Corrected entry: After they are flushed from MIB HQ, J begins to tell the story of how K used to love to be flushed. In the first movie, just before K hands J the Neurolizer, he says 'not bad for your first day, huh?" They were never flushed in the first movie.
Phixius
15th Jan 2011
Men in Black II (2002)
19th Nov 2010
Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)
Corrected entry: After Claire and Chris are thrown into the containment tubes during the finale, they are shown banging on the glass as they slide down into the floor. When Alice picks up the control pad to release them she finds their entries with a picture of each of them, dressed in the same clothes, with the same wounds and blood stains, but they are calmly looking straight ahead. When and how were these pictures taken? Even if a picture was automatically taken when the tube closed it's unlikely that either of them would have posed for it.
22nd Sep 2010
Salt (2010)
Corrected entry: Salt is dressed like a man sneaking into a White House press function. She is posing as the male companion of a former Russian colleague of hers, who is also a double agent. They keep whispering to each other in a heavy Russian accent which makes absolutely no sense given they were speaking to one another in fluent Russian in the previous scene.
1st Aug 2010
The Karate Kid (2010)
Corrected entry: At the start of the movie Dre and Sherry are in Detroit, and they take a flight to Beijing on Air China, but Air China doesn't fly into or out of Detroit.
1st Jan 2011
Surrogates (2009)
Corrected entry: The scene when all surrogates are destroyed (falling over and crushing cars) should be in fact earlier - as soon as they are insulated from the network by Willis, because people wouldn't be able to control them from that moment. In the film they start to fall over not until when the virus is activated.
1st Jan 2011
The Polar Express (2004)
Corrected entry: While the train is climbing the spiral-shaped mountain, the engine and cars are shown to physically bend with the tracks.
1st Jan 2011
Sunshine (2007)
Corrected entry: A human body is mostly composed of water at the right atmospheric pressure. In a vacuum environment, the water will instantly evaporate. Making the astronaut's bodies explode when propelling themselves from Icarus 1 to 2. Otherwise astronauts wouldn't need pressurized suits.
2nd Jan 2011
Despicable Me (2010)
Corrected entry: When Gru is waiting at the girls' dance class, the calendar on the wall behind him has only six days per week - Sunday is missing. (00:43:10)
1st Jan 2011
Waterworld (1995)
Corrected entry: The Mariner takes Helen down to the sea bed in a makeshift 'diving bell'. He tells Helen there is only enough air for one person. The depth they dive to is shown as quite comfortably exceeding 200m. (To save this turning into a science essay I'll include this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyle's_law). Regardless of suspension of disbelief, there is no way that a bell of that size would carry enough air for even one person at that depth for that long. There's also the matter of decompression stops when they return to the surface. The Mariner wouldn't need them but Helen certainly would. It could be argued that the deco stops occurred off-screen and the audience doesn't see every second of their trip. Fair enough however The Mariner has no depth gauge. That would also assume he is not only aware of decompression as a concept, but is familiar with a specific set of decompression tables and schedules, to the point of having them memorised on the off chance he ever takes a human diving. Highly implausible.
Correction: Who says the mariner doesn't need decompression stops? He has gills and webbed toes, but even a fish can't move from the ocean floor to the surface without literally exploding. The "knowledge" of decompression must be instinctual for him, as is whether to breath through lungs or gills. He knows to stop for Helen because he must stop for himself as well. The first half of this mistake is valid but the second half is not. Perhaps a resubmission might be in order. This is why it's wiser not to list several issues in a single entry.
Rather more alarmingly, Boyle's Law states that if the temperature remains constant, pressure and volume are inversely proportional. This means that if the original posts comment about 200m is accurate, the pressure would be at least 21 atmospheres worth. Therefore, even though the volume of the air bubble should reduce to 1/21 of the original volume, the footage shows the bell being approximately 1/3 filled with air even when they"ve dived all the way to the bottom. Ludicrous.
5th Dec 2010
Toy Story 3 (2010)
Corrected entry: In the first film, Woody fends of Sid's mutant toys with Buzz's karate-chop mode, which is activated by pushing the purple button on the back of Buzz's jetpack. This film shows that his jetpack is his battery compartment and there are no physical connections between the purple karate chop button and the rest of Buzz's body that would allow it to control his karate chop.
5th Dec 2010
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
Corrected entry: During Dobby's buriel, a pile of sand removed to form the hole can be seen. They then fill the hole, yet none of the sand from the pile has moved by the time they have finished and are sitting around his grave.
26th Nov 2010
Toy Story 3 (2010)
Corrected entry: In the daydream sequence at the start of the film, Jessie is there with Andy being a boy and his sister, Molly, being a toddler. Jessie didn't come in until the second film when Andy was older so Jessie shouldn't be in this sequence.
24th Nov 2010
Back to the Future (1985)
Corrected entry: When Marty first enters Lou's cafe in 1955, Lou is visibly angry at Marty just because he won't order something right away. However, he doesn't seem to care that one of his paying customers, George McFly, is being harassed by Biff and his gang and told never to come in there again. You would think Lou would tell Biff and Co. to knock it off or else be asked to leave.
24th Nov 2010
Back to the Future (1985)
Corrected entry: Lorraine thinks Marty's name is Calvin Klein because she said it was written on his underwear. Actually, it's stitched on, which should tip her off that the underwear was made that way when it was manufactured, not written on.
24th Nov 2010
Back to the Future (1985)
Corrected entry: After Marty returns to 1985, he discovers that he now has the new Toyota truck he wanted, while the rest of his family is forced to share one car. Why would Marty, the youngest of the siblings, who is still in high school, have his own brand new truck while his older siblings and both parents have to share one other vehicle?
24th Nov 2010
Back to the Future (1985)
Corrected entry: When Marty is hit by Lorraine's dad, it is right in front of the Baines house. If he was right in front of his house, then why was he driving so fast? He should have been slowing down to pull into the driveway or park, but he appears to still be going at a pretty good speed.
23rd Nov 2010
Back to the Future Part III (1990)
Corrected entry: When doc picks out clothes for Marty to wear to the old west, Marty asks if they are authentic, so Doc says "sure, haven't you ever seen a western?" Considering Doc is supposedly a genius and the old west is his favorite historical era (he himself said it was his favorite era in part 2) he should know that Hollywood's version of old west clothing and the reality of it are two different things. Doc should know better than to base his knowledge on Hollywood films.
23rd Nov 2010
Pearl Harbor (2001)
Corrected entry: There were no pilots from Pearl who participated in the Doolittle raid much less fighter pilots who would have needed to get retrained for bomber pilot flying which is too different from fighter plane piloting.
16th Nov 2010
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
Corrected entry: At one point in movie Nemo and Quatermain meet in front of Allan's cabin and Nemo informs him that food has been served. This scene was invented by Sean Connery and Nasserudin Shah. They always considered each other the greatest of rivals in the world of movie industry, since Connery is an icon of Western cinema, while Shah is one of the greatest icons of Indian cinema. They spend 10-15 second looking each other directly in the eyes, which is the way Indians normally show respect to other people.
12th Jul 2010
Predators (2010)
Corrected entry: When Royce decapitates the last predator, the "dreadlocks" aren't cut, even tho it's a clean cut through the neck. I'm guessing it's deliberate for dramatic effect. If the "dreadlock" were cut as it would in real life, you wouldn't have the same suspense in the scene.
Correction: Several reasons why the dreadlocks aren't cut. First, they're free hanging, whereas his neck is anchored to his body. They would simply move out of the way with the motion of the slice. Second, the cut does not go all he way through the Predator's neck. Tthe weight of his head pulls it the rest of the way off. Third, we don't know what the dreadlocks are made of reall. They may very well be much tougher than the Predators' flesh.
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Correction: Congratulations, you got the joke without realizing it was a joke. J is trying to keep K from getting upset about being flushed by attempting to convince him that he used to love it, figuring K won't know he's being lied to since he doesn't remember anyway.
Phixius ★