Continuity mistake: When Lee and Kenji are in the restaurant on the Eiffel Tower, Kenji cuts Lee's right arm which leaves a rip in his suit. A few shots later when Carter comes in disguised as Genevieve the rip is no longer there, and doesn't reappear throughout the remainder of the movie.
Bishop73
16th Nov 2015
Rush Hour 3 (2007)
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Suggested correction: The cut is still there and you can see it a number of times throughout the scenes. There's just a lot of fabric and movement that's it's hard to see at times. But you can see it when he spins with the sword, when he reaches his hand out to grab Kenji, and when hanging on the net.
7th Oct 2019
Rush Hour 3 (2007)
Continuity mistake: The French police took away their guns while they were in the airport but in the cab, Carter pulls a gun on the cab driver.
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31st May 2022
Green Acres (1965)
Plot hole: Oliver and Lisa are in a truck, taking a load of apples to the Farmers Market in the state capital. Oliver says it's a "15-hour drive." Driving 30 miles an hour, that would be 450 miles. Driving 40 miles an hour, that would be 600 miles. It was never specified where Green Acres is located but only Alaska, Texas and California extend for such a distance north-to-south and/or east-to-west.
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Suggested correction: He doesn't say it's a 15-hour drive. He says it's a 15-hour trip, which could mean the drive there and back total 15 hours. Or he could be taking into account all the times they'll be stopping and traffic. Not to mention that the driving distance between two cities is always greater than as the crow flies. Two cities might be 100 miles apart but the drive may end up being 150 miles.
30th May 2022
Pretty Little Liars (2010)
Character mistake: When Allison falls down the stairs her fiancé says "EMILY!"
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Suggested correction: He shouts "Ali", short for Allison, not Emily.
Suggested correction: He shouts, "Ali" which is short for Allison.
14th Oct 2021
A Quiet Place Part II (2020)
Revealing mistake: The "baby" looked quite "rubbery" at times and its limited movements (even motionless) and lack of sound are indicative of a "fake" baby (doll) most of the time. The baby was mostly kept covered in some kind of box and did not even cry when the mother was running with it (while in her arms or in the box). (00:14:35 - 00:20:30)
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Suggested correction: This is not really a "revealing mistake." Fake babies are used in movies all the time. Due to the complexities of filmmaking, it is simply impractical and impossible to use real infants for most scenes. Child safety and labor laws strictly limits how long a baby can be on set. A fake baby may or may not look "rubbery" but that is what they had to work with.
Your correction is precisely what makes it a revealing mistake. Explaining why a mistake occurs doesn't invalidate the mistake. You could only argue that it doesn't look fake or a real baby was used, but since that's not the case, the mistake stands.
A "mistake" is an unplanned and/or unwanted circumstance. Obviously using a fake baby was an intentional decision. At best, this should be classified as a "Deliberate Mistake."
This very website defines "revealing" mistakes as: "Anything which gives away filming techniques, such as stunt wires being visible, or glass smashing before anyone goes through it." (And I could be wrong, but I believe the definition used to be even broader.) An obviously fake baby falls under that umbrella, and always has. You simply can't argue that it's not a revealing mistake by the rules of this site just because it was a deliberate choice by the filmmakers. Heck, even under your strict definition of mistake (which is very problematic, because it doesn't really account for plenty of things that 99.9% of people would commonly consider "movie mistakes"), it's still a mistake, since the filmmakers wanted people to think it's real, and we obviously don't - ergo an unplanned circumstance.
It is a revealing mistake. They could have used CGI, shot some baby sequences separately and edited them in, etc. There are many ways they could have done things differently; they would just have been more complicated and cost more. The option they went with wasn't all they had to work with; it's just what they chose to work with.
14th Dec 2018
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
Continuity mistake: When Valerian makes the thug fall through the floor in Big Market it leaves a hole behind, but when he is chased out a few moments later the hole is gone.
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12th Oct 2006
Vice Versa (1988)
Continuity mistake: When Charlie (in Marshall's body) goes to the final executive meeting, he dons a pair of glasses with an ear receiver attached by wires to one of the bows. When he removes the eyeglasses prior to leaving the meeting, the earpiece remains in his ear.
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Suggested correction: It was established when the salesman was talking about the device that the part attached to the glasses was the antenna and it came with a separate earpiece.
24th May 2022
Ghosts (US) (2021)
Farnsby & B - S1-E18
Corrected entry: Alberta asks Sam to keep looking for evidence that she was murdered, but that was answered in episode 9 when Alberta's Fan discovered the poisoned moonshine in her bag.
Correction: Alberta wasn't asking for Sam to keep looking for evidence she was murdered, she wanted Sam to keep working on solving her murder. They knew she was murdered, but they didn't know who did it.
24th May 2022
Creepshow 2 (1987)
Revealing mistake: When the elder Indian (Native American) with the black hat steps out of the yellow car at the beginning, and says hi to the shop owner, then Hi to the wooden Indian chief. You can see the Indian chief move slightly, indicating it is not a wooden statue, but a real person under the getup. (00:04:52)
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Suggested correction: The scene where he moves is intentional. In fact, Old Chief Wood'nhead is played by Dan Kamin, and he moves a lot more later on.
Suggested correction: He does give a shocked look when he sees the statue move its head a bit.
29th Jul 2005
Anchorman (2004)
Continuity mistake: After Ron cleans himself up at the bar, we get a good closeup shot of his face, and there is no colored makeup. When Ron got to the zoo, he went straight into the bear pit to help Veronica. After coming from the bear pit, he goes on camera with blue makeup around his eyes. Did the bears put it on him?
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10th Feb 2007
Anchorman (2004)
Plot hole: At the end of the movie when getting out of the bear pit, the crew decides to use a ladder when a set of stairs can be seen. Was this so Vince Vaughn could give his respect speech?
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Suggested correction: You forgot to mention the stairs are also in the bear cave and there's no guarantee they lead out of the pit.
27th Jul 2005
Anchorman (2004)
Other mistake: In the scene where Ron and Veronica are in the car overlooking San Diego talking about the name, you can see just above Veronica's head, a bug climbing on the camera.
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25th Jul 2005
Anchorman (2004)
Factual error: Although the film is set in the 1970's, when Brian Fantana is on the phone talking with a distraught Ron Burgundy, a Rubik's Cube is seen on the desk. Rubik's Cube was not sold until the early 1980's.
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Suggested correction: First of, what it is isn't Rubik's original "Magic Cube" (later called Rubik's Cube). It's a 2x2x2 puzzle that looks like what Larry Nichols invented in 1968 and patent in 1972. The Rubik's Cube is 3x3x3.
30th Jan 2002
Jurassic Park III (2001)
Other mistake: When the Navy picks up the survivors, the person on the radio says that they have 6 souls on board. They only picked up 5 people.
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Suggested correction: The 5 he picked up and including himself.
This correction really makes no sense. The pilot says "6 souls on board" but there's at least 9 on board. Grant, Paul, Amanda, and Eric, were picked up. Billy was already on board. Then there was the Man in Suit, 2 pilots, and a what appears to be an attending medical officer.
29th Jan 2005
Anchorman (2004)
Corrected entry: In the pool party scene at the beginning of the movie, Ron is seen holding a half-empty drink with nothing else in it. He then looks for Veronica and in the next shot is seen holding a drink with ice, straw, green umbrella and orange slice. The drink remains unchanged for the rest of the time he talks to Veronica. (00:08:50 - 00:11:10)
Correction: The half empty drink Ron is holding is his scotch, which he throws out of his hand before jumping into the pool. The drink in his hand during the rest of the shots is an entirely new drink.
19th May 2022
Still Alice (2014)
Corrected entry: When Alice is making the video with instructions about how to commit suicide, we see her typewritten notes, and she has misspelled "labeled", something a linguistics professor wouldn't do.
Correction: Both "labeled" and "labelled" are correct spellings of the word. Labeled is chiefly the American spelling whereas labelled is chiefly the British spelling. It should be noted, co-writer Wash Westmoreland is British.
However, Alice has the disease! She was already deep into it when diagnosed. By the time she is making the video she may not have had the ability to proofread.
Alice spoke and wrote American English, regardless of the cowriter.
Alice was an English (American) linguistics professor. She would have correctly written the American version.
There is no "correct" American version. Both are acceptable in America.
The "American version" would only be a "preferred" or predominant spelling but, as already pointed out, either spelling is acceptable. [It is still an interesting "catch", perhaps worthy of turning into a "trivia" entry.].
20th May 2022
Judge Dredd (1995)
Corrected entry: After all the gunmen in Heavenly Haven are eliminated, Dredd is rambling off to the leader the list of offences and how many years in prison they hold. The last he says is first-degree murder of a judge. This was not first degree murder. No predetermination.
Correction: First off, this is set in the future where the rules for 1st degree murder may be different. Second, one can be convicted of 1st degree murder if the death occurred during the commission of certain violent felonies (felony murder rule) without premeditation being a factor.
20th May 2022
Treasure of Nadia
Character mistake: The first time that Diana mentions the mysterious civilization that produced the 'treasure', she mentions that "They survived in isolation until the 1500's." It's a plural, 1500s, no apostrophe.
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Suggested correction: Both versions are acceptable depending what style guide someone chooses to follow. Anyone saying different is just stating an opinion (well, until all style guides decide to follow one rule). It's similar to plural letters, as in "mind your p's and q's."
18th May 2022
Three's Company (1977)
Character mistake: When Felipe thinks Jack proposed to his cousin Maria, Felipe is happy and congratulates Jack. Later in the episode though, Maria's fiancé shows up and Felipe is shown as already knowing about him. Why wouldn't Felipe tell Jack that Maria was already engaged instead of showing happiness of Jack's "proposal"?
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Suggested correction: You missed the entire plot of the episode. Maria's fiancé broke off the engagement, so she went to Felipe's. Then, when he thought Jack had proposed, he was happy. But Jack thought he was happy for offering her a job. Jack then begins talking about Maria as an employee (like trying her out in the kitchen and getting someone to train her). But Felipe thought Jack meant those things about Maria being his wife and got mad at Jack. Then told Jack he's not marrying Maria.
18th May 2022
A Day to Die (2022)
Trivia: Willis' LAST film that will be released. It was filmed about a year before the 4/04/22 announcement that he was diagnosed with aphasia (a type of frontotemporal dementia that affects the ability to speak, write, and understand written language) and "stepping away from acting."
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Suggested correction: I'm not sure what you mean by this is his last film to be released when 3 films have been released since "A Day to Die" came out. Not to mention 2 upcoming films set to be released shortly. Plus, Willis had finished 3 Lionsgate films whose releases are unknown.
Fake news? I read this somewhere on-line.
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