Other mistake: If the meteor shower that hits NYC is the same one that destroyed the shuttle, how was so much time able to pass that all the newspapers were able to report on the shuttle before NYC got hit?
jbrbbt
26th Jan 2024
Armageddon (1998)
Suggested correction: Good question. Nobody says that it's the "same" shower though. All of them come from the bigger rock, and they are coming in intervals. So it could very well be some time had passed between showers. Also, the meteorites that hit the shuttle were much smaller and probably burned up in the atmosphere before bigger ones followed.
26th Jan 2024
Armageddon (1998)
Factual error: The nuke is provided by the military, not NASA. There is no reason why the NASA guys should have any access to the bomb. So, the idea of some random technician at Mission Control punching in a few numbers on a keyboard and somehow shutting off the bomb makes absolutely no sense.
1st May 2023
Contact (1997)
Plot hole: After Ellie makes her journey which she firmly believes happened she is questioned as everyone else watched the pod drop straight down into the water. But no mention is made of the chair that is violently shaken loose during her 18 hour journey. If that were to have happened in the split-second the pod fell through she would have been badly injured more than just a bump on the head.
2nd Apr 2023
Goldfinger (1964)
Continuity mistake: The wall separating the cockpit of Goldfinger's private plane seems to have disappeared when Mai Ling is waiting for Bond to lower the steps of the plane as she can be seen standing right behind Ms. Galore's seat.
11th Mar 2023
Back to the Future (1985)
Revealing mistake: When Marty begins to slump down due to fading from existence look at the guy playing the piano behind Marty, he's not even pressing the keys on the piano just putting his palms on them repeatedly.
4th Jan 2023
The Hangover (2009)
Other mistake: Isn't it supposed to be the weekend? Why is a classroom full of kids taking a tour of the police station on a Saturday?
28th Nov 2022
Aliens (1986)
Continuity mistake: When Ripley loads the magazine into the gun as she prepares to rescue Newt it says 95 rounds but when she is going down the elevator shaft it says 42 without her firing a shot.
27th Nov 2022
Aliens (1986)
Revealing mistake: The "mission time" clocks on the video screens are very inconsistent most of the time they're seen. At several points they jump back and forth from 00:01:31 to 00:01:32 then back again even though all of them are supposed to be synchronized.
20th Nov 2022
The Thing (1982)
Other mistake: Blair somehow manages to fire seven shots with his six-shot pistol.
8th Nov 2022
Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
Other mistake: There is a lot of bad continuity over how many vehicles there are. First there is Jeff's truck then Ginny shows up in her car. Later Paul says they only have two vehicles when they decide who is going to the bar. Later we see Vickie go to her own car when she's looking for her hair brush, so that's actually three vehicles. But there are at least 15 people at this camp. There would have to be more vehicles somewhere.
11th Oct 2022
Dr. No (1962)
Revealing mistake: When Honey is telling Bond how much money the shells are worth there is someone bobbing up and down just under Honey, possibly a film crew member holding an unseen microphone.
24th Sep 2022
Independence Day (1996)
Other mistake: When David asks Major Mitchell if he can shoot the soda can, Major Mitchell has to ask a nearby sergeant for his sidearm, despite already having one on him when he shot the alien earlier.
Suggested correction: He probably shot his own gun empty or nearly empty, so he removed the magazine. They fired at least 10 shots at the alien, and he planted another 3 in it up close.
12th Sep 2022
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Continuity mistake: The large sandstorm that Furiosa charges into is nowhere to be seen minutes before when Nux backs up in reverse.
2nd Sep 2022
Superman (1978)
Revealing mistake: Look carefully at the train when Superman is using himself to hold up the track during the earthquake. It's obvious the wheels of the train are not even touching the track as they pass over him.
9th Aug 2022
Superman (1978)
Plot hole: When Superman goes after the missile that's heading for New Jersey he leaves Metropolis (which is actually New York City). He would have met the missile head on, but he appears to catch up to the missile from behind and while it's still over territory somewhere around the Grand Canyon, so he probably could have stopped both missiles before the second one hit the fault line.
29th Jul 2022
The Evil Dead (1981)
Revealing mistake: When everyone in the car pulls off the bridge at the beginning they're on the path to the cabin but when Ash and his sister leave the cabin to go back to the bridge suddenly they're speeding down a gravel road.
19th Jul 2022
Clear And Present Danger (1994)
Visible crew/equipment: When the Coast Guard Captain is looking through her binoculars at the yacht the camera switches to the binoculars' point of view to show the yacht in the distance. The front of another boat is visible just below the back of yacht, this couldn't be the front of the coast guard vessel so it would have to be whatever the film crew was using to get the binoculars' point of view of the yacht probably just a few feet away.
19th Jul 2022
Goldfinger (1964)
Plot hole: Goldfinger wasn't planning on Mr. Solo breaking away from the rest of the gangsters before Goldfinger could have them all killed by the nerve gas so it makes no sense that there would already be a truck from the stud farm waiting for Oddjob to drive back with the remains of the crushed car. It also begs the question if Oddjob had to drive the truck back to the farm where is the guy that drove it to the junkyard in the first place?
18th Jul 2022
Cast Away (2000)
18th Jul 2022
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
Question: It's stated by Vader in the previous film how much he wanted to capture Luke for the Emperor by using the carbonite freezer. Boba Fett knew this. So why didn't Boba Fett take Luke into his custody to take him back to Vader instead of letting Jabba kill him with the sarlac pit?
Answer: Boba did attempt to grapple Luke with his whipcord.
Answer: Luke was a Jedi Master. He knew taking him wouldn't easy. Bobo Fett went after thugs, aliens he knew would be easy to catch. Besides, the bounty he received would have made him wealthy, plus he stayed with Jabba, which means he was on his payroll.
Answer: If you want to count new canon, the Mandalorian remnants have always harboured a grudge against the Jedi for wiping them out, save for a paltry few like Jango Fett. By the time of ROTJ, Boba (Jango's clone son, who also had to watch his father be killed by another Jedi in Ep II) has no obligation to capture Luke for monetary gain. All Luke is, in that moment, is a symbol of the very thing Boba was raised to hate, and is very keen to thus see dead.
Answer: Doing this would require Boba Fett to either convince Jabba to give Luke to him (not likely) or he'd have to steal Luke from him and ruin their business relationship. Also Boba Fett and Darth Vader never appeared particularly chummy with each other and Fett has personally witnessed Vader totally screw Lando over in their own deal, so from multiple angles any operation to take Luke in for himself and claim a reward from the Empire is likely more trouble than it's worth.
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