Corrected entry: In the begining of the movie, when the clerics and the SWAT team enter a building full of deviants, they are in a room with windows. But when Preston enters that room, it's completely dark.
Dr Wilson
8th Dec 2003
Equilibrium (2002)
25th Nov 2003
The Fifth Element (1997)
Corrected entry: In the Nucleolab, they recreate Leeloo with a hand in a metallic glove. When you see her finished, she doesn't have the glove.
Correction: When Leeloo is finished being created the glove is next to her and she slips her hand out of the glove - the glove was never attached to her in the first place, they only used it to get the DNA out of it to create her.
21st Nov 2003
Black Hawk Down (2001)
Corrected entry: When the officers want some soldiers to rescue the crew of the fallen helicopter, there is one who takes a puff of asthma medication. You can't go in the army if you are asthmatic.
Correction: If you have read the Black Hawk Down book then you would know that a single Ranger was allowed to, even with asthma. You can go through BCT (Basic Combat Training) with Asthma and an inhaler. You can also go through Boot Camp with Asthma, but Boot Camp is for Marines, not ground pounders in the Army. All branches take Asthma sufferers, it just depends on their level of Asthma. My dad had Asthma and went Ranger in December 1970 and I have Asthma while going into the pipeline for AFSOC (CCT).
8th Nov 2003
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
Corrected entry: In the emperor's throne room, sometimes the stars move and sometimes they don't.
Correction: According to blueprints published in technical books, the Emperor's throne room is on a tower at the "north pole" of the Death Star. The Death Star was rotating both left and right (or hold position) to get open shots on the rebel's capital ships. This would explain why the stars move sometimes and don't sometimes.
8th Nov 2003
Star Wars (1977)
Corrected entry: This mistake is for all the original trilogy. The Millenium Falcon has its cockpit on the side and not in front of the ship, so you should be able to see the side of the ship from within, but you can only ever see space.
Correction: The front bulkheads of the Falcon angle away from the cockpit enough to be out of the forward field of view. It wouldn't be a very good design if the body of the ship obstructed its own pilot's visibility.
4th Oct 2003
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (1969)
Corrected entry: When Shaggy takes a picture of the actor disguised as an ape, he takes him from the back. When he shows the picture to Velma, Freddy and Daphne, you can see his face.
Correction: The 'ape man' actually turns around as soon as shaggy lifts up his camera to take the picture. That's why it may seem like the 'ape man' was turned the other way.
5th Sep 2003
Small Soldiers (1998)
Corrected entry: The missiles that one of the soldiers shoot can break a tree, but later in the film it can't break the electric dick where Allan is.
Correction: They're different missiles. Chip's jeep has one sort which can knock down a tree (a bit excessive, granted), but the helicopter only has bottle rockets. Earlier they fired one into the house and it only broke a bowl.
22nd Jul 2003
Goldfinger (1964)
Corrected entry: The man ejected from the car by Bond has a parachute on his back.
Correction: At first, it looks like a parachute, but if you go a few seconds further into the scene, it looks more like a car seat for the stunt man or dummy become separated from it.
16th Sep 2003
Star Wars (1977)
Corrected entry: When the kind of humanoid fly tells to the stormtroopers where is Luke, Obi-Wan and the droids, he knocks his face with his hand, like someone wearing a mask, and it bends.
Correction: That is a mask. Check his profile on www.starwars.com/databank.
1st Sep 2003
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Corrected entry: When R2-D2 shows the holographic plan of the palace, the palace turns, but not the red path.
Correction: Not so. The path does in fact change orientation as the palace itself turns. It is most noticeable at the left edge; note how the red line moves from several inches into the hologram but shifts leftward until it is almost at the edge. It is also very evident at the square reverse-C-shaped curve of the path; the lower bar of the reverse-C decreases noticeably in length.
31st Aug 2003
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Corrected entry: When the neimoidian vice-roy is watching the battle on a screen Darth Maul comes, but his make-up seems different than during the rest of the film.
Correction: "Seems". Only to the person that submitted this, I'm afraid. The fact is that Darth Maul's makeup is the same in that scene as everywhere else in the film.
10th Sep 2003
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Corrected entry: When Anakin tries his podracer for the first time, his hair and clothes move as if there was wind. There are three problems with that. First, his pod isn't moving, hence no wind. Second, other persons near him don't seem to be affected by wind and third, it doesn't do that at the beginning of the Boonta Eve race, when they start their motors.
Correction: It isn't wind that's causing his hair and clothes to move, but rather exhaust from the pod turbines, which he has just switched on. The other characters aren't affected by it because Qui-Gon and Kitster are out of range to the left and Amidala, C-3PO, R2-D2 and Jar-Jar are out of range to the right. As for why you don't see his hair moving at the start of the Boonta Eve race, it's because his helmet has plastered it to his head and only a few strands are loose.
26th Aug 2003
Star Wars (1977)
Corrected entry: After they escape from the Death Star, Luke and Han go to the firing room to attack the TIEs. Look at the ladder: it is vertical. When Luke enters, he moves as if it was horizontal.
Correction: The gun turrets have independent gravity wells.
31st Aug 2003
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Corrected entry: After Anakin speaks the last time to his mother, he return with Qui-Gon. There is a water evaporator besides them. On the top, there is something looking like a Pepsi logo.
Correction: There is another shot closer to it and it doesn't look like a Pepsi logo.
22nd Jul 2003
Predator (1987)
Corrected entry: When someone is searching the man who has been captured by the predator in front of Anna, we see his backpack on the ground and some meters away, his machine gun. When he returns with Dutch, the machine gun is next to the backpack.
9th Jul 2003
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Corrected entry: If combat droids are radio-controlled by a computer on the neimodian ship, why do they need to be spoken to via hologram too?
Correction: The droids are powered by the ship, they are given artificial intelligence and thus must be spoken to in order to receive orders.
13th Jul 2003
Dennis the Menace (1993)
Corrected entry: When the guy who kidnap Dennis fall from the railroad bridge, a kind of matress is visible in the water under him.
Correction: It isn't a matress. It's a plank floating around in the water.
22nd Jul 2003
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
Corrected entry: Han is handcuffed when he is frozen in Empire Strikes Back, but he is not when Leia frees him.
22nd Sep 2003
The World is Not Enough (1999)
Corrected entry: At the beginning of the film, Bond's got some money in his hand when the pile's scanned (presumably for explosives/contamination/something). He only puts it down after the scanner's gone past, which surely negates the entire point of scanning it?
Correction: Not true - he puts it down as the scanner ends its first pass, right in line of the blue light. The scanner then continues moving over the money, including the notes Bond just put down.
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Correction: Not the same room. The surviving sense-offenders (the ones who weren't killed by the heavy gunfire at the front of the building) retreated to a darkened room in the hopes that the Tetragrammaton wouldn't be able to take them on safely without heavy losses. As indeed they would have, had not the Clerics shown up.
Phil C.