The Locomotive Manipulation - S7-E15
Corrected entry: Sheldon asks whether the train carriage has "link-and-pin" type couplers, when he would know that such couplers were outlawed by the Safety Appliance Act of 1893.
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9th Apr 2014
The Big Bang Theory (2007)
16th Mar 2014
How I Met Your Mother (2005)
Corrected entry: Barney's brother's child is now a girl. At his wedding in a previous season the child was a boy.
20th Dec 2013
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
Corrected entry: In the shot where Bilbo and the dwarves are climbing up to the hidden passage outside the mountain, Gloin is seen holding the axe that was taken by the wood elves, which is the axe he will later give to his son Gimli (will assume they return it after the battle of 5 armies). The next time we see it he is beating on the wall and breaking his axe from Laketown.
Correction: It is impossible to see what either one of the dwarves are carrying as they are climbing. The camera is too far back from the characters to see their weapons in any detail. In the scene when they have all reached the top, Gloin is shown to have the same axe (before and during the door smashing scene).
27th Jan 2014
Die Hard (1988)
Corrected entry: When the FBI agent is telling the worker from the power company to shut of the power, the worker says that the power will be out for several city blocks. When the helicopter is taking the agents to the Nakatomi building, all of the lights are on in all of the surrounding buildings.
Correction: The Nakatomi building is in the middle of a business park. All of the buildings surrounding it have could have an emergency power supply, including Nakatomi building which you can see has been switched on (external and internal lights).
24th Nov 2013
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Corrected entry: When the T-1000 has entered the Cyberdyne building on his motorcycle, he can be seen driving up some steps. Later, right before he soars out of the window on his bike, he looks out of the window and sees the truck driving away on the same level. Unless that truck was flying, it shouldn't be on the same floor as the bike.
Correction: Why not? Entry into the stairway could very well be below street level. So when he drives the bike out of the window, he is up a few levels in the building but level to street level.
1st Nov 2013
Speed (1994)
Corrected entry: In the subway car scene, the voice calling for "Westbound 501" is distorted, as you would expect from a CB radio. Later on when Mac calls on the same radio, his voice is much clearer, as if he's right there.
Correction: It is quite possible to have a clear communication between CB radios otherwise whats the point of using them? Distortion exists when there is something altering the connection between the two radios. Communication between him and Mac was obviously clear because there was nothing altering their transmission.
1st Nov 2013
Prometheus (2012)
Corrected entry: Just after the Prometheus destroys itself by driving into the alien ship, the alien ship lands on the ground and the ship starts falling onto Elizabeth and Meredith. They start running directly away from the ship as fast as they can, but in exactly the same direction in which it's falling. If they had ran in literally any other direction, they would be perfectly safe within seconds.
Correction: There is no way they could have known the ship was going to "roll" in that direction. We only know this in hindsight. The ship could have easily fallen sideways and the direction they ran would have worked out.
17th Oct 2013
Fringe (2008)
The Equation - S1-E8
Corrected entry: In the scene where Ben's father is showing the video of Ben playing the piano, he fast forwards to "Two weeks later", when Ben is composing his own music, but Ben is wearing the same shirt from the start of the video, which was nine months ago.
Correction: I don't see the mistake? People have been known wear the same t-shirt, even the same outfit every now and then. I admittedly, once wore the same pair of jeans and my favorite t-shirt for 4 days in a row.
13th Oct 2013
Arrow (2012)
Corrected entry: At the end of the episode, when Diggle is reading about the arrest of the Hoods on the monitor, you can see that the article has been enlarged by repeating the same information twice.
Correction: Even when 'paused' I cannot notice any repeated text. So when viewed in real time, you cannot see that the article is repeated. The camera pan and scan of the scene does not allow for the text to be thoroughly read.
3rd Jun 2013
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Corrected entry: *Spoiler* After Kirk is irradiated when realigning the reactor core and Spock visits him at the reactor door, they place their hands on either side of the glass. Spock forms the Vulcan salute ("V" sign) which is visible after Kirk's hand slides down in the shot from Kirk's side of the glass. The next shot is from the outside (Spock's side) and Spock's hand remains flat against the glass but no longer in a salute.
13th Jun 2013
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Corrected entry: After the Vengeance has crashed into Earth, Spock is chasing Khan and at one point they run across a street and we see a car brake suddenly to avoid them. When the camera view changes to a street level view we can see some pedestrians walking past the car and they can be seen passing through the front of it, showing that it was added using CG.
Correction: It is very clear that these people walk past in front of the vehicle. Further evidence (now) shown in the making-of's show that a vehicle wrapped in green material was actually used in these shots, so the only part of the car replaced would be an area they'd avoided in real life anyway.
6th Oct 2013
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Corrected entry: The Vengeance may have been an advanced model of starship, but it was ultimately made with comparable materials as other ships. Having 72 torpedoes detonate within the hull should have (or nearly) destroyed the entire ship instead of just blowing a hole in the side of its hull. The strength of its advanced shields would be irrelevant from the inside of the ship. (01:39:25)
Correction: They are not 'full strength' torpedoes. It is revealed that those devices are nothing more than containers of the ancient incubation chambers. Each with a small explosive device designed to destroy its contents and not do major damage to external property.
3rd Sep 2013
Die Hard 2 (1990)
Corrected entry: At the end of the film when the planes begin landing there is no reason for the planes to deploy emergency chutes and send the passengers outside into the snow. All aircraft landed safely without incident. They were simply low on fuel. Planes only evacuate if there is impending danger to passengers by remaining on board.
Correction: There are plenty of reason to do so. (1) The planes were low on fuel and the landing area is a distance from the airport. So they might not have enough fuel to move back to the airport. (2) They are all now in deep snow. The planes might not be able to get out on their own power. (3) It is the middle of the night. The people on board wouldn't want to wait till they can get ladders out there.
22nd Aug 2013
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Corrected entry: The city of Gotham is completely different to the one in Batman Begins - the overhead railway that featured so much at the end of Batman Begins has completely disappeared (while damaged, not so badly as to warrant ripping out the entire track) and Wayne Tower was the central hub of all the city's amenities, but just an ordinary office block in this film.
Correction: The overhead rail can be seen in this movie. In an aerial shot of Gotham, a train and rail-line can be seen in the bottom right corner of the shot. Wayne Tower is not the same as in the first movie, but companies/businesses do move offices, and a long time has passed between movies.
18th Jul 2013
A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)
Corrected entry: John chases down the chopper as Jack goes after Yuri. John is seen climbing into the chopper but struggling, and you can see the chopper lift into the air well away from the tiled concrete ground it was on. It cuts to Jack running up some stairs, then back to John but showing a view of him climbing in the chopper from inside the chopper. It is a down angle, and you can see the concrete floor is now only a few feet below him, where it was much further from it two shots before. (01:22:15)
Correction: Pay attention to the width of one concrete slab when the helicopter is on the ground (a scene before John runs outside). If we take an estimate that the slab is at least 15ft (approx 5m) wide and 30ft (10m) long. The helicopter cabin is nowhere near as wide as the slab. You can easily see at least 3 slab (widths) from inside the cabin looking out. Indicating that helicopter is fairly high up.
9th Jul 2013
I Am Legend (2007)
Corrected entry: During the evacuation scene when Robert's family is being scanned for virus by the soldiers, nobody cares about the dog. This was before the total extermination and they came to know that it's airborne just then. They didn't have any reason to believe that dogs would be immune to the virus. The dog must have been scanned/tested like anybody else. (Neville finds that dogs are immune to airborne infection only later).
Correction: But this wasn't day 1 of infection. There would have been evidence of canine infection prior to this day. So I would say YES, there was reason to believe that dogs were immune.
26th Jun 2013
Falling Skies (2011)
Corrected entry: When Tom, Cochise and Captain Weaver are about to aboard Pope's vintage plane, after Cochise asking if the plane is capable of flight, Cochise starts walking to the airplane's stairs and grabs the door's handle, he gets in the plane but his hand gets stuck in the handle, he struggles to get it out but he can't. The camera shows Tom in first plane but this happens in the background, there is a scene cut and now Cochise is no longer struggling to get his hand/glove out of the airplane door's handle.
Correction: There was enough time off screen for Cochise to get his hand clear. Not a mistake.
19th Jun 2013
Die Hard (1988)
Corrected entry: The "hockey puck" flash bang used by Karl to blind the second guard will not work properly when lying on its top, as it does when he rolls it into the hallway.
Correction: I take it that "not work properly" would still mean it can still explode, causing a sparkling distraction and still let out smoke? I don't see how lying on its stop will prevent any of these things from happening.
13th Jun 2013
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Corrected entry: In The Dark Knight, Lucius Fox says that the population of Gotham is 30 million, yet in the Dark Knight Rises, Talia al Ghul says that the population of Gotham is 12 million.
Correction: Talia was referring to the population of Gotham 'City' being within the bomb blast radius. Gotham state is much bigger and therefore more populous.
1st Jun 2013
Jurassic Park III (2001)
Corrected entry: Right when the Spinosaurus eats Cooper, the plane slams into it. A plane going at that speed would have enough force to shatter the Spinosaurus's bones and slam it into the ground, as well as smash the front of the plane.
Correction: We cannot say for sure the plane hits the Spinosaurus directly since we don't see the impact. But from the angle we see and the blood on the windscreen, the plane (or propeller) just clips the fin on the Spinosaurus' back. Hardly enough to break bones and knock it over.
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Correction: It would easy for Sheldon to ignore this fact when he is aboard a train that has been restored to its original design; internally and externally. He has been building toy models since he was a kid. He just wanted to know to what level this train has been restored.
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Except the cars are 1915 Pullmans coaches and the locomotive is an Alcoa FA-4 (built from 1946-1959), so Sheldon should know they never would have had a "link-and-pin" coupler.
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