Corrected entry: When the four hobbits first encounter a Black Rider (just after Frodo shouts "get off the road!" at his mushroom-gathering companions), you can see that the Nazgul isn't on a road when his horse first walks on scene. Look at the gap in the top right corner. The road is straight and the horse should pass that gap, but it doesn't. There also is an extraordinarily short window of time between when the hobbits hide under the tree roots, and when the Nazgul appears on screen.
Aerinah
23rd Feb 2014
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
28th Nov 2013
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
Corrected entry: When Katniss is lying on the ground after the arena begins collapsing, debris lands only a few metres from her. However, the arrow struck the centre of the arena, meaning it should collapse from there out.
Correction: It's not clear what the mistake is here. First, you haven't said where Katniss herself is in relation to where she aimed the arrow, so why can't the debris land only a few meters from her? Second, no matter where the dome is hit, gravity will cause the debris to fall straight down... Which is inside the arena, exactly as shown, not outside it as you seem to be suggesting.
9th Nov 2013
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Corrected entry: Admiral Marcus ordered Kirk to fire all 72 torpedoes at Khan, because he secretly wanted to kill Khan and all of his crew members which he knew were hidden in the torpedoes. Given the fact that each of the torpedoes had their fuel containers removed and replaced with the cryotubes containing Khan's crew coupled with Scotty's statement that "photon torpedoes run on fuel", none of these modified torpedoes would have had been able to propel themselves after being launched from the Enterprise. So how would they have been able to navigate the distance from the Enterprise all the way to the planet? On the off chance that "fuel" referred to the warhead rather than propulsion, then the lack of fuel would have meant that the torpedoes wouldn't have been able to detonate as they did during the climax of the movie.
Correction: The torpedoes have not had their fuel containers completely removed and replaced. What Carol Marcus actually says is that the fuel container was 'removed and retrofitted to hide this cryotube'. Use of the phrase 'retrofitted to hide' indicates that the fuel containers were reinserted after the modification. This may mean that the torpedoes now hold less fuel than they would have otherwise (part of the modification), but does not prove that they have none.
18th Sep 2013
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Corrected entry: Spock announces that the Enterprise's gravity systems are failing and, from that point on,"down" is no longer towards the bottom of the ship, but is instead towards whichever side of the Enterprise happens to be nearest to Earth as the ship spins out of control. This would make sense except that the ship is in freefall and therefore everything on it should not be experiencing any gravity at all. A correction for a similar mistake supposes that the shifts in gravity are due to fluctuations caused by the malfunctioning gravity systems as they attempt to come back online. The main problem with this excuse is that, if the gravity systems are attempting to restart, then there must be intervals between each attempt wherein they are NOT started - moments where they are offline during which there should be no gravity aboard the Enterprise. These moments never occur, and so the gravity systems cannot be attempting to restart. They are simply down, and the inevitable result of such a situation was misrepresented in the film to increase the tension for the audience. (01:41:15)
Correction: You are assuming that any malfunction of the Enterprise's gravitational systems must necessarily involve moments, however brief, when these gravitational systems are entirely offline, and therefore the crew and contents of the ship should be seen floating in freefall. There is no evidence in the movie (or in the other corrected entry referring to the ship's gravitational fluctuations, that you mention in your submission) that this has occurred, or that it must occur, as you assume. Why can't the problem be exactly what we see in the film - that the ship's gravity is experiencing serious fluctuations in direction and strength, as the ship's power weakens and has to be diverted among several critical systems?
23rd Jun 2013
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Corrected entry: Scotty only has to shoot Khan once to stun him completely on the bridge of the Vengeance, but Lt. Uhura shoots Khan seven times attempting to stun him and he still doesn't fall down.
28th May 2013
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Corrected entry: When Kirk and Scott are racing to repair the engines and the ship's gravity is breaking down, the characters should begin to float rather than plunge hundreds of feet to their deaths.
Correction: If the ship's artificial gravity had completely shut down, then the characters might float as you suggest. But it's not completely off; it is malfunctioning and keeps trying to come back online as the ship tumbles toward Earth. This situation is much more likely to create the kinds of gravity fluctuations that do in fact occur.
8th Apr 2013
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Corrected entry: When Sam is fighting Shelob, at the start of the fight Sam appears to be using his own sword. Later in the fight, when Sam's sword is grabbed by the mouth of Shelob, when the sword comes back out it appears as if he is using Frodo's Sting sword. (02:20:00)
24th Dec 2012
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
Corrected entry: When Thorin stands up to Azog, with the dramatic march down the half fallen, half burning tree, he has his sword in one hand and the other is empty, all he has on his arm is his usual leather grieve. After the shot changes and he's facing Azog's wolf, he has the oaken branch on his arm (with identifying metal additions), the one he used in the battle at Moria and from which he earned his name. He didn't have time to go and get it, nor did he have a pack or bag in which to carry it, seeing as how they were in a life and death run from the Goblin cave immediately prior to this.
Correction: Actually, if you look closely you can see that in the shot where Thorin has first stood up with his sword in his right hand, he already has the shield on his left arm. Also, earlier in the movie you can see Thorin keeps the shield hung on his back (low, beside his left hip) so there's no reason he couldn't still have it when he faces Azog.
15th Feb 2013
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
Corrected entry: When the eagle first picks up Thorin, we can see all four front talons grasping him. In the next scene, we see Thorin's leg dangling free. When the eagles are about to land, all four talons are grasping him again.
Correction: First, it's not clear what the mistake is supposed to be here: what does Thorin's leg position have to do with how many talons the eagle is grasping him with? If you mean that sometimes the eagle is holding both of Thorin's legs and sometimes only one leg, you may be right, but we also see the eagle shifting its grip at least once, and the camera doesn't stay on Thorin for the entire flight to the Carrock. So it is entirely possible that the eagle shifted its grip a few times during the flight, resulting in whatever difference in grip and/or leg position you spotted.
15th Jan 2013
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
Corrected entry: Near the very beginning of the film, when Bilbo is chatting with Frodo outside Bag End, Frodo says he's heading-off to the 'East-farthing Woods' [sic] to wait for Gandalf to show-up. Frodo then happily trots-off down the path with nothing in his hands, and wearing no backpack. Yet at the beginning of 'The Fellowship of the Ring' film, Frodo is sitting with his back against a tree, waiting for Gandalf to enter Hobbiton - reading a book that's appeared from nowhere.
Correction: Actually, if you look closely you can see that Frodo has the book in his left hand as he heads down the path.
21st Mar 2012
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011)
Corrected entry: In the last few scenes of the film, when the Cullens are crossing Bella's hands on her stomach, you will see a ring on her left ring finger that is not her wedding ring. Then they place her right hand on top of her left hand and her wedding ring is on the right ring finger. The wedding ring is still on her right ring finger throughout the shot when the camera zooms in and shows a close up shot from her head to where her hands are resting on her stomach.
Correction: You're right that the large oval diamond-studded engagement ring is on Bella's right hand, while there is a plain band on her left hand. This is not a mistake, however. When Bella got married she decided to wear the wedding band on her left hand [like you're supposed to] and, since the setting on the engagement ring is too big to wear it on the same finger as the wedding band, she transferred it to her right hand instead. If you watch closely you'll see that whenever she wears both rings they are worn this way.
7th Aug 2010
Salt (2010)
Corrected entry: When Salt returns to her apartment, near the beginning, being chased by her team members, she climbs on the ledge without her shoes. When she climbs back onto the ground and runs away in the next scene, she is wearing boots.
Correction: We see her pick up the boots before climbing out onto the ledge. Clearly, she put them in her backpack off-camera, then took them out and put them on after entering the young girl's apartment.
11th May 2010
The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Bella meets Laurent in the meadow, the grass is brown. This indicates that it has dried out from lack of rain. It is almost constantly raining in Forks, so technically the grass should be green. (01:00:25)
Correction: Grass doesn't only turn brown from drying out; it also turns brown in the winter. The meadow scene happens in the winter - sometime in February, by my calculations - so it makes perfect sense for the grass to be brown at that time.
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Correction: Why does the Black Rider have to have ridden up on the road? It is perfectly possible for a horse to wend its way through the trees instead, and indeed, if you're trying to be sneaky, this is a better way to go. If you're assuming the Rider must have been on the road because of what Frodo shouts, this is an incorrect assumption. Frodo shouts for his friends to get off the road because he doesn't want them to be seen and they are very easy to see on the open road. This does not in any way prove that anything approaching them has to be coming along the road.
Aerinah