Corrected entry: There is no horn or buzzer that accompanies the red light when a hockey goal is scored. The horn/buzzer only sounds when time expires.
Matty Blast
8th Aug 2004
Miracle (2004)
17th Mar 2005
Pump up the Volume (1990)
Corrected entry: When Harry is exposing Mr. Deever's letter about Cheryl Biggs (the pregnant student) over the air, he reads, "I have no alternative but to suggest suspension." Cheryl Biggs was expelled, not suspended. We know later in the film that there is a difference between the two when Harry asks his girlfriend why she was expelled for cutting class ("That just deserves a suspension, right?")
23rd Aug 2005
The Karate Kid III (1989)
Corrected entry: After Daniel finally signed the application at the bottom of the cliff, he tells Barnes and his two buddies to pull him and Jessica back up. If Daniel and Jessica needed to depend entirely on somebody at the top in order to come back up, why did those two dummies both descend by themselves?
21st Jun 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
Strong Arms of the Ma - S14-E9
Corrected entry: Homer has to play Tetris to get all of the garage-sale items to fit into the station wagon, and even then he can't fit himself in. Yet when they arrive back at the house, everyone has a comfortable amount of room.
Correction: This is a joke -- showing how Tetris is like filling a car with objects.
13th Jun 2005
Bruce Almighty (2003)
Corrected entry: Bruce is told that he has to wear a hairnet when interviewing the Kowalskis (bakery owners), but he is interviewing them from the front of the checkout counter - the same place customers pay for their food. Either all customers are made to wear hairnets when purchasing from the bakery (absurd), or Bruce should not have had to wear a hairnet at all.
Correction: While watching the deleted scenes on the DVD, it has Bruce actually inside the baking part of the store where he's trying to put together some sort of snack. Since he was originally going to go inside and help put together something in the bakery, it would make sense to have him wear a hairnet before the camera starts rolling.
10th Nov 2004
Caddyshack (1980)
Corrected entry: Surely the woman would have noticed the foul smell of Spaulding's vomit immediately after sitting in the car. Instead, she doesn't notice it until her husband sits in it.
Correction: The woman and her husband are obviously drunk from the party and it is understandable that they would not notice the vomit.
1st Feb 2005
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Corrected entry: Gigolo Joe tells David that he has enough money to ask Dr. Know seven questions. He then puts two paper bills into the machine, then a coin. Dr. Know doesn't appear until Joe puts the coin in. The mistake is that Dr. Know should have appeared as soon as there was enough money to ask any questions at all. How does the machine know in advance how many questions are going to be purchased?
Correction: Given how sophisticated the artificial intelligences in question are, I think its entirely reasonable that the system 'watches' people put in money, and waits until they're done to appear and begin answering questions.
25th Mar 2005
Bruce Almighty (2003)
Corrected entry: Why should it take all day to download the prayers? Bruce has all of God's powers, yet he can't make his internet connection fast enough to download the millions of prayer requests in a split second.
Correction: It simply does not occur to Bruce that he can speed things up. He is still hampered by his human brain and his habits, so he goes through daily activities like eating, driving a car instead of "teleporting", and waiting for downloads from the internet. It is the way he has done things for thirty-something years, it is not easy to shed such habits and thinking.
24th Mar 2004
Pop Goes the Easel (1935)
Corrected entry: Moe says "Pick out two" and holds his hand out (classic Stooges gag). Curly picks two fingers and Moe pokes him in the eyes with the two he picked. You can plainly see, however, that Moe pokes Curly a couple of inches above the eyes, in the forehead.
Correction: This is hardly a mistake, as that is the way in which the eye poke was done (hitting the forehead just above the eyes). I'm not sure if the writer is implying that Moe usually DOES really poke Curly in the eyes, or perhaps (giving him the benefit of the doubt) he's trying to say that the subterfuge is simply a bit more obvious here than usual.
4th Feb 2004
Field of Dreams (1989)
Corrected entry: After Ray (and Terrance) see the "Moonlight Graham" message on the scoreboard, the scoreboard goes completely blank. At Major League Baseball games, there is always something on the scoreboard.
Correction: The scoreboard wasn't completely blank prior to Ray receiving the message. When Ray received the message, he saw something on the scoreboard that no one else saw. After receiving the message, he could have seen a blank scoreboard, which may not have been what everyone else saw. In the movie, we see the scoreboard from Ray's point of view ... not from everyone else's.
2nd Jun 2004
Minority Report (2002)
Corrected entry: Anderton's assistant explains to Whitwer that the balls are impossible to forge because the "shape" and grain of each ball is unique. The grain may be unique, but each ball has the same shape. (00:21:20)
Correction: The balls are probably not perfectly round, which would give each ball a unique shape.
28th Aug 2004
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
Corrected entry: Every time Data suggests using the tractor beam to alter the other ship's course, Picard immediately says, "Make it so," and Worf immediately engages it. The final time that they go through the time loop, however, Data has a good 8-10 seconds, after making his initial suggestion, to realize that Riker's strategy is better. Why did Picard and Worf hesitate so long this time?
Correction: In each sequence but the last, the scene quickly cuts to the Bozeman hitting the nacelle, but in the last loop, the camera stays on the bridge. One can assume that when the camera cut to the collision, it skipped that 8-10 seconds it took to activate the tractor beam. (Also, all main systems went down, so they back-up tractor beam may have taken extra time).
5th Apr 2004
King of the Hill (1997)
The Bluegrass is Always Greener - S6-E10
Corrected entry: Watch Dale's finger; his keyboard playing does not match the actual bass notes being played.
Correction: In the "propaniacs" episode it is shown that he has no idea how to play the keyboard and that he just fakes it and goes with the pre-recordings.
22nd Oct 2004
Minority Report (2002)
Corrected entry: The precop explains that because each ball's grain is unique, they are "impossible to forge." If all they do is verify that the grain is unique, then all it takes for someone to forge their own ball is to make sure that it has a "unique" grain, i.e., different from the others. What kind of a security measure is that?
Correction: For one thing, they would have pictures of the balls that are not fake, so your "unique" ball would be worthless. So the first point of the security is that you would have to somehow create a duplicate of one of the unique balls that was already loaded into the machine. The real point, however, is that once the ball was engraved (and again recorded), you can't substitute an identical ball with a different name as the name was recorded into a random place in the grain.
1st Oct 2004
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Corrected entry: If the "Golden Ticket" can be found in any of Wonka's confections, why is the spoiled girl's crew only opening one kind of Wonka's candy?
Correction: The Golden Tickets are not found in just any of Wonka's confections. They are only placed in Wonka Bars, which is why they're opening only one kind of candy.
Correction: They're opening regular Wonka bars. We see in the film that there's many types of bars, and the regular seem to be the bottom of the line. So, Mr. Salt probably just bought as many of the bottom line as he could to minimize costs, and also maximize the chance of getting a ticket by the added volume of candy bars. Makes sense.
21st Jul 2004
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Corrected entry: If the whole idea behind the child "mecha" was for loving couples to be able to have a "child" despite not qualifying for a parenting license, how much sense does it make that all the boys and all the girls made by Cybertronics look alike and have the same name? It would make more sense for child mechas of all different appearances, shapes and races to be made (just like Mattel did with the Cabbage Patch dolls in the early/mid 1980s).
Correction: That might make more sense to you, but the entire project was driven by William Hurt's pain at losing his son. It only makes sense that the first production run would fit his model, but probably was never sold because of the safety issues that arose with the David prototype. Different appearances would have been mass-produced in future production runs, and even perhaps accessorized like cell phone plates. And of course, parents can name the children anything they want to - David is the name of the product, not every single robot.
16th Sep 2004
Sliders (1995)
Corrected entry: In just about every episode, someone complains about landing harshly or bumping into someone during the slide. You'd think that after enough slides, these dummies would at least consider the use of helmets or something (not always possible with their predicaments, of course).
Correction: Rembrandt does try using pads to slide in an second season episode, but the other sliders jut make fun of him, plus it's a lot more stuff to carry.
21st Jul 2004
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Corrected entry: Before Martin's father is allowed to take home David, he is explained the careful selection process that Cybertech had to go through to make him the ideal candidate to be the first one to adopt and test-market it (reasonable - this is a process all companies observe when a new product is ready for test-marketing). Then what happens? The prototype "David" breaks from eating spinach, nearly injures Monica with scissors, nearly drowns Martin, and causes so much strain on the family that they had to dump him along the side of the road. Just a couple days later, David finds his way back to the company and we see a bunch of "David's" in boxes, ready to be sold, and dozens more being constructed. Any kind of manufacturing company that comes up with a new prototype of a new product takes very seriously the data obtained from the studies of those test-marketing the product. Given all the problems, especially the safety issues presented by the original David, there is no way the company would go ahead and manufacture more without putting some serious time into correcting these flaws.
Correction: The prototype David was with the family for some time before Martin came home, and was functioning optimally in that time. And all the other "problems" listed are because of Martin's jealousy and alienation of David, not David himself. From the company's view, David is functioning the way he should be, and the only element not factored into the calculation is sibling rivalry (which would not be much of a problem, since the Davids would be targeted towards childless families). Furthermore, the mass produced "Davids" we see later on may have been created differently with some corrections to these "problems", and not exactly like prototype David.
21st Jun 2004
Pleasantville (1998)
Corrected entry: Despite what "Bud" says, the present-day television used in the movie can still be turned on without a remote.
Correction: He could be referring to the satellite dish. My old reciever was run entirely by remote, except for the power button. I had to buy a new remote when my daughter lost my first one.
27th Apr 2004
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
Corrected entry: Admiral Ackbar displays the 3-D map showing that the Death Star's heavy defense is a shield generated from Endor. Indeed, this is why Darth Vader's shuttle, at the very beginning, needs a code confirmation to have the shield taken down so he can land on the Death Star. Han Solo's strike team, however, wished to land on Endor, the moon around which the Death Star was orbiting. There is no mention of Endor being protected by a shield; just the Death Star itself. Why did shuttle Tyderian need a code clearance for Endor?
Correction: The clearance code is to prove that they are Imperials, like calling for a password at a guardpost. They need to convince the Imperials not to blast them out of space, as any unidentified craft most likely would be, shield or not.
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Correction: The horn does sound for goals, in the NHL only for the home team and at a neutral location (such as the olympics) the horn sounds for both teams.
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