Corrected entry: As the announcements are made, a bundle of dynamite is thrown through the window. The fuse is half way burned when the man says "and duck!" When he ducks, the explosion occurs, but the fuse couldn't have burned that fast.
Movie Nut
7th Apr 2018
Blazing Saddles (1974)
1st Apr 2018
M*A*S*H (1972)
Dear Sigmund - S5-E7
Corrected entry: In this episode, Sidney Freedman writes a letter to Sigmund Freud, detailing his experiences at the 4077. Freud died September 23, 1939. M*A*S*H is set during the Korean War, June 25, 1950 to July 27, 1953.
Correction: Yes, Sidney's addressing Sigmund Freud in his "letter" but it's not an actual letter he's writing, it's Sidney's therapeutic way of expressing and venting his own private thoughts and feelings regarding coping mechanisms to the founder of psychoanalysis, whom he greatly respected. Sidney knows that Sigmund Freud has been dead for over a decade, and BJ even commented to Sidney that writing a letter to Sigmund Freud is a little crazy, but Sidney's reply says it all, "who better than he would understand."
11th Oct 2017
Doctor Who (2005)
Corrected entry: After the TARDIS sets down on the planet, the Doctor rushes to and opens the door to see where they are, and doesn't have his brown coat on. A second later, he emerges with his overcoat on.
Correction: We don't actually see him open the door, we see him running for the door. He could very easily have grabbed his coat from where he always leaves it and put it on before opening the door.
1st Sep 2015
Doctor Who (2005)
Corrected entry: When the cupboard is drawing the Doctor and Alex in, the crane and the table it's on falls over. But when the cupboard door closes, the table and crane are back in place.
Correction: The entire bedroom is restored to normal after the wardrobe shuts because of the reality-warping alien child. It's not a mistake.
18th Aug 2014
Doctor Who (2005)
16th May 2017
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
The Royale - S2-E12
Corrected entry: When Data is trying to talk to the elderly lady playing the slots, she is dropping coins and pulling the arm in much too rapid a fashion to allow the wheels to come to a stop. Also, she's continuing the motions as you hear the machine paying out.
Correction: The Royale is not a real place with real people or real slot machines. It was created by an alien race with one dimensional characters and the old woman is just a cliché background character that doesn't interact with anyone. Her actions are completely constant with a poorly written book being interpreted by aliens (such as "an old woman wasting time playing the slots, pulling the handle over and over until she wins and never stopping after.").
21st Jan 2018
Star Trek: Discovery (2017)
Corrected entry: As the hologram of Captain Maddox walks toward Burnham, it steps up the steps, complete with reflections on the floor. Maddox would be in a hologram projection chamber with no steps, let alone a reflection, and no steps.
Correction: First of all, there is nothing in the show that indicates "projection chambers" are used. The holograms appear to be generated from bridge so any interaction would match the room they are in. As for the reflection, the hologram doesn't produce the reflection. The floor is reflecting the hologram.
28th Sep 2015
The Munsters (1964)
Corrected entry: When Lily runs in to stop the execution, the shadow of the sand dune in the background can be seen on the back drop of the set.
Correction: Not an error. The sand dunes were supposed to look like an artificial movie set, as Herman's job at the moment was as an actor in a film about the French Foreign Legion.
24th Oct 2017
Speed (1994)
Corrected entry: As the end of the conversation about Jack getting off the bus nears, there's a picture on the TV behind Payne showing the bus going down the freeway, but the bus is on the airport tarmac at that time.
Correction: The local news coverage is, typically, replaying earlier highway footage throughout the incident. But the bomber, Howard Payne, was watching the bus the entire time with a hidden camera that had nothing to do with local news coverage. The police tell a television news crew to record the private transmission and rebroadcast it in a continuous loop, to fool Howard while the bus passengers were offloaded at the airport. So, Howard is watching his private feed, not the local news coverage. Howard still thinks the bus is on the tarmac and under his control. Too late, he realises that he was completely fooled by the video replays.
28th Sep 2016
Hogan's Heroes (1965)
The Informer - S1-E1
Corrected entry: In this episode, the German spy Hogan conducts around the Underground tunnels sees things (i.e., steam room, weapon manufacturing line, barber shop, etc.) that are never seen in the series again.
Correction: It is never made quite clear whether those were really supposed to be a thing or just part of an extremely elaborate plot to throw off the spy. Admittedly, if they were supposed to be part of the plot, the question how Hogan's men managed to set up such a complicated system in the time available would be a mistake in its own right.
10th Oct 2017
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
Corrected entry: Scott is seen in the first movie as a teenager, and is assumed to still be in this movie. However, if Dr. Evil and Frau had gotten together in 1969, then Scott would have been 30 years old in this movie, as it's set in 1999.
Correction: Scott may not be a teenager. Just very immature. Much in line with his actor Seth Green.
11th Sep 2017
Down Periscope (1996)
Corrected entry: They're supposed to be far out at sea, but in the beginning of the "walk the plank" scene, as the camera looks at Nitro, the shoreline and buildings can be seen.
Correction: This isn't a mistake since at no point is it established that they're "far out to sea". All we know is that they're out of a designated containment zone. The largest actual number given in the movie is "12,000 yards", and that's the range between ships and not ship-to-shore. Since there's no way to establish the submarine's distance to shore, having the shore visible in the background is not a mistake. Indeed, the fact that they dumped Pascal on what looks like a small fishing trawler highly suggests they ARE close to shore.
4th Jan 2015
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Corrected entry: As Ronnie backs out of the driveway, she knocks a Big Wheel across the road. She takes off as Roy falls off the hood and lands beside it. It disappears after he stands up and the angle changes.
Correction: Actually the tricycle is in the shot at 1:14:55 - 1:14:56. It is behind a tree to the very left of the screen and you can see the right rear tire and the back of the seat.
18th Jul 2017
Doctor Who (2005)
Corrected entry: As Donna appears in the TARDIS, the bouquet she was holding has disappeared. It wasn't dropped as she disappeared.
Correction: Perhaps she dropped it in the time stream.
18th Jul 2017
Doctor Who (2005)
Corrected entry: When the "human suits" are used, there is no zipper seen. When they go to open up, there's suddenly a zipper in evidence.
Correction: This is alien technology. There is also no way these suits should fit around these aliens but they do.
30th Mar 2017
Star Trek: Voyager (1995)
Corrected entry: In the Sick Bay, as Tom tries to revive the "dead" Torres, you can see her breathing because her hands are rising and falling.
Correction: It's not the real Torres, but a biomimetic copy, who knows how it will behave after it "dies."
30th May 2017
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Corrected entry: In the saloon, Howard Johnson is talking about penicillin working on anthrax. Blazing Saddles was set in 1874, but anthrax wasn't discovered until 1875.
Correction: Anthrax has been known about for a long time. The word was first used in the 1300's. In 1875, it was only the bacterium which caused anthrax that was discovered. Prior to 1875 anthrax was a disease with an unknown pathology. Howard Johnson doesn't mention penicillin though. He mentions Louis Pasteur's vaccine.
23rd May 2017
Hook (1991)
Corrected entry: As Peter walks away Hook raises his arm. As he does, the tip of the hidden sword is visible before it ejects.
Correction: How is this a mistake? He had a sword hidden up his sleeve, and it was briefly visible. If there had been a shot inside the sleeve without the sword, that would be a mistake.
The length of the sword would have prevented him from bending his arm without revealing it. It was not meant to be seen at all.
8th Mar 2017
Hogan's Heroes (1965)
Corrected entry: On the cover of the plan for Operation Hannibal, the top line says. "SEHR GEHEIM" (Top Secret). But the plan is called Operation Hannibal (translated as "betrieb hannibal"). The title says "unternehmen hannibal (translation: Companies Hannibal).
23rd Mar 2017
M*A*S*H (1972)
Corrected entry: Radar is talking with Henry. In this episode, Radar is smoking a cigar, and drinking alcohol, something he did in "Chief Surgeon Who?" But in a later episode, he has trouble when Potter is trying to teach how to smoke a cigar.
Correction: Dr Freedman explains this as the war causing Radar to regress to a more childlike state, helped along by Potter as more of a father figure.
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Correction: Given this film's parodic and absurdist nature, this very likely was intentional.
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