Corrected entry: When Harry gets into the Weasley car escaping from the Dursley's, Ron is in the front of the car. When they fly off, he is in the back.
Super Grover
6th Sep 2004
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
6th Sep 2004
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Corrected entry: Before Ron's Howler arrives, he puts down the wand he was fixing. In the next few shots, the wand is there but the roll of tape he used to fix it with is gone.
Correction: The roll of tape is perfectly visible at the bottom corner of the screen next to the wand, near the green apple, as the Howler gives Ron the huge raspberry and begins to shred itself. (DVD fullscreen)
6th Sep 2004
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Harry arrives at the Weasley house, the Weasley boys (particularly Fred and George) are seen looking around the kitchen as though it's the first time they have ever been there. Um, boys - it's your HOME, remember?
Correction: One twin looks toward the stairs, the other looks around nervously, both are quite anxious about their mother finding out what they've been up to, and rightly so. Ron's reason for looking around is obvious in the comment, "It's not much, but it's home." His best friend is in his home for the first time and Ron, who's a bit embarrassed by his home, smiles and looks at his brother when he hears Harry's nice reaction.
7th May 2004
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
Corrected entry: When four owls are perched on top of Uncle Vernon's car towards the beginning of the film, you can see that one on the left is obviously a painted set prop. (00:10:05)
Correction: No, it is very much alive. It even turns its head as the camera pans past him towards Vernon and Petunia at the front door.
31st Aug 2003
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Corrected entry: After drinking the polyjuice potion, Ron and Hermione both dive into cubicles - all the doors are open before they go in. Harry then changes while looking in the mirror, but when we see the stall doors again, three are closed. (01:19:45 - 01:20:50)
Correction: The first cubicle door is closed the entire time. When Hermione says, "Cheers," the closed door is visible between Ron and Harry. Ron runs into the second cubicle and Hermione runs into the third - which is Moaning Myrtle's cubicle, hence three doors shut. (Interesting fact to note - that first cubicle door is also closed behind Ron when Hermione brews the potion while she sits on the floor.)
1st Sep 2004
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
Corrected entry: At the start where Hagrid hands Harry to Dumbledore, he says "Try not to wake him" but while Dumbledore is taking Harry to the door you can hear the baby gurgling and making noises, yet when he puts him down he is asleep. (00:02:30)
Correction: Hagrid lands, gets off the motorbike and gives the child to Dumbledore. This drastic change will stir any normal sleeping baby, thus the 'stirring' noises from the child. When Hagrid is in the air the vibration and constant hum of the engine helps sooth the baby and keep him asleep. When Dumbledore holds him, the sounds we hear are not of a baby who is necessarily awake, but who is rather just stirring in his interrupted sleep. Actually, the fact that the sound editors added those noises adds a noticeable touch of realism to those shots.
5th Aug 2004
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Corrected entry: At the scene at the public high school, there is a close-up shot of boys wearing motorcycle boots, over which they are wearing Levis with the cuffs turned up. Nobody in an American high school in the 50's would have worn Levis with the cuffs turned up, and I doubt if anyone does so now.
Correction: In the 50's ALL the boys, and girls for that matter, wore their dungarees, as they were called back then, with a turned up cuff. Whether with loafers, Keds or biker boots, the jeans had a turned up cuff. The movie takes place in that era (and was indeed MADE in that era), so it does not matter what anyone would do nowadays.
Corrected entry: When Jack and Will are fighting in his shop, Will pulls out the brander, the end of which has changed shape from when Jack used it.
Correction: Of course the tip changed shape, it's an entirely different tool. Jack pulls a glowing red hot 'fire poker' out of the fire, not a brander, which is glowing red-hot with caked-on ash on the tip, in order to get the donkey to move. Later Will pulls long iron tongs from the table beside the fireplace to wield against Jack, after Jack kicks Will's sword out of his hand.
Corrected entry: Take a close look at Will's face just before Jack sprays him with soot during their fight. If you pause the movie you can see that Will's face is already dirty, probably from a previous take.
Correction: Seen frame by frame, in the first shot facing Jack, when Will's back is seen, Jack grabs the bag of soot, starts to squeeze it towards Will and plenty of soot begins to pour out into the air already. As the next shot opens, this time facing Will, there is soot in the air making this shot hazy and a large puff of soot right in front of him, so the soot has already started to settle on his face and body, and in the next frame more soot blankets him.
27th Jan 2004
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Corrected entry: Eomer shoots an arrow at an Oliphaunt. In the first shot, front view, it is missing nearly its entire right tusk (it shows a bloody stump). In the shot from the rear view, it has an intact right tusk as it falls. (This scene occurs immediately after the one in which Eowyn & Merry charge at, hack at, and down an Oliphaunt).
Correction: In the side back shot, only the two small bottom tusks, the long top left tusk and the Mumak's trunk (which may be mistaken for the long right tusk in the quick shot) is clearly seen. We do not see the long right tusk on the other side of the trunk, as it is a short stump.
2nd Apr 2004
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Corrected entry: When Théoden is knocked under his horse by the Witch-King, it's obvious that the Fell Beast is attacking so Théoden is looking down at him, with the horse's legs pointing at the Fell Beast, yet after Éowyn destroys the Witch-King and Théoden passes away, we see a wide-shot of the whole scene. Éowyn's discarded helmet and the remains of the Witch-King are positioned at Théoden's head rather than feet. The attack all took part below Théoden, so how did everything shift to above his.
Correction: Wrong. After Theoden dies, there is a wide shot of the area and the helmet near Theoden's head is his (use zoom if necessary) not Eowyn's. Plus the Witch King's remains are not near Theoden's head in this shot either.
21st Jun 2004
Aladdin (1992)
Corrected entry: Sultan is concerned that Jasmine find a suitor before her eighteenth birthday because "He isn't getting any younger". He seems to be 70 years old in the movie. (Disney had no official "age" for Sultan.) The law stated that a Princess must marry a Prince before her eighteenth birthday. Jasmine is now just shy of 18 years old herself. So Jasmine's mother must have married the Sultan when she was seventeen years old to follow the letter of the law and the Sultan was fifty two years old? And that presumes that they had conceived Jasmine the first year they were married. (Sultan's 70 years minus Jasmine's apparent current age of 18 is 52 years old). Well, as Sultan said himself, "Her mother wasn't nearly so picky".
Correction: It is not unrealistic or inconceivable for a young woman who is coming of age, to be betrothed to a middle aged or even elderly man, if that man stems from the proper family that the parents approve of. In many societies the 'match' is made by the parents when the young girl is but a young child, and the girl has no say in the matter. Jasmine, being both independent and stubborn challenges this law.
7th Jan 2004
Peter Pan (2003)
Corrected entry: In the pan across the London rooftops at the beginning, there are two Big Bens.
Correction: Only one Big Ben is shown at the opening of the film when there is an overhead pan of London. In this shot there are a three steeples seen. The one in the center in the distance has the appearance of Big Ben. The one to the right is a church, as it has a cross at the top. The one to the left is a steeple with straight sides and gives the appearance of being another church.
21st Jun 2004
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Corrected entry: In the shot where Frodo is hanging in Shelobs web struggling to escape you can tell that he has shoes on.
Correction: No, he is not wearing shoes. It is the outline of the ankle straps for the attached stunt wire, which is already noted.
Corrected entry: In the scene where the Black Pearl and the Interceptor are battling head to head, the crew of the Interceptor have just dumped all their cannon balls and weaponry into the ocean to lighten their load, but when it shows Jack Sparrow sitting in the brig of the Pearl, a cannon ball blows through his cell and he shouts, "Stop blowin' holes in my ship." Where did they get cannon balls all of a sudden?
Correction: A cannon ball did not make that hole. It's just as Gibbs says, "Case shot, langrage (which is shot that consisted of bolts and other pieces of iron), nails, and crushed glass!" They also inserted forks, knives, and spoons into the cannons. The force of the cannon fire propelled these things with enough strength to blast a hole in the wood. If you look at the brig cell that Jack exits, you will see a varied assortment of utensils embedded all around him.
8th Jun 2004
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Corrected entry: On the DVD, in the scene where Gandalf is driving the carriage (with Frodo and Bilbo on board), in the zoomed out shot you can see four hobbits riding on ponies. There should only be three. Since Frodo is in the carriage, that would only leave Sam, Merry, and Pippen. These are the only hobbits going along, since they are the only ones at the harbor.
Correction: In the overhead shot, we hear Frodo's voiceover as Gandalf arrives in the wagon, and all four Hobbits are on the ponies. It then cuts to Gandalf's close-up. Next is a long shot, as we hear Bilbo's voiceover say, "Tell me again, lad, where are we going," and the four ponies have only three riders, one of the ponies is riderless, with Frodo inside the wagon with Bilbo. Use zoom, it is very clear.
28th May 2004
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Corrected entry: As Legolas walks along the top of the oliphant about to fire three arrows into its head, he draws his three arrows twice, once before and once after the camera change.
Correction: No. In the close-up his face twists up in anger at the Mumak and draws the first arrow. In the next shot from above, as he walks on top of the animal he places that arrow into his left hand and draws two more from behind, then puts the three together at the bow.
27th May 2004
28 Days (2000)
Corrected entry: When Gwen and Jasper are taking a cab to the wedding, the cab is first yellow, then green.
Correction: Like the existing correction for a similar mistake, the first is a yellow taxi in Manhattan that they take to the train. Then Gwen and Jasper are on a train, looks like the LIRR and we hear in voiceover, Gwen saying, "Thank God for bar cars (on the train)." Then we see them in a green taxi at the church in the suburbs. The taxi drivers we see are completely different too.
2nd Apr 2004
28 Days (2000)
Corrected entry: When Gwen and Jasper drive up to the church for the wedding, Gwen gets out on the left side of the car when she was really on the right.
Correction: It is two different cabs. The first, is a yellow cab in Manhattan, that drives them to the train, where she says, "Thank God for bar cars." The second green cab took them from the train to the church.
27th Aug 2001
Clambake (1967)
Corrected entry: After a late afternoon ride away from Miami Beach on Elvis' motorcycle, he and Shelley Fares stop at a deserted beach to watch the sun set over the water. Unfortunately, Miami Beach faces east and the sun sets in the west.
Correction: Don't confuse Miami with Miami Beach. South Miami Beach had beach at both its eastern and western shores, the eastern shore being more popular due to its profusion of hotels. Also, we don't know how far they drove, so they could even have ended up at Key Biscayne (it fits with the lighthouse seen in some shots), which also had western facing beach area to watch a lovely sunset.
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Correction: Harry passes Hedwig's cage to Ron who STANDS at the SIDE of the front seat and Ron passes the owl to one of the twins in the back seat. While the camera faces Vernon slamming open the door, yelling, "Petunia, he's escaping!," Ron simply slides to the back. So in the next shot, from behind Vernon, as Harry is on the bedroom's window ledge, Ron sits in the back seat.
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