Corrected entry: During the interview with Marion Nestle, PhD and Chair of nutrition and food studies, she claims that a calorie is the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of one liter of water one degree Celsius. That is a very common mistake. She is talking about a kilocalorie (kcal) which is a thousand calories. One calorie is the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of one gram of water one degree Celsius. That is 4.1868 joule of energy. (01:03:20)
K.C. Sierra
22nd Oct 2004
Super Size Me (2004)
18th Oct 2004
Superman (1978)
Corrected entry: When Lois is interviewing Superman for the first time, she already knows that he has X-ray vision and is impervious to pain. How can she know this since she is supposedly the 1st person to interview him? She should only know that he can fly and has amazing strength. (01:28:45)
Correction: At least half of this deserves a correction: I don't know about the other half. On Superman's first night, someone hits him with a crowbar. A police interrogation of that criminal would have made the papers and led to the conclusion that Superman might be impervious to pain. Lois would have read every word written about him before the interview (there may also have been a radio report, since this was the very next day). We didn't see anything on screen Superman's first night where he used X-ray vision, but it's not unreasonable to suggest that he showed a lot of powers that night and Lois was verifying rumors during the interview.
27th Aug 2001
Titanic (1997)
Corrected entry: According to the film, officer Murdoch murdered a passenger and then committed suicide, a point in the film that made his home town very angry and the film company donated £5000 to a charity, but Cameron has never appologized. According to eye witness accounts, he gave his lifejacket to a passenger and went down with the ship. (02:21:45)
Correction: This is a subject of historical controversy. There were witness accounts that an officer shot a passenger then shot himself. According to various historical analyses, it could have been any one of up to a half dozen officers. Murdoch is among them. Walter Lord, author of A Night to Remember, hints strongly that it was Murdoch (for what it's worth). As historians, no one can definitively say it was or was not Murdoch. As a filmmaker, however, Cameron had a right to speculate that it was Murdoch. This is artistic license, not a factual error.
26th May 2003
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Corrected entry: After Belle comes out of the house after Gaston proposes and leaves, all traces of the entire wedding ceremony magically disappear.
Correction: Belle didn't come out until he was gone. It was a moment of screen time, but in the story she probably waited a little while to make sure he was really gone. The party probably had plenty of time to leave before she opened the door.
27th Aug 2001
Presumed Innocent (1990)
Corrected entry: Harrison Ford takes the ferry home across the Detroit River - which is doubly problematic: There is no ferry service across the Detroit River, and it would mean that he lived in Canada, which is across from the Detroit River. City employees have to reside in the city, and county and state employees have to live in the state.
Correction: The story is set in Kindle County, which is fictional. Its geography, therefore, is also fictional.
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Correction: Actually, the submission is the common mistake: A calorie (small c) is the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of a gram of water one degree Celsius. A Calorie (capital c) is the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of a liter of water one degree. A Calorie (capital c) and a kilocalorie are the same thing, and when we're referring to food, we're just about ALWAYS talking about Calories (even though, in common usage, we don't capitalize it). I know it's confusing, but a quick Google search of "what is a calorie" will verify this correction.
K.C. Sierra