Corrected entry: The upstairs in Peter's house has slanted walls, but everyone's bedrooms have straight walls.
Phixius
17th Feb 2014
Family Guy (1999)
17th Feb 2014
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
Corrected entry: In 3-6 "Band Candy", Buffy finds a monster and the babies that had been kidnapped in the sewers, simply, it would seem, by going underground, as if Sunnydale's sewer network was small enough for such a feat. However in this episode, when Buffy and Xander are looking for the 3 priests in the episode “Amends”, they get information from Willy the snitch that they may live underground. Xander says "We know 'underground', that's a start," to which Buffy disdainfully replies: "Sure! In a town with 14 million square miles of sewer". Even assuming she's speaking figuratively, there's no reason it's easy to find someone the first time but not the second.
Correction: In the first instance there are missing babies and a monster that must be stopped which she knows to be in the sewers. She had no choice but to go down there.She merely got lucky and stumbled upon them relatively quickly. In the second instance there is only the suggestion that their targets MIGHT be in the sewers. Naturally, Buffy is much more hesitant to try her luck a second time with what may turn out to be a pointless effort anyway.
16th Feb 2014
Django Unchained (2012)
Corrected entry: The final song mentions the Colt .45 round multiple times, but those weren't made by Colt until 1872, 14 years after the events of this movie.
Corrected entry: When Eustace is transformed into the dragon Edmund and the prince see his clothes burning to ashes implying that he was transformed without clothes. When the lion transforms him back into a boy, he is suddenly wearing clothes again. Only his shoes are missing, which were burned too.
Correction: A magical talking lion, who is this world's all-powerful deity, magically transforms a boy who had previously been magically transformed into a magical beast back into a boy, and your suspension of disbelief falls apart when this omnipotent god who created the very world they're in out of nothing magically gives the boy clothes so he won't be naked in front of everybody? Nope, sorry, this isn't a mistake.
7th Feb 2014
Riddick (2013)
Other mistake: In the scene where Riddick, Johns, and the bad goatee-dude go on the "bikes" to get the missing engine parts (nodes), they travel quite a distance (about two minutes of movie time). After the "bikes' get shot up and are no longer usable, it's not that far at all for Johns to get back. In fact it's just a few steps, and monster free too. (01:03:00 - 01:07:00)
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10th Feb 2014
Riddick (2013)
Corrected entry: Shortly after Santana tries to rape Dahl on the station floor, we see a vast amount of blood all over the floor where they had been lying; however, when it's revealed that they are both Ok and Dahl had simply beat him up, only his mouth is bleeding. The amount of blood on the floor was way too much to have come from a split lip.
1st Feb 2014
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Corrected entry: When Buffalo Bill is using his infra-red goggles on his next victim - the Senator's daughter - she's driving, and she drives the car straight at Buffalo Bill before turning the car into her carapace. Problem is: when using infra-red, you can't have light on the glasses, as in headlights; it should have blinded him, and he would have torn them off. But he doesn't.
Correction: It would have blinded him, yes, but only temporarily and only because the display would have been washed out and blocking his view effectively turning the goggles into a blindfold for a brief moment. It's just a monitor in there and it only gets so bright. It doesn't actually enhance the light, it only shows you an image that simulates enhanced light. There was no reason for Bill to have torn his goggles off.
31st Jan 2014
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
Corrected entry: In the final confrontation between Holmes and Moriarty it is revealed that Holmes switched Moriarty's notebook with a copy. Moriarty opens the copy to find a small page by page cartoon referencing dialogue between the two characters during the same scene when the notebooks were switched. It is impossible for Sherlock to have drawn the cartoon between the moment that Moriarty says the line and the moment when the notebooks are switched.
Correction: Sherlock is a deductive genius who wins fights by predicting exactly what his opponent is going to do next, even subtly guiding them to do it. It wouldn't have taken much effort at all for him to have directed the conversation to more or less match the cartoon he'd drawn ahead of time.
Correction: Holmes knows that Moriarty is a fan of Schubert, having heard him listening to one of his songs when meeting him at the college. He probably drew the cartoon afterwards based on that knowledge to rub salt in the wound, even if he didn't know that Moriarty would specifically reference The Trout when they encountered each other.
29th Jan 2014
Frozen (2013)
Corrected entry: During "Let it go," after using the stairs Elsa created she takes a few steps and starts to create an ice castle. The stairs she created a moment ago are suddenly missing. (00:32:55 - 00:33:40)
Correction: Elsa actually takes several steps, twirls on the spot, and then dashes ahead about a meter or so. The camera stays in front of Elsa during this action and the stairs are visible behind her the whole time. Once the camera cuts to her foot stomping then rises as it pans down and around to show the snowflake in the ice floor, the area with the stairs is not in frame again until the growing ice castle is already large enough to block them from view.
27th Jan 2014
Prometheus (2012)
Factual error: In the scene showing the two left-behind crewmen as they discover the snake-like alien, one of them reports to the ship that the creature is "30-40 inches long." The scientific community worldwide has been using the metric system for decades and it would seem highly unlikely a trained member of a starship crew would revert to such an ancient system of measurement.
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Suggested correction: It would be terribly unlikely for a trained member of a starship crew to do that. As it happens, he's not a trained member of a starship crew, he's just a hired mercenary.
Neither Millburn nor Fifield are mecenaries. Millburn is a biologist and Fifield is a geologist.
27th Jan 2014
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Ron and Hermione is taking the fang from the basilisk the ribs show the snake upside down. Ron takes the fang from the bottom (although it looks like the top, as it's upside down). Fangs only come out from the top.
6th Jan 2014
Frozen (2013)
Corrected entry: When Elsa sings the final stanza to Let it Go, she is out almost to the rail of the balcony, but in the close up after her final line "The cold never bothered me anyway" she turns around and the door instantly slams shut behind her.
Correction: It's a musical number, it doesn't play out in real time. Just like when Anna and Hans are singing together during the party, it would have taken them hours to hike all the way up to that waterfall from the castle. Did they sing the whole time and we just didn't get hear it, or did they hold off singing until they got up there and then start up again?
As the scene pulls away from the castle, it shows Elsa still standing right next to the balcony, not moving towards the door at all.
6th Jan 2014
Frozen (2013)
Corrected entry: Elsa's original gown vanishes when she creates her ice gown. Suddenly her leg is uncovered and her neckline is much lower. But she never actually changed, she just created a new gown over the old one.
21st Jan 2014
The Girl Who Played With Fire (2009)
Corrected entry: Lisbeth drops her keys while visiting Miriam in hospital; Mikael, who Miriam gives them to, says they are from a Post Office Box, and that's how he finds out where Lisbeth lives, by emptying her Post Office Box. But those keys don't have the location of the Post Office or the number of the box attached to the key; that's why people use them - for privacy and safety.
21st Jan 2014
The Girl Who Played With Fire (2009)
Corrected entry: While Lisbeth is being buried alive, you can see a hole in the dirt near her face, so the actress playing her can breathe. The hole isn't completely covered over; the camera pans away.
21st Jan 2014
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2009)
Corrected entry: One of the men who is against Lisbeth and wants her dead says "She has to be convicted of shooting Zalachenko." But she didn't shoot him; she hit him twice with an axe.
19th Jan 2014
Downton Abbey (2010)
Corrected entry: None of the characters age the number of years shown in the series. This is particularly noticeable in Lady Sybil who would have been 14 in the first episode, as Mary mentions that she is 21 near the end of season two, yet she does not look any older.
Correction: Sybil was born in 1896, making her 16 in 1912, the year of the first episode. It's not out of the question that she could have been more or less fully matured by then, or at least matured enough that there's not enough maturing left to be done between the ages of 16 and 21 to be noticeable.
16th Jan 2014
Futurama (1999)
Corrected entry: Often while traveling through space, we can see the stars in the background moving (as if the Futurama cast were in a car and the stars were street signs). This would not happen in reality, unless one was traveling relativistic speeds (even then, the motion of the stars would look very different). Instead, the stars should be still (the sun doesn't appear to move when you're out walking).
12th Jan 2014
The Punisher (2004)
Corrected entry: If Frank has been away from the beach house long enough to grow a beard, then there is no way the punisher shirt would not have washed away. When he picks it up it is wet and covered with sand where it has washed up on shore but the shirt would have gone out with the tide more than once, and the chances of it washing up more than once are ridiculous.
30th Jul 2013
Arrow (2012)
Corrected entry: When Falk is first threatening Nichol, Oliver watches it on his phone. You can see the progress bar from YouTube Underneath, revealing that it's not a live recording. (00:10:15)
Correction: The only phones that received this transmission had numbers that were registered to home addresses in the Glades. Oliver's phone number is not registered to a home address in the Glades. He is only receiving the video because Felicity is recording it as it is broadcast and sending the recording to Oliver, who is therefore seeing the recording on somewhat of a delay. Hence the progress bar; and it's not a YouTube progress bar because those are red and this one is blue.
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Correction: Walls are several inches thick (or more) because there is space for the structural supports of the house inside them, also room for wiring, plumbing, insulation, etc. Just because a wall is slanted on one side does not mean it can't be straight on the other.
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