Corrected entry: John Hurt wears contact lenses to make his pupils look much bigger. You can see the edges of these coloured lenses when he's dead at the end of the movie.
Dr Wilson
19th Mar 2006
V for Vendetta (2005)
11th Jul 2003
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Corrected entry: In Cloud City, when Luke is shot at by the stormtroopers, you can see from the impacts that the walls are painted wood.
Correction: They're not on a ship, they're in the middle of a city. Why is it unreasonable that the walls would be made of wood?
Corrected entry: When C3P0 disturbs Leia and Han while they are kissing, there is something hanging from his armpit, wires or some mechanism, as if he was damaged. It's not there later.
Correction: So he had a loose part and fixed it later. How is that a mistake?
11th Mar 2004
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
Corrected entry: During the battle on the forest moon of Endor, an imperial AT-ST shoots at two Ewoks but they start to fall before the explosion.
Correction: That's because they're diving out of the way.
24th Apr 2004
Taxi 2 (2000)
Corrected entry: In the hangar, Émilien is angry at the other policemen and pushes their beer cans and playing cards onto the ground. They are back on the table the shot later. (00:40:05)
Correction: He only gets the front right policeman's beer cans and the cards laying on the table. It's the other two policemen's cans and the cards they're holding in the next shot.
24th Apr 2004
Taxi 2 (2000)
Corrected entry: When the police motorcycle are falling, one of the policemen is actually pulling them with a rope. (00:21:10)
Correction: It's not a rope and he's not pulling the bikes over. It's just the cord from his motorbike's telephone and he's ineffectually trying to pull on it to STOP the bike(s) from falling over.
23rd Dec 2003
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
Corrected entry: Some things in the chamber of Russ change from the scene where you see the grandfather in the bed and Clarke passing through the floor. (00:29:05 - 00:33:05)
Correction: That's not very specific. Does the bed change positions? Are there different posters on the walls? Is the wallpaper a different color? At least give one example of something that changes between the two shots.
The scene itself is specific enough. When multiple things move around, it's easier to say "some things change position", especially when it's obvious. While an example would make it easier, it's not necessary in all cases. Corrections should only be made when the scene has been observed so you can validate or invalidate the mistake. If you've watched the scene and didn't see anything change, then you could suggest an example be given.
No but there's a hole in the ceiling from clot going through it and then the scene where they're in bed which is after that the ceilings were peered as a poster up another mistake in the movie.
14th Jun 2005
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
Corrected entry: Watch in slow-motion when Eddie's dog passes through the door to chase the squirrel. The door is actually broken before.
Correction: As per the rules of this site, watching in slow-mo does not qualify this as a valid mistake.
18th Mar 2005
Team America: World Police (2004)
Corrected entry: In the shot after the sharks pulls out Hans Blix's head, the hand of an puppeteer is visible on the upper right corner of the screen, beside Kim Jong Il. Wires are deliberately visible in the film, but pupeteers are not. (00:38:14)
Correction: That wasn't a hand of a puppeteer it was one of the sharks, the scene was being shot from inside the tank.
18th Jun 2003
The Time Machine (2002)
Corrected entry: When Alexander goes to the year 802,701, the level of water had dropped about 30 metres. As that the climate seems to be tropical, the polar ice would have melted down and the water level would be higher than what it is in today's New York.
Correction: Being that the Moon was destroyed hundreds of thousands of years prior to that time, that could have had a major effect on the planet. In addition to the fact that tides would pretty much disappear, there is also a theory saying that without the Moon, the Earth's tilt can gradually be altered over time which would change the position of the poles. Also, 800,000 years worth of continental drift might have moved the former New York further from the poles than where is now.
27th Nov 2004
Batman (1989)
Corrected entry: When the Joker points the gun at Bob to shoot him, Bob jumps before the gun is fired.
Correction: He is probably startled because the Joker previously told Bob that he was "his number one guy", and now he is pointing a gun at him.
10th Sep 2003
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Corrected entry: During the race, the amount of dirt on Anakin's face change from shot to shot.
Correction: Obviously, because as the race goes on he gets more and more dirt on his face. That's common logic.
14th Sep 2003
Goldeneye (1995)
Corrected entry: M states that electromagnetic pulse effects of an atomic bomb exploding in high atmosphere was discovered after Hiroshima's bombing. It's not true. It was discovered after high altitude tests over Hawaii in 1953.
Correction: She never mentions how long after Hiroshima that EMP was discovered. She probably mentions Hiroshima because it was the first use of a nuclear bomb.
12th Nov 2004
Frankenstein (1931)
Corrected entry: Baron Frankenstein says that his son's lab is in an old abandoned windmill. It is actually in a watchtower.
Correction: The actually Baron says the lab is in a watchtower, not a windmill. The windmill appears at the end of the film.
When the Baron is speaking to Victor and Elizabeth at about the 26 minute mark, he says: "Why does he go messing around in an old ruined windmill - when he has a decent house, a bath, good food and drink, and a darn pretty girl to come back to. Huh, will you tell me that?" So this is a valid mistake.
3rd Jul 2003
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Corrected entry: When Darth Sidious talks to Darth Maul on the balcony, it is the same as Senator Palpatine's apartments.
Correction: That is not in the least bit surprising seeing as Darth Sidious and Palpatine are one and the same. Furthermore, this is not even valid trivia in that it is pointing out something which is obvious to anyone who watches the movie.
5th Aug 2005
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Corrected entry: During the fight between Anakin and Count Dooku, there's at least one shot where a lightsaber's shadow is visible on the floor. You see a shadow because they use a stick during the filming and later add the special effect.
Correction: Throughout the series of films, there are numerous shots where a lightsabre blade is seen to cast a shadow. As we don't know anything about the energy used to create the blade, we cannot say that it shouldn't cast a shadow, not least at the blades aren't translucent, meaning they definitely block light in some way.
25th Jul 2005
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Corrected entry: Willy Wonka says that the Oompa Loompa can't tolerate cold weather but they are seen later working in snow.
Correction: That's not snow, it's powdered sugar.
2nd Jul 2004
The Pianist (2002)
Corrected entry: When Szpilman escapes from the hospital because the German soldiers are burning the building with flamthrower, he open the window twice and the window changes between shots.
Correction: Szpilman actually opens two separate sets of windows. The first is a set of cloudy windows, the second a set of clear windows. The first camera angle is looking from the side as he opens the first set, then it moves behind Szpilman as he opens the next set. If you look closely, you can see the cloudy windows continue to swing after the camera changes.
6th Sep 2004
Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)
Corrected entry: When the co-pilot calls the control tower after the flying saucer has passed in front of the airplane, he says "May Day, May Day, standby Burbank tower." According to protocol, pilots actually have to say "May Day" three times. (00:05:15)
Correction: People get nervous, people make mistakes.
16th Feb 2004
Star Wars (1977)
Corrected entry: While they are escaping from the detention block, Leia says something like "Into the garbage chute, flyboy," but Han is still wearing the stormtrooper uniform, so there's no way that she could have known he was a pilot.
Correction: She could have also been using "Flyboy" sarcastically in the sense that Han was attempting to rescue her without a good plan (on the fly, so to speak).
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Correction: So he wears contact lenses. So what? Contact lenses exist in the time frame of the film and people wear them for both corrective and cosmetic reasons. No reason at all why a character couldn't be seen to be wearing them.
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