Corrected entry: In the scene where the Army is removing the historical documents from the National Archives you get a good look at the glass-encased Declaration of Independence. The one shown in the film has dark printing and is extremely easy to read. The real document looks nothing like this (I've seen it several times in the archives) - the printing is faded throughout and the parchment is not uniformly brown, as it is depicted in the movie. (00:37:40)
DavidRTurner
21st May 2013
World War Z (2013)
9th Sep 2013
Total Recall (2012)
Corrected entry: When Jessica Biel starts shooting the robots from the flying vehicle, briefly, the windshield is shown cracked. This is the place where, moments later, the black robot tries to break into the vehicle.
Correction: The cracks in the windshield of the helicopter are on her right (roughly 40 degrees to the right of centre); the black robot jumps on it from the left and punches through (about 80 degrees left of centre); the difference in the angle is enough for the distance between the crack and the robot's punch to be approximately 4 feet - which puts the crack about 2 feet off-screen when we see the robot punch through. So it's still there, just not in the frame.
26th Feb 2005
Stranded (2002)
Corrected entry: When the three guys are walking down the hill on Mars, one of the guys says that the moon of Mars is going as fast as a satellite. If he knew anything about space (which he should have, being selected to go to Mars) he would know that a moon is classified as a satellite, so it's like saying 'that moon is going as fast as a moon' which doesn't make sense. (00:52:00)
Correction: When Fidel makes mention of this (Phobos moving as fast as a satellite), he is casually telling the others of his observation, not making a technical statement. I doubt that even an astronaut would use the term 'satellite' when talking about a moon, unless they were giving a lecture or telling a story. The assumption that he would know this, is valid; but in the context of the scene, it would be very odd for him to be using the technically correct terms.
29th Oct 2011
Tremors 4: The Legend Begins (2004)
Corrected entry: Jet engine vapour trails are visible in the sky on 2 separate occasions, once when the team discover Old Freds abandoned stage coach, and again near the end of the movie with the final shootout with the last Graboid. The movie is set in 1889.
Correction: These are not necessarily jet vapours (contrails). The one at 0:46:50 is possibly a cloud - it looks fairly straight-line, as a contrail might look as it dissipates, but clouds can look like that. We cannot assume this to be a contrail. In the other scene, I assume the poster means the one behind Hiram at 1:30:35, as I cannot spot another. This one is just a telegraph wire.
6th Jan 2004
Tremors 3: Back to Perfection (2001)
Corrected entry: After the foursome spend the night on the rocks, their shirts are buttoned up tight, but while Burt retreaves his walkie-talkie and guns out of his truck, both Miguel and Jody's shirts are unbuttoned.
Correction: There is plenty of time between shots for the characters to loosen their shirts.
8th Oct 2002
Tremors (1990)
Corrected entry: When the heroes are on the roof and they send the lawn mower off as a diversion, you can see it would crash into some building. In the next shot, it is back on the road. (00:21:02)
Correction: It does appear that way, but the machine is bouncing left and right over bushes, etc. and not always in the scene, so the viewer does not know where it is all the time. Its direction could easily change a little. In the 2nd part of the shot, we can't quite see it well enough to say it's on the road (which it should not be) and after that it is in the direction it started on.
21st Dec 2003
Tremors (1990)
Corrected entry: When Rhonda is jumping from shelf to shelf in the store, she slips and falls in one of the shots. You can just see her feet stumbling as she lands on the materials on the top shelf, but the shot ends before she falls all the way.
Correction: When she jumps from the 1st shelf to the 2nd, she stumbles a little, but is stable before the camera cuts; the 2nd to 3rd is fine; on the 3rd to last jump, her left foot lands at a bad angle (enough that the stunt woman could have broken the ankle); but she is never at risk of falling.
16th May 2010
Tremors (1990)
Corrected entry: When Rhonda jumps from shelf to shelf in the store, she crouches on the last one and falls through the window. When she falls, the shelf falls flat against the wall. But when Val looks down to see where she went, the corner of the shelf is sticking out the window.
Correction: Actually, the shelf corner does go through the window when it falls over - it doesn't appear to be at quite the same angle in the next shot, but that could just be the very different camera angles.
4th Jun 2013
After Earth (2013)
Corrected entry: One thousand years after mankind has abandoned earth, despite the abundance of lush foliage, there is a marked absence of oxygen? And if so, it appears that the indigenous wildlife has rapidly adapted to the scarcity.
Correction: Will tells Jaden about the oxygen filtration discs, "allowing you to breath more comfortably in the environment". A few images of industrial pollution are shown, suggesting we poisoned the world, which must have included the air, and thus had to leave the planet. If the oxygen levels are simply lower than that which easily support humans, animals could easily have adapted in a thousand years.
They are both aliens and simply aren't adapted to the levels of oxygen on Earth.
Correction: It has nothing to do with what we did to Earth. They are both essentially aliens, just like the gravity is different to their home, so is the atmospheric level of various chemicals.
4th Jun 2013
After Earth (2013)
Corrected entry: Nova Prime's sky is full of huge planetary bodies and moons...can you imagine the tidal effects from the gravitational pull of these bodies? The planet would be uninhabitable.
Correction: Although we cannot know how old Nova Prime is as a planet, it can be assumed that it settled into its 'current' habitable state after eons of adjusting to the moons' gravity. When Jaden is running with the Rangers, we can see one very large moon and a smaller one; perhaps the large moon's gravity is enough to make the others insignificant in impacting the planet.
13th Feb 2013
In Time (2011)
Corrected entry: When the car runs over the stingers the car goes out of control and goes over a cliff. But stingers are made to bring a car to a controlled stop. Not make it go out of control.
Correction: Not every car (or driver) will react the same way in a situation. Popped tires do not necessarily cause 'a controlled stop' - especially if the driver panics. Will may have reacted by pressing the gas rather than the brake, after the stingers popped the tires. This acceleration, combined with the flat tires, would certainly have caused instability in the car, and could well have sent him out of control. Since the car seems to accelerate over the 'cliff' (actually the edge of the L.A. River aqueduct), it seems likely this is what happened.
31st Jul 2012
In Time (2011)
Corrected entry: When Will and Sylvia are running to get to the Timekeeper's car in one of the last scenes, while Sylvia is running she has on flat shoes, but when Will is running back to her and they meet she has on heels again.
Correction: After reviewing this scene carefully, it can be seen that in every shot showing her shoes, she is actually running in the heels.
3rd Aug 2009
Bones (2005)
The Pain in the Heart - S3-E15
Corrected entry: When Bones storms into Booth's bathroom to confront him, the clock behind her right shoulder changes from 10:05 to 2:05.
Correction: Actually, there are 2 clocks on the wall, one set at 10:05 and the other at 2:05. They can both be seen in the same shot for several moments in the scene. It is not explained WHY they are set differently, but that is not relevant to the plot. (Time zones, perhaps).
7th May 2013
Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
Corrected entry: The president asks his son to choose a tie from a black or brown one. He gives the black one to the kid and keeps the brown one. In the next scene the president has the black tie.
Correction: He gives his son the brown tie. This could not be mistaken if you watch the scene twice. I will note that, minutes after putting on the black tie, he is in the Oval Office, wearing a crimson tie. For those checking this on the DVD, this could have been poor lighting during the filming, making us see the crimson tie as black when he was putting it on.
30th Aug 2010
The Box (2009)
Corrected entry: When Arthur returns to the table with the wrapped cardboard box, we never hear the audio of what would be the paper being removed before he opens it. Instead we see and hear a single crinkle of the paper as he removes it from underneath an instantly unwrapped box.
Correction: The sound of the paper unwrapping is heard just as the boy talks to his dad about Santa breaking and entering.
7th Mar 2012
Air Force One (1997)
Corrected entry: In the scene when the terrorists burst into the cockpit, after the pilot is shot they hold a gun to the co-pilot and demand him to take off. He reaches over and pulls a lever which causes the plane to veer off the runway. In fact that lever is the speed brake, normally used when landing, which actually causes the plane to slow down, not veer off the runway.
Correction: Immediately after pulling the lever, the co-pilot is shot in the back, causing him to fall forward & to the right, pulling the stick over and no doubt affecting the rudder as well. That's what causes the plane to veer, not the lever he pulled.
Rudder control for an aircraft is by foot pedals, the fact the pilot has been shot and slumped over could've caused pressure on the pedal causing the plane to change course on the ground. However due to the speed the aircraft was going it could be conceivable that change in aileron position by the co-pilot slumping over the yoke could also attribute to the directional change.
18th Jun 2007
Hannibal Rising (2007)
Corrected entry: Hannibal's final victim in the movie is supposed to be in Melville, Saskatchewan, and he is told it is near Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. These two cities are 356km apart, and about four hours drive away, longer in the 1950's. This is further distance apart than Paris to Marseilles, France, where most of the movie took place. Also, Melville is surrounded by farmland and fields, not the forest depicted in the movie. The Prairies near Melville are pretty much barren of trees.
Correction: I am from Melville - and it definitely did not look like this in the 1950s. Sorry. But prairie is correct. That means no trees as is depicted in the movie. Melville is too far south to have that many trees. Farmland is all you would see, and trees around acreages and farms. Also - Melville is near Saskatoon when you consider that they are in Europe when they are talking about it.
Correction: There are only two cities "near" Melville - Regina & Saskatoon. Roughly the same size, Regina is a little closer, but Saskatoon is a better known name - especially to someone from out of the country. The scene takes place IN Melville, not in the prairies near it. And there are woods around most small towns in this part of the country (the sign says "Hamlet of Melville", so it's very small!).
9th May 2005
Sliders (1995)
Corrected entry: If time is, in fact, going backward, then people would be walking backward, all sound would be backward, etc.
Correction: When the Sliders discover they are moving 'backwards' and Arturo says so; it is further discussed & determined that they are 'jumping' or 'skipping' - so while each hour or so is 'forward' for all, the 'next' hour or so is a jump several hours backwards. Hence, the overall story is 'backwards', but all are 'moving forwards', just in different ways.
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Correction: We see this document for less than 3 seconds - not enough time to get a good look at the prop. The real document is under very special lighting and environmental conditions; it would not be as we'll lit as it is in this scene. It is possible that the view we have, with the bright lights, could bring out detail we cannot see at the Archives. Also; there is nothing to indicate that THAT is the document being carried - it could be something else. There isn't enough detail to be sure.
DavidRTurner