Corrected entry: When Smith and Shaffer get in the car accident in the German car, they push it over the cliff. They start pushing it without changing the gears. The car would have been in gear before hitting the pile of rubble and would need to be put in neutral to be pushed.
Jacob La Cour
11th Jun 2013
Where Eagles Dare (1968)
12th Sep 2008
Private Benjamin (1980)
Corrected entry: When Captain Lewis is in the shower - where Judy put paint in the shower - she looks at herself in the mirror and screams. But she looks in the mirror from a very narrow angle - from the side. Consequently she wouldn't be able to see her own face - but the wall or the window. You have to look in a mirror at close to a straight angle in order to see yourself.
Correction: The mirror was facing towards her - the door was open.
26th Mar 2012
The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009)
Corrected entry: Ryder says it takes 6 hours to fly to Iceland from New York. It takes less than 4.
Correction: A quick search for flights from KEF (Keflavik, Iceland) to JFK shows 6 hour flight times.
16th Sep 2007
Octopussy (1983)
Corrected entry: In the scene in the walk-in cooler at Kahn's palace you don't see any breath - neither from Bond nor from the two guys picking up the bodies.
Correction: It isn't supposed to be a refrigerated room in the modern sense, but a cold room in the traditional sense: a thick-walled chamber in the basement that keeps relatively cool even in the hot summer. If you look closely, there isn't any ice or frost anywhere. Also it was probably meant as a butcher shop first and as a cold room only second: When Gobinda checks in because he finds the door open, cleavers, bone saws and knives can be hanging on the wall. As for why Bond has his collar turned up: when attuned to a hot climate, even the 15°C of a naturally cool room would seem quite cold.
11th Mar 2013
I Am Legend (2007)
Corrected entry: Hand grenades do not create a massive fireball - even in a lab full of combustible chemicals, the heat from a grenade wouldn't be high enough to ignite them.
Correction: The flash point of acetone is -4 F and the flash point of diethyl ether is -42 F. Both of these could definitely be present. Either of these chemicals could generate a "fireball" above these temperatures. Ether is particularly nasty in this regard. I have personally seen an ether flame appear to "jump" twelve feet. Any flame or spark is all that is necessary.
2nd Dec 2013
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Corrected entry: In the very last shot of the movie we see the Atlantic Ocean from the Space station. There is no ice on the surface all the way up to Northern Europe and Greenland. If the air got as cold as shown and for that long, at least the surface would have frozen.
Correction: The planet flash froze yes, but it obviously warmed back up considerably since people were able to go outside without instantly freezing to death. The oceans are salt water which has a much lower freezing temperature than pure water. If the surface of the Atlantic froze at the first cold snap, it undoubtedly thawed back out when the temperature raised back into the survivable range.
Correction: Water in motion has a much lower freezing point than stagnant water.
24th Nov 2007
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Corrected entry: At Helms Deep, just before the battle, they see the sun rising through the window. But in the next shots - from the outside - the castle is still in the shadow - and the sun only rises when Gandalf appears.
Correction: The sunlight shines through the window of the keep because the sky lightens, not because the sun is shining directly at the castle window. When Gandalf arrives at the top of the hill, we see the keep is in a valley. The sunlight follows his arrival because it rises enough to crest the hilltop the Rohirrim are waiting atop, then gradually shines across the Uruk-Hai army below them.
14th Feb 2013
A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)
Corrected entry: In the courtroom scene, the room is packed with people. The bombs in the three cars blow the entire wall out, but seconds later when entering, the room is completely empty. There are two guards on the floor, but all of the spectators in the courtroom escaped miraculously. (00:14:00 - 00:17:00)
Correction: If you look closely, you can see more bodies under the rubble in the courtroom, the amount of time between the bombing and Chagarin's men entering the courtroom makes it very probable that those who weren't injured/killed had already escaped.
11th Jul 2007
Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
Corrected entry: At the end of the movie the CIA helicopters are flying from DC to Baltimore. We see them over a wide stretch of water. Then there is a long sequence with McClane, and when we get back to the helicopters they are still over water. When you fly from DC to Baltimore you do not cross a long stretch of water.
Correction: In the Washington D.C.- Baltimore area there is a "No Fly Zone" that has been in effect since the late 1950's. The most recent edition is the Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) that extends from DC to literally the edge of Baltimore. Woodlawn is on the west side of Baltimore, but because of the radius of the no fly zone, the fastest way to get from DC would be to go east then follow the Chesapeake bay to Baltimore, over water almost the entire trip.
18th Aug 2013
Red 2 (2013)
Corrected entry: When Sarah shoots with Marvin's Mag 44, you can tell it is loaded with blanks, since that gun should have a very powerful recoil, but she holds it completely steady.
Correction: It's mentioned in dialog that it is a Sig, not a Mag. Sigs generally have a smaller round and therefore a lower recoil.
12th Feb 2013
Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
Corrected entry: When they set 'sail' across the underground sea, the kite shows a very strong wind from behind them. But the waves go in all different directions, and show no signs of a strong wind in any specific direction.
Correction: The wind high above them is different to the wind at ground/water level, Trevor explains this as the reason for making the kite ropes so long.
14th Feb 2013
A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)
Corrected entry: It seems as if John and Jack drive from Moscow to Pripyat during one night/evening. The distance is almost 1000 km and it would take at least 12 hours to drive. (00:38:20)
Correction: Speed limit on major highways in Russia is 110 kmh and in Ukraine is up to 130 kmh. A 960 kilometer trip could easily be made in about 8 hours, even keeping close to the speed limit. Odds are they weren't following the speed limits too closely. Nights in that region are dark for 12 to 14 hours at that time of year. Besides which, it "seems" like they drove it in one night, but there is nothing to confirm they drove it in one night.
17th Sep 2007
Octopussy (1983)
Corrected entry: When the clown falls into the water in Berlin, and floats down river, it is obviously a dummy - check the strangely wrinkled forehead.
Correction: The strangely wrinkled forehead is actually the latex from the clown wig 009 is wearing.
24th Feb 2009
Octopussy (1983)
Corrected entry: What did the jewellery smuggling and the fake jewels have to do with the A-bomb? It wasn't payment to Kamal for services rendered, since the jewelry was transferred to General Orlov's car while Gobinda was watching. Kamal and Orlov could easily have placed a bomb in the circus without the jewelry-story.
Correction: Kamal and Orlov are using Octopussy's circus to smuggle the bomb into the air base. The circus is one of her many legitimate business ventures used to circumvent customs and border security as she smuggles jewels. She thinks she has been working with Kamal and Orlov to sell Russian jewels on the black market. Orlov steals the jewels and replaces them with fakes created by Kamal, and gives the real ones to Octopussy to smuggle out of Soviet territory. 009 discovered this and stole the Faberge egg, probably thinking Orlov was using the funds to secretly finance a covert Soviet operation. The jewels exchanged for the bomb were a necessary ruse because Octopussy wasn't really a bad guy who would go along with a plot to kill thousands in a nuclear explosion. So Orlov and Kamal had to make her think she was smuggling jewels so she wouldn't think anything was wrong. As Orlov explains when he takes delivery of the fake jewels, Kamal was to gain the real ones as payment after the bomb exploded. Orlov had to take the jewels with him after switching them out for the bomb because Kamal had to continue on with the train, and letting Orlov hold onto them was easier than Kamal having to smuggle them across the border into Western Europe and then hold onto them as he escaped, and then smuggle them back to India (presumably it's easier for Orlov to smuggle them back to India through Soviet controlled Afghanistan). But seeing Bond on the train, Orlov felt the need to warn his accomplices, which is why he made a break for the border.
19th Oct 2012
From Russia With Love (1963)
Corrected entry: In the chess match, Kronstein's opponent is not check mate! He could have moved the king one field up (H8) in the corner. That field is not covered. He could also just have moved his pawn on G7 one field forward to G6 and thereby blocked the queen's path.
Correction: Toppling your king does not mean checkmate, it's just a conceding of the game. This is common when victory is inevitable for the opposing player.
16th Oct 2007
Mission: Impossible 2 (2000)
Corrected entry: The emergency gas masks in a 747 are not linked to one sole system, which can be poisoned. The masks are connected to individual oxygen producing containers.
Correction: 747s do in fact have a 'ring main' for passenger oxygen, not individual generators. Therefore the premise in the movie is correct.
2nd Feb 2012
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)
Corrected entry: An ICBM warhead does not detonate upon impact. It detonates hundreds (thousands) of meters above ground in order to maximise the effect of the explosive impact.
Correction: Nuclear warheads detonate where they are programmed to. There are generally four types of detonation:- 1. Exo-atmospheric. Warheads detonated in near-earth orbit. Causes no physical damage but creates a massive electromagnetic pulse, EMP, which can destroy vulnerable electronic systems. 2. Airburst. Detonation at a height of 5 to 10 thousand feet is ideal when targeting cities, maximum physical damage, but less in the way of fallout. 3. Groundburst. Used primarily against military targets - airfields, naval bases, missile silos, etc. Massive damage but with large amounts of radioactive fallout which would hamper rescue and repair efforts. 4. Subsurface. To destroy a hardened underground facility, such as a missile launch control centre, government bunker or the NORAD facility at Cheyenne Mountain, a large nuclear warhead is fitted with a penetrator, a hardened steel nose, that uses the speed of reentry to 'punch' through the ground before detonation. The physical damage above ground is severe but these warheads produce massive amounts of fallout.
18th Sep 2012
Jurassic Park (1993)
Corrected entry: Dr. Grant holds his canteen out the window in order to get water to drink. But there is no funnel on it. It would take a very, very long time for rain to drop through that small hole to fill the bottle with any drinkable quantity of water, even in the heaviest of rains.
Correction: And yet in the heaviest of rain I can get a decent drink by holding a water bottle with roughly the same size hole. I've done this dozens of time on long driving trips.
24th Aug 2009
The World is Not Enough (1999)
Corrected entry: The Swiss banker says he delivers the money less a small amount to cover expenses. Then - if Bond knew what exchange rate to use - the GBP amount would convert to less than USD 5 million.
Correction: No, Bond was converting the final amount that was in the briefcase, which was written on the paper given to him to show the calculations of the deductions. King had paid more than the 3 million pounds, but the deductions were manipulated so the final amount would equal $5 million when converted. That's the message they were trying to send. If they wanted it to convert to $5.5 million or $4 million or whatever the fees would have been different.
4th Feb 2013
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
Corrected entry: In the opening scene it is discussed whether the soviet nuclear torpedoes will explode when hit by the cruise missile. One of the officers says it might. But nuclear bombs can't go off unless the actual trigger mechanism is activated. They do not contain powder or dynamite or anything which can explode when heated.
Correction: Incorrect. Nukes have a core of fissionable materiel surrounded by high explosives. While there is no chance that there would be a nuclear detonation, the cruise missile could cause the explosives to detonate contaminating the area with highly radioactive debris and flinging more of it into the atmosphere to be spread.
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Correction: The impact could easily have have knocked the transmission into neutral. I've had this happen myself when driving a manual transmission and hitting a particularly large pothole.