Corrected entry: When the fellowship has just finished battling the Uruk, a "dead" orc can be seen to look up as Aragorn accidentally kicks him while running past towards the dying Boromir. Look at the middle left of the shot when Aragorn runs to notice.
Phixius
5th Jun 2007
Blood Diamond (2006)
Corrected entry: Danny Archer references the term "Bling Bling" in the conversation with Maddy early in the film. Because the song "Bling Bling" (of which the term is based) was released after the turn of the century, they would not know the term "Bling Bling" in the late 1990s, when the movie is set.
Correction: Actually, that song was released in 1999, and the term itself was coined by the Cash Money Millionaires a few years before. Danny Archer could easily have heard this term at the time the movie is set.
1st Feb 2007
Apocalypto (2006)
Corrected entry: The journey of captured people and the war party, brings them on the right side of a river (looking downstream), and they proceed crossing it from right to left. Later, on his journey back home, Jaguar Paw jumps into a waterfall and swims out on the opposite bank again crossing this river from right to left, and yet soon we learn that he is back in his neck of the woods, despite the fact that he crossed two rivers.
Correction: Rivers can divide up and rejoin themselves. Jaguar Paw took a much different route home than the one he left by. It's a big jungle.
15th Dec 2006
Apocalypto (2006)
Corrected entry: After Jaguar Paw is captured and tied up by the raiders, he looks over towards the hole and the man he killed. When a guard goes over to check the man, you can see that the "dead" man is very obviously breathing.
Correction: So Jaguar Paw didn't kill him outright, he just knocked him unconscious. If the man isn't dead yet, he is certainly in the process of dying.
27th Aug 2001
Wild Things (1998)
Corrected entry: When Kevin Bacon types in the password for the account of Matt Dillon, Gloria Perez doesn't even say a thing about it. Surely she would have questioned how Bacon knew the password for someone else's account.
27th Aug 2001
Wild Things (1998)
Corrected entry: Later in the movie when Officers Ray Duquette and Gloria Perez are in the police station, they walk through a door marked Display ID beyond this point. In this scene, although everyone else is displaying a clip ID on their chest, Duquette and Perez are not wearing ID tags or their badges at all.
27th Aug 2001
Wild Things (1998)
Corrected entry: In the scene where they are all sitting in the court room and the camera is panning across their faces, you can clearly see a guy sitting next to the aisle giving a thumbs-up to the camera.
29th May 2007
Night at the Museum (2006)
Corrected entry: Attila the Hun needs Ahkmenrah as a translator since he cannot communicate in English. Yet he understands Larry's untranslated talk about Attila's childhood and even bursts into tears.
15th Feb 2007
Epic Movie (2007)
Corrected entry: When the old Lucy puts on the coat, it is covered in frost. However in the next shot, it is completely clean.
28th May 2007
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
Corrected entry: In the final battle, the fleets line up with the ships side by side (like infantry). I don't think you can find a single battle in history that a fleet sailed into battle in rows. They sail front to back, following each other. The ships obviously shoot side to side so if they attack as shown, all their firepower is pointed at their own ships, not the opponents.
Correction: All they have to do is turn sideways, and they've just made a solid wall of firepower. If they sailed in one behind the other, it would take forever to move the last ships within firing range. This may not be how it was done historically, but then this is far from a documentary.
28th May 2007
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
Corrected entry: In the scene where the keymaker gets shot after trying to escape all the Smiths in the hallway, he is shown to have at least 4 bullet holes in his chest. When he is speaking his dying words to Neo and Morpheus he is breathing deep and clear, this would be impossible without choking up all the blood in his lungs.
Correction: Because he's a program, and he knows it. He knows those aren't really bullets, just more programs. And he knows that those "bullet" programs are designed to render his programming inoperable. That's why he's "dying," but he's not choking up his blood because he knows he doesn't really have any.
28th May 2007
Stargate SG-1 (1997)
Corrected entry: After the Ancient device releases O'Neill and he collapses, Carter checks his pulse. She is kneeling to his left, yet reaches for the right side of his neck. Anyone trained in basic first aid and CPR (as Carter should be, with her field medic training) is taught that you always check the pulse on the same side of the body where you are sitting, so as not to risk compromising the person's airway by accidentally compressing the windpipe.
Correction: I have had First Responder training, which is a step above Basic First Aid/CPR in the levels of EMT training, and there was never a mention of this. If you know what you're doing when you check for a carotid pulse, then you run no risk of compromising the patient's airway as the arteries you're supposed to be pressing on are well behind the trachea.
23rd May 2007
Spider-Man 3 (2007)
Corrected entry: In the scene when Eddie enters J Jameson's room without permission to show him the Spider-man photos you can see Miss Brant pick up her phone in frustration. But in the next shot you can see Miss Brant looking inside through the glass.
23rd May 2007
Spider-Man 3 (2007)
Corrected entry: When Spiderman is fighting Venom at the start of the battle to save MJ, his mask is removed and thrown from the building. Within 1 minute, it's magically reappeared on his head.
16th May 2007
Star Wars (1977)
Corrected entry: When Luke and Ben first see R2D2 and C3po, Ben says he doesn't remember owning or know the droids, but we know he knows them from episodes 1 - 3.
Correction: He's not lying. Obi-Wan never owned a droid. Anakin owned R2-D2 and the only other droids Obi-Wan is to use were in ships and presumably owned by the Jedi Order.
13th May 2007
Rent (2005)
Corrected entry: During 'Out Tonight' you can hear several men yell "Mimi!" Strippers go by false names for safety reasons, so Mimi would never have given her real name to customers.
11th May 2007
Equilibrium (2002)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Preston tells the men to shoot the hinges and lock, It shows guns being pointed at four hinges and 2 locks.
27th Aug 2001
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
Corrected entry: Throughout the movie Michelangelo is using rope type chucks. During the scene when he is playing the nunchuck game with the foot soldier. He does a finger spin move; at this time the nunchuck is chain style. After, it is rope again.
Correction: Michelangelo's nunchaku are braided cord throughout the film. When he is spinning one on his finger, it is the individual braids that resemble links in a chain.
6th May 2007
Spider-Man 3 (2007)
Corrected entry: Whatever happened to Spiderman's spider's sense? Throughout the movie, Spiderman was caught quite off guard, such as in the first encounter with the New Goblin. Shouldn't the spider sense given him some sort of heads up?
Correction: You could actually see realization dawning on Peter's face just before Harry snatches Peter off his scooter. Harry was moving too fast for Peter to react in time, though. Venom doesn't trigger Spider-Man's spider-sense because the symbiote was once a part of Peter.
7th May 2005
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
Corrected entry: Whenever the Vogons speak, their lips move in sync with the English that we hear on the soundtrack. They shouldn't do, because the Vogons are supposed to be speaking Vogon, not English - we just hear English through Arthur's babelfish.
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Correction: So he's not dead, he's dying.
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