Corrected entry: Throughout the movie John Hannah uses his own Scottish accent shows though his characters English accent. The most obvious instance is when he says "put your backs into it".
Phixius
3rd Apr 2010
The Mummy (1999)
15th Mar 2010
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Corrected entry: When the Queen of Hearts is first introduced she is seen walking across her chambers. As she walks her heels are heard clicking on the hard floor, but she then walks onto the red carpet and her heels are still clicking.
18th Nov 2009
Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
Corrected entry: Clyde has a bloody mouth after being hit by Nick, spits out blood, saliva, and talks. The blood is gone after the camera pans up to Nick and then back to Clyde.
23rd Oct 2009
Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
Corrected entry: When Shelton is eating his asparagus in jail and takes a bit off the top, a few seconds later after switching to another angle, he takes another bite and it still has the top of the asparagus on.
6th Mar 2010
The Net (1995)
Corrected entry: When Angela is at the airport and asked whether she is Ruth Marx, the woman asking got the information from the computer, including her address, which was the correct one. So the house actually belonged to Ruth Marx, but the realtor said that the records claimed Angela Bennett to be the owner. (00:39:00 - 00:42:00)
8th Mar 2010
Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
Corrected entry: Throughout the film, everyone at the justice department is using Mac computers. However, in the scene where Nick receives the email about industrial property purchases, he is obviously using Windows Vista. This isn't impossible, but it would be highly unlikely that the department would pay extra for Macs and then not even use the operating system.
Correction: They would if they were trying to use up their budget, to keep it from being reduced the following year. They want to run Windows Vista, but they need to spend the leftover funding... easy solution is to buy the more expensive computer. It's possible, explainable in a myriad of ways, and has has occured in real life. It's not a mistake. Fellow I know in the military says they once bought 900 Coleman stoves and 1200 field knives just to burn up the rest of the budget for the year. They didn't need any of them at all. At least this office needed computers.
4th Apr 2010
Shrek (2001)
Corrected entry: Shrek mentions at the wedding that Farquadd is just marrying Fiona so that he can become king. However, Shrek was never informed of this during the movie, nor would he have had any chance, so it is impossible for him to have known this.
21st Mar 2006
V for Vendetta (2005)
Corrected entry: After Evey awakes at V's home for the first time after being knocked unconscious, she has a short exchange of dialog with V and then says she has to leave. After she says she is going home, V says, "Didn't you say they were looking for you?" Even though Evey had never mentioned it to him before and quite possibly couldn't have due to being unconscious.
Corrected entry: Completely unavoidable but still a mistake. When the pirates are in skeletal mode, much of their speech would be incoherent as they don't have lips. Most noticeable when Ragetti says 'Bloody pirates!' - you need lips to make 'b's and 'p's.
3rd Mar 2010
Zombieland (2009)
Corrected entry: In the scene at Pacific Playland, the 12 year old blows up the control box for the tower of terror ride with her shotgun. A couple of minutes later, Columbus presses a button on said control box. How could he have done this if it had exploded?
2nd Mar 2010
Forrest Gump (1994)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Forrest is being chased by the bullies in the truck, the truck has a confederate flag plate on the front, but no "official" state of Alabama-issued plate. Alabama issued duplicate plates (one for front and back) through 1976. Since this scene took place while Forrest was in high school, prior to 1977, it should have had a front plate.
Correction: Two points to nullify this. 1.) Many states issue duplicate plates but do not legally require the front plate to be used. Alabama did not require 2 license plates in 1976. It's irrelevant though because 2.) These boys are in their vehicle chasing another boy who is on foot. They are throwing objects at him and fully intend to beat him severely if they catch him. It's quite clear they have very little concern for the law. They frankly don't care whether they need that front plate or not. It's a character choice, not a movie mistake.
Correction: ...as young kids who just got their license, we regularly took off our front plates and replaced them with whatever we thought was 'cool'.
Corrected entry: When Indy opens a shotgun shell to extract its shot, these pellets are then magnetically attracted to the case which contains material from the 1947 Roswell UFO incident. Although it was correctly pointed out that the shell's hull was made of paper with a felt wad, until the 1980s, the pellets were formed from lead and thus would not be influenced by magnetism. Due to lead's toxicity, the shot types that are mandated for waterfowl hunting include steel, bismuth, and several combinations of tungsten, iron, nickel, tin, etc. Another issue with that scene is: how did the pliers produce such a precise cut around the hull? The implement itself wasn't a "multitool" with a knife blade incorporated into the handle. All he had to do was squeeze the crimped end of the shell a couple of times to open it.
Correction: That shotgun shell had buckshot it in it which would be steel and therefore magnetic. The bigger issue is that he tore off the primer end, which realistically can only be torn off with pliers, and the only thing that should have spilled out would be gunpowder. If he wanted to get the buckshot pellets out he would have torn open the crimped "business end" of the shell. As depicted in this film, that shell would not have functioned as its components were in the shell in reverse.
14th Feb 2010
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
Corrected entry: In the ending scene (astronomy tower); It's a high windy place, you can hear the sound effect of the wind. But when Hermione opens the pendant with the piece of paper, it doesn't fly away.
8th Feb 2010
Yes Man (2008)
Corrected entry: In the scene when Carl and Allison are in Lincoln Nebraska skeet shooting, Allison has a double barrel shotgun and accidentally fires once into the ground, on her second shot she hits the skeet then turns around to the onlookers who all dive for cover, nobody else has shot in this time so it would be obvious to all that her shotgun was empty and completely safe.
8th Feb 2010
Back to the Future (1985)
Corrected entry: When Doc is on the clock tower attempting to reconnect the cable, he pulls it and disconnects the other end (indicating the cable has just enough slack to touch the ground from point A and then be inches short of point B). Doc then connects the cable and then ties the cable around the clock hands. The other end of the cable is only held by a fallen branch, if he were to really propel down the cable, he would have gone completely vertical down. When he lands, the cable would have been shorter due to him tying it to the clock hands. Also a shock of 1.21 gigawatts would have landed him in the hospital if not the funeral home.
Correction: Several "mistakes" in one entry, that alone should have gotten this entry rejected. The cable is more than long enough in a more or less straight shot from one end to the other. The branch is keeping from being a straight shot. That's why, even though it's wrapped arond the clock hand, it's still long enough after Doc disentangles it form the branch. If all of Doc's weight, and whatever more leverage he gained by pulling against the clock hand, wasn't enough to move the branch, him rapelling down the cable wouldn't have moved it either. It was stuck in place. The jolt he got wasn't a full 1.21 gigawatts either. The cable was surely insulated and he was wearing gloves, also certainly insulated, if I remember that small bit correctly.
1st Feb 2010
As the World Turns (1956)
Corrected entry: On 12/3/10, Rosanna said of Craig, "I wouldn't be with him if I didn't think he hadn't changed." But she was trying to explain that Craig has changed for the better, so her statement includes an incorrect triple negative by which she seems to say that she believes he has not changed.
30th Jan 2010
Short Circuit 2 (1988)
Corrected entry: In beginning Johnny Five has smiley face sticker on his red 'backpack. Later, when going to the bookstore, the smiley face has been removed. (00:22:50 - 00:37:15)
30th Jan 2010
Speed Racer (2008)
Corrected entry: When Taejo's sister Horuku comes to give the Grand Prix ticket to the Racer family, Speed racer laments they "don't have a car". BUT- when Horuko walks into the house, you can see the ever present Mach 6 in the background in what should be the dining room. They do have a car and modifying/upgrading it would be far easier and quicker than building a new one from scratch.
Correction: That's the Mach 5. You can even see the red encircled yellow "5" on the passenger door right before Pops, not Speed, says "We don't have a car." The Mach 5 is a rally car, essentially street legal. The Mach 6 is a T-180. It would take much much longer to modify the Mach 5 because before you could turn it into a T-180 you'd first have to take it completely apart.
23rd Jan 2010
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
Corrected entry: As a well established scientist, it is odd that Dr Helen Benson chose to take her late husband's name. Scientists and other researchers generally maintain their original name for bibliographical purposes.
18th Jan 2010
Pinocchio (1940)
Corrected entry: When Jiminy gets his badge at the end of the movie, it simply looks like a star with no writing on it. Once they do a close up on the badge, the badge itself is more detailed and in the circle it says 'Official Conscience 18 kt'.
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Correction: First, this entry doesn't actually make any sense as a sentence. Second, it's never stated where the character is from originally or has spent the last several years living. It is therefore impossible to claim he should have one accent and not another.
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