Corrected entry: When McClane drives the truck into the computer control room, he smashes into the Thai goon with high speed, and then slams her into a wall. Her legs would have been crushed by that impact, but she's not hurt at all, and we see her moving her legs around with ease when she's trying to climb up the truck.
wizard_of_gore
11th Jul 2007
Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
18th Jul 2007
Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
Corrected entry: When the hackers have taken over the TV broadcast signal and the picture is being displayed in the FBI command centre, a message scrolls across the screen. Cut to another shot with John McClane watching the same TV channel as the FBI, the same message scrolls across, when it had in fact already been displayed.
Correction: This is a standard movie making convention of showing the same scene or shot from different characters' point of view.
7th Aug 2007
Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
Corrected entry: In the scene where McClane is in the truck being chased by the jet plane, the truck is attacked by missiles. In a particular shot a missile blows up the road making the truck almost flip-over. The truck is in a hard LEFT-turn. McClane steers hard LEFT to prevent the truck from flipping over. But that would only make the truck flip harder. He should have steered hard RIGHT.
Correction: The trailer portion is trying to flip overto the right. He steers hard left to try to counterbalance the effect of the trailer tipping over.
If you look at the scene, the truck is also tipping, not just the trailer. Steering hard left with a truck and trailer on the verge of tipping to the right would increase the centrifugal force already acting upon it and it would have completed the tip over. Steering hard to the same direction of the tip while moving forward would apply the counter force necessary to allow the truck/trailer to return to normal center of gravity over the wheels. It is a physics error.
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Correction: If you look closely, she does not actually hit the wall. The truck slams into an elevator shaft, and the rear of the truch gets stuck and stops it just short of the front end slamming into the opposite wall.
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