Corrected entry: In the Destruction Derby, Herbie gets smashed for the second time. One of his front wheels is bent almost completely sideways, making it impossible for Maggie to drive him around and win, let alone drive him home.
Phixius
6th Nov 2005
Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005)
25th Jan 2004
Red Dwarf (1988)
Timeslides - S3-E5
Corrected entry: We learn in "Ouroboros" in series 7 that Lister is his own father, and Kochanski is his mother. However, if this is so, when Lister fixed time so he never joined the Space Corps, that would mean he never met Kochanski, so his father never met his mother, so he should never have been born, and even if he was, his life should have taken a radically different path from that it did.
1st Jan 2003
Jumanji (1995)
Corrected entry: In the scene where the mosquitoes are seen for the first time, and Kirsten Dunst hits one throught the attic window with a tennis raquet, you can see the shards of glass that the (computer-generated) mosquito knocked out of the window falling down the inside of the wall, which doesn't make sense - if the mosquito was going outwards, surely the glass would too? (00:25:00)
10th Oct 2006
The Prince of Egypt (1998)
Corrected entry: When Miriam tells Moses that his mother is Yocheved, she slightly mispronounces the name. She pronounces it Yo-he-ved. The actual pronunciation would have a stronger sound on the -che, kind of like a rolled -h sound, with a very slight -k sound preceding it.
8th Apr 2006
The Prince of Egypt (1998)
Corrected entry: After Moses and Ramses mess up the statue with their horse race, when the Pharaoh is talking to them, Ramses' hair is dark brown instead of black.
28th Oct 2003
The Prince of Egypt (1998)
Corrected entry: Throughout the movie, the pyramids appear as a sandy-stone color, while in reality, the newly built pyramids would have appeared as white with a gold top.
5th Oct 2006
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
Corrected entry: At the beginning of the film, Ace's landlord says how he "heard animals scratching around" in Ace's apartment. Ace then lets him inside to snoop around, but at his signal all the animals hide. Thing is, the landlord would have a master key that would allow him access to all his tenants' apartments, so why didn't he just have a look himself when Ace wasn't home?
24th Aug 2006
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
Corrected entry: In the beginning of the movie when the dolphin is stolen, Finkle puts his hand (wearing the Superbowl ring) on the tank. This is a man's hand, however, Finkle would have a woman's hand seeing as he is posing as Lieutenant Einhorn at this time. There is also no way he could have been Finkle at this point in time because later in the movie it is shown that "she" has been a lieutenant for a while.
Correction: Whilst you are correct that her hands should remain the same size, if you pause the film at the right moment, you can see it is in fact a man, with a man's face, and possibly a black beard (or balaclava), conducting the dolphin-napping. Einhorn shouldn't look like her old Ray Finkle self at this point, unless it was only meant to show her mannish hands to throw us off and they accidentally caught the male actor's face in the clip.
2nd Oct 2006
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2002)
Corrected entry: In the episode when Jimmy gets the remote that rewinds things, Jimmy, Sheen and Carl run up the tree and flip down and slide on the dinosaurs tail sheen says "Yaba Daba Doo" from The Flinstones.
25th Jan 2006
Roswell (1999)
Four Aliens and A Baby - S3-E17
Corrected entry: Max and Tess's baby would be half alien and half human, not pure human. Since Tess and Max are both half alien, the DNA they give to the baby would be both human and Alien. Therefore the baby would get half human and half alien DNA from *both* parents, meaning he would be half alien as well. That means that the people on Antar wouldn't reject him just because of that.
Correction: The three are told by Nesedo that they are biologically human, (albeit in bio-engineered human bodies, capable of doing things the human race won't be able to do for thousands more generations of evolution) with the alien "essence" of their former lives put into the bodies. So the baby is 100% human.
30th Sep 2006
Roswell (1999)
Corrected entry: At the very beginning of the episode, Maria asks the man who ends up shooting Liz if he wants more coffee. As she walks away, she has her hand under bottom of the coffee pot. Shouldn't her hand be burning?
1st Oct 2006
Beethoven (1992)
Corrected entry: When Beethoven is pulling the two people, they seem stuck to the chairs. Wouldn't they have fallen off?
1st Oct 2006
Single White Female (1992)
Corrected entry: When Allie goes to throw up the toilet moves. (01:18:00)
28th Sep 2006
Hostel (2005)
Corrected entry: Towards the end of the movie an Asian girl is tortured, having most of her right face burnt off with a welding-torch, before Paxton rescues her. Miraculously, however, despite the intense burning, none of her hair is so much as singed.
26th Sep 2006
Ghostbusters (1984)
Corrected entry: At the beginning of Ghostbusters, Peter Venkman says that he studies the effects of negative reinforcement on ESP ability, when, in fact, he actually studies the effects of positive punishment on ESP ability. This can be seen in the fact that he adds an aversive stimulus to the subject when the subject "gets it wrong" in order to decrease that behavior, which is positive punishment. If he was studying negative reinforcement, he would have to make the shock occur at all times unless the subject guessed the right card, at which point, the shock would be removed. Of course, Peter's methods were shown to be less than sound.
Correction: The "negative reinforcement" occurs with the female subject. She sees that the punishment for getting a wrong answer is electric shock. When she gets the right answer (or so Venkman tells her) she escapes that aversive stimulus. *That* is negative reinforcement. The experiment is bunk anyway, because Venkman is lying to them both.
You could just as easily say that she's receiving positive reinforcement because he keeps complimenting her. The only thing that's for sure here is that his experimental design and conduct has a faulty member is poor.
Correction: The shock isn't the only stimulus. He's is also either being overtly obvious that he's helping the woman OR could be that the stimulus is the woman getting all the right answers.
Or that Venkman is a hack and doesn't know the difference between negative reinforcement and positive punishment.
26th Sep 2006
The Borrowers (1997)
Corrected entry: Near the beginning of the movie, Pea-Green opens the freezer with a popsicle stick. Freezers seal pretty tightly, so the stick would break. Even if it didn't break, it would be too hard for a borrower to open.
6th Jan 2004
Red Dwarf (1988)
Corrected entry: Throughout this episode writing is backwards. Why, in a backwards universe, would writing be backwards? Surely it would be the correct way around, just that the people in this universe would read it backwards.
25th Nov 2002
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
Corrected entry: When Felicity is in the gas chamber it takes 36 seconds from the time the gas starts flowing until the moment Felicity's heart stops. The second time around (when there are two Austins) they waste so much time with talking that it takes more than 45 seconds until Austin frees Felicity.
5th May 2004
The Mummy (1999)
Corrected entry: Rick throws a stick of dynamite into a niche in the wall where it explodes. In slow motion it can be seen that there are two explosions, the initial one followed by a much larger one.
22nd Sep 2006
Matilda (1996)
Corrected entry: When Matilda reads 'Moby Dick' at the end of the film, she opens the book and turns one page then begins to read. A book has at least 3-5 pages at the start to say who published it, who it was for, etc.
Correction: Two likely possibilities: Either she turned more than one page, and they just stuck together; or this book is part of a series/compilation of classic literature, and the 3-5 pages worth of information that would normally appear in each book appears in only the first or last book of this series.
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Correction: Herbie can wink a headlight. That's contorting metal and glass at will and without damage. I think a bent wheel could be overcome.
Phixius ★