Tiger: Boy! Why did you have to bring us to yet another time where women are treated like garbage?
Josh: Well I'm so sorry, it's called 'all of human history'.
Jon Sandys
7th Aug 2020
Future Man (2017)
6th Aug 2020
Hunters (2020)
Continuity mistake: When Jonah confronts Meyer after the death of the surgeon, Meyer's holding a drink in his left hand as he turns to face Jonah. The shot changes angle and the drink is suddenly in his right. (00:48:40)
29th Jul 2020
Desperado (1995)
Continuity mistake: Antonio Banderas throws his guitar case across the roof, then jumps after it and opens it. From the reverse angle the fake guitar inside is still in place, we then switch to it from from the front and it's instantly raised, with the guns visible instead.
29th Jul 2020
Desperado (1995)
Audio problem: When the bad guys in the car are shooting at Danny Trejo, the kid with the broken leg kills him with six shots we see and hear, but the slide on his gun locks back after 5.
25th Jul 2020
The Nice Guys (2016)
Trivia: The line "he'll stop doing it" "stop doing what?" followed by violence was used almost identically in Iron Man 3, also written and directed by Shane Black.
25th Jul 2020
Iron Man 3 (2013)
Revealing mistake: When Tony is knocked violently forwards during the test of the Mark 42 armour, he somehow arrests his fall mid-air just before propulsors in his hands actually fire, because the effects weren't perfectly synced with the wirework.
20th Jul 2020
Demolition Man (1993)
Trivia: The dress Sandra Bullock wears to the Taco Bell was very heavy due to all the stones on it - after her exuberance mimicking Stallone's punching after the scrap attack it started to rip, which is why she has her arms wrapped around herself slightly awkwardly at the very end of the scene.
19th Jul 2020
Space Force (2020)
It's Good to Be Back on the Moon - S1-E9
Factual error: The Apollo 11 flag gets knocked over by the Chinese rover...but the flag was blown over by the Eagle's takeoff thrust, witnessed by Buzz Aldrin. This was confirmed years later by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which showed shadows of the flags planted at all six Apollo landing sites, bar Apollo 11's. The other 5 were all planted further from their landing craft precisely for that reason. It's also widely assumed that the flags on the moon would have been bleached white by decades of unfiltered sunlight, not in good condition like the one shown.
19th Jul 2020
Space Force (2020)
Continuity mistake: The digital clock behind Naird skips backwards - it's at 19:34:54 when he says "I'm so sorry Adrian", but the next time we see it it's just ticking onto 19:35:01 when several more seconds have passed.
18th Jul 2020
Space Force (2020)
Mark and Mallory Go to Washington - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: The digital clock behind the head of the Air Force doesn't match the time elapsed between shots - we see him with it at 14:00:54, 10 seconds pass of continuous conversation, then it's at 14:01:14 when he says "you seem pretty calm."
18th Jul 2020
Space Force (2020)
Factual error: Marcus is spun off and he's "on course to intercept the sun in about a week." The sun is 94,000,000 miles from earth, even assuming 2 weeks he'd have to be travelling at about 280,000mph. Orbital speed is about 17,000mph, no way he was flung away from the satellite 16 times faster than that from what we saw.
14th Jul 2020
General questions
I'm trying to remember what movie it's from when the bad guy (I think) says "you find something that's important to them, and...you squeeze." Drawing a blank. Anyone know?
12th Jul 2020
The Old Guard (2020)
Plot hole: Nile checks the gun Andy gave her and realises it's empty, which in turn leads her to realise that Booker was setting them up, because he gave that gun to Andy in the first place. No way that Nile, a marine, and Andy, a timeless warrior, somehow both missed the noticeable difference in weight between a fully loaded pistol and an empty one.
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Suggested correction: That is only true if you handle the same gun all the time. Throughout the movie they shoot dozens of different guns, all with their own loaded/unloaded weights. Different guns are also made of different materials, and mixture of materials, which would change the weight. Different guns are also balanced differently, depending on the materials and manufacturer. The weight difference in a lot of the guns they were carrying between loaded and unloaded were between 3.5oz-7oz (which is not that much). With all the different guns they use and carry throughout the film, it is not a mistake that they wouldn't catch it. Also, Nile is used to carrying an M16 or M4, not the handgun used in the film so she would have no way to know the loaded vs unloaded weight. They would also not expect someone in their team to betray them, so there's no need to check the weapons (although you should check any gun that is handed to you).
9th Jul 2020
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
Trivia: The Porgs on Luke's island only exist because the real island is the habitat of puffins, and filming couldn't interfere with them. It proved more appealing and frankly simpler to digitally alter the appearance of the puffins, rather than erasing them entirely.
4th Jul 2020
Westworld (2016)
Passed Pawn - S3-E7
Trivia: Enrico Colantoni plays Whitman, who Rehoboam arranges to be removed from society. Fitting casting, as he previously played Elias in Person of Interest, a TV series based on the idea of an AI eventually making decisions for humanity and removing threats.
24th May 2020
The Godfather (1972)
Trivia: The house Jack Woltz lives in, where he discovers the horse's head in his bed, is also where JFK spent his honeymoon. Called the "Beverly House", William Randolph Hearst lived there until 1951, and it's been used in The Bodyguard and Fletch.
17th May 2020
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)
Stupidity: Whenever General Grievous fights another lightsaber-user, there's almost always a moment with all the sabers crossed dramatically in front of both participants, one preventing the other striking a killing blow. Looks good, but utterly ridiculous, because he's got 4 arms and 4 lightsabers - he could easily block the blade in front of him with one or two arms, and simultaneously swipe at their head and legs, which no-one with two arms could ever defend against. Of course that would make for a lot of very short duels.
2nd May 2020
Shazam! (2019)
Other mistake: Shazam catches the bus and everyone's fine. But really, how is him catching the bus at a dead stop 6 feet off the ground any better than it hitting solid ground a fraction of a second later? He's not magically cushioning everyone on the bus.
2nd May 2020
Shazam! (2019)
Question: When the disbelieving assistant puts her hand on the markings that Mark Strong draws on the door, why does she dissolve into ashes?
Chosen answer: Because she is not worthy to open the door (not champion material), or even to touch it. But Silvana is, since he already crossed it as a child.
As you can recall Sivana reached for the eye of sin and the old wizard told him he would never be worthy.
He is a champion candidate. That's good enough to at least enter.
30th Apr 2020
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)
Other mistake: Obi-Wan Kenobi discovers the Mandalorians and gets into a fist fight with them, punching one in the face a few times, who reacts with obvious discomfort. But the one hit is wearing Mandalorian armour, famously resistant to all kinds of weaponry, and Obi-Wan is barehanded! The Mandalorian should be laughing off his attempts. Not to mention that later he surprises another armed guard in Mandalorian armour and knocks him out with two barehanded blows to the helmet.
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Suggested correction: It must be pointed out that unlike the Mandos he's fighting, Obi-Wan explicitly has supernatural powers, powers that most certainly help with things like punching out people in full armour. Seeing this as a "mistake" is kind of ridiculous in a space fantasy series.
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Chosen answer: "Mission Impossible." Kitteridge says it to his colleague, Barnes (when the Feds turn up at the place where Max and her team were, and find them gone) when describing how he's going to get Ethan to come out of hiding.
Heather Benton ★
That's it! Fantastic, thank you. :-)
Jon Sandys ★