Corrected entry: When James Bond is falling from the airplane, you can see the fingers of the cameraman in the upper left corner of the image the shot after the closeup on his face.
Dr Wilson
15th May 2004
Moonraker (1979)
27th Nov 2004
Batman (1989)
Corrected entry: When Batman steals Joker's balloons, one of the buttons on the control panel is labelled "volume." It is also visible when he arms the machine gun and the missiles to shoot at the Joker.
Correction: There are a number of reasons and uses for a volume button, even in a fancy superhero jet.
17th Oct 2004
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Corrected entry: When the police are going to arrest the knights at the end, you can see a reflection of the crew on their cars.
Correction: The 'crew' are part of the scene - it's a news crew filming the arrests. At the end the police sergeant stops filming by putting his hand over the camera lens.
3rd Dec 2003
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
Corrected entry: When Boba Fett shoots his lasso to Luke, it goes up, but Luke is in front of him.
Correction: Yes, it goes up in order to fall down on Luke and wrap around him. If it went straight towards Luke it would uselessy hit him in the chest and fall to the ground.
2nd Dec 2004
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Corrected entry: When Harry is riding Buckbeak for the first time over the lake, the sun is at their left but in the last shot when Buck turns right, the sun is now at their right.
Correction: After Buckbeak and Harry fly out of the paddock and towards the castle, there's an overhead wide shot of the water below and it's clear Buckbeak does not fly in a straight line, he's following the path of the water with numerous twists and turns. The sun's position changes with Harry's "Woo hoo!" in the first shot, followed by more loud screams in the 2nd shot, and then in the last shot, with another "Woo hoo!" From shot to shot, these are not one long continuous scream and since Buckbeak is turning with the path of the lake, it is obvious that their direction is changing as they fly over the water. Each of the consecutive shots as they fly is not their entire flight, as is even apparent in the next two shots when Buckbeak is back near the paddock already.
22nd Aug 2004
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Corrected entry: In Dursleys' house, Harry yells at Aunt Marge and she breaks her glass, but the base is still intact after that. When Harry goes to wipe the table, it has disappeared. (00:03:35)
Correction: When the crystal brandy goblet actually breaks, while in Marge's grasp, there is no clear view of the supposed intact base, in the shot facing Marge and the next one facing Vernon, nor is there a view of where it lands. In the next two close-ups of Marge, as she tells Petunia not to worry and then snaps her fingers at Harry to clean it up, the table is visible and the base is not visible at all in the shots. The only glass base on the table, in front of Marge, is one that is intact on the tall crystal goblet.
29th Nov 2004
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Corrected entry: When Ron and Hermione finds Harry crying on a rock, you can see that Harry's footprints stops right in front of the rock. The only way that he could have achieved that is by jumping and turning in the air before sitting, without touching the snow.
Correction: Not necessarily. He could have stopped in front of the rock, climbed up, then turned around when he was on the rock. Perfectly possible.
7th Jul 2004
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Corrected entry: When Harry is watching outside the window on the Hogwart Express, you can see the reflection of his face and the camera on the window. (00:22:55)
Correction: The reflection we see is definitely not of a camera. It's the reflection of the doorway and the long shiny silver door handle.
8th Jun 2004
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Corrected entry: In L.A., when the janitor removes his headphones after the tornado, his shadows do it a little bit before him.
Correction: The shadow is properly synchronized, but the light on the man is from below so it makes his hands look like they're higher than they actually are. Therefore it looks like his shadow hands reach his ears before his real hands do, but it's an illusion.
10th May 2004
Van Helsing (2004)
Corrected entry: When Van Helsing is in Dracula's castle, there's a shot where there's one of Dracula's ugly assistants moving on the ground behind him. It's actually a crew member moving a fake arm attached to a stick.
26th Aug 2003
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Corrected entry: This film is set in 1799, but the kind of optical effect that Ichabod Crane used with the cardinal in the cage, the thaumatrope, was invented in 1825.
Correction: It was OFFICIALLY invented in 1825. Apparently Ichabod's mother invented it, but they never patented it or showed it around much, so it did not become known to the public.
8th Jun 2004
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Corrected entry: The policemen breaks the window of the taxi to help the French woman and her son, but when Laura returns to take the purse, the window is intact.
Correction: The policeman actually broke the windshield. Laura reaches in through the rear window.
22nd Aug 2004
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Corrected entry: When Harry, Hermione and Ron enter the compartment on the Hogwart Express, there's only liquid in the the bottom of the bottle next to Prof. Lupin, but when the Dementors arrives, the level is higher.
Correction: The liquid in the bottle stays the same throughout the whole scene. However, the base of the window can be seen through the bottle near the bottom and it looks like this is the water level.
20th Sep 2004
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
Corrected entry: They talk of the 1914-1918 war as the First World War. It was known as the Great War until WWII.
Correction: History seems to be different in this movie. It's possible that the second world war is going on during this movie or has already happened before it. At one point in the movie somebody mentions that the last notes by Totenkopf were "written in 1918, over twenty years ago". The key word being "over". Also, the Hindenburg III docks with the Empire State Building in the beginning, which it was actually designed for except it never happened because of the high winds. The original Hindenburg was destroyed in 1937. So another would have had to have been built and either lost, destroyed or retired and then a third built. This would take some time. There's also a wreck underwater that I believe is supposed to be the Titanic and it's in one piece. They seem to have created their own history loosely based on our own.
Correction: Another few time-stamps to note are the screening of the Wizard of Oz which was first screened on 1939. I'm not sure how things went during that period, like how many years movies ran for. Wikipedia does mention a re-release in 1949 to re-attempt to cover costs. The second time stamp is vehicle design. The cars featured do not seem to yet feature the ponton style of integrating fenders into the car's body, though it would appear the fenders of this age were already getting rounder and more integral and had lost running boards a la VW Beetle. Again, this isn't too concrete since I don't suppose people threw their cars away the moment the new style came up. The third time-stamp would be the mention of global forces being spread thin and their dependence on the Sky Captains as an established mercenary company. Additionally, fabric rationing also placed women's skirt hemlines just below the knee during the 1940s as worn by Polly. This could perhaps place the movie in the 1940s.
24th Jun 2003
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
Corrected entry: When Obi-Wan is searching for the planet Kamino in the Jedi Temple library, a space map showing the galaxy and the Rishi's Daedalus is seen. The official Star Wars website says that this is the same galaxy that Luke and Leia can see from the medical ship at the end of Empire Strikes Back. (00:32:45)
Correction: Bit too tenuous to be trivia.
16th Jul 2004
The Terminal (2004)
Corrected entry: When the police officers ask Dixon if he wants to arrest Viktor, he says that the 5:00 pm flight from Tokyo has just arrived. It's New York during in the winter, but it is sunny outside at 5:00pm.
Correction: The five pm flight from Tokyo would have LEFT Tokyo at 5pm. I don't know much about flight times and such, but it could really get there when its sunny.
The airborne duration between Tokyo to JFK typically ranges from 12.5 to 13 hours, assuming it is a direct flight (otherwise Dixon's words wouldn't make sense). A 5:00 pm (GMT+9) departed flight would probably arrive in JFK (GMT-5, winter time) at from 3:30 to 4:00 pm. Moreover, It is a common knowledge that east-bound trans-pacific flights tend to be a few minutes earlier because of the wind. In reality, the Tokyo flight should have landed in JFK way before 5:00 pm (if it departed at 5:00 pm in Tokyo) or slightly before 5:00 pm (if it was scheduled to land at 5:00 pm). It is still daytime at 5:00 pm. When Viktor arrived in JFK and was brought to Dixon's office, green leaves out of the window, which suggests that Viktor arrived in JFK in late April or early May (NOTE: which I thought is actually a movie mistake, as the green leaves can be seen to have just started to turn yellow, which indicates September instead of suggested late Spring). We all know that Viktor stayed in the terminal for 9 months, which makes his walking out of the terminal sometime in late January to early February. The sunset (i.e. when you start to sense it is getting dark) time in New York during that period of the year starts earliest at right past 5:00 pm, with complete darkness arrives only at 6:30. The movie is actually particularly accurate on this point.
Correction: The airborne duration between Tokyo to JFK typically ranges from 12.5 to 13 hours, assuming it is a direct flight (otherwise Dixon's words wouldn't make sense). A 5:00 pm (GMT+9) departed flight would probably arrive in JFK (GMT-5, winter time) at from 3:30 to 4:00 pm. Moreover, It is a common knowledge that east-bound trans-pacific flights tend to be a few minutes earlier because of the wind. In reality, the Tokyo flight should have landed in JFK way before 5:00 pm (if it departed at 5:00 pm in Tokyo) or slightly before 5:00 pm (if it was scheduled to land at 5:00 pm). It is still daytime at 5:00 pm. When Viktor arrived in JFK and was brought to Dixon's office, green leaves out of the window, which suggests that Viktor arrived in JFK in late April or early May (NOTE: which I thought is actually a movie mistake, as the green leaves can be seen to have just started to turn yellow, which indicates September instead of suggested late Spring). We all know that Viktor stayed in the terminal for 9 months, which makes his walking out of the terminal sometime in late January to early February. The sunset (i.e. when you start to sense it is getting dark) time in New York during that period of the year starts earliest at right past 5:00 pm, with complete darkness arrives only at 6:30. The movie is actually particularly accurate on this point.
3rd Aug 2004
Star Wars (1977)
Corrected entry: When the stormtroopers breaks into the Blockade Runner, the explosion leaves a lot of debris on the floor, but when Lord Vader arrives a little bit later, there is much less debris.
Correction: The debris would have been moved by all the personnel (rebel soldiers and stormtroopers) moving about. Also, there are a lot of dead bodies, these would cover up a lot of debris.
Correction: Also, since it is implied that the stormtroopers moved the bodies out of the middle of the hallway (since we see them lined up on the side rather than sprawled out in the middle), they probably also moved any debris that was in the hallway out of the way as well.
8th Jun 2004
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Corrected entry: The International Space Station is shown orbiting form east to west. It actually goes in the other direction.
Correction: The way the camera pans in, it gives the impression that it is travelling from east to west even though when all the scenes show them looking from inside the station the motion indicates it is correctly travelling west to east.
7th Jul 2004
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Corrected entry: When the Dementors are entering the Hogwart Express, the lights in the compartment where Harry and his friends are, are turned off but when there's a view from outside, the lights are suddenly on.
Correction: Different compartment. There are several compartments with light in them when we see the train from outside, and one by one they go out.
19th Sep 2003
Igby Goes Down (2002)
Corrected entry: When Mimi dies, it's strange that there are no police dispatched there.
Correction: That was done on purpose. D.H. hired the two guys to take Mimi away since she was killed by her son. He tells them that they did a good job, and then gives them extra money as a tip.
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Correction: They are Bond's fingers, the shot is from his Point-Of-View, after all.