone once again.
Correction: When Hank asks for the phone to take a picture of the map it is still an iPhone.
Corrected entry: Once the characters have all arrived at the cabin in the woods, there is a scene during a game of "Truth or Dare" where they all enter the basement. During that scene, Jesse Williams' character "Holden" magically acquires glasses that he was not wearing at any point prior. From that point on, throughout the remainder of the movie, his glasses disappear and re-appear multiple times. Most notably, in the scene where three of them attempt to flee through the stone tunnel in the RV.
Correction: Just because someone wears glasses that doesn't mean that they need to wear them all the time. He may only need them for reading, and he has plenty of opportunities throughout the film to take them off and put them on.
Corrected entry: In the movie they are singing the song More than words by Extreme, however the movie is set in 1987. The song did not get released until 1990.
Correction: The song was actually written in the late 80s but was popular until about 90, 91.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Frost is drinking wine with Carlos, Frost acknowledges that Carlos has allowed the wine to "breathe," yet he opens a sealed bottle and no decanter is shown.
Correction: The bottle of wine had been opened with just the cork reinserted in the bottle. While not as efficient as a decanter, doing this will allow the bottle to breathe.
Corrected entry: When the English teacher quizzes his students on who invented the paperback book, the serial and the term "cliffhanger", the answer he gives is Charles Dickens, which is wrong. Thomas Hardy invented the notion, and not in his first book but in his third, A Pair of Blue Eyes. As far as the rest is concerned, Hardy is also well-known for his serial novels, and anyway, I think paperback books and serials would rather have been invented by publishers than writers.
Correction: Dickens first used the idea of the paperback for publishing "The PickWick Papers" [serialized March 1836 to October 1837]. Hardy's "A Pair of Blue Eyes" was serialized nearly FORTY years later [September 1872 and July 1873.] See this source, as one of many, which cite to Dickens as inventing the idea/term/notion of "paperback. http://www.directworks.org/students/marketing-careers-for-students/career-resources/what-dickens-did-for-direct.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Billy the Kid dies, Vilain's guy cuts across Billy's chest horizontally, but later it switches to a diagonal cut and then to having no blood at all.
Correction: When it is diagonal, it is just because of the guy behind him who has his hand on Billy the Kid's shoulder which is pulling the shirt and if you watch again you won't see the cut properly because the shirt pulled. There is no mistake in that. The blood goes away, there is the mistake but that can be covered as well by saying that the blood was sucked by the shirt :/.
Corrected entry: There is no way the branch in the opening scene was heavy enough to pull a family of 4 up off the ground. This scene is shown over and over again throughout the movie.
Correction: It is also impossible for a 9 year old to lift their parents up to the tree to begin with, or to drag them outside and tie them up to lawn chairs, or prop them inside of a car. It would be safe to believe that Baghuul was assisting with all these murders.
Corrected entry: Near the end of the van/police bike chase Normans parents swerve off the road to avoid the van. The police bike that was previously chasing the van then comes in from the opposite direction of he van to collide with the parents car despite being just behind the van moments earlier. (00:48:40 - 00:49:40)
Correction: The police scooter struck the parents' vehicle in the right front quarter panel, not the rear. The pursuing officer was shown cutting through a back yard in order to close the gap. As she emerged at high speed from the back yard she struck the parents' car. The collision was perfectly plausible at that angle.
Corrected entry: In the final scene, Joseph and his nanny come off the train that has arrived from London. This train then pulls away. Throughout the scene it is clear that there is a single track running through the station yet a couple of minutes later, a speeding train comes from the opposite direction. Surely the two trains would have collided further up the track and Arthur & Joseph would never have been hit? (01:22:20)
Correction: Only one track through the station does not rule out another track merging with that one some short distance down the rail.
Corrected entry: A girl is attacked in the closet and cut on the left shoulder. The cut is visible througout the next sequences of scenes. Later she is shown with a large bandaid on her right shoulder. (01:18:20 - 01:22:20)
Correction: She is actually writing in front of a mirror, which makes it a reflection of the wound.
Corrected entry: In "Phantom of the Opera" The Phantom states that the disfiguring disease, "Has also denied me the joys of the flesh." So how can he have fathered a son?
Correction: Christine slept with the father the night before she married Raoul. The Phantom got Christine pregnant that night.
Corrected entry: The fact that Bo Gentry can't hit a curveball shouldn't automatically qualify him as a poor draft selection, as it's implied near film's end. His ability to recognize and hit curves would improve with the experience and training he would acquire in the minor leagues, particularly if working consistently with a hitting coach; it's literally in their job title to coach players who need help with their batting output.
Correction: The ending doesn't imply that Bo is a poor draft selection because he can't hit a curveball. The ending shows that Bo can't handle quality pitching at all. He can't connect with any of Rigo's fastballs either. Gus and Mickey could tell that Bo was not a good hitter and only seemed like he was because he wasn't playing against anyone as good as Rigo. The fact that he had trouble with the curveball at his level was the clue that tipped Gus off that his numbers were inflated. Bo isn't worth any major league pitching coach's time because there are far better prospects out there.
Corrected entry: If John Carter is able to jump higher and be stronger due to the weaker gravity of Mars, then why is he able to breathe? Low gravity means less atmosphere.
Correction: This is a fictional Mars, inhabited by at least two highly technological races, the Red Martians and the Therns, and thus it is not unreasonable to assume that the technology exists to maintain the atmosphere in a state breathable by the inhabitants. The Barsoom stories, on which the film is based, include references to atmosphere plants, city-sized mechanisms to do exactly that. While these are not mentioned in the film, in the absence of any evidence to the contrary, it can be assumed that the plants are indeed present and functional.
Corrected entry: After Emilie gets off the escape pod and rejoins Snow on MS-1, they begin to argue whether her father would authorise an attack with her still aboard. As Snow says "I would love to, but I can't", his back is to Emilie until he spins around facing her and the camera. His mouth does not move when he utters "I can't." (01:07:25)
Correction: His mouth does not have to be moving to say "I can't". He is talking through his teeth at that point, as depicted by his open mouth. Try it yourself. Say 'I can't' through your teeth. Your lips don't need to move.
Corrected entry: When Carrie-Ann jiggles the key off the top of the door, how could she use it to get out? The key lock was on the outside.
Correction: This is simply wrong. the twist lock was on the outside, the key side was on the inside. They demonstrated his lock/unlock process pretty.
Corrected entry: At one point Lincoln is recognised from his effigy on a 50-cent piece. No living American has ever been depicted on US coins. Lincoln's portrait now familiar on 1-cent coins did not appear until 1909.
Correction: From http://www.kennedymint.net/fractional_currency/fractional_currency.asp?cat2=50+Cents&cat3=Lincoln+Fractional+Currency&cat4=1869-1875+50+Cent+4th+Issue: Fractional Currency was issued by the United States from 1862 to 1875. During the Civil War, the hoarding of coins required the U. S. Government to issue the making of this interesting short-lived series of notes. Notes were issued in denominations of 3, 5, 10, 15, 25, and 50 cents. There were 28 different, major types of these unusual notes issued. They remain legal tender to this day.
Corrected entry: In the scene where they are searching the last containers loaded, they open up a container loaded with Fresh Seafood, fish packed in ice. No way would this survive a container ship journey even a day long. Containers are not refrigerated.
Correction: That's weird.I used to haul frozen french fries over 500 miles to a port where they were sent to China and Japan. All on refrigerated containers. My bosses would have been surprised to know the reefer containers weren't refrigerated. Hence the name "reefer".
Correction: Barrow is not dark 24/7 in October. That occurs in December. Even at the end of October, Barrow gets 6 hours of daylight.
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