Corrected entry: As the shuttle approches Ikon, their rader activates the on-board systems. But they are in space. Radar is a sound based system and sound doesn't travel in space.
Tailkinker
12th Nov 2007
Space Cowboys (2000)
7th Nov 2007
Addams Family Values (1993)
Corrected entry: The hippie Nanny who talks to Pugsley and Wednesday about preventing forest fires is a then unknown Cynthia Nixon, later famous for her role as Miranda in "Sex and the City."
Correction: Pointing out something that can be determined simply by reading the cast list is not trivia-worthy.
6th Nov 2007
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Corrected entry: A Clockwork Orange was filmed in parts on my university campus (Brunel) in Uxbridge, West London. Most notable are the stairwell to Alex's home block of flats with the broken lift door next to it (that is actually the Science Tower that can be also seen through the window when Alex is sitting in bed after his first correction session discussing why he felt sick) Also when he is marched into the correction facility, it is the computer centre for the University Campus, and the large building he is walking away from (shaped like the back of a concrete ship) is actually the main Lecture Theatre. Thus, the theatre Alex receives the video treatment with his eyes clipped open is actually one of the lecture theatres. When i went there 1998-2001, the seats were still that leatherette type.
Correction: Everything has to be filmed somewhere. While I appreciate your personal connection to the place in question, simply pointing out a few locations does not make good trivia, I'm afraid.
1st Nov 2007
The Shining (1980)
Corrected entry: Stanley Kubrick makes use of color to indicate when certain characters are "Shining". Surroundings and possessions which are entirely yellow or red are obvious and have been noted by many but never fully understood. In the novel oranges were what Dick Hallorann smelled when he "Shined" and being that smell can not be adequately brought across to a theater audience Stanley Kubrick made the brilliant decision to use the two pigments a painter mixes together to make the color orange. Most commentators see these shots, as Jack in the yellow VolksWagon or with the red Calumet can behind his head in the storeroom, and still don't know what's going on. Red and yellow equals orange, "Shining", and all you have to do is, as the MM motto goes "open your eyes" and look at the movie to see this.
Correction: This cites no source for this information that can be considered authoritative. Without such, it is speculative at best, based purely on the occasional appearance of particular common colours. There is invariably a tendency to wish to read significance into aspects of films and this submitter has clearly taken it further than most; his assertation that most people simply fail to understand Kubrick's subtlety is at best pompous and at worst an indication that they are simply seeing significance in something that has none, a far better explanation as to why "most commentators" fail to pick up on such things.
24th Oct 2007
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Corrected entry: In the party scene, Holly lights someones' hat with her cigarette. Yet she puts it out with an alcoholic drink. This should make the fire worse and not put it out.
Correction: Most alcoholic drinks don't have a high enough alcohol content to catch fire and would serve perfectly well to put out a small fire.
16th Oct 2007
Journeyman (2007)
Corrected entry: The date for this episode is 1975 (as established by the front page of the newspaper one of the passengers is reading). The in-flight movie is Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, which premiered in 1972. Usually in-flight movies premiere just a few months after their theatrical run.
Correction: Usually does not mean always. There's absolutely nothing to say that they couldn't show an older film. Maybe they've already shown a more recent movie and are now showing an older one.
11th Oct 2007
X-Men 3 (2006)
Corrected entry: When Wolverine states to Storm he's the only one who can stop Jean at the end - what about the child who they were rescuing who can take mutant powers away?
Correction: The kid's power only has a range of a few feet. He'd have been torn apart long before he got close enough to Jean to affect her.
10th Oct 2007
Charmed (1998)
Used Karma - S6-E13
Corrected entry: In this episode Paige is wearing a strappy top that shows her back, on which you can see a tattoo of a woman. I'm pretty sure that was never there before in any of the other episodes/series. (00:10:50)
Correction: This is a mistake, not trivia.
10th Oct 2007
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Corrected entry: The Knights who say Ni are rumoured to be connected to the mock subtitles in the opening credits which advertise Sweden. In the Swedish language, "Ni" is second person plural (the equivalence of the English plural "you") and used to be the proper form for adressing people outisde your circle of family and friends. This was however abandoned during the late 1960-ies/early 1970-ies in the so-called "du-reform" ("du" being the second person singular form). According to the rumor, the joke with the knights saying "Ni" and people's negative reaction to it is a mockery of how the "ni" form was rejected by almost all Swedes, and thus no longer acceptable. Over the years the Pythons have gone back and forth between denying that the rumour is true, and confirming that it is indeed true.
Correction: Trivia is not about unsubstantiated rumours.
10th Oct 2007
Star Wars (1977)
Corrected entry: When the rebels are preparing to attack the Death Star, Luke is told that the exhaust port he must hit is only two meters wide. Meters? Isn't it a little odd that the world of "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" uses "our" metric system? Especially considering that its units were (originally) based on the circumference of the Earth?
Correction: You have a problem with that and you don't think it's a little odd that they're all speaking English? As with any film of this type, things have been translated into terms that the audience will be able to understand. Standard cinematic practice; not a mistake.
7th Oct 2007
Sunshine (2007)
Corrected entry: There's something a bit unfortunate about the name "Icarus". Why would they give the spaceship a name of a Mythological character who died because he approached too close to the Sun?
Correction: By what stretch of the imagination is this a movie mistake? Just because you think something's "a bit unfortunate"? So the choice is slightly ironic - it's still entirely appropriate. The ship is going way too close to the sun for comfort, exactly as the mythological Icarus did.
30th Sep 2007
Armageddon (1998)
Corrected entry: If "NASA doubles up on everything.", why didn't the nuclear bomb on Independence go off when it crashed? Colonel Sharp stops Stamper from hitting their bomb with a wrench since it would set it off, so why didn't the one on Independence detonate?
Correction: A crash wouldn't set a nuclear bomb off; it takes a very precise set of events to occur for that to happen, which a crash couldn't possibly replicate. Nor, for that matter, would hitting one with a wrench, which Sharp undoubtedly knows, but with the fate of the Earth riding on that bomb, he can't risk Stamper damaging it. The easiest way to ensure that he doesn't do it again is to tell them that it might actually go off. It's not true, but Stamper and his men aren't going to know that.
A better question would be why they couldn't remote detonate the Independence nuke from the ground at the same time they try to activate the Freedom nuke.
26th Sep 2007
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
Corrected entry: In the beginning of the movie, Bourne comes out of a door, in Moscow, wounded in the shoulder. But in the end of the Supremacy, he is in New York talking to Pam Landy having recovered from his shoulder wound he received in Moscow.
Correction: It's made extremely clear that the opening section of this film occurs prior to his conversation with Landy in New York in the epilogue of Supremacy. The conversation even reappears in this film as an integral part of the storyline.
15th Sep 2007
War of the Worlds (2005)
Corrected entry: In the final scene where the military begins to fire Javelin anti-tank missiles at the tripods, the missile flies a straight path. But; a Javelin is a "top attack" missile, meaning it goes vertical and comes down at a steep angle to hit a tank in the weakest part of the armor, so they would do the same thing to the tripods instead of a straight flightpath.
Correction: The Javelin missile has both a top attack mode and a direct attack mode (as documented in the publicly available U.S. Army, FM 3-22.37 "JAVELIN MEDIUM ANTIARMOR WEAPON SYSTEM"). With no evidence that the top armour on the tripods is particularly weak, the military have apparently decided to try the direct attack mode, possibly in hope of immobilising the tripods by damaging the leg structure.
As a Javelin operator it's drops always.
Via Wikipedia: "The Javelin's HEAT warhead is capable of defeating modern tanks by attacking them from above where their armor is thinnest (see top-attack), and is also useful against fortifications in a direct attack flight." If you've got evidence that Javelins are incapable of direct attack, please post it.
It should be noted, the source cited on Wikipedia is not an official US military or Lockheed site and there's no indication where that page got their information. Lockheed Martin's website about the Javelin does not mentions direct attack, only top-attack (nor does Raytheon's).
The direct attack capability is widely documented, most officially in U.S. Army, FM 3-22.37 "JAVELIN MEDIUM ANTIARMOR WEAPON SYSTEM": http://www.survivorlibrary.com/library/fm_3-22x37_javelin.pdf, which is where the two graphs on the wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FGM-148_Javelin) documenting the top attack/direct attack flight profiles come from.
12th Sep 2007
Transformers (2007)
Corrected entry: Okay, it's been established that the Transformers have an incredibly fast wireless uplink, and indeed the decepticons communicate across the world wirelessly. Yet the autobots resort to speech (English, no less) when they discuss their battle plan after obtaining the glasses, despite there being no humans present.
Correction: Some reason why they shouldn't? The Transformers may be machine-based, but they're still living beings, with intelligence, emotion and so forth. Seems entirely reasonable that they'd prefer the more personal nature of direct speech when they're together, rather than just downloading stuff into their brains.
11th Sep 2007
Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
Corrected entry: Due to the regenerative effects of the Baku planet's rings, Geordi's eyes regenerate in a very short period of time. How come Picard's hair does not grow back?
19th Mar 2006
V for Vendetta (2005)
Corrected entry: John Hurt wears contact lenses to make his pupils look much bigger. You can see the edges of these coloured lenses when he's dead at the end of the movie.
Correction: So he wears contact lenses. So what? Contact lenses exist in the time frame of the film and people wear them for both corrective and cosmetic reasons. No reason at all why a character couldn't be seen to be wearing them.
12th Sep 2007
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
The Freshman - S4-E1
Corrected entry: The vampires shouldn't be able to get into Eddie's room without his permission. Or does that rule change when the person who owns the property has died?
Correction: Once the owner is dead, the rule no longer applies. Not that it entirely matters in this particular case - dorm rooms, like hotel rooms, are not deemed to be 'owned' by the occupiers, they're considered to be public spaces. As such, the vampires can enter freely.
29th Aug 2007
Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
Corrected entry: If we are to believe Picard's comment that Doctor Soong was being whimsical in naming the prototype android "B-4," then we must accept that Doctor Soong had some foreknowledge of the future - he had to have known it would work and he would be constructing other androids. It's akin to finding a coin stamped "100 B.C."
Correction: If Soong chooses to name a prototype "B-4", he's not mystically foretelling the future, he's merely displaying a (justifiable) degree of confidence in his own ability, telling himself that it's going to work. And, given that B-4 is the prototype, of course his eventual goal would be to build further models. What else does one do after creating a successful prototype? This is nothing more than confidence and Soong's whimsical sense of humour.
17th Aug 2007
Emergency! (1972)
Corrected entry: The sick child Dr. Joe and Dr. Mike are examining is supposed to be fatally poisoned, but his head changes position twice during subsequent shots.
Correction: If the child is only sick at the time, then, even if incurably poisoned, it doesn't stop them moving their head until they're actually dead.
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Correction: Um, no, might want to check your facts there. Radar uses electromagnetic waves, which travel perfectly well in space. You're confusing it with sonar, which uses sound.
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