Corrected entry: When Lyra first meets Ms. Coulter, Ms. Coulter's daemon is pinning Pan to the ground underneath the table. Shouldn't Lyra have felt this?
Corrected entry: After Lamia enslaves Yvaine and Una at the gap in the wall, all three leave in Lamia's coach. Tristan arrives shortly after and unhitches the horse from the yellow wagon and chases after them. When Septimus arrives a few moments later, the wagon is gone.
Correction: It's not gone, it's simply out of frame.
Corrected entry: The final battle occurs in China. Yet at Reed and Sue's wedding all of the women, including Sue, are wearing kimonos, a traditional garment of Japanese origin.
Correction: Just because the battle took place in China, doesn't mean the wedding does. Not only the dresses but also the garden they're in points to the fact that they have moved to Japan for the wedding.
Corrected entry: When Ben is proposing, Alison's hair keeps switching back and forth, over her ear in some shots and then behind it in others.
Correction: It looks like it, but it doesn't. When the camera pulls back Alison turns towards Ben and you can see it was an effect of the angles they were using.
Corrected entry: Ghost's sword has runic writing on it which is all well and good except it's written in English. It says "Thunder Sword".
Correction: As with most movies, period epics are modernized so that English speaking people (or translated language of your choice) can understand/read/hear what is going on without subtitles. Old English, for example, is hardly recognizable compared to modern English, yet movies set in the Middle Ages use modern English. It's a movie making convention, not a mistake, since there are very few people who would be able to decipher Nordic runes today.
Corrected entry: The daughter runs through the right right hand pane of glass, but when her father sweeps up, the broken pane is on the left.
Correction: No, she went through the left pane, which is exactly the one that Jim is cleaning up later.
Corrected entry: In the scene where the news anchor puts out the information that the suspect is tentatively identified as Bob Lee Swagger, the picture of Mark Wahlberg in full BDU "Battle-Rattle" shows him with a full-on goatee. The USMC does not permit facial hair.
Correction: More than likely Swagger was involved in Spec Ops in the Marines. Most Spec Ops in any branch allow for "Modified Grooming Standards" to blend in with the local population.
Corrected entry: For a chipmunk who is so blind he cannot see a toaster waffle land right in front of him Simon, is really good about placing the bowl directly under the flow of cheese balls. He stops going back when the balls stop hitting his head, then looks up and precisely moves the bowl to catch the bulk of cheese balls coming down.
Correction: That's entirely possible. I'm blind as a bat but can see a consistent bright colored stream easily, whereas a small flying neutral colored object would easily be missed.
Corrected entry: Towards the end of the film when the rich American is set upon by the dogs in the lift, the background of the lift is green fabric. When the doors reopen, the metallic background is now visible.
Correction: The background is metallic the whole time. Though there is some green/white light coming through the ceiling, the background never changes.
Corrected entry: During "Hey Jude," when the drunken man is beating the drums, he falls down at the end and drinks from the bottle - but he falls twice. Once when Jude is in front of him and a second time when Jude is walking away from the man with the kids.
Correction: Falling twice isn't a mistake. It's inline with what an inebriated person would do. He just got up "off camera" then fell again. They just didn't show on camera him getting back up. Also, the characters have advanced between shots, so it's not the same shot from different angles.
Corrected entry: Hannibal's final victim in the movie is supposed to be in Melville, Saskatchewan, and he is told it is near Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. These two cities are 356km apart, and about four hours drive away, longer in the 1950's. This is further distance apart than Paris to Marseilles, France, where most of the movie took place. Also, Melville is surrounded by farmland and fields, not the forest depicted in the movie. The Prairies near Melville are pretty much barren of trees.
Correction: I am from Melville - and it definitely did not look like this in the 1950s. Sorry. But prairie is correct. That means no trees as is depicted in the movie. Melville is too far south to have that many trees. Farmland is all you would see, and trees around acreages and farms. Also - Melville is near Saskatoon when you consider that they are in Europe when they are talking about it.
Correction: There are only two cities "near" Melville - Regina & Saskatoon. Roughly the same size, Regina is a little closer, but Saskatoon is a better known name - especially to someone from out of the country. The scene takes place IN Melville, not in the prairies near it. And there are woods around most small towns in this part of the country (the sign says "Hamlet of Melville", so it's very small!).
Corrected entry: In the scene where Riley is in the kitchen with Deb and Tony, Riley says in reference to Cook "I wonder if she ate the rabbit". Later in the pool a male figure in a chef's outfit, presumably Cook, can be seen. This is even clearer in the DVD special effects featurette.
Correction: Riley refers to the staff as "Brannigan, Brenda, Cook." Cook is someone's last name not a reference to their occupation.
Corrected entry: When Katie goes downstairs in the scene at the end, the alarm light (green) is off. When she comes up with the blood on her shirt the alarm light is on.
Correction: It is very well possible that the demon was capable of turning the alarm on and off considering he turns lights on and off and opens and closes doors all the time.
Corrected entry: I find it incomprehensible that the characters weren't aware of the prior crocs. Fish and Wildlife and the County Sheriff's Department would be hard-pressed to write off the demise of numerous employees as "accidental drownings".
Correction: You may find it incomprehensible, but apparently the characters in the movie didn't. As such, at best it's a character mistake, but since it's based on your assumption, it's probably not even that.
Corrected entry: When Claire is talking to Robbie on the phone towards the end, in close-ups, you can see two large film posters on the wall behind her. However, when the shot widens, there are many smaller pictures on the wall.
Correction: The camera angle is just different. Actually, if you look carefully at the back angle with the small pictures, you will notice on the left of Claire that the two movie posters are there. When we see the close-up, we actually see her from the right side, not from the back anymore, therefore showing the two movie posters instead of the small pictures. So there are no mistakes after all.
Corrected entry: When Jim and Grace notice Sean Bean driving in the family's car, they are trying to warn the family while driving side by side next to their car. They eventually crash and have a very lengthy fall before they come out to see the family's car driving past them away. However, considering the length of the fall, wouldn't the family's car be much farther away? One can say that the family had stopped to see the crash, so why did they do nothing about it, and keep driving?
Correction: We don't know what happened in the car, perhaps they slowed down to help, and that's when the killer decided to make his move, and he forced them to drive away, instead of stopping to help.
Corrected entry: The hotel manager says to John Cusack's character that they could not install electronic keys for room 1408 because electronics do not work in the room, yet the laptop, cell phone, remote control television, etc all work with no problem.
Correction: Remember the laptop was being manipulated by the room? And the cell phone didn't work, that's why he brought out the laptop. A key card wouldn't work if the room didn't want it to. Of course, neither did the standard key.
Corrected entry: When one of the robots pull Sam's pants off, when they first meet Bumblebee, he's wearing boxers with some kind of design on them. Later, Sam is bending over the Hoover dam, and he is very noticeably wearing different underwear, yet he has had no time whatsoever to change them; even if he did, [which he doesn't] why wouldn't he change his clothes also?
Correction: The only thing you see when Sam is bending over the Hoover dam is the white t-shirt under his hoodie, you don't see his underwear.
Corrected entry: After the scene when the team are walking down the street with the rest of the town, they stop and talk to each other, and Rico is not holding anything, but in the next shot is holding a television.
Correction: This was a joke because right after he is referring to how it's sad people will take any excuse to loot and steal during a riot. Yet he all of a sudden has a TV.
Corrected entry: Spectacular as they are, Denmark simply doesn't have the towering snow-capped peaks, soaring cliffs and thousand-foot deep chasms that appear in this movie. Most of the coastline is gently rolling green hills in the east coast, and plains, bogs and marshes on the west coast. In fact apart from overseas territories, the highest point in Denmark is a hill only 171 m high.
Correction: Denmark also didn't have dragons. The point is, the story is a legend, and everything in a legend gets embellished and exagerrated. Such as Beowulf's sea monster story where he was in a 5 day swimming race where he killed either 3, 9 or 20 sea monsters. In a legend, the 171 meter hill becomes a 1710 meter mountain.
Correction: No. While it isn't explicitly spelled out in the movies, there's nothing in the film to contradict what is explained in the books: that it takes either a fair amount of concentration or extremes in sensation for one to feel what the other feels, see what the other sees, or hear what the other hears. Lyra is distracted by the charming Ms. Coulter, so she's not concentrating on Pan, and the golden monkey isn't applying enough pressure on Pan to gain Lyra's notice.
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