The Day the Earth Stood Still

When Klaatu is standing in the interrogation room after putting on the suit, the interrogator's right hand is still on the machine.

In the next shot, his hand is on his leg.

Klaatu was bleeding from the wound on the right side of his chest, yet when he smeared the wound with medicine, it was on the left side.

The first time, Klaatu was looking in a mirror.

When Klaatu is walking in the train station, the "VIA Rail" signs make it clear he is in Canada.

Vladimir Putin appears in the global reaction videos, yet he had left office by then.

He is still the Prime Minister and de facto ruler of Russia, so Putin making official statements about an international crisis is believable.

The colonel commands the controllers of the MQ-9 Reaper to fire their Sidewinder air-to-air missiles at the robot.

The Reaper carries only GBU-12 Paveway II or AGM-114 Hellfire II air-to-ground missiles.

No British news service would use the British flag as its banner.

The British flag is not widely flown within the country.

It's never shown on television; stations feel that viewers already know which country they're in.

The MQ-9 Reaper is powered by a turboprop engine, not the jet engine shown in the film.

When the mother ship lands in the park, the shadows of approaching people shrink.

One would expect they should lengthen, since the light is descending.

However, if the light is coming from within the sphere, and it is approaching people not from directly above, but horizontally, shadows would appear to shrink.

Klaatu's business suit doesn't completely disintegrate in the storm.

However, careful viewing shows that it does start to fall apart as he approaches the sphere.

(at around 1h 08 mins) When the television speaker announces the latest news that there was riots in "London, Chicago, and many cities in China", on the screen you can see some vandals breaking stores, police on horses, and the third video is not from listed cities, but from Belgrade (Serbia).

They used a historical event which occurred on 5th October 2000, when 500,000 demonstrators set the Parliament building on fire.

On that day, Slobodan Milosevic was overthrown from power.

In the beginning of the movie, when Helen Benson walks into the room of her son, in the background on a shelf you can see an action figure resembling a karate fighter due to its white outfit.

However, when Helen leaves the room again, the figure is gone.

It is replaced by an entirely different action figure.

- PLOTAlthough aware of multiple smaller spheres landing elsewhere on Earth, none of their potential landing sites appear to have been investigated or guarded.

- PLOTIf just a dab of the placenta material can heal Klaatu's cut, then when he was initially shot, he should have been fine since he was covered in pounds of the "magically healing" placenta material.

The robot figure intercepts the MQ-9 Reapers and flies them into what is depicted as a M1 Abrams Main battle tank.

The destruction depicted could not have happened, even with the missile warheads on-board.

The M1 variant tanks have taken hits from "explosive" tank rounds in combat with only minimal damage to their advanced armor composites.

During the car chase scene the clip is mirrored - the drivers are on the wrong side of the car and the license plates are reversed.

Even though it is 2008, Klaatu's ship, being identified as "object 07/493" and "discovered just beyond Jupiter's orbit" could have been discovered in 2007 because, as Michael said, "At first, it was projected to pass millions of miles out of Earth's orbit.

" As the helicopter lands to unload the scientists including Dr.

Helen Benson (Jennifer Connelly) in Central Park, the rotors don't seem to be creating any down-wash as evidenced by the dead leaves on the ground.

They're completely motionless around the helicopter.

When Helen follows Klaatu into the forest, she leaves Jacob in the car, telling him to lock the door.

As instructed, Jacob locks the door.

Problem is, the car has 3 other doors which he does not lock.

However most modern (post-1980s) cars have a feature called "central locking".

At a minimum, all the doors are locked/unlocked if the driver's side lock is operated.

- PLOTWhen the Alien object is approaching Earth, it's known not to be in free fall.

Yet they pinpoint exactly where the object will land.

The sphere in Central Park is bright and glowing, yet it doesn't seem to be reflected in the windshields of the vehicles on the site of the landing.

During the car ride with Jacob in the rear seat, he is shown buckled-up on the driver's side of the car and in the next shot, he is suddenly on the passenger's side (buckled-up as well).

When Helen and Jacob are in the cemetery, the scene from behind Jacob shows Helen's hand on his shoulder, the next scene from behind Helen shows her hand on his upper arm.

The scene switches back and forth several time and as it does, her hand goes from shoulder to upper arm and back to shoulder again.

As soon as it was discovered that the object was not following a gravitational freefall trajectory, it would have been known to not be a natural object.

However, the make-up of the science team that's been assembled (including a civil engineer) suggests that the plan is more for dealing with First Contact than physical aftermath of an impact, suggesting that they are quite aware the object is Alien rather than natural.

After all, if the scientists had been gathered only to deal with the aftermath, then they would have been gathered at a location a safe distance from the predicted landing site.

When the film showed the shot of London where everything had stopped.

The red bus that was shown has not been in service since the early 90's.

The surgeon is seen talking with his mask off just before beginning the procedure.

A surgeon would have had his mask in place before approaching the operating table.

Sidewinder missiles are fired at GORT while in robot form and in insect form.

Sidewinders are heat seeking missiles, targeting objects on the thermal scale of jet engines.

There is no suggestion that GORT is emitting a heat signature on that scale in either of his forms.

When Klaatu, Helen, and Jacob leave Professor Barnhardt's house, Klaatu asks to be driven to a location where he can retrieve one of the smaller spheres.

They travel to "Highlands, New Jersey", stop in a forest, and Klaatu raises the sphere out of a swamp.

Highlands, New Jersey is a sandy, beach-front community in northeast Monmouth County, right on Raritan Bay.

It has no forests, and no swamps.

However, the Highland region of New Jersey is a mountainous region west of New York City, encompassing parts of Passaic, Sussex, Warren, Morris, Somerset and Hunterdon counties.

The region is heavily forested and it is likely this is the location/region being described in the film.

As Dr.

Benson arrives at the facility, a soldier is depicted carrying a.

50caliber MG on his shoulder, up a small incline.

Although possible, it is unrealistic due to the extreme weight (85lbs) with the barrel inserted.

Under normal operations, the barrel is inserted only after emplacement/mounting of the weapon system.

However, the.

50 cal.

machinegun is regularly carried as shown, but rarely for long distances (and, for a fit person 85 lbs.

is not an "extreme weight").

While Klaatu is first emerging from the orb and many people are shielding their eyes from the very bright light, none of them are seen with a shadow falling across their eyes.

When Klaatu is in the car healing the incision on his chest, Helen watches in amazement.

The incision was on his left side and he pulled his shirt and jacket to the left in order to apply the placental balm.

With Helen driving, sitting on his left, there was no way possible for her to watch any of this.