Corrected entry: When Reed repairs the cash machine in the foreign country, he has nearly a week of stubble, or close to that. When he gets back home, he's clean shaven.
Bishop73
23rd Jan 2017
Fantastic Four (2015)
9th Jul 2011
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Corrected entry: In the airplane before jumping, Major Reisman is asked, "How much longer?" He gets up to ask the pilot and he is not wearing a parachute, although everyone else is already suited up. They jump from the plane seconds later. (01:45:00)
Correction: And we never see the Major talking to the "driver." When the pilot gives the ready light, it's the next scene, and we don't know how much time has past, not a continuous shot. We also see only half jump and then seconds later they're all on the ground talking. They simply skipped showing the Major gearing up before the jump.
19th Sep 2007
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Continuity mistake: In the wargames scene, right after the group comes down the hill with the live artillery fire, they change arm bands from blue to red. In the next scene when they pick up the stolen jeep, everyone is wearing blue arm bands again (when they went over the hill, they were in red territory so would not have changed back to blue while walking to meet the jeep). Then when they crash the jeep, they are back in the red arm bands for the remainder of the scene.
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Suggested correction: The road they were on was not in red territory, which is why everyone in the jeep was also in blue. That's why Joseph was asked what he was doing on the road and the doctor in the ambulance said he had permission to cross all lines and roadblocks.
11th Dec 2017
Men in Black II (2002)
Continuity mistake: When they land on the roof of the launch site, Jay gets out of the passenger side, even though he and Kay switched spots after which Jay was driving/flying.
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11th Dec 2017
Destroy All Humans
Corrected entry: The game takes place around 1957. However, the drive-in is showing Plan 9 from Outer Space, which didn't come out until 1959.
7th Dec 2017
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
Corrected entry: When Caesar tries to throw the grenade, he takes out the pin, then he gets the arrow in his chest. The grenade touches the ground but doesn't explode, he takes it again and throws it at the fuel tank, and now it does explode.
Correction: The grenade that he threw isn't an impact grenade and wouldn't go off just because it hit the ground. And pulling the pin doesn't activate the detonator either. Once the striker lever is released the percussion cap is struck, activating a chemical delay (or fuse). The delay on average is 2-6 seconds, but it could be longer depending on how it was made.
30th Nov 2017
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
Corrected entry: When Cousin Eddie barges into the house with Clark's boss, Ellen jokingly tells him this is the family's first kidnapping, which is actually wrong. In National Lampoon's Vacation (1983), Clark holds the security guard at Walley World hostage, and forces him to take the family on the rides.
Correction: First, that was the joke. And Ellen wouldn't admit that the family has a history of kidnapping people and would lie.
25th Apr 2007
Kyle XY (2006)
Factual error: In the episode where Kyle, Lori, and Josh first go to the pool together, Kyle jumps off the diving board, but he's only in the water for about three seconds before he sees Amanda, who is already swimming toward him. This means that he was in the water for just a second or two before she jumped in. That isn't enough time for anyone to appear to be drowning, especially to a trained lifeguard like Amanda.
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Suggested correction: First, at least 10 seconds pass before Amanda jumps in, not 1-3 seconds. But that doesn't mean only 10 seconds passed in the show. But additionally, Amanda already knows Kyle has memory loss and could be thinking Kyle forgot how to swim or forgot that he can't swim. So she goes to get him.
9th Dec 2015
Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)
Corrected entry: During filming, John's sandwich board originally read "I HATE EVERY BODY" - the racial epithet was added in post production. The original text can be glimpsed several times during the scene, such as when Zeus is pointing a gun at the street gang.
Correction: During filming the sandwich board was left entirely blank and "I hate n*****s" was added in. "I hate everybody" was also added in for television or edited release. So this seems to be a mistake from the broadcasters, not the film.
3rd Jan 2003
Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)
Corrected entry: When Zeus goes to Yankee Stadium, the terrorists tell him to report to the home-team dugout. Yet when Zeus goes to Yankee Stadium, he is shown at the dugout along the third-base line, which any Yankee fan knows is the visitor's dugout. Given he knew which dugout he was meant to go to, and the importance of the situation, this can't just be a character mistake.
29th Nov 2017
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Corrected entry: At the football game the player who runs with the ball has the last name "Ward", a small reference to Burt ward who played Robin in the 60's TV series.
Correction: This is too much of a stretch since the person is real-life Steelers player Hines Ward and not a made up name. Many Steelers players are involved in the entire scene since it takes places at Heinz Field, where the Steelers play. Ward was extremely popular and considered by many one of the top 10 Steelers player of all time.
12th Sep 2012
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Corrected entry: This is the only James Bond film in which M's first name, Miles, is said. In the books, his name was said to be Admiral Sir Miles Messervy, in the novel "The Man with the Golden Gun".
Correction: I never heard M called Miles in "A View to Kill", I even checked transcripts of the film to see if "Miles" is ever said. Additionally, in "A View to Kill", M was played by Robert Brown, not Bernard Lee and Robert Brown played Admiral Hargreaves in "The Spy Who Loved Me." We know Judi Dench's M is not Miles, but a different character and M is also a title that's given. So the theory is is that Admiral Hargreaves became the new M, and thus wouldn't be addressed as Miles.
Correction: Gogol says, "After you, Miles" when M gestures to him to go before him in the scene where they walk across the catwalk in Q's laboratory. M politely offers him to go first by saying "After you, Alexis" but Gogol replies "No, no, no after YOU Miles." This was done to show how the two heads of the respective rival agencies have put their differences aside.
Correction: General Gogol, M's Russian counterpart, is introduced in this film. In later films, he and M are on a first-name basis, and he calls him "Miles," at least once that I can immediately recall, in "A View To A Kill."
7th Nov 2017
Flubber (1997)
Corrected entry: Jumping as high as you want, and making someone bounce on a wall, or solid floor is not possible. Energy cannot be created, or destroyed. A basketball doesn't bounce because pressurized air inside creates kinetic energy, it bounces because the pressurized air inside converts more potential energy into kinetic energy. While energy can be converted, it cannot be created or destroyed.
Correction: The movie never implies they're creating energy. Philip is looking to create a new energy source. If we suspend our disbelief that Philip was able to animate a completely inanimate substance, we can accept that liquid flubber converts energy at a spectacular rate. It could be a combination of chemical energy and stored energy, that is, the substance itself compresses like a spring.
7th Nov 2017
Escape Plan (2013)
Corrected entry: When Ray makes his escape from Bendwater at the beginning of the movie, the prison was supposed to be on total lockdown. This means no vehicles would have been allowed to enter or leave, and yet Ray's escape car is magically able to drive right out the front gate, no questions asked.
Correction: The car explosion was outside the main gate and Ray escaped the main gates by dressing as a fireman. The getaway car was also outside the main gate and when they drove off, there was no front gate to exit.
2nd Nov 2017
Dredd (2012)
Corrected entry: When Ma-Ma decides to call in the crooked judges, a shot of all 4 on their bikes is shown. Three of them have very obvious black and red helmets but the one closest to camera is completely black. However when they walk up to Peach Trees, all helmets are identical.
Correction: It's not completely black. You can see throughout the scenes with Judge Lex that the left side of his helmet is faded and the red is not as sharp and partly worn away. The right side has more visible red to it and we see his right side at the gate. But, on the motorcycle, we see the faded left side, only in the dark so it may appear all black, but it's not.
7th Sep 2014
Dredd (2012)
Corrected entry: In the scene where the judge asks Ma-Ma who the problem judge is, she replied that she did not know. Judge Dredd had announced his name to the entire building over intercom not too long before that time. (01:01:10 - 01:06:05)
Correction: Judge Lex does not ask Ma-Ma who the problem judge is, he knows it's Judge Dredd. He says it'll cost her a million credits and she questions this (she says "one million?") He is basically asking her do you know who Judge Dredd is and she says no, she does not know his reputation or what kind of judge he is, nor the extent of her problem. His reply is he does know who Judge Dredd is and that's why it's going to cost her one million credits.
1st Nov 2017
Bronco Billy (1980)
Plot hole: Antoinette Lilly makes headlines as being murdered and her husband is charged and sent to a criminal asylum...despite the fact that no body has been found and no one has even bothered to go to the hotel or town she was last at to investigate whether or not she's alive or dead. Not believable.
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Suggested correction: John was framed by Antoinette's step-mother (who stood to gain Antoinette's inheritance). People have been arrested for murder without a body being discovered first though. Additionally, we find out that the lawyer who helped framed John also paid him to confess to the crime and admitted to being mentally unstable. So nobody was even trying to look for Antoinette.
31st Oct 2017
Gotham (2014)
Corrected entry: When Bruce erects his pile of stones in the forest for his parents, one has the initials TW for Thomas Wayne, but instead of the other bearing the initials MW for Martha Wayne, it shows BW, as in Bruce Wayne. (00:23:30)
Correction: The pile of stones were not for his parents, nor was it a pile made that day. The hike was a tradition of Thomas and Bruce and during their hike they would collect a rock to add to their pile. So it's Bruce's pile and Thomas' pile. The size of the pile indicated how many times they went on the hike together. The scene is meant to convey Bruce's loneliness and loss. This is why Alfred does not go with Bruce (because it was only a hike he and his father took) and this is why after Bruce picked up the first stone, he pauses before picking up a second stone. The first stone was for his pile and he latter decides to pick up one for his father. Bruce's anger over the loss of his father is seen in his tantrum when he starts to throw the stones from the piles.
31st Oct 2017
The Babe (1992)
Other mistake: Early on, the Babe is seen showing up late at a game in Boston, staggering hung-over to the plate, and hitting a home run. But this was a home game; it would have been the bottom of the first, and if Ruth hadn't been there by game time, some other player would already be playing in his place.
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Suggested correction: By the time Babe Ruth played, substitutions were allowed at anytime. Thus, when Ruth showed up late and batted in the bottom of the 1st, he became a substitution for whomever was playing his position during the top of the 1st.
The manager tells the guy who is about to go up to bat to sit down because Babe's here. So Ruth would be pinch-hitting.
7th Jul 2013
The Lone Ranger (2013)
Corrected entry: The opening scene takes place in 1933 and shows a young boy in a cowboy outfit looking at dioramas in a Wild West exhibit at a carnival. In the background, "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" is playing. While the song was written by Bob Nolan in 1932, it wasn't released until 1934.
Correction: This is not entirely correct. Pioneer Trio (which included Bob Nolan) was hired in 1933 as staff singers for radio station kfwb where they sung the song "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" (initially "Tumbling Leaves") during some of their radio appearances. It then became their theme song when they were given their own radio show. It wasn't until May 1934 that Sunset Music purchased the copyrights to the song that the song was published, but it was on the radio before that.
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Correction: After watching this scene, Reed (who has contorted his face to disguise himself at the register) does not have stubble, and certainly not a week's worth. There are shadows that may look like stubble, but then we watch him change back to his regular face in the car, and any growth remains the same.
Bishop73
I don't buy it. Reed's facial hair repeatedly disappears/reappears during the movie. It is due to the movie re-shoots. It is even mentioned on Wikipedia.
Regardless of mistakes in other scenes, this particular scene shows no evidence of a mistake.
Bishop73