Corrected entry: The email address of Mieke is mieke_schmidt@deutchnet.com - it should be deutschnet.com to be correct.
Myridon
15th Oct 2004
Eurotrip (2004)
15th Oct 2004
Bean (1997)
Corrected entry: When Bean is at the airport going home, he is only holding a bag, so how does the original painting end up in his house?
Correction: It could be rolled or folded in his luggage, or he had it shipped separately.
11th Oct 2004
The Karate Kid III (1989)
Corrected entry: Why is Daniel risking his life to get the bonsai tree to sell to help the shop when he has that shiny yellow classic car? He can easily sell that for enough to help out. Then when he brings the broken tree to the shop Mr. Miyagi says he sold his truck to pay for them. Later at Mr. Miyagi's house, in the background are Daniel's car and two other classics easily worth more money then Miyagi's old truck.
Correction: The classic cars are practically irreplaceable and they would hate to lose them, while they don't really care that much about the bonsai or the old truck.
11th Oct 2004
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Corrected entry: Throughout the POTA movies, chimpanzees are portrayed as peaceful pacifists, while gorillas are prone to violence. Later scientific discoveries prove (at least in some respects) the reverse: while gorillas are the more peaceful apes, getting violent only to protect their families or territory, chimpanzees have been found out to eat meat as well, attacking and dismembering small animals and even monkeys.
Correction: But these are not today's apes, they have been through an evolutionary process and changed. We are not the same in behavior as Neandertals or Cro-Magnon man. Since gorillas are stronger and not quite as smart as chimps, they have been relegated to the more brute force roles and overtime become more militant, while the chimps being brighter and lingual have become less aggressive.
11th Oct 2004
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
Corrected entry: Throughout the POTA movies, chimpanzees are portrayed as peaceful pacifists, while gorillas are prone to violence. Later scientific discoveries prove (at least in some respects) the reverse: while gorillas are the more peaceful apes, getting violent only to protect their families or territory, chimpanzees have been found out to eat meat as well, attacking and dismembering small animals and even monkeys.
Correction: But these are not today's apes, they have been through an evolutionary process and changed. We are not the same in behavior as Neandertals or Cro-Magnon man. Since gorillas are stronger and not quite as smart as chimps, they have been relegated to the more brute force roles and overtime become more militant, while the chimps being brighter and lingual have become less aggressive.
11th Oct 2004
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
Corrected entry: Throughout the "Planet of the Apes" movies, chimpanzees are portrayed as peaceful pacifists, while gorillas are prone to violence. Later scientific discoveries after the film was released proved (at least in some respects) the reverse: while gorillas are the more peaceful apes, getting violent only to protect their families or territory, chimpanzees have been found out to eat meat as well, attacking and dismembering small animals and even monkeys.
Correction: But these are not today's apes, they have been through an evolutionary process and changed. We are not the same in behavior as Neandertals or Cro-Magnon man. Since gorillas are stronger and not quite as smart as chimps, they have been relegated to the more brute force roles and overtime become more militant, while the chimps being brighter and lingual have become less aggressive.
10th Oct 2004
Soul Food (1997)
Corrected entry: In the beginning narrative, the little boy says Big Mama's brother stays in his room watching his TV. At the end of the movie, when the uncle brings his TV down stairs and drops it, money starts flying around. All that paper would surely have caused a fire during the TV's use.
Correction: Paper ignites at 451 degrees Farenheit. As long as the paper didn't come into direct contact with an electric arc, it's unlikely that the paper would ignite before the increase in temperature either caused the TV to stop operating or the uncle to notice the room heating up remarkably.
29th Sep 2004
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Corrected entry: When Harry is wearing the invisibility cloak, he has to open the doors to the candy store and the bar when going in and out. However, when he is outside walking with Hermoine and Ron and near the shrieking shack throwing snowballs at Malfoy, none of the falling snow is accumulating on his head. If he can't walk through things when he is invisible, shouldn't the snow be landing on his head giving away the fact that he is there?
Correction: The snow is not accumulating on him because he is moving. Any flakes that do stick would quickly melt into the cloak, but in the meantime would just look to be blowing around oddly. If it were snowing very hard (or he was moving very fast), you might be able to notice the snow "avoiding" his space or swirling around him, but unless you were specifically looking for someone invisible you probably would not notice it or not realize what it was.
30th Sep 2004
Gangs of New York (2002)
Corrected entry: At the beginning, when the two gangs meet for a fight, there is snow on the ground - indicating that it is winter. But there is no condensation vapour coming from the actors as they speak.
Correction: "Breath-steam" is dependent on the lungs adding enough heat and moisture to the air during a single breath. The longer you are outside in the cold, the cooler and dryer the inside of your lungs are and eventually the steam stops. The atmospheric conditions also are a factor (humidity/dew-point) so that sometimes you don't get any effect at all even if it is quite cold.
29th Sep 2004
Full House (1987)
Corrected entry: DJ and Nelson take Nelson's private jet to stop Kimmy's wedding, but Danny and Jesse make it there only minutes after. How did they manage that? They read the note quite a while later, had to drive to the airport, check the flights, buy tickets and wait till the plane takes off.
Correction: For one thing, if you have a private plane, you don't just go to the airport, hop into your plane, fly off and then park and go. There are procedures that have to take place such as filing a flight plan, waiting for a turn on the runway (which might take a while for an "unscheduled" flight), etc. then there is more that the pilot/owner is responsible for upon landing. Secondly, the private plane facilities aren't usually as conveniently located as the commercial ones and might even be at totally different airports. Third, most private jets fly about 100 mph slower than commercial jets.
27th Sep 2004
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Corrected entry: At the beginning, when Janet is saying how radiantly beautiful Betty was, if you look at the top of the screen (seen on the DVD) you can see the boom mic over their heads and the shadow of it on the church doors.
Correction: I've corrected one like this before, but it seems to have disappeared. The "boom mic" and its shadow are a light fixture that is hanging over the church door.
23rd Sep 2004
Full House (1987)
Corrected entry: Kimmy goes to a baseball game with Nelson (most likely a Giants game considering they live in San Francisco) and gets hit in the neck with a foul ball at the game. Kimmy explains she was attempting to pinch the bat boy, but missed and "got a handful of Tommy Lasorda." Kimmy's bruise is on the left side of her neck, which means she was sitting along the first base line. However, Lasorda was the manager/3rd base coach for the Los Angeles Dodgers at the time of the TV series. How could she have pinched him all the way from the 1st base side of the field?
Correction: Obviously, she couldn't pinch anybody on the field from the stands. Since she went down on the field, she could have been anywhere - where her seat was doesn't matter.
21st Sep 2004
Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
Corrected entry: The gremlin can survive the thin and cold air, but how can it survive being blown off the wing? Shouldn't it have left footprints if it was latching itself on with each step?
Correction: Ahh, but is the gremlin really there at all? In either case, imaginary or magical, no footprints are required.
19th Sep 2004
Rocky IV (1985)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Rocky is driving his car after the talk with Adrian, he begins to have flashbacks of events that have happened in the previous three movies. During those scenes, there are a couple of shots which show Drago, standing alone in the dark with a strobe light flashing for effect making it seem like he's standing in front of Rocky, for the fight. His face in these scenes show him as though he has already been fighting but unless it's just Rocky's imagination it doesn't make sense to have it look that way since Apollo, didn't even make a scratch on Drago's face during their fight. Rocky is the only fighter to ever seriously beat Drago, so his face wouldn't have looked like that until it was their fight at the end of the movie.
Correction: Yes, the flashback does happen in Rocky's imagination (or at least his memory), so it would appear differently from reality.
18th Sep 2004
Starsky & Hutch (2004)
Corrected entry: When Starsky & Hutch meet up with Huggy Bear for the second time in the alley, Starsky comments that he like Huggy's car. Huggy comments that "its a '76 Lincoln Continental...it won't be out 'till next year. I know some people who know some people..." The year that the movie is based on is 1976, as evidenced by the numerous 'Bicentennial celebration' markings throughout the city during the movie, as well as the waitress's 'stars and stripes' bikini in the strip bar. If it is already 1976, why does Huggy tell Starsky that his '76 Lincoln' "won't be out until next year?"
Correction: "Bicentennial fever" started a long time before 1976. Every other indication in the movie is that it is the summer of 1975. The '76 Lincoln Continental was introduced in October of '75 though, so Huggy's statement isn't entirely factual.
17th Sep 2004
Fargo (1996)
Plot hole: The two kidnappers are pulled over by the cop they eventually murder because they are not displaying temporary tags on their car. However, when Marge Gunderson shows up to investigate the crime scene the next morning, she figures out from the cop's citation book that the car had dealer plates (DLR.) If the car had dealer plates, they wouldn't need to display temporary tags, as tags are to be used when a license plate is not yet available for a car. There was no need to pull the kidnappers over, which makes the turning point of the story completely pointless.
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Suggested correction: Temporary tags have a non-unique number and the designation of the dealer on them, the cop put down DLR and was then going to put the dealer's number when they produced the temporary tag which they said they had forgotten to place in the window. On a temporary tag, the "tag number" is either the date the temporary tag expires or one of a limited number assigned to that dealer so it is not unusual to see duplicate temporary tags on different cars on the same day - you would need the dealer's number which is rather small at the bottom of the paper to actually identify the car.
But the point is that the police officer said he pulled them over because they were displaying no tag. If there had been a dealer tag on the car, then why would the officer have pulled them over? That's what a dealer tag is for: so a car can be driven displaying it. Yet everything that happens after that is predicated on the officer having begun to write out the number *on their tag*.
Suggested correction: They probably just had the generic plastic dealership logo plate on. Not an actual dealer plate with a number, but something with a logo and "Gustafson Motors" on it (or whatever the name of the car lot was).
That means they have no tags and the cop wouldn't write DLR. A logo with the dealer's name isn't a dealer tag.
15th Sep 2004
My Fellow Americans (1996)
Corrected entry: In the scene following the conversation with Dorothy in the gay rights parade, both Kramer and Douglas are riding on the back of motorcycles with Dykes on Bikes, but they are traveling on the wrong side of the double yellow line. Normally the double yellow is to the left of the driver and the white shoulder line is to the right.
Correction: In a parade, the road is closed to traffic and the parade uses the entire width of the road.
14th Sep 2004
Police Academy (1984)
Corrected entry: Cadets Blanks and Copeland have all their hair shorn off at the police barber because they think that it's like the army. When they discover that it wasn't necessary, both men look quite horrified. Yet over the whole course of training, which took about 12 or 14 weeks, their hair does not grow back even an inch. And it's quite unlikely that they decided to keep it that short since they seemed to like having hair.
Correction: IMHO, it is certainly possible that once they got used to the idea, that they liked it or at least decided to try it out for a while. Many men keep their crewcuts even after leaving the military even though they would never have had a crewcut before.
They were also trying to suck up to Lt. Harris, and he loved their haircuts. They could've kept them for him.
11th Sep 2004
The Nanny (1993)
Corrected entry: Whenever we see the exterior of the Sheffield townhouse, there are four floors. But inside, there are only two floors. And we never hear about a neighbor that might live in a separate townhouse upstairs.
Correction: Just because they don't show the whole house in a way that you understand doesn't mean it isn't there. The place is basically only one room wide. The living room is on the ground floor. The kitchen and probably Nile's room is downstairs. There have to be at least 5 more bedrooms (Dad, 2 daughters, son, nanny), and I recall Cece living there too at one point, so considering an average of 2 rooms bathrooms per floor that's at least 3 more floors - there's at least 5 floors worth of rooms that must be there.
11th Sep 2004
Daddy Day Care (2003)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Charlie is holding the plate with cookies, he is wearing oven mitts, so we can assume that the plate is still hot. But when the camera changes, he is holding the plate against his stomach, meaning that it isn't hot because a t-shirt isn't thick enough to stop the heat.
Correction: He picked it up with the oven mitts just in case it was hot. Once he discovered that it wasn't, he wouldn't necessarily throw the cookies down to take the oven mitts off.
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