Corrected entry: The giant humanoid alien, apparently the last of his kind, dies in the escape pod from the parasite alien breaking through his rib cage, However, in the 1979 Alien movie, which chronologically happens after Prometheus, it shows the crew of the Nostromo spaceship finding the humanoid sitting and appearing to take flight of his spaceship.
Tailkinker
3rd Oct 2012
Prometheus (2012)
22nd Aug 2012
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Corrected entry: When Bruce escapes from The Pit, he is undoubtedly somewhere in the Middle East. He escapes just a day before the bomb was scheduled to explode in Gotham (which is historically known to be on the East Coast of the USA). If Bruce lost most of his fortunes in the stock exchange virus, how did he manage to get back to Gotham so fast?
Correction: While he arrives back a day before the bomb goes off, he escapes much earlier than that (dialogue implies that it could be as much as three weeks), giving him plenty of time to return. As for having no money, Bruce spent seven years travelling the world with no money to support him. He picked up some tricks along the way.
18th Aug 2012
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Corrected entry: When Gordon rolls off into the sewer, one of Bane's henchman says that it is impossible to determine where he'll end up. Yet somehow, Blake, having no idea of what Gordon did in that sewer, goes to exactly the right sewer exit, at exactly the right time, when Gordon was already there, but hadn't yet died yet from hypothermia, and saves the guy. Lucky lucky.
Correction: Blake knows the likely exit point, for the simple reason that he's seen bodies wash out of the sewers there before - a scene early in the film portrays exactly that. Bane's people don't have that information, so THEY have no clue where Gordon might turn up, but Blake does. He can't follow Gordon into the sewers after the explosion - it's too dangerous, so he does the only thing he can, get to the outflow in the hope of finding somebody alive. Yes, he gets lucky in that he gets there before Gordon expires. But characters are allowed to be reasonably lucky without it being a plot hole, and this falls well within the bounds of reason.
31st Jul 2012
Shrek 2 (2004)
Corrected entry: On the potion bottle Shrek, Donkey, and Puss steal from Fairy Godmother's potion factory, it says that the potion will affect the drinker and their true love. That means Shrek, Donkey, Fiona AND Dragon should be affected by the potion because Donkey drank the potion and Dragon is his true love, but she wasn't affected by it.
Correction: As Dragon remains off-screen during the time period when the potion is effective, it cannot be said that she was unaffected.
Correction: The filmmakers said that she turned into a talking pegasus.
30th Jul 2012
The Avengers (2012)
Corrected entry: In Iron Man 2, Stark makes the new triangle thing that's saving his life and he has it throughout the Avengers, suit on or off. But in the last battle up from when he jumps out the window after his little chat with Loki to the end, he has the other one, the circle one that was slowly killing him.
Correction: The design of the aperture on his suit has no bearing on anything relating to his health. Stark's arc reactor is still circular, it's just the new central core that's triangular. The upgraded suit that Stark uses in the finale of Iron Man 2 has a triangular aperture as a nod to that, but it's purely an aesthetic choice on his part. As such, there's no reason why Stark can't revert to using a circular aperture on subsequent models.
16th Jul 2012
Robocop (1987)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Robocop is using jars of baby food for target practice, Lewis is helping him use his L.E.D. targeting to be accurate. However, Robocop does not have his helmet with the L.E.D. on when he his shooting. Robocop does not have L.E.D. targeting in his eye balls. In the beginning of the movie, it shows that the L.E.D. comes strictly from his helmet.
Correction: Incorrect. The targeting systems are built into his eyes. We see the targeting grid being set in place during the POV transformation sequence. It covers Murphy's POV completely and is seen being screwed into place at each corner. If it was part of his helmet, (a) it would only cover the narrow helmet window, not Murphy's entire field of vision and (b) the attachments seen would not be required as the helmet would already be assembled before being placed into position on his head. Ergo, the targeting systems are built directly into his eyes.
20th Mar 2012
Avatar (2009)
Corrected entry: At the end of the big battle, the survivors are lined up and are leaving Pandora but to where? All the ships from earth will be full and it will take at least 5+ years for empty ships to arrive to evacuate the survivors.
Correction: Simple logic would state that any ship doing the Earth-Pandora run must have sufficient capacity to evacuate the entire human population in the event of a disaster - it would be insane to have a situation where any possibility of rescue would take five years to get there. A significant number of the base's military personnel, likely the vast majority, would have been lost in the battle, so the ship returning to Earth should have more than ample capacity to take all the survivors back with them.
16th Mar 2012
U-571 (2000)
Corrected entry: When the crew is trying to figure out how to submerge the U-571 for the first time, chief Klough exclaims "everything's in German". Is he surprised that they would use the German language on a German vessel?
Correction: He's not expressing surprise, he's simply expressing his frustration out loud. People do that.
28th Feb 2012
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Corrected entry: When Lady Van Tassel has been revealed as the one controlling the Horseman, she explains to Katrina that she killed the servant girl to fake her own death and then later goes on to explain that now she had to Kill Katrina because only then would she get her revenge and inherit everything from the Van Tassel family fortune. But, if Lady Van Tassel is already presumed dead, how can she inherit anything, without it exposing her as the culprit?
Correction: She presumably expects that she could talk her way out of it. For example, she could claim that the servant girl was dishonest, stole one of her dresses and was then killed by the Horseman who mistook her for Lady Van Tassel because she was wearing the dress. She could claim that she took refuge elsewhere out of fear for her life, only returning once the killings stopped. With nobody to dispute her claims, she would likely get away with it and be able to claim the fortune.
9th Feb 2012
The Fugitive (1993)
Corrected entry: In the flashback scene, Kimball is introduced to Lentz at the fundraiser on the night of the murder. The hitman is also obviously in Chicago to commit the murder. But it is later established and made much use of in the plot development that both Lentz and the hitman were in Cancun on a sail fishing junket on the night of the murder.
Correction: The images of the fishing trip are used to prove that Sykes and Lentz knew each other. It is never suggested that the trip was supposed to be at the same time as the murder took place.
9th Feb 2012
Back to the Future Part II (1989)
Corrected entry: When Marty confronts Biff in 2015 and asks when, where, and how he got the sports almanac, Biff retrieves it from a safe and a lock box and carefully shows it to Marty. Because the almanac contained results from sporting events through the end of the century (the year 2000), it would have been rendered worthless 15 years before and would therefore no longer need to be kept in a safe, if even at all.
10th Dec 2011
X-Men: First Class (2011)
Corrected entry: Emma Frost can turn into diamond, which is the hardest material in the world, yet the Erik is able to use the bedpost, most likely made out of a soft metal, to both strangle and starting to crack her neck.
Correction: You're confusing "hardness" and "toughness", I'm afraid. Diamond may be the hardest material on Earth, but it's not actually that tough, in fact it's extremely brittle. If you wanted to scratch diamond, true, metal would be pretty much useless, as it's not hard enough, but if all you wanted to do is break a diamond, a good whack with a hammer will do the trick. A piece of metal, particularly one backed up by Magneto's powerful ability to manipulate such objects, would be readily able to apply enough pressure to make a few cracks.
20th Nov 2011
Centurion (2010)
Corrected entry: All of the movie takes part in present day Scotland, however the 9th Legion was destroyed at Camulodunum, present day Colchester in Essex, north east of London, several hundred miles to the south.
Correction: The fate of the Ninth Legion is a matter of some debate. The last concrete information on its whereabouts places the Legion at Eboracorum, present day York, in approximately 108 AD. Subsequent evidence is, at best, circumstantial. That the Legion was lost in combat in a disastrous attempt to pacify Scotland is a not-uncommon belief, as can be seen by the sheer number of literary and cinematic works revolving around those supposed events, however most theories now suggest that the Legion survived its British posting, albeit with substantial losses, was posted at least briefly in the Netherlands and was finally destroyed during a conflict somewhere in the East.
11th Nov 2011
Moneyball (2011)
Corrected entry: Billy Beane is wearing a wedding ring, but there is no indication in the movie that he is married.
Correction: Surely the presence of a wedding ring is a clear indication that he IS married. Just because the movie doesn't touch upon his marriage doesn't mean that he can't BE married (the real-life Billy Beane is), it's just that the fact of his marriage has no bearing on the story being told.
The movie actually indicates that he's divorced so him wearing a wedding ring in the movie is quite odd.
He was divorced (from the character played by Robin Wright) but had subsequently gotten remarried.
16th Oct 2011
TRON: Legacy (2010)
Corrected entry: In the final disc wars battle Sam slides, blocks his opponent's disc (which flies off) and then throws his own disc, killing the other guy. Afterwards you see Sam's disc bouncing off the wall, up, and out of frame. As Sam slides by the camera and drops through the floor, he is still wearing his disc on his back. Effectively Sam isn't supposed to have a disc for the rest of the film, and yet he does. (00:34:00)
Correction: Incorrect. Sam never throws his disc - he uses his own disc to send his opponent's disc straight back to him, giving it additional momentum through his slide. His opponent is killed by his own disc returning to him unexpectedly fast. Once Sam makes the block, he can be clearly seen putting his disc back onto his back, where it can be seen as he drops through the floor.
18th Sep 2011
Thor (2011)
Corrected entry: In all scenes taking place within the activated Bifrost, the outside of the structure is rotating but from the inside the windows and doors show no rotation and during the final fight between Thor and Loki they move from the inside to the outside.
Correction: When active, the two opposing openings on the outer shell of the Bifrost line up neatly with those on the inner shell, allowing entry and exit both towards Asgard and along the Bifrost itself. When Thor and Loki's battle moves from the interior to the exterior, they visibly smash through both layers of the structure - a considerable amount of debris is seen flying outward from their exit point.
30th Sep 2011
I Love Lucy (1951)
Corrected entry: The issue of Life magazine shown was the May 11, 1953 issue. In the episode, Lucy talks about the pictures of Ricky that began on page 43 but in real life, page 43 had only an editorial.
Correction: It can hardly be considered strange or in any way noteworthy that a fictional edition of a magazine referenced in a television programme would contain articles and other features that fail to correspond to the real-life edition of the same magazine. That's why it's fictional.
30th Apr 2011
Thor (2011)
Corrected entry: Just before Thor returns to Asgard, he and Jane are talking before they kiss, and in this continuous shot they are virtually the same height. However, in the rest of the movie, Jane is significantly shorter than Thor whenever they are pictured together.
Correction: If you look at the horizon throughout that shot, clearly visible between Thor and Jane, it's inclined at a considerable angle. The camera is simply tilted to make a more aesthetically pleasing shot of the two conversing and kissing.
4th Sep 2011
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)
Corrected entry: Slick betrays his fellow Clone Troopers, even though in Star Wars Episode II Attack Of The Clones, it is stated that clones are docile, totally obedient, taking any orders without question. It's fair that Slick questioned everything, including the Jedi and what side he was on.
Correction: The clones may be designed to be reasonably obedient, but that doesn't mean that they're just mindless drones. For the army to be remotely effective in combat, they have to be intelligent, cunning and able to examine and question their situation in order to determine the best course of action to resolve it. It is therefore not unreasonable that, under certain circumstances, a clone could come to question his loyalty to both his team mates and the Republic as a whole.
9th Jul 2011
The Simpsons (1989)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Belle (the owner of the burlesque house) tells Homer about Bart breaking a valuable statue, Belle calls it a gargoyle, however this is wrong. A gargoyle has water shooting out of its mouth, the statue Belle was talking about, is called a grotesque.
Correction: While technically correct, the term 'grotesque' is now practically unknown to the general public, who refer to all such statues as gargoyles. Only an expert in the field would realistically refer to them as a grotesque and Belle, as the owner of a burlesque house, is unlikely to qualify for that status.
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Correction: The Engineer's the last of his kind on LV-226, the planet they visit. There's no evidence to suggest that he's supposed to be the last of his kind anywhere in the universe - indeed, the movie ends with Shaw and David setting off to find the Engineer homeworld in an attempt to ask them why they now wish to destroy humanity, which seems a pretty clear indication that they actively expect to find more. Clearly this is not intended to be the same Engineer as is found on LV-426 during the events of Alien.
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