Corrected entry: When Ichabod is riding his horse at night, and the "horseman" rides after him with the pumpkin, you can see that the pumpkin is not lit, and even if it was, it would have been blown out by the speed of the horse. Then, right before the horseman throws it, it is fully lit and catches leaves on fire. (00:30:55)
Jez
27th Aug 2001
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
27th Apr 2003
The Transporter (2002)
Corrected entry: The crop dusting airplanes fly at such low altitudes that there is no point in having a parachute as standard equipment because there is no chance of using it in case of emergency. So where has the parachute come from?
Correction: Just because the aircraft's primary function is crop-dusting, doesn't mean that it's exclusively used for that purpose. Perhaps the owner flies recreationally as well, or is merely very cautious.
27th Aug 2001
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Corrected entry: No one in Sleepy Hollow bats an eye at Christina Ricci being a "good witch". This certainly seems unlikely given the time frame of the movie.
Correction: She doesn't exactly parade the fact that she does spells. And during the confusion of the church scene, people were too frightened of the horseman to be noticing her.
27th Aug 2001
Goldeneye (1995)
Corrected entry: The giant radio dish in Cuba is actually Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. It could not be filled with water like it was in the movie.
Correction: The dish is a fictional facility in Cuba, wherever it may have been filmed, so for the purposes Trevelyan's plan it must be made of a material able to withstand the pressure of the disguising lake.
26th Aug 2003
Jurassic Park (1993)
Corrected entry: When Ellie returns with Muldoon to find the children, Ellie sees the car that had fallen down into the T-Rex cage. She runs to the site where the Jeep fell. It's a bit strange, because the car fell down several stories into the T-Rex cage, and she just walked to it.
Correction: The part where she descends to the other car is not shown, but it is implied.
27th Aug 2001
Deep Blue Sea (1999)
Corrected entry: If these sharks are strong enough to open metal watertight doors, how come they couldn't break through the fencing without sinking the place.
Correction: The lower part of the fence is titanium. The whole point of the movie is that the mega-sharks are intelligent enough to sink the facility so they can break through the top part of the fence, made of steel.
27th Aug 2001
Deep Blue Sea (1999)
Corrected entry: Sharks are attracted to the smell of blood not the sight of it or something that looks like it. So in the opening scene when the wine is knocked over into the water it shouldn't be a big deal.
Correction: The shark is attacking the boat before the wine spills over (in fact it causes the bottle to topple), it doesn't think that the wine is blood. This shot is really just for effect.
15th Oct 2002
Deep Blue Sea (1999)
Corrected entry: At the very end of the movie, when the shark is getting out through the fence, it (the shark) backs up. Correct me if I'm wrong, but sharks can't swim backwards, no matter how much gene therapy they've had. Swimming backwards would cause water to surge into their gills, thus killing them.
Correction: Well, the characters comment earlier in the film about the super-sharks swimming backwards (when they recoil from seeing the gun), so its safe to assume that their modifications have given them the ability to do this.
18th Nov 2002
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Corrected entry: During the scene where Anakin is flying the Naboo starfighter we see him telling R2-D2 to switch off the auto-pilot. When R2-D2 does so we can see the red auto-pilot light switch off, but in the next shot it has mysteriously switched itself back on.
Correction: It's the red colour of the dial-displays that signifies that the auto-pilot is on. They stay blue once it is turned off. We have no way of knowing what the central switch with the red light does, so it could turn on and off for other reasons.
6th Feb 2003
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Corrected entry: Darth Maul, like the Jedis, would have amazingly fast reflexes, yet he isn't quick enough to block Obi-Wans death blow. Watch the scene again. Even a normal person could react to that quick enough and be able to block it in time. Yet Maul just casually watches Obi-Wan jump over him and kill him.
Correction: But Maul isn't expecting such a great move from the young Jedi apprentice. He is surprised; caught out by his arrogance. Isn't that the point?
5th Jul 2003
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Corrected entry: When the two T-Rexs attack the trailer they both look and sound the same. Wouldn't that make them both male?
Correction: It is dark and rainy, so you can't see the differences very . However, the female is slightly greener, and the male's 'facial' structure is slightly different to what we have seen before. The 'making of' documentary shows the differences if you're in any doubt.
4th Jul 2003
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Corrected entry: When the people come to rescure Nick, Sarah and Ian who are climbing the rope, various things are gone. The tree stump has gone and the parts off Eddie's car too.
Correction: The stump is there, in the background. The rope is still tied to it. The parts of the car that the Rex ripped off were thrown too far to be seen in the shot.
27th Aug 2001
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Corrected entry: At the end when Darth Maul knocks Obi Wan back into the reactor pit using the force, Maul's lightsaber is on. When Obi Wan jumps out of the pit and over Maul, you can see Maul's saber is off. Next thing you see, when Maul gets sliced in half, the lightsaber is back on again.
Correction: This is not true. His lightsabre remains on until he is sliced in two, when it turns off as he falls. It is just out of shot when Obi-Wan jumps, but you can see the red glow.
14th May 2003
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Corrected entry: When Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon enter the underwater city they are wet for the first shot but dry in the second. Plus the floor does not get wet.
Correction: They do in fact stay wet. The floor is not shown enough to tell is it gets dripped on or not. If they do appear at all drier, this can be attributed to the barrier they went through, which, as it is designed to stop water coming in, would surely remove some of the surface water from their bodies/clothes as they entered.
21st Sep 2002
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Corrected entry: When Qui Gon is fighting Darth Maul in the desert, it shows a view from inside the ship. There are three very thin and closely placed together windows. When it switches to the outside of the ship. There are only 4 very thick windows that are spaced far apart.
Correction: There are 6 windows, split down the centreline of the ship into two groups of three. The view from inside looks through one of these groups. The sizes and shapes match up fine as well.
27th Aug 2001
Jurassic Park (1993)
Corrected entry: When sitting in the hall and eating ice cream, look how far she is away from the cups - but a blink later she slightly reaches over the table and gets a spoonfull.
Correction: The shot from behind Ellie shows one tub that is definitely close enough for her to reach considering the manner in which she leans forward. It even has a spoon ready in it.
27th Aug 2001
Jurassic Park (1993)
Corrected entry: In the last scene where they all get in the helicopter everyone is dirty, sweaty, and bloody. Then a few seconds later in the helicopter. Ellie appears to have showered and combed her hair in the past few minutes.
Correction: Not sure about this one. Her face wasn't dirty in the first place, and she appears to have simply run her fingers through her hair. Remember, she didn't spend the night in the jungle or traipse across the whole island.
26th Apr 2003
Jurassic Park (1993)
Corrected entry: In the scene at the very end when everyone's getting on the helicopter, Ian's left leg is bandaged. Then, once he and Hammond are behind the helicopter door, Ian's right leg is bandaged.
Correction: Ian's leg is only seen once during this final scene, and it is his left leg which is bandaged the whole time.
15th May 2003
Jurassic Park (1993)
Corrected entry: At the end after the raptors have chased the group into the main lobby, the hanging skeletons overhead start falling on the people. Watch as a huge bone falls practically on top of Tim. This is obviously a very staged shot, because his hands are not covering the back of his head, which is a natural, protective human instinct. His hands are just on the sides of his head. For a real reaction, notice Ellie's, which is (I think) right beforehand - she curls into a ball, and covers the back of her head.
Correction: He has very little time to react, and seems too scared to move. After all, he is just a child and has less knowledge of how to protect himself. At least, his reaction doesn't look as 'staged' as this suggests.
27th Aug 2001
Jurassic Park (1993)
Corrected entry: Malcolm, Grant and Ellie are in the same car, but when Ian talks to Hammond through the camera you can see that Grant is not sitting in the back seat. In the next scene when Malcolm sits down again Alan is sitting there.
Correction: You can see for a couple of frames the Grant IS in the explorer (though mostly hidden by Malcolm's head filling the camera view), but he is sitting in the boot area so that he can look out of the furthest-back side window. Whilst Hammond is saying "I really hate that man", Grant climbs back into the seat, then we see him put his hat on.
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Correction: The pumpkin is lit the whole time. It's just harder to tell when it's in the distance.
Jez