Corrected entry: When Bud is talking to Lynn about Susan Lefferts, Lynn says something to the effect that Susan "came on a bus with dreams of Hollywood, and this is how they turned out." But Bud later visits Susan Lefferts's mother, who lives in Elysian Park. That leaves three possibilities: One, Susan's mother originally lived somewhere other than Hollywood, and then moved there at some point. Two, Susan lived with someone other than her mother before coming to Hollywood. Three, the bus Lynn was referring to was a city bus - which would have travelled about six miles.
Grumpy Scot
1st May 2003
La Confidential (1997)
15th Feb 2003
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Corrected entry: When Baby Face Nelson is firing his Tommy Gun at the pursuing police officers, there is a shot where he fires off a burst, re-cocks the gun, and then fires again. Why would he do that? He hasn't changed the magazine, the gun hasn't jammed, and he isn't out of ammunition. So all he's ended up doing is ejecting a perfectly good .45 bullet from his sub-machine gun.
Correction: The Tommy Gun had a flaw throughout its service life that would cause it to fire a shell, eject the empty case, and close the bolt without chambering a new round. Thus he had to cock it again.
Correction: If you watch the TV show "Combat" you will see Sgt Saunders (Vic Morrow) do the same thing with his Thompson.
14th Jan 2003
Rain Man (1988)
Corrected entry: When Tom Cruise is driving his car, he turns the wheel too much when he's steering, like a five year old would. If he were actually driving, wouldn't he be swerving all over the road?
Correction: It's an old restored car. Perhaps the steering is very loose.
14th Dec 2001
Ghosts of Mars (2001)
Corrected entry: Although the film is set many years into our future all the characters are very visibly using modern day weaponry which includes a H&K G36 assault rifle a MP5k and a SPAS 12 guage shotgun. One would think that there would be improvements over modern gun designs...
Correction: Firearms don't change much when they reach a perfected design. There is every reason to believe all the weapons in the movie will be around another 50 years. For example, the US Army used the Colt M1911 for almost 70 years before replacing it with the Beretta 92F.
7th Oct 2002
Reign of Fire (2002)
Corrected entry: In the end, the male dragon was killed and very soon after that, the world went to peace and people started rebuilding the world. However, where did that thousands of female dragons go? They can't possibly just disappear if they have lived for billions of years already.
Correction: Earlier in the film, Bale says the dragons are running out of food and eating each other. The females must have cannibalized themselves out of existence.
27th Aug 2001
Hollow Man (2000)
Corrected entry: Before Sebastian tries to escape, he makes nitro-glycerine, but the way he uses isn't real. He mixes sulphuric acid with other compounds, but the REAL way is mixing sulphuric and nitric acids with glycerine on a ice bath (because Nitro-glycerine detonates at 30 ºC in presence of nitric acid), and the extracting the nitro-glycerine from the acid. Nitro-glycerine is clear-orange, but there has a strange brown colour.
Correction: If you were a movie maker, would you show millions of people the correct way to easily make a powerful explosive?
23rd Sep 2002
Resident Evil (2002)
Corrected entry: In the beginning, when the computer let the elevator drop (after we saw the first one fall to the floor), why did it bother to stop it for no reason whatsoever after it's only fallen 10 feet?
Correction: Elevators have safety systems to prevent falls. It took Red Queen a bit to override them in order to kill the passengers. Hence all the up and down.
27th Aug 2001
Red Planet (2000)
Corrected entry: When the 3 of them are caught in the middle of an ice storm while searching for the Russian ship, they wind up laying low for a while in the cold until the storm passes. Now if it's going to take 6 hours for the storm to pass and an ice storm that takes place at well below 0 degrees, how could they escape the storm with just frost on their hair and face? Even if it was above 0 degrees, the high winds would have given them full body frost bite or hypothermia.
Correction: Given the surface temperature on mars, their space suits are most likely electrically heated.
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Correction: Lynn is using a cliché. "Arriving on the bus" is still used for hopeful actors arriving in Hollywood, and even for political hopefuls to some extent. The mayor even uses it, and Bud turns it around on him later.
Grumpy Scot