rabid anarchist

22nd Mar 2004

Sleeping Beauty (1959)

Corrected entry: Before they start using magic, the fairies lock the door. When Rose gets back, she prances through the door easily.

rabid anarchist

Correction: When they hear Rose approaching they quickly arrange everything before she comes in. Obviously one of them unlocked the door.

Correction: It's more of a mistake than trivia. A clock can only chime up to 12, but chimes to 13. So it's a mistake.

Casual Person

I doubt this was a screw up on the director's part, but rather a deliberate attempt to be spooky, and a little silly. After all, you can't really transplant a brain, and yet.

Brian Katcher

Corrected entry: When Woodstock says he is sending new coordinates to the Norwegian whaling fleet, the blips on the radar screen move even when the beam is not sweeping over them. The screen also makes it look as though Woodstock's radar (and the whole nightclub?) is smack in the middle of the fleet.

rabid anarchist

Correction: Not necessarily, it means that the radar unit is in the middle of the fleet. It wouldn't make sense for him to have his radar at the nightclub.

3rd Apr 2004

Chicken Run (2000)

Corrected entry: When Mrs. Tweedy is knocked down and tosses her axe into the air, it goes flipping through the air forward, then she is lying down later and it comes flying back somehow, and lands next to her head. Some kind of boomerang axe?

rabid anarchist

Correction: The axe actually bounces off the wire fence and lands beside her.

Corrected entry: Shakespeare talks a lot about acts and scenes, but he never sorted his plays into acts and scenes. This was done long after he died by someone else.

rabid anarchist

Correction: He may not have written the act and scene breaks into the scripts. However, since he's writing and directing the play, there is an understanding between him and the actors as to where each scene and act starts/ finishes.

4th Sep 2003

Chicago (2002)

Correction: There are two flags in the courtroom, one behind the witness stand and the other just outside the courtroom. Both flags are wrapped around their poles, so it's impossible to see how many stars are on the flags. However, the lined-up configuration of the stars that are visble corresponds with the 48-star flag -- the rows are not staggered as they are on the 50-star flag.

JC Fernandez

2nd Jan 2004

Waterworld (1995)

Corrected entry: When the smokers attack the metal city, Enola and Helen go up to Gregor's windmill to try and escape with him. Though the battle is raging outside, you can see a calm, Smoker-free lagoon with no signs of an attack happening through any of the windows in the windmill.

rabid anarchist

Correction: The portion of the lagoon seen through the window is relatively calm, however right after Gregor throws the rope and it gets stuck, you can see a smoker on a jet ski enter the view right before the shot changes.

Jason Sieberg

4th Feb 2004

The Jungle Book (1967)

Corrected entry: 'Now when you pick a pawpaw, or a prickly pear' is a line from 'Bare Necessities.' It doesn't work though, as neither pawpaws or prickly pears are native to India, where the film is set.

rabid anarchist

Correction: Neither are any bears except the sloth bear, which is nowhere near as big as Baloo.

4th Feb 2004

Dad's Army (1968)

Correction: Since the lamp isn't on this simply demonstrates how tatty their equipment is.

Corrected entry: In the scene at the dinner table, in some shots Teddy doesn't seem to be there, but later he is sitting at the table and is part of the action.

rabid anarchist

Correction: Teddy is there in all the shots he should be visible in up until the shot that zooms in on David breaking. In this shot Teddy's chair is empty. But since Teddy is an intelligent toy with at least some degree of free will, he could have moved out of the chair for whatever reason. Maybe he didn't want to watch David break.

Andreas[DK]

20th Dec 2004

Animal Crackers (1930)

Corrected entry: In the credits, Captain Spaulding's first name is "Jeffrey." About ten seconds later in a newspaper headline, it's spelled "Geoffrey."

rabid anarchist

Correction: A very common character mistake, made by the reporter or sub-editor of the newspaper.

22nd Mar 2004

Vertigo (1958)

Corrected entry: Carlotta's gravestone in Mission Dolores says "Dec 3 1831 - Mar 5 1857". So she was 25 when she died. But Elster later says to Scottie "Madeleine is 26, Carlotta Valdes committed suicide when she was 26".

rabid anarchist

Correction: A character mistake: Elster remembered and considered only the years in question as most of us would do.

S.Holmes

Corrected entry: When the yellow space ship crashes, the man with the turban turns to his right to see it. When the camera zooms out, the crashed ship is on his left.

rabid anarchist

Correction: You do not see what direction he is first facing, but when the ship crashes he is facing it, so he would have had to look to the right to see it coming if he was in the same spot.

5th Jan 2004

Peter Pan (1953)

Corrected entry: Although Peter is right handed, he wears his scabbard on his right hip. It's extremely dangerous to draw from the same side as your stronger hand, even with a fairly short knife. Strangely, the only time we actually see him draw his knife, it has swapped to his left hip and he draws it across his body correctly.

rabid anarchist

Correction: Just like Bobby Driscoll, who was modeled and did the voice for Peter Pan, we only see Peter draw from his right side. Even if it is dangerous there is no adult to tell Peter that, so it's not a mistake.

7th May 2004

Clockwise (1986)

Correction: The car mentioned is an Austin 1100. However; the model that Basil Fawlty beats with a branch is the estate (stationwagon) version while the one in Clockwise is a saloon.

Correction: They use orange balls on sticks most of the time when doing CGI.

22nd Mar 2004

Nosferatu (1922)

Corrected entry: In the final scene, as Orlock cringes from the sunlight which will destroy him, his reflection appears in the mirror behind him. The absence of reflection is key to vampire lore in this film.

rabid anarchist

Correction: The DVD commentary suggests that Orlok's reflection can be seen because the sun has robbed him of his powers. Also, the director uses the mirror deliberately to underpin a recurring doppelganger theme.

4th Feb 2004

Antz (1998)

Corrected entry: When he's talking to the psychiatrist, Z says he has never been able to lift more than 10 times his own body weight. Yet a few minutes later he is holding up the several hundred ants that make up the demolition ball. He does drop the ball, but that's because he feels nauseous and loses his grip. He wouldn't be able to hold it.

rabid anarchist

Correction: Isn't it obvious? He was exaggerating to the psychiatrist.

5th Jan 2004

Aladdin (1992)

Corrected entry: During the 'Whole New World' number on the carpet, they swoop and Aladdin tells Jasmine not to close her eyes. When that's happening, you can hear Jasmine's voice, but her lips aren't moving.

rabid anarchist

Correction: This is a musical number, and there are many times in the movie (Whole New World especially) where the mouths don't move during a song. This is done because the song is not linear with the scene, they are on a montage and we are getting the content of their feelings through song, they are not necessarily singing to each other (this goes for most musicals).

10th Sep 2003

The Tuxedo (2002)

Correction: As Mr Devlin is a secret agent then has to keep his work a secret, also he may have only just found out about the water strider and hadn't had the chance to brief anyone on his findings.

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