Corrected entry: Dom states in the film that the Charger has a 900 HP hemi. He goes on to tell Paul Walker that the car ran 9 seconds flat in the quarter mile. Walker's supra is said to be a 10 second car. Seeing as the Charger is so much faster, the race between the two cars should not be nearly as close as it was.
shortdanzr
25th Mar 2004
The Fast and the Furious (2001)
24th Mar 2004
Gone in 60 Seconds (2000)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Nic first sees Angelina her hair is straight. She said she had to go to her other job and she is late. Nic goes with her and not only is she wearing a different outfit when she gets to the bar but her hair is done is a complicated style that takes a long time to do. If she is late for work why does she take the time to change her clothes and her hair?
Correction: Knowing that she does her hair and changes her clothes, she could have been late to go get changed for work. And her hair is not that complicated. With practice it wouldn't have been hard to do.
24th Mar 2004
Speed (1994)
Corrected entry: At the part where the lady tries to escape from the bus and the bomber triggers a smaller bomb to go off, the bomber relied solely on the live TV telecast. In real live TV, it takes time for the transmission to go from the camera, to the station, and to your TV (usually about 3-4 seconds). In the movie, the bomber gets his timing perfectly correct, but in real life the lady might've already had most of her body on the other truck and only would suffer injuries rather than death.
Correction: First, the transmission doesn't have to take that long to reach your tv. It can get there faster. Also, the movie implies that the bomber relies on the TV telecast. At this point we do not know about his tv camera in the bus. When they show his looking at the tv's he could have been looking at his tv.
13th Feb 2004
From Hell (2001)
Corrected entry: This movie is filled with historical errors but I especially think the one at the end is the most striking: it ends making it seem like Gull went down in history as the definitive Whitechapel murderer. This couldn't be any further from the truth as we all know Jack the Ripper's identity was never known and almost none of the historians believe it had anything to do with Gull or the Royal Family.
Correction: Actually several historians do believe that the killer was the Royal Family and that they orchestrated the whole thing. And since no one knows who the real killer was, can't the movie say it is whomever they wish?
28th Jan 2004
Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
Corrected entry: When Annie has the private investigator follow Sam and Victoria to the restaurant, the photos taken show Sam's face and Victoria's back. The photos were sent to Annie back in Baltimore, so she saw Sam's face in the pictures- when she arrives in Seattle she is looking around and Sam watches her enter the airport. How can she say she recognized Victoria (really Sam's friend) by the back of her head, yet didn't recognize Sam at the airport when she arrived?
Correction: She recognized the woman when she is with Sam at his house and on the water. She didn't see the woman at the airport or Sam.
Correction: Annie didn't see the woman at the airport, Victoria, as she had already left by the time Annie arrived. Annie saw Sam's sister, Susie, the next day. Her hairstyle was similar to Victoria's, so she thought Susie was the woman whom the photographer had sent her pictures of (the back of her head etc.).
27th Aug 2001
Meet the Parents (2000)
Corrected entry: Near the end of the film when Focker is accusing Pam's father of still being in the CIA, he says that he heard him speaking fluent Thai on the phone. How would he have known it was Thai? Having heard that her father spent 19 months in a Viet Cong POW camp, don't you think he would have at least assumed it was Vietnamese he was speaking?
Correction: It is not out of this world that Greg recognizes the Thai language. I am an American and can recognize the differences between Thai, Vietnamese, Catonese, and Mandarin. I don't speak any of them.
17th Apr 2002
Meet the Parents (2000)
Corrected entry: When Jack (De Niro) and Greg (Stiller) are racing home from the rehearsal dinner Greg is driving a Mercedes Benz. Each stoplight on the way home he stops to screeching tires. Mercedes Benz has had anti-lock brakes on their cars for many years. It would be virtually impossible to do this in this type of car.
Correction: It is possible to lock up anti lock brakes. If you pump the brakes (the old way to keep them from locking when you braked suddenly), anti lock brakes have been known to lock and cause skidding. This was a big problem when anti lock brakes came out because a lot of people (my mother including) were so used to it, that it was a habit.
12th Nov 2002
The Mask of Zorro (1998)
Corrected entry: In the scene when Antonio Banderas is fighting Catherine Zeta-Jones, he cuts her dress and it falls off. With the corset she's wearing, there is no way he could have caused it to fall down with just a few cuts. It took women back then a good hour plus some assistance to get those things properly laced up. (01:39:10)
Correction: It took women a really long time to get in them because there are a lot of lacings. However, you could easily cut these lacings and cause it to fall. I went and looked at the corset I own and it could easily be cut loose.
27th Aug 2001
Meet the Parents (2000)
Corrected entry: When Greg is waiting to board the plane at the airport, there's no one else waiting with him. When he's dragged out after his outburst on the plane, the gate is full of people.
Correction: Maybe these people are there for the next flight out of that gate. There was obviously enough time for the security guards to show up. It could also have been a gate change from nearby and all the people moved.
15th Jul 2003
You've Got Mail (1998)
Corrected entry: Why is the sign announcing the store closure facing inside the store? You can see this as Kathleen locks The Shop Around the Corner for the last time. (01:28:05)
Correction: There is also a sign outside the store. This sign was for all the people who were leaving the store during the closeout.
27th Aug 2001
Now and Then (1995)
Corrected entry: In the beginning of the movie Samantha says that Roberta never goes anywhere without the picture of her mother, Roberta then puts the picture in her back pocket. In the middle of the film she jumps in to a lake, doesn't that mean that the picture would get wet?
Correction: She had plenty of time to take the picture out of her pocket and place it in her bike.
6th Jan 2004
The Patriot (2000)
Corrected entry: Mel Gibson's character marries his deceased wife's sister. This was forbidden as incestuous under English law at the time (until about 1870), I presume it was the same in the colonies.
Correction: A lot of things that were forbidden under English law were not allowed in the colonies, but that isn't to say that it didn't happen. I know that I have read several accounts of men marrying their blood sister which is even more incestuous. This was around the Revolution, stuff happens.
15th Jul 2003
Urban Legend (1998)
Corrected entry: When Sasha is running away from the killer she falls to the bottom of the stairs, leaving her in the lobby. We later see Natalie run in through an entrance in the lobby, so why didn't Sasha run out this way instead of going into the lift and back upstairs into the building?
Correction: She didn't run out that front door for the same reason why people always seem to run upstairs. They are scared and not thinking straight. Not a mistake, she is just dumb or scared.
15th Jul 2003
Urban Legend (1998)
Corrected entry: Why did Brenda kill Michelle straight away, the one who killed her boyfriend, while she mentally and physically tortures Natalie, who was just a passenger in the car?
Correction: Maybe in her convoluted mind, she blamed Natalie more. Or she could have had easier access to Brenda to kill her. Or she figured it would be fun to torture someone who she had managed to befriend and then therefore, she wouldn't be a suspect. This type of logic isn't a mistake.
Easier access to Natalie? She was in the car with Michelle alone. And she could have just as easily befriended Michelle instead. Her mind was so convoluted she couldn't comprehend who was actually responsible for her boyfriends death but could come up with an elaborate plan to befriend a girl just to kill her friends to mentally torture her? Right.
23rd Dec 2003
Bring it On (2000)
Corrected entry: The cheerleaders state that tattoos are forbidden, but during the car wash, you can see Jan has a huge sun tattoo on his back.
Correction: There are two explanations for this. The sun tattoo is in a place that is not obvious and is covered up by the uniforms. The other explanation is that they were just trying to find a reason to get rid of Missy at the beginning because they didn't like her.
17th Dec 2003
Charmed (1998)
Corrected entry: Cole enters his apartment on the first night and wishes himself a happy birthday. The next night is the night when Paige is at P3 and he turns the world into his alternate reality, then the next day is when Paige goes to the manor and finds his birthday in full swing. Even with the minor possibility that it was after midnight on the first night, his party is still a day late.
Correction: I have often had parties for my birthday on days other than my birthday.
15th Dec 2003
Bring it On (2000)
Corrected entry: Torrance and Isis are both captains and make the decisions. However, in order to exist in a school or to compete, they must have a coach as well, and that is the one who determines the final decisions.
Correction: As a squad, we made all of the decisions and the coach just went by what we decided. It ultimately was our decision, she just simply told the people in charge about it and was our representative.
8th Dec 2003
U-571 (2000)
Corrected entry: They're actually using the U-571 to flee away from the German re-supply sub (the whole movie). Wasn't the U-571 broken? If it wasn't the German crew would have sailed to port long ago of course.
Correction: The German sub was damaged and could not get much power. Tank (from the American sub) mentions that the German mechanic (who got killed so someone else was doing the repairs, someone who worked in his uncle's motorcycle garage) did not know anything.
Wasn't the mechanic uncooperative too? That adds to things as to why they didn't get repair knowledge from the Germans.
17th Nov 2003
The Italian Job (2003)
Corrected entry: As an amateur radio operator I know that it's nearly impossible to have a clear radio reception under water and underground - at least with such small portable gear that the gang wears and uses to communicate all the time.
Correction: I teach scuba diving and have done many underwater audio/technology dives and can easily hear people especially in full face masks (they look like agar masks, could be mistaken though). These types of masks have a built in communicator that is obviously designed for underwater. You can assume that they are using these communicators and not their earpieces.
27th Aug 2003
The Italian Job (2003)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Stella and Steve go on the date, the water/wine bottle on the table is about half full. They talk for a few minutes and Steve discovers that Stella is John's daughter. She pushes the bottle over (presumably as a sign to the other guys) and the bottle is now empty.
Correction: The water bottle is actually about 25% full. As Stella is saying the line about the devil inside, you hear her pouring water into her glass (there is no other bottle on the table so it has to be the bottle of water). When she knocks over the bottle (as a sign), you can see some of the water left in the bottle slosh around inside.
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Correction: Rightly so, however, Dom also says that the 9 seconds is what his father got and that he has never raced the car. Without experience, it is possible Dom made the car into a 10 second car and therefore the race was more even.
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