Other mistake: Raylan fires two shots into the above-ground pool, but it springs three leaks. Looking closely it does appear that Timothy Olyphant squeezed the trigger three times, but one blank must have misfired, and the three squibs went off regardless.
Jon Sandys
3rd Apr 2021
Justified (2010)
27th Mar 2021
Justified (2010)
When the Guns Come Out - S3-E6
Plot hole: Raylan has a hunch that Winona took the money again from the evidence room, so checks the locker, finds the empty box, and assumes she stole it. When they returned the money in the previous season, he said "Put it back anywhere except for where you found it", so as to make it easier for someone to assume it had been misplaced, rather than lost. So the locker being empty is hardly a smoking gun for him to assume Winona's taken the cash.
26th Mar 2021
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021)
Bucky: I got a vibranium arm. I can take them.
Sam: And I can fly, who gives a shit? Wait.
26th Mar 2021
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021)
Question: Why does Bucky rip his jacket sleeve off before jumping out of the plane? Just for the sake of an audience reveal to demonstrate his artificial arm?
Answer: Aside from visual aesthetics and it being nice to see the metal arm. In world/practically I think (and I believe this is the reason why he tends to not have a left sleeve in most action we've seen him in prior films) it's also to assist with mobility during fights. The metal arm likely behaves a little differently than a human/bone and flesh arm does - and restricting that in a sleeve during a fight (especially in a thicker jacket sleeve) might mess with his reflexes. So removing the sleeve probably assists with the mobility of that arm.
26th Mar 2021
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021)
Character mistake: Bucky says he read The Hobbit in 1937 when it first came out. But in 1937 he was still living in New York, and The Hobbit was only available in the UK at that time, with fairly limited numbers printed. It wasn't available in America until 1938.
24th Mar 2021
Justice League (2017)
Trivia: After a family tragedy, coupled with studio executives' dissatisfaction with the production, Zack Snyder left the film and was replaced by Joss Whedon, who rewrote and re-shot large portions of the movie. After several years of fans demanding an "original" cut, HBO Max funded Zack Snyder's Justice League, restoring the director's original vision for the film, which garnered mostly positive reviews, being largely viewed as an improvement on Whedon's version.
24th Mar 2021
Justified (2010)
Question: Mags poisons herself with the same "it was in the glass, not the jar" approach she took with Loretta's father. But we see her grab two glasses - one from the cupboard and one off a shelf. Does she slip poison in while off camera, or is it just that the cupboard/shelf glasses are always poisoned, trusting that everyone knows not to use them? Seems like a crazy risk to take.
24th Mar 2021
The Flash (2014)
Stupidity: The team knows that Eva can snatch people through any reflective surface, and make a great show of killing the lights to prevent reflections...which are then replaced by emergency lighting, rendering the whole process pointless. They also drop shutters over the outside of the windows, leaving the reflective windows themselves unprotected inside the lab! And Barry promptly stares pensively into one at close range...and is of course snatched by Eva.
20th Mar 2021
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
Other mistake: After realising they can track the mother box, Batman says they have to go back to his base to use one of his satellites to track it, and they all do so. Which completely ignores the fact that Cyborg could easily access the satellite feed directly using his abilities and display it to the others on any nearby screen in Star Labs.
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Suggested correction: Just because he had many options available to him, does not mean that the option which he chose was wrong.
20th Mar 2021
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
Continuity mistake: After Silas is killed, in the wide shot Cyborg is standing mostly upright in front of Flash. Cut to a closer shot and he's bent over. (02:51:45)
19th Mar 2021
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
Other mistake: Barry comes back to his home, replaces the fuse in the fuse box, flips the handle (begs the question of why remove the fuse AND turn off the switch, but whatever), and within 2 seconds every screen in the place is lit up. Sure, a TV might come on that fast, but plenty of those screens are showing data, analysis, etc, running off computers, which would take longer than that to boot up and get everything running.
19th Mar 2021
Justified (2010)
Continuity mistake: As Raylan sits down opposite the thug, who says "I just take orders", his gun is held vertically. Cut to a shot from the front and it's on its side. (00:25:00)
15th Mar 2021
Superman and Lois (2021)
The Perks of Not Being a Wallflower - S1-E3
Stupidity: Superman finally smashes the weirdly strong bad guy through a wall, then goes to Lois, says "he's gone", and whisks Sarah to hospital. But he has no idea if the bad guy is "gone" or not - they've just had an epic fight, he has some sort of super strength / resilience, and for all Superman knows he'll come around in 10 seconds and finish the job of murdering Lois.
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Suggested correction: Superman knows the 'strong bad guy' is close to his own strength. After fighting him, he knows what effect the crash through the wall would have had on him, if he was knocked out, and how long he would be out for. So he knew there was little risk of the guy coming around in 10 seconds. Alternatively, he X-ray scanned the area and saw the guy was no longer there.
8th Mar 2021
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005)
Chardee MacDennis 2: Electric Boogaloo - S11-E1
Continuity mistake: In the long shot of Frank's flag being raised, it clears the beer mat holder, then we cut to a closer shot and the flag is lower and gets raised up again.
7th Mar 2021
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005)
Mac and Dennis Buy a Timeshare - S9-E4
Continuity mistake: When Dee and Charlie find Frank stuck, his arms are in different places depending on the camera angle.
7th Mar 2021
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005)
Continuity mistake: The plane that Dee gets onto has winglets and a dark blue/black stripe around it. When seen flying in the next shot, the plane has no winglets and a red stripe.
7th Mar 2021
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005)
Reynolds vs. Reynolds: The Cereal Defense - S8-E10
Continuity mistake: As Dee says "I would like a five with my client" she puts her arm across Dennis' arms. Shot cuts to the side and both her arms are clasped in front of her.
1st Mar 2021
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005)
Mac and Dennis Break Up - S5-E9
Continuity mistake: The liquid stain on Dennis in the restaurant suddenly becomes much smaller when he offers to pay Mac's tab, then gets larger again as he smiles.
23rd Feb 2021
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Revealing mistake: As the T-Rex rages through the street, some cars crash, and one reversing car dramatically flips. Two problems though - firstly, it's reversing quickly enough to mean it must have travelled past the dinosaur to build up that much speed, so the driver would have just driven forwards away from the T-Rex instead. Plus there's nothing which would realistically be in the road to make the car flip over like that, it's just a street with cars stopped on it.
23rd Feb 2021
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Revealing mistake: The woman who screams and reverses away from the T-Rex while staring at it is suddenly replaced by a male stunt driver looking over his shoulder in the shot from the side.
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Chosen answer: The sleeve probably would have been ripped to shreds in battle anyway. He was just saving time by ripping it himself. Also, gunfighters would take off their coats in a duel or an arm wrestler rolling up his sleeve.