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Corrected entry: Lord Farquaad wants to marry a princess to become a real king. The mirror shows him three princesses to choose from: Cinderella, Snow White and Fiona. But Cinderella wasn't born a princess! In fact, her only chance to become a princess was to marry a prince. (00:18:40)

Correction: That may be true for the fairy tale that the character is adapted from, but there is no evidence it is true for the character in this movie. As we see of throughout all four Shrek movies, many characters differ from their traditional counterparts. Rapunzel is bald with a wig, Snow White has tattoos, the Big Bad Wolf is friends with the Three Pigs, Red Riding Hood is a thief, etc. There is no reason to conclude that Cinderella isn't also a non-traditional version.

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Corrected entry: When Jim is at band camp and is caught by a counselor, he runs into a bell. The bell swings TOWARDS Jim instead of away from him, meaning he didn't even touch it. (00:27:56)

Correction: He did touch it. If you look closely it's the bell coming back that you see.

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Ali (2001)

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Corrected entry: When Ali has a fights with his third wife, you can clearly see the ocean from the windows. They are both supposed to be in Zaire, which is a landlocked country.

Correction: Kinshasa, (former) Zaire's capital, is situated next to the Congo stream. What you see is this river, not the ocean.

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Corrected entry: When Bridget and Daniel are in the convertible going to the country for the weekend, her scarf flies off. If you look carefully in the wide shot, you can see a crew member's hand in the backseat pulling it off and then tossing the scarf to the back of the convertible to fly away. (00:32:00)

Correction: I've seen this part in slow-mo, frame by frame and it's impossible to see a hand anywhere. Maybe a faint shadow resembling a hand for a frame. In any case, at regular speed, you can't possibly see it.

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Corrected entry: After the fellowship sets out from Rivendell, when they've stopped on the rock formation for a break, Boromir is giving Merry and Pippin sword lessons. Pip misses a block and Boromir nicks him with his sword. If you look closely, you can see Pippin saying "Ow, sh*t." but all we hear is "Aaagh.".

Correction: Nonsense. He says "Aaagh" and makes a pained face. Anything else is merely speculation and doesn't count as a valid mistake.

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Corrected entry: This huge demon monster flies around and is seen by at least 30 people, and the day after this demon kills all these people. Everyone just goes on with their daily life. Where the hell is the FBI and the National Guard, this thing just killed 10 people and there's no search the next day for this demon that killed about 5 police officers?

Correction: It takes time to mobilize the FBI and the National Guard, or anyone on that level. Perhaps they were on their way by the time the end of the film takes place. In fact, if you watch the third film, which starts right after the Creeper takes Derry in the first film there were lots of law enforcement officials inspecting the truck and searching for the Creeper, so it's not like they weren't informed.

dewinela

As for going about their business, well, life goes on. Things still need to be dealt with so perhaps they're dealing with things that need to be dealt with while still thinking about the events that occurred.

dewinela

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Corrected entry: In the scene where Bobby falls asleep in his bed just after Ted (Hopkins) has departed, you can see a guy wearing a green shirt reflected in the mirror beside his bed.

Correction: There is a no mirror next to his bed. It is a fishbowl and the green you saw is a plant in the fish bowl.

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Corrected entry: In the king of the hill scene (the fight on top of the pyramid on the penal colony universe), one large guy can be seen waiting to get thrown off the mountain by the evil Jet Li. He has to wait for Jet to do his moves on the other 2 guys first. Then he moves toward Jet and is thrown off the pyramid.

Correction: Like most martial arts movies, the bad guys rarely gang up on the main characters. I've never undersdtood it myself, but a friend who does practice karate told me that if there are too many people attacking they just get in each other's way.

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Corrected entry: When Alonzo and the crew steal from and murder Roger, their "cover story" is that Roger shot one of the cops when he came through the door and Hoyt shot and killed Roger with the shotgun. The ambulance arrives about 2-3 minutes after they call in the shooting. How would they explain the kitchen floor being cut up and the money being dug up? It clearly took longer than 3 minutes (It shows where Alonzo smokes 4 or 5 cigarettes in the time it takes) so when, according to their "cover story," would they have had the time or opportunity to dig it up?

Correction: Alonzo and his men could have just said that they found the floor cut up when they arrived on the scene. Roger was dead when the other police arrived so there was nothing incriminating that could have linked them to the missing money, the cut up floor or the cigarettes in the kitchen.

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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.

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Corrected entry: In Suzhou Prison, presumably the Suzhou near Shanghai, all the prison guards are speaking Cantonese, which is a southern dialect. They should be speaking either Mandarin (Putonghua) or their regional dialect.

Correction: There's no reason that their language should be based on the location of the prison, but that they are guards. Why would the author of this comment expect the guards to be local? Does everybody work in their own neighborhood?

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Corrected entry: During Izzy's first concert as the Steel Dragons lead man, when he recovers from his fall he goes over and starts singing next to Kirk, stage right. Just after he fingers the former lead singer's fans in the audience, he goes off stage to wipe the blood from his forehead. From that stage right camera angle, you now see Jorgen standing where Kirk and Izzy just were, and Kirk is now playing on stage left.

Correction: The guys in the band could easily have been moving while Chris was walking offstage.

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Corrected entry: At the flesh fair, when the little girl goes to her father to tell him that David is in the Mecha cage, on the monitors in the control room you can see the destruction of the robot who asked to have its pain receptors turned off. A few shots later, you see the robot still in the cage and then its actual destruction.

Correction: Since mecha are mass produced this could easily be explained by them having 2 of the same model to destroy that night.

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Corrected entry: When Vassily is invited to the old lady and the boy's house, the lady hears something, and blows the candle, but it's still light in the room for about a second after the light's out.

Correction: The reason the room remains lit is that it takes that second for the flame to be extinguished. She's blowing into a lamp that's nearly a foot tall - the flame wouldn't be extinguished instantaneously.

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Corrected entry: George and Sam jump off the cliff near their house, but when Sam and George look at the house from the hospital room there are rocks below the cliff and they shouldn't have been able to jump down there without getting hurt. (01:48:00)

Correction: The point of the jump being scary was that they could have gotten seriously hurt. Also, the angle from the hospital room shows a slightly different area than the jump spot.

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Corrected entry: When Mary-Kate enters the hotel, she is wearing a red hat. When she goes to talk to James after checking in she has now got the same hat on in black.

Correction: Actually the hat is black, the lighting makes it look red for a second but it is black for the rest of the scene.

emma2009

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Corrected entry: After Rick and Evie open the chest with the bracelet in it, the Nile begins to rush in. They are running down a corridor and Rick has his rucksack (with the chest in it) in his left hand. The Nile is shown rushing in upon them. They turn to face the oncoming water and Rick puts both arms around Evie. You can see both his hands. Then he reaches up and holds onto the grate with both hands. When the wall collapses and Rick and Evie wash out, the rucksack is back in his left hand. (00:16:15)

Correction: Not a mistake. You cannot hold your wife together with something in your palm. The rucksack must have slid down and up to his elbow which is hidden behind Evy. We will not be able to see that. Once he loses control of his wife in the water and flushed out we can see Rick holding the rucksack again.

vinoth2803

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Corrected entry: In the scene when Felix De Souza goes into the pub to wind up the Manchester United supporters, the big give away that the pub is not in Manchester (as suggested by them turning off in the car to head to Manchester) was the purple Liverpool Wheelie bins. (00:16:30)

Correction: Is it not possible that certain areas in Manchester have purplue Wheelie bins? I have a purple wheelie bin where I live, but others in my city have brown and green ones.

Scrappy

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Corrected entry: What would a sewer hatch be doing in the middle of a fake snow factory?

Correction: This mistake is way too vague and not enough info is provided to make a good judgement of this entry. This needs to be explained in greater detail.

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Corrected entry: When Jay falls to his knees outside the Diamond Exchange and cries "Justice." The choir-like singing says "Justice is dead, or so Jay thinks." Very relevant lyrics.

troy fox

Correction: Without a reason why the lyrics are especially relevant, it is too balatantly obvious to be considered trivia.

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