Revealing mistake: During the brief firefight in the mess hall, Distephano is disarmed and drops to the floor. After the firefight, he surrenders and stands up with his hands behind his head. The same shot of him standing up is reused in the security footage Gediman watches from the control room seconds later. (00:39:05)
lionhead
2nd Nov 2017
Alien Resurrection (1997)
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Suggested correction: There could be a delay of several seconds in the footage, its probably a really outdated security system.
2nd Nov 2017
Home Alone (1990)
Corrected entry: When Kevin opens the window, he overhears Marv and Harry planning to return that night at nine o'clock. At this point, Kevin could have simply called the police and told them what was going to happen. The Wet Bandits would have been caught immediately.
Correction: 2 things, 1 he was worried the police wouldn't believe him and 2 he enjoyed being home alone at that point and didn't want cops to take him somewhere else.
He may have also been worried since he accidentally shoplifted.
2nd Nov 2017
Jurassic World (2015)
Corrected entry: Instead of waiting for Claire to get to the control room and inform them of the Indominus Rex's location, Owen and the guards idiotically walk into the pen to check for themselves. Not only does this lead to the Rex escaping, but would have solved nothing anyway.
Correction: They thought it had escaped because they saw claw marks on the walls, and assumed it would be big enough to be seen if it was anywhere remotely nearby. They had no reason to even consider that it could hide inside the compound with camouflage.
28th Oct 2017
National Treasure (2004)
Corrected entry: Ben, Abigail and Riley are able to escape by a stealing his father's Cadillac De ville. The Cadillac De ville has an OnStar system that would allow the FBI to track them and intercept them, ruining any chances of escape for the three. The FBI would ask Ben's father what kind of car he has, and he would tell them. On star systems are very difficult to disable, taking several hours. By then, the FBI probably would gotten to Ben's father's house before Ben, Abigail, and Riley could escape.
Correction: It is quite possible the OnStar system was deactivated / disconnected long before Ben and the others took it. You unsubscribe, remove the fuse and disconnect the wires on the onstar box. Nobody would be able to track it.
Correction: How could have the FBI gotten to Ben's father's house before they did? They didn't steal the car until after they figured things out, and the FBI would have no way of knowing anything about the car.
Correction: By the time the FBI released Ben's father, they were far ahead of them, most likely ditched the car since we didn't see it later in the film, and the FBI did catch up with them. Ben got arrested.
We do see the car later. FBI says "they found the car." And Ben is pushed against it to be arrested by the FBI.
27th Oct 2017
Stripes (1981)
Corrected entry: During the scene when the trainees are waking up prior to their graduation, one trainee says "graduation is at four o'clock, what time is it?" The other trainee says "its 3 o'clock, we still have an hour of sleep." That would be correct. They act as if they are an hour behind, missing graduation, when in reality they would have time to get their act together and show up to graduation on time.
Correction: Actually, Hector says graduation is at 2 o'clock.
27th Oct 2017
Con Air (1997)
Corrected entry: When Billy is impaled on a pipe and we see the pipe sticking out his chest, there's another hole in his shirt above the pipe, even though he was only impaled once, and the hole wasn't there before.
Correction: There is blood coming through the shirt above the pipe, there is no hole in the shirt.
20th Oct 2017
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
Corrected entry: Just after Draco Malfoy was sorted, Ron mentions to Harry that there wasn't a witch or wizard that went bad that wasn't in Slytherin. However, at this point, Sirius Black was believed to be a dark wizard by the whole wizarding community, and was very well known as well, although he was in Gryffindor when he was at Hogwarts.
11th Oct 2017
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
Other mistake: Harry pulls a knife out of Dobby's chest, but before that, we can see there's no knife.
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Suggested correction: Yes there is, Dobby is holding on to it as he falls into Harry's hands. Its not totally obvious, but the CGI people definitely put it in.
11th Oct 2017
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Corrected entry: Before the spaceship arrives it's daylight but moments before it lands it's completely dark.
Correction: There is a lot of time between Elliot and the others landing in the forest and the spaceship landing. As Elliot and the others arrive at the forest its already dusk and the sun sets pretty quickly in autumn and behind a mountain.
11th Sep 2017
The Mummy (2017)
Plot hole: When the C-130 transport is falling from the sky, the Egyptian sarcophagus remains lashed to the plane's cargo deck. The crew exploring the wreckage says they are miles from the 'primary crash site' (so that nasty stuff can happen to them without witnesses). The sarcophagus would still be at the primary crash site, along with the remains of the fuselage and cargo deck. (00:32:50 - 00:36:00)
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Suggested correction: We don't see where the sarcophagus went when the plane crashed, so it could have broken free from the plane earlier and landed along with other parts.
22nd Aug 2017
Armageddon (1998)
Corrected entry: This movie makes the same mistake several others do about the effects of nuclear explosions. Without an atmosphere, you get a very hot fireball and some radiation. there is no air to create a pressure wave which would blow the asteroid apart. At the most, you have a melted center and maybe the asteroid would collapse on itself if it had enough gravity.
Correction: The explosion of a nuclear bomb is done by the bomb itself, atmosphere can cause additional damage but isn't necessary for a nuclear bomb to work. The energy released by the chain reaction needs to escape and if its stuck in a tiny space it will break free, thus breaking apart the asteroid down its fault. That's why they drilled the hole in the first place.
2nd Feb 2017
Alien Resurrection (1997)
Corrected entry: When climbing above the nesting grounds, one of the guys gets a dead, very heavy alien on his shoe. To save the crippled guys life and keep him climbing, he unhooks from the crippled guy and falls to his death. He didn't have to die, though. He could have just pushed it off with his other foot.
Correction: Christie was very badly injured from the acid that hit him. He was barely conscious and simply couldn't move his foot to get rid of the alien. It wasn't a certainty it would work either, Christie simply thought of the fastest and surest way for Vriess to be saved.
I always got the impression Christie was paralyzed from the waist down after he gets hit with the acid. It's a fitting way for him to die, because he saves Vriess who is also paralyzed in the same way.
How would he get paralyzed from the acid? It hit his face.
Went into his brain. I can't see him being too tired to move his leg but not too tired to un-snap his harness. Either way, it's a very poorly explained scene. Not saying I'm right and you're wrong, it's just the way I always read the scene when I watched the movie.
Right, right. I get where you are coming from. But let's be realistic, if the acid had gone in his brain he'd be dead. He just didn't have the strength left, not tired, just in and out of conscious. And again, it would have taken too long to try and get the alien off.
He won't necessarily be dead. Brain injuries are not all fatal, but can result in loss of different body functions.
6th Aug 2017
Dunkirk (2017)
Corrected entry: At the beginning of the movie, there is a timber factory with nice timber on a lot of staples, this is something that was not possible at that time of the war. All the timber had been used.
Correction: That's just ridiculous. They still made timber at timber factories and they need wood for that, which is stacked at the factory. It's not like all wood gets shipped to the war the moment the tree is cut down. People still need furniture, doors, housing, boats. Life goes on during a war.
1st Aug 2017
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: There's supposedly several police officers observing Joker from outside the interrogation room through a two-way mirror, but none of them notice Joker taking Stephens (his guard) hostage until he escapes the room.
Correction: There are no other cops present, they have all gone to rescue Rachel and Dent. Only Stephens is there.
1st Aug 2017
The Strain (2014)
Corrected entry: Abraham's family is taken to the concentration camp Treblinka in 1944, but Treblinka's camp only operated until October 1943. (00:07:50 - 00:09:00)
Correction: That's Treblinka II the extermination camp, Treblinka I, the labor camp, stayed active till July 23 1944.
14th Jul 2017
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
Corrected entry: Captain Vasily Borodin's Russian uniform has American Navy captain rank (a gold star and four gold stripes) on the sleeves of his uniform. (01:09:15)
Correction: A Captain 2nd rank of the Soviet navy wears a upright gold star and 4 gold stripes on his sleeves, so it is correct. The American one has an upside down star.
22nd Jul 2017
Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Corrected entry: When Tony watches the recording of his parents killing by the Winter Soldier, you see the latter shooting the surveillance camera (why there was a camera there in the first place is unknown) in order to avoid being recorded. That is obviously idiotic, since shooting a surveillance camera most likely doesn't result in the destruction of the recording, which is typically kept off-site as well. He should have destroyed the camera before being recorded himself.
Correction: He didn't notice the camera until then. He shot it in frustration or simply because he is ordered to do that whenever he sees one.
12th Jun 2017
Wonder Woman (2017)
Corrected entry: At the end in the tower Diana has the perfect opportunity to kill who she thinks is Aries with the God Killer Sword. When he turns his back to sniff the contents of the vial. She comes up behind him but for some reason doesn't run him through with the sword.
Correction: She does move to thrust her sword into him but she is too late and he turns around again. You can see she is ready to strike in the next shot.
5th Apr 2017
Logan (2017)
Corrected entry: After the first fight scene when Logan is pulling bullets out of his body and dropping them in the sink there is a shell casing with them, showing they're unfired.
Correction: There are no casings, just the bullets. The back part of the bullets are fairly intact, giving the appearance the casings are still on them but you can see none of them are long enough to be bullets with casings.
Wrong, there are ACTUAL hollow shell casings in the sink. Simple mistake.
I paused the film to look at what's in the sink and at first I thought there was a casing. But after looking at the other two bullets, it's clear that it's not a casing. The way the blood is covering the bottom of the bullet just gives an illusion you're looking at something hollow. The correction is valid.
Correct. There were no bullets in him. He only pushed out casings which should be in the ground in the parking lot. It makes zero sense. Huge flaw.
4th May 2017
X-Men: First Class (2011)
Corrected entry: Hank McCoy, for some reason, created Cerebro with the precise abilities to amplify Charles' powers and allow Charles to use it to locate other mutants, even though Hank would have had no idea that anyone could use the machine... It was even mentioned that the machine was pretty much useless without Charles.
Correction: It was built for a telepath, someone like Charles. They knew there were telepaths around so they built a machine but the machine needs a powerful telepath. Only Charles is powerful enough to use it.
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