Corrected entry: When Ellie goes into the pod and the door closes, the seam magically disappears while she's watching it. The pod was made of manmade materials and therefore, the seam should not magically disappear, and when it does disappear, she just blows it off like it's no big deal. Being a scientist, she should be freaking out or at least have mentioned it to mission control.
MovieFan612
1st Aug 2010
Contact (1997)
8th Jan 2005
Secret Window (2004)
Corrected entry: The status bar of the MS Word document which can be seen on Mort Rainey's laptop is changing. Shortly before John Shooter arrives for the first time, the status-bar reads "Four days.", in the next scene at the laptop it reads "I have to talk to you". The rest of the document is exactly the same, even the cursor position is unchanged.
Correction: The first status bar title "Four days" is an automatic "saved" file name (based on the first words of the document. When we next see him, he's been laboring over the paragraph for some time. The change in the title of the document on the status bar just reflects that Mort saved it at some point between first working on it and when we next see him.
16th Jan 2006
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
Corrected entry: How could Arnie get from the top of the tree, to the water tower in such a short period of time?
Correction: You are assuming it's a "short period of time" but you can tell by the daylight changes that a significant amount of time has passed. Gilbert and Becky were simply lost in their conversation and it's perfectly conceivable that Arnie could have wandered away and climbed the water tower.
13th Jun 2010
Shutter Island (2010)
Corrected entry: Edward has several flashbacks to being one of the soldiers who liberated Dachau. Many of these show piles of bodies encased in ice and heavy falling snow. Dachau was liberated on April 29th, 1945. Snow would have been a possibility, but photos taken at the time show no ice or snow and certainly no heaps of ice-covered bodies.
Correction: By all historical accounts, the pre-dawn liberation of Dachau took place during a late spring snowstorm, and additional troops arriving in the morning also reported a fresh blanket of snow, so the depiction of snow at Dachau is not a mistake.
13th Jun 2010
Shutter Island (2010)
Corrected entry: When Edward meets with Rachel in the cave, she talks about "Sodium Amytal, an opium-derived sedative". Sodium Amytal is a barbiturate which has no chemical relation to opium.
Correction: Because Dr. Rachel is a figment of Teddy's psychosis, this isn't really a mistake, as it just means that Teddy's doesn't have the most up-to-date info on the newest drugs.
29th May 2010
Avatar (2009)
Corrected entry: At various times in the film, Jake makes video logs. His 1st is dated May 19th, at approx. 17:09, his 12th is dated May 30th, at approx. 21:32, and his last (98th) is dated August 24th at 19:10. All in the year 2154. At no point in the film are we made aware of the lenghth of Pandoran days and/or nights. Pandora orbits a gas giant, Polyphemus, along with other moons, and Polyphemus orbits the sun, Alpha Centauri A. It's therefore highly unlikely that a Pandoran day (including the night) will be anywhere close to 24hours, which will subsequently affect the lengths of Pandoran weeks, months, years etc. Even if "earth-like" time, days and months were imposed to try and keep a sense of nomality it would never work.
Correction: Just because they are working on Pandora, doesn't mean they have to adopt the Pandoran calendar and time measurements. They are only "visitors" so they would keep in time with their own time/calendar system and report back to Earth using these measurements. There's no reason why they would have to keep time with Pandora's system.
11th May 2010
Over the Hedge (2006)
Corrected entry: Near the end of the movie, when the Verminator truck slams into the house, from the outside it lands right side up, but from the inside it has landed upside down. (01:09:00)
Correction: The van is spiralling even as it lands on the house so it would've continued its spiral and landed upside down.
11th May 2010
Open Season (2006)
Corrected entry: After Shaw returns to his home after the flood, he lights his fire and tries to look tough by lighting the match off his face. However, he had just been soaked by the flood and drenched with rain, so his face should be wet.
Correction: He had time to wipe his face, which he does even as he opens the fridge door. Also, he lights the match with friction from his whiskers.
11th May 2010
The Blind Side (2009)
Corrected entry: The setting for the movie is Mississippi. At the beginning, as Michael Oher's character is being driven to another school, you'll notice that there is a real estate sign as the shot shows him looking out the window. The real estate sign had a 770 area code. That area code is in Georgia, not Mississippi.
Correction: Actually, the movie is set in Memphis, Tennessee, NOT Mississippi. Additionally, sometimes realtors list properties outside of their local area so that sign in itself isn't a mistake.
3rd May 2010
Open Season (2006)
Corrected entry: There is no way Elliot could have gotten his head into the candy machine at the store.
Correction: This has already been noted and corrected.
1st Apr 2010
Cars (2006)
Corrected entry: When Lightning is talking to Sally after helping the town, you can see that the sky is still moderately light, and the sun is setting. Then Red activates the town's neon signs, and it gets completely dark instantly.
Correction: You've obviously never witnessed a desert sunset. Once the sun drops behind the buttes/horizon, darkness descends very quickly, seemingly instantaneously. When Mater turns on the neon lights, it makes the sky in the background appear even darker, instantly.
True, and the light may have contributed to this. At night when you turn a light on, look what happens. It will be moderately light but the moment the light turns on, it becomes almost black.
18th Apr 2010
Cast Away (2000)
Corrected entry: Near the end of the movie, Kelly says that Chuck's island was about 600 miles south of the Cook Islands, but there isn't anything south of the Cook Islands besides Antarctica.
Correction: THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT! He was on an uncharted island for FOUR YEARS. We've pretty much charted the entire globe by now. It's a fictional island.
2nd Apr 2010
Open Season (2006)
Corrected entry: Buddy's lifestyle indicates him being a species of ground porcupine, of which no species exist in the new world.
Correction: "New World" as in the United States? There are 8 species of porcupines indigenous to the North American continent.
3rd Apr 2010
My Sister's Keeper (2009)
Corrected entry: Near the end when the lawyer gives Kate the paperwork for her legal victory he leaves driving a car. In California, where the story takes place, epileptics can't get a drivers license.
Correction: The lawyer goes to great pains to prevent others from knowing about his epilepsy. He's apparently very vain about the condition. It's highly likely he didn't report the condition to the DMV.
Corrected entry: The quick cuts between scenes in the Air and Space museum, the White House, and the Lincoln memorial imply that they are adjacent. However the White House is 1 mile away and the Lincoln Memorial is over 1.6 miles away.
Correction: This isn't a mistake. The filmmakers simply chose not to show Larry and Amelia running in the dark between the locations. There really isn't any implied suggestion that these landmarks are adjacent.
Corrected entry: During the credits a kid named Joey Motorola is seen reverse engineering a cell phone from Larry's phone. Although one of the founding brothers of Motorola was named Joseph, their last name was Galvin, Motorola was the product name. Also, the Galvins were from Chicago, not New York as the film implies.
Correction: When Joey Motorola is seen with the cellphone, it's a wink and a nod to the change in technology. It's not meant to be historically accurate. It's the filmmakers' prerogative.
Correction: Whether or not it be a nod to the creation of Motorola, even the name itself was shoehorned in, as Motorola got its name from the portmanteau of "Motorcar" and "Victrola", a popular radio model at the time.
2nd Mar 2010
Toy Story 2 (1999)
Corrected entry: In Al's office, there is an abstracted version of a shot from A Bug's Life. The shot was reportedly abstracted to prevent people from identifying the shot until they got the video version and looked hard at it.
Correction: This is too vague. I have watched every scene in Al's office and living area, frame by frame, and I see no such sketch. Is it in the office where he faxes the photos to Japan? Is it in the office where he stores the collection and naps on the sofa?
The submitter is probably referring to where he keeps the collection. You can see it when Al wakes up. If you look carefully you can see the characters from A Bug's Life, Dot standing out among the others.
25th Apr 2005
The Green Mile (1999)
Corrected entry: When the Indian inmate (first one executed) is in the electric chair, after they've hooked him up and before they begin the electrocution they show him up close with the black hood on breathing hard. You can see that he already has the markings and blood on his forehead from the electrocution before they even begin electrocuting him.
Correction: You are seeing shadows from the hood being pulled down. It makes absolutely no sense to use makeup during this scene when we don't see his body and the effects of the botched execution until the next scene.
27th Mar 2007
The Green Mile (1999)
Corrected entry: When the guards are fighting to get control of "Wild Bill," Edgecomb gets kneed in the groin. If you watch closely, you'll see that Wild Bill's knee actually hits Edgecomb on his left thigh/buttocks area.
Correction: The whole point was that Wild Bill struck Paul in the area of his urinary tract infection, i.e., the bladder and that area. This is accomplished with the way Bill struck Paul in this scene.
19th Sep 2004
The Green Mile (1999)
Corrected entry: When Paul Edgecomb is in the cell with new arrival John Coffey, there is a definite blue square behind Paul. Later when the camera angle is changed, it disappears and only the brick wall is there. (00:14:45 - 00:15:45)
Correction: That "blue square" is a shelf - it's visible throughout the entire movie, depending upon the camera angle.
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Correction: The 'pod' was constructed using instructions from an alien life form. It is entirely plausible, especially given what happens during the remainder of her journey, that the seam is just the first of a series unknown physics occurrences formerly unknown to humans.
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