Corrected entry: When Harry and Tom Riddle are talking right after Fawkes claws out the basilisks eyes Tom says "Your Phoenix may have blinded the basilisk but it can still hear you." But in reality snakes can't hear, and the basilisk is just a big snake.
Super Grover
8th Aug 2005
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
7th Aug 2005
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
Corrected entry: When the Dursleys and Harry get back from the zoo, Uncle Vernon pushes Harry into the cupboard under the stairs. Vernon talks to Harry through the air vent and there is no cover on the front of the cupboard door to close over the air vent. Yet when Vernon says, "There's no such thing as magic" he closes a cover over the air vent. Where did it come from?
Correction: There is a knob at the center of the exterior vented brass plate, that is attached to an interior plate; the interior piece slides to cover the slats of the exterior vented plate. In the close-up of Harry, when Vernon closes the vent, if you look at the interior of the brass plate and its oval openings, the separate pieces are noticeable.
5th Aug 2005
Troy (2004)
Corrected entry: After Patroclus gets slashed in the throat by Hector there is a shot of him falling to the ground, and in this shot Glaucus is holding his shield in front of him. Then in the very next shot, Glaucus starts cheering, and the shield is on his side.
Correction: When Patroclus falls backwards, in this wide shot Glaucus holds his sword with his right hand and his shield is held with his left, in front of the left side of his body as the camera pans down to Patroclus hitting the ground. In the next close-up, Glaucus still holds the shield in front of the left side of his body, as he raises his sword with his right hand, the only difference being a soldier's arm is now pressed against Glaucus' shield - which the soldier was able to do as the camera pans down focusing on Patroclus.
Corrected entry: In the battle between the Interceptor and the Pearl, when Jack asks Elizabeth where the medallion is and she goes to hit him and says 'wretch.' when he grabs her wrist we see her nails. her nails are actually acrylic nails. you can tell because of the pink colour and the way the nail is shaped into the cuticle. The base of the nail is the pink acrylic and she has 'natural' coloured tips on.
Correction: Though many women have the acute ability to distinguish false nails from real ones, the fact is that in this situation there is nothing alarmingly discernable about Elizabeth's nails that would validate this. There is nothing telling in the way her nails are shaped, nor is there anything revealing about their color, on the nail plates, or free edges.
1st Aug 2005
ER (1994)
Corrected entry: Carol delivers one of the twins and then receives an epidural. Epidurals are not given when the actual delivery is near, and certainly not between delivering twins.
Correction: Absolutely false; many doctors prefer setting up the epidural before multiple births to avoid complications and lawsuits, though it can be done later; the epidural - which slows contractions, may be given later in delivery. Also, after one twin is born naturally an epidural may be given - under the right set of circumstances, before an emergency C-section of the second twin. This is the case with Carol Hathaway, who was already 10 cm and ready to push with the first, when she arrived at the ER.
1st Aug 2005
Lost (2004)
Corrected entry: Claire is very pregnant when the show starts. Women are not permitted to fly during their last trimester.
Correction: Tell that to my children, some of whom had their first experiences aboard an airplane, while I was in the last trimester of my pregnancies.
29th Jul 2005
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Corrected entry: In the Tower of Cirith Ungol, Gorbag is shoved down the entrance hole by Shagrat, causing the orc fights below, yet later we see that Gorbag, not Shagrat, is again in the room with Frodo, to be stabbed by Sam.
Correction: Yes, Gorbag is pushed down below and Shagrat bellows, "The scum tried to knife me, kill him," causing the melee which results in the other Orcs dying, except for the intended Gorbag; and in a lovely twist of irony it is Gorbag that returns up to the tower threatening Frodo, who Sam then kills.
11th Jul 2005
General Hospital (1963)
Corrected entry: During the 7/5/05 episode, Reese Marshall reveals to Ric that her real name is Charlotte Reese Roberts. Considering that "Reese" is trying to hide her identity from Carly, her childhood best friend, why would she use her given middle name as her new name? Surely, Carly would know the middle name of her former best friend. And, since Carly is already suspicious that Reese is hiding something, Carly should have been able to figure out who "Reese" really is.
Correction: Carly may be suspicious of Reese Marshall, but there is nothing substantial to connect Reese to her high school best friend, Charlotte Roberts, who Carly thinks died years ago in a traffic accident that she herself witnessed. Reese is unrecognizable these days because of reconstructive surgery. Carly and Reese may have been best friends in high school, but it certainly does not mean that she would have known Charlotte Roberts' middle name was Reese, if Charlotte never mentioned it. And even if Carly knew Reese's middle name all those years ago, it still does not mean that Carly would actually remember the name or even make the bizarre connection. Yet.
21st Mar 2002
Jaws (1975)
Corrected entry: In the scene towards the end of the film, when they are trying to outrun the shark back to land (when Quint says something like: we'll get him in the shallows and drown him) you see a shot from the rear of the boat, and in the distance you can clearly see the shore line. But after that point in the movie, you never see the shore, even when they are swimming back at the very end.
Correction: In many shots land is visible at the horizon, in the distance, as well as in the shot when Brody and Hooper are using the barrels to assist their swim back to shore.
Correction: Just watched it again, and yes, when Hooper and Brody are swimming in at the end of the movie, you do see the land. Look at the very right upper side of the screen.
15th Jan 2003
Jaws (1975)
Corrected entry: In the middle of the fight with the shark at sea, Quint tells Hooper 'full ahead', then Brody repeats the command but says 'slow ahead' twice.
30th Apr 2003
Jaws (1975)
Corrected entry: At the end of the movie when the shark explodes and we see it sinking to the bottom of the ocean, the ropes connecting the dorsal and the tail fins are visible (broken). You can see the same thing in the shot where the shark jumps up onto the Orca.
Correction: The lines that are visible, both when the shark leaps onto Orca and then when bits of it sink, are the lines connected to the harpoons on both sides of its dorsal fin.
26th Aug 2003
Jaws (1975)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Bruce (the Shark) rams the cage, you can see Hooper with blood coming from a small wound (it is his, I've checked). after a bit of this he swims to the bottom of the ocean. His wound may have stopped bleeding, but couldn't have healed so fast and the shark would have caught his blood trail instantly.
29th Apr 2003
Jaws (1975)
Corrected entry: Hooper purposely holds the shark gun outside the cage so he'll lose it when Bruce hits the cage in the next shot.
Correction: The fact that Hooper, holds the poison shark dart with his hand between the cage bars is not a film mistake, not even a deliberate one. Within the storyline this occurrence is reasonable and perfectly plausible. Hooper, who is very nervous and extremely anxious, stands ready to strike at the shark, specifically in its mouth, as he watches the shark swim off to his left. After pulling off the cork he readies the dart gun again as he looks around for the shark, but is quickly startled by its sudden thrust on the cage, behind him, causing him to lose his grip of the shark dart as he falls back.
4th Nov 2003
Jaws (1975)
Corrected entry: Hooper is in his wetsuit waiting to enter the shark cage. As he stands on the deck, notice behind him that the stern of the Orca is now shorter in length, painted white, and well above sea level.
Correction: First, Orca's paint color is the very same pale greenish tint as in the rest of the shots, not white. Second, the shot when Hooper puts on the air tank that Quint holds for him, shows the stern through the cabin doorway and because most of the starboard side of the rail can't be seen in this shot, the depth perception of the deck may be deceiving. The deck is not shorter here, nor is it shorter in similar shots. Third, it is impossible to even determine the level of the water directly around Orca's hull in this shot, or even in the next shot as Hooper climbs into the cage.
13th Jul 2005
War of the Worlds (2005)
Corrected entry: At the end of the movie, Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning and a whole bunch of other people fall over 50 feet from the sky in a small cage and land in a tree. The branches come through the holes in the pod, but no one gets hurt. Everyone is fine.
Correction: So nobody getting hurt is a plot hole? This can be referred to as simply having good luck and it actually happens in real life.
27th Aug 2001
Jaws (1975)
Corrected entry: Richard Dreyfus is driving the boat, then playing cards, then driving again.
6th Jul 2005
Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life (2005)
Corrected entry: When Justin's father goes into Justin's room to talk to him about his internet habits near the beginning of the movie, he is wearing a tie. When he comes into his own bedroom from the hallway, he is neither wearing nor holding the tie.
Correction: An unspecified amount of time has passed between the two shots and the tie could have been removed and left somewhere else any time before he walks into his own bedroom - eg his son's room, the bathroom, the hallway. It is unnecessary to have every single moment or action onscreen.
10th Jul 2005
Fantastic Four (2005)
Corrected entry: When The Thing first goes back home to see his wife, he calls her from a phone outside of where they live, they are suppose to be in New York, but the phone he uses says SBC on it, SBC is not the phone company in NY.
Correction: SBC does operate public pay telephones in N.Y., as does AT&T, Verizon and others. They are all the recipient of pay phone service revenues in N.Y.
12th Jul 2005
Liar Liar (1997)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Jim Carrey goes to his son's school he takes him out of class when his teacher is reading a book, but 5 minutes later she is telling the boy to come in from recess. How could the class be at recess when 5 minutes earlier she was reading a book in class? That is the shortest recess ever.
Correction: The book that was being read does not have to be read through to the end, so the teacher stopped mid-story when it was time for the recess break. As for recess being 5 minutes, this is actually quite realistic. In one of my children's schools there are short recess breaks spread across the long school day, with two extended recesses as well.
11th Jul 2005
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Corrected entry: In the extended version, when Pippin is searching for Merry after the battle of the Pelennor fields, he finds Merry's elven cloak. However, Merry is wearing the cloak when Pippin finds him.
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Correction: The Basilisk is not "just a big snake" - far from it. This King of Serpents may live many hundreds of years, was born from a chicken's egg, and hatched beneath a toad. Anyone who looks into its eyes suffer instant death. I should think that if a Basilisk has the ability to hear, however it does, that should be the least of its believability factors.
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