Revealing mistake: Immediately after Katie is cursed by the necklace, Harry, Ron and Hermione are in Mcgonagall's office talking about what they saw in Hogsmeade. Harry says, "It was Malfoy." As both teachers turn Mcgonagall says,"That is a very serious accusation, Potter." As she says this, she looks oddly transparent. You can see the window pane design through her robes, particularly in the shoulder. This continues to be true until she says "I suggest you go back to your dormitories." This could possibly signify a green or blue screen behind them. (00:54:10 - 00:54:40)
Garlonuss
27th Jul 2011
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
27th Jul 2011
Batman Returns (1992)
Corrected entry: Right after Catwoman shocks Schreck with the taser at the end, you can see the two of them walk off the set.
23rd Mar 2011
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Corrected entry: When Salt is about to go down the shoot in the scene with the golden geese, she fades away before she gets a chance to drop because she doesn't actually drop. (01:19:20)
Correction: Actually in the commentary with the actors she stated that actually did drop right onto a mattress set in place for her and she was told to keep her arms glued to her sides or they would've been ripped off by the sudden movement of the fall.
Correction: Not only that, but there was a cute PA down there and she kept her arms to her sides because she didn't want her dress flying up in front of him.
26th Feb 2011
Scooby-Doo (2002)
Corrected entry: When Big Buffy Shaggy throws the potion Smart Scooby made, notice Shaggy's buffness is from some type of sleeves.
Correction: This error belongs in Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, not this one.
21st Mar 2011
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)
Corrected entry: As Bella and Edward lie together in his bedroom, Edward's reflection is seen in the mirror. According to vampire lore, vampires cannot be seen in reflections. Also, what good is having a mirror in a house full of vampires?
Correction: That doesn't mean that these vampires don't have reflections. Traditional vampire lore has little bearing here. According to tradition, they also need an invitation to enter your house, but Riley shows up all unannounced and stuff. So far as these vampires go, you can't assume how they should behave until one of the movies tells you. They're not traditional vampires.
31st Dec 2010
Avatar (2009)
Corrected entry: The science of Pandora is all wrong. For example, they have regular days and nights there, but Pandora is not a planet, circling a sun, it's a moon, circling a planet. The days and nights would coincide with the rotation around the planet. For an extended period, when the planet was between Pandora and the sun, it would be dark, probably weeks at a time, and the opposite for daylight hours. In addition, because Pandora is a satellite of a gas giant, that means its orbit would be millions of miles in variance. There would be a few weeks of winter as it came several million miles further from the sun in its orbit, and then it would be several weeks of blistering summer as it came closer. The vegetation and ecology of the movie are treating the moon as if it had the same cycles and system as a planet, which is impossible. Even it took Pandora a year or more to orbit its planet, so that seasons were more regular, that means it would be in darkness for months as the planet was between it and the sun. If it rotated in a month, that means that it would be going through all 4 seasons 12 times a year, or however many months there were to a Pandoran year.
Correction: You're making wrong assumptions based partly on Earth's moon and based partly on simple misconceptions. Earth's moon is tidally locked with Earth (meaning that the same side is always facing Earth) but not all moons are necessarily like that. If Pandora is not tidally locked, it would definitely have its own day/night cycle, independent of the planet it orbited. And, yes, it's possible that it would pass in the shadow of the planet, and that would explain why the life there evolved bioluminescence so that they all glow in the dark. And it's entirely possible that we as an audience are simply not on Pandora long enough to enter into that dark season. And thirdly, given the distance that the gas giant is likely orbiting from its star, the distance change because of Pandora's orbit is completely negligable. Likely less than a percent of the total distance. Earth seasons don't happen because the distance with the sun changes. It is because the axis is tilted and different parts of the earth get aimed more or less directly toward or away from the sun.
25th Aug 2010
The Fugitive (1993)
Corrected entry: Kimble searches records of people who have had prosthetic arms installed, which is how he eventually finds Frederick Sykes. Kimble and his lawyers should have been given access to those records prior to his trial, and if so, there's a good chance they would have found a record of Frederick Sykes.
Correction: It's unlikely that Kimble was allowed to just browse a medical database and meet the resulting names face to face back while he was on trial. It would have been the police following up on Kimble's claims of a one armed perp, but they already didn't believe Kimble was telling the truth, so they wouldn't have pursued it the way Kimble would have wanted. Plus, Sykes himself mentioned that he was questioned about the murder a year ago, but he had an alibi. It was only after a determined Kimble broke into his house and violated due process that they were able to actually begin to get evidence.
2nd Aug 2010
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)
Corrected entry: How did Riley enter Bella's house to get her top? Vampires need to be invited into a house.
17th Jun 2010
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
Corrected entry: When Picard leaves the holodeck after the holodeck character kisses him, the lipstick remains on his face. As we're told later in the episode, matter created on the holodeck cannot exist outside the holodeck. So once Picard left, the lipstick should have vanished since it came from a holodeck character. The "correction" that says simple matter can leave the holodeck is incorrect, since in another episode, they throw a book (which is simple matter) out of the holodeck and it dissolves.
Correction: The book was, as you pointed out, thrown. It was not being carried by a person. The technical manual states that many of the objects on the holodeck are in fact generated using the standard replication process. But when Picard threw the book, the holodeck simply recycled the energy from that book, the same way the food replicators recycle any food left over. When Picard walks off with lipstick on his face, or when Data walks off with a piece of paper that Moriarty gave him on "Elementary, Dear Data", the system allowed those things to be carried out without recycling them. You can take issue with what makes the holodeck decide when to recycle material or not, but the fact is simple: some simple objects can be taken off of the holodeck.
2nd Jul 2010
Twilight (2008)
Corrected entry: In the cafeteria scene when Edward is not at school, Bella looks over to the Cullens' table. If you observe Rosalie extremely carefully, she takes something to her mouth and eats it as if she were human. She is a vampire, and she is not meant to eat anything. It happens again sometimes in other scenes. (00:14:40)
20th Feb 2010
The Goonies (1985)
Corrected entry: When Troy, Andy and Stef are in Troy's car, Troy tilts the mirror to look up Andy's skirt. However later when Andy and Stef sneak up on the boys outside the Lighthouse lounge, Andy says to Brand Troy was looking down her shirt.
10th Jan 2010
The Mask (1994)
Corrected entry: Soon after Dorian (as the mask) gets shot in the chest by his boss the bullet holes in his shirt are gone.
Correction: This is intentional. The mask gives the wearer unusual powers, and we see the bullet holes disappear before he fires the bullets back at Niko. If the clothes of the wearer were unaffected, Stanley wouldn't have been able to make the costume changes he did when he wore the mask. For instance, after his tie gets shot off at the club, it reverts back into his pajamas.
7th Jan 2010
Avatar (2009)
Corrected entry: Why don't the avatars have a GPS chip implanted in them while they are being "grown" on the trip from Earth? They lost Jake when he got separated from the group and the Marines couldn't locate him when they were fighting. You would think that the avatars cost millions if not billions to make -- and they couldn't put a $30 GPS chip in their neck?
Correction: First off, GPS requires a network of satellites around the planet in order to give the GPS a frame of reference to cue off of. But if you meant a simple locator in order to get a bearing and distance from a point of origin, remember that the location there are sections of the planet where the electromagnetic fields are strong enough to cause the naturally forming superconductor unobtanium to create giant floating islands. That amount of local magnetism would greatly hinder any kind of tracking device they may have decided to include. That's exactly why they ended up fighting where they did at the end.
Wrong, there are GPS devices that work in a mesh topology (using each other to transmit signals) plus you have the orbital space station as well. Again, a tracker could have been placed to track the body regardless of the location or altitude.
Yes, but either way it requires building enough of a network to make it usable. The humans are all centered in one or two areas and only the remote avatars are regularly sent out and there's only a few of those to begin with. There's no way they get enough locators out there to create an accurate mesh network. Besides, there's still the massive local magnetism.
How can they be using "each other" when all avatars are in the same location inside the building and just one gets lost?
1st Jan 2010
Terminator Salvation (2009)
Corrected entry: In the scene involving the Resistance fighters testing the 'control signal' on a hydrobot, a woman states that they have 'burned out' its transmitter, so it cannot send info back to Skynet. However, when Marcus talks to Skynet in the form of the dead doctor Serena Kogan, she shows him footage from that hydrobot of John Connors face.
9th Oct 2009
Mission: Impossible 2 (2000)
Corrected entry: When Nyah tries to flee from Sean's house she runs into Sean disguised as Ethan. This is highly unlikely for two reasons: 1. Sean only knows that Nyah tried to con him, but he does not know Ethan is involved. 2. Even if for some reason Sean would have discovered that Ethan is involved, it is impossible for him to have a mask custom made (and to know the sound of Ethan's voice) on such short notice.
Correction: 1) He suspected that she was placed there by Ethan and was working with him. As he said earlier, her timing was suspicious. What he was doing was testing out his theory. If she wasn't working with Ethan, she wouldn't have recognized him. 2) It is very possible for him to have a mask and voice encoder for Ethan. He has a history of doubling for Ethan on many ops. He even had a mask of Ethan at the very beginning of the movie. It's likely he has a number of them for him to use. Especially since we see him using one right here. Also, please note that a lot of scenes in the film were cut because of the film studio's demand (due to the film's length), and John Woo's original cut might have explained many of the points above in detail.
23rd Jul 2009
Stardust (2007)
Corrected entry: When Tristan ties Yvaine to the tree with the "magic chain" one end is tied to Yvaine's hand and the other end is held by Tristan. Yet the scene shows another end of the "magic chain" joining Tristan's end. That makes three ends of the same chain.
Correction: A chain can have more than two ends. You simply add a new link at any point and continue the chain from there. The chain is magical and even grows to the length he requires, so it is already adding new links to itself to make it grow. Making an additional end is not that hard for its purposes.
23rd Jul 2009
Stardust (2007)
Corrected entry: When Tristan receives the "magic chain" from his father it is about 12 inches long. When he places the "magic chain" on Yvaine in the crater it's about 12 feet long. Tristan is neither a wizard or warlock and should not be capable of altering its length.
25th Jul 2009
Stardust (2007)
Corrected entry: In the scene in the magic inn when Lamia traps Tristan and Yvain with green "witch's fire," Tristan sticks his hand holding the Babylon candle into the fire. Tristan screams and the Babylon candle is lit. Tristan shouldn't have felt any pain and the Babylon candle shouldn't have been lit because he was wearing the snow drop flower, which deflects witch's fire, at the time. In a later scene when Lamia confronts Tristan, she tries to use witch's fire against him but the snow drop flower deflects it.
17th Jul 2009
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
Corrected entry: At the Great Hall feast where Dumbledore is addressing the students, he says Tom Riddle's name. Before he said that, there was a shot of the table that Harry and his friends were sitting at. Directly after Dumbledore says Tom Riddle's name, it goes back to the table, but Harry isn't sitting there anymore.
7th Jul 2009
Back to the Future (1985)
Corrected entry: The first time Doc is shot by the terrorists, his gun (which he threw) is visible near the front of the terrorists' van. However, when the scene is shown again at the end of the movie, the gun is nowhere to be seen.
Correction: That doesn't mean anything. The first part was from before Marty changed the past, while the second part is from after his meddling with history. Any of a number of things could have changed. Doc may have very easily acted differently having know what was to happen. If you can find an example of this using conflicting shots that are both before or both after Marty's trip to the past, then you'd have a valid mistake.
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Suggested correction: She's not transparent. It's a trick of the camera. A glare from the bright window behind her. You notice you can't see the vertical slats of the windowpane. Only the horizontal. That's because the glare is carrying across her body horizontally and where the horizontal slats are there's no light to cause a glare.
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I can see the horizontal and vertical ones through both McGonagall and Snape. I can even see the desk through the middle of her body.