Factual error: The volcanic ash that can be seen throughout the film is too big to be real. The ash shown is something like 1-2 cm in diameter. Volcanic ash is not that big in real life; it is not more than 2 millimetres in diameter. (01:02:30)
Ssiscool
15th Sep 2008
Volcano (1997)
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Suggested correction: There are different types of products from volcanic eruptions: Ash, lapilli, and bombs. Ash is what everybody knows as. Lapilli is about the size of pebbles. Bombs, as shown in the movie, are large rocks on fire that can explode as they did in the movie.
Suggested correction: This in the middle of a city, where various things were catching fire, so that ash might not be exclusively from the volcano, but from burning buildings and objects nearby.
31st Aug 2005
Volcano (1997)
Corrected entry: At the start, when we see the two cops pull up outside the church, the cops get out of the car and start to walk past the burnt out car. The cop with the brown hair walks ahead of the cop with the blonde hair, yet in the following shot, the blonde haired cop is now ahead of the other cop. (00:05:20)
6th Sep 2007
Volcano (1997)
Corrected entry: There is a scene where it shows one of the trucks bumping into one of the concrete dividers to help hold it still whilst the lava flows. In a few shots later, the truck and the divider get shunted back by the weight of the lava. Its simply the previous sequence of the truck reversed. (01:08:00)
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