Audio problem: The ghost of Christmas past says "these are but shadows... they are what they are - do not blame me." Her mouth keeps moving after she stops speaking.
Peter Harrison
11th Dec 2020
The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
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Suggested correction: No, it doesn't. When she finishes this speech at 45:16, there is an immediate cut to Scrooge. We can only see the back of the ghost. Her mouth is not visible.
Suggested correction: A mouth can move without speaking, not an audio problem but a puppeteering problem that is not a mistake.
A puppeteer problem would still be a mistake.
Maybe for the puppeteer, but in the movie it is no problem because a mouth can move without sound coming out. So what exactly went wrong?
But practically speaking people (or puppets) don't just flap their mouth open and closed with no reason. The overwhelming probability is simply that there was a dubbing error or a line was cut and the dialogue didn't fit with the mouth movement.
The mouth opens 1 extra time. That's all.
But it's glaring enough to be noticeable. Regardless of how or why it happened, it's a mistake.
In the version on Disney+, there is an immediate cut to Scrooge as the spirit finishes her speech. We only see the back of the spirit's head. Are you seeing something different on other versions?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBDqCFyugW0. I got the scene right here, it's at 1:50. Judge for yourself. I can repeat that part over and over again, but to be honest, sometimes it looks like there is an extra movement. Sometimes I can't see it. Even if it was, muppets move their mouths without speaking all the time.
26th May 2020
Jojo Rabbit (2019)
Factual error: Russians and Americans never fought in the same battle against Germans.
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Suggested correction: The film does not depict Russians and Americans fighting in the same battle. Jojo's friend, Yorki, tells him that America is coming from one direction and Russia from the other, but also says they are being attacked by China and Africa. He is a child and doesn't really know what is going on. We don't see any of the attackers until after the battle is over, at which point they all appear to be American.
28th Sep 2016
Sully (2016)
Factual error: The NTSB was portrayed horribly in this movie. They investigate purely on facts, not going on witch hunts like this movie implies. In the movie they tried to "second guess" and "blame the pilot." This never happens in real life.
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Suggested correction: The NTSB is, like any other organisation, is run by people with their own biases and imperfections.
This goes way beyond biases and imperfections. Sullenberger himself was disturbed by the way the NTSB investigators were depicted. Having reviewed an early draft of the script, he asked that their names be removed from the characters. According to Hanks, Sullenberger felt that the NTSB investigators were not prosecutors, and it was not fair to associate them with changes in the story to depict "more of a prosecutorial process." The film's version of the investigation is wildly inaccurate.
23rd Dec 2021
No Time to Die (2021)
Corrected entry: When Madeleine and Bond are being chased by Blofeld men they get hit by a black SUV coming from the left side where Madeleine is sitting. The impact was extremely severe but in the next scene (bird's eye view) there isn't a scratch on his Aston Martin while the SUV's front is shattered badly. (00:20:00)
Correction: Surely all this shows is that the armour-plated, bulletproof car is more robust than the SUV.
6th Jun 2018
Dunkirk (2017)
Factual error: When Commander Boulton is looking out to sea at the civilian navy he has the binoculars backwards.
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Suggested correction: No, he doesn't. The objective lenses are smaller than on modern binoculars but he definitely has the binoculars the right way round. You can tell he has the binoculars the right way round because the objective lenses are on the outside of the two barrels. The eyepiece is on the inside of the barrels.
To add to the above correction, you can see WW2 binoculars at https://globalwarmuseum.com/produkt/binoculars-british-army-1943-mk-iii-x6-taylor-hobson-perfect-optics/. Commander Boulton can be seen holding them correctly at https://fyeahkennethbranagh.tumblr.com/post/168344257844/dunkirk-2017-dir-christopher-nolan.
3rd Nov 2017
Apollo 13 (1995)
Continuity mistake: The direction of the spacecraft keeps changing. After the extraction of the LM (Lunar Module), the craft is travelling with the CSM (Command/Service Module) engine bell facing forward. After the explosion, it is shown with the LM facing forward. Going around the moon, and back to earth, the CSM is again facing forward.
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Suggested correction: The orientation of the spacecraft was not constant. There is no reason why it should be (and, indeed, good reason why it won't). Apollo 13 did indeed have the LM leading at some points and the CSM leading at others.
1st Mar 2011
Apollo 13 (1995)
Corrected entry: In the television interview, when the expert is describing the tolerance requirements for re-entry angle, he asks the reader to imagine that the earth is a basketball and the moon is a softball, and that the two balls are 14 feet apart, which is about 16.8 times the diameter of a basketball. The distance from the earth to the moon is about 30.14 times the diameter of the earth. This means that the 14 feet should really have been about 25 feet. Finally, the expert says that the re-entry angle has to be accurate to within 2.5 degrees, which he says is like aiming for a target the thickness of a sheet of paper. 2.5 degrees at 30 feet is actually about 13.14 inches thick (even at 14 feet, 2.5 degrees is about 7.34 inches).
Correction: Re-entry angle refers to the angle at which the spacecraft will re-enter the atmosphere, presumably with respect to the earth's surface. That angle would have to be correct within 2.5°. This post seems to refer to an angle of trajectory between the moon and earth, which would not have been the concern in preparing for re-entry.
Correction: The correction to the correction is wrong and makes the same mistake as the original entry. The expert isn't talking about a 2.5 degree error in the trajectory from the moon to the earth. He is talking about a 2.5 degree error in the angle of re-entry. A 2.5 degree error in the trajectory would give a much bigger error in the angle of re-entry.
Correction: I noted the same thing and it bothered me. It doesn't matter if the angle is with respect to to the moon or the earth. The expert's opinion was 2.5° based on 14 feet. That is 7." A far cry from the thickness of paper. Either the writers took extreme literary license for drama or the 'expert', (if actual testimony), was incorrect. It's simple math, not rocket science.
Correction: Yes, if you are out by 2.5° at the moon, you are going to be 13.14 inches out at the earth if the distance is 30 feet. But that is not what we are talking about. If you are 2.5° out at the moon, you will miss the earth completely. The question is, from the point where we leave moon orbit, how much tolerance is there to get a re-entry angle into the earth's atmosphere within 2.5°. The answer is not much.
11th Nov 2011
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Corrected entry: Sarris' lieutenant Lathe is in two places at once during the siege of the Protector. He is seen in the atmosphere control room when the rock monster is beamed in and presumably dies later. A few moments later, he is on board Sarris' ship informing him that the crew has escaped custody.
Correction: The rock monster is beamed in at 1:18:40, around 4 minutes after Lathe informs Sarris that the crew has escaped. Further, Lathe is not in the atmosphere control room. There is a shot of all the occupants just after the rock monster is beamed in. Lathe is not present.
19th Nov 2004
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Visible crew/equipment: When the crew is escaping with the beryllium sphere, there a shot where you can see the filming crew at the top left corner of the image. (00:53:55)
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Suggested correction: Having watched it carefully, I can't see any film crew in shot at any point in this sequence.
9th Aug 2004
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Audio problem: When Mathesar says "We need to separate or we'll die," his mouth doesn't move for "We need to separate."
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Suggested correction: Your lips don't move much saying that line, especially if you have a fixed smile. His lips definitely move. He is definitely saying the line.
26th Nov 2020
Yesterday (2019)
Revealing mistake: During the interview, you can see a monitor with the lyrics of "Something", even though he is supposedly improvising.
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Suggested correction: This is a deleted scene. It is in the extras on the DVD but it is not part of the movie.
20th May 2020
Yesterday (2019)
Corrected entry: During the beach scene John holds a clear mug where you can see the liquid. Later the mug turns black and opaque.
Correction: If you watch carefully as the mug comes into shot you can see it is still the same clear mug and you can see the liquid. However, when John moves the mug (still in the same shot) so that he is holding it with both hands it appears opaque. Jack's mug is also less obviously clear in this shot. The illusion appears to be due to a changed camera angle compared to the earlier shot in which both mugs were see-through, possibly combined with a change in the natural light.
18th Jun 2018
The Great Escape (1963)
Factual error: Many of the prisoners are wearing watches, which is incorrect. Upon arrest a prisoner's watch was confiscated. This prevented them using them to bribe or barter with corrupt guards (and as this film acknowledges, there were plenty of those) as well as making coordination of meetings or escape plans difficult.
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Suggested correction: It is true that most prisoners had their watches confiscated when they were captured. However, British POWs could write to Rolex in Geneva through the International Red Cross requesting a watch. Rolex would supply one with an invoice to be paid at the end of the war. The watches sent were steel because gold watches would have been confiscated by the guards. At least some of the prisoners involved in the Great Escape had these watches. Corporal Nutting, one of the masterminds, requested and received an Oyster 3525 Chronograph - a more upmarket model than the ones favoured by most POWs, which he used to measure the frequency of German patrols. After the war he paid £15 for it. In 2007 this watch and the associated correspondence was sold at auction for £66,000.
They are not wearing Rolex watches and the newly arrived prisoners are all wearing watches, which would normally have been confiscated.
No, they are not all wearing watches. Having watched the first half hour to check, the only definite watch I can see is being worn by Steve McQueen. I can't see enough of it to say definitively whether or not it matches the watches Rolex were sending. Many of the others are either definitely not wearing watches (Charles Bronson, for example) or, if they are, it is hidden by their clothes.
10th Apr 2015
My Cousin Vinny (1992)
Corrected entry: The tire tracks laid out on the pavement from the prosecution's picture is different from the picture the defense submits at the end. Mona Lisa's picture shows the left tire track going onto the sidewalk while the defense picture shows both tires on the asphalt, far from the sidewalk.
Correction: The prosecution picture only shows part of the tire track and does not show the sidewalk at all. Lisa's picture shows the full tire track. The two pictures appear to be consistent with each other with the prosecution picture being taken by someone standing on or near to the sidewalk whilst Lisa's picture is taken from further away.
28th Aug 2003
My Cousin Vinny (1992)
Corrected entry: When Marisa Tomei is on the witness stand being questioned, she moves her lips to the line that Fred Gwynne is saying.
Correction: I have watched the entire scene, keeping my eyes on Marisa Tomei throughout. I cannot at any point see her lips moving to a line that Fred Gwynne is saying.
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