Corrected entry: When Lucius is reading his plea from the paper, he starts it from the top and after a couple of sentences he has advanced to the middle of the paper already.
Twotall
25th Oct 2004
The Village (2004)
27th Jun 2003
The 6th Day (2000)
Corrected entry: When the cloned Adam goes to RePet, the salesman says "Still can't make up your mind, huh?" When cloned Adam gets home he sees the cloned dog. Why would the salesman think he was still undecided if Adam had already purchased a cloned pet? Plus Adam1 can't have had time to think it over, return to the store, have the pet cloned, and still beat Adam2 home. Adam2 wouldn't stop a bunch of other places as he was expected at home for his surprise birthday party (which Michael Rappaport revealed to him earlier). His wife can't have done it - she was expecting him to despite his protests, and had to prepare for the party anyway.
Correction: Actually, "Adam 2" was not expected home to his birthday party, he was expected to go to the bar with his friend. He left the store, bought the doll, then waited in the bar for a long time, before taking a taxi home (and calling Rappaport to ask him where he'd been). In the meantime, "Adam 1" returned to the store, got the clone dog and went home.
I don't think it was Adam who bought the RePet. It was his wife. In the garage, the wife said 'sorry about the RePet'. I think she knew he wasn't going to buy one, so she went and bought the RePet. The real Adam and the clone Adam both bought the SimPal Cindy.
4th Oct 2004
X-Men (2000)
Corrected entry: Near the end, Cyclops tells Storm to "fry" Magneto. Magneto then answers, "..lightning bolt in a small copper space..." meaning that everyone would be "fried". This is total baloney, as the bolt would hit Magneto directly, then discharge into the floor of the statue and dissipate in energy through the whole statue. Magneto would receive a direct hit and as the main conductor and would be instantly killed. The others would also be shocked, but to a substantially lesser degree and certainly not life-threatening. However, Magneto seems to either not know this, or more likely is lying with the (correct) assumption that the others don't know that either.
Correction: You are assuming that Storm would be able to pinpoint a bolt of lightning through the small hole in the statue and into Magneto. It is more likely that the bolt would come near the statue and be attracted to the metal as it neared the hole, causing it to veer off and spread through the walls (where the X-men were chained).
21st Jun 2004
The 6th Day (2000)
Corrected entry: When Adam Gibson asks the cab driver how to turn off the artificial doll he tells him and Adam repeats it. But if the cab driver has already said it once then surely the doll would have gone to sleep on hearing it the first time?
Correction: As explained in a previous correction, the doll's commands have to be directed at the doll (and probably it's tied to Cindy's owner), otherwise it would cause major confusion.
28th Aug 2003
Halloween: H20 (1998)
Corrected entry: Don't paramedics check if someone is dead before they put them in a bodybag? Because Michael Myers seemed very much alive.
Correction: This is explained in Halloween: Resurrection. That's the paramedic in the body bag, not Michael.
27th Aug 2001
Air Force One (1997)
Corrected entry: There is a scene late in the movie, when they send a fax to the White House - "it's on a different line" So why don't they just use the handset of the fax machine to make a normal voice call? If the machine had no handset (can't remember) just switch the jacks of the phone and fax...
Correction: The "future Postmaster General" doesn't just say that the faxes are on different lines, but on different encryptions. If the fax lines are encrypted, the code for deciphering it would lie in the fax machine itself. You can therefore not switch jacks. And the fax has no handset.
21st Jul 2002
Halloween: Resurrection (2002)
Corrected entry: When the police learned that the Michael Myers beheaded in H20 was actually a paramedic, why didn't they put out an APB (All-Points Bulletin) to begin a manhunt for his capture? A serial killer of his stature on the loose would garner a massive investigation as well as a wide-spread search, possibly involving FBI and SWAT members.
Correction: It is consistant with the rest of the movies that Michael always manages to hide out between Halloweens (which are the only nights he comes out to kill), despite being hunted by the law. He is simply that good at going underground.
27th Aug 2004
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Corrected entry: When Andy is in solitary Warden Norton threatens him, saying he'll take him out of his "one-bunk Hilton and cast him down with the sodomites". Being moved to another cell would be a huge problem because of the tunnel he's digging, but the reference to a "one-bunk Hilton", even though it's a direct quote from the novel, makes no sense in the context of the movie. In the book it refers to the fact that Andy is unique among the prisoners in having a cell to himself. But in the movie, all of the prisoners have cells of their own - every prisoner has a "one-bunk Hilton", so there's no reason to refer to Andy's situation as special.
Correction: When Norton refers to it as a "Hilton", he means the luxuries Andy is allowed. His cell is jam-packed with obviously contraband material like the rock blankets, posters and pictures on the walls, but the guards have let him get away with it for several years. The "one bunk" is just further description, rather than highlighting that as unusual. For a Hilton, one bunk is still rather down market...
17th Sep 2004
The Village (2004)
Corrected entry: Lucius Hunt enters the woods and encounters a creature. Nobody sees him doing it. Later on, the creatures visit the village to leave some warning signs. The next day, Lucius confesses before the villagers. If the creatures are inventions of the elders, then how could the elders know that the rule was broken so that they fake the warning visit?
Correction: They knew the rule was broken because one of them was in the creature costume and saw him do it.
9th Sep 2002
Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)
Corrected entry: Since Ricky was the one who read the report on the 14 great big dump trucks stolen from Statton Island, wouldn't he have noticed the 14 great big dump trucks that drove by him when "Bob Thompson" showed up?
Correction: Why should he? There must be hundreds of dump trucks in New York City, and there was no reason for him to suspect that these were the stolen ones. After all, there had just been a severe terrorist act and a lot of rubble to be cleared, so when a city official turned up with trucks and workers it seemed like everything was OK. And how many people count the number of trucks in a column?
21st Oct 2003
Psycho (1960)
Corrected entry: When Norman is cleaning the bathroom, he leaves the toilet seat down. But later, when Sam and Lila go into that same bathroom, they find the seat up. (00:53:50 - 01:32:50)
Correction: Several days pass between the two scenes. Plenty of time for Norman to give the bathroom a second cleaning.
30th May 2003
Godzilla (1998)
Corrected entry: In the scene where the old man is fishing off the pier in New York and hooks Godzilla, Godzilla swims back towards him, just under the water. He keeps coming until he starts smashing the pier up from underneath the water. How could he even stay under the water right there? The water can't be very deep because the pier is on pilings.
22nd Sep 2003
Con Air (1997)
Corrected entry: When Larkin and several prison guards are checking Cyrus's cell, one suddenly stumbles upon the section where Cyrus has hidden all the blueprints, plans, letters and assorted paraphernalia and the lunch box. Don't you think the cell of a high profile and extremely dangerous prisoner that is under 24 hour video surveillance would prevent him from doing any such things? For example, where and how would he get the elements to create such a powerful explosive device locked away in a cell? Or if he was receiving a letter of possible criminal correspondence from the Spanish drug lord, don't you think it would be checked over many times to discover the content? Instead Larkin discovers this within seconds. Why would Cyrus just not destroy these documents instead of hiding them in a prosthetic brick made from soap or something? I don't see how he could have done under the heavy surveillance.
Correction: Someone has been heavily bribed to overlook these things being smuggled into Cyrus' cell. The letter in itself was innocent enough and could only be read with the aid of the "Last Supper" postcard, neither of which would attract much attention if it arrived in the mail. The blueprints and plans and so on are not something Cyrus can use from his cell, so the guards would not see much harm in letting him have it (and themselves profiting from it). The bomb contents would be more difficult, but smuggled in in seemingly innocent components unchecked by several bribed guards (all of whom would just see one or two parcels), it would not be impossible.
22nd Apr 2004
The Patriot (2000)
Corrected entry: There are numerous references made to "Redcoats" in a sense of fear, as though they are the elite troops of the time, I think "We're talking about real redcoats here," even pops up as a line. Whilst this elitism may have been true, nearly 90% of the troops sent to America during the American Revolution were poorly-trained German mercenaries (from the German state of Saxe-Hess), not properly-trained British soldiers as it was too expensive to send the proper troops, and the American generals knew about this flaw.
Correction: Which is why the Colonials are so afraid of "real" Redcoats. They knew they were better than the regular German opponents.
21st Jul 2004
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Corrected entry: Before Martin's father is allowed to take home David, he is explained the careful selection process that Cybertech had to go through to make him the ideal candidate to be the first one to adopt and test-market it (reasonable - this is a process all companies observe when a new product is ready for test-marketing). Then what happens? The prototype "David" breaks from eating spinach, nearly injures Monica with scissors, nearly drowns Martin, and causes so much strain on the family that they had to dump him along the side of the road. Just a couple days later, David finds his way back to the company and we see a bunch of "David's" in boxes, ready to be sold, and dozens more being constructed. Any kind of manufacturing company that comes up with a new prototype of a new product takes very seriously the data obtained from the studies of those test-marketing the product. Given all the problems, especially the safety issues presented by the original David, there is no way the company would go ahead and manufacture more without putting some serious time into correcting these flaws.
Correction: The prototype David was with the family for some time before Martin came home, and was functioning optimally in that time. And all the other "problems" listed are because of Martin's jealousy and alienation of David, not David himself. From the company's view, David is functioning the way he should be, and the only element not factored into the calculation is sibling rivalry (which would not be much of a problem, since the Davids would be targeted towards childless families). Furthermore, the mass produced "Davids" we see later on may have been created differently with some corrections to these "problems", and not exactly like prototype David.
5th Jan 2003
Halloween: Resurrection (2002)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Michael kills Charlie after the camera is on the ground you see the shot of the stairs. The front door is located right behind the camera angle but is unseen. When Michael is dragging Charlie's body you see Charlie's arm leaving the view of the camera as if he was dragging him out the front door, because his arm was going straight down. Towards the end of the movie Sarah is in the attic and see's Charlie's dead body. How did Charlie get in the attic if he was dragged out the front door?
Correction: Throughout the series, Michael has had the ability to move corpses and arrange them so that they would give his next victims a scare, without anyone noticing. He is seldom seen doing this, to give the best possible effect to the audience.
27th Aug 2003
Halloween: H20 (1998)
Corrected entry: After Jamie Lee Curtis stabs Michael and he falls off the balcony, she goes down and looks at him. Right when she gets to the same room as him they switch to a shot of him and you can see him take a huge breath.
Correction: He is still alive, so therefore he breathes. He gets up again soon after.
23rd Jul 2002
Halloween: Resurrection (2002)
Corrected entry: After Michael kills Laurie, he hands the knife to the patient with the clown mask. In the hospital with a bunch of crazy people, wouldn't the doors be locked? Yet Michael just walks right in...
Correction: Not all mental institutions have locked doors. In fact, only patients who are considered dangerous to themselves or others are locked up as a rule. The guy with the clown mask was considered harmless, and therefore was in an "open" wing of the hospital.
27th Aug 2003
Face/Off (1997)
Corrected entry: Troy is being kept alive by life support machines. In the operating theatre the machines are gone so shouldn't he be dead? And if he recovered enough to not be on the machines why did they go ahead with their plan?
Correction: The doctors assured the agents that Troy was "a turnip" and that he would not wake up ever again. Obviously, the doctors were wrong. The feds, however, would have to rely on what the doctors said, especially since they were in such a difficult situation.
21st May 2004
Troy (2004)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Hector's cousin is sitting out in the rain right before the Trojan King enters Achilles' tent, you can vaguely make out a crew member silhouette in the dark crouching and then stand up.
Correction: Like the submitter said, it is vague, in the dark, and only a silhouette. This could be the silhouette of another soldier, a slave or any of the people in the Greek camp.
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Correction: We don't know what he has written on the paper. It could be that he has just written some clue words to what he wants to say, or, more likely, he has scratched some text out because he was unhappy with it and then proceeded further down the page.
Twotall