Corrected entry: Arnie covers himself in cool mud because the Predator sees heat. But, they are in the middle of hot jungle. The jungle's temperature would surely be hotter than 98.6, or at least close to that. That means that the Predator would see all the air around him as red, not just the humans.
J I Cohen
27th Apr 2004
Predator (1987)
20th Apr 2004
Timeline (2003)
Corrected entry: This movie takes place in 1357. Christopher Columbus did not discover "America" until 1492. The "American" accent did not officially emerge until the late 1500's when the Queen of England was told about a new language being spoken in the New World, which was not a new language, but simply the new American accent. The point is, an American accent was not around anywhere in the world in 1357, thus Paul Walker's accent would have been absolutely shocking to ANYONE who heard him speak.
Correction: It would just be an unusual accent. In that time, there were no sound recording techniques, so people would not have been familiar with accents from places they haven't been. This also meant that accents would vary locally much more than they do today, as they would develop in relative isolation. They would just assume it was an accent of their time that they were unfamiliar with.
11th Sep 2002
Reign of Fire (2002)
Corrected entry: It seems strange to me that they still had working fire extinguishers, especially since they have to be repressurized about every five years.
Correction: Repressurising fire extinguishers every five years is a safety precaution to make sure that they will work when needed. It doesn't mean that they stop working if it's not done.
30th Oct 2003
Volcano (1997)
Corrected entry: When the lava is flowing down the streets, all the glass in the buildings shatter. At that heat, the gas would melt not shatter. The temperature that is used to melt and mould glass is a lot less than the temp of the lava flow.
Correction: The glass is shattering from the shock of the sudden air temperature change. It would be unlikely to melt instantly unless it was much closer to the lava.
2nd Jul 2003
The Bourne Identity (2002)
Corrected entry: When the sniper is disassembling his rifle after he kills Wombosi, he takes a silencer off of his rifle. But when he takes it off he just slides it off the length of the barrel instead of taking it off the tip of the barrel, that means that the silencer wouldn't work because it has to catch the gasses coming out of the end of the barrel. How can it catch those gasses when it's not on the end of the barrel?
Correction: The suppressor shrouds the barrel, but extends slightly beyond it. I imagine that the design re-directs the gasses back into the tube for the baffles to slow down to subsonic speeds.
1st Mar 2004
2010 (1984)
Corrected entry: Dr. Chandra asks the Sal 9000 computer to open up a new file. He types out the word 'Phoenix' as its name. Phoenix only has seven letters, yet nine keystrokes are heard. (00:14:50)
Correction: Easy. The seven letters of 'Phoenix', plus the 'Shift' key for the capital 'P', plus the 'Return' key.
16th Feb 2004
The Brave Little Toaster (1987)
Corrected entry: The length of Kirby's cord changes drastically throughout the movie. When he rescued Blanky, it was at least 25 feet, but as they were crossing the waterfall, it was only about 7 feet.
Correction: We are talking here about household appliances that can walk and talk. Why should they not be able to alter the lengths of their cords? They are not bound by the rules of 'real life'.
18th Feb 2004
Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003)
Corrected entry: "Pandora's box" is submerged in a powerful acid. Yet Terry somehow manages to get the box out and we are never shown how. I guess he had acid proof rope.
Correction: You mean like the naturally acid-resistant polypropylene or nylon ropes you can buy at any hardware store? It would not be unreasonable for him to have one of those with him.
18th Feb 2004
The World is Not Enough (1999)
Corrected entry: Previous American president Bill Clinton was considered for the role of a bad guy.
Correction: This movie was released in 1999, and it seems ludicrous that anyone would approach a *sitting* US President about a major film role. I think the submitter was referring to this rumour about Bond 21 (the sequel to Die Another Day): http://www.showbizireland.com/news/march03/14-brosnan76.shtml.
18th Feb 2004
The Great Escape (1963)
Corrected entry: After the men escape they are all standing at the train station because the train was late, or there was a hold up of some kind. Was this possibly a ribbing kind of gesture at the term used in Nazi Germany "The government stinks but at least the trains run on time"?
Correction: That wasn't about Nazi Germany, it was about Fascist Italy. The phrase "He made the trains run on time" was coined by one of Mussolini's propagandists, and became widely believed, although there was little or no truth to it (source: Montagu, A. and Darling, E. (1967) The Prevalence of Nonsense, Dell/Delta, New York. Page 19).
I believe (but I'm not 100%) that Patton once said the Nazis made the trains run on time when, after the war, he was questioned about not removing them from official posts in the Austrian Government. That is from memory and I might be wrong.
Correction: The late trains were directly due to the POW escape. The Germans were scouring the countryside searching for the escapees and knew they'd be trying to board trains and other public transportation. They'd be checking every station and depot in the vicinity as well as boarding buses and train coaches to search them, thus delaying the regular transportation schedules.
16th Feb 2004
Stargate SG-1 (1997)
Corrected entry: Throughout all episodes, when communicating via radio through the gate, they are always talking in real-time. However, there would be a delay on all transmissions equal to the time it takes for an object to travel through the gate.
Correction: But it's not an object, it's electromagnetic radiation. It can go both ways through an open gate, which solid objects can't; so why can't it move through the gate faster than solid objects?
28th Jan 2004
S.W.A.T. (2003)
Corrected entry: I just think this is too funny. Is it just me or is it really funny that the most hardened criminals and gangs in L.A. are watching the local news?
Correction: Why would they not watch the news? You would think it would be important for criminals to know what was going on locally.
28th Jan 2004
Torn Curtain (1966)
Corrected entry: When Paul Newman and the girl were in the theater, he screamed "fire" to make the room chaotic so the policemen wouldn't see them. But why would Germans understand English?
Correction: All he would need is for a handfull of people to understand and start to flee. That would cause a commotion in itself. Lots of German people have at least a basic knowledge of English, and it was only one word. And anyway, the German for fire is feuer, which is not pronounced so diferently that they couldn't guess what 'fire' means.
13th Nov 2003
Samurai Jack (2001)
II (The Samurai called Jack) - S1-E2
Corrected entry: If Aku is from Japan, and he enslaved the earth thousand of years ago, then why is he eating hamburgers on the billboards? There's no way he would tolerate an invention of any kind (even if it was just a hamburger) because he'd see the creation as a threat to his rule.
Correction: If he would see any inventions as a threat to his rule, where did all that technology come from? He must approve of at least some inventions, and why would new food items threaten him? Anyway, if Aku is promoting hamburgers he must approve of them, and maybe he even invented them himself.
13th Nov 2003
Samurai Jack (2001)
II (The Samurai called Jack) - S1-E2
Corrected entry: At the rate the drones were going, they should have arrived before sunrise. The dog took out his telescope and it showed that they were about 10 miles away. during the close up of them you can see from the object that they pass that they were going around 50 mph.
Correction: I'm sorry if I'm wrong about this, but I don't remember any range indicator on the telescope view. You can't judge speed by how quickly objects are passed, unless you have an accurate indication of the distance between them, or you know the actual size of the object (not its apparent size).
25th Jan 2004
The Mask (1994)
Corrected entry: In the scene where The Mask is flushing Dorian down the pool, the water is swirling the wrong direction for where they live.
Correction: It's a myth that the Coriolis force has a significant effect on the direction that water swirls down a drain. You would have to drain a small ocean to see the effect. See http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~dvandom/Edu/newcor.html.
4th Aug 2003
Daredevil (2003)
Corrected entry: When Matt wakes up for the first time as an adult, gets ready and puts on his suit, watch what is right on the drawer when he picks up his watch and sunglasses. Is that a PDA? Why would a blind man have a PDA? It couldn't belong to his girlfriend, because she states on the answering machine that she's never been to his place. I doubt that it's Foggy's, either. So what's it doing there? (00:18:15)
Correction: There are special PDAs for the blind. See http://www.nfb.org/bm/bm03/bm0304/bm030407.htm.
12th Jan 2004
Eastenders (1985)
Corrected entry: When Mo is raped in the Queen Vic she doesn't tell anyone except Billy. When she told the police they would have combed the Queen Vic for forensic evidence, which means Alfie would have had to have known about it, and he probably would have told Kat meaning all the Slater's would find out making Mo's concealment a bit stupid.
Correction: I think this is character error. She could be forgiven for not thinking straight, under the circumstances.
27th Aug 2001
Titanic (1997)
Corrected entry: The diamond in the film, "La Coeur de la Mer," is supposed to be a diamond owned by Louis XVI and lost during the French Revolution, which Lovett refers to also as the "Blue Diamond of the Crown." In one early scene Lovett mentions to Rose that "Today it would be worth more than the Hope Diamond." This is impossible: the diamond of which he speaks is in fact the Hope Diamond, which was also owned by Louis XVI, lost during the French Revolution, heart-shaped, and known as the Blue Diamond of the Crown while owned by the French monarchy. The two stones are one and the same. Also, the Hope was recut sometime in the early 19th century to its present oval shape, so that it had lost its heart-shaped form a century before Titanic sailed; this makes "The Heart of the Ocean" something of a misnomer. Needless to say the Hope Diamond was never on board Titanic, and is now lodged safely in the Smithsonian rather than lying at the bottom of the ocean. (00:44:50)
Correction: I've scoured the internet, and I can see no evidence that the Hope Diamond was ever called 'La Coeur de la Mer' (see http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmnh/hope.htm, and many other sites). The Hope Diamond was known as both the "Blue Diamond of the Crown", and the "French Blue". I think the filmmakers were inspired to make that into two diamonds: the real one, which is now the Hope diamond (the "French Blue"); and the fictitious 'La Coeur de la Mer' (the "Blue Diamond of the Crown").
27th Aug 2001
The Perfect Storm (2000)
Corrected entry: If they were going where they said they were going wouldn't it be the Canadian Coast Guard that would control the rescue mission?
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Correction: 1) Whether the heat-vision is the predator's natural vision, provided by the helmet, or the former enhanced by the latter, it would surely be able to compensate for the 'baseline' air temperature. 2) Even for a jungle, 98.6F is pretty hot. 82-94F day and 62-73F night would be the range of temperatures to expect (see http://www.go-south-adventures.com/go-south-weather.htm). Even though it's meant to be warmer than normal, it could still be below 98.6F. Of course, the humidity would make it feel hotter, but that would not affect heat-vision.
J I Cohen