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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes picture

Corrected entry: Apes do not possess the physical capacity for human speech. Their vocal chords are simply incapable of it, no matter how intelligent they become.

Correction: In the first movie in this franchise, Caesar spoke after he was exposed to the updated ALZ-113 drug. It is shown that this drug causes a physical side effect in humans when we see a doctor sneeze blood after he was exposed to the drug. Since this drug causes physical changes in humans, it is not unlikely that it could also cause a physical change in apes as well, allowing Caesar and other exposed apes to speak.

jshy7979

Maybe the drug only affects humans physically. Ape anatomy is different from humans, so it's not unreasonable that the drug only physically affects humans but not apes, and that the drug only affects apes mentally.

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Corrected entry: They are supposed to be in the state of Illinois when Tammy goes to get Pearl from the nursing home. But all the cars have Kentucky license plates.

Quantom X Premium member

Correction: Tammy picks up Pearl from the nursing home at the end of the movie and you can really only see 3 plates after that, all of which are Illinois plates. The only time you see Kentucky plates is when Tammy and Pearl are visiting Lenore in Kentucky, but that's before the nursing home scene.

Bishop73

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Corrected entry: When Robert attacks the first hostage holder in the warehouse, blood comes out of his victim's mouth and nose and touches the floor. In the next shot, when Robert drags him into the security room, there's no blood on the floor.

Correction: If you watch closely you will see blood on the floor and a little drag mark from the blood also.

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Corrected entry: While Jane is locked up, they blare music into her room. They play songs by Quiet Riot, songs that didn't come out until the early 80s, while the movie itself is supposed to have taken place in 1974.

Correction: Slade originally did the song you're referring to, in 1973.

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Corrected entry: In the scene where Eggs first goes to Archibald Snatcher's house, he starts out wearing human clothes, but then suddenly is shown wearing his box garb, without any explanation.

Correction: You can see the human clothes next to the next time Eggs is seen, on the ground just before he enters the vents and goes into the home. His changing happened off-screen, but you can see the pile of clothes to the right.

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Corrected entry: When Hiccup first blindfolds Toothless, the piece of fabric is fully intact. But in the next shot, a small tear above Toothless' right eye suddenly appears. (01:23:20)

Friso94

Correction: There is a tear in the blindfold the entire time.

No there isn't.

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Corrected entry: The whole plot is a big mistake. When you upload to iCloud you can delete it. When you delete it, it will be deleted from all synchronized devices too as soon as they go on-line.

Correction: But he wasn't using iCloud but some other app called Frank something. And did not know he could do that, as he later discovered from Howard. He kept the video on his home computer and removed it from there after their son's presentation towards the end.

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Corrected entry: Ben is obviously gaming on a console, given the control, being in the living room and hooked up to a normal TV. But one of his gaming friends, is using a computer, given the tri monitor setup, and the keyboard/mouse. I can't think of a popular game around this time that support cross-platform multiplayer.

Jonathan Spurlock

Correction: No reason he couldn't just have a PC in the living room.

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Corrected entry: When Eric first introduces himself to the Dauntless initiates, there is a guy to the right of Eric leaning against the brick wall. In the next shot, the leaning guy has suddenly moved closer to Eric. (00:23:45)

Casual Person

Correction: He hasn't really moved closer. You can tell from the section of the roof, he's on the 5th section away from Eric and when the camera cuts to being on the roof, you can tell he's still the 5th section away from Eric.

Bishop73

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Corrected entry: When Josh is talking to Reverend Dave in the church, he tells him there are about 80 students in his class and that he doesn't think any of them would ever step foot in any church, and the fact that no other students refused to write "God is dead" at the beginning of the philosophy class supports this statement. Roughly 70% of America's population is Christian, which would mean, statistically, at least 50 of the students in the class would be of the church-going variety. Although it helps to make Josh's swaying of his fellow students in his favor as it relates to his debate with Professor Radisson more dramatic, the idea that he would be the only Christian in a room of around 80 people at an American university is highly improbable.

Phaneron Premium member

Correction: These are not 80 random US citizens. These are individuals who chose to be in the class. A person with strong enough faith in their Christianity may choose not to take his class, or drop the class when they found out who the teacher was. Additionally, it's generally looked at as 70% of households in America, not 70% of every man, woman, child, and infant. As such, parents who claim to be a Christian family may have a child who denies he or she is Christian (many atheist and agnostics were raised in religious homes). However, as Josh states, the students wouldn't set foot in a church, which doesn't exclude them from considering themselves Christians. There are those who believe in Christ and the Bible, but detest organized religions. However, all of that doesn't ultimately matter since it's just Josh's own guess based on the fact everyone wrote "God is Dead" and not based on him having asked each student or having a knowledge of their personal beliefs.

Bishop73

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Corrected entry: Seth Rogen pokes his daughter's crib to see if there was an airbag there, even though all the airbags had already been deployed and he was carefully counting them the whole time.

MikeH

Correction: Anyone nuts enough to steal airbags, break into your house and boobytrap your furniture with them might not stop at just the few stolen from your car. Though the whole airbag thing is silly and implausible to say the least, Rogen's caution wouldn't be out of place here.

Grumpy Scot

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Corrected entry: When Chris Kyle and his wife are watching the 9/11 attacks on live TV, if you look at the lighting of the room and the lighting outside, it would appear to be at least noon. If the first attack happened at 8:46 AM New York time, it would have been 7:46 AM Texas time. Sunrise would be around 7:00 AM in September in Texas.

Correction: Chris and his wife were not watching 9/11 live, you can hear from the report on the TV that it is a recap of what had happened earlier that morning. So it is plausible that it could have been around noon when they got out of bed and turned on the TV.

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Corrected entry: After Lollapalooza David bought the tickets on eBay in order to travel in time and attend to the concert, but there were double tickets, so if they use their tickets the other people with the same tickets could not.

ozwal13

Correction: Not a mistake at all. This just means they had to hope to get in line ahead of the original ticket holders.

Phixius Premium member

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Corrected entry: Hercules is sent by his father to Heliopolis. The king stated that Heliopolis lies in upper Egypt, but in actuality it lies in the Land of Canaan, which is modern day Lebanon.

Correction: Heliopolis exists in Egypt and is located outside of present day Cairo. There is also a Heliopolis in Phoenicia.

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Correction: He may well just have not had it registered in the US yet - it's legal to drive foreign-registered cars in the USA.

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