Corrected entry: At the beginning of the movie, Max's teacher tells the class the story of Binx and the Sanderson sisters (shown as a flashback). Later, Allison talks to Binx and says, "so the legends are true." If no one ever knew what happened to Binx, how did the story get passed down in the first place?
Phixius
11th Sep 2010
Hocus Pocus (1993)
12th Sep 2010
Army of Darkness (1992)
Corrected entry: Allegedly Sam Raimi bought at least ten Oldsmobiles to be used as stunt cars for this film, however, he still drove his original Oldsmobile to the set everyday. When filming the scene where Ash and his car crash land in the dark ages, Bruce Campbell and a few technicians swapped Raimi's Oldsmobile for the stand in that was to be hoisted up and dropped. Raimi never noticed until he'd shot the scene twice then walked onto the set to check if the car was still in good enough condition for a third take. Amazingly enough, it was.
11th Sep 2010
Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)
Corrected entry: After Mr. Holland performs a concert for his son's school for the deaf, the audience bursts into applause. But deaf people do not clap in applause, they wave their hands (it is more visually energetic). Since most of the audience was deaf students and teachers, there really should have been a lot of waving, and only a few sparse clappers. But I'm sure that would have sounded awkward and anticlimactic for this very emotional scene. Given the research the filmmakers put into ASL, I'm sure they were aware of this, but opted for the clapping to suit the typical (hearing) movie-goer.
14th Aug 2010
The Last Airbender (2010)
Corrected entry: When Iroh is angry about the moon spirit getting killed, he creates his own fire. It is clear that his flames are licking the leaves of the tree, but it does not ignite.
15th Aug 2010
The Lovely Bones (2009)
Corrected entry: George Harvey goes to the dump in order to get rid of the safe. It takes him and another man to get the safe off the truck and slowly roll it into the dump. Then how in the world did George Harvey get the thing out of his basement and into his truck without any help?
24th Aug 2010
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)
Corrected entry: In the top left corner of the newspaper Charlie is reading there is an ad for the US Open showing a tennis ball. The US open tennis tournament is always played in late August/early September and not in June when the movie is supposedly taking place.
30th Aug 2010
The NeverEnding Story III (1994)
Corrected entry: With the exception of Falcor, none of the creatures of Fantasia have been to the human world. Yet, throughout the movie, various Fantasia citizens make references to Vegas, Greenpeace, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and the song "Born to Be Wild". How do they know all this?
2nd Sep 2010
Robin Hood (2010)
Corrected entry: French Army landing: Horses get sea-sick and the English Channel is a very rough body of water - therefore, it's highly unlikely that knights would be able to ride their horses off the landing barges into battle.
7th Sep 2010
Twilight (2008)
Corrected entry: In the baseball scene, Alice and Esme are wearing baseball caps that visibly have a C for Cullen on them. Rosalie is wearing a baseball cap too. But why does Rosalie's cap have a G on it instead of a C?
12th Aug 2010
Silent Hill (2006)
Corrected entry: When Rose first meets Cybil, she is wearing sunglasses, even though it is too dark for them.
Correction: Cybil is an officer riding a motorbike. She wears the sunglasses at all times to protect her eyes from the wind, bugs, and road grit while driving. During the day they protect her eyes from sunlight, and at night they protect her eyes from the headlights of oncoming cars which would otherwise render her temporarily "blinded" while her eyes readjusted to the darkness.
12th Aug 2010
Moon (2009)
Corrected entry: Gravity on the moon is only a fraction of that on earth. The filmmakers properly try to display this on those shots taken outside the station, on the surface of the moon. These shots are similar to what we are used to seeing on real historic moon walks. However, no effort at all was made to simulate the lack of gravity on those shots taken inside the station, resulting in a very unrealistic presentation of a moon settlement.
27th Aug 2010
Kick-Ass (2010)
Corrected entry: The newspaper headline read 'kick-ass impersonator killed' or something resembling that, but the problem is, no one knew who kick-ass actually was. Therefore they wouldn't know for sure if it had been the real kick-ass or not.
16th Aug 2010
Flight of the Navigator (1986)
Corrected entry: When Max takes David underwater to escape Nasa's radar, David is apparently thrown backward into the pilot's chair at the moment Max hits the water. In reality, Max should have been slowed by contact with the water causing David to be thrown forward. (00:57:35)
10th Aug 2010
Lethal Weapon (1987)
Corrected entry: When Riggs and Murtaugh arrive at Dixie's house, the boys playing on the street immediately identify them as police officers. The clothes Riggs and Murtaugh are wearing and the car their driving, give no indication that they are police officers. So how could the boys know this? (01:02:30)
Correction: Several possible explanations. Perhaps the boys have seen Riggs and Murtaugh specifically before, for instance. It's also possible these young children, having lived in what is obviously not exactly the best sort of neighborhood, are very street wise and can recognize the pair as police by their behavior or some other indicator.
7th Aug 2010
The Last Airbender (2010)
Corrected entry: In the beginning Aang didn't introduce himself to Sokka & Katara. They both found him at their home, which is the southern water tribe, which is in a different place in the world. Normally you don't wait until you arrive at a different place to introduce yourself.
6th Aug 2010
Zathura (2005)
Corrected entry: A short while after Walter is chased around the house by the robot, Danny spins and gets a card. They begin to enter the sun's gravity field. The sun would have destroyed the house the minute they entered the gravity field.
Correction: The planet Earth is within the Sun's gravity field, yet somehow we all escape destruction every day.
Yeah, but the Earth is 91 million miles away from the Sun. In the movie it looks like the house is MUCH closer to it.
When the boys opened the front door when they first realised they're in space, they could breathe just fine. I think the game has powers to alter physics, such as allowing them to breathe in space. So I think the game altered how strong the gravity field was so there was some danger without it being instant death.
3rd Aug 2010
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)
Corrected entry: When Jasper was training the Cullens and wolves to fight, Edward and Carlisle fought to practice. After Edward knocked Carlisle over, Jasper came over and said, "Oh, and one more thing." Edward looked over, so Carlisle knocked him over, and Jasper said, "Never take your eyes off the enemy." Edward can read both their minds, so how did he not know that was going to happen?
3rd Aug 2010
The Emperor's New Groove (2000)
Corrected entry: When Yzma is searching for Kuzko at Pacha's house and talking to Pacha's wife, who is pregnant, she drops something on the floor and Pacha's wife picks it up. It takes her a long time to do this because she looks almost ready to deliver her baby. Less than a minute later, when Pacha's wife sees Pacha at the kitchen window, she excuses herself and rushes over to the window. A woman as pregnant as she is could not move that fast.
3rd Aug 2010
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Corrected entry: In the garage scene, Bart is attacked by a legless zombie dangling from some pipes. Being legless, how would he have gotten up there in the first place? It's possible that perhaps when he was human, he got up there first, lost his legs afterward, and then changed into a zombie, but then why would he still be up there after so long? (You can tell he has been dead at least a few weeks by his stage of decomposition.)
Correction: He's got pretty impressive upper body strength. He could have easily climbed up something. Like a fixture against a wall, or some piping that comes down. Alternatively, he may have been a zombie with legs, climbed up there, then lost his legs somehow. Perhaps in a struggle with a survivor who is now among his fellows.
3rd Aug 2010
Back to the Future (1985)
Corrected entry: When Marty is plugging his guitar in to the mega amp, the amplifier end of the cable is stereo (like you would use for headphones) and the guitar end is the correct mono connector.
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Correction: When the teacher says that no one knows what happened to Binx she means no one knows what his final fate was. Obviously this is because he hasn't yet met his end. At any rate, Allison could merely be referring to the fact that the Sanderson sisters existed or else there wouldn't be a talking cat in their old hometown. And *those* legends do not require knowledge of Thackary Binx for them to be passed from generation to generation.
Phixius ★