Factual error: Sometime when Chula the spider is chasing Fievel, he sings a version of "Itsy bitsy spider." However the film takes place in the 1890's and the song "Itsy bitsy spider" was not written until 1910.
Bishop73
7th Oct 2022
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991)
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Suggested correction: It had been around for much longer than that, that's just the oldest book we have a record of which listed it.
Except the 1910 version was the "Spider Song" since it didn't use the words "itsy bitsy" and those lyrics didn't come until later in the 40's.
7th Sep 2006
Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)
Continuity mistake: Hugh Heffner disappears. In one clip he is right next to Axel. Three to four seconds later he is nowhere to be seen, even though the camera pans around, and the spot is quite crowded.
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Suggested correction: After he tells them they need to leave, he's off camera for long enough to walk away. When the camera pans around, it doesn't show the area he would have walked away towards.
24th Jul 2010
Casper (1995)
Corrected entry: It is said that ghosts don't crossover as long as they have unfinished business. This means Casper, Stretch, Fatso and Stinky should have unfinished business, but why they are present is never explained.
Correction: I don't see how this could be considered a plot hole. It's just an element that they decided to ignore. The story is about the misadventures of a friendly ghost and some annoying ghosts. Why they're there really doesn't play a part in the theme of the movie.
That still doesn't answer the question as to what their unfinished business is which they have seen as how they haven't crossed over.
27th Aug 2001
What about Bob? (1991)
Continuity mistake: Leo Marvin is at the window watching Bob 'leave' and he is holding the newspaper in his left hand. Then he waves and it is still in his left hand. When he walks towards his family it is in his right. He could have switched, but that is some pretty fast switching.
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Suggested correction: He could have switched. It, for me, wasn't that fast.
I agree. It wasn't a continuous shot, and he's off camera for 3-4 seconds before we see the paper switch hands.
25th Sep 2022
The Waltons (1972)
Corrected entry: When Grandma / Esther takes Jon-boy aside to ask him about his grandfather's whereabouts, she says "Zeb" instead 'your Grandpa'.
Correction: That's not a mistake, character or otherwise. She simply used her husband's name. She even says Zeb several times through the episode. My own Grandparents and parents have switched between using their spouses' names or saying "your ___" depending on the situation.
Correction: While the kids are entertaining themselves with hand shadow puppets, Esther pulls John, not John-Boy, aside and asks, "Isn't Zeb with you?" In fact, twice she says "Zeb" to John, about his own father. And later while Zeb is sitting on Ike's pool table, Zeb says, "Esther" when he's talking to John-Boy. Zeb does this again with John-Boy when he learns Esther's going to the dance. This type of thing occurs throughout the series; it's normal.
25th Sep 2022
The Waltons (1972)
Other mistake: Maryellen wears visible eyeliner throughout the show, despite being during the depression. She wouldn't be wearing any makeup.
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Suggested correction: Why wouldn't she be wearing makeup during the depression? Especially if it was just a small amount. This isn't a mistake, just your opinion. Women continued to wear makeup during the depression, and not just starlets or the rich and famous. In fact, makeup sales overall hardly took a dip during the depression because women through the US were still buying it.
Despite that women did wear it during the Depression, part of the factor being that the Waltons wouldn't afford such a luxury, considering their very tight pockets. Otherwise, we'd see Olivia preening herself also, before she goes anywhere. But doesn't even wear lipstick. And Maryellen is never 'caught' actually putting on the eye makeup. So it's likely not any opinion.
24th Sep 2022
The Breakfast Club (1985)
Corrected entry: When Andrew does his run around the second floor of the library he passes by a state flag with a confederate emblem on it. The film is supposed to take place in Illinois, that state was part of the Union, not the Confederacy.
Correction: This isn't a mistake. It was the Georgia State flag. But the library has several different flags that we see, so it would make sense the library simply had all the State flags hanging around. Not to mention this was filmed in an actual Illinois high school.
25th Jul 2005
Over The Top (1987)
Corrected entry: To make the movie seem as authentic as possible, Stallone told the guy playing Bull not to take it easy on him when it was time for them to shoot the final scene of their match together. The guy laughed about the idea but still agreed to do so even though he warned Stallone that he may hurt him. Stallone, made him eat those words when he beat him for real. Everything in that scene is authentic except for close-up shots of their face that were done later due to injuries that both men suffered while the scene was being filmed. Stallone suffered a strained forearm while Bull Hurley's character suffered a dislocated shoulder. The cry from him that you can hear when Stallone is pulling his arm down at the end is the real thing. That's when it happened.
Correction: I don't know where you came up with Stallone beating Zumwalt for real. Not on his best day and with two Arms. Rick Zumwalt was a real arm wrestler. By the time they filmed the finals Stallone could barely pull. He did way too much, thinking because he trained all the time. It would be easy. Arm wrestling is an entirely different sport, and everyone in the beginning deals with unimaginable pain.
I tried to look up stories of Stallone actually beating Zumwalt. In all the stories from the people and wrestlers at the tournament, nothing is mentioned about it. Only that the punch from Zumwalt was real. There's only one source I found "10 things you didn't know about 'Over the Top'" by Tom Foster. The trivia entry is almost word for word copy of some the "facts" listed. However, Foster doesn't site any sources, quote anyone, or mention at all where he got this information.
20th Sep 2022
Brain Games (2011)
Corrected entry: There is a part where they ask you to pay attention as the waiter bring you some food. Later, they reveal that the food was just pictures made to look 3-D. But, as the waiter is setting the food out, you can notice how the water moves in the flower vase and the crackers slightly wobble as the waiter's hand slips over them, revealing that they switched out real food for pictures.
Correction: This isn't a mistake, you just described what they did, and they even tell you what they did. Yes, everything was real to start and you were supposed to know it was real. You were supposed to spot when it stopped being real and became the pictures. They took the pictures (off camera) after placing the real items down.
11th Oct 2017
Halloween (2007)
Character mistake: When Sheriff Brackett is talking to Loomis at the food stand, he calls him Don. His name is Sam. Even says it in the subtitles. (01:19:35)
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Suggested correction: He could possibly be saying "Doc".
No, he's definitely saying "Don." It's never been addressed, but I think it's an honest mistake with two people who have never met before and maybe an homage to Donald Pleasance, who played Loomis before.
It's hard to say, but it does sound like "Don." The sheriff says "doc" two times later in the same scene and those two times definitely sounds different than the first time. But I don't think it's meant to be a homage to anyone. I think it's just an actor who flubbed the word.
17th Sep 2022
That'll Be the Day (1973)
Factual error: Towards the end of this film when Jeanette is talking to Jim while he is working on his van, a modern red convertible car drives past them in the background.
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Suggested correction: This is too vague an entry, what model and year is the car seen? I certainly couldn't identify it. The scene is seems to be set in the early 60's, so what do you consider a modern car when this is a 1973 film.
17th Sep 2022
Gunsmoke (1955)
Character mistake: When Festus is arresting his cousin portrayed by Shug Wooley, as he helps him up off the floor, he distinctly calls him Henry when that cousin's name is Emory.
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Suggested correction: He calls him "Emery." He even says his name earlier in the scene shortly after he walks in and he pronounces it the same way. There wasn't even a character or actor in the episode named Henry, so it's not as if he mixed up the name.
13th Sep 2022
Kings Row (1942)
Other mistake: When Randy is making coffee in the kitchen with Parris, she pours the coffee out, rinses the pot, dumps the rinse water, then places the empty pot on the stove.
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Suggested correction: You just described someone making fresh coffee in a clean pot. You forgot to mention after she puts the empty pot back on the stove she pours in the coffee grounds and adds water from the kettle on the stove.
12th Sep 2022
The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
Corrected entry: Self cleaning ovens were not invented yet but Clint Eastwood refers to them at the kitchen table with Meryl Streep.
Correction: Thermador invented the first self-cleaning oven in 1963 while the film is set in 1965.
21st Jan 2018
John Carter (2012)
Factual error: Carter's war record says he won the Southern Cross of Honor during the American Civil War. While this medal was authorised, it was never actually awarded.
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Suggested correction: John Carter isn't a real person either. This is science fiction, not a historical documentary.
It's still a valid point that he has a decoration that was never awarded. It's mostly science fiction, but the parts that take place in the real world are supposed to take place in the real world.
I think you're missing the point. The medal could have been awarded during that time, but no real person actually was awarded it. There's nothing preventing someone from being awarded it, and John Carter, as a fictional character, was awarded the medal. It would only be a mistake if they showed a real person who actually existed be awarded the medal or if the medal was never commissioned at that time.
3rd Jun 2003
The Italian Job (2003)
Factual error: During the escape at the end of the movie, when the Minis come out of the pipe and drop down into the basin of the LA River they fall nose first into the pavement. However, with approximately 9 million dollars worth of gold in the trunks of the cars, they would be back heavy, not front heavy, and fall more evenly or even back first. It's been suggested that Wrench could have put a ton of weight up front to balance the cars properly, but the amount of gold carried in those special boxes loaded into the back end of the very short wheelbase Minis could not be balanced even by the legendary Wrench without severely re-engineering the vehicle. If that was possible, the handling of the unladen Mini would be woeful, and the chase scene BEFORE the subway gold heist would be impossible. The Minis would have fallen like bricks nose-first onto the subway track when jumping from the platform.
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Suggested correction: I have spoken with an expert in vehicle dynamics and physics, and he said that the falling of the vehicles is absolutely correct. He has seen the movie and finds nothing wrong with the scene. The front of the car starts falling first, and therefore will land first. The cars would have to fall a much greater distance for the weight to take over and cause the back of the car to drop and hit first - it would have to have fallen perhaps as much as 25-30 feet. I know it seems counter-intuitive, but in reality it was real as presented.
Sorry, your expert must have been a friend of the stunt coordinator. It was the worst car stunt mistake of all time and why they never balanced the cars and reshot the scene is anybody's guess.
Of course the front end starts to fall first, that's the point of the mistake, it should be backend heavy. If you watch the scene, it's clear there's a ramp at the end of the tube (whether intentionally done by the characters or for stunt purposes). When the cars hit the ramp, they fly up so that the front end is up in the air above the back end. Then the cars fall front end first, fairly quickly, that if even if they fell from higher up, the back end would never fall faster than the front.
9th Sep 2022
Liar Liar (1997)
Corrected entry: Fletcher is physically incapable of lying, but he says "I'm kicking my ass" when he isn't literally kicking his own ass. His foot did not touch his ass.
Correction: He's incapable of lying but that doesn't mean he has to be literal about everything. The term "kicking ass" rarely involves a foot to the ass and just means a beating, which is what he was doing to himself.
9th Sep 2022
The Guardian (2006)
Corrected entry: In the "swim records" scene, the records listed are impossible to achieve in any Coast Guard vessel, let alone swimming! (500 yard gear swim in 5.48 seconds...800 yards...10.63 seconds, etc etc). That would equate to about 200 mph roughly. That's some FAST swimming.
Correction: You're misreading the time. It's not 5.48 seconds or 10.63 seconds. It's 5:39 and 10:49 Meaning 5 minutes and 39 seconds and 10 minutes and 49 seconds. Which is over 60 times slower than what you have him swimming.
9th Sep 2022
Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1992)
The Tale of the Chameleons - S5-E4
Corrected entry: The chameleon, disguised as Janice, eats a goldfish out of an aquarium. Chameleons do not eat fish. They mostly eat insects, fruits, and vegetables.
Correction: Chameleons also don't turn into humans and make humans turn into chameleons. It was a monster creature, not a real chameleon and can eat what it wants.
8th Sep 2022
Warning (2021)
Factual error: Some of the set props are too out-dated or obsolete to be included in a science fiction movie set in the "near future" where an android companion costs $40 million, there are various technological advances, and the "God 2.0" system has an "eternal battery life": e.g, rotary phones, old-style bulky CRT TVs, radiator wall heater, camcorder, key-start cars without navigation, old radio, wind-up alarm clock, hand potato masher, old huge headphones, stacks of books, table fan, "rabbit ear" antenna. (00:02:48 - 00:06:54)
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Suggested correction: First, this is in no way a factual mistake. Second, it's only your opinion that the props are out of date or obsolete. At best, you could submit a stupidity mistake for a certain character using a specific outdated piece of technology despite having advanced technology everywhere else. I know people who play videos games on a PS5 and an original NES. Why wouldn't they play an outdated gaming system?
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