Corrected entry: During the hostage siege, French terrorist Batroc, played by French-speaking Quebec-er Georges St-Pierre, shouts the command: "Partez les machines!" (Start the engines!) It might be possible this is a normal phrase in the French-Canadian language. But no French-speaking person from France (or any other part of French speaking Europe) would use the verb "partir" in this context. There are several words in French that could be used for "Start", "Demarrez les machines!" being the most obvious one. The translation for the initial command would come down to: "Make the engines go away!"
New Hex
29th Jul 2014
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
26th Apr 2014
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
Corrected entry: When Peter reviews Gwen's speech on his computer, she is filmed in a tight head /shoulders shot and at eye level. However, there is no camera at that angle (right in front of her) as she delivers the speech.
17th Apr 2013
Oblivion (2013)
Corrected entry: How come with all the scanning done by drones, Sally does not notice it is not Julia in the stasis pod?
Correction: While we don't know the full specification of the drones' scanners, while they can locate a lifeform from some distance, they appear to rely on visual and audio cues to actually identify a specific individual. With Malcolm concealed within the stasis pod, their ability to identify him is severely compromised. With no reason to suspect that it might not be Julia, "Sally" simply didn't look too closely.
17th Apr 2013
Oblivion (2013)
Corrected entry: Where did they get the second stasis pod from used for the switch? All but one were destroyed by the drones.
Correction: Any sensible design would include enough pods for all crew members, allowing them all to survive should a major disaster affect the ship. Thus, while the drones targeted the occupied pods, the empty pods allocated to Jack and Victoria would have remained untouched. The first pod he happens upon is labeled 01 and is empty. Through the gun scope, and once back in the tower afterwards, you see Julia's is 06. Later after he puts Julia into one, the one he drags out of the bunker is 01. And at the very end at we see the pod with Malcolm he took up to the Tet is numbered 02. So we can reasonably assume pods 01 and 02 were Jack and Victoria respectively and were not shot up by the drones because there was no one in them.
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Correction: Batroc is not French, he is Algerian (a point made clear in the film when a character claims he is French). French is not the first language of Algeria so you cannot expect him to speak it perfectly. As you said, the actor speaks French as his first language and it may be a common way of phrasing the term in other dialects.