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Twitches picture

Corrected entry: Though the maid is sucked up by the darkness, when Cameron and Alex defeat him, she is not at Coventry.

Correction: This might be because she isn't magical.

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Corrected entry: Gaspar never goes all the way into the apartment before going to the Man-Whore awards. He grabs the ticket from Eva and then puts the door knob on the door, yet when he and Deuce are driving to the Man-Whore awards, the Leopard Coat and Blonde wig are in his bag.

Correction: The apartment you're speaking of is Gaspar's apartment. We don't know how much time elapsed when we first see Eva (who asks if he's home). He had plenty of time to get his coat and wig from his own apartment before confronting Eva.

Bishop73

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Corrected entry: Butterflies and dinosaurs never coexisted. The oldest butterfly fossils date back 48 million years - more than 15 million years after the extinction of the dinosaurs.

Correction: Just because no butterfly fossils were found from before said time doesn't mean they weren't around before said time. The fossils just didn't survive the test of time. Besides, since no one was around to document the fact that butterflies and dinosaurs never coexisted means that no one could, from a scientific standpoint, say they never coexisted.

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Corrected entry: when the car falls on Will during placement, he falls on his back, but when he gets up, he appears to have fallen face down, though he never flips over.

Correction: Actually, he does flip over. It happens in an extremely short time, maybe just a split second before he comes completely into view, but when the car gets lifted off, you can see him sort of roll over onto his front to get up.

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Corrected entry: In the scene where Mrs. Parker has comes to the Goodfellow house to complain about the flower arranging committee, she says she has a bad heart. When Grace comes down the stairs she only catches the end of the conversation where Mrs. Parker is saying, "Your husband must be told," and then she runs to the kitchen and gets a frying pan to hit Mrs. Parker over the head. Afer Mrs. Parker drops dead, Grace says, "Well, she said she had a dicky heart." But this was said when she was upstairs and she would therefore not have heard Mrs. Parker saying it.

Correction: However, there is nothing to say that Mrs. Parker hasn't told Grace about her bad heart at some other time.

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Corrected entry: Zipper the dog breaks the front door window by jumping through it to attack Jimmy and his friend. Later when Jimmy and his sister return to the house, the window is not broken.

dizzle

Correction: The window is still broken. When they open the door, you can see the broken glass through the curtains.

jfb103

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Corrected entry: In the scene where Avner and Steve go looking for Hans in the middle of the night, we see a scene where Hans is sitting on a bench by the water across from a city. First we see the city full of lights but a second later, in the middle of the shot, the lights disappear. (02:07:10)

Correction: The shot takes place at dawn and the lights go out because the light level in the city reaches a pre-set point, as they would do. The lights going out is fully part of the setting.

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Corrected entry: Before the first match we see people in the Abbey wearing West Ham jerseys, but when they are walking to the game none of them do.

Correction: The hooligans weren't wearing jerseys, other fans were. Hooligans don't wear the club shirts so as not to be easily identified. This was seen when they wore their hoods at the game.

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Corrected entry: Sometimes motor vehicles were being driven on the right side of the road and sometimes the left side. It varied throughout the movie.

Wayne C.

Correction: Yes and sometimes the car turned right when there was a 'no right turn' sign. This is just to highlight the grandfather's driving. It is deliberate and not a mistake.

Rosien

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Corrected entry: When Maggie finds the birthday cards her grandma sent her when she was a child, the $5 bills inside the cards were the newer issue bills and were not issued at the time the cards were written.

Correction: Actually, the $5 dollar bills were in fact the old version.

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Corrected entry: In the woods when Victor has said his vows and put the ring on the "twig", it is on the first "finger". Then when it is revealed to be the Corpse Bride's hand, it is on her ring finger.

Correction: When the skeleton hand grabs Victor, it had been transformed from the stick-like hand into a bony skeletal hand. Whatever "magic" made that happen could also have caused the ring to move from the index finger onto the ring finger (to show that she was married).

GrafSpee

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Corrected entry: When Godfrey tells Balian how to get to Jerusalem he tells him to 'go to where the people speak Italian and keep going'. Italy and the Italian language did not exist at this time, instead people spoke various regional dialects which were formed into Italian circa the 14th Century.

Correction: So what was he supposed to say? 'Go to where people speak various regional dialects and keep going'? And he's speaking modern English - do you have a problem with that too? The script has been modernised, and this is one element of that.

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Corrected entry: When Andy crashes through the billboard, pieces of drywall and chalky dust can be seen all over the place. Real billboards aren't made from drywall, which doesn't last long in the rain. Also, if you freeze-frame just before he crashes through the second side of the billboard, you can see where the drywall was scored or pre-cut to facilitate the stuntman breaking through. (02:01:25)

Correction: If you have to use slow motion its not a mistake.

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Corrected entry: When Pax is hiding on the cart in the "chop shop" room, watch as the body above him gets thrown onto the table to be chopped up. You can CLEARLY see the dead body breathing.

Correction: You never see any of the bodies breathing. In fact, there are no full bodies on top of him, only pieces.

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Corrected entry: If you take the letters of of the alphabet and turn them into numbers, A=1, B=2 etc., then covert "D Adams" (the writer of HHGTTG) to numbers, you get 4+1+4+1+13+19. Add them up, guess what you get? 42 - the answer to life, the universe and everything.

Correction: That isn't trivia - it's contrived number crunching. The name by which Adams was commonly known - "Douglas Adams", adds up to 117. Obviously this is a veiled reference to the F-117 Stealth Fighter. Indeed, Adams' full name, "Douglas Noel Adams", comes out to 163, obviously a reference to the Messerschmidt 163 "Komet" rocket fighter of WW2. See the connection? No, because there isn't one - it's all contrived number games. Who EVER called Adams "D Adams" anyway?

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Corrected entry: Watch as the little boy is suppose to be unscrewing the screw with the cross necklace when they are stuck in the vent. You can see that it is not the hand of a child but of an adult.

Correction: Wrong movie. This happens in the 2006 version of the film, not the made-for-TV version.

Jeimi

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Corrected entry: George A. Romero actually has his own little trademark in his zombie flicks. It's a zombie on fire. In all his zombie movies of his there is at least one who ends up completely engulfed in flame.

Correction: Tthere is no flaming zombie in Day of The Dead.

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Zathura picture

Corrected entry: After the meteor shower, the two boys walk outside. Through the left window we can see the whole living room with the walls and furniture intact, even though the whole room was previously destroyed.

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Correction: The living room was in the BACK of the house, directly behind the entry way. What you're seeing through that window is their father's office, which was not affected by the meteor shower.

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Corrected entry: In the scene where the mobsters come to get Tom to go back to Philadelphia, Tom lays down his shotgun right next him. In the ensuing sequence where he beats up everybody but finally has Carl pointing a gun at his head, his son Jack somehow gets around everybody and now has the shotgun in his hands. Unless there is another shotgun in the house he couldn't have popped up in the midst of everything without being noticed.

Correction: When Joey voluntarily lays down his shotgun, Carl asks him to take a dozen or so steps forward after he has dropped the shotgun. Meaning that in the ensuing fight scene, the gun would be a far enough distance behind the commotion that Jack could theoretically have left the house to grab the shotgun without the only surviving mobster at this point, Carl, noticing.

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