Corrected entry: In the middle of the film when we see Jack and Will looking over their new crew members, Jack gets to Annamaria, and when the camera looks at the ship it's side on, yet when it cuts back for another view of the ship a few shots later, it's pointing in Jack's direction for a perfect camera shot of the Interceptor. (00:59:55)
Super Grover
Corrected entry: When Elizabeth is on her way to the Black Pearl, the first shot we see is from behind the captain, and if you watch this scene closely you don't see anyone entering the main part of the ship from the right, but when it cuts to Elizabeth there is already the bald pirate on the ship, and Elizabeth is climbing over. (00:36:20)
Correction: In the first shot, Elizabeth is still in the small boat between Pintel and Ragetti. As the next wide shot opens from bridge deck, the small boat is being hoisted by the pirates at starboard side down below and is still below deck rail, as the camera pans back behind Barbossa. In the next shot, the small boat is well above the rail as Ragetti and Elizabeth are at the top of the ladder and walk through the deck rail, while Pintel stands on deck. These three consecutive shots are deliberately cut to indicate time compression for the following: When the small boat pulls alongside the Black Pearl, Pintel, Ragetti and Elizabeth step out onto the ladder mounted on the Pearl's hull that leads to the deck. As they climb up, the boat is being hoisted up beside them, so that by the time they all reach the deck, the small boat hangs above them.
22nd Aug 2005
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Corrected entry: When Aunt May and Peter are talking, while she is packing up her things in her backyard, the cream-colored Oldsmobile can be seen in the garage. This is the same car that was stolen and totalled by the thief that killed Uncle Ben in Spider-Man. Even if the smashed up hulk of the car was retained by May Parker, her financial situation would never have allowed her to get it restored/rebuilt to the condition it is in. And no insurance company would have come close to repairing a car of that vintage. The car should not be there.
Correction: It is impossible to claim that the car "should not be there" when there are a variety of suitable explanations available. She could have indeed paid for the repairs herself for sentimental reasons, perhaps she used insurance money from Uncle Ben's death, or she sold something, or she did it with Peter's assistance, or the car insurance company may very well have paid for repairs. It is unnecessary to figure out how the car was repaired, it simply was. Also, as stated in trivia, the Oldsmobile is Sam Ramie's trademark.
Corrected entry: When Jack has just shot Barbossa, he uses both hands to rip open his vest, to see the blood spot begin to form on his chest. He says,"I feel...cold." and then falls to the ground. The next shot shows an apple falling from his hand. If he was just in a fight, and used both hands to rip open his vest, where did the apple come from?
Correction: When Barbossa walks into the cave at Isla de Muerta, as Pintel says to Will, "No reason to fret, just a prick of the finger," Barbossa tosses the green apple up into the air. They are about to perform the blood ritual with Will, so Barbossa, who we know favors apples, has one ready for the occasion. Later, after Jack shoots him, when Barbossa pulls his jacket open revealing the bloody wound, the camera pans up to his face for two close-ups (with a shot of Jack between), and as Barbossa realizes what has occurred, he reaches into his pocket for his prized apple - out of camera shot. So after he falls, the green apple dramatically slips out of his grip.
21st Aug 2005
Cocoon (1985)
Corrected entry: When the aliens take off their "human suits" in the pool house, the suits have eyes in them - they should have had empty eyeholes so that the Antareans could see while wearing their disguises.
Correction: Yes, the human outfits the Antareans wear have built in 'eyes', but we have no way of knowing what those 'eyes' are made of, or how they work, and we also don't know the extent of the powers and abilities of the aliens from Antarea.
14th Aug 2005
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Corrected entry: When we see Ginny lying in the chamber of secrets and again once she has awoken she has bare legs or flesh coloured tights on. However as they fly out of the chamber, Ginny is now wearing black tights.
Correction: Ginny does not wear flesh coloured tights while in the chamber, nor does she wear black tights on her way out. Ginny wears dark grey knee high socks both in the chamber and when she hangs onto Harry's waist as Fawkes carries them all out.
10th Aug 2005
Phone Booth (2002)
Corrected entry: Right after Stu got the pain-killer in the ambulance the paramedic did not tape a piece of cotton on the injection-hole. Any real paramedic would do that.
Correction: EMTs and paramedics are highly skilled technicians, who in the end use his or her own judgement with each patient in a crisis, and taping gauze or cotton to the syringe's point of entry is not crucial, so at best this is a character's decision.
8th Aug 2005
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Corrected entry: When Harry and Tom Riddle are talking right after Fawkes claws out the basilisks eyes Tom says "Your Phoenix may have blinded the basilisk but it can still hear you." But in reality snakes can't hear, and the basilisk is just a big snake.
Correction: The Basilisk is not "just a big snake" - far from it. This King of Serpents may live many hundreds of years, was born from a chicken's egg, and hatched beneath a toad. Anyone who looks into its eyes suffer instant death. I should think that if a Basilisk has the ability to hear, however it does, that should be the least of its believability factors.
7th Aug 2005
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
Corrected entry: When the Dursleys and Harry get back from the zoo, Uncle Vernon pushes Harry into the cupboard under the stairs. Vernon talks to Harry through the air vent and there is no cover on the front of the cupboard door to close over the air vent. Yet when Vernon says, "There's no such thing as magic" he closes a cover over the air vent. Where did it come from?
Correction: There is a knob at the center of the exterior vented brass plate, that is attached to an interior plate; the interior piece slides to cover the slats of the exterior vented plate. In the close-up of Harry, when Vernon closes the vent, if you look at the interior of the brass plate and its oval openings, the separate pieces are noticeable.
5th Aug 2005
Troy (2004)
Corrected entry: After Patroclus gets slashed in the throat by Hector there is a shot of him falling to the ground, and in this shot Glaucus is holding his shield in front of him. Then in the very next shot, Glaucus starts cheering, and the shield is on his side.
Correction: When Patroclus falls backwards, in this wide shot Glaucus holds his sword with his right hand and his shield is held with his left, in front of the left side of his body as the camera pans down to Patroclus hitting the ground. In the next close-up, Glaucus still holds the shield in front of the left side of his body, as he raises his sword with his right hand, the only difference being a soldier's arm is now pressed against Glaucus' shield - which the soldier was able to do as the camera pans down focusing on Patroclus.
Corrected entry: In the battle between the Interceptor and the Pearl, when Jack asks Elizabeth where the medallion is and she goes to hit him and says 'wretch.' when he grabs her wrist we see her nails. her nails are actually acrylic nails. you can tell because of the pink colour and the way the nail is shaped into the cuticle. The base of the nail is the pink acrylic and she has 'natural' coloured tips on.
Correction: Though many women have the acute ability to distinguish false nails from real ones, the fact is that in this situation there is nothing alarmingly discernable about Elizabeth's nails that would validate this. There is nothing telling in the way her nails are shaped, nor is there anything revealing about their color, on the nail plates, or free edges.
1st Aug 2005
ER (1994)
Corrected entry: Carol delivers one of the twins and then receives an epidural. Epidurals are not given when the actual delivery is near, and certainly not between delivering twins.
Correction: Absolutely false; many doctors prefer setting up the epidural before multiple births to avoid complications and lawsuits, though it can be done later; the epidural - which slows contractions, may be given later in delivery. Also, after one twin is born naturally an epidural may be given - under the right set of circumstances, before an emergency C-section of the second twin. This is the case with Carol Hathaway, who was already 10 cm and ready to push with the first, when she arrived at the ER.
1st Aug 2005
Lost (2004)
Corrected entry: Claire is very pregnant when the show starts. Women are not permitted to fly during their last trimester.
Correction: Tell that to my children, some of whom had their first experiences aboard an airplane, while I was in the last trimester of my pregnancies.
29th Jul 2005
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Corrected entry: In the Tower of Cirith Ungol, Gorbag is shoved down the entrance hole by Shagrat, causing the orc fights below, yet later we see that Gorbag, not Shagrat, is again in the room with Frodo, to be stabbed by Sam.
Correction: Yes, Gorbag is pushed down below and Shagrat bellows, "The scum tried to knife me, kill him," causing the melee which results in the other Orcs dying, except for the intended Gorbag; and in a lovely twist of irony it is Gorbag that returns up to the tower threatening Frodo, who Sam then kills.
11th Jul 2005
General Hospital (1963)
Corrected entry: During the 7/5/05 episode, Reese Marshall reveals to Ric that her real name is Charlotte Reese Roberts. Considering that "Reese" is trying to hide her identity from Carly, her childhood best friend, why would she use her given middle name as her new name? Surely, Carly would know the middle name of her former best friend. And, since Carly is already suspicious that Reese is hiding something, Carly should have been able to figure out who "Reese" really is.
Correction: Carly may be suspicious of Reese Marshall, but there is nothing substantial to connect Reese to her high school best friend, Charlotte Roberts, who Carly thinks died years ago in a traffic accident that she herself witnessed. Reese is unrecognizable these days because of reconstructive surgery. Carly and Reese may have been best friends in high school, but it certainly does not mean that she would have known Charlotte Roberts' middle name was Reese, if Charlotte never mentioned it. And even if Carly knew Reese's middle name all those years ago, it still does not mean that Carly would actually remember the name or even make the bizarre connection. Yet.
21st Mar 2002
Jaws (1975)
Corrected entry: In the scene towards the end of the film, when they are trying to outrun the shark back to land (when Quint says something like: we'll get him in the shallows and drown him) you see a shot from the rear of the boat, and in the distance you can clearly see the shore line. But after that point in the movie, you never see the shore, even when they are swimming back at the very end.
Correction: In many shots land is visible at the horizon, in the distance, as well as in the shot when Brody and Hooper are using the barrels to assist their swim back to shore.
Correction: Just watched it again, and yes, when Hooper and Brody are swimming in at the end of the movie, you do see the land. Look at the very right upper side of the screen.
15th Jan 2003
Jaws (1975)
Corrected entry: In the middle of the fight with the shark at sea, Quint tells Hooper 'full ahead', then Brody repeats the command but says 'slow ahead' twice.
30th Apr 2003
Jaws (1975)
Corrected entry: At the end of the movie when the shark explodes and we see it sinking to the bottom of the ocean, the ropes connecting the dorsal and the tail fins are visible (broken). You can see the same thing in the shot where the shark jumps up onto the Orca.
Correction: The lines that are visible, both when the shark leaps onto Orca and then when bits of it sink, are the lines connected to the harpoons on both sides of its dorsal fin.
26th Aug 2003
Jaws (1975)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Bruce (the Shark) rams the cage, you can see Hooper with blood coming from a small wound (it is his, I've checked). after a bit of this he swims to the bottom of the ocean. His wound may have stopped bleeding, but couldn't have healed so fast and the shark would have caught his blood trail instantly.
29th Apr 2003
Jaws (1975)
Corrected entry: Hooper purposely holds the shark gun outside the cage so he'll lose it when Bruce hits the cage in the next shot.
Correction: The fact that Hooper, holds the poison shark dart with his hand between the cage bars is not a film mistake, not even a deliberate one. Within the storyline this occurrence is reasonable and perfectly plausible. Hooper, who is very nervous and extremely anxious, stands ready to strike at the shark, specifically in its mouth, as he watches the shark swim off to his left. After pulling off the cork he readies the dart gun again as he looks around for the shark, but is quickly startled by its sudden thrust on the cage, behind him, causing him to lose his grip of the shark dart as he falls back.
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Correction: When Jack begins to inspect their able-bodied crew in Tortuga, Interceptor is moored in the distance, on open choppy waters, and it visibly moves on the water. As Anamaria says, "I will!" the ship is seen, and four shots later when Interceptor is seen again, it is only a bit turned starboard as it bounces on the choppy waters in the following shots - it is certainly not "pointing in Jack's direction."
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