Trivia: Reacher's PIN is 8197, the same as used in the book this series is based on. Chosen because 97 is the largest two-digit prime number, 81 because it's only number whose square root (9) is also the sum of its digits (8 + 1).
Jon Sandys
15th Dec 2023
Reacher (2022)
7th Dec 2023
New Girl (2011)
Five Stars for Beezus - S6-E22
Trivia: Sadie's patient who says "it's a real upstairs downstairs kind of day" is played by Katherine Pope, executive producer of the series.
6th Dec 2023
New Girl (2011)
Continuity mistake: When CeCe looks at the contract, she has it flat in front of her when she says, "he's really screwing you." But in the reverse angle, she's got it raised off the table.
5th Dec 2023
New Girl (2011)
Wedding Eve - S5-E21
Continuity mistake: When Jess thinks Sam's about to propose, he sticks his hands in his pockets, then stays quite still in a closeup where it doesn't look like he's moving his hands at all, then in a cut to a wider angle both of his hands are by his sides.
29th Oct 2023
Friends (1994)
The One With Joey's Award - S7-E18
Trivia: The original script for this featured a subplot with Ross seeing Chandler exiting a male strip club, with obvious confusion and assumptions, with Chandler later admitting he only goes there because he likes the sandwiches. Matthew Perry shut the idea down. He's barely in this episode, possibly as a result of this subplot being excised and it being simpler to expand the existing scenes rather than write a whole new Chandler-centric section.
27th Oct 2023
Scream 2 (1997)
Trivia: Debbie Salt's real name is revealed to be Nancy Loomis. There's an actress called Nancy Loomis who appeared as Annie Brackett in Halloween and its sequel, and who played a different character in Halloween III: Season of the Witch.
26th Oct 2023
Vexed (2010)
Episode #1.3 - S1-E3
Kate: You wouldn't have a problem if this was your daughter?
Jack: She's not my daughter!
Kate: She's someone's daughter.
Jack: Every woman I've ever had sex with was someone's daughter, it's never stopped me from playing daddy.
Kate: Urgh.
Jack: I think that might have come out wrong.
Kate: OK, if your daughter was a stripper.
Jack: Why is my daughter a stripper?!
Kate: Ah, so you would mind!
Jack: What if your son...was a rapist?
Kate: How is that relevant?!
Jack: You started it.
Kate: I want you to acknowledge how you'd feel if your daughter made her living by having men leering at her.
Jack: OK, how would you feel if your rapist son attacked my stripper daughter, threw acid in her face, she's disfigured for life, can't even work!
Kate: I wouldn't defend him.
Jack: Your own son?! Some mother you'd be.
15th Oct 2023
The Continental: From the World of John Wick (2023)
Trivia: The name on Jenkins' disguise is "Chuck Spadina." When Keanu Reeves first came to Hollywood, he was told his name was "a little too exotic," and it was suggested he should change his name. Chuck Spadina was one option he considered, although apparently not very seriously.
10th Oct 2023
The World is Not Enough (1999)
Stupidity: When the flying snowmobiles attack, Bond tells Elektra to go into the gully, and he'll lead them into the trees...completely ignoring the fact that these bad guys are here to kill her, so why would they follow him instead? Of course they all do. Either a plot contrivance or a blatant set up, which he doesn't remotely consider.
10th Oct 2023
The World is Not Enough (1999)
Trivia: As Bond is rolling down the Millennium Dome, he misses the first set of wires he tries to grab, and saves himself on a second set. The stuntman was actually meant to hold onto the first set, but couldn't. The director, Michael Apted, chose to keep that miss in as a tribute to how challenging the stunt was to achieve.
10th Oct 2023
No Time to Die (2021)
Trivia: Has the longest pre-credits sequence of any Bond film to date, coming in at 23 minutes and 45 seconds.
9th Oct 2023
Ahsoka (2023)
Stupidity: Recurring issue when Ahsoka is fighting with dual sabers - there are often times in a duel when one saber is clashing with the other person, but she still has a hand free with her shoto that she could use to stab/slash and win the fight easily. Would make for shorter battles of course.
9th Oct 2023
Ahsoka (2023)
Part Eight: The Jedi, the Witch, and the Warlord - S1-E8
Stupidity: Despite the three heroes having four lightsabers between them, when being attacked by the perpetually-reanimating zombie troopers not once does it occur to them to simply cut their legs off, which which slow their advance considerably. Or for that matter focus on decapitating them.
7th Oct 2023
Licence to Kill (1989)
Factual error: Bond has been thrashing for his life in a cloud of powdered cocaine. He should be high as a kite, but shows no signs of being affected by the drugs at all.
7th Oct 2023
Licence to Kill (1989)
Stupidity: The "$32 million" facility for processing the gas/cocaine apparently doesn't have a sprinkler system or any real fire control. The second the fire starts, which is still fairly small, in a single room, and could easily be contained, basically everyone evacuates the entire complex and just leaves it to burn/explode.
6th Oct 2023
Licence to Kill (1989)
Revealing mistake: After the fire starts, people go in with extinguishers, but can be seen in the background waving them around without anything coming out of them.
5th Oct 2023
Licence to Kill (1989)
Stupidity: Felix and the DEA capture Sanchez, a very powerful drug lord, in a very public way, have the wedding...then everyone just goes home. No concept of extra security or concern about his minions getting revenge. So of course they can then just wander into his house with no problems whatsoever to capture him and murder his wife. Bond's clearly concerned when he learns Sanchez has escaped, but he must have realised there'd be plenty of goons still around before that point.
5th Oct 2023
Goldeneye (1995)
Question: Was any reason ever given as to why Bond's gadget-filled car was barely used in this film? It seems odd to give the series a fresh start in many ways, make a big deal about his car with missiles inside the lights, and then he drives it for 30 seconds and gives it away. Why bother giving him a car at all?
4th Oct 2023
Goldeneye (1995)
Factual error: The missiles launched by the helicopter when Bond and Natalya are tied up in the cockpit are Mistrals, as revealed by the cockpit's screens - short range infra-red homing missiles. They home in on heat, they can't be programmed to turn 180 degrees in mid-air and target a specific location as they do here.
2nd Oct 2023
Jurassic Park (1993)
Trivia: The dinosaur Tianchisaurus nedegoapeferima was named after the principal cast of the film, with the second part of the name using a letter or two from each surname: NEill, DErn, GOldblum, Attenborough, PEck, FErrero, RIchards, MAzello.
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Chosen answer: There hadn't been a Bond film for seven years, and it was a new Bond. They wanted to get away from the gadgets and show him at his best. It was a way to let people accept Pierce Bronsan, watching what he can do. He put a lot of Sean Connery into it.
I can see that, but it just seems weird to highlight the features the car has and then not use them. Would have been simpler to omit it entirely, but presumably BMW wanted some product placement.
Jon Sandys ★
According to Wikipedia, the deal with BMW came at the last stage in production, so they were only able to put the car in the movie but not make scenes where the gadgets are actually used. I can imagine they'd have to rewrite parts of the script and take more time filming to do that.
lionhead