Marcus Burnett: Look, all our lives, we've been bad boys, all right? Now it's time to be good men.
Mike Lowery: Who, in the hell, wanna sing that song? [Singing poorly] Good men, good men. What you gonna do?
Marcus: Well, maybe if you sang the song like you meant it, it'd catch on.
Bishop73
17th Jul 2020
Bad Boys for Life (2020)
17th Jul 2020
Bad Boys for Life (2020)
Trivia: The man who hits on Rita at the club is director Bilall Fallah, while the man whose car is taken by Mike Lowrey when leaving the club is director Adil El Arbi.
16th Jul 2020
TURN: Washington's Spies (2014)
Continuity mistake: When Judge Woodhull is shot and falls to the ground, his and Abraham's positions keep changing depending on the shot. In one shot the Judge will be on his side, but on his back in the next. And Abraham has both hands on his father's wound, and in the next shot, one on his father's upper chest.
16th Jul 2020
TURN: Washington's Spies (2014)
Mercy Moment Murder Measure - S1-E7
Deliberate mistake: When Abraham throws the secret note into the fire, he crumples it up before tossing it in. But then we see a shot of the note lying open and flat on the log before burning. Not only would the note not be able to uncrumple itself, it shows no sign of being crumpled in the first place. This was obviously done deliberately so the audience could read the note one last time.
8th Jul 2020
Ford v Ferrari (2019)
Question: During La Mans, it shows Shelby taking a stopwatch from Ferrari's pit and dropping a nut on the floor. Is there any indication Shelby ever cheated during a race like this (whether at Le Mans or somewhere else)? Like, was he ever caught or accused of cheating? I get there's a lot of artistic licensing taking place in this film, so I understand if it was made up, just curious if it was based on anything from Shelby's life.
4th Jul 2020
Killing Gunther (2017)
[Helicopter taking off.]
Blake: [Yelling] No! He got to the chopper!
4th Jul 2020
The IT Crowd (2006)
Roy: Hello, IT. Have you tried turning it off and on again? [Sighs] OK, well, the button on the side, is it glowing? Yeah, you need to turn it on. Uh, the button turns it on. Yeah. You...Yeah...You do know how a button works, don't you? No, not on clothes.
Moss: Hello, IT. Yeah huh. Have you tried forcing an unexpected reboot?
Roy: No, no, there you go. No there you go. I just heard it come on. No, no, that's the music you hear when it comes on. No, that's the music you hear when... I'm sorry, are you from the past?
Moss: You see, the driver hooks a function by patching the system call table so it's not safe to unload unless another thread's about to jump in there and do its stuff And you don't want to end up in the middle of invalid memory. [Laughs]. Hello?
4th Jul 2020
The Great Outdoors (1988)
Connie: [Yelling at Kate] Oh! Well, go find yourself a spin cycle!
Chet: [Yelling at Kate] Yeah, go find yourself a spin cycle. [To Connie] What the hell is that suppose to mean?
3rd Jul 2020
Legends of Tomorrow (2016)
Factual error: The Legends are stranded in England and wait for a bus to London. However, the bus that pulls up is left-hand drive, when it should be a right-hand drive one.
2nd Jul 2020
The Flash (2014)
Tricksters - S1-E17
Axel Walker: There's just one thing I've been dying to ask. Why did you choose me?
James Jesse: Because I knew you had the strength to fulfill my legacy. Besides, it was in your blood.
Axel: Wait. What do you mean in my blood?
James: The real reason I tracked you down and groomed you to be the best you could possibly be, Axel... I am your father.
30th Jun 2020
Arrow (2012)
Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Four - S8-E8
Trivia: When Barry/Flash is in the Speed Force, he meets another Barry/Flash. This other Flash is played by Ezra Miller who plays Flash in the 2017 film "Justice League."
21st Jun 2020
General questions
There's often a trope in police dramas that an officer being suspended or put on leave is told to "turn in your badge and gun." The officer then just puts the gun and badge on the desk and walks away. How accurate is this though? I heard there's paperwork to fill out and firearms have to be properly returned. Plus, don't many officers carry their own personal firearm that they'd be more comfortable with? Obviously a movie/TV show doesn't want to be bogged down by boring red tape, but what really happens when an officer is suspended or put on leave? Wouldn't turning your badge in be the same thing as being fired?
Answer: Not the badge ("shield") nor gun makes a cop a cop so handing them in symbolically when suspended doesn't happen in real life. The badge is just your symbol of taking an oath. Police have what is called a "Police Identification Card" which is their legal document of authority, not the badge. As you mention a lot of cops have their own gun and their chief isn't allowed to take it unless the cop is convicted of a crime or the gun is to be used in evidence (like if the cop fired it at a crime scene). Indeed, handing in your badge is done when you are fired.
8th Jun 2020
The Flash (2014)
8th Jun 2020
The Flash (2014)
Fast Enough - S1-E23
Continuity mistake: When Eddie is dead, his eyes are closed. But in a close up shot of him, his eyes are opened. Then when he's being pulled into the wormhole, they're closed again.
8th Jun 2020
The Flash (2014)
Trivia: Cisco plays the Queen song "Flash" while Barry is running through the black hole. This song is actually a reference to Flash Gordon (used as the theme song for the 1980 film), not the speedster named Flash.
8th Jun 2020
Killing Gunther (2017)
Trivia: When Gunther (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is talking about how he became the best, he says "how do you think I learned how to ram my fist into someone's stomach and to break their goddamn spine?" This is from Schwarzenegger's quote in "The Running Man." Gunther goes on to say "he's been doing this for almost 50 years. Schwarzenegger's acting career started in 1970, almost 50 years ago from the time the film was made.
8th Jun 2020
The Flash (2014)
Continuity mistake: When Cisco opens up a portal, Caitlin and Dominic are next to it and seen moving towards it, with Ralph standing in front of the group (as if he's covering them). In the next shot, Caitlin and Dominic are going through the portal followed by Cisco, but Ralph is nowhere to be seen as he's already entered the portal. There should be no way for him to completely enter the portal first.
8th Jun 2020
Kickboxer: Vengeance (2016)
Continuity mistake: When Kurt and Kavi are washing clothes, the clothes change position on the line, specifically the red shirt at the end and the shorts Kavi hangs up. The red shirt is twisted around the line, but in the shot of Kavi hanging the shorts, the shirt is hanging perfectly straight down.
8th Jun 2020
Black Mirror (2011)
Fifteen Million Merits - S1-E2
Question: Is the phrase "pie ape" British slang, or a mix of slang words? Or is just an insult the writers created that isn't based on anything?
Answer: It's a derogatory slang term made up for the show.
8th Jun 2020
The IT Crowd (2006)
Calamity Jen - S1-E2
Question: In this episode, there's a commercial about "999" being changed to a ridiculous long number. While I get why it would be funny, was there some basis for joke itself? Like, was there talk about the UK changing the emergency number or something? Or is it just completely random. And when Roy says "how hard is it to remember 911, I mean 999", is this just a joke for American viewers to understand what 999 is? Or do British people say or use "911" too?
Answer: It's a joke on the "118" numbers in the UK. 118 numbers were used for directory enquiries and adverts for them on TV always tried to give a way to easily remember one for a particular company. The fake ad in the show takes it to the extreme. People in the UK do not use "911", the point of the joke was that Roy had forgotten "999" while saying it was easy to remember.
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Answer: Technically, neither of these incidents would be considered cheating in the classic sense. Stealing the stopwatches would be just that, stealing. It's likely that some other members of a team like Ferrari had back up stopwatches. Dropping the lug nut in the Ferrari pit would just be a mind game to put doubt in the minds of the pit crew as to whether they got all the lug nuts on the wheels. Neither of these incidents would affect the performance of the race car. It was mischief, not cheating.
This doesn't answer the question at all (and seems like someone's trying to correct this thinking it's a mistake entry). I said "cheating like this" for the 2 examples I gave, because it's cheating (by definition) but not necessarily breaking La Mans rules. Plus I also asked about actual accusations of cheating.
Bishop73
It's called gamesmanship, how is dropping a lug nut to make the Italians think they had forgotten one cheating? Now if he had taken the lug nut so it delayed their pit stop or so it wasn't put on at all that's a different story. You seem like you never competed if you think those things are cheating.
And stealing a stopwatch is gamesmanship too? The question is was this based on anything. I've never competed in LeMans, but in a majority of sports there are rules against deceiving the other team (for example a balk). Seems like you've never played sports.
Bishop73