Sammo

13th Mar 2020

Distant Drums (1951)

Revealing mistake: In the famous alligator scene, Gary Cooper holds in his arms Mari Aldon and begins crossing the river. Right after they get in the water for the first time there's an underwater shot where a line pulling the alligator across the screen is visible. (00:42:45)

Sammo

6th Mar 2020

Magnum, P.I. (1980)

6th Mar 2020

Joker (2019)

Revealing mistake: When we see Arthur go through taped Murray shows, he operates the VCR controls of his brand new Panasonic VCR. Problem is, it's not turned on. The red power LED on the far right is not lit, nor are any of the LEDs on top of the various keys (even the stop button had a static red light), or the large display where the clock would be. (01:22:15)

Sammo

29th Feb 2020

The Wicked Gift (2017)

Revealing mistake: The bartender (Kateryna Korchynska) offers Ethan two lattes on the house. She hands them to him, and he walks out. No opacity from the liquid can be seen inside the plastic cups, and when he is moving away from the counter he leans forward quite a bit, showing the inside of the cups, squeaky clean. (00:08:00)

Sammo

29th Feb 2020

Irrational Man (2015)

Revealing mistake: At the cocktail party in his honor, Rita Richards introduces herself. Joaquin Phoenix's scotch is in a transparent plastic cup, and you notice what happens in most movies, here with particular clarity; when he brings it to his mouth, he does not take even a sip, but just pretends. (00:06:05)

Sammo

Revealing mistake: When the historic "Mahna Mahna" sequence in the sauna ends, the girls come out of the building running through falling snow in all their youthful bounciness. The "snow" comes from the left, at a rather extreme angle; if it were real snow there would be an awful icy wind blowing, but the girls' hair is mostly unperturbed, and in the shots that follow there's no snow at all. It's obvious that this snow is just coming from a fan kept off frame. (00:51:15)

Sammo

25th Feb 2020

Relic Hunter (1999)

25th Feb 2020

Relic Hunter (1999)

25th Feb 2020

Seinfeld (1990)

25th Feb 2020

Taxi Driver (1976)

Revealing mistake: During De Niro's voiceover in the "Dear father and mother" letter, the camera pans towards the stage where Senator Charles Palantine is giving his speech. As De Niro mentions the anniversary, a dude in the crowd spots the camera and waves hi to it, says something like "Wonder what's up?" to someone next to him in the crowd and leans to his left trying to stay in frame longer. (01:12:05)

Sammo

21st Feb 2020

Seinfeld (1990)

The Heart Attack - S2-E8

Revealing mistake: When the two paramedics get off the van to duke it out, look at George lying down in the stretcher. The pillow behind him bears in the last two shots faint purple coloring marks washed out from Jaso Alexander's makeup. (00:18:30)

Sammo

Revealing mistake: KantMiss puts the chicken badge in her sister's hand. Actually through her hand, since it stabs her with a long and sharp pin. But as she holds her hand, the long piece of metal is gone - it's perfectly fine for the characters to suddenly heal from one scene to another since it's a crazy spoof movie, but here we are midway through a visual gag and the nail is missing while the girl is still screaming in pain trying in vain to pull free. (00:04:00)

Sammo

21st Feb 2020

Ride Along 2 (2016)

Revealing mistake: AJ is looking through Pope's files. They various mails scroll by really fast but even without slo-mo it's fairly easy to pick up the fact that they are repeats, with the phrase "No mistakes this time" popping in more than once. Unless everyone is prone to mistakes in Pope's organization, it does not make sense. (01:12:45)

Sammo

21st Feb 2020

Ride Along 2 (2016)

Revealing mistake: During the foot chase, the small part that follows the one when they run through the BBQ party and James looks at them from his car, just before the trampoline bit, features the image in reverse. Look at the writing on AJ's pack, or how now Kevin Hart is wearing his watch on the right wrist, with the gun holstered on the left. (00:29:25)

Sammo

21st Feb 2020

Ride Along 2 (2016)

Revealing mistake: In the sequence with Ben faking a right turn and baiting the pursuant baddies into a bad left, as the car flips hit by the pick-up, you can see without need of slo-motion that there are no people in it, merely hydraulics. (00:56:20)

Sammo

21st Feb 2020

Ride Along 2 (2016)

Revealing mistake: In the foot chase between Ben and AJ, they go past some clotheslines, then run down an alley. The shadows in the reverse angle don't match the footage from the front. Also, in one shot Ken Jeong is doing a bit of a swerve towards the right of the screen that is not consistent with the view from behind (looks like he is dodging the camera filming him: his character needs to go in that direction anyway, but only a couple of shots later). (00:28:55)

Sammo

13th Feb 2020

Road to Hell (2018)

Revealing mistake: At the beginning of the movie, the protagonists dump the corpse of an agent in the middle of nowhere. The guy is stone cold dead...but you can see the carotid pulse on the right side of his neck, under the fake blood. (00:03:10)

Sammo

27th Jan 2020

Marjaavaan (2019)

Revealing mistake: Mazhar is saved by Raghu who with his amazing strength pulls the chains tied to the tankers and breaks free. The chains supposedly pulled by the powerful trucks though are not in tension. (00:08:50)

Sammo

Revealing mistake: By order of the shrewd Harry Webb, the helicopter just destroyed the Cessna on the ground. The two guys decide that they are gonna walk back to civilization. Cut to the vehicle driving to the explosion site, and you can see in the desert sand ahead of the jeep fresh tire tracks from previous takes. And it keeps happening during the desert chase. (00:10:20)

Sammo

Winds of War - S1-E8

Revealing mistake: When the widow is bandaging the fighter pilot, the part of bandage she is wrapping appears and disappears during the animation - when her hand movies, instead of adding new layers of bandage, the army causes the green sleeve of the space suit to flash back in view. (00:20:10)

Sammo

Join the mailing list

Separate from membership, this is to get updates about mistakes in recent releases. Addresses are not passed on to any third party, and are used solely for direct communication from this site. You can unsubscribe at any time.

Check out the mistake & trivia books, on Kindle and in paperback.