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(Not) A Goof, Part 2

While I had a recent bunch of goofs corrected recently, I also had a bunch that were declined.

From Predator 2, which I tried to correct twice:

Towards the end of the film, when Lt Harrigan is in the Predator space ship, he sees the various "trophies" on the wall, one of which is an "Alien skull" (xenomorph), as if a human based skull (white bone), when in fact Aliens are/were a species that utilized an exoskeleton, much like insects, having no bones, but an armor like exterior that was grey/silver/Black.

NOTE: The Xenomorph was designed with a human-like skull visible in its translucent dome (and it is partially visible in the first movie). And later supplementary material says they have a "mesoskeleton," a hybrid of an endoskeleton and exoskeleton. It's not a goof, just following a bit of lore.

From The Substance:

Snow is shown falling on Elisabeth's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The film is set in 2022 (as shown by the May 2022 calendar at about 45 mins), so Elisabeth was born in 1972, 10 years after Los Angeles had its last snowfall.

NOTE: Another entry, under Incorrectly Regarded as Goofs, touches on the same subject: "While the presence of snow in California where the star of Walk of Fame is located may seem unlikely, this appears to be a hallucination of Elisabeth as she lies dying." Furthermore, what's falling in the scene isn't snow, but sparkles, and the screenplay practically confirms it: "Gold confetti starts to fall from the sky upon her like a golden rain shower..."

From Predator

Anna's thick Hispanic accent has her saying, "...the demon who makes stroffers of men," which makes no sense. It is correctly interpreted by the closed captions as, "...the demon who makes trophies of men."

NOTE: It actually sounds like she's saying "the demon who make...s (note a pause between syllables) trophies of men." But more importantly, a mispronunciation by someone whose first language isn't English (Elpidia Carrillo is Mexican) isn't really a goof.

Two from Shazam:

The wizard imbues Billy with several superhuman powers, yet Shazam clearly lacks some of them at certain times. For example, Shazam is clearly lacking the "courage of Achilles" when he first encounters Dr. Sivana and wants to run from him rather than fight him.

NOTE: As evidenced by the training montage, Billy is not an instant expert who automatically knows how to use his powers. Further case in point: he only learned how to fly just before Sivana found him.

Billy spends a good deal of the movie slowly discovering his abilities and learning to use them competently, yet when he shares his powers with his siblings, they all display mastery of them instantly, so much so that they are able to successfully engage and defeat the seven sins in combat.

NOTE: It's quite likely they learned from watching him (especially Freddy, who helped train him).

Two from Robocop:

For some reason, for a demonstration Dick chooses to load his ED 209 unit with live ammunition instead of blanks.

NOTE: As another entry on Incorrectly Regarded as Goofs says, "Also, Dick Jones and the Old Man notwithstanding, the safety of anyone in the room is clearly a Who Cares element." OCP has no interest in maintaining safety protocols; Jones even says, after the failure, "who cares if it worked or not?"

Dick Jones gets upset with Boddicker for confessing to Robocop and says that recorded confession can be used as admissible evidence. But, Jones has no concern about himself confessing to Robocop about his involvement with the murder of Bob Morton, which was also recorded.

NOTE: Since he just summoned ED-209 to the scene, Jones may have counted on the robot (or the Detroit PD in the garage) to finish off Robocop. It's an act of movie villain hubris.

Any way to rephrase my submissions to make sure they're accepted next time? Especially the Predator 2 example? Am I missing the point on some of these, and they truly are goofs?

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