Sacha

18th Nov 2024

Gladiator II (2024)

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Factual error: After the naval battle, Thraex is waiting for an informant who tips him off about Lucilla and Marcus Acacius's plans. And of course, as a well-educated gentleman of 200 AD, he kills time by reading the newspaper. Wait, what? Needless to say (to anyone but Ridley Scott, probably), ancient Romans wouldn't/couldn't exactly get their news by newspaper, the press having not been invented yet. This one looks so modern in its layout it even has headlines and a proper publication title, "Roma Viridia."

Sammo

25th Nov 2024

Gladiator II (2024)

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Character mistake: When Lucius holds his wife's corpse in the sea, a wave crashes against her and splashes her face. The actress can't help wincing.

Sacha

27th Nov 2024

Gladiator II (2024)

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Continuity mistake: Glyceo grabs the sword on the arena floor and extends his right arm. An instant cut later, his arm is lowered, then it cuts back to the previous angle of his arm extended.

Sacha

25th Nov 2024

Gladiator II (2024)

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Continuity mistake: When Lucius steps in the water to see his wife's corpse, his hairstyle around the forehead changes between shots before he is splashed by water.

Sacha

25th Nov 2024

Gladiator II (2024)

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Continuity mistake: After Lucius quotes Virgil, he kills a man who collapses on a chair. When he lies dead, there's a leg or armrest on the floor parallel to his body. A shot later, it's perpendicular.

Sacha

25th Nov 2024

Gladiator II (2024)

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Continuity mistake: When Lucius addresses both armies at the city entry, he throws his sword on the floor ahead of him. He walks around, and from the opposite front angle, one can see the sword behind him. From the immediate opposite angle of his back, the sword is gone.

Sacha

25th Nov 2024

Gladiator II (2024)

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Continuity mistake: After the Virgil quote scene and the fight that follows, Lucius takes a bath. There's a close-up of him saying something about dying in the arena, and his hair is suddenly better brushed and drier. Then it goes back to the previous wet hairstyle.

Sacha

25th Nov 2024

Gladiator II (2024)

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Deliberate mistake: When Lucius is shown Maximus' tomb, the painting on the wall reads, "What we do in life echoes in eternity," in plain perfect modern English language. Of course, it helps audiences relate to the first movie, but it's ludicrous, to say the least.

Sacha

25th Nov 2024

Gladiator II (2024)

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Revealing mistake: During the naval battle, after an underwater shot of a man being eaten by a shark, check the poop deck on the left, and you'll notice a bulky floor with wrinkles around where people fighting and falling bounce on, revealing a tarp hiding a safety mat.

Sacha

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Revealing mistake: When Wayne and Nick stare at the giant baby entering the room (a superimposed projection), they keep staring ahead for a couple of seconds despite the baby already having turned right. The cue to where to watch failed.

Sacha

23rd Dec 2024

Men in Black II (2002)

20th Dec 2024

Cleopatra (1963)

20th Dec 2024

Cleopatra (1963)

18th Dec 2024

Cleopatra (1963)

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Revealing mistake: During the naval battle, a long rope runs from the side of a burning ship on the left, out offscreen, to keep it steady.

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: The position of the Top Secret sign and the whole text is put on the ark's box across vertically laid planks, with a wood crossbar on the right, which only the side panels have. A shot later the sign appears slanted across horizontally laid planks. Though it could be argued that there could be a second sign on the opposite side with horizontal planks, when the warehouse guy turns left to store the crate, we get a glimpse of the left side and it's not painted.

Sacha

Upvote valid corrections to help move entries into the corrections section.

Suggested correction: The other text and the different plank design could be on the base of the box or on the front wall (the wall opposite the man pushing the box), two walls we never see when the box is being pushed. In fact, at one point the camera passes next to a box that has two texts, one on a short wall and one on a long wall.

Big Game

17th Dec 2024

Murder, She Wrote (1984)

15th Dec 2024

Murder, She Wrote (1984)

15th Dec 2024

Murder, She Wrote (1984)

15th Dec 2024

Cleopatra (1963)

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