Trivia: The song "Jailhouse Rock" is introduced by Elvis at about 1:04:40, where he talks about being in jail with "a bunch of men." And again, "these men" had a lot of fun. Then the line "No. 47 said to No. 3, you're the cutest jailbird I ever did see..." etc. So he is really describing same-sex relationships in the prison. Very ahead of his time. (01:04:40)
PeterNZ
28th Feb 2025
Jailhouse Rock (1957)
13th Oct 2024
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
Continuity mistake: Data is driving a pair of brown horses pulling an enclosed carriage. You can see the side of the carriage as it comes around the corner. Next shot, when they climb aboard, it is open-sided. (00:17:40)
16th Feb 2024
Aliens (1986)
Continuity mistake: From Director's Cut. The scene where Al is being quizzed about the ownership of the discovery of the object discovered by the "Mom and Pop" survey team tells us that a call has been put in by that team to the base. But then when they discover the ship, where is the call? They explicitly do not call it in. Now this is not just a general enquiry because they were sent out there two weeks ago to a specific grid reference. "He says he's onto something." (00:16:34 - 00:18:38)
20th Dec 2023
Deep Impact (1998)
19th Dec 2023
Mackenna's Gold (1969)
15th Oct 2023
Back to the Future Part III (1990)
Continuity mistake: When Clara is about to leave Doc's workshop, the position of Doc's hand on the telescope alters each time we move from rear to front shot. (01:08:09)
15th Oct 2023
Back to the Future Part III (1990)
Factual error: Preparing to run the model train in Doc's workshop, Marty connects the clamp to the positive terminal. But he actually connects to the white ceramic insulator. Doc correctly connects to the negative metal terminal. (01:10:01)
5th Oct 2023
Time Tunnel (1966)
Continuity mistake: At the very end of this episode, when they have just arrived in the new time, Doug is fighting a man in a turban. He loses the turban, but then the next shot, it has reappeared on his head. (00:48:54)
1st Jul 2023
Deep Impact (1998)
Other mistake: How can it be named Wolf-Beiderman? Wolf never sent the email, and even if it did go, once the network was restored, he never called it Wolf-B before writing it on the floppy label. The president says both were killed in the crash. So, they invent an astronomer working at the observatory and no one notices? Remember, the floppy was destroyed in the fire. Wolf never called anyone; he was killed while trying to make a call. Maybe the pics were also burned. Mr. Perry never followed up?
Suggested correction: We didn't see him send the email, but that doesn't mean it didn't happen. We know he sent it because it's stated that's what happened.
19th May 2023
The Neptune Factor (1973)
Continuity mistake: The attachment to the minisub is inconsistent. It is an open hook first then as it's being lifted it becomes an enclosed shackle looking quite different. Plus a figure now appears on the roof. Ben Gazzara has just gone below. (00:57:42)
2nd Jul 2022
Magellan (2017)
Factual error: The film informs us the gravity on Neptune's moon Triton is less than 8% of Earth's. But the whole physics of the rocks and his movement on the surface do not reflect that. The actual surface is frozen nitrogen. The difficulty he has in moving around is not well correlated by him only weighing 7kg. Https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5361488/.
18th Oct 2021
Top Gun (1986)
Continuity mistake: When Cougar is looking at the picture of his wife and child, it's a girl. When he is interviewed by the Captain, he says "I almost orphaned him..." (00:10:14 - 00:13:03)
Suggested correction: He actually says "I almost orphaned 'em out there today" ie. Orphaned THEM not him.
Except he follows it up with "I've never even seen him." So he's talking about a boy. And before the orphan line he said "wife and kid", not "wife and kids", implying only one child.
And he couldn't have orphaned them anyway if their mother is still living. Dude was all shook up and couldn't think straight.
17th Sep 2021
Star Trek (1966)
Continuity mistake: In the turbolift, Chekov is standing to the left, but when the door opens he has moved to the right and exits behind Spock. (00:10:40)
16th Mar 2021
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
Continuity mistake: When Buster approaches the table, we see the glass is about 1/3 full. Next shot it's 2/3 full. Then it's picked up by the chap with the goatee, But it reappears on the table at "weapon." Next, at the wide shot, it's empty, (as are all the glasses, also the other glasses were full, now they are empty).
16th Mar 2021
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
Continuity mistake: In the saloon scene, Buster sits at the table, then later stands up. He is right next to the table. Then we see a wider side shot, where he and his chair have teleported away from the table. He does his kicks then he is back close by the table again.
30th May 2020
Our Man Flint (1966)
Revealing mistake: The drums that the women escape in are anchored to the seabed because they are sitting upright, even when empty and the boat driving off. (01:44:25)
6th May 2020
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964)
Other mistake: Aside from the error of having mines so densely packed and so close to the bottom so deep, there is no possible way the Seaview could have settled to the bottom while passing through this minefield without being destroyed. (00:48:00)
29th Sep 2018
The Avengers (1961)
The 50,000 Pound Breakfast - S5-E19
Continuity mistake: The clock showing London time is 12.15 when Emma is captured. Shortly after, the ticker timer goes off, it looks like almost 5 or 6 o'clock. But the ticker message is timed at 12.15. A short time later, after the escape, it shows 10.40.
20th Mar 2018
Time Tunnel (1966)
Continuity mistake: Jiggs goes back with a bag of grenades and a machine gun. He fires the gun, but when he is jumped on by the Trojan, the bag is gone. An object which may be a bag is lying on the ground, but is not the one he brought. No further mention is made of the grenades. (00:21:20)
29th Jan 2018
Time Tunnel (1966)
Visible crew/equipment: When Alba says "He's in this room" books start flying off the shelves. You can see the device used to push the books off the shelves come forward then be retracted. (00:41:00)
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