Corrected entry: When we see the gravestone of Wilson, it doesn't match that he was 19 years old when killed. According to his headstone, he was born in November of 1948 and killed in October of 1967 so he would have been 18, not 19 as stated by his father.
Corrected entry: When the 54th Mass is shown marching into battle the Sergeant Major is wearing private's leathers (traps). Noncommissioned officers (sergeants and above) had traps with detailed, rectangluar belt buckles, not the oval "US" buckle. This is most obvious when they are marching towards Fort Wagner.
Correction: This person is assuming that everything was available when someone was promoted. It could have been a battlefield promotion - it is well documented that soldiers who were promoted on the field had to wait for shipments of new gear.
Corrected entry: When Dalton is getting the staples put in his side to mend his knife wound, he has his hand behind his head showing his bicep. In one shot he has a mole on his bicep then on the next one it's gone.
Correction: The mole is there, it's just out of sight because his arm is repositioned higher in the subsequent shot. You can see a perfect example of this after the scene where doctor grabs the stapler and says, "OK", just before she staples his wound. The shot shows Dalton's arm and we can see the mole seconds before he raises his arm a little higher to allow her to staple. As he does that, the mole is hidden out of sight right before your eyes.
Corrected entry: When Miss Daisy comments on Florine's birthday present for uncle Walter (note paper) she says that he cannot see. Later uncle Walter is able to blow out his candles, visibly aiming at the last one. (00:57:50)
Correction: Being able to see flames on a cake is not the same as being able to see writing on paper.
Corrected entry: There's a scene in the movie where Nina is outside in the pool and Philip is inside his house looking at her. He begins to walk outside just when his house is engulfed in a huge explosion. At the end of the movie (apparently little time has passed) Nina goes back to Philip's house and snoops around on his computer. Also, there's a love scene towards the end of the movie in what was an exploded house. I guess the director overlooked the huge explosion....
Correction: When Nina returns, it is actually to the brother's house where they are all staying. The brother is played by Patrick Wayne (son of John Wayne) and if you recall, they were all out getting their stomachs pumped because they thought she poisoned them. The only possible mistake would be whether the explosion would have destroyed Phil's computer and notebook.
Corrected entry: The neighbour's dog looks too well nourished when Shirley goes to feed it, considering it has been denied meat (which as a carnivore, it needs) by its owners.
Correction: It isn't true that a dog couldn't look healthy on the diet that Claymore is being fed. Dogs are omnivores, not obligate carnivores (like cats, for example), and can live without meat. If the dog is eating a commercial muesli, which is probably vitamin fortified, and the milk is cultured, like kefir, for example, so that a dog can digest it (and which would make sense, since Shirley calls it "yogurt"), the dog will get a suitable balance of protein, fat and carbohydrates. In fact, there are commercial, vegetarian dog foods available in the US, and probably in Britain as well, and many dogs live on them for years. Claymore may not like his food as much as he likes raw steak, but he'll eat it when he's hungry enough. The problem is more that his food is bland, than that it isn't nutritious. We also do not know how many times a day he is fed. Shirley feeds him only once, but Gillian asks her to do it only once, and mentions that someone else is coming in to feed him at other times. Understand, I'm not advocating a vegetarian diet for dogs, just pointing out that a dog who is not eating meat would not look sickly, as long as he is getting enough to eat.
Corrected entry: In the scene when Diane is confessing to her father that she slept with Lloyd, her clothing and hair completely change three times.
Correction: I just watched that scene - her hair stays in the same do, and her shirt stays the same (sweater off both shoulders) the whole time.
Corrected entry: There is a scene with Henry's ragtag army crossing a river in pouring rain. Look closely at the water in the background - it's only raining on the near side of the river. The rain stops about halfway across.
Correction: Although it's likely a rain machine sending sheets of water cascading down "on the near side of the river," there is nothing revealing it to be rain from a machine. More to the point, it is entirely realistic to actually see it raining in a specific area, but dry just past that area.
Corrected entry: When Shelby dies, Jack Jr. is about 15 months old and Annelle is pregnant (she asks M'Lynn if it's OK for her and Sammy to name 'this' baby Shelby as she cradles her belly). At the Easter picnic, Jack Jr. looks about 3 years old (it even says in the credits he is 3) but Annelle is just about to give birth to her baby.
Correction: Jack, Jr. was 15 months old when Shelby went into the coma (he had just turned one in July and Shelby went into the coma on Halloween). However, the movie doesn't say how long she was in the coma before she passed away. It's possible she was on life support for months before she died. There was no mention of Annelle being pregnant until Shelby died.
Corrected entry: Near the end of the film where the villains are trying to kidnap a girl, Adam, his friend and another man are hiding behind a wall and Adam is wearing a pink shirt. Then when they all run, his shirt changes to green.
Correction: This is the running gag of the whole scene and not a mistake. Schecky likes the pink shirt, Bob likes the green shirt. So between every single shot, the shirt changes from pink to green.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Pig Pen is parachuting down to the broken ski lift in his dream, he jumps out of the helicopter, boards down the mountain a bit, and jumps down a ways before opening his chute. However, while in the air, the bindings on his snowboard are shifted forwards so that both feet point towards the nose. But when he lands, the bindings are normal.
Correction: The board pig pen is riding while in the air is actually a sky diving board. A normal snowboard would not work while skydiving.
Corrected entry: When Michael Douglas is chasing those bad guys on motorcycles out of the steel mill, he shoots one of them in the back and his motorcycle explodes. Why? There was nothing wrong with any of the motorcycle's parts and Michael Douglas didn't shoot the gas tank, so why did it blow up?
Correction: When Nick shot the motorcycle rider in the back, he lost control of the bike and crashed head-on into a delivery truck coming the other direction, which caused the bike to explode.
Corrected entry: In the beginning of this movie Don Johnson is driving a dark full-sized Pontiac. At 36 minutes in, he confronts the widow after parking on the street behind a medium blue Chevy Celebrity. At 42 minutes in, he is leaving the police station and says that the medium blue Celebrity parked illegallly out front is his car. He is seen in subsequent scenes in the Celebrity, but never again in the Pontiac.
Correction: Johnson's personally-owned car is a 1970 Pontiac Executive. He's a Los Angeles cop in 1989 California. During the investigation, he goes to Cottonwood, Arizona in a recent Chevy Celebrity (possibly a rental, more likely a police motor-pool car). His reasons could be gas mileage, dependability or simply that he isn't going to use his own 19-year-old car to go 470 miles on police business. No mistake.
Corrected entry: Near the end, while Gene Wilder is looking through binoculars he is having a conversation with Richard Pryor's character. The flub comes from Wilder's character being deaf and needed to read the lips of whomever he is speaking to. He couldn't do this while looking through the binoculars.
Correction: It does seem like that, and happens later on, but in this particular scene, the things Gene Wilder says are perfectly possible for him to have said unprompted. It seems like he is conversing with Pryor because Pryor can hear him, and so can reply correctly.
Corrected entry: A creature that lived at that depth would explode when it entered the far lesser pressures of the undersea habitat.
Correction: Not true at all. The animal will die after a short period of time but animals (or people) do not exploded at rapid pressure changes as in the movies. I worked in the deep submergance projects while in the submarine service and have yet to see any creature explode when brought up from the depths.
Corrected entry: In the scene where the snowman is falling in his globe and notices the emergency exit, if you look in the background, he falls past the same bookcase seven times.
Correction: This is a nod to animated series like The Flintstones and the Jetsons, with their endlessly repeated backgrounds. It's satire, not a mistake.
Corrected entry: Both Loki the blacksmith's assistant and Leif the Lucky are seen to be in Valhalla when Erik arrives, however they both drowned (Loki is thrown overboard by Keitel Blacksmith and Leif falls overboard after the dragon of the north sea sneezes) and as Odin says "this place is reserved for those slain in battle".
Correction: Both fell overboard from warships and were armed at the time. They meet the Viking definition of 'slain in battle'.
Corrected entry: At the end of the film, while Ray is contemplating signing away his farm, Terrence Mann gives this big show-stopping speech about why he shouldn't saying, among other things: "...The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again..." Great speech, but why would Mann feel all that sentimental about that era, when baseball was still a good quarter of a century away from Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier.
Correction: Terrance Mann was a writer in the 60's the film didn't take place in the 60's. The film was a current story circa 1988. So what is the point?
Corrected entry: In one scene in the lawyer's (played by Danny DeVito) office, Michael Douglas calls the lawyer "DeVito".
Correction: I think he calls him "Gavin-O" (pronounced Gah-VEEN-o)... like when some people call someone named Jim, Jimbo.
Correction: He actually calls him D'Amato - the character's name, but he is talking fast.
Corrected entry: How come when the men are breaking into the lab Matthew Broderick says he didn't bring gloves, but when he is looking at the logbooks he pulls out rubber gloves and pulls them on?
Correction: Because it's a biotech molecular biology facility and there are boxes of disposable latex gloves on every bench. He must have picked some up while running through the labs.
Correction: He was a month or less from turning 19 (it could have been a couple days), it's definitely close enough to call him 19.