Corrected entry: When they discover that the Genesis device has been activated, Kirk volunteers to beam over to stop it. Even though he is told it can't be stopped, that would indicate the transporters are still working. Why does nobody suggest beaming the device itself off of the Reliant and out into space with the widest possible dispersion, like they did in "Wolf in the Fold" to Redjac?
Garlonuss
29th Apr 2004
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Correction: If they can't even get a lousy phaser lock or a clear picture on the view screen inside the nebula I have an extremely hard time buying that the transporter would've worked out for them in any capacity. Seems likely to me that in his haste and desperation Kirk simply blurted out the first thing that came to mind. For all we know David's "You can't" was actually him reminding Kirk that they can't just beam aboard the Reliant in their situation.
Correction: The source would be "Star Trek." Anytime the crew needs something to get out of danger, it's inexplicably unavailable. ST: TNG Season 5 Episode 18, Cause and Effect, the Enterprise tries to back from the anomaly, the maneuvering thrusters are suddenly non responsive, with no explanation.
29th Apr 2004
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Corrected entry: Doesn't it strain credulity that the Enterprise is (once again) "the only ship in the quadrant"? In Star Trek terminology (all series), a quadrant covers one fourth of the galaxy (smaller regions are "sectors" and the boundary runs just about right down the middle of the Federation, right by Earth to be exact. Are we to believe that there is no other starship in that entire half of the Federation?
Correction: Before ST:TNG, "quadrant" was a term used somewhat loosely. In the Wrath of Khan, quadrant does not refer to one quarter of the galaxy.
Look up the term "quadrant." In every single applicable variation it is some form of "one quarter of a circle."
According to memory alpha, the star trek wiki, a quadrant is a major region of space encompassing a portion of a galaxy. There are apparently major and minor quadrants. The major quadrants are the 4 quadrants dividing up the milky way. Minor quadrants of course encompass a smaller part of said major quadrants. How large is seemingly quite inconsistent though. I think it has been settled upon that a minor quadrant is a couple of sectors (4) large.
Sulu also mentions that Reliant (which is in visual range, approaching at half impulse power) is in the same quadrant, which going by the post-1987 definition would be like saying the car approaching down the street is on the same continent. It's pretty clear that when they mention a "quadrant" in this movie, they are not referring to a quarter of the entire galaxy.
19th Apr 2004
The Rundown (2003)
Corrected entry: The fruit that so easily conks Beck out is said to be "Konlabos, with a K. The letter "K" is not used in Portuguese except in borrowed words like "Kit" and "Kaiser. They would never have spelled the name of a fruit with a "K.
Correction: "Konlabos" IS a borrowed word - from Olmec, a South American dialect.
25th Aug 2014
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
Corrected entry: When all the Harrys say "Wow. We're identical.", they all sound like Harry. However later we hear a girl's voice say "Look away, I'm hideous" when they're changing clothes. Also, in The Chamber Of Secrets, when Harry and Ron take Polyjuice Potion, they still have their voices and Harry says, "You still sound like yourself. You need to sound more like Crabbe."
24th Mar 2014
The Incredible Hulk (2008)
Corrected entry: In the scene on the university campus yard when the military are attacking the Hulk, Blonsky confronts the Hulk, and right after saying "is that all you got?" we see him getting kicked by the Hulk. He gets kicked from left to right, but the next shot shows him tumbling from right to left as he smacks into a tree. (00:56:20)
Correction: That just means that they broke the 180 rule of filming. There's no error here except that they moved the camera across the line of action for the second shot, swapping the flow of action. And this rule only really matters in that some people get confused when they break the 180 rule. But in the absence of other evidence (i.e. "you can see the same mountain in the background" or something) there is no reason to believe that Blonsky's body did a boomerang and reversed direction directly into a tree.
21st Nov 2013
Ender's Game (2013)
Corrected entry: The final battle against the Formics is a real battle, not a simulation. So how come Ender can see the battle through dynamic, controllable camera angles? In the early simulations this made sense because, well, they're simulations. But in the final battle there's no way to get those views.
8th Aug 2013
TRON: Legacy (2010)
Corrected entry: The computer in the hidden room of the arcade had been left alone for nearly 20 years, so how could it have a modern touchscreen interface? Regardless of how much evolved within the Grid, the hardware in the real world should have remained 1980s tech.
6th Aug 2013
A Knight's Tale (2001)
Corrected entry: In both instances where William crossed the English Channel, it was on a chain ferry. It is highly unlikely that any individual, or even a group of individuals could afford the 20-odd miles of chain it would require. To top it off, when they return to England, their landfall is made at London, which would require yet another 20-odd miles of chain to take them up the Thames.
Correction: They never say that it's the channel they're crossing on the ferry. And since you already pointed out that the Thames runs up to London, it is much much more likely that the ferry is simply crossing the Thames.
But was it really 10 years between when Will's dad crossed the Thames? And why would the transporter think to ask? The River has many bridges that crossed it at the time. You can wave to people across it. Is that long of a time reasonable?
30th Jul 2013
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012)
Corrected entry: Bella's eyes jump from a vibrant golden yellowish color to brown back to yellow in the matter of about 3 minutes. She drops off Jacob and Renesme at Charlie's house while she runs some errands, and her eyes are a deep gold-yellow. Then she's in her car about to meet J. Jenkins and her eyes are brown. During the drive back home her eyes are golden-yellow again. (01:04:10 - 01:05:20)
23rd Jun 2013
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)
Statistical Probabilities - S6-E9
Corrected entry: Patrick, the elderly and child-like one of the visiting genetically engineered trio, appears in the background with his reading glasses for ~3 seconds. Mature actors in the 20th century need glasses. Mature genetically enhanced people of the future never wear glasses except that one scene. (00:07:30)
Correction: While that may be generally true, we get an example of that not being the case with Kirk in Star Trek II. (Granted, that's 80 years earlier, but the principle holds up.) McCoy tells Kirk that he would normally administer Retinax V for his presbyopia, but Kirk responds that he's allergic to Retinax, hence McCoy's gift of the reading glasses. It would make sense that whatever treatment is used in the time of DS9, it's very possible that there would be people for whom that is not an option, either due to choice or unique medical concerns.
11th Jun 2013
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
Corrected entry: Valeris informs the crew that her comrades will make sure to jam ship to ship transmissions, yet minutes later the Enterprise is able to contact the Excelsior. In addition, why wouldn't the Excelsior contact Khitomer to warn them of the impending assassination attempt? (01:27:40 - 01:30:35)
Correction: Valeris specifically says "ship to shore" not "ship to ship." Different communication protocols and hence one could be jammed without necessarily causing a problem with the other. And as to why Excelsior didn't contact anyone, that may or may not be an error. It would depend on how the ship to shore transmissions were being blocked. In order to block the Enterprise's communications at all without an active agent on the ship anymore would require blocking the transmission at the receiving end. In this case, they probably had communication to or from Khitomer blocked, since that is infinitely easier than blocking all communication in the whole quadrant. And if that's the case, Excelsior would be just as unable to warn Khitomer and stop the assassination as Enterprise was.
26th Jun 2013
Inception (2010)
Corrected entry: Cobb says that he can't see the faces of his children in his dreams because the last image he saw of them in real life was from behind. This doesn't make sense because his mind could easily reproduce their faces from his numerous memories of them. If his dreams were limited to the last image he ever saw, then everyone he dreams about should only be represented exactly the way he last saw them, which would mean Mal should look dead in all his dreams.
Correction: Ah, if only sub-conscious minds worked that predictably. There are no strict rules like that when dealing with our dreaming minds. In Cobb's case, he's simply plagued by guilt, hence his sub-conscious won't let go of Mal, constantly inserting her into his dream and torturing him with a lost love that he can't stop blaming himself for. But that same sub-conscious self torture won't let him see the faces of his kids because that would provide him a comfort that deep down he doesn't feel he deserves. There are rules for our sub-conscious selves, but they're not as cut and dried as you're trying to make them.
5th Jun 2013
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
Corrected entry: After the cloaked Bird of Prey attacks the U.S.S Excelsior, Chekov turns around and informs Kirk that "Excelsior's been hit," but it is not Chekov's voice or accent saying it. The accent sounds American.
17th May 2013
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Corrected entry: When searching for life-forms on Ceti Alpha 5, they only detect some minor signal, some proto-life that may be transplantable. They never explain how they did not detect Khan and his followers marooned on the planet.
Correction: Khan and his followers was exactly what they were detecting. They mention that it was a weak reading, because Khan and the other augments were practically the only life on the entire planet. They only speculated that it might be a particle of preanimate matter caught in the matrix, but that was only speculation. It was Khan and his crew the whole time.
22nd Apr 2013
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
Corrected entry: When Harry is about to jump in the lake, he places Hermione's wand at the edge of the hole in the ice. When he jumps in, the hole in the ice broadens. Based on the original placement of the wand, it would have fallen into the water, but Harry doesn't appear to retrieve it. He has the wand again when he and Ron return to their camping area.
Correction: The hole does not change size. That'd be very amazing if it did. What happens is much more boring. When Harry submerges into the frozen pond, he causes a wave of water to be pushed up and out onto the top of the ice. That's it. So if anything, Hermione's wand would have been pushed away from the hole by the flow of water.
20th Feb 2013
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
Corrected entry: In the beginning of the movie as Kirk flies around the Enterprise with his shuttle in spacedock 2 mistakes occur. First when the shuttle turns and starts flying towards the front of the ship, the shuttle flies partly inside the Enterprise hull, showing it's CGI. Second when we get to see Kirk from behind inside the shuttle, the shuttle is still behind the Enterprise, while in the previous shot it had gone past half of the lower part of the ship.
Correction: First off, CGI really wasn't used for films back in 1979 when this movie came out. Tron was the first serious use of the technology and that wasn't until 1982. (And Tron was shut out of consideration for the Academy Award for special effects because they were told that they "cheated".) But more to the mistake, I don't know what you're referring to here since it never even vaguely looked to me like they were flying inside the enterprise hull. As for the second point, it only looks like the shuttle pod has moved down half of the secondary hull because of the angle you're seeing it at. But considering the size of the shuttle pod, and the size it appears in that shot you have to assume it's closer to the camera than you may have initially assumed.
11th Feb 2013
The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)
Corrected entry: When Riddick drinks from the tea cup and places it down on the rock it has smooth edges. When Kira pulls the cup from the corpse the rim of the cup is very jagged.
9th Feb 2013
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Corrected entry: Towards the end of the movie where there are deep space shots of the planets, the spaceship and the sun, there is one shot where the sun is in the middle of several planetary objects. The objects closer to the viewer show crescent as they should due to the suns orientation to the planetary objects. On the far side of the sun however, the planetary objects also show crescent but shouldn't. They should show FULL or nearly full.
11th Feb 2013
Batman Begins (2005)
Corrected entry: Bruce Wayne's eyes as a young boy are brown. When he is older they are blue.
17th Aug 2012
Spider-Man 3 (2007)
Corrected entry: In the city's festival, Spiderman deliberately kisses Gwen Stacy. He knows Mary Jane, his all dream girlfriend, is watching, he just met her there. Why would he kiss her? Perhaps the emotion of the festival made him kiss her, all right, but that wouldn't explain why, in a later scene, Peter goes to the restaurant to propose to Mary Jane, and gets very surprised when she tells him that he's driving her away. Did he just forget he kissed another girl in front of him? Also, while Mary Jane is very upset, when she gets to the restaurant, he greets Peter happily, even though she started to cry when she saw Peter and Gwen kissing. What's wrong with everybody?
Correction: Peter has spent two movies up to this point trying to learn how to keep Peter Parker and Spider-Man as separate lives. It was the whole point of creating the Spider-Man persona. In his mind, the public Spider-Man face did nothing wrong. He just doesn't quite understand how hard it would be for MJ to not see it that same way.
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Correction: The Genesis wave forming was interfering with transporter lock, making this solution impossible.
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