Audio problem: When Jill reveals herself as the second killer, we hear Sidney say "Jill". But her mouth doesn't move.
THGhost
29th Oct 2012
Scream 4 (2011)
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Suggested correction: You can say "Jill" without moving your mouth.
22nd Jul 2023
Oppenheimer (2023)
Factual error: After the successful Trinity test in 1945, people in a crowd are holding small US flags with 50 stars on them (offset rows). At the time there were only 48 states and the flag had 48 stars in even rows. The 50 star flag didn't exist until 1960, after Alaska and Hawaii were made states in 1959.
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Suggested correction: While this is correct, an argument can be made that since the colour scenes are meant to be subjective and the black and white scenes are meant to be objective, Oppenheimer could have been unintentionally mapping the modern US flag onto this scene.
That's a ridiculous stretch with zero evidence, not least as 48 star flags are seen in colour in other scenes. Sometimes a mistake is simply a mistake.
There is evidence, though. Nolan said so himself. Look it up. As for the mistake itself, I'm merely repeating what I've read on Twitter, and this correction was merely a suggestion. Seeing the 48 star flags in other colour scenes still doesn't disprove this theory. It is just a theory though, so no need to shoot it down so hard.
He's said subjective in terms of the colour scenes being "first person", and maybe not strictly factual in terms of creating moments between characters and conveying emotion, but nowhere does that stretch to "one random scene happens to feature 50 star flags because Oppenheimer is mapping the modern flag onto it, when nothing like that happens anywhere else in the film."
Meh, take it up with Twitter. I just thought it was interesting, so I posted it here for a different point of view/perspective for others to read. It is most likely bull**** though.
The fact that a director realized they had made a mistake and retroactively made up a deus ex machina explanation for it in no way invalidates the mistake. Nice try, Mr. Nolan but this posting is absolutely valid.
While Christopher Nolan's talked about the subjective/objective colour/black and white thing, which is entirely fair and no doubt exactly his intention, I don't think he's actually tried to "excuse" this by using that explanation, that's just other people trying to connect the two things. I'm not sure Nolan has commented on the flag issue in interviews at all.
Precisely, and I was in no way trying to invalidate the original mistake. I just found the whole theory interesting and posted it here. It is rather hilarious that a director with such attention to detail like Nolan would have missed something like this. We shall see if he gets it fixed for the streaming/physical release.
It's not fixed in the home video version. However, the behind-the-scenes materials provide a reason for the mistake, in that putting a crowd in the scene was apparently a spur-of-the-moment decision. It's like that in their haste to bring in the crowd, the set decorators bought some modern miniature flags and put them into the scene without anyone realizing the 48/50 discrepancy.
1st Jun 2023
Unbelievable (2019)
Episode #1.7 - S1-E7
Factual error: When Marie is talking with her therapist, she talks about having just gone to see Zombieland. Given that the scene takes place in 2008 and Zombieland wasn't released in the US until October 2009, this simply is not possible.
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Suggested correction: The series starts in 2008, but it's 3 years later. At the beginning, RoseMarie says Curtis was born February 3, 1981 and is 30 years old.
The therapy scenes are in 2008. It's only when the photographs of Marie are discovered that we see Marie 3 years later, in episode 8.
18th Jun 2022
The Northman (2022)
Audio problem: When the boy and the leader of Iceland are hammering in posts and the boy is complaining that he's the heir and shouldn't have to do manual labor, there are at least two times when bad wind flutter in the microphones can be heard. It sounds like the wind clips the volume level and the audio briefly cuts out. It happens on windy film shoots, as wind screens can only prevent so much and its obviously very windy in this scene. Why this wasn't caught in post is hard to say. This is audible on the video on demand version.
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Suggested correction: No such problem exists on the UHD/Blu-ray release. I also did not notice it on the VOD release, so it could have just been an issue with your sound setup.
31st May 2022
The Northman (2022)
Corrected entry: When Amleth is having his vision of the valkyrie near the end, she appears to have dental braces on her teeth when the camera is up on her face as she is screaming.
Correction: These are not braces, they are teeth "tattoos." Vikings would sometimes literally file horizontal grooves into their teeth for decorative purposes. The actress likely has not had her teeth filed for this one role so it seems what you are seeing is some sort of makeup application. But it is definitely not braces that were accidentally left in the shot.
I can confirm this. In the film's commentary track, the director mentions that they are grooves carved in her teeth, and how he's seen YouTube comments asking why they have braces.
31st Dec 2016
The Big Bang Theory (2007)
The Fetal Kick Catalyst - S10-E6
Factual error: When Raj, Howard and Bernadette are in the car, Raj puts on Batman the Animated Series to distract Howard from his back pain. Howard says "I'm in too much pain to watch cartoo-oh, this is a good one!" However, there is no way he could know that it's a good episode of the show because the opening theme song can be heard playing and the name of the episode does not appear until after it.
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Suggested correction: He meant the cartoon is good, in general. Not the specific episode.
Nah, he was told right beforehand that it was Batman: The Animated Series. A nerd like Howard definitely knows which cartoon that is and that it's a good cartoon without needing to look at it.
13th May 2016
Inside Man (2006)
Revealing mistake: During the final conversation between Detective Frazier and Arthur Case, Frazier holds up his hand with the ring on his middle finger. It is pretty obvious that the hand was inserted into the scene in post production; the hand doesn't move in a natural way and simply looks out of place.
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Suggested correction: Really? I don't see anything unnatural in the hand's movement at all. Doesn't look at all obvious to me that it was inserted in post-production. After all, Frazier refers to "this ring." They will want it in shot so I'm sure they made sure Washington held it in shot.
Yes, really. Look again. Look at how it moves down and vanishes out of the frame. No human hand moves like that! They didn't have Washington hold it up for the shot and it was inserted later as a pickup shot. See this IMDB goof entry for more details: "During the final conversation between Detective Frazier and Arthur Case..." "a picture of a hand with a ring on the middle finger was inserted into the scene - first moving up into the shot, and then moving down off screen."
9th Jun 2011
Kick-Ass (2010)
Corrected entry: When Hit-Girl and Big Daddy are practising with bulletproof vests, the dummy used when Hit-Girl falls to the ground is visible. It bounces unlike a real human body and the position of her right hand and both her legs move between shots. (00:12:55)
Correction: When you watch in slow mo, it's 100% a real human, not a dummy.
I'm not convinced.
13th May 2016
Scream 4 (2011)
Other mistake: Jill's shoulder seems to be perfectly fine when fighting with Sydney, even though she stabbed her shoulder earlier. (01:38:00 - 01:40:00)
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Suggested correction: Anger and fear can be more than enough to gather enough strength to fight your way out of a difficult situation regardless of how much of a critical condition you are in.
7th Aug 2019
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Continuity mistake: In 2012, when Tony flies up inside the Stark Tower snooping on the Avengers talking to Loki, Loki delivers his lines faster compared to the original Avengers movie, and his movement is different too. (01:16:15)
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Suggested correction: This doesn't seem to be a mistake as it would require a side-by-side comparison with the original film. Within the context of this film, everything fits.
Exactly. You could maybe get away with submitting this as a Deliberate Mistake, but since it's a scene from another movie being shown from a different perspective, it doesn't need to play our exactly as it did the first time. We'd just be watching that exact same scene from the other movie then.
No. The angle doesn't matter when the lines are delivered at a different rate.
21st Dec 2017
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
Corrected entry: During the bombing run on the Dreadnaught, Paige is on her back, kicking to try to get the bomb bay door trigger to fall down to her. When it finally does, and her arm shoots out to grab it, it is clear that she is now on her stomach, despite having no time to flip over. (About a second of time passes from when the trigger falls to when she grabs it).
Correction: You can roll over in less than a second.
Correction: In a life-or-death situation, and with heroic effort, she managed to roll over and make the saving catch just in the nick time-a heroic trope, sure, but potentially possible.
Correction: The trigger is falling in slow motion when she grabs it, giving her enough time to roll over onto her stomach.
10th Jun 2018
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
Corrected entry: When Ace ripped Einhorn's clothes off, there were several cops standing behind her. They should've seen her penis long before Ace revealed it.
Correction: Einhorn is wearing pretty tight underwear, and standing behind her would only make it *more* difficult to tell if they were a man or not.
21st May 2018
Friends (1994)
The One With Chandler's Dad - S7-E22
Corrected entry: Joey walks into the coffee shop and says "Hey Pheebs." It's Ross' voice dubbed over, not Joey's.
23rd Apr 2018
Toy Story 2 (1999)
Corrected entry: In the first "Toy Story" film, it is established that Mister Potato Head cannot "see" when his eyes are detached, but in this film, there is a scene where Buzz uses his detached eyed to peer through a vent and around a 90 degree angle.
Correction: His eyes can still see when they're detached. It's his body that can't see when they're detached. Mrs Potato Head's eye can also see when detached in Toy Story 3.
28th Jan 2018
Mouse Hunt (1997)
Corrected entry: When Caesar, the mouse catcher, is on the dining room floor inspecting mouse droppings, at one point he says the droppings are 10 to 12 cm long (4 to 4.7 inches). He said the wrong measuring unit, he should have said 10 to 12 mm to be correct. (00:52:00)
Correction: He's talking about the length of the mouse, not the droppings themselves.
16th Feb 2017
Sons of Anarchy (2008)
Corrected entry: Gemma says to Wayne "who you chattin' up, Wade?" Subtitles say Wade also.
Correction: Wade Steiner - TM mechanic hit by home invasion that Under is interviewing in the garage. Gemma says "why you chatting up Wade?"
No she doesn't say why... she says WHO.
Correction: Wade was the name of the person Wayne was talking to.
Correction: Just watched this scene again and all I can hear is "Wayne." Why would a character get another character's name wrong 5 seasons in? The subtitles you're using are incorrect.
Wade was the name of the person Wayne was talking to. Earlier in the ep. Roosevelt is heard telling the club this name as one of the people who got hit with a home invasion.
10th Jan 2018
Breaking Bad (2008)
Box Cutter - S4-E1
Corrected entry: Jessie is shorter than Gail, so when he shoots Gail in the eye his gun must be angled up. However in the scene the bullet continues through Gail to hit the kettle, which is about waist height for Gail.
Correction: The bullet could easily have changed trajectory after entering Gail, if it hit a rib, for example.
11th Dec 2017
Destroy All Humans
Corrected entry: The game takes place around 1957. However, the drive-in is showing Plan 9 from Outer Space, which didn't come out until 1959.
28th Jun 2016
Pretty Little Liars (2010)
Corrected entry: While talking on the street, Hanna and Jordan walk into a store called Rosewood Grape Wine after Hanna tells him that she's not going to Allison's without food. However in Pennsylvania, nearly all wine by law is sold in state stores, called Fine Wine and Good Spirits. (00:14:20)
Correction: Rosewood, Pennsylvania is a fictional town. The show can therefore do whatever it wants.
20th Feb 2013
Poltergeist III (1988)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Dr. Seaton is talking to the group about Chopin and shyness, you can see in the reflection of the glass that one of the other psychologists isn't wearing a suit-coat. In the next frame, he is.
Correction: There are actually 2 male psychologists behind Dr. Seaton, one of which is wearing a suit-coat and the other is not.
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