Ral0618

31st Oct 2003

The Ring (2002)

Corrected entry: In the archive of her newspaper Rachel has to stretch herself to get an old book from the top shelf. It falls out of her hands and disintegrates, looking more like a folder (in this shot also the way she is holding it changes), but when she sits down and studies the book is intact again. (00:42:00)

NancyFelix

Correction: There are two books that fall. One is large and is the one Rachel is seen looking through, the other thinner one is the one that disintegrates during its fall.

Ral0618

Corrected entry: In the first shot of Elle pitching Bruiser's Law to the other partners at the law firm she is not wearing a headset microphone, two shots later she is wearing one.

Correction: The microphone is on the smaller side and the first shot's view is from the other side of the room, so it's difficult to make out any specific features near her face, such as the microphone.

Ral0618

Corrected entry: When Elle goes to the first day of the hearing, she arrives in a pink suit. In the next shot, and through the rest of the hearing, she is wearing the same suit in teal.

Correction: As far as I could tell, the pink suit was worn during her very first hearing. The teal suit was worn during a different hearing on a different day.

Ral0618

25th Jun 2003

Clue (1985)

Corrected entry: At the end of the movie, in the first ending, Yvette supposedly killed the cook whose scream wasn't heard because of Mrs. Peacock screaming. However, Yvette then returns to the library and screams, and when they all run to her, she says she screamed because the brandy was poisoned, but when Prof. Plum said that, she was supposedly in the kitchen killing the cook. How could she have heard him say it?

Correction: Because during one of the 'explanations', Wadsworth points out that Yvette was taping their conversations. She could have played back the tape to see what she had missed while she was killing the cook.

Ral0618

10th May 2003

Ghostbusters (1984)

Corrected entry: In the scene where Dana gets out of her car with the bag of groceries (just before you see the statue on the roof crumble) all of the cars are driving on the left side of the road. The story, however, takes place in NYC.

Correction: Its a one way street, so all lanes are in the same direction.

Ral0618

The entry is wrong, so is the correction though; it's shown as a two-way street with cars going both ways (it is also not the moment before the statues crumble).

Sammo

19th Oct 2002

Serendipity (2001)

Corrected entry: In the final scene, Jonathan lies his head on Sara's jacket in the middle of the skating rink. But when he stands up after catching the glove and turns and sees her, the jacket is gone.

Correction: The jacket is still there at his feet, just not visible due to shadows and the dark fabrics.

Ral0618

26th Sep 2002

One Crazy Summer (1986)

Corrected entry: In the beginning of the boat race at the end the tongue is cut of the toy dog acting as a mascot for Hoops's boat. When we see the boat during the race the tongue is still attached.

Correction: There is only one clear shot of the dog after the race starts, and it does not have its tongue.

Ral0618

16th Dec 2001

Serendipity (2001)

Corrected entry: In the first flight scene, we see Eve and Sara taking off from San Francisco to go to New York city in a DC-9. A DC-9 has a range of about 1000 miles, which wouldn't even get half way across the country without running out of fuel.

Correction: There could have been a stop halfway that we were not shown. Not all flights are "non-stop".

Ral0618

16th Dec 2001

Serendipity (2001)

Corrected entry: The constellation Cassiopeia is not over New York city all year round. In the movie it is shown both in Spring and Winter.

Correction: It is not shown in the winter time. Jonathan only traces the formation on Sara's arm, he doesn't point it out in the sky. Sara sees it in the sky in the spring time and realizes Jonathan was right when she matches the stars to her arm freckles.

Ral0618

20th Jun 2003

Doc Hollywood (1991)

Corrected entry: When Dr. Stone is given the pipe from the father of the baby he delivered, he puts it in his mouth and starts walking down the stairs. The camera angle changes to the bottom of the stairs and he is now seen walking down the stairs holding the pipe and then putting it in his pocket.

MCKD

Correction: Since we don't see his entire descent down the stairs, its possible that he took the pipe from his mouth and that's why we see him holding it at the bottom.

Ral0618

2nd Nov 2003

Center Stage (2000)

Corrected entry: In Cooper's dance at the end of movie, during the scene when Jody is supposedly walking out of the subway, she puts her bag down when Charlie appears. When you next see the spot where she placed it, the bag has disppeared.

Correction: It is picked up by one of the "pedestrians" walking by in the background.

Ral0618

No, it isn't; the bag is nowhere on the stage.

30th Oct 2003

Old School (2003)

Corrected entry: When Beanie is with the college girl on his futon, the girl is seen sucking the air out of a balloon, yet when she talks her voice is unchanged by the helium. If there wasn't any helium in it, it wouldn't make sense for her to be sucking on it.

Correction: Its not helium, its nitrous...which really doesn't change your voice, but does give you a quick buzz.

Ral0618

14th Jul 2003

Pleasantville (1998)

Corrected entry: The thunderstom had been raging already for quite a while when Bud's father arrived at the bowling alley. Given its absolute novelty, why hadn't the bowlers heard anything before he pointed it out to them? Bowling alleys are noisy places, but not that noisy. And we can hear the thunderstorm very well inside the bowling alley. (01:14:30)

NancyFelix

Correction: You really only hear the storm outside once the bowlers have stopped bowling to listen to George's story. Even if they heard something, they wouldn't think it to be a thunderstorm since "that wouldn't happen in Pleasantville". They probably just thought it was the echoes of bowling sounds.

Ral0618

27th Aug 2001

The Color Purple (1985)

Corrected entry: Whoopie Goldberg writes notes to herself on waxed paper. She's not shown actually writing, but the medium is obviously felt-tip marker, which was invented decades after the action takes place.

Correction: If she is not shown writing, then we can't be sure a felt-tip marker was used. It looks more like a thick pencil lead.

Ral0618

Or it could have been a black crayon.

19th Sep 2003

Office Space (1999)

Corrected entry: Peter has a roll of kitchen tissue paper mounted on his fridge. In some scenes it is mounted vertically, in others horizontally.

jle

Correction: It's most likely attached by magnet, in which case I've had one like that and it tends to come off when you pull for a towel, so different positions in different scenes is possible.

Ral0618

26th Aug 2003

Phone Booth (2002)

Corrected entry: Why did Kiefer Sutherland call from the hotel room phone so that the cops could find out where he was. Did he want everything to end? If he would call from the same phone the whole time he wouldn't have to kill the pizza guy, who obviously wasn't a bad person, he wouldn't have to get another rifle to rig, and he could play with Farrell for a much longer time.

Correction: The police found the room because the sniper called Kelly's shop. Forrest Whitaker has the phone call traced because he's sure that the sniper made a mistake and forgot to block it. The sniper didn't plan for the cops to find him when they did.

Ral0618

2nd Jul 2003

Phone Booth (2002)

Corrected entry: The max effective range for a beanbag or rubber bullet 12 gauge shotgun round is about 25 yards. The police officer deployed across the street and up on a balcony. With that range, the officer would have been very lucky to hit a barn let alone a moving person. The impact at that range would have been barely noticable. Even from within 20 yards those rounds don't knock you down, they just hurt like hell.

Correction: The balcony could possibly be only 25 yards from the street. We aren't given a great shot of the shooter cop, so we can't say for sure that the bullet wouldn't have reached Stu. Also, Stu might have been so shocked to get hit that he fell back, stunned.

Ral0618

27th Aug 2001

The Godfather (1972)

Corrected entry: Luca Brasi goes to meet the Tattaglia family and Sollozzo, to pretend he would like to defect. Before they garrot him, Tattaglia stabs a knife into Brasi's left hand. Halfway through his death throes a wider shot reveals the knife in his right hand. The sequence concludes with Brasi slumped on the floor with his knife-impaled left hand still on the counter.

Correction: His right hand is stabbed. The other man grabs his left hand after lighting his cigarette, and just holds his arm so Tattaglia can stab the other hand.

Ral0618

29th Mar 2003

Sex and the City (1998)

Correction: Carrie says she doesn't (currently) have a cell phone, not that she *never* had one. And she may not know how to answer it because it is different than her previous one. Different phones can be answered in different manners.

Ral0618

1st Sep 2003

Dirty Dancing (1987)

Corrected entry: In the last dance scene (I've had the time of my life) everyone gets up to join in with the dancing its funny how all the many rows of chairs disappear so quickly. There would be no way they could move them all out of the way to a song that lasts 3 minutes.

Correction: You can see employees of the hotel moving chairs out of the way so everyone can dance.

Ral0618

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