Corrected entry: In an aerial shot of the car driving on a road through the countryside in New Jersey, there is one yellow line for not passing. It should be a double yellow line for a curved highway for no passing on either side.
rswarrior
14th Jun 2011
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
27th Dec 2008
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
Corrected entry: After their planning session has ended, the scientists are loaded into helicopters and hover or move above ground relatively near the expected impact site. Though dramatic, this action is completely illogical. They would have to go underground, or at least as close to the ground as possible, to perhaps stand a chance of survival. The shock wave associated by even a small object impacting at that speed would be greater than a blast produced by any nuclear bomb, and it certainly wouldn't be survivable in a helicopter (that would at least crash and probably disintegrate in mid-air after being impacted by a hypersonic wavefront), but it might be possible to survive the blast underground. Putting them in helicopters is, given the expectations, equivalent to suicide. Not one even protests - and they are supposedly some of the best scientists in the world.
Correction: One of the scientists does say something about it, and he is told essentially that if they can't stop the object, everything will be dust anyway. Everything implying the entire planet, not just Central Park. So, sending the scientists to the impact site would do no harm, and may in fact do good. If the planet survives the impact, having the scientists there makes sense to study the object as soon as possible. If the planet doesn't survive the impact, it doesn't really matter whether they were underground, in a helicopter, or suntanning in Bora Bora.
31st Dec 2008
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
Corrected entry: In the scene when Kathy Bates' character is looking at a computer monitor in a room, the camera shot start from behind the LCD monitor and goes around it to her face. On the back on the monitor, there is Microsoft sticker. Microsoft does not make any type of LCD monitor.
Correction: And it would be impossible for someone to stick a Microsoft sticker on the monitor? At work, on one of the radios, someone has stuck numerous banana brand stickers. It doesn't mean Chiquita made the radio.
17th Jan 2009
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
Corrected entry: Before the impact, the scientist all put on hazardous material suits. Why? They were expecting an asteroid (or similar) to impact Manhattan with cataclysmic results. Their primary concern should be survival, not the investigation of a dangerous crater, certainly not without any prior unmanned or satellite reconnaissance. It's almost as if they were actually expecting an extraterrestrial visit.
Correction: They've been tracking the object with telescopes and such, and have seen it alter course, and not follow a typical asteroidal orbit. They already know it's not likely an asteroid. So, they take precaution against possible hazardous material.
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Correction: On narrower rural roads there is often only one solid line. It means you can pass with caution because these roads are often slower speed limits, and can be used by farm equipment. There's no mistake.
rswarrior