4th May 2008
In the Shadow of Two Gunmen: Part I - S2-E1
Corrected entry: Josh is rushed to GW hospital with a collapsed lung and ruptured pulmonary artery. However, when Toby finds him at the shooting scene, Josh is holding his left abdomen, and the bullet, being fired from the building across the street, would have ranged downward, far from the pulmonary artery.
14th Jun 2004
Corrected entry: Political consultant Mandy Hampton disappeared completely with absolutely no explanation between the first and second seasons. She was in the last episode of the first season and not in the first episode of the second (which took place only a few minutes later) and no one ever explained where she went.
Correction: Her departure is not explicitly explained to the viewer, but the fact that the show's characters are not similarly confused suggests they are aware of when and why she left, and have moved on. The actress' departure as well as the choice to not specifically explain it 'in-show' were both intentional, and are not mistakes. (Humorously, the writers could easily have killed her with the season-ending shooting, nice and smooth)
13th May 2004
Corrected entry: In this episode the President says he has been married to Abby for 32 years. But later in the first season he says that she was dating someone else 30 years ago.
Correction: It is a natural (and not necessarily consistent) human trait to simply 'round off' numbers in conversation. I tell people I'm with my wife 25 years, even tho it's actually 22.5 now. My hour drive to work is really between 50 and 55 minutes. Merely a character choice.
20th May 2004
Corrected entry: In the scene where Jack Travis asks to see Billy Phelps, he is told "He's down the hall on the right." The room he's in is actually at the dead end of the hall. (00:32:20 - 00:34:55)
Correction: The uniformed officer was telling Travis that the hallway was to Travis' right, which Travis immediately leans and looks toward.
9th May 2004
Corrected entry: Another gag that's too far from reality: How on earth can a car pull a supporting beam of solid mansion out the foundation? (01:30:20)
Correction: While this event is not very likely, the design of such a 'stilt' is intended to hold a vertical load (the weight of the house) up. The angled braces help to control lateral motion created by wind and such. Neither of these is designed to withstand deliberate attempts to pull the stilt out sideways near its base. Is it as easy to do as shown in the film? Perhaps not, but not impossible.
19th Jun 2003
Corrected entry: In the scene where Riggs pulls the stilts out from under the house you can see the rear end come out from under the truck but then he backs up and jerks it again.
Correction: The axle is never shown coming free. At one point, the rear end of the truck lifts upward, allowing the wheels to drop quite a bit, but this is the effect of unloading the trucks weight from its rear leaf springs (jack up a car with a scissor jack under the rocker panel to see the same effect). Regardless, the cable he is using is attached to the truck frame, not the axle, so he can yank like this 'til the transmission fails and the axle mounts will never be at risk.
7th Nov 2002
Corrected entry: The car that Mr Joshua shoots Riggs from and the car that Mr Joshua later steals from the highway are the same car. (01:05:50 - 01:26:30)
Correction: Same model and color, but the plates are never readable, and as they are fairly new at the time of the film, it's not unlikely to see more than one. Absent an obvious, unique identifier, this isn't really a solid mistake.
2nd May 2008
Corrected entry: The size of the creature keeps changing. When we see it from the roof of the Time Warner Center, it is almost as tall as the skyscrapers around it. When it steps over Grand Central Station, it is barely taller than the station. When it attacks the helicopter, it's huge again but (SPOILER) when it kills Hud, it is much smaller. This can't be explained by saying it's not in the same position every time, because it is always on four legs. The only time it's on two legs is when it reaches up to attack the helicopter and before that it was walking on four legs and when it was, it was huge.
Correction: Actually, it's not in the same positions each time. The articulation of its limbs allows it to stand quite tall or to skulk at a much lower level, as needed (see special features on DVD). The creature was, of course, computer designed and controlled, and it was automatically kept 'in scale' with the CGI city around it. Any perceived variances are caused by the limits of our 2D viewing of what should be a 3D scene. Our view is 'flat', so that all depth is lost, and distances between objects difficult to judge, and thus, our perception of scale can be distorted.
Correction: Have you ever seen how a cat can curl into a ball or "cat loaf" then stretch out to twice the length? Or how a bear walking on all fours looks smaller then stands up on it's two back legs and looks huge? Probably a similar principal here.
6th Mar 2005
Corrected entry: The house that was bombed was also the family home seen in "The Partridge Family".
Correction: Actually, not even a close resemblance. Dixie's house is practically a shack while the Partridge Family home was enormous. Do a Google image search to see the huge differences.
17th Dec 2001
Corrected entry: When we first see the side of the jaywalker's head, his sideburns are down to his earlobe, next time we see him they are only down half way.
Correction: They are one length in every shot he appears in, even after checking frame-by-frame.
19th Oct 2004
Corrected entry: When Danny Glover is thrown out of the South African's office, one of the security people turns his hand as if to lock the door. Yet for the rest of the scene, the door is shown the whole time and there is NO lock on the door. This apparent lock-free policy is keeping a whole heap of protesters outside.
Correction: No one actually makes a move to lock the doors, they simply hold them closed 'til they feel Roger isn't intending to come back in. The protestors outside surely know that entering would be trespassing, so they remain outside by choice, not because of locks. Lastly, there's no reason the doors can't have remote-controlled electronic locks (especially since they are the front doors of a very real bank lobby used for this scene).
9th May 2004
Corrected entry: In the scene with the dive into the hotel pool the hotel balcony is protected by a solid wall. Therefore, only Riggs, who was rolling on the room service trolley, would have had a chance to fly over it, whereas Leo and the attacker should have ran into the wall. (00:27:20)
Correction: It isn't a 'solid wall' but an orange metal railing. Such railings only come up to about waist level. Given the forward momentum of all three struggling men, they could easily have lost balance and toppled over the railing.
2nd May 2004
Corrected entry: When Riggs runs after Mr. Joshua, who is trying to escape in the stolen car, Murtaugh shouts after him that Mr. Joshua is heading for the freeway. How on earth does he know that, especially since Joshua was going into some odd direction which allowed Riggs to shortcut him on foot and get ahead of him? (01:27:25)
30th May 2003
Corrected entry: When Melvin is kissing the girl in front of the video store and Cisco rearends him you can see the rear of the Firebird cave in and the Jag's front bumper touches its rear tyres. When they are stuck in the tree they climb out of the hatchback and it is fine. (01:16:04 - 01:16:45)
Correction: Actually, the collision is shown from the right side of both cars, so we can only see the damage on that side. All subsequent shots of the car are from the front/left side. If the Jag hit at even a slight angle to the Firebird, the damage would be much more severe on one side than the other.
5th Jan 2004
Corrected entry: Jack hoists Rose up onto the railing at the front of the boat, and they stand there for several minutes. Having been at the front of a boat in San Francisco, I can say that the Jack and Rose would have been blown back and unable to stay on the railing due to the speed of the ship. Instead of a small breeze in Rose's hair, the wind would have been pushing them backwards.
20th Jan 2004
Corrected entry: After the white limo pulls away from the police car, you can see that the police car has no markings on it.
Correction: The car is the same as when it pulled the limo over. The later camera angle causes the car's door to reflect more light, hiding the shield, but it's still there.
12th Nov 2004
Corrected entry: The guy in the Gullwing Mercedes claims he has a "383 Hemi". There is no such engine. Hemis were made in 331, 392 and 426 CIDs, but not a 383.
Correction: He lied to impress the girls. A character error at best.
3rd Feb 2008
Corrected entry: The postcard that Ennis initially receives from Jack is dated September 1967. Not only does the date stamp not show the day the card was mailed, just the year, but also there is no ZIP code on the address. The USPS began requiring ZIP codes on July 1, 1963, and this post card - mailed more than three years later - never would have been delivered without a ZIP code.
Correction: The US Postal Service created the zip code service back in 1963, but has NEVER required it to be used. You can mail a postcard even today and, without zip, it will get there if the rest of the address is genuine. It just might take a bit longer.
28th Apr 2008
Corrected entry: Al Pacino answers the phone in a scene soon after he's given a loaner cell from his student, and he answers the phone with his right hand, which has strangely disfigured fingernails (including a noticeably thick white middle fingernail) and in the next shot, the phone is in his very normal-looking left hand. The same creepy fingernails can be observed later throughout the film.
Correction: Differences between his left and right hands are not continuity errors. If the SAME hand was different, shot-to-shot, that would be a mistake.
29th Mar 2008
Corrected entry: When Briony enters the kitchen to say she has finished her play, the cook tells her to go away as they have a dinner for 10 to prepare. The Mother, Cecelia, the brother, his friend, Briony, Lola and the twins make only eight. Robbie is not invited till after this and then it still makes only 9 for dinner.
Correction: Any number of reasons accounts for this: Rounding up the number in conversation, exagerrating her workload, expected guests that never arrived, normal 'extra' food in case of surprise/last minute guests, and so on. At worst, a character mistake.
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Correction: Bullets travel, deflect and even splinter. Example: The bullet can have struck the sidewalk, bounced upward, hitting him in the abdomen and traveling up under the ribcage, piercing his lung and cutting the artery.
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