Corrected entry: After the Predator snatches the skull and spine from Bill Paxton and starts to street level while being chased by Danny Glover, you can see that the Predator is not carrying nor has the skull attached to it in any kind of way while jumping from rooftop to rooftop. (01:02:50)
Corrected entry: What are Great Plains Indians doing in California?
Correction: The cavalry are chasing them so they may be on the run. The US Army pursued some Native groups deep into Mexico, so it's hardly unlikely for them to have fled this far.
Corrected entry: When the grown-up Richie is driving by the paramount, it says "RIP Richie Tozier, Born 1950 Died 1990" but if the part when they are kids occurs in 1958, then he is younger than Eddie. But he is supposed to be older, not younger. If he was younger he'd be only 8 but he is getting out of 6th grade.
Correction: The text is put there by IT, who doesn't necessarily have to know when Richie was born.
Corrected entry: In the final fight scene, Rocky and Tommy Gunn crash through a fence and onto the street, where they fight under the elevated subway line (the Market-Frankford "El"). The fight occurred after Rocky took a walk to a neighborhood bar (where everyone knew him), which means that the bar should be/was located in South Philadelphia, where the El doesn't even run, and where the Broad Street Line (the other subway in Philadelphia) runs underground.
Correction: The neighborhood bar & fight seen in "Rocky V" was exactly in the middle of his neighborhood and where the EL train runs. His house, gym, fish store, Paulie's home, are all located by this location (Front Street - Kensington. Some locations were also filmed in South Philly, such as, Little Marie's home, The Atomic Hoagie Shop, St.Thomas Aquina's Church, But, there is no reference in any Rocky movie that South Philly was specifically his neighborhood.
Corrected entry: Whenever Peyton looses his nerve, we see a montage of images racing through his mind. The first time this happens, we see him screaming with his face bound in bandages. However, at this point, he has just woken up after being found, so he should not know he is burnt and wrapped up.
Correction: He has been awake or semi-awake for most of the time, and has listened to the doctors discussing his case. That is made especially clear in the scene where the female doctor is using him as a demonstration object to the interns. He does not know precisely how badly he is burned, but he knows he is badly burned on 70% of his body and wrapped in bandages. And before the procedure where his nerve canal got cut, he could probably feel a lot of the burns as well.
The film shows him waking up for the first time during this scene and displaying confusion and panic, so the idea that he's been awake or semi-aware of what's happened is complete nonsense.
Corrected entry: Jim Belushi impersonates Charles Grodin after stealing his identity. During the film he wears his clothes, including a business suit which somehow fits perfectly despite the fact that they have completely different body sizes.
Corrected entry: In the third story, "A Lover's Vow", Carola tells Preston that she was able to get his artwork exhibited at a very prestigious art gallery. At the end of the story, it's revealed that Carola is the very gargoyle that killed Preston's friend and swore him to silence. A very big mystery how a gargoyle, posing as a human, would have any connections to an art gallery at all.
Correction: This gargoyle is a supernatural creature. Who knows what kind of connections it might have, or what kind of powers of persuasion it would possess in human form? She's with Preston to make sure that he wouldn't reveal the secret, and when he doesn't she rewards him for not revealing its existence by making him a successful artist by using her abilities to make it happen.
That's what makes it a plot hole. The only known ability is being able to become human. There's no way of knowing if she has other abilities such as persuasion. It's mere speculation.
Maybe, but since we know nothing about the gargoyle one can argue that it's a potential power it possesses. Another possibility is that Preston may not be the only one it has an agreement with. It could very well have other people in the city that saw it at one time or another (we don't know how old it is, after all) that promised not to tell and theoretically that could include people in positions that could help Preston (museum curators, art critics, etc). So there isn't really any plot hole here, just a requirement to stretch one's imagination.
Corrected entry: In the beginning of the film, when Quigley is fighting over the girl, the third man is hit in the nose. Before he can put his hand to his nose, there is blood on his hand.
Correction: The thug punched in the nose is the same thug that Crazy Cora had bitten the ear of. After she bit him he looked at the blood on his hand, then went after her. That is why the blood was on his hand BEFORE he got hit.
Corrected entry: As they are parachuting they are seen free falling with combat boots on. After the parachutes have opened and they are about to drop into the sea they have fins on.
Correction: They all had swim fins taped to their lower legs. You can see one of the SEALs taping the fins to his leg while still on the aircraft. After deploying their parachutes, they put on the fins.
Corrected entry: When Jim Belushi and Linda Hamilton go to the Miniature Golf Course, the song "Gimme Some Lovin'" by the Spencer Davis Group is playing. As part of the intro to the song, one lyric is to yell "Hey". The scene shows Jim Belushi lip synching this, but he does so one measure too soon. (01:19:40)
Correction: The song is part of a music montage. Larry (Jim Belushi) & Ellen (Linda Hamilton) are only hearing the song in the diner. By the time they get to the mini golf course, they no longer hear the song. What Larry in fact is doing is yelling "Okay" to Ellen, so she knows she can open her eyes.
Corrected entry: Annie tells Paul that she got the typewriter cheap because the M is missing. However he then writes "smudge" on a piece of paper and the m is in the word.
Correction: She tells him it is missing an "N". That is why in a later scene the word "and" is spelled "a d".
Corrected entry: In the hospital scene, after Steven's niece is shot in the drive-by, while he is speaking to his sister and the doctor, Steve is wearing an all black jacket. Then he walks into the niece's room and he's wearing a different black jacket with two gold dragons on either side. Then when he walks out, he's wearing the all black jacket again.
Correction: John Hatcher is wearing a dark quilted jacket over the black shirt/jacket with the gold embroidery. The quilted jacket is taken off and put back on when he is offscreen, between shots.
Corrected entry: When Bernard, Miss Bianca, and Jake are on their way to rescue Cody, they ride fireflies at night. Fireflies are only native to North America.
Correction: Wrong. Fireflies live from Sydney northwards to the tropical north. Check this website for the details: http://www.abc.net.au/science/scribblygum/december2003/
Corrected entry: In the scene at Lou's house when they are sitting down to have dinner, Charlotte is seen piling Kate's plate full of mashed potatoes, and in the next shot, puts more potatoes on Kates now empty plate.
Correction: She is scooping them into a serving bowl. When Lou is seen lighting the candles at the same time, all 4 plates are on the table.
Corrected entry: When Nikita is escaping from the restaurant's kitchen she dives through a laundry hatch. However, the person in the red backless dress that actually jumps through the hatch is a very broad and muscular man.
Corrected entry: in the scene where Jack McVitie pushes the girl out of his car the tax disc reads Dec 67. McVitie was murdered in october 1966 and the maximum road tax available is 12 months.
Correction: McVitie was killed in October 1967, so the tax would be in date.
Corrected entry: At the end of the movie when Lionheart is saying his "good-byes" after being arrested, the wounds on his face are showing. In the next shot as he is being put in the car, his wounds are covered by bandages. We never did see him get bandaged up.
Correction: The wounds showing on his face are inside the house. We see the bandages first when they are all outside. So the bandages could have been done before leaving the house. It isn't shown explicitly, but could easily happen between the shots, offscreen.
Corrected entry: When Carolyn Polhemus is questioning a young witness on the stand, she commits several legal errors that would certainly have led to objections from the defense. For example, she asks, "Did someone put your head in the vise?" That's called a leading question, and is generally not allowed during direct examination, even if the witness is a child. Then when the child doesn't answer, she asks "What did you say when someone put your head in the vise?" You can't legally ask the follow-up question when the first question has not been answered. Even if the defense lawyer allowed the leading question, which is unlikely, he would certainly have objected to the follow-up question.
Correction: I am taking a class called procedures of the criminal justice system and in my class I have learned about this precise thing. The lawyer that calls the witness is only allowed to do direct examination. The definition of this is non-leading questions that do not suggest an answer. However, there are exceptions to this, and one of these exceptions, is one that Carolyn used. You can usually lead a child victim/witness.
Corrected entry: In the scene after the boarding room shootout, Angel was in the back of a police car. Murphy and Nolte entered the car to question the woman, then exited the vehicle without assistance. Police cars' back doors do not open from the inside - the linkage rods are removed prior to service.
Correction: This is not always true. When I was a police officer some of the cars had a switch on the drivers door that would allow the back doors to be opened from the inside.
Corrected entry: When Benny shoots Grandpa's corpse in the stomach, a large amount of blood comes out, even though Grandpa has obviously been dead for years (and is even stuffed with sawdust). Okay, they give the corpse a cup of blood every now and again, but the blood would be too clotted for such a large amount to exist in its stomach by then, and wouldn't the sawdust soak it up anyway? (01:06:15)
Correction: It's actually the mother that's being shot - the problem is that the scene is edited together in a confusing way, which makes it look like the blood's coming out of the grandfather. It may be sloppy film-making, but it's not really a mistake.
Correction: In a closeup as the Predator is climbing, you can see the skull and spine are tied in one piece to his back.
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