Corrected entry: When Selleck is driving Ready and his crew home from the airport, Ready's seat belt is twisted in one shot. A few shots later, his seat belt is as it should be.
Corrected entry: "Hotel For Dogs" was filmed in downtown Los Angeles. In the final scene at the hotel, as the animal control people are starting to go after the dogs, a crowd suddenly appears, including two television reporters. One of the reporters has a microphone marked "WCPP." All television stations in the western half of the United States begin with a "K."
Correction: And the reporter could have been in Los Angeles covering a different story, and hearing about this, decided to cover this story as well. My town recently had a natural disaster, and there were reporters from all over the world, let alone just Canada or the USA.
Corrected entry: Speckles is a star-nose mole. In reality, star-nose moles are "functionally blind" (as per Wikipedia). How can someone blind perform such high tech tasks without special computers?
Correction: He can see because he has his special glasses. When he loses his glasses he can't see anything.
Corrected entry: In the scene where the Joneses are welcoming the first neighbours into their house, Steve gives one of his neighbours a beer. The neighbour says, "This beer is really good, it really hits the spot". But he hasn't even opened the beer, let alone tasted it.
Correction: False: Larry takes a sip, then says he likes the beer. It's totally reasonable.
Corrected entry: During the scene with the giant crab, after it's boiled alive (relatively close to the "Motel", given the subsequent camera angle) it's nowhere to be found. They begin eating it, and (even considering the possible time lapse that would have to transpire in order to eat an entire crab of that size) no remnants are to be found, save for what they're currently focused on eating.
Correction: Since we only see the crab-eating scene from pretty much a single perspective, the motel and crab residue can simply be off-camera.
Corrected entry: When Darwin finally gets down to writing, he heads each chapter in Roman numerals - IV, V - etc., but the filing cabinet he puts the chapters in are labelled in Arabic numerals - 4, 5 - etc. (01:30:25)
Correction: So what? There's no reason why the filing cabinets and the chapter heading are required to be identical.
Corrected entry: You see that Gabriel has an analog watch during all the scene except when they zoom in to show the time when it suddenly turns into a digital one. (01:04:35 - 01:05:35)
Correction: The watch had two types of clocks on it, the digital one is lower.
Corrected entry: In all the versions of the movie and in the book as well there is the same mistake. When the ghost of Christmas Present takes Scrooge it is 2 o'clock A.M. All the scenes are of Christmas morning and day of that year. That would be in the future. A matter of hours but still the future.
Correction: The rule of what constitutes the "present" is never explained (not to mention that the ghosts are hallucinations/dreams). Christmas Present refers to this current Christmas, as opposed to next year's Christmas or last year's Christmas. No mistake.
Corrected entry: In the brief scene where The Tornado throws a bottle at a TV screen on his yacht, the location label reads "Turks and Caicos, Bahamas." But the Turks and Caicos Islands are a British Overseas Territory, separate from the independent nation of the Bahamas.
Correction: There's a difference between the country of The Bahamas, and the islands of The Bahamas. Bit like the "British Isles", which includes Ireland, which isn't part of Great Britain or the UK. It's a geographical name rather than a political one. The Turks and Caicos Islands are part of the Bahamas islands, but not the country.
Corrected entry: At the end, Frankie is fed upon by several soldiers, and is seen being torn apart. His left arm separates from the body. Yet at the end, his body is whole, and even his shirt is undamaged. Mighty post-mortem regeneration?
Correction: Frankie had countless bitemarks, but his arm was never separated from his body.
Corrected entry: The young Clare doesn't have the same beauty mark and mole on her face as Rachel McAdams does as older Clare.
Correction: Moles can occur anytime in a person's life, and we are meant to interpret that Clare got the mole as she got older. Not a mistake.
Corrected entry: Nothing happens to the food in the "leftover" place. The food does not rot, the ice cream does not melt and they are not infested with pests like ants.
Correction: This can't possibly be a mistake. If we can accept that it is going to rain food, we have to accept that it is not going to behave as if it were normal food. The whole movie is based on this premise.
Corrected entry: When the guy says " oh my sweet centipede" the middle part moves her fingers.
Correction: She's not dead, so there's no reason she shouldn't be able to move her fingers.
Corrected entry: Insider trivia mistake: There are a number of references to Sarah's aggressive divorce attorney, Ron Meshbesher, including showing his firm's real-life address. Ron Meshbesher is very well-known in Minnesota as an aggressive attorney for personal injury cases and litigation, but he's not a divorce attorney. (Note that Coen brothers are from Minnesota and film was shot in Minnesota; http://www.meshbesher.com/lawyers/ron-meshbesher).
Correction: Ron Meshbesher is not Judith's divorce attorney, but the criminal lawyer Larry hires for his brother. Judith's lawyer would hardly have sent his bill to Larry anyway. But Meshbesher's address on said bill is actually that of the real Meshbesher.
Corrected entry: The news/weather man announces that the marine offenses act was passed unanimously. But when the cabinet were shown voting on it, several of them didn't vote for it.
Correction: There's no way that John could actually know that several ministers failed to vote for it - all he has to go on is whatever press release the government sent out. If that said that the act passed unanimously, then it's not a mistake for John to repeat that.
Corrected entry: When they show Tully listening to a conversation between Julia and Clive on a speaker, as the camera moves back from Tully's face the backside of the speaker is seen. There are no cables attached to the speaker, which would make it impossible for him to be listening since there are no mic cables attached to it.
Correction: We live in an age where wireless technology has been around for some time. Wireless speakers are included in that.
Corrected entry: How could Harry have possibly known where the pedophile heroin dealer would park his car when he later finds him and shoots him? Harry was in his unit when the guy drove off, and Harry doesn't even own a car so there isn't any way he could have known (or even gotten there).
Correction: Harry didn't just up and decide over night to go after every gang member in town. He's been watching these people; studying them to find out where they go, when they go there, and what they do once they get there. So that explains how he knew where to find the pedophile heroin dealer. He got there by walking, obviously, so they weren't very far away. They had just concluded what they were doing in the car too. This indicates that they'd been there for a good while and it took Harry that whole time to get to them.
Corrected entry: When 5 loses the map in the dust storm, it blows away. Later, when 7 notices the map, it is on a stick that is stabbed to the ground. The wind wouldn't have been able to do that to the map, and none of the other numbers would have put the map onto the stick.
Correction: Wind does not only travel sideways. Updrafts and downdrafts happen (the latter of which have been blamed for planes crashing to ground). There's no logical reason why a good wind can't slap a piece of paper onto the end of a vertical stick.
Corrected entry: One of the men who is against Lisbeth and wants her dead says "She has to be convicted of shooting Zalachenko." But she didn't shoot him; she hit him twice with an axe.
Correction: Yes, but Zalachenko got shot shortly thereafter, and they want Lisbeth to take the fall for it.
Corrected entry: Charlie (John Travolta) and Dan (Robin Williams) each have several different types of pills in the medicine cabinet. The side effect of one pill is a paralysis of the facial muscles that produces wide-open eyes and a huge grin. At the end of the movie, Charlie and Dan and their wives and children all had wide-open eyes and huge grins, even though there was no reason why anyone besides Charlie and Dan would have taken the pills.
Correction: At then end of the move, a character asks if EVERYONE took their seasick medicine, and in the scene before that, two characters have a mix-up with the medicine that makes you have a huge smile and the medicine that helps seasickness. So that scene makes perfect sense.
Correction: "A few shots later" is plenty of time to realize your seatbelt is twisted, and time enough to fix it.
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