Corrected entry: In the scene when James is in the tank, first scene his hands are tied together. Then when he gets his "food" rations, he throws it, then bangs on the walls, obviously his hands aren't tied. Next shot when they take him out for a cold shower, his hands are tied again.
Hamax
27th Aug 2003
The Recruit (2003)
21st Sep 2002
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Corrected entry: In the night camp, when we see the ground vibrating with the footsteps of the dinosaurs, ripples appear in the puddles within the footprints start at the centre and radiate out. In fact ripples caused by ground vibration would start at the outside and move to the centre. (01:17:48)
Correction: They do start at the edges, but you don't see them before they collide at the middle.
29th Oct 2003
Agent Cody Banks (2003)
Corrected entry: When Cody says, "Ice cubes, that's how they're doing it..." He says this as a surprised. It shouldn't be, since he saw the nanobots in the form of ice cubes in Connor's house.
Correction: He is not surprised that the nanobots are in ice cubes, but he suddenly realizes how they're going to get the them into the military facilities without anyone noticing them.
25th Nov 2003
Independence Day (1996)
Corrected entry: How come the aliens keep attacking major cities on July 3rd? After the first attacks people flee the major cities and surely the aliens must have realised that reaction would come. So why blow up abandoned cities?
Correction: They want to destroy the infrastructure, thus making the cities impossible to live in. This action will eventually kill a lot of people (lack of water and food, spreading of diseases breakdown of healthcare and law enforcement etc).
Correction: Abandoned cities were being blown up because every major city contains what we call natural resources. Our gas, our oil, our source of power. When Whitmore saw their plan in his head he discovered that "after they've consumed every natural resource they move on" the aliens will not leave any city in the world untouched until they have taken everything from us.
Firstly our resources are not in our cities, especially not the center. Oil and Gas are produced and stored outside the cities, for obvious safety reasons. Secondly if they want our natural resources, they wouldn't be blowing them up. Thirdly, I doubt they are after our oil, considering what technology they use, I'm pretty sure they were after the water and oxygen for their spacefaring civilization.
Correction: The aliens don't know if the cities are abandoned or not. They just know that most people live in cities.
18th Nov 2002
Cast Away (2000)
Corrected entry: When Tom Hanks is on top of the island and he sees the dead body, look at the water level. It's very low and the body isn't floating at all. But when Tom Hanks is down with the body it's floating and the water level is much higher.
Correction: It would have taken him some time to get down from the top of the island, and in the mean time the tide would have come in. This would explain why the water level is much higher and why the body floats.
19th May 2003
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Neo is fighting the French guy's henchmen, at the end of the fight Neo stabs one of the guys with a sword. But if you look closely, the sword is actually not penetrating him at all. It is actually going under his arm.
Correction: No it does not. It is even a close up of the sword as it enters the body, and it enters just above the belt buckle.
27th Aug 2001
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Corrected entry: The professional hunter is carrying a heavy, dangerous game double rifle. The ecologist manages to pull both rounds from the chamber, pull the bullets, empty the powder, replace the bullets in the now empty case and put them back in the rifle. Quite a feat to pull bullets in the field without damaging the cases. When the hunter tries to fire the rounds nothing happens. When the cases are pulled the primers are untouched from the firing pins - hmm. Even more unlikely - I don't know of any professional dangerous game guide that wouldn't carry a dozen or more extra rounds - yet he doesn't have any. (01:20:15)
Correction: The firing pins were probably bent, thus rendering the rifle useless.
17th Sep 2003
Superman (1978)
Corrected entry: We see in Superman II, Superman IV and at the end of Superman I that Superman can leaves Earth's atmosphere, ie. he doesn't need air to breathe. So why does he act as if he is drowning in Lex Luthor's swimming pool?
Correction: He was exposed to kryptonite.
11th Sep 2002
Heat (1995)
Corrected entry: When Val Kilmer is arguing with his wife about his gambling problem, he throws his keys into a picture frame on the top of a cabinet. Then Kilmer hops over a rail, yells at her, runs out of the house, and drives off. He never stops to retrieve his keys.
Correction: It's not the keys he throws, it's something which he picks up from the table.
26th Aug 2003
Three Amigos (1986)
Corrected entry: In the scene where the three amigos are all in the bed talking about what each one is going to do with their share of the money, Lucky says he is going to "buy a big, shiney silver car." However, the movie is set in the twenties and cars were brand new. You would be hard pressed to find a big car, let alone a silver one.
Correction: How about the Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost? It was made from 1906-1925.
27th Aug 2001
Heat (1995)
Corrected entry: In the shootout scene in the streets of downtown L.A., the driver of the getaway car is killed when shot in the head by a single bullet. In the shot prior to this event, the bullet hole in the windshield appears prior to the shot being fired.
Correction: We never see the driver get shot. The camera angel is from behind De Niro, blood gets sprayed on the windshield and the guy falls onto the steering wheel.
27th Aug 2001
Heat (1995)
Corrected entry: In the bank robbery getaway scene after the driver is shot the Lincoln hits a car in front at a high rate of speed. His head hits the steering wheel. This could not happen as the airbag would have been deployed. Airbags are standard equipment on the Lincoln Towncar.
Correction: It's not that fast, besides, as thorough as De Niro is, he would have disconnected the airbag in case they had to make a fast getaway, and bend some fenders in order to do so.
21st Jul 2003
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
Corrected entry: In the scene where the TX is being overpowered by the magnetic field, why isn't Catherine's large metal watch similarly affected?
Correction: The watch was probably made of a steel alloy or metal that is none magnetic. Most alloys of stainless steel are not affected by magnetism. Neither is titanium or aluminum, all common alloys and metals in watches.
7th May 2003
Resident Evil (2002)
Corrected entry: The T-Virus escapes through the air vent and spreads throughout the entire building, so the air vents must go all over. Later water floods the labs, all of which have air vents, so the rooms shouldn't have filled with water, it should have poured through the air vents and spread throughout the building.
Correction: The red queen could have sealed of the ventilation system in that room when it detected the broken virus sample.
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Correction: He's held captive fore several days, and we only see glimpses of that time. The feeding and shower scene cold be days apart, and it's not inconceivable that his hands were untied during some of the time that he was a captive.
Hamax