Corrected entry: The final shot of the movie - Helen and James turning to look at each other as the lift doors slide shut - is played twice, you can see Helen turning to the left twice.
tw_stuart
15th Mar 2004
Sliding Doors (1998)
9th Oct 2004
Friends (1994)
The One Where Everybody Finds Out - S5-E14
Corrected entry: When Monica and Chandler enter Joey's apartment, Joey is sleeping with a toy penguin which he drops on the floor behind him. In the next shot, Hugsy is on the cabinet near the bathroom.
Correction: There is a similar looking cuddly toy on that cabinet but it is definitely not Hugsy. It's clearly a different shape.
27th May 2004
Friends (1994)
The One With All The Resolutions - S5-E11
Corrected entry: When Rachel picks up the extension and overhears Monica talking to Chandler, she screams before she hangs up. Monica would have come running out of the room.
8th Jul 2003
A Knight's Tale (2001)
Corrected entry: Count Adhemar claims he commands a Free Company in the south of France. The Free Companies were mercenaries who refused to disband when they were "de-mobbed" and then marauded the country. They were called "Free Companies" because they had no leader.
Correction: This is not true. One of the best known of the free companies was the "White Company" who were led by Sir John Hawkwood. They weren't sworn to a feudal lord, but had their own leader.
8th Feb 2003
True Lies (1994)
Corrected entry: In the scene where the terrorist jumps the motorcycle from the hotel into the pool on the other building's rooftop, why didn't Tom Arnold and the rest of the law enforcement officers just arrest him when he exited the building on the ground floor? He had to leave that building at some point and it was right across the street from where they were.
Correction: There are many possibilities. They may not have known the terrorist had jumped to another building. There may simply not have been enough of them to secure all exits from the second building--he presumably did not just walk out the front door.
5th Dec 2002
Dr. No (1962)
Corrected entry: Bond shoots Professor Dent with a silencer on his gun. There's just one problem. The silencer is still in London. If you watch Bond's briefing, only the gun is out of its box, the silencer (presumably) is in the box, but it is never taken out. Bond then gives the box to Moneypenny before leaving.
Correction: Moneypenny noticed Bond's oversight and had the silencer delivered to the airport before he left London along with the background information that Q promised would be delivered to him at the airport.
6th Jan 2004
Friends (1994)
The One With Rachel's Other Sister - S9-E8
Corrected entry: Phoebe tells Joey he doesn't know how to lie and that he doesn't sound convincing. However in The One With The Soap Opera Party Joey lies to the guys and they buy it, also he says that he's been doing it for years.
Correction: Joey is a natural liar as evidenced by his behaviour all through the show. He lies to and about women, he lied on his resume and has commented on it more than once. He lied when he was pretending to be Chandlers colleague. The issue in this case is that Joey can't think on his feet when he suddenly needs an excuse.
19th Nov 2003
Bad Boys II (2003)
Corrected entry: The mines shown outside the US base in Cuba towards the end of the film were actually banned by the Geneva Convention so its highly unlikely that the US would consider using them.
Correction: Given the other breaches of the Geneva Convention by the US with regard to detentions at Guantanamo bay, the use of these mines cannot be assumed to be a movie mistake.
4th Mar 2004
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Corrected entry: When Shakespeare is playing Romeo at the end and is doing the poison drinking scene, he first opens the bottle, says what he has to say and in the next shot he opens the bottle again before he actually drinks the stuff.
Correction: We see him open it then give his speech but the shot where he drinks from the bottle is from behind him and the bottle can't be seen. Although his free hand reaches to the bottle, we can only speculate why, we certainly can't see him open it a second time.
26th Aug 2003
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Corrected entry: Andy asks a bank clerk to put an envelope into their outgoing mail. This envelope contains all information about the criminal goings-on at Shawshank and is addressed to a newspaper. When Norton sees the headline in the paper, which could be, at best, two days later, he opens the safe to find the hole in the bible where the rock hammer was hidden. It's unimaginable that he would have waited for so long after Andy's escape to check the contents of the safe. (01:55:35)
26th Aug 2003
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Corrected entry: When Red goes to the Mexican border the bus is totally empty on the right side, while on the left side (the hot, sunny side) there's a passenger behind every window. (02:09:45)
Correction: A slightly unusual choice but hardly a movie mistake. It's not a mistake for people to want to sit in the sun and it's safe to assume the position of the sun with respect to the bus would change during the journey so maybe they were on the shady side at the start.
26th Aug 2003
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Corrected entry: When Andy escapes during a thunderstorm every lightning strike, be it heard close or distant, is accompanied by its thunder exactly at the very moment it strikes. (01:53:00)
Correction: I've watched this scene again and it's clear that the thunder storm is right overhead so that the thunder and lightening are coincident. There may be an impression that it's sometimes close and sometimes distant simply because it's not always the same volume which is normal.
27th Aug 2001
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Corrected entry: At the end when Andy escapes, he is wearing the warden's shoes and suit shirt, which fit him perfectly. It is obvious neither would fit a man of Andy's frame. (01:52:25)
Correction: We see him wearing the wardens shoes and shirt in the prison one time. He only needs them to avoid suspicion once he gets to town. He then had enough time to buy better fitting stuff before visiting the banks.
26th Aug 2003
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Corrected entry: When Andy escapes through the tunnel he had dug during his 19 years at Shawshank it looks several meters long. Since his cell was on an upper floor it must have been through a wall of unheard-of thickness. (01:51:15)
Correction: There's no shot in the movie which gives a clear idea of exactly how long the tunnel is. It is not stretching credibility to imagine that a prison would have unusually thick walls.
28th Aug 2003
Friends (1994)
The One In Barbados, part 2 - S9-E24
Corrected entry: In the episode in Barbados (part 2) when Mike and Monica are playing table tennis, Mike goes to great pains to explain that if a player puts his/her non bat hand on the table while the ball is in play then the player forfeits the point. Just before Mike wins his game (the second game they play) he stretches to get a shot from Monica and places his non bat holding hand on the table.
Correction: Not a mistake in the show, Mike cheated and nobody noticed.
3rd Jul 2004
Friends (1994)
The One With The 'Cuffs - S4-E3
Corrected entry: When Joey is reading the newspaper while Chandler and Rachel as discussing Joanna, a blue and white cup appears in front of him.
Correction: The cup doesn't just appear, it's the same cup that was in Chandlers hand earlier which he puts on the counter.
1st Mar 2004
Friends (1994)
The One With The 'Cuffs - S4-E3
Corrected entry: After Rachel sees her boss Joanna in the guys' apartment, Joey's bedroom door is shown shut, but is open in a subsequent shot, though no one went near it.
7th Jul 2004
Friends (1994)
The One Where Ross Finds Out - S2-E7
Corrected entry: When Rachel says "A cat? Forever?" her tray changes positions.
25th Nov 2001
Wayne's World 2 (1993)
Corrected entry: At the end of the movie during the spoof on "The Graduate", Wayne is going after Cassandra to stop her wedding. He stops at a gas station to get gas, chats briefly with Charleton Heston, and then is back on the road again. After running out of gas, running on foot, and finally making it to the church, you can see in the background the same scenery (namely a high school) that is in the background as when he stopped for gas all that "distance" ago.
Correction: There is a clear shot when Wayne is at the gas station showing that he has no gas. He stopped for directions, not to fill up so when he really runs out of gas, he's still close to the gas station. Add a couple more blocks on foot and it's not surprising that the same scenery is in the background.
19th Nov 2001
Wayne's World 2 (1993)
Corrected entry: In the movie Wayne gets caught spying on Cassandra and Bobby. He loses his balance and falls from a telephone pole. When he hits the ground his body dents the concrete and then he gets up. If you look closely, the dent was there before Wayne hit the ground.
Correction: I've watched this scene closely and when Wayne falls, he breaks the concrete, he doesn't dent it. There is nothing at all unusual about the concrete before he lands on it, there was certainly no dent present. There does appear to be a line but since the concrete doesn't break along this line we can assume it has no significance.
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Correction: This is too blatant to be any kind of error, it is intentional to show how surprised they both are. Does the phrase "double take" sound familiar?
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