Question: How did Bond win the game of backgammon, with Kamal Khan, when he didn't get all his chips off the board? Even the two sixes he rolled wouldn't have done it.
kh1616
7th Sep 2017
Octopussy (1983)
Answer: Not knowing anything about backgammon so this is perhaps wrong. But I thought that Bond didn't win. And the fact that he produced the Faberge egg is what ended the game. (I'm more than likely wrong tho).
31st May 2017
Plaza Suite (1971)
Continuity mistake: Roy climbs out the window and walks along the edge, to try to get his daughter out of the bathroom. It starts to rain so his wife puts her head out the window to try and see her husband and gets soaked from the rain. Her was wet, her "hat" was wet and floppy, but after a few minutes, there is no trace of the rain; she is completely dry. And then, suddenly, she's wet again, right to the end.
5th May 2017
Poltergeist (1982)
Stupidity: The family ask 3 so-called ghost experts into the house. After seeing flying objects in the kids' room, they are suitably impressed. But later on, the female expert is sleeping, one of the men is in the kitchen wanting to cook a steak, and the second man has his back to the monitors, his head buried in a crossword puzzle and he has headphones on with music on, so he can't see, hear or see what is going on.
Suggested correction: The only one acting stupid in this scene is the guy at the monitors. They have to eat and sleep sometime; if anything, having two people awake and one asleep at a time is the cautious route. The one guy goes into the kitchen to cook a steak, but the guy at the monitors, despite being told he'll be the only one watching them, doesn't put down his drawing or take off his headphones, depriving him of sight and sound.
3rd May 2017
Salt (2010)
3rd May 2017
Salt (2010)
Continuity mistake: When Salt is arrested by the police, she is covered in a white powder. But, later, there is hardly any white powder to be seen.
3rd May 2017
Salt (2010)
Other mistake: When Salt is arrested and in the back seat of a police car, somehow she takes control and causes a lot of smashed up cars, and hits about ten large yellow bins. The problem is: Those bins are there because they have water in them, to lessen the impact of crashes, but there was no water to be seen.
3rd May 2017
Outbreak (1995)
3rd May 2017
Drowning Mona (2000)
Other mistake: At the beginning, the police say, "Mona Deary is dead." But how do they know that? The car isn't hers, it's her son's, and it's in the water. It's only when the car has been dragged out of the water that they can see the true picture.
3rd May 2017
Silent Witness (1996)
Plot hole: When Nicky goes into prison in Mexico to give a criminal a shot of insulin, two errors are seen. 1) The needle and syringe are far too big for an insulin shot, which takes a one ml syringe and a small sub-cutaneous needle. 2) When we first see the syringe, there is a small amount of insulin in it, but it grows the more times we see it, until a large syringe is two-thirds full - insulin is enough in a one ml syringe.
3rd May 2017
Dragonfly (2002)
Factual error: A young boy is brought into a paediatric emergency room, where after trying measures to save him fail and he dies - he has no heartbeat. So they use a defibrillator on him, but that's the problem: You can not use the defibrillator on someone with no heart beat, who has flatlined. The heart is an electric pump; with no spark, there is nothing to jump.
3rd May 2017
The Women (2008)
Continuity mistake: When Mary is putting her foot covers on so she can go and see Eadie who is having a baby, she puts them on three times.
3rd May 2017
The Women (2008)
Continuity mistake: When Sylvie talks to Molly on a bench in a park, Sylvie's hair keeps changing - behind her ear, in front of her ear, etc.
3rd May 2017
Capturing Mary (2007)
3rd May 2017
Skyfall (2012)
3rd May 2017
Skyfall (2012)
3rd May 2017
The Transporter (2002)
Question: Frank is fighting a lot of bad men in oil, so everything is slippery. My question is: What are the things Frank puts on the front of his feet, to fight the slippery oil, they are like half-rollerskates?
Chosen answer: You notice that Frank removes those items from a bicycle frame. Those are stirrup-style rat trap bicycle pedals. They have serrated metallic edges which supposedly give Frank traction on the concrete floor, despite the oily mess.
3rd May 2017
Stargate (1994)
Trivia: The producers, the casting agents, really wanted Jaye Davidson, from "The Crying Game", to play the head bad guy, but Jaye said, "No more movies", so they kept upping the money they would pay him - this is before actors nowadays get phenomenal money - and it was only when they got to a million dollars that he said yes.
3rd May 2017
Ladyhawke (1985)
Other mistake: After Phillipe escapes from the dungeons of Aquila, the head of the guards demands 10 men to go with him, to recapture Phillipe. But as they leave, we can see only 6 men accompany him.
28th Apr 2017
Casino Royale (2006)
28th Apr 2017
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Tom: What is the Maltese Falcon made of, to make it so special?
Spade: The stuff that dreams are made of.
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Answer: Bond (taking over for the Major) had 1 piece on point 2, 1 piece on point 3, and 2 pieces on point 6. Rolling doubles in Backgammon means you get to make 4 moves instead of just 2, so he was able to remove all 4 pieces. If you have a piece on point 2, you don't have to roll a 2 to remove it. Anything higher than a 2 can be used to remove the piece. Kahn even says Bond has to roll a double 6 in order to win, which he does.
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