Corrected entry: When Frodo gets the ring out of the fire, he sees the markings. Right before the markings light up, you can barely see the outline of the markings engraved in the ring.
Super Grover
17th Dec 2004
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
21st Oct 2003
Days of Our Lives (1965)
Corrected entry: In one day, Jack dies, donates his organs, his body goes to the funeral home, and by the evening the funeral director has brought his body to the house for the wake. That's fast.
Correction: Though it may seem fast, it is perfectly possible for Jack Deveraux's organs to be harvested and the funeral parlor to embalm his body in time for the wake.
7th Dec 2004
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Corrected entry: After Professor Lupin confiscated the Marauder's Map from Harry Potter, Harry told Lupin that he saw Peter Pettigrew's name on the map. Although both Lupin and Potter did have their own knowledge about Pettigrew, Lupin was his friend and Potter learned from overhearing the conversation between Professor McGonagall, Madame Rosmerta and Cornelius Fudge, there was no indication that they ever had any conversation about Peter Pettigrew. Lupin's reaction to Harry's revelation was rather odd because he looked worried instead of surprised that Potter already had some information about Pettigrew. Potter himself also seemed really familiar with the name rather than showing any indication of curiosity about Pettigrew. Such a profound discovery should have made him question Lupin about the nature of the finding rather than just walking away from his office. (01:18:45)
Correction: First of all, Lupin and Harry needn't have had any conversations regarding Pettigrew, Lupin knows that Harry could easily have already found out about the infamous circumstances surrounding his parents' deaths. When Harry tells Lupin he saw Pettigrew's name on the map, Lupin's immediate reaction is not about how Harry knows the name Pettigrew, but rather the more important issue of Pettigrew's name actually being on the map, because the map doesn't lie. The fact that Harry chooses not to question Lupin about Pettigrew is a deliberate decision Harry makes when Lupin admonishes him. He feels guilty especially after his experience in the corridor when the map 'falsely' indicated that Pettigrew was passing him. There is no factual, or any other kind of mistake, regarding Harry's or Lupin's behavior.
2nd Dec 2004
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Corrected entry: When Harry is riding Buckbeak for the first time over the lake, the sun is at their left but in the last shot when Buck turns right, the sun is now at their right.
Correction: After Buckbeak and Harry fly out of the paddock and towards the castle, there's an overhead wide shot of the water below and it's clear Buckbeak does not fly in a straight line, he's following the path of the water with numerous twists and turns. The sun's position changes with Harry's "Woo hoo!" in the first shot, followed by more loud screams in the 2nd shot, and then in the last shot, with another "Woo hoo!" From shot to shot, these are not one long continuous scream and since Buckbeak is turning with the path of the lake, it is obvious that their direction is changing as they fly over the water. Each of the consecutive shots as they fly is not their entire flight, as is even apparent in the next two shots when Buckbeak is back near the paddock already.
30th Nov 2004
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Corrected entry: When Harry firsts receives the Marauder's Map and says "Is that...?" and one of the twins answers "Dumbledore in his study...", the shot shows us Dumbledore's footsteps. But the name above the steps say 'Albvs Dumbledore' rather than 'Albus Dumbledore' or 'Albvs Dvmbledore'.
Correction: The name on the floating ribbon, near the stairs, is spelled correctly as ALBVS DVMBLEDORE.
22nd Aug 2004
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Corrected entry: In Dursleys' house, Harry yells at Aunt Marge and she breaks her glass, but the base is still intact after that. When Harry goes to wipe the table, it has disappeared. (00:03:35)
Correction: When the crystal brandy goblet actually breaks, while in Marge's grasp, there is no clear view of the supposed intact base, in the shot facing Marge and the next one facing Vernon, nor is there a view of where it lands. In the next two close-ups of Marge, as she tells Petunia not to worry and then snaps her fingers at Harry to clean it up, the table is visible and the base is not visible at all in the shots. The only glass base on the table, in front of Marge, is one that is intact on the tall crystal goblet.
1st Dec 2004
PCU (1994)
Corrected entry: When Droz, Moles ,The Daves and Thomas shower the "cause heads" with raw ground beef from the cafeteria windows above, Moles throws out the huge cooking pan as well. Wouldn't this be a dangerous thing to do with a crowd of people below?
Correction: Many people often do stupid, thoughtless things. The character's stupidity within the film is not a film mistake.
26th Oct 2004
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Corrected entry: In the Leaky Cauldron, when Harry meets the Minister of Magic, the bald man offers him food in a bowl, which Harry rejects, then he lays it down on the table. The bowls switch positions from shot to shot. (00:12:50)
Correction: Tom the Innkeeper offers Harry a bowl of walnuts and he declines. Tom bows and then takes the bowl of nuts with him as he stands at the wall. Now the only bowl left on the table is the empty one for the pea soup.
29th Nov 2004
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Corrected entry: Right after Hermione gets angry and punches Malfoy, Malfoy and his goons run off. As he is running away, Draco Malfoy calls out to his fellow Slytherins "Not a word to anyone." When Harry and Hermione relive the scene again, Draco runs off saying "Not a word to anyone, understood?."
Correction: No. Malfoy says, "Not a word to anyone, understood?" in both shots.
20th Nov 2004
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Corrected entry: In a scene in the Moria mines, where the troll stings Frodo with his spear, it's on his right side. When he falls down, the spear is under his right hand. When the members of the Fellowship check him, the rips on his cloths (where the troll stings the spear) it is on the left side.
Correction: Go back and have a closer look at the shots and the spear the cave troll uses. The spear has a horizontal bar with three sharp points; the center point which is very long runs directly below the spear handle and two short points at each end. When the troll stabs Frodo, the long deadly point goes between *his* left arm and side, never actually stabbing Frodo. It is one of the short points that stabs into Frodo's chest, on *his* right side, thereby ripping his shirt on *his* right side.
27th Aug 2001
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
Corrected entry: In the beginning of the movie when the students are first sorted, a little red-headed girl is sorted into Hufflepuff house before Harry. Later in the movie, she is seated at dinner at the same table as Harry, meaning she would have to be in his house, which is Gryffindor. How did she switch houses? (00:44:05 - 02:17:50)
Correction: I have carefully watched both the full-screen and widescreen DVD and this mistake is wrong. Susan Bones, who is played by Eleanor Columbus, is not sitting at the Gryffindor table during the House Cup Feast - EVER. The girl next to Wood is not Susan. The girl next to Lee is not Susan. The girl on the right side of the boy next to Neville is not Susan. All these girls have long hair, but they are not Susan Bones. When the hats are thrown, there is an overhead shot of the Great Hall from the OPPOSITE side of the room, by the huge ornate wood doors. In this shot, at the second table from the left which is Hufflepuff, but could have been misconstrued as the Gryffindor table, which is also second table from the left when the camera is on the opposite side of the room as it was in all the previous shots, there is a girl with long red hair, but she is still not Susan Bones. However, Susan IS clearly visible when Dumbledore changes the decorations in the wide shot from Slytherin/green to Gryffindor/red, she sits fourth down at the Hufflepuff table, almost directly behind Ron. She is also seen throwing her hat in the air as the Hufflepuff table is shown.
14th Nov 2004
The Frighteners (1996)
Corrected entry: When the Ragdoll grabs onto Lucy's shirt, you can see it's hands have been sewn to the shirt, it seems this was done to make it look like it's gripping and pulling it.
Correction: This would be a great mistake, but for one fact, when Raggedy Anne's hand is attached to Lucy's pajama top we do not see any thread or safety pin joining the hand to the top, not even a bit of it. Though we know that is what the crew did to achieve the effect, since nothing is actually visible it cannot be a deemed a legitimate mistake.
2nd Apr 2004
The Frighteners (1996)
Corrected entry: In the posh woman's house Frank is shown a newspaper with a picture of him at a funeral on the front. You'll have to be quick but you can see that the picture is of him and Lucy at Ray's funeral, which of course hasn't happened yet.
Correction: The photograph on the front page of the Gazette that Mrs. Waterhouse holds up is the photo that Steve's partner snapped at the funeral for Chuck Hughes at the start of the film, as Frank handed out his business cards to the mourners. The actual photo shows Frank wearing a blue dress shirt and tie, giving his business card to a brunette with a hat - but it is clearly not Lucy Lynskey, with a man behind them holding an umbrella, as it was raining during that funeral. That brunette is also visible at the funeral, as Ms. Rhys-Jones says in voiceover, "..Thirty years later as the death toll steadily rises, it appears the grim reaper has once again..." To further stress the point, the day of Ray Lynskey's funeral, Frank was wearing a tee shirt under an open collar red shirt, unlike the photo.
27th Aug 2001
The Frighteners (1996)
Corrected entry: When Frank goes into the freezer he is wearing shoes. Then when he's a ghost he is barefoot for whatever reason. Then he goes to heaven and he has shoes. Then he goes back to his body and he's barefoot again.
Correction: You're confusing two separate events. When Frank walks into the freezer at the laboratory he's wearing shoes, but by the time Frank's spirit leaves his body (many shots later) his shoe is visible in the bottom right corner of the screen, which means he took off his shoes before he lost consciousness. Since he 'died' with his shoes off, that is why he is barefoot the entire time he's a spirit the first time and still barefoot when Lucy revives a much frozen Frank with the defibrillator on the lab floor. Later, when Frank (alive) and Lucy go to the Fairwater Sanatorium to sprinkle Bartlett's ashes in the chapel, Patricia kills Frank and he dies for the second time. So, since he wears shoes when he dies, his spirit wears shoes when he drags Patricia's spirit as he goes towards heaven. When he descends back towards earth and after he opens his eyes with Lucy, he is, of course, still wearing shoes.
2nd Apr 2004
The Frighteners (1996)
Corrected entry: Director Peter Jackson makes a cameo as the punk Frank bumps into coming out of the newspaper office. A nice touch, but Jackson actually vanishes and reappears between the following camera angles.
Correction: When pierced Peter Jackson bumps into Frank, it is only in this close-up shot that he and his Grim Reaper tee shirt, are visible. In the next shot facing Frank, after he stares at the tee shirt, Frank starts to cross the street. In the third shot facing the Gazette newspaper building, the pierced guy is gone, though he did have enough time to 'mysteriously' vanish up the block between shots and he does not reappear in any other shot.
25th Sep 2004
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Corrected entry: During the fight scenes in Moria, Aragorn's bow is strung and he uses it both in Balin's Tomb and later on the stairs. He's also seen carrying it strung outside Moria, then the scene cuts away to 20 seconds of slow motion and music, and cuts back to Aragorn sheathing his sword and the bow is on his back, destrung.
Correction: Sorry, you're mistaken, the string is there, it is wrapped around the bow. Just before Aragorn sheaths his sword, in the close-up he says, "By nightfall these hills will be swarming with Orcs." and the string is visibly wrapped around the bow on his back. Then, after sheathing the sword, just after Aragorn helps Sam to his feet, he calls out, "Frodo!" and the string is still visibly wrapped around the bow on his back.
15th Oct 2004
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Corrected entry: When Frodo has been captured and is lying on the floor, you can see Frodo's boxers. They have a white elastic band at the top, with black writing along the edge.
Correction: There is neither an elastic waistband nor is there is any black writing visible on the undergarment. As Frodo moves and takes deep breaths the material does not move as an elastic band and the drawstring is visible in some shots. In an enlarged screenshot the undergarment is clearly regular white material that has shadowed creases at the waist. It is simply Hobbit underwear.
2nd May 2004
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Corrected entry: When Legolas is hanging on the Mumakil, he cuts the ropes that are holding the saddle quite far down. But when he is pulled up you can see that they are cut far above, directly where the saddle ends.
Correction: The set of ropes that Legolas cuts are looped into circular openings at the base of the Haradrim tower. Once the rope is cut it snakes loose quickly due to the load that it holds, so as the tower falls the rope is no longer there. All that is visible is the tower and its base.
23rd Jul 2004
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Corrected entry: In Minas Tirith, when Legolas appeared at the door of the room Frodo rested in, his collar was open. (Check the close-up shot of Legolas.) But when he was inside with the other fellowship members, his collar was fastened. (02:52:10)
Correction: As Legolas walks in after Gimli, the top clasp on Legolas' high collar IS fastened - it is about 6 inches down from the top of the collar. The top corners of the collar material are merely angled out a bit in this shot. Then, it is after 2 shots of Frodo and 2 shots of Aragorn that Legolas is in the wide shot with everyone and the corners of the collar are straighter, which only required a flick of the finger.
19th Nov 2002
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Corrected entry: During the scene in Transfiguration classroom, the students' positions in the class are constantly changing - for example, there is a blond girl sitting in the middle of the class in one shot, then in another she is back in a corner. (00:48:15 - 00:49:20)
Correction: This is not true. The students sit in the very same seats, whether in a front, back or side shot. Different girls are being confused as one girl.
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Correction: It is Gandalf who removes the One Ring out of the fire with prongs and places it into Frodo's hand. In the 1st extreme close-up of the Ring as Frodo turns it in his fingers, Frodo remarks, "I see nothing.", but when he says, "Wait!", in the next extreme close-up, some of the CG letters first appear as a faint thin outline and slowly begin to glow. This is part of the effect.
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