Corrected entry: In the opening, when David is telling about his day, he says he went to an NBA finals game and everything he did was before lunch. They do not play NBA finals games in the AM.
Tailkinker
6th Aug 2008
Jumper (2008)
4th Aug 2008
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)
Corrected entry: Neither the emperor nor any of his soldiers are actually mummies, despite being referred to as such by the main characters several times. Given their field of work and areas of expertise, it is doubtful that they would repeatedly make such a mistake. A mummy is a body that is embalmed, dried and preserved, which the emperor and his soldiers had not gone through.
Correction: Incorrect. The technical definition of a mummy is a body that's been preserved in some manner, either through intentional intervention (as with the classic Egyptian mummies) or through happenstance, as with those bodies preserved by cold or by being buried in bogs or whatever. While mystical intervention isn't part of the usual real-world definition, it's certainly true to say that the emperor and his soldiers have been preserved through time, thus qualifying them for the description.
4th Aug 2008
Wanted (2008)
Corrected entry: Towards the end of the movie, so this is a spoiler. Angelina Jolie does a circular bullet shot using her right hand to shoot in an anticlockwise direction. ***Spoiler alert*** It goes all the way around and hits her on the right side. Should be going in the left side.
Correction: The gun's in her left hand, she sends the bullet to her left, it goes clockwise round the room and hits her from her right, exactly as it should do.
4th Aug 2008
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)
Corrected entry: In the movie, the three-headed dragon has wings. Oriental dragons have no wings.
Correction: The traditional oriental dragon doesn't have three heads, either. Clearly not a traditional oriental dragon.
4th Aug 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: When the Joker blows up the police station, in order to help him escape, everyone around and close to him, including his hostage, gets knocked out with the impact of the explosion, except him.
2nd Aug 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: When describing ways to fly into Asia, "South Korean smugglers operating out of Pyongyang" was a possibility. However, Pyongyang is the capital of North Korea, not South.
Correction: So they're smugglers from South Korea who operate out of North Korea. Hardly implausible.
1st Aug 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: Lau, who is video conferenced in the mobster meeting, seems to see the Joker. But how? All we have is a TV set in the room; where is the camera?
Correction: Just because the camera isn't immediately visible, it doesn't mean that there isn't one there; Lau would hardly set up a video link conference where he couldn't see the other participants. Lau wishes to control the meeting - given that, he would conceal the camera, making sure that none of the mob bosses could switch it off, cutting him out of proceedings.
1st Aug 2008
Batman Begins (2005)
Corrected entry: In their final scene together, Batman says to Ra's, "I won't kill you, but I don't have to save you." Actually, by Batman's own moral code, he does - letting someone (even a villain) die by his own negligence when he could've otherwise saved him is tantamount to premeditated murder. This philosophy is further reinforced when Batman chooses to save the Joker (who is arguably even more dangerous than Ra's) from falling to his death near the end of "The Dark Knight." This also defies Batman's moral code as established in the comics, where he routinely saves his arch enemies from certain death (even though simply letting them die would probably serve the greater good). The aforementioned Jean-Paul Valley situation from the comics is beside the point.
Correction: As has been said many times in correction, based entirely on specific site policy as outlined in the submission guidelines, differences between a film and whatever source material it's taken from are NOT considered to be valid mistakes. Batman's moral code in the comics does not apply to the films.
31st Jul 2008
Cloverfield (2008)
Corrected entry: When Beth is at Rob's party, she has a gold top, but when they find her at her apartment, she has a plain white shirt on.
Correction: She's at her apartment, where you would think that a change of clothes would be freely available.
30th Jul 2008
The Mighty Boosh (2004)
Corrected entry: When Vince is told that the lead singer of The Black Tubes has been killed by being pushed into a canal, he expresses his disbelief that that could happen in Dalston. As a local boy surely he is aware that the Regents Canal runs right through Dalston? It's a very prominent local feature.
Correction: He's not shocked that there's a canal, he's shocked that somebody would intentionally push somebody else into it.
30th Jul 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: After Batman dives to save Rachel when Joker drops her from the party for Harvey Dent, we don't see what happens to the Joker and his henchmen who are still up in the penthouse terrorizing party guests. It's left unaddressed how the Joker gets away.
Correction: Something being left unaddressed is not a mistake. Think about it for a minute. The Joker and his armed minions are left behind in a room full of notably unarmed Gotham socialites. Who is there for them to 'get away' from? Once the Joker, who you may recall is there specifically looking for Harvey Dent, established that his target wasn't present, they just left. There's nobody there to try to stop them.
30th Jul 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: Joker, being a notorious criminal, would be placed in lock-down/isolation in the county jail away from the rest of the everyday criminals.
Correction: This is an opinion, not a mistake. It's made entirely clear throughout the film that Gordon doesn't trust the staff down at County. While he's not entirely sure if he can trust his own men either, at least if he keeps the Joker nearby he can keep an eye on things personally. Plus the Joker's only in custody for, at most, a few hours, barely enough time to process him, let alone send him packing off down to County, even if Gordon was happy with the idea.
29th Jul 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: Alfred tells the story of when he was in the Army during the British occupation of Burma. The British left Burma in 1948. Alfred would have to be at least 80 years old for this to be a possibility.
Correction: Alfred never says that he was there as part of the British occupation, nor, for that matter that he was there as part of the British Army. The precise circumstances of his presence there are left extremely unclear. As such, the timeframe of his presence there cannot be stated with any certainty. Not to mention we don't know Alfred's age.
25th Jul 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Harvey "Two Face" shoots the driver in Maroni's car, as the car flips over, you can see the Sears Tower in the background, obviously Chicago and not Gotham City.
Correction: Gotham is a fictional city. As such, there's no reason why it can't have a building resembling the Sears Tower.
28th Jul 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: Cillian Murphy appears in the beginning of "The Dark Knight" selling his drugs, but does not seem to be psycho, this doesn't make sense as he was poisoned in "Batman Begins" and his dosage seemed to be more than enough to make him crazy (as evidenced by Rachel's dosage earlier in that scene). He is normal and calm during the deal and isn't crazy or acting out.
Correction: The Dark Knight is set some time after the events of Batman Begins. We don't know what's happened in the interim. The effects of Crane's toxins may simply wear off with time, Crane may have found a way to cure himself (even when crazy, he's still a genius biochemist), or he may simply have found a way to live with his insanity - recall that when we last see him in Batman Begins, after he breaks out of Arkham, he's calling himself Scarecrow but is otherwise operating relatively normally. Any one of these would explain how he appears normal in his Dark Knight appearance.
28th Jul 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: After the hospital explosion, Commissioner Gordon calls in the National Guard. Only the governor can do that.
Correction: Gordon says that they'll need the National Guard. They could have shown Gordon contacting the governor, explaining the situation in detail, him agreeing that the Guard are needed, picking up the phone and making the call, but it would be a bit boring, don't you think? Waste of valuable screen-time? The filmmakers don't need to show every step in a process. Gordon wants the National Guard called in; the next scene shows them arriving. It's up to the audience to fill in the blanks.
27th Jul 2008
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
Corrected entry: Early on in season 5 Buffy is surprised by Dracula referring to her slaying/patrolling as 'hunting'. However, Buffy used the term 'hunting' herself throughout the first season, and even as late as the fourth season Willow wishes her 'happy hunting' without Buffy thinking anything of it.
Correction: The first season is set four years prior to her encounter with Dracula. Buffy doesn't think of what she does in those terms any more - Willow's offhand comments don't change that. She's surprised because Dracula has a different perspective on what she does and what she is, and it's not one that she can really disagree with.
24th Jul 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: As Harvey Dent is being transported in the SWAT van, the Joker shoots at the van many times with various guns. Each time they show the interior of the van, there are jagged bullet holes tearing through the sheet metal from the Joker's bullets, yet from the outside they show that there are no bullet holes.in fact, no visible damage at all. To top this off, as the bullets rip holes in the side of the van, the cop inside inexplicably says to Dent: "Don't worry, they'll need something a lot bigger than that to get through to us", right before the Joker uses his 'bazooka'(actually an RPG launcher).
Correction: There are dents from the bullets. There are no holes, no tears. These would be much harder to spot from the outside than an actual hole would be. Given the dark colouration of the van and the badly lit environment, they simply don't show up.
23rd Jul 2008
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)
Corrected entry: When Caspian and Peter are arguing, Caspian says that summoning the Pensives was his first mistake and Peter says that his first mistake was thinking that he would lead the Narnians. But Caspian blew the horn (summoning the Pensives) before he agreed to be 'King' of the Narnians.
Correction: Peter doesn't consider Caspian summoning them to be a mistake - after all, it gave him exactly what he wanted, a way back into Narnia. From Peter's point of view, Caspian did exactly what he should have done in summoning the Pevensies, then screwed it up later by thinking that he could be in charge.
23rd Jul 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: In the scene with the 2 ferries, after the black guy throws the detonator out of the window, you can see Dr. Jonathan Crane(the scarecrow) standing in what appears to be a guards uniform, looking panicked.
Correction: No, you can't. There's a vague resemblance, but it's clearly not Cillian Murphy.
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Correction: Given that David travels repeatedly from time-zone to time-zone, he could easily have watched an afternoon game during his personal morning, then jumped elsewhere for lunch.
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