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.
Super Grover
30th Apr 2003
Jaws (1975)
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.
11th Jul 2005
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Corrected entry: During the movie, Pippin is wearing his Elven cloak with the brooch. This doesn't make any sense, because in The Two Towers, he left his brooch as a clue for Aragorn when Pippin and Merry had been taken captive by the Uruks.
27th Aug 2003
Original Sin (2001)
Corrected entry: Near the end, when Bonny is making love with Billy, we can see the 'erased' Billy Bob tattoo on her arm. (01:33:00)
Correction: The fact that a former tattoo with Angelina's ex-husband's name is still visible, on Angelina Jolie's (Julia Russell/Bonny Castle) skin, does not constitute a mistake within the storyline of this film.
9th Jul 2005
Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Julia Roberts is on the bus to Iowa, when she is on the bus, she is seated on the right side of the bus. When they show her traveling into town, she is seated on the left side of the bus.
Correction: There is plenty of time for Laura/Sara to change seats if she desires to.
10th Jul 2005
Showgirls (1995)
Corrected entry: When Nomi is performing her first show as a dancer in Goddess, she runs backstage between sets, changes into a blue sequined costume, and puts on a short red wig. Later in the movie we see her putting her wig on for the same number, except this time her wig is black. (01:02:25)
Correction: The fact that Nomi is doing the same routine does not relegate her to wearing the same color wig each time she performs that routine.
9th Jul 2005
Star Wars (1977)
Corrected entry: Why does C-3PO, upon 'returning' to Tatooine, not recognize the place of his creation, or the Lars family moisture farm, where he HAD briefly visited in the first movie.
Correction: At the end of Episode III, Revenge of the Sith, Senator Bail Organa orders Captain Antilles to, "Have the protocol droid's memory erased.", referring to C-3PO. That's why many years later in Episode IV, A New Hope, C-3PO has no recollection of his surroundings or anyone he knew at that time.
7th Jul 2005
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
Corrected entry: The back rest on Caractacus's rockets is a sawed-off baby seat.
Correction: How this qualifies as a mistake, even a deliberate one, is beyond me. The fact that the imaginative Caractacus Potts can re-use something like a baby's seat is rather inventive, and what a coincidence - he's an inventor.
5th Jul 2005
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003)
Corrected entry: Although most of Legally Blonde 2 is set in Washington DC, not one actor went there for the movie.
Correction: It is not unusual that a film takes place in one specific location, but that none of the actors ever actually step foot in or near it during the shoot.
28th Jun 2005
Cinderella Man (2005)
Corrected entry: "Hooverville" is shown to be in Central Park. NYC's "Hooverville" is on the west side on empty land next to the Hudson River.
Correction: The film is accurate. During the Great Depression, the largest Hooverville in New York was located in Central Park.
27th Aug 2001
Jaws (1975)
Corrected entry: When the little boy on the yellow water raft is supposedly eaten by Jaws, you see two boys carrying him out of the water when everyone is clearing out.
Correction: When Ellen asks her husband, Chief Brody, "Are you okay?" behind her there are five boys who wear red swimming trunks, that head into the water. Alex Kintner, the boy who will soon be attacked, is also wearing red swimming trunks. After the shark attack, the boy in the red swim trunks being dragged out of the water is not Alex.
14th Jun 2005
Happy Gilmore (1996)
Corrected entry: In the scene where happy has a bet with the repot men he hits the golf ball and we see a bird's eye view of its travels. It appears to travel an awful distance when in fact, but as we see in the next clip, it only travels to the end of the street.
Correction: This is a common filmmaking technique used to show a particular action or sequence dramatically stretched out for emphasis. When done this deliberately it doesn't even qualify as a "deliberate" mistake.
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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.
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