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12th Dec 2013

Lethal Weapon (1987)

Revealing mistake: As Joshua's chopper gets away, the camera follows it for a moment, then pans up to a long shot of the mansion. As it does so, the blades of the camera chopper can be seen at the top of the shot for a moment.

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10th Dec 2013

M*A*S*H (1970)

Revealing mistake: When the helicopter that takes the departing nurse that took care of Painless is in a close up, and as it turns away from the camera, you can see the reflection of the lights for the camera.

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6th Dec 2013

Popeye (1980)

Revealing mistake: During the fight, Popeye ducks Oxheart's swings. If you watch carefully, it appears to be the same swing repeated multiple times from different angles.

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5th Dec 2013

Men in Black (1997)

Revealing mistake: When James Edwards (later, J) catches the alien in the beginning and has him next to a wall, the alien pulls out a "reverberating carbonizer with mutate capacity" to shoot J. A quick tussle, and the alien drops the gun. When the camera goes to a close up on the gun, watch carefully. You see it quickly fade out of view after it comes to rest, and replaced with a few burning sparkle effects to simulate disintegration.

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One Armed Bandits - S1-E1

Revealing mistake: Three times during the final chase there are close ups of the boys in the General Lee. If you look, the car is stationary on a brown dirt road, and the car is being shaken to simulate driving.

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One Armed Bandits - S1-E1

Revealing mistake: When there is a close up of the boys the first time they are driving through the junkyard, you can see through the passenger window that the car is being shaken to simulate driving.

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25th Nov 2013

Hogan's Heroes (1965)

Revealing mistake: When the Grinch is powering up his sled, he's turning on switches. The circular display is dark, then turns on during the process. If you look closely, you see the grid and the big black arrow on it before it is lit up.

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21st Nov 2013

A Christmas Story (1983)

Revealing mistake: When Ralphie is walking along after getting the C+ on his theme, he gets hit with a "snowball sandwich." if you look closely at his face and eyes, you can see that he has his eyes closed in expectation of getting hit.

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21st Nov 2013

Hogan's Heroes (1965)

Revealing mistake: When the eyes are watching the couple in the room from the painting, the eyes look like they are animated eyes matted into the shot, because they are not vertically steady in the shot. (00:46:55)

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Suggested correction: She chose a more random firing pattern as the targets got further away. Duh.

Revealing mistake: During the dinner, Dennis is addressing his sister. As she comes over by him, look at his left sleeve. It appears to be matted in, as it has a definite line at the edge of the fabric, where all other edges are softer. Then as Eldona sits the plate down, you can see a flutter between the images of Dennis' arm and the plate. Then, as Eldona turns around, you can see her dress through the gap between Dennis' arm and the plate. (00:36:30)

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15th Nov 2013

Hogan's Heroes (1965)

Color the Luftwaffe Red - S4-E8

Revealing mistake: When the truck with Hogan and company pulls up to the Luftwaffe HQ, the camera pans to the right to look at Klink getting out of the side car. When the camera cuts back to Hogan and company, they shake as if the truck just stopped, but it can be seen that the truck was stationary.

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15th Nov 2013

Hogan's Heroes (1965)

11th Nov 2013

Tron (1982)

Revealing mistake: With the exception of the set up and ending "real world" sequences, this is all in the digital world. There is no sun, yet when Tron, Flynn and RAM are drinking at the pool of energy, there is a reflection of what appears to be a plaza and a bright day outside the windows.

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11th Nov 2013

Tron (1982)

Revealing mistake: When the first of the blue bikes hits the wall and makes the hole, there is a rubber tyre bouncing away from the explosion. Any time that you see the back wheel of the cycles, there is no rubber tire. This is supposed to be the digital world. Even the tanks, with all the accompanying sounds does not have rubber on the tracks, as there are no tracks.

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9th Nov 2013

Tron (1982)

Revealing mistake: When the guard on top of the cells is ushering Flynn out, you can plainly see his shadow cast on the solid floor. The action below is obviously superimposed.

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