Corrected entry: When Leeloo escapes the lab by ripping through the wall, it's painfully obvious that the presumably "metal" wall is just made out of regular old tinfoil or a similar substance. It bends and breaks super easily, seems to be paper-thin, and tellingly, you can even see a bit sticking out at the end of the shot and the other side of it isn't painted... it's just the classic tinfoil "silver" color.
TedStixon
20th Jul 2023
The Fifth Element (1997)
12th Aug 2010
Poltergeist (1982)
Corrected entry: In the opening sequence, when Dana is in bed and hears Carol Anne say, "Hello, I can't hear you", for some reason there is a prosthetic leg lying across Dana's bed. (00:03:45)
Correction: It's just Dana's leg.
Yup, she just has it at an awkward angle, but it's 100% her leg. Not sure how the OP thought it was a prosthetic leg to begin with. There's literally no reason for a prosthetic leg to be in the shot when they could easily use the actress' leg, and it looks far too real to be a prosthetic from an 80's movie.
19th Mar 2023
The Whale (2022)
Corrected entry: Mary may have "fought hard" to gain full custody of Ellie, but - even if Charlie did "leave them" to be with his "lover" - Charlie should have still gotten at least court-ordered regular supervised visits with his daughter over the years, not shut off from maintaining a relationship with his biological daughter.
Correction: Fathers often get the 'short end of the stick' in custody battles. It is entirely possible that Charlie was denied even supervised visitation. Especially if the judge was extremely conservative.
Especially if the judge was conservative and anti-gay. Plenty of them around.
Charlie was not physically or sexually abusive toward his daughter Ellie (two major reasons to deny any visitation), so I have to disagree.
I'm not sure how you could disagree. Women are 4X more likely to get primary custody than men, and it's really not unheard of for a parent to get little-to-no custody/visitation even if they weren't abusive to the child. Ex. My father was not abusive towards me, but I only saw him for a few hours every other week because that's just how the arrangement worked out. (Which in retrospect was good because he had other issues and I shouldn't have been around him more than that. But at the time it hurt.)
18th Dec 2018
Paranormal Activity (2007)
Other mistake: When Katie tells Micah to look at their picture after the demon has broken the glass, you can plainly see the girl in the picture is not Katie.
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Suggested correction: Yes, it is. She looks a little different in the picture, but it just comes down to the camera angle (it's a high angle) and the weird lighting in the photo (she's in shadow). I also checked out a high-resolution still of the photo in the movie and compared it to a photo of the actress, and they share every minor subtle feature right down to the shape of her teeth. Micah also looks slightly different in the photo too, but it's the same actor. Also, I have to ask what purpose would there be to having a photo with a completely different actress when they could just take one with the actress from the movie?
18th May 2023
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)
Corrected entry: Peach's crown suddenly appears on her head a few cuts after taking her helmet off.
Correction: It's hard to see because of the camera angle, but she actually already has the crown on when she takes her helmet off. You can see it for about a half-second at the top of the frame as she removes the helmet. She simply put her helmet on over it - it doesn't just "appear." There's even a bit of setup earlier, when Bowser jokingly refers to her "immovable tiara," implying that her crown/tiara never leaves her head.
18th May 2023
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)
Corrected entry: During the kart ride to Cranky Kong's castle, a wide shot of the kingdom is shown, showing only two ramps on either side of the entrance. However, moments later, there is now a third ramp in the middle, leading to the entrance. (00:42:42)
Correction: The third ramp doesn't "appear." It's just harder to see because of the camera angle and the fact the color makes them blend in a bit. But if you look closely, all three ramps are there - one is to the right of the waterfall and two are to the left.
8th Feb 2005
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Corrected entry: Early on Hilary Swank describes her family to Clint Eastwood and states her mother "weighs 312 pounds". Later we meet the mother (Margo Martindale) and while she is somewhat obese she is nowhere near 300 lbs.
Correction: Just to add to the conversation, while I'm not a woman, I used to weigh about 350 pounds before I started a serious diet plan and lost almost 100 pounds. In my experience, it wasn't until I hit 350 that I started to look super massive. Once I got started on my diet and got back down to 300, I looked substantially smaller and dropped multiple shirt and pant sizes. But going from 300 to around 255 was much subtler - I only went down one shirt size and lost an inch or two around my waist. 300 isn't as huge as you'd think for everyone... it just depends on how your body carries and distributes the weight. She absolutely could weigh around 300 pounds.
Correction: 300 pounds may seem like a lot, but a quick browser search into publicly available photo galleries will show that her mom is very likely to be that and more. Many galleries showing variations of distribution of fat based on height and weight exist for artists and curious folk.
Correction: The keyword is "Later". We see the mother well over a year after she's described, so she's had plenty of time to follow a diet or whatever.
10th Jun 2023
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Corrected entry: Given the subway's crowded, there's no reason Superman couldn't fly the hurt engineer to the hospital.
Correction: There were already paramedics and authorities there to take care of the engineer. It'd be pointless to fly him to a hospital when he's already being helped.
13th Sep 2021
Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019)
Other mistake: At the beginning, when Tim arrives in Ryme City, a Sneasel is visible with its ears on the wrong sides.
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Suggested correction: As an adaptation, the movie is allowed to alter the design of characters and creatures from the games. It doesn't need to stay 100% consistent with the game, and thus, this cannot be considered a mistake. Other Pokémon in the movie similarly have minor cosmetic changes. Furthermore, you could also easily chalk this up to the Pokémon's genetics simply being different. Natural variation or mutations happen sometimes in species, and it's canon in Pokémon that some of them have different forms or look different even if they're the same species. (Ex. I have a number of the same Pokémon that all look completely different in Pokémon Go.)
12th Feb 2021
Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019)
Other mistake: The Psyduck is technically incapable of defending the group against the Quajutsus. Regardless of which psychic attack Psyduck uses, Quajutsu is immune to it because of its typing (water/dark).
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Suggested correction: As an adaptation, the movie is allowed to bend the rules of the game. Furthermore, just because they're strong against psychic-type attacks in the game doesn't mean they'll be completely unaffected or totally immune, especially given how powerful his attack is.
20th May 2023
Halloween Kills (2021)
Corrected entry: After Karen takes Michael's mask, if you listen closely, Michael says to her, "Give it back."
Correction: This is just an out of control fan-theory and has absolutely no confirmation anywhere, and it honestly sounds more like a mixture of Allison crying and the ambient noise of the scene than a male voice speaking or whispering. Unless the director comes right out and confirms that they very quietly looped in Michael speaking (which he hasn't), it's not something that should be listed as confirmed trivia.
19th May 2023
Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
Plot hole: While underwater all of those years, Jason didn't seem to age. He seemed to be a child when he grabbed Alice at the end of the first film. How could he grow up to be an adult after only five years, as Paul stated during the campfire story?
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Suggested correction: Dialogue in the film hints at what actually happened, which is that the end of the first movie was some sort-of panicked dream/delusion Alice had, while the real Jason has been living out in the woods ever since he "drowned," and thus aged into an adult. (Whether he actually did drown and came back to life, or escaped and fled out into the woods because he was mentally challenged is up for debate.) It's admittedly shaky, but the movie does hint at an explanation, so I don't think this really counts as a mistake.
16th May 2005
Halloween: H20 (1998)
Plot hole: At the end of the film all the police and ambulance vehicles manage to get into the school, but earlier Keri/Laurie smashed the mechanism that opens the gate.
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Suggested correction: There's been a series of murders tied to an infamous serial killer... more than likely the police broke down the gate to gain access. (Which can be done in any number of ways: sawing through the locks, having the fire department dismantle it, ramming through it with an armored vehicle, etc.) They're not going to not come in just because there's a gate they can't open. Also, a quick Google search indicates that often, police are given access codes or ways to remotely open gates at certain buildings (schools, senior centers, etc.) in the event of an emergency. So it's entirely possible they also had a way to open the gate without breaking it down.
18th Jun 2022
Jurassic World Dominion (2022)
Corrected entry: When Charlotte Lockwood is doing a vlog holding baby Maisie, the needle she uses pokes Maisie's leg twice, which couldn't happen in real life.
Correction: I'm sorry... what? First off, I'm genuinely confused what you mean by saying that poking someone with a needle twice "couldn't happen in real life." Poking someone twice with a needle is absolutely possible. It's literally happened to me when I've gotten blood work done and they can't find my vein. Second, she doesn't actually poke her twice... she just shifted her hand, which made the needle kind of move back and forth for a second. This mistake makes literally no sense.
6th Jul 2004
Ginger Snaps (2000)
Corrected entry: If Bridgette knew that she was going to become a werewolf after she mixed her sister's blood with her own, why didn't she kill herself after she killed her sister?
Correction: She only infected herself to get her sister to come with her, then her plan was to "cure" Ginger, then herself. She didn't originally plan to kill Ginger.
I believe the point of the entry was that even though Ginger's death was accidental, that Bridgette still should have killed herself to insure that she wouldn't become a werewolf and start killing too.
19th Mar 2023
The Whale (2022)
Plot hole: Other than being an on-line college instructor who "works a lot", the status of Charlie's employment was not revealed. There's a big difference between being a full-time tenure-track instructor (with a fringe benefits package that would include health insurance) versus part-time/adjunct faculty (with low pay per course and little or no benefits). Charlie was able to save $120K in 8 years, suggesting he was full-time and should have had health as well as life insurance and a retirement plan.
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Suggested correction: Not necessarily. My uncle works as a college professor (typically part-time or single-semester gigs) and has been able to set aside pretty good money by controlling his spending. Granted, not $120K... but my uncle also spends more money than Charlie on leisure things. (Also, according to a quick Google search, a part-time college professor often makes as much as $40K+ per year depending on different factors... pretty easy to save money if all you're spending is rent and food).
19th Mar 2023
The Whale (2022)
Plot hole: After sending the offensive message to his students, Charlie got on-line with them (within hours or the same day?) and said, "Well, your complaints have been heard. I've been replaced..." IF an on-line college instructor could be terminated and replaced as quickly as Charlie was, it would follow that he would no longer be able to access the on-line course to communicate with the students like he did. (01:39:55)
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Suggested correction: I think this is based on too much assumption. Any sort-of ban would likely be entire dependent on whatever system they're using for their online class. And it's entirely plausible he'd still be able to access his account mere hours later, even if the call has already been made to replace him.
I worked for the Defence department in Australia and it was a running gag that eighteen months after I had left my online access to my account was still open, allowing me access to highly classified documentation, including emails. Mistakes happen.
10th Jul 2004
Ghostbusters 2 (1989)
Trivia: The original theatrical version ended with Slimer eating the camera, just like in the first Ghostbusters film. This has been removed for the video releases.
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Suggested correction: This is a popular rumor, and some people claim to remember it, but there's no supporting evidence or footage to confirm this. In fact, after doing some research, I came across an article where a projectionist screened an original 1989 35mm print of the film to see if it did indeed end with this mythical Slimer scene... and the print contained no such scene, ending the exact same way as the home video releases. Sadly, this appears to simply be another instance of the dreaded "Mandela Effect," where people remember something that didn't really happen/wasn't real. Furthermore, if they actually had spent the time and money creating an effect like that, what purpose would there be to cutting it from home video releases? Effect like the ones in this film were harder and more laborious to make in the 1980's. They wouldn't just cut effects out for no reason.
14th Nov 2002
Spider-Man (2002)
Corrected entry: When Spider-Man is rescuing Mary Jane from falling to her death from the balcony, he catches her and spins his web to the balcony to save her and they bungie to just inches from the ground. As they are preparing to bounce back up the shot rotates 90 degrees and you can see the counter weight that pulls them back up coming down to the ground. It's a weird one, this - there's a sound effect as the weight comes into view, so it's meant to be there (or else the sound's just a cover), but it can't be anything he attached his web to, as it was stuck straight onto the balcony. If it's falling, they should be too - his web's not pivoting around anything. (01:06:50)
Correction: They bounce back because of the elasticity of the web. That falling block is just a falling piece similar to the long one that is already on the ground, it's not a counter weight.
Correction: I genuinely don't understand this mistake. It's just a piece of debris falling. It looks absolutely nothing like a "counterweight," nor is it big enough to be. It's the exact same color, texture and relative size as the larger pieces of debris on the ground below them. (Furthermore, you can see other, smaller pieces of debris falling around them during the two shots as well.) And the reason they spring back up is because the web is somewhat elastic in quality. This is shown multiple times throughout the movies. He stuck the web to the balcony, and they sprang back up as bits of debris continued to fall. There's no mistake here.
19th Jul 2021
Men in Black (1997)
Other mistake: The first time the neuraliser is used it shows hours, weeks and years. But at the end of the film the lead character tells J to remember that it's "days, months, years." (00:08:06 - 01:24:52)
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Suggested correction: Perhaps there are different models of neuralyzers.
I don't think arguing "perhaps such-and-such" is necessarily strong enough of a reason to correct a mistake. Nothing in the movie indicates they are different models, so it's probably best to assume they're the same.
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Correction: It is not meant to be a metal wall. It's not the outer wall of the room, just encased around the regeneration tube. It's possibly equivalent to MLI (Multi-Layer Insulation) used in astronautics. That is also gold on one side and silver on the other.
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I did not know about MLI. Thanks for mentioning that. That actually would explain it very well. It always drove me nuts how cheap and flimsy it looked, but if it's meant to be something like MLI, it 100% makes sense.
TedStixon