Corrected entry: When Shaun gets back to the Winchester after he gave the zombies 'the slip', he opens a bag of 'hog lumps' and offers Liz one. Liz doesn't actually eat a hog lump, instead she eats a piece of bruschetta.
Tailkinker
3rd Jan 2006
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
27th Dec 2005
Serenity (2005)
Corrected entry: When the Operative is reviewing the computer file on Mal, one of the notes reads "Awarded Valor Commendation: Battle of Serenity Valley." Since the Battle of Serenity Valley was the decisive battle of the war, which the Browncoats lost, who awarded him the commendation? The Browncoats had surrendered, so they were certainly in no position to hand out medals, and the Alliance would surely not have given Mal an award for fighting them so tenaciously.
Correction: The battle of Serenity Valley lasted over two months - there would certainly have been lulls in the fighting during that time as the combatants resupplied, regrouped and so forth. Mal went from commanding a single squad in the battle to being in charge of over two thousand soldiers, keeping their morale up and keeping them in the fight. Given his heroic actions, the Independent commanders obviously decided to award him the commendation for valour during one of those lulls.
25th Dec 2005
The Santa Clause 2 (2002)
Corrected entry: When Toy Santa drinks the hot chocolate, he says, "Santa feels a little Buzz". This is another amusing reference to Tim Allen voicing Disney's Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story.
Correction: Not even remotely amusing. Plus it's pretty obvious, so not valid trivia either.
13th Dec 2005
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Corrected entry: When Obi-Wan and Anakin escape from their bounds and tackle Grievous's bodyguards at the beginning of the film Obi-wan decapitates the last bodyguard. But it still lives and is able to fight him. Later when Obi-Wan drops the huge block on the bodyguards, before he fights Grievous, one bodyguard gets up and goes for its weapon. Obi-Wan kills this bodyguard by cutting off its head.
Correction: The bodyguard was already badly damaged from being hit by the block - as such, the decapitation was enough to stop it. In the earlier instance, the guard was otherwise unscathed, so is able to continue functioning despite the loss of its head.
21st Nov 2005
Sin City (2005)
Corrected entry: When Miho slices Jackie Boy's throat, and you see blood splatter over her face, if you go through frame-by-frame you can see her eyes are either digital or partially digital, because they "stretch" closed/open rather than actually blink. (Bad CGI effect.).
Correction: To quote the submission guidelines - "if something requires slow motion to spot, chances are it's not a valid mistake, but there are exceptions. For example, a cameraman in shot for a few frames or something else fairly major is worth listing, but a tiny change in position or set wobble that's only noticeable by slowing the shot down won't be listed. Minor mistakes have their place on this site, but they must be noticeable in regular viewing." Please read them in future.
8th Nov 2005
Speed (1994)
Corrected entry: When Howard is talking to Jack on the payphone, after blowing up the bus that Jack's friend was driving, Howard says, "I want my money by 11am." Later on when Jack is trying to defuse the bomb when the bus is in the airport, Jack's watch says 5:01pm. We know the time's right as he checked it earlier. (Frame by frame required.) (00:29:10 - 01:11:25)
Correction: I refer you to the contribution rule that states "If something requires slow motion to spot, chances are it's not a valid mistake, but there are exceptions. For example, a cameraman in shot for a few frames or something else fairly major is worth listing, but a tiny change in position or set wobble that's only noticeable by slowing the shot down won't be listed. Minor mistakes have their place on this site, but they must be noticeable in regular viewing." Please take these things into account before submitting.
29th Oct 2005
Ronin (1998)
Corrected entry: At the end, when Gregor gets shot in the head by Miki, the mark on his forehead is visible, where he is about to get shot. Frame by frame required. (01:43:50)
Correction: As it says quite clearly in the guidelines, something that requires slow motion to spot is almost invariably not a valid mistake. Read them next time.
9th Nov 2005
X-Men (2000)
Corrected entry: When Wolverine and Mystique are fighting, Wolverine cuts off Mystique's knives, because she is in Wolverine's form. If he cut off her knives, wouldn't that be like cutting off her fingers or something? They are still part of her body.
Correction: Yes, that's exactly what he's done, which is why she cries out when he does it. It's not her fingers, but it's definitely some body mass. Not a mistake though.
9th Nov 2005
X-Men (2000)
Corrected entry: When in the Statue of Liberty, Magneto magnetizes the bars to keep Wolverines hands pointed at himself and hang him against the wall. Wolverine decides to stab himself, which makes him fall. Maybe I'm wrong, but why would stabbing himself make the magnetism wear off so he can fall?
Correction: Magneto doesn't magnetise the bars to keep Wolverine imprisoned, he simply uses his powers to bend those bars into shape. Once he stops bending them, he has no further effect on them and they're just metal restraints. When Logan pops his claws through his own body, he severs the restraints at the point where they join the wall behind him, allowing him to get loose.
10th Nov 2005
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Corrected entry: When Charlie is standing outside the chocolate factory, two men walk by and one of them asks the other if they've heard about a kid in Russia finding the last golden ticket to which the man replies, "Yes. It was in the paper this morning." Shortly after, when Charlie goes into the candy store after finding the money, a woman is reading the newspaper about the last golden ticket being faked.
Correction: Some papers have more than one edition per day (the London Evening Standard, for example, has four every weekday) - it's entirely plausible that the men were referring to an earlier edition, whereas the woman in the shop has a later edition published after the news broke that the ticket was faked.
29th Jan 2004
Red Dwarf (1988)
Timeslides - S3-E5
Corrected entry: Want to know why Rimmer is alive at The End of 'Timeslides'? Here's a theory. Rimmer as a child sees himself from the future visit him to offer advice. He later works out that this was himself from the future. Later in the events of 'Stasis Leak', Rimmer is visited again by his future self. Because of his childhood experience, now Rimmer does not panic but takes his future self's advice and goes into Stasis, therefore surviving the radiation leak.
Correction: Sorry, but pet theories are not valid trivia.
4th Nov 2005
Men in Black (1997)
Corrected entry: When K and J are leaving the NYPD station, J says he has to write a report. Then his boss walks past and compliments him on a good report. Who wrote the report? J was the only person who witnessed the whole chase.
2nd Nov 2005
Batman Begins (2005)
Corrected entry: Scarecrow's toxin can only work when it's absorbed through the lungs, and Gotham's water supply had been laced with it for months. Wouldn't anybody have felt the effects, even if minor, earlier in the film from other evaporated water sources, such as boiling a pot of water?
Correction: They may well have done, but the effect would most likely have been so small that they almost certainly have have dismissed it as nothing more than a brief feeling "like somebody walked over their grave". Even if the effects were more noticeable in a few cases, it would be highly unlikely that anybody would have been able to detect any sort of pattern to what was happening. Blood analysis would show that they'd been somehow exposed to an airborne toxin - nobody would think to look in the water supply.
29th Oct 2005
Alien Resurrection (1997)
Corrected entry: In the cafeteria scene, Wren refers to "the company" as "Weyland-Utanic" when the correct name is "Weyland Yutani", as seen and stated in the previous alien films.
Correction: Having listened to the scene, it sounds like he says the name correctly. Even if he doesn't quite get it right, considering that Weyland Yutani has apparently been dead and gone for a considerable number of years, it's not unreasonable that he might get the name slightly wrong.
28th Oct 2005
The Mask of Zorro (1998)
Corrected entry: When Zorro (Anthony Hopkins) confronts Don Rafael, he tells him to call Elena. When she comes in, she says "Alejandro, what is this?", or something similar. However, she thinks Anthony Hopkins' character is named Bernardo at this time.
Correction: She says, quite clearly, "Bernardo, what are you doing?"
14th Oct 2005
Quantum Leap (1989)
Dr. Ruth - April 25, 1985 - S5-E14
Corrected entry: Towards the beginning of the series, it was established that Sam often spent weeks "bouncing" around time before landing in somebody's life to change the past - this transition is seen as instantaneous from Dr. Beckett and the audience's perspective. However, when Dr. Ruth leaps back into her own time at the end, she's instantly replaced by the next person.
Correction: It was established that the length of time was rather variable - it was often of the order of weeks, but often does not mean always. As such, there's no particular reason why the next person couldn't show up immediately.
12th Oct 2005
Chicken Run (2000)
Corrected entry: The film takes place in the 1950s, but the song "Flip Flop and Fly" by the Blues Brothers that the chickens play at the dance was not written until 1978.
Correction: Flip Flop and Fly was written by Jesse Stone, under the pseudonym of Charles Calhoun, and Lou Willie Turner in the mid-fifties. The version heard in the film is the original, performed by Ellis Hall.
12th Oct 2005
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Corrected entry: When they are acting the play at the end, it ends after Viola stabs herself. This isn't how the play ends, however. In Shakespeare's play Friar Lawrence explains what happened to Prince Escales and the parents bury their grudge.
Correction: Very little of the play actually appears in the film. The explanation scene isn't necessary to the film's story, so it jumps straight from Juliet stabbing herself to the Narrator. During his speech we can see that the Friar and the parents are all on-stage, so that scene was performed, just not shown as part of the film.
9th Oct 2005
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Corrected entry: During the Opera scene Palpatine tells Anakin about the dark ways of the force which he listens to without question. However later in the movie when they next meet Anakin asks him, "How do you know about the force?" as if he didn't know that Palpatine already knew about it. Anakin even acts as if he didn't know that Palpatine knew about the force.
Correction: In the Opera scene, Palpatine is telling Anakin a story relating to the Force that, as far as the younger man knows, he could have picked up anywhere - Anakin has no doubt heard a number of such tales in his time. In their later confrontation, it becomes clear that Palpatine knows how to USE the Force, which is something else entirely - when he questions Palpatine, Anakin is asking him where he gained this ability.
8th Oct 2005
Red Dwarf (1988)
Corrected entry: When Queeg is telling Rimmer to work on the computer, how can Rimmer do this if he's a hologram and therefore can't touch anything?
Correction: As Red Dwarf is designed to support a holographic crewmember, obviously all its systems would be set up in such a way that a hologram would still be able to use them - not much point otherwise.
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