Best movie corrections of 2013

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2 Guns picture

Corrected entry: In the scene where the CIA agent shoots the DEA boss (Denzel's boss) in his house he shoots him once in the chest and he falls to the ground. After they finish talking with Denzel the CIA boss shoots the DEA guy three more times in the chest with Denzel's gun (making four shots total), but when they show his body he only has three bullet wounds. All shots were to the chest as the gun angles show.

Correction: The final shot hit the side and wouldn't be visible when they show his body.

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Corrected entry: In the first scene in the FBI office, the clock on the wall goes from 11:17 to 11:27 and then back to 11:17. (00:25:30)

Kaltenmeyer

Correction: The time on the clock is always 11:27, the second hand is on the 17.

Casual Person

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Corrected entry: Dwayne Johnson would have had to hire a customs broker, as would the addressee in Mexico for a truck load. The truck would have been stopped for customs. Drug smugglers would have to know about this. There is no mention of customs in the movie at all.

ujeremy

Correction: This has been submitted to the wrong film.

MasterOfAll

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42 (2013)

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Corrected entry: When Jackie Robinson is leaving the train station the US Flag has 50 stars, however that was 1947. Hawaii and Alaska were not granted statehood until 1959.

Correction: No, the flag only has 48 stars. On 50-star flags, the rows are off set and rows alternate between 6 stars and 5 stars. The flag seen at the station had the rows all lined up.

Bishop73

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Corrected entry: During the final scare challenge, Sully changes the settings on the robotic child. There is a huge screen showing everything going on in the room, and in the next scene you can see Mike sitting by the bed where the control panel is located. Sully could not have done the changes without everyone seeing him doing it.

Micheal Anderson

Correction: We are not told WHEN Sully makes those changes and we don't know when the rooms begin airing in the live feed so this is not a mistake.

MovieFan612 Premium member

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Corrected entry: When Platt is seen standing on a raft and paddling down the river, there is a thick layer of green algae on top of the water. When it cuts to the overheard shot, the water appears clear. Then, when it cuts back to the shot before, the algae appears again.

Elizabeth Mehling

Correction: The three shots are Platt leaving to test his shortcut with log raft, the overhead shot is somewhere along the way, and the final shot is arriving at the destination and thus proving the labor saved with the shortcut. Not all of the swamp needs to be algae covered just because the launch and landing areas are.

Greg B

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Corrected entry: When Victoria and Lilly's father takes them in the beginning, Victoria drops a stuffed reindeer at the house that is later found at the crash site just before the girls are found five years later. (00:01:45 - 00:14:30)

Correction: They didn't find the reindeer there, they had it with them in a plastic bag to keep the scent fresh. You can see them pulling it out of the bag for the dog to smell.

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Corrected entry: We are told that the entire track is about 140,000 km, and they traverse that in 1 year. This works out to about 16 kph, which is about 10 mph. On the outside views, they seem to be trying to show us a fast moving train.

Correction: The train travels 438,000 km a year, not 140,000, which is an average of 50 kph.

Bishop73

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Corrected entry: Just before Loki pretends to cut Thor's hand, Thor is sleeveless. Then he takes the hammer and suddenly has iron sleeves.

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Corrected entry: Simon Baker's character is over in London on business. He states at one point about staying in London for a short time. However, at the end, he is still in London despite having 4 months past.

Ssiscool Premium member

Correction: We know Guy (Baker) owns one of the factories in London, so he's not a mid-level employee who has to get back home after finishing his business. He also used to spend summers in London as a kid (so a couple months may be a short time to him). But he is also interested in pursuing Nat or Chloe, so he simply extends his trip.

Bishop73

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Corrected entry: The family moves into the house and discovers a hidden basement. The next day Roger is downstairs looking through the junk when he says he wants to "try to get this furnace working." Before they discovered the hidden basement where did they think the furnace was? (02:14:45)

Dave Kalebic

Correction: For all we know he could have thought there was no furnace.

Ssiscool Premium member

There would be a thermostat upstairs and they would know there's a furnace.

Dave Kalebic

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Correction: The movie is set in 1995. France didn't switch currency to the Euro until 1999.

Sierra1 Premium member

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Corrected entry: Shortly after Santana tries to rape Dahl on the station floor, we see a vast amount of blood all over the floor where they had been lying; however, when it's revealed that they are both Ok and Dahl had simply beat him up, only his mouth is bleeding. The amount of blood on the floor was way too much to have come from a split lip.

Purple_Girl

Correction: His whole face is busted up. He's probably got a gash on his scalp, hidden by his hair. Scalp wounds bleed like crazy.

Phixius Premium member

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Corrected entry: The family in the film are obviously struggling financially, especially to pay their mortgage. However, they have a huge iMac, a Macbook and have the money to install a complex security system with extra locks, several alarms, motion sensors and CCTV cameras all around their house. It doesn't make sense that they would have the money to afford these things.

Liam D

Correction: People aren't always responsible with their money. Besides, if they feel genuinely threatened then they may have decided that the expense of the security equipment was worth getting behind on a few bills. They apparently HAVE money (or credit), they're just not spending it responsibly.

Phixius Premium member

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Corrected entry: When Jordan stands up to look at the news report about Leah Templeton's body, she is wearing her headset but it disappears as she stands up.

Correction: Headsets come off easily, especially the over the ear type she wears.

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Corrected entry: The two fathers are "torturing" the suspected kidnapper of their daughters. They have held him for 5 days, just beating him. I don't understand why they don't use CIA enhanced interrogation techniques of water-boarding or electricity and taking it a step further of pulling his nails, or putting a blow torch to his feet? I don't care how tough you are nobody can withstand the pain of fire to their body or castration. He pretends he's slow but he's not. They're just beating him. Bruises heal. (00:00:01 - 02:33:11)

michal

Correction: This is your opinion on how the story should have happened. It's not a plot hole whatsoever.

Phaneron Premium member

Well if five days if beatings doesn't do the trick, I think its time to kick it up a notch and use some other techniques.

michal

That's the problem with your mistake entry right there..."I think." Characters not doing what you think should be done doesn't constitute a mistake.

Bishop73

Correction: Characters behaving differently than you might isn't a plot hole. The fathers also were not CIA officers. And numerous reports show "enhanced integration techniques" (which was a polite way of saying torture) didn't work. Not to mention, countless number of prisoners died under these techniques and they don't want to kill him. Bruises heal, but so do burns.

Bishop73

The techniques are available on wikipedia. The films from 2013 and wikipedia existed then and the enhanced interrogation techniques had already been exposed. On another note, they do work. Countless lives have been saved by top tier government agencies and military operators by these techniques. The public rarely hears about intelligence agency victories.

michal

Again, all part of your opinion about what a character should do and not a plot hole. And if you're going to admit the "public rarely hears about intelligence agency victories", why assume Keller has?

Bishop73

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Corrected entry: Early on in the movie, MK's father is showing her the bat sounds on his iPod. If you look in the upper left hand corner of the iPod's display, you can see that the service provider is SkyNet, as used in The Terminator.

Brad Premium member

Correction: Or, it could be one of the dozens of wireless and Internet providers all over the world that use the name Skynet. Too common a real-world name to assume it's Terminator-related.

rswarrior

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Corrected entry: In a scene early in the movie Ben Stiller is shown from behind showing a large bald spot on his head. This bald spot is seen twice in the scene. But all the other scenes where he is seen from behind there is no bald spot, he has a full head of hair.

wea632

Correction: His bald spot appears as he's imagining aging rapidly and turning into a small baby man. His hair thins as wrinkles appear of his face. This isn't a mistake, its the progression of his aging.

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Corrected entry: The scene where Paul Doyle has one of his big toes shot off while he is underwater is not possible because, as has been demonstrated by the Mythbusters, bullets completely shatter when they are fired into deep water.

Phaneron Premium member

Correction: The mythbusters episode in question demonstrated that bullets fired at high velocity did come apart upon impacting the water surface. Bullets fired at low muzzle velocity not only broke the water surface, but penetrated the ballistics gel.

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Corrected entry: In the scene where Mr. Sandin arms the home security system, the camera changes shots to the outside of the house allowing us to see the heavy duty steel sheets come down to secure the windows, but this is impossible, as they are solid and there is nowhere for them to have actually come down from. They are definitely not on rollers as when the group of purgers that break in when trying to retrieve the homeless man, they rip off the solid steel plates in one lump.

Robyn Laura Ewing

Correction: The outer walls of the house and the inner walls of the rooms are not two sides of the same wall. There is space between the two walls for studs, plumbing, wiring, and, in this house, steel plating.

Phixius Premium member

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