Corrected entry: It's Christmas eve in New York City and it's snowing. Everyone is wrapped up because it's so cold and yet, when everyone sings and talks, you can't see their breath. If it's so cold then why can't you see their breath?
wizard_of_gore
2nd Dec 2003
Elf (2003)
17th Dec 2001
The Santa Clause (1994)
Corrected entry: At the soccer game, the activity behind the bench Tim Allen is reclined on changes.
Correction: This is way too vague. I have now watched this movie dozens of times and, since they are in a public place, naturally whatever is going on behind Scott changes from shot to shot. There is nothing unusual about it.
28th Oct 2003
The Santa Clause (1994)
Corrected entry: When Scott Calvin and Charlie have got in the sleigh and Scott has shouted 'Let's go', the sleigh flies off the roof and moves onto the road along side a truck. At first glance the sleigh looks like its moving on the ground, then in the next shot it looks like its off the ground, and then it goes back to moving back on the ground before flying off to deliver presents.
Correction: Scott cannot control the sleigh, so it makes sense that it's moving up and down and occasionally hitting the ground.
24th Dec 2008
Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
Corrected entry: When Napoleon and Pedro ride up to the school to put up the fliers, chiseled in stone on the school are the words "Preston Junior High School" while the sign underneath says "Preston High School".
Correction: This could actually happen. In the town I used to live in, the high school was converted to a junior high school and they did not bother to change the words that were carved into the facade of the building, they just put up new signs on the lawn.
18th Jan 2007
The Santa Clause 2 (2002)
Corrected entry: When Charlie gives the snow globe to Principal Newman, look at the bottom of the snow globe. In the closeup, the bottom changes completely.
Correction: The scene inside the snow globe changes based on who is using it. For Charlie, the scene is his street, for principal Newman, it's something else.
Corrected entry: Just before the scene in which Pippin complains about not having "second breakfast", the shot changes to show an overview of the forest they're in. Before the scene changes, look in the top right hand corner of the screen. The trees there appear to be forming a circle with a hole in the middle. Slow motion or pausing isn't necessary, but it makes it easier to spot.
Correction: The fact that the trees "seem to form a circle" is not valid movie trivia.
4th Dec 2008
Elf (2003)
Corrected entry: As Buddy asks his dad to tuck him in, the pillow to his right (our left) seems to have a (small bit rough) 3-D face on it, caused by the lighting and the way the pillow is wrinkled/fluffed. This creepy "face" is there throughout the entire scene and doesn't move or change.
Correction: A wrinkled pillow that seems to take on a semi-recognizable shape is not valid movie trivia.
3rd Jan 2008
Smallville (2001)
Corrected entry: After Clark fails to prevent the death of Lana he is emotionally devastated and in a highly distraught state wanting only to be close to her as Jonathan pulls Clark away. Given Clark's emotional state and superior strength he would have been able to easily resist this action.
Correction: This simply means that he really did not want to resist. No mistake here.
15th Jun 2007
Smallville (2001)
Corrected entry: In the begining of the episode pariah Lana is taking a shower. They show you she turned on the cold water, but when she's attacked, steam is practically running out of the shower and the mirror is fogged. Now, if she is taking a cold shower, how is this possible?
Correction: Some time has passed, and she could have turned on the hot water off camera.
14th Sep 2007
Smallville (2001)
Corrected entry: Clark looks up an old newspaper article on the Internet, citing some of the information to Chloe. Subsequently, and to Clark's surprise, Chloe reveals some additional information she has dug up elsewhere. However, that very same information was also included in the newspaper article he was reading.
25th Jun 2004
Smallville (2001)
Corrected entry: Clark realizes that Amy stole Lex's watch when he sees her wearing it. He and Lex then search Amy's room with her mother and find the watch. Amy wears the watch as a token of her obsession and would not take it off lightly, even if she had returned home and left again. (00:31:45 - 00:32:50)
Correction: This is your opinion on a character decision. We do not know why she took it off, but she did.
17th Aug 2008
Tropic Thunder (2008)
Corrected entry: At one point in the jungle one of the men calls Jeff Portnoy by his real name "Jack", instead of the character's name "Jeff".
Correction: Please be more specific. I have watched this movie several times and cannot spot this mistake.
29th Oct 2008
Saw V (2008)
Corrected entry: In the first trap of the movie, Seth is in the pendulum trap. We find out that Hoffman put this trap together before he ever met John Kramer. However, on the tv, it is John Kramer's voice talking to Seth, describing the trap he is in. (Also, it is Kramer's puppet that is used in the video.).
Correction: If you listen closely, it is not Kramer's voice on the tape, it is definitely Hoffman's. As for the puppet, it would not have been difficult for Hoffman to obtain photos of the puppet from other Jigsaw cases, and construct his own.
3rd Jan 2008
Smallville (2001)
Corrected entry: No city in Kansas ever had elevated railways, not even in 1940. (00:50:40)
Correction: Metropolis is a fictional city, so if the writers say it had elevated railways, then it did.
1st Sep 2008
Saw IV (2007)
Corrected entry: When the coroners are weighing Jigsaw's head, you can see the scale is at about 10 lbs. But when the assistant coroner takes the brain out of the scale, the scale doesn't reset itself back to 0.
Correction: Some morgues have scales that deliberately do not reset automatically, on the off chance that the M.E. forgets to record the weight before taking the object out of the scale. The scale displays the weight until it is reset manually.
15th Aug 2008
Unbreakable (2000)
Corrected entry: At the end of the movie, after Willis realizes Jackson is actually a terrorist/psychopath, he looks around the room frantically and the audio sounds like he's gasping and breathing from his mouth, but his mouth is not open.
Correction: It's very easy to breathe hard and making gasping sounds without opening your mouth.
Especially through the nose.
15th Aug 2008
Wall-E (2008)
Corrected entry: At several points, Wall-E and Eve are speaking and making noises outside the Axiom. In reality, we shouldn't be able to hear anything.
Correction: This is a common moviemaking technique. We all know that there is no sound in space, yet we need to know what the characters are (trying) to communicate.
8th Aug 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: During the scene in which Maroni's men meet with the Scarecrow, you see the black Suburban pull up. As it comes to a stop, you can see finger smudges on the driver's door that were a result of earlier takes. When he gets out, he puts his hand in exactly the same spot.
Correction: There are smudges on the paint near the handle of my truck as well, from being used all the time. In this case, the truck is used by grimy criminals, so the smudges make perfect sense.
4th Aug 2008
Transformers (2007)
Corrected entry: When Sam is about to drive his car for the first time, he asks his mother why she put the "girl jewelry" on the dog, as if he's never seen it before. But the blue collar was already on the dog - we can see it as he is giving Mojo his medication, so how can he be surprised that it is there?
Correction: He's not surprised that she put it there, just upset because it's embarassing.
29th Jul 2008
Borat (2006)
Corrected entry: When Borat just arrived in California and was walking on the street while singing amen, he was wearing two pins on his jacket, but when he finished the fight with Azamat he had only the right pin on. (01:11:25 - 01:12:20)
Correction: This does not happen in consecutive shots, so either he removed one of them or one of them fell off.
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Correction: Seeing your breath does not only depend upon how cold it is. It also depends on the amount of humidity in the air and the air pressure.
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