Continuity mistake: After the trial, Colonel West and others discuss plans on how to rescue them. The president rejects the plans, which are then left by the group in the president's office. Then a little later the president talks with Gorkon's daughter via view screen and the plans are still there in full view in the background.
Guy
12th Sep 2007
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
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Suggested correction: Why is this a mistake?
28th Mar 2014
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
Other mistake: When Sulu tells Kirk he is coming to help, he states the Excelsior is currently in the Alpha Quadrant. The problem is the the Alpha Quadrant in the Star Trek universe is one quarter of the total Milky Way Galaxy. While technically correct, Sulu giving his position as in the Alpha Quadrant is useless to Kirk in terms of knowing when to expect help. It doesn't matter where Khitomer is in the galaxy. Sulu saying he is in the Alpha Quadrant gives Kirk absolutely no idea of when he will arrive. He could be anywhere from 5 minutes away to 5 weeks away or even further. Remember, it was originally projected to take Voyager 70 years to go from the Delta Quadrant back to the Federation in the Alpha Quadrant.
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Suggested correction: The implication is that Excelsior has only very recently crossed the border from the Beta Quadrant to the Alpha Quadrant.
Even if that "implication" were true (and there's nothing dialogue-wise to indicate such) it's still useless to Kirk as to when the expect help. The dividing line between the Alpha and Beta is fully half the width of the galaxy.
Sulu doesn't expect Kirk to deduce where the Excelsior is, he tells him directly that they're unlikely to make it in time, and the reason is that they are "now in Alpha Quadrant" i.e. they were previously not in the Alpha Quadrant, i.e. they're far enough away that recently they were in a whole other quadrant of the galaxy. (I agree it's an awkward line, but it makes sense if you think of it like "I'm now in the U.S." if it's known you already live there - it means you've just returned).
1st Oct 2015
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
Corrected entry: McGonagall directs Filch to take the Slytherins to the dungeons. However, when Malfoy apparates into the castle, he grabs Goyle and Blaise Zambini while they are running. They should be in the dungeons with the rest of Slytherin House.
Correction: Just because Filch took them to the Slytherin common room doesn't mean that they stayed there. It's not as if Filch has any way to keep them in the dungeon.
29th Jun 2013
The Big Bang Theory (2007)
Corrected entry: Professor Crawley states he discovered a new species of dung beetle (named after him) in a rain forest in Borneo. That is impossible - dung beetles do not live in damp climates as the fecal matter upon which they live degrades too quickly when moist. You can find dung beetles in Savannah grassland, semi-arid desert, some lightly wooded areas, but a rain forest? Never.
Correction: Never is a big word. Deltochilum valgum and Oxysternon pteroderum are two examples of dung beetles that live in rainforests.
I'm from Borneo and yes we do have dung beetles here. My family is in the adventure business and we take coleopterists to do research on the dung beetles species found here.
19th Feb 2013
The Big Bang Theory (2007)
Corrected entry: Sheldon's battery runs low during Leonard's date with Leslie so he gets an extension cord but leaves the door open. As he goes down the stairs the extension cord unwinds until he can't go any further and attempts to pull it. When Leonard gets up to shut the door there is no extension cord plugged into the outlet or leading out of the apartment.
16th Jul 2012
Batman Forever (1995)
Corrected entry: When Batman saves Robin from falling during the climax, right around when Robin says "Thanks", you can see that both the Batman and Robin costumes have hidden "vent-holes" cut into the underarms (likely to help the actor's skin "breathe" and to help air circulation keep them cool in the heavy costumes), with nothing but black cloth underneath.
28th May 2012
The Big Bang Theory (2007)
Corrected entry: Sheldon states that reductio ad absurdum is "the logical fallacy of extending an argument to a ridiculous extreme and then challenging it". This is incorrect; this is the straw man fallacy. Reductio ad absurdum is the entirely valid inferential technique of demonstrating that the consequences of an argument being true result in a contradiction.
Correction: Sheldon is correct. "Reductio ad absurdum" (Latin: "reduction to the absurd") is a form of argument in which a proposition is disproven by following its implications logically to an absurd consequence. Proof by contradiction is a specific form of Reductio ad absurdum. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum A strawman argument is committed when a person simply ignores a person's actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position. http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/straw-man.html The major difference between the two is that an Reductio ad absurdum argument presents the opponent's claim correctly but carries it to an extreme. The Strawman argument presents the opponent's claim incorrectly.
16th Nov 2011
Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)
Corrected entry: When Dennis hears the strange noise for the first time and takes his camera with him, to the living room, there's a doll placed leaning against a pillar. As his camera turns back there for the second time, the doll's missing.
Correction: Toby moves things around frequently. This is just another example of that.
20th Nov 2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
Corrected entry: In the epilogue at the end of the movie Harry has no scar.
Correction: Actually, the scar is present but very difficult to see. It is very thin and faded, as would be expected nearly 20 years after Voldemort's defeat. It is easiest to see if you pause the movie during Harry's conversation with Albus Severus. Several of the front shots of Harry show the scar.
29th Oct 2011
Star Trek (2009)
20th Oct 2011
Goldfinger (1964)
Corrected entry: The homing device Bond puts in the inside trunk lid of Goldfinger's Rolls is magnetic as shown when Q is demonstrating it. However, like the other body work, the trunk lid of that car would have been made of gold, to which a magnet will not stick.
Correction: The entire car is not made of gold, just the body panels. Since gold is very heavy but bends fairly easily, any gold on the car would have to have some kind of support structure not made of gold. Bond would have attached the homing device to this support.
27th Aug 2011
Star Trek: Enterprise (2001)
Corrected entry: In "Horizon" they talk about going to visit a system to watch a geological event that will take place in a week from then. Mayweather says that this system is 30 lightyears away from them. By using the Warp speed calculator http://www.ussdragonstar.com/utilitycore/warpspeeds.asp you see that this trip would take about 51 days. Warp 5 is too slow to get there in time, but still they arrive in time.
2nd Aug 2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
Corrected entry: When Ron and Hermoine go back to the Chamber of Secrets to get a basilisk fang, Ron speaks Parseltongue and then explains to a surprised Hermione how he knows it. The second film established that one needs to speak Parseltongue to open even the bathroom entrance to the Chamber. Therefore, Ron would have explained himself before they reached this point.
Correction: Not necessarily. Ron might simply have not thought to explain how to open the door to Hermione until they reached it.
1st Jul 2011
Avatar (2009)
Corrected entry: The exoskeleton walkers are designed to detect the hand and arm movements that their drivers make and replicate them exactly. However at the end when the Colonel is shot by two arrows, he grasps the second one with his right hand (palm-down), however his walker makes a grasp with the palm up. (02:24:00)
Correction: By this time the walker has suffered considerable damage. It is not unreasonable that some of the electronics and/or mechanical components of the system would no longer work correctly.
27th Feb 2011
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Corrected entry: In the spacewalk scene, where Worf's suit is damaged during the fight with the Borg drone to release the deflector dish, he stops the suit from leaking by using part of the Borg drone as a tourniquet on his upper leg. Although this might be sufficient for keeping the rest of his body from being exposed to decompression in space, his lower leg is still exposed to deep space vacuum, resulting in the blood boiling instanly. This would cause him to at the very least lose the functionality of this body part, yet there is no sign of this in the rest of the scene.
Correction: He doesn't use the Borg part as a tourniquet. He plugs/patches the hole and uses the Borg part to hold the plug/patch in place.
Nope. Just rewatched it. There is a visible tourniquet but there is no sign of any other plug or patch, there is no dialogue of him hinting this is how he did it and there is no footage of him applying it. Pure speculation.
13th Aug 2010
The Living Daylights (1987)
Corrected entry: When Bond comments on Kara's appearance in Afghanistan, he says a foreign word she doesn't understand. "It means 'beautiful' in Afghan," he says. Only one problem: Afghan isn't a language. Pashto (known as Pakhto in the north) and Dari are the two major languages spoken in Afghanistan and "Afghan" is not a language or a dialect or a slang term to refer to any known language or dialect.
Correction: Bond is not going to sit there and have a conversation about linguistics and dialects with Kara. He obviously knows what language is spoken in Afghanistan (as he speaks it), but simplifies the explanation for Kara.
3rd Aug 2010
The Simpsons (1989)
Corrected entry: When Homer check the bills, he finds out Bart called Burkina Faso. He was trying to call countries in the Southern Hempisphere, when Burkina Faso is actually in the Northern Hemisphere.
11th Jul 2010
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Corrected entry: In one of the final sequences, when Picard initiates the self destruct sequence, Worf uses his authorization code to ratify the self destruct command. How could Worf be a commanding officer of the ship, with authority to destroy the ship? At the time of the movie, he was in command of the Defiant, and not a crew member of the Enterprise, let alone a commanding officer. (01:23:40)
Correction: You don't have to be a commanding officer of the ship or even one of the ship's crew. As long as the ship's computer recognizes the person's authority, the computer will follow instructions. Remeber that in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, NO ONE is officially a crew member of the Enterprise as it is scheduled to be decommissioned. However, after stealing the ship, Kirk, Scotty and Chekov are able to activate the self-destruct because the computer recognizes their authority.
4th Sep 2008
Death Race (2008)
Corrected entry: When Frank is looking at the picture of his daughter he rips one big piece, but when the camera pulls away you see him drop one piece then rip another piece and let them fall. Back zoomed in, only the one big piece is missing.
Correction: Actually, "Frank" rips off the large upper left corner of the picture (with the other man holding his daughter), AND the bottom right corner of the picture.
7th Mar 2010
The Incredibles (2004)
Corrected entry: When Bob arrives at Edna's, she makes the comment "my god, you've gotten fat." However, this takes place after the montage where he works out to get back into shape.
Correction: While it is true that this occurs after Mr. Incredible has begun losing weight, he is still much heavier than when he was in his prime. As Edna most likely last saw him before the supers went into hiding, she is comparing as he is now to what she remembers from then.
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