Corrected entry: Throughout most of the film John Cusack listens to a radio program on 745 KHz AM [medium wave]. In the United States, this frequency would almost certainly be impossible to hear in a car, due to U.S. frequency spacing of 10 KHz per station.
gblontok
17th Dec 2009
2012 (2009)
12th Oct 2007
Windtalkers (2002)
Corrected entry: The pistols that Enders and Ox are carrying are 1911A1s. This type of pistol is ONLY single action. In order to fire it you MUST pull the slide to the rear and release it. When Enders puts his .45 in the back of Yahzee's Japanese uniform pants, the hammer is down. Yet, when he pulls it in the Japanese camp, it has miraculously become cocked. This also occurs when Ox is killed. Yahzee, upon learning that Enders killed Whitehorse, picks up Ox's .45 again. The hammer is down indicating that there is no round in the chamber (and a Marine would have known that) and tries to shoot Enders.
Correction: Having the hammer down on a 1911A1 do not necessarily mean there is no round in the chamber. Here is how we do it: First, chamber a round by pulling and releasing the slide. Then, hold the hammer with two fingers to slowly put it down while pulling the trigger with a finger of the other hand. This is a safety procedure to prevent the chambered round from firing accidentally. In the scene, Enders simply cocked the hammer with his thumb as he pulled the pistol from Yahzee's backside.
10th Dec 2009
2012 (2009)
Corrected entry: When describing the temperature of Earth's crust around the world, it is said to be "increasing at a high velocity." Velocity is a vector quantity and implies a speed and spatial direction, which a rate of temperature increase/decrease simply would not have as a scalar quantity.
Correction: They could be talking about the increasing/spreading of affected areas. Just like in a wild fire, it would be interesting to know how fast it spreads or grows.
25th Nov 2009
2012 (2009)
Corrected entry: The scene after the earthquake in Washington D.C., when President Wilson is seen coming out of the rubble, we see a giant tsunami heading toward him. On the tsunami is the USS John F. Kennedy with the words "USS John F. Kennedy" painted across the runway deck. On the real USS John F. Kennedy, no such words are printed across the deck.
Correction: If the USS John F Kennedy do not have that markings in its runway deck in present day, it is not impossible that the US Navy will put them on by 2012.
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Correction: The radio station with 745kHz AM frequency is fictional and need not be scaled with the real word. To comply with the 10kHz spacing, the other fictional stations [even if not mentioned in the movie] could be 755, 765, 775kHz and so on. In the same way the telephone number prefix 555 is unused; hence, almost always used for fiction.
gblontok