Corrected entry: When Rika hands Rudd his morning faxes they are not faxes but printed sheets folded in the middle. Plus, in those days faxes would have been thermo printed and shown a tendency to roll up, since, as she said, they had just arrived in the morning. (00:48:00)
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9th May 2004
Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)
19th Apr 2004
Chino (1973)
Factual error: Jamie unloads rectangular, machine-tied, modern-day straw bales from his cart. (00:41:00)
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Suggested correction: This type of hay balers have been in use since the 1850's. There's nothing "modern" about them.
10th Nov 2014
Now You See Me (2013)
Corrected entry: During the Las Vegas show the Frenchman is asked to sign his name on a card. This card is shown two more times and neither looks like the first signature.
Correction: That's how the trick is done in real life, the magician doesn't use the same card he had the spectator sign. In the film, they've been following the Frenchman and knows how he signs things. Then they forge his signature on a card and use that card during the trick. And it's not hard for a magician to "force" a spectator to pick a specific card, which is what's done in the film. You see this type of trick on shows like America's Got Talent where the magician has a judge sign a card but then he uses a different card and you can see the signatures don't match.
28th Oct 2017
Suburbicon (2017)
Corrected entry: The insurance detective uses "air quotes." Not in 1959.
Correction: While the term may not have been popularized until the 1980's, the use of "air quotes" goes back to at least 1927 where a magazine article wrote about a woman who would use her fingers to make quotation marks while speaking.
12th Jan 2004
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Corrected entry: In the final act, when the T1000 falls into the molten steel, he sinks and thrashes around rather like a human in water. However, molten steel has a density of around 8 g/cc - about 10 times that of a human, which means T-1000 must weigh about 1600 lb / 700 kg, and is therefore too heavy to do many things we've seen: ride a Kawasaki KZ1000P (up a flight of stairs) without collapsing the frame and blowing out the tires; be dragged by hooks in the lid of a car trunk without peeling the lid like a can opener or ripping off the trunk lid; jump onto the back of a car without collapsing its suspension; operate a helicopter in level flight from either pilot's seat. If he's light enough to do those things he'd basically sit on the surface of the molten steel and fry. Either way there's a mistake somewhere... (02:22:15)
Correction: You're confusing weight with density. If a denser metal (such as mercury) was put into molten steel, it would sink, no matter how much it weighed. Mass (a better term to describe weight) equals density * volume. However, we don't know how much (the volume) of the futuristic, unknown metal was used to create the T-1000, or what its density is so we don't know how much the T-1000 weighs, but we know he's denser than steel.
27th Oct 2017
Universal Soldier: The Return (1999)
Deliberate mistake: If this movie takes place 7 years after the original, how could his daughter be 13? He was part of a government project, I doubt they let them leave for relationships.
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Suggested correction: This is a retconned film made after 2 other direct-to-video Universal Soldier movies were made. While the film is considered non-canon in the series, in the film itself, the facts of the original are altered to allow Luc to have a daughter.
Exactly. If this movie changes things that happened in previous films than they don't make sense in context to the series, that's a mistake.
Essential the film can be considered the same as a reboot. Reboots and remakes can alter characters without being considered mistakes because they're not actually part of the film series, just like "Universal Soldier: The Return" is not part of the Universal Soldier film series. However, changes to characters in retconned films, shows, or books, by definition, are not mistakes.
27th Oct 2017
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Character mistake: When Ronnie is cutting the article about Roy's encounter out of the newspaper, the title of the article begins with "UFO's...", the apostrophe making it possessive. It correctly should have been "UFOs...", with no apostrophe making it plural as intended.
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Suggested correction: You are incorrect. The article is actually correct. It is used as a contraction, not a possessive. http://www.thepunctuationguide.com/apostrophe.html.
It's not a contraction. A plural acronym is simply "s" added to the acronym. An apostrophe never indicates plurality.
Suggested correction: There is no standard on how to pluralize initialisms or acronyms and either way is acceptable, depending on a person's preference. An apostrophe does not automatically make something possessive, such as using apostrophes in contractions to replace missing letters.
Nope. In contractions joining two words, apostrophes only replace vowels (typically the letter "o," such as in "hasn't" or "wouldn't" or "isn't," and most obviously with "it's" replacing the letter "i" in "it is"). In this case, the acronym "UFOs" stands for "Unidentified Flying Objects," and there is no vowel to replace between the "t" and the "s" (in fact, an apostrophe wouldn't replace any letter at all). So, the contraction argument is invalid. Using an apostrophe for "UFO's" makes the acronym singular possessive (such as in "The UFO's movements were erratic").
It seems you missed the point of my comment. What you're stating is an opinion on how to pluralize initialisms and acronyms. While many lean towards just adding an "s", many real life publications back in the 70's did in fact use and "apostrophe s" for initialisms and acronyms. (Notice how 70's isn't possessive or a contraction. But many prefer using "70s.").
"Many publications" were wrong (especially in the late 1970s) and followed poor literary and journalistic standards. No, it's not a "matter of opinion"; throwing in apostrophes where they are not appropriate is a matter of poor education in the English language.
The question is not whether using the apostrophe is "correct" or "appropriate." It's whether it was used by publications in the '70s. It was, therefore it is not a mistake.
You should be more educated when stating opinions then, because it wasn't about being wrong. It was about no set standard. For example "The Chicago Manual of Style" would recommend UFOs while "The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage" would recommend UFO's. Of course, both would recommend using the apostrophe when making single letters plural "A's" or p's and q's."
The New York Times manual of style is predictably bogus. I'm a professor of Journalism (Southwest Texas State University 1979 to 1987). I know what is proper.
11th May 2016
Jurassic World (2015)
Corrected entry: When the kids are watching the mosasaurus show just before it eats the shark. Everyone is holding a phone, tablet or camera. But As soon the water splashes over the public no one has them in their hands anymore.
Correction: In the shot you're talking about, there are 4 devices seen recording the show. In the next shot, before the water hits, you can see the 4 people holding their device.
24th Oct 2017
Bridge of Spies (2015)
Corrected entry: In the opening scene the man is doing a self portrait from his image in a mirror, that is to his left. This image in the mirror shows predominantly the right side of his face. In the portrait, the image is turned with predominantly the left side of his face showing. Wouldn't it be natural for the artist to paint what he sees? That being a face oriented the same as what the artist sees in the mirror.
Correction: This is a question and not a mistake. Since we don't see the artist paint the whole picture, we don't know exactly how he posed for his self-portrait (or his skills in painting what he does not see) and the mirror to his left may just be for the final touches. In the painting he's wearing different clothes, so either he can paint what he doesn't see or did the majority of the portrait in a different outfit and could have had the the mirror/pose in a different spot.
24th Jul 2012
The Three Stooges (2012)
Corrected entry: When Moe throws the octopus at Larry at Teddy and Lydia's anniversary party, Larry ducks and it hits someone standing off to his side. But based on the directionality of Moe's throw, it should have hit the couple directly behind him.
16th May 2012
The Three Stooges (2012)
Corrected entry: As Teddy goes to take a picture of the trio on his iPhone, he is on the iPhone's home screen. Though a shutter noise is heard, he never enters the camera app to take the photo.
Correction: You can see before he takes the pictures the phone is already in camera mode. Before he takes the picture you can see the guys moving around on the phone screen.
24th Aug 2012
The Three Stooges (2012)
Corrected entry: The bell falls from the roof onto Sister Mary Mengele and knocks her out cold. She falls to the ground and there is a metal bucket about three feet from her head. When Moe and Curly grab her under the arms and slide her further away from the building, there is now a fire hydrant with a tuft of grass that her head is banged against.
Correction: The fire hydrant is always there. You see her standing in front of it, although several feet away, before getting hit by the bell.
29th Jan 2013
The Three Stooges (2012)
Corrected entry: In the scene where the three stooges are driving the golf cart, round the corner the handle from the lawnmower is extended and knocks over the ladder with the nun. The next shot shows them getting out of the cart and the handle is no longer sticking out of the side of the cart.
Correction: You can see that when the handle, which is collapsible, hits the ladder, it folds over. So even before the next shot, the handle is no longer sticking out.
27th Aug 2001
Unbreakable (2000)
Corrected entry: Scene where Elijah's mother has left comic books on a bench in the park. When he's indoor he has a cast on a broken arm, but, when outside, the cast is on the other arm.
Correction: He's just looking in a mirror.
Correction: In the beginning of the scene, we are looking at a reflection in the television screen, which is turned off. When we see the reflection, his right arm appears to be in the sling (which is the arm to the viewer's left), but this is his actually his left arm. When he's outside, the sling is on his left arm still.
Correction: It's not a mirror image. The sling is definitely on his right arm because you can see from the way he is facing. Then on his left arm on the bench.
Correction: The boy's arm is definitely his right that is injured when he is inside. When outside it is his left. Look again.
Correction: He has a sling but it appears that he doesn't have a cast.
20th Oct 2017
Bruce Almighty (2003)
Corrected entry: There was nowhere near enough change in the world to reflect all the answered prayers which supposedly took place. People may have prayed for dead relatives to come back to life, others might pray for the destruction of the entire world, some people may have prayed for it to rain candy bars, some people may have prayed for rain forests to grow in the middle of deserts. Someone may have prayed that a day takes longer, or that years were shorter. The fact is, the entire universe could have drastically changed if everybody's prayers were to truly be answered, but there's barely any visible effect at all.
Correction: This is too ridiculous of a statement to be a valid plot hole. Plus, people who actually believe in a benevolent God wouldn't pray for the entire world to be destroyed. And wishes aren't prayers so people who believe and pray to God with faith don't treat him as a genie to grant them ridiculous wishes, like raining candy bars. Prayer in the context of the film is specific, so inappropriate prayers, or prayers to Satan, non-Christian deities, or other beings wouldn't be "answered" by "God."
It's also possible that God kept an eye on things, and made sure to overrule some of the more dangerous prayer requests.
29th Jan 2007
Monk (2002)
Mr. Monk and the Panic Room - S3-E2
Corrected entry: After Monk has accidentally pushed the close button on the panic room door, Captain Stottlemeyer tries to guide Monk to pushing the open button on the wall. After a couple of minutes the captain puts his hand through the hole to open the door. The scene doesn't make sense, however. Stottlemeyer makes no attempt through the whole scene to try and open the door up for Monk, who is having trouble with the locked room. He can see the buttons and would easily be able to see he could reach it or at least try to reach it.
8th Sep 2016
The X-Files (1993)
Plot hole: Big Mike was attacked by the creature, because his bulb was broken just for a couple of seconds. It would mean that even if something like this happened to somebody else by accident, this person would also be killed by the creature. That would drastically increase the kill rate in the community. (00:16:15)
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Suggested correction: That was the whole point of the creature, to enforce the HOA rules so that no violations occurred, even by accident. Although prior to the attack, Gene Gogolak describes Big Mike as a weak link that had to be dealt with, so the bulb was just an excuse to attack him.
23rd Feb 2014
Bates Motel (2013)
Corrected entry: It often rains on the show (it being Oregon, naturally), but never on the characters. Rain can frequently be seen against lights in the background of scenes, and not in the foreground.
Correction: This is too vague and a specific example needs to be given to verify the mistake. Plenty of times throughout the show the characters are rained on and wet.
11th Oct 2017
Executive Decision (1996)
Corrected entry: Other than the sleeper, the only two people that know about the bomb are Hassan and Jaffa, with the hijacking of the plane being used as a smokescreen to allow Hassan to blow the bomb up over Washington D.C. We know that Hassan and Jaffa set the plan up for Jaffa to get captured so Hassan could hijack the plane. When you think about it none of this makes sense. If Hassan was going to detonate a nerve gas bomb over America and kill millions of people anyway there was no need to get Jaffa captured at all, just hijack the plane and carry out the bombing.
Correction: Hassen's own men don't know Hassen's true intention, they truly believe Jaffa was captured. With Jaffa captured, they're easier to persuade to join the cause of hijacking the plane. It seems Hassen was unsure he could recruit men for a suicide mission and thus lies to his own men. It's not a ruse to fool the American government.
22nd Jun 2009
Minority Report (2002)
Continuity mistake: At the start of the movie, two wooden balls are created to name the next victim and killer. After the balls are created, they are dull and unpolished, but their travel through the tubes shows them to now be highly polished and shiny. (00:01:55)
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Suggested correction: After being created they are encased before going down the tube and unseen. They could have easily been polished during this time before then rolling down the tube.
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Correction: Not all fax machines in 1989 used thermal paper. In 1985 GammaLink introduced a computer based fax board, and by 1989 other companies, such as Xerox, allowed fax machines to be linked to computers with add-on PC boards which allowed users to view (and print) fax information from their computers. Even if that wasn't the case, a file clerk or secretary may have made photocopies of the faxes to prevent them from rolling or being damaged.
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