Corrected entry: When Johnny goes Nova at the end of the film all he manages to do is melt some of the surface of the road even though Reed had said he could destroy the Earth. You would think he would have done more damage to the street inside the force field based on Reed's predictions.
Corrected entry: In the scene where The Thing is meeting up in the diner with Victor Von Doom, a plate of steaming hot pancakes is brought for The Thing to eat. There is a pat of butter on top that does not melt at all, so the steam must be computer generated and the pancakes must actually be cold.
Correction: I've had near frozen butter served at IHOP once, and it was irritating because it took forever to spread.
Corrected entry: When Sue goes to rescue Reed from the freeze chamber, the scar on Victor's face briefly switches sides.
Correction: He's wearing a mask the entire time. You can't see his face.
Corrected entry: On the bridge, when Susan Storm suddenly realises that she is turning invisible unintentionally, she takes off all of her clothes except her underwear and pushes through the crowd. When she is climbing over the fire truck, she is suddenly visible and wearing all her clothes again.
Correction: Sue Storm takes all her clothes off and pushes thru the crowd. Jonny Storm and Reed then follow her. As the camera is on them we hear Sue screaming and the crowd laughing, and Jonny and Reed then rush toward the sound. When it cuts back to Sue she is getting dressed and Jonny and Reed are there. They have caught up with her and given her clothes back.
Corrected entry: What on Earth was that fire engine bumper (fender, for you Americans) made of? The Thing was able to stop the fire engine, which must weigh several tons, from falling off the bridge just by holding on to the bumper, which didn't even bend or buckle. Admittedly at one point he had one hand on the tow-bar as well, but for the most part he was just using the bumper.
Correction: Its not about what its made of, but what its connected to which is directly to the frame. Also this is a film based on a comic book which implies fantasy ideas of how things work.
Corrected entry: The type of fire truck that was used during the scene where it was falling off the bridge is not used in NYC anymore, where the movie took place. FDNY no longer uses the fire trucks where someone steers from the rear.
Correction: Tell that to the fire truck outside my office window on Wall Street.
Corrected entry: According to the scene, where the Fantastic Four are trying to use the elevator and suddenly, an "exceed maximum weight" message appears on the screen, which forces The Thing, to use the stairs: In the scene, when Johnny Storm shows The Thing the doll that was made, he says he is leaving and goes into the elevator.
Corrected entry: The Fantastic Four figures out that the uniforms they wore in space were exposed to the same rays that gave them their superpowers, so that is why the uniforms are able to stretch, and turn invisible and catch fire without burning just them. But Johnny Storm changes the uniforms to add the 4 patch on the left breast, something that was not there when they were in space, there it was a Von Doom patch. Since the 4 wasn't on the uniforms and exposed to the rays, that part of the uniform shouldn't be able to stretch, turn invisible or catch fire without burning like them.
Correction: He used the same material. There were probably extra outfits on board he could have used.
Corrected entry: When Johnny Storm sets himself ablaze, his body is enveloped in dense, hot plasma. The powerful emission spectrum of the flame over his face would overpower the optical information from further away. He would be effectively blind.
Correction: Whatever changes have been made to his physiology includes the ability not to be blinded by the plasma.
Corrected entry: In the scene when the Thing is on the bridge, the I-beam that he is standing on is bent. This is impossible since an 8 inch I-beam should be able to support over 2500 lbs and the Thing does not weigh 2500 lbs.
Correction: The weight given by the scale wasn't his final weight. It was a weight that was given while he was transforming still. It was never established what his final weight really was. So it could have been in excess of 2500 pounds.
Corrected entry: Before Ben wakes up, we hear the 'beep' of his cardiac monitor, measuring his heart rate, but when he wakes up it continues at the same steady beat it has been going. Wouldn't his heart rate have increased if he had just woken up not knowing where he was and confused?
Correction: He's just waking up, remember- and to a friendly face, no less. Confusion would take a bit to set in, otherwise he's just feeling relaxed.
Corrected entry: When Reed is being super-cooled he is in pain when Doom so much as bends his finger. Doom explains that the reason this works is because when rubber is super-cooled it becomes icy and brittle. This is true but stretchy as Reed is, he has not changed into rubber, his molecules are simply unstable.
Correction: He's not actually made of rubber, but the example seems to work for whatever science-fiction can explain Reed's powers. His "unstable molecules" were slowed down drastically by the coolant, which certainly impeded his movement and made him "freeze".
Corrected entry: When Susan Storm makes herself invisible, then like any fictitious invisible character, in real life she would be blind as a bat, regardless the mechanism of invisibility. If she were transparent, then light would pass cleanly through her eyes. If she refracts light around her body, then light isn't reaching her eyes.
Correction: As with most science-fiction invisiblility, there is no actual science to invisibility that we understand. The idea of the invisible retina is almost impossible to get around. Therefore, as with Hollow Man or LXG, to allow invisibility to exist in this world, I think it's a fair conceit to say that the invisibility works however the moviemakers care to say it does, despite the possible contradiction.
Corrected entry: How did Ben Grimm change back into The Thing at the end of the movie? Reed's machine was supposed to work by using energy that was the opposite of the cosmic energy they got hit with. Ben was no scientist so its unlikely he would have figured out how to operate the machine, never mind reversing its polarity or whatever.In addition the first time it took him days to change into the Thing not hours.
Correction: Just because a waveform is opposite doesn't mean it won't have the same effect on an unaltered person - sound waves played out of phase will completely silence a sound, which is how noise-cancelling headphones work. The out-of-phase sound sounds exactly like the first when played separately. Secondly, he did work for NASA and may have been able to figure it out, without needing to change any polarity. Lastly, both transformations (using the booth) took only minutes. Clearly the booth works faster than the original storm.
Corrected entry: Reid kneels down twice when he's proposing to Susan. He takes out the ring and the shot shows him- from the waist down- kneeling. In the next shot he's talking to her at eye-level and kneels again.
Correction: This was actually a joke. Reed stretched his legs to kneel while remaining at eye level with Susan. He then kneeled down for real.
Corrected entry: Shouldn't the thermometer melt in Johnny's mouth when the computer is registering his incredibly high body temperature?
Correction: Not necessarily. It depends what the thermometer's made of. He was only at a temperature of 200 degrees. Some plastics and metals won't melt, especially considering he only had it in his mouth for about a minute.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Thing busts in Doom's office to save Sue and Reed, it was impossible for him to get there that fast. Between the time Reed first notices that the machine is going off and the time Thing comes in is at least a few minutes. In those few minutes, Thing manages to get out of the machine, put on his pants and boots, run all the way downstairs, run to the Doom building (which is already a good distance from Baxter Building), and all the way upstairs to Doom's office.
Correction: The Thing has the ability (much like The Hulk) to leap and climb over buildings, run up walls, and leap from rooftop to rooftop if he has enough momentum and energy - and if he's motivated enough to go through the trouble. It's a bit of a stretch, but he -is- a superhero.
Corrected entry: It seems odd that Ben Grimm is able to get the storm machine set up all by himself. It has been made evident, more than once, that he isn't very knowledgeable of scientific matters.
Correction: Since the plans were lying all over the place, there was a good chance Ben could make it work. Whilst he is not incredibly scientific, he isn't stupid (he did after all work for NASA).
Corrected entry: In the final battle between Dr. Doom and the Fantastic Four, Sue Storm makes a huge force field around her brother's supernova. Blood drips from her nostril, however, in the very next shot, the blood is gone.
Correction: There still is some blood on her lower lip.
Corrected entry: When The Thing first goes back home to see his wife, he calls her from a phone outside of where they live, they are suppose to be in New York, but the phone he uses says SBC on it, SBC is not the phone company in NY.
Correction: SBC does operate public pay telephones in N.Y., as does AT&T, Verizon and others. They are all the recipient of pay phone service revenues in N.Y.
Correction: Susan's force field seems to have been partially covering the ground too, though not as much as the air around him.