Factual error: When Angus and Mr. Hunham go to the liquor store, the sign on the door shows that they are open on Sundays. In 1970, Massachusetts still had blue laws in effect, and a liquor store would not have been open on a Sunday.
wizard_of_gore
1st Feb 2024
The Holdovers (2023)
27th Jan 2024
Barbie (2023)
27th Jan 2024
Barbie (2023)
Factual error: Gloria's vehicle is a Chevrolet Blazer SS EV, but during the chase scene, her supposedly electric vehicle makes sounds like a normal gas engine.
23rd Dec 2023
Napoleon (2023)
Factual error: It is highly unlikely that Napoleon's mother, Letizia, staged a sexual encounter between him and a young woman to prove that he could have children. There was no need for such an experiment, since Napoleon had already fathered several illegitimate children, indicating that it was Josephine who was infertile.
23rd Dec 2023
Napoleon (2023)
Factual error: Marie Antoinette was not executed at Le Palais des Tuileries, as shown in the film, but rather at Place de la Concorde (formerly Place de la Révolution). Also, Napoleon did not witness the execution; he was on garrison duty in southern France at the time.
18th Dec 2023
Napoleon (2023)
Factual error: Napoleon never met the Duke of Wellington face to face, as is depicted in the film.
30th Oct 2023
Andromeda (2000)
Plot hole: The way slipstream works is wildly inconsistent across the show. Sometimes, they have to travel a significant distance to find the nearest slip point, and other times, when it's required by the plot, there's a slip point conveniently right next to the ship.
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Suggested correction: How is this a mistake? Unless the points are evenly distributed and all close to each other, they are going to be different distances away.
13th Aug 2023
Oppenheimer (2023)
Factual error: In the film, when Oppenheimer receives the Enrico Fermi award in 1963, Edward Lawrence congratulates him by patting him on the shoulder. Lawrence died in 1958 and could not have been there.
7th Aug 2023
Oppenheimer (2023)
Factual error: No one would have used the phrase "black hole" in 1939. The term "black hole" was first used in 1963 in "Life" and "Science News" and by Ann Ewing in an article in January of 1964. Princeton physicist John Wheeler popularised the term.
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Suggested correction: Nobody uses the term "black hole" in the movie, only the term "dark star". Oppenheimer once refers to it as a hole in space, but not a black hole.
When Oppenheimer walks into the room of cheering people (after he says he'll be in Pasadena), someone says "paper on black holes, it's in!"
Ah, yes, I see. I wonder, though, if it's really that unlikely someone would call it a black hole before it was popularized? It is essentially what they are. Certainly, it's possible somebody before 1963 called it that without it ending up in a paper. Just a coincidence, then.
7th Aug 2023
Oppenheimer (2023)
Factual error: When Edward Teller proposed that a fission explosion might ignite the atmosphere in an uncontrollable chain reaction, Oppenheimer did not go to New Jersey to consult with Einstein. He actually went to Michigan to consult with experimentalist Arthur H. Compton.
5th Aug 2023
Oppenheimer (2023)
Trivia: Christopher Nolan's daughter, Flora, has a cameo as the girl whose skin is flaking off in Oppenheimer's vision of the effects of dropping the bomb.
4th Aug 2023
Oppenheimer (2023)
Factual error: The real Edward Teller walked with a pronounced limp due to his right foot being almost entirely severed in a streetcar accident in 1928. In the film, he walks normally.
27th Jul 2023
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning (2023)
Other mistake: Grace crawls across the coal car of the train, and there are several times when she is lying completely prone. In the next scene, there's not a single smudge on her face, hands or clothes.
27th Jul 2023
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning (2023)
Factual error: The Orient Express is not powered with steam locomotives by any of the respective state railways. All of them are diesel or electric.
11th Jul 2023
Hellraiser (2022)
Factual error: During the storage unit robbery in the beginning of the film, simply knocking the combination dial off the safe would not have caused the bolts to suddenly retract. It would defeat the entire purpose of having a combination lock. Even inexpensive safes have mechanisms to prevent this from happening.
11th Jul 2023
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
Factual error: All of the police cars in New York City are painted in a blue and white livery, but until 1973, NYPD cars were painted black, white, and green.
11th Jul 2023
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
Factual error: Basil Shaw is British, but the dates in his notes about the Antikythera are all written in American format (MM-DD-YY), as opposed to DD-MM-YY.
12th Jun 2023
Cocaine Bear (2023)
Other mistake: When the bear falls on Eddie, they are facing the same direction, but Eddie says that he knows the bear is a girl "Because its vagina is on my ear."
7th Jun 2023
Knock at the Cabin (2023)
Continuity mistake: After Redmond is killed, when the flashback starts, Leonard's back is to the main door of the cabin. When the flashback is over, his back is to the kitchen.
31st May 2023
Sisu (2022)
Factual error: The tank used by the German platoon is a Soviet T54/55, which didn't come into service until 1948, after the Lapland War had ended.
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