Corrected entry: After Bond escapes a shark-infested swimming pool, James drives back to his hotel with a CIA agent named Pinder. He tells Pinder to tell Leiter "That Paula is dead." Pinder says OK - end of scene. No grief, no tears, and no amazement - just another day at the CIA I guess.
Larry Koehn
26th Aug 2003
Thunderball (1965)
16th May 2004
Van Helsing (2004)
Corrected entry: When the Sun is being blocked by a cloud just before the vampire ladies come back out in the village, the shadow of the cloud appears as a defined edge crossing the ground. This would be true for a solid object but clouds are water vapor and gaseous in nature; thus, no defined boundary between dark and light.
Correction: When a cloud moves in front of the sun, it is very easy to follow a very much defined line across the ground. This is the edge of the cloud, therefore making this scene correct in its portrayal of the shadow.
18th Apr 2004
Hellboy (2004)
Corrected entry: While in the tunnels under the cemetery in Moscow, walls rise up from the floor blocking the parties' exit. Shortly after that, rows of blades swing out perpendicular to the walls. The blades can be seen vibrating as if they were made of rubber.
Correction: The blades have some mechanism that allows them to extend or retract. It is this aged and imperfect mechanism that is causing them to bounce a little as they settle into the new positions, not because they're made of rubber.
15th Sep 2003
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Corrected entry: The astronauts should had immediately realized they were back on Earth, at the beginning of the movie, if they had only gazed at the Moon or constellations in the night time sky (even if it was the year 3978). Naturally that observation would have made that a different movie.
Correction: A comment is made very early in the movie about the thunder and lightning with no rain and how there is a strange luminescence but no moon, which would make the stars invisible too. The climate and night sky may have been drastically changed by whatever has happened in the years since they have been traveling.
22nd Sep 2003
The War of the Worlds (1953)
Corrected entry: All the people begin leaving the church after the Martian saucer crashes. How did they all know it was safe to go outside within moments after the crash? (01:22:15)
12th Aug 2003
Robinson Crusoe On Mars (1964)
Corrected entry: There are a lot of scenes with fire burning on Mars. Even back in 1964, scientist knew that the martian atmosphere was mostly carbon dioxide and fire doesn't burn in CO2.
Correction: This is science fiction, not reality. If the Martian atmosphere was represented accurately, Crusoe would be dead within seconds of landing.
6th Nov 2003
The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
Corrected entry: Multiple Smiths enter Oracle's kitchen, but only one has a shadow.
Correction: Actually they all have a shadow, the first and third are the easiest to see, as they walk in to talk to her.
13th Sep 2003
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Corrected entry: Klaatu states that he traveled 250 million miles. Yet, the nearest stars are trillions of miles away. Scientist at the time knew that Mars and Venus were unlikely to harbor life. (00:13:27)
Correction: While not strictly accurate, this was expected terminology for films at that time.
Correction: He was probably from Ceres, the dwarf planet in the asteroid belt.
13th Sep 2003
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Corrected entry: Klaatu neutralizes the electricity all over the world for 30 minutes at high noon Washington DC time. The Sun however was shining brightly in England and Russia at that same moment in the film. (01:02:20)
Correction: This is possible, if the scene relates to the middle of summer then noon Washington DC time is 5pm in the UK and 8pm USSR time so it's quite possible to be bright and sunny - sunset in late June is around 9pm in London and 10pm in Moscow.
18th Sep 2003
The Thing From Another World (1951)
Corrected entry: The thermite bombs vaporize the saucer leaving no trace except for the thing; yet, the saucer survives a fiery entry (still shots shown to the captain) into our atmosphere and the craft was determined by the scientist to weigh 20,000 tons when it crashed and made up an unknown alloy. With this in mind and no trace but a body, how did the body survive that heat?
Correction: The book explains this. The thing survived the crash, wandered out and was lost in a blizzard then froze. The ship caught fire because thermite burns much, much hotter than air friction from reentry.
18th Sep 2003
The War of the Worlds (1953)
Corrected entry: Martians die at the end of the film because of the bacteria in our atmosphere. Martians are living organisms (they had anemic blood in the movie), so why weren't humans affected adversely by the Martian bacteria?
Correction: Perhaps the human immune system is better at killing them than the Martian immune system (if there is such a thing) is at dealing with Earth bacteria.
Correction: The Martians hadn't been on Earth long enough to spread any alien germs. The invasion unfolded rather quickly. The aliens were mostly confined to their space ships, and had limited direct contact with humans. If they had survived longer, they might have spread fatal organisms to humans, though the humans probably would have been eradicated by then.
18th Sep 2003
The Thing From Another World (1951)
Corrected entry: The baby aliens are shown to all in the camp. No mention of them at the end of the movie even from the reporter who raps things up. (01:01:45)
Correction: At one point one of the soldiers says they burned everything in the professor's lab.
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Correction: Not really a plot hole or mistake, it just shows that Pinder is a.) a heartless cad or b.) used to the fact that fellow agents die in the line of duty or c.) hiding his pain from Bond and waiting to let his pain out in private. Bond after all is used to the women in his life getting killed (thats the reason for all the martinis).