Corrected entry: When Truman is looking in his rear vision mirror he can predict that the woman on the bike, the man with flowers and the Volkswagen Beetle will all come by, in that order. However, the Beetle can go a lot faster than the man with flowers, and if they were all going around on a loop, the Beetle would pass by a few times before the man with flowers came by again.
SexyIrishLeprechaun
26th Sep 2007
The Truman Show (1998)
5th Sep 2007
28 Weeks Later (2007)
Corrected entry: When you see the Aircraft land (Boeing 737) you see it land at London City. You will find that 737's are not allowed to land at London City due to their inability to stop or slow down in time without the use of Reverse Thrust, as London City Airport does not allow arriving aircrafts to use Reverse Thrust.
Correction: Surely the rules can be altered a little bit, seeing as how London City is probably the only safe airport in the whole country. Especially given that the reverse thrust rule is presumably for noise restriction, and with all that's gone on, limiting noise is no longer a major concern.
27th Apr 2007
Heroes (2006)
Corrected entry: In episode 19, titled "0.07%", Peter is hit with a shard of glass much larger than any of the pieces elevated and used by Sylar.
Correction: Actually, Sylar lifts pieces of all shapes and sizes. It is very hard to see, but some shards are quite large.
12th Jun 2007
Kenan & Kel (1996)
Corrected entry: In the very first episode, you see that the boys have just woken up. But then they sit down to watch a basketball game, in the morning?
Correction: It could be a repeat or a video tape.
2nd Feb 2007
Deja Vu (2006)
Plot hole: Just before the bomb explodes at the beginning of the movie, the guard is looking for the car playing 'don't worry baby' on it's stereo. In the final timeline the disaster has been averted, the bomb having gone off, and the ferry docked. After this, when Carlin is in the car, the same song is playing, but the bomb was set to a timer.
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Suggested correction: That's why the movie is called Deja Vu and thats why Carlin gives the girl such a strange look. The song triggers a feeling of Deja Vu for him and it almost feels to him that he knows her. Besides, a different station could have been playing the song.
Suggested correction: The first time it plays comes off the radio. The second time we hear it mid-play. It could have come from a different station, the same station could have played it again later, or a CD or cassette being played in the car.
7th Dec 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Corrected entry: When the Kraken attacks the Black Pearl, it takes one of the crew members in the lower part of the ship and pulls him through the cannon hole, snapping him in half. The problem is there was a three to four second hesitation, resistance that the Kraken was having pulling the crew member through. This is a beast three times the ship's size that can crush, smash, and destroy ships in seconds, but it has trouble with a single human being.
Correction: I feel that it's a realistic approximation of how the Kraken would have behaved. First, it wasn't expecting to have resistance and so had to prepare itself. Secondly, I think the Kraken IS too busy with other stuff. It's got about a dozen tentacles and loads of stuff is happening to each one, so I think the scene is portrayed realistically (apart from the fact that Krakens don't exist).
17th Nov 2006
Goldeneye (1995)
Corrected entry: At one point, Bond and Natalia jump into the dried satellite basin and slide uncontrollably towards the centre to avoid gunfire from jungle soldiers. The friction encountered would have burned off their skin and clothes, leaving them for dead. The same happens when you slide along the road at high-speed, without leather, after coming off a motorbike.
Correction: The satellite basin had only just come out of the water, so it would still be wet. This reduces the friction and allows them to slide down the basin relatively unharmed.
28th Oct 2006
Lost (2004)
White Rabbit - S1-E5
Corrected entry: Boone's job appears to change halfway through this episode. In the pilot he tells Jack that he's a licensed lifeguard. This still seems to be true at the start of White Rabbit, because he is the one who swims out to save Joanna. But later in the same episode, he mentions that he runs a business, which is elaborated on later: he tells Locke about his mother's wedding supply chain stores. The lifeguard job is never mentioned again.
Correction: Boone is at least 20 (Ian Somehalder, who plays Boone, is 28). It's entirely possible he had a summer job as a lifeguard, before joining his family's business.
9th Oct 2006
Toy Story 2 (1999)
Corrected entry: When Woody is watching the "Woody's Roundup" movie, you can see the strings used to control the characters.
Correction: That's the joke. The production values of "Woody's Roundup" are so low that the strings are visible, rather like Thunderbirds.
21st May 2006
The Da Vinci Code (2006)
Corrected entry: The scenes at the Louvre are implausible, to say the least. A man is shot inside the museum and goes about painting on the basement and leaving clues and then dies without the security staff noticing it at all. The same happens again when Langdon and Sophie, once they've become fugitives and are searched for, walk around and talk at ease, apparently without the video cameras detecting them. The Louvre Museum is probably one of the best surveilled buildings in the Europe.
Correction: The wing that the curator is in is completely blocked off and no security staff were present at the time. The procedure in a situation such as that is for the security staff to call the police. By the time they arrived, Saunier was already dead. Furthermore, the surveillance cameras in the Louvre do not work as the Louvre is simply too massive for it to be cost-effective to constantly monitor all the cameras. Instead, the gates fall around anyone who takes a painting off a wall (as demonstrated by Saunier) and they are trapped inside.
16th Apr 2006
Ice Age 2: The Meltdown (2006)
Corrected entry: Near the beginning, where Sid threatens to jump of the ice cliff, Manny and Diego are shouting from the ground for him to come down. Then about a minute later it cuts to Sid up on top of the hill, and Manny and Diego are already up there. It took 10 minutes for Sid to get up there but it took Manny and Diego a minute.
Correction: There is nothing to indicate that it was only a minute later. Sid was obviously trying to put it off as long as possible, I think he was up to 2 and so many parts of a thousand. So it's not implausible that, since they knew their friend was in danger, they rushed up the cliff.
24th Dec 2005
The Incredibles (2004)
Corrected entry: In the scene when Dash spits out the water, if you look at the water in mid-air, at the end of the spit there is a drop separated from the rest, but when Frozone freezes the water, there is only a full icicle and no drop of water hits the ground.
Correction: Water expands when freezing, and its also possible Frozone froze some moisture present in the air as well, so together they could form one icicle.
31st Aug 2005
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Corrected entry: English people do not use the word candy when talking about bars of chocolate. I even heard a child in the cinema I was in asking their parents whether they were talking about chocolate when they said candy.
Correction: It never specifically states where the film takes place. Of course, the film is called Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, so they could have made an effort, but it's not a mistake.
25th Aug 2005
24 (2001)
Day 4: 1:00 A.M.-2:00 A.M. - S4-E19
Corrected entry: The last thing we saw at the end of the previous episode was Jack knocking out the terrorist suspect, who was tied up in the van outside CTU, before the clock ticked to 1am. At the beginning of this episode, which supposedly picks up the instant the previous one ends, the terrorist is in CTU medical receiving treatment. and he's fully conscious.
Correction: At least 2 minutes passes between the end of an episode and the start of the next one, every time. More then enough time passed to allow the changes you described to happen.
30th Jul 2005
Stealth (2005)
Corrected entry: After E.D.I., when Lt. Gannon and Capt. Cummings talk in his office, the captain lights a cigar. Later on, his cigar is off.
Correction: Cigarettes have chemicals that keep it burning. Cigars do not contain this chemical and thus stop burning after a while.
27th Aug 2001
Slap Shot (1977)
Corrected entry: One of the Hansen bros. trips a player at the blue line, within About 2 seconds the player slams headfirst into the end boards. Since the distance from the blue line to the red goal line is 60 feet this is a speed the Concorde would be impressed by.
Correction: A film doesn't necessarily show everything. It was probably condensed for time.
17th May 2005
Meet the Fockers (2004)
Corrected entry: In the scene in which a big deal is made that the baby's "first word" is an obscenity. This isn't his first word, though. Much earlier in the movie when the housekeeper, Isabelle, appears during the fondue dinner the baby says "mama" while reaching for her breasts. Everyone around the table is watching the baby as he does this, but all fail to notice that he spoke.
Correction: Actually, the syllables Ma, Aa, Da, Pa, Ca and one or two others are the first a baby learns. As a result, the word mama is not counted as a babies first word, because he or she may not be referring to their mother. Similarly, if the baby had said dada or papa it wouldn't really be their first word. Jack, being a childcare fanatic, would know this. See http://www.babycenter.com/refcap/baby/babydevelopment/6573.html and look at 4-6 months.
29th May 2005
Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Orlando is on the hill top where Christ was crucified, right when he stops talking, there is a shot into the valley where you can see a car going from right to left. Look for the head lights.
Correction: That's someone with a torch.
29th Apr 2005
24 (2001)
Day 3: 4:00 A.M.-5:00 A.M. - S3-E16
Corrected entry: Michelle and her staff sealed the hotel to keep the virus inside. But when the angry guest smashes the door to get out (so Michelle has to shoot him) no-one acts to seal the broken door. (00:59:00)
Correction: Viruses are very fragile and the reason the hotel was contained was not to keep the virus itself in but to keep all the guests in. They seal it off camera, though, to keep the guests from trying to escape that way.
27th Aug 2001
Stand By Me (1986)
Corrected entry: The Topps baseball card in Denny's room was not available until after the film was set.
Correction: The only baseball card wholly visible in Denny's room is the Mickey Mantle 1958 Topps card. The film is set in 1959. See http://www.hotcornercards.com/bb_singles_picture.asp?InfoID=1472.
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Correction: And he's taken all that into account, merely noting that the VW comes past, say, 5 times before the cyclist does one loop. Or, the director of The Truman Show has decided that should always be the order, so the VW waits around the corner until his cue.
SexyIrishLeprechaun