Plot hole: In the part where Allegra is speaking to Albert in his office doorway and Hitch slips the pen in his pocket, how did he know she looked away? He's behind a solid door.
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30th Jul 2013
Hitch (2005)
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Suggested correction: He (and we) can hear her rummaging through her purse.
10th Aug 2005
Misery (1990)
Continuity mistake: Buster parks his car outside Annie's house and is then shot inside her home. Then in a following wideshot of Annie's house, the car has vanished...
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31st Oct 2020
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
Continuity mistake: When Gloria picks up the Bren gun, we see Winston and Charles sitting up looking at each other in surprise, but seconds earlier, both had been tied up on the floor.
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Suggested correction: When we see them tied up, they were lying on the floor. A little bit of time passes: we see the van at least halfway loaded; they knock out the traffic warden, etc. Safe to say that Dog moved Charles and Winston out of the way, against the wall, so they can bring the money and weed out easier.
16th Jan 2009
Snatch (2000)
Corrected entry: Several times during the film, Cousin Avi refers to Frankie Four Fingers as "Bubbe" which is a Yiddish term of endearment for "Grandma" and would be inappropriate when addressing a man.
Correction: Yes, the term does mean Grandma. There is also a Yiddish term "Bubele" (not sure of the spelling), which means "baby." Jewish people often shorten that to "bubbe" as a term of endearment, and the way he is using it in this film is exactly how many Jewish people use it in real life.
Maybe not an acceptable comment to this correction, but is this the word Harry Ellis uses in "Die Hard" when talking to Hans?
Funny, I was absolutely going to use that EXACT instance as an example! I decided not to, though, in case some people hadn't seen that movie. But yes, same word and meaning. "Hans, Bubbe, I'm your white knight!" Both Ellis and Avi are using it correctly.
3rd Jul 2008
Get Smart (2008)
Corrected entry: When Max is 'captured' by Sigfreid and they are watching Agent 99 on the video feed, Max says something like, "Mrs. Spalkis must be lost," as well as making several other obvious references to the fact that he has been caught. Agent 99 can hear every word he says, and yet she doesn't even react to Max's suspicious quotes until he says, "99, we've been compromised."
Correction: What's the problem?, 99 simply don't understand Max. It's a character mistake.
No, this is a valid mistake. Siegfried threatens to kill Max and even refers to him by his real name. Max then gets into a fight, which 99 would have heard as well.
13th Mar 2005
Total Recall (1990)
Corrected entry: Never mind the absolute ridiculousness of having machine guns in a vacuum environment with many glass windows (and huge glass domes), why for safety's sake didn't the Mars colony have bullet proof glass?
Correction: Simply, money. Cohagen simply doesn't care. Bullet-proof glass is an expense he would rather not have.
I don't know about this, since there was apparently enough money to build the safety shields that came down. My question would be, if we could have the safety shields, why would they install glass at all?
The glass gives the ability to look outside; for the tourists, the safety shields do not.
15th Jan 2005
Total Recall (1990)
Deliberate mistake: While Cohagen is on Mars, he calls Richter and chides him for trying to kill Quade. Richter is in a car on Earth, yet they're having a real-time conversation, which is impossible because of the distance. [While this is true, a movie with 4 to 21 minute pauses between lines would take rather a long time].
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Suggested correction: This movie takes place an undisclosed amount of time into the future. Absolutely no telling what kind of technological advances could have taken place, in a science fiction movie at that.
22nd Jan 2020
Honeymoon in Vegas (1992)
Plot hole: How is it that the Flying Elvis' have an extra parachute on board for Jack?
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14th Apr 2004
Point Break (1991)
Continuity mistake: During the scene where Utah is chasing the ex-president, we see Ronald Reagan run out of a house and scale a fence into a neighbours garden, instead of running down the driveway. The next shot then shows Utah running out of the house with the fence coming into view, but without seeing the ex-president, and then give chase over the fence. He wouldn't have known to jump over the fence, because he wouldn't have seen him go over it.
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Suggested correction: Watching this scene now. It's not clear whatsoever that Utah didn't see him hop the fence. Utah was not that far behind.
12th Sep 2004
Point Break (1991)
Corrected entry: Bodi and his surfer buddies are fleeing from a bank robbery and Bodi sets a car on fire endangering peoples lives. Seeing as how Johnny Utah is a "crack shot", why wouldn't he shoot Bodi in the leg instead of that long drawn out chase scene?
Correction: Not only is it difficult to hit a moving target while running, it is most likely a matter of procedure. No trained police professional would endanger innocents by firing a shot at a fleeing suspect, especially if he knows the suspect's identity and could use that information to capture him later. You see shootouts all the time in movies, but in this one, what happens is actually closer to the truth.
4th Jan 2008
Hot Fuzz (2007)
Factual error: At the end of the film, SGT Angel gets into his Police car Subaru Impreza, and on the bonnet it has the writing 'Sandford Constabulary'. This is incorrect, it would in fact be 'Gloucestershire Constabulary' as established at the start of the film that Sandford is in Gloucestershire. A Constabulary is always named after the County, never after a tiny village within that County. (01:49:35)
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Suggested correction: While this may absolutely be true, this falls right in line with the entire plot of the movie. The people of Sandford are extremely proud of their village, with one of the higher up people in the village being the police chief himself, who we find out later is just as corrupt as everyone else. Not only would this be allowed by him, it was likely his call.
31st Mar 2010
Up in the Air (2009)
Factual error: When Bingman is shown leaving Detroit, he is in front of a large window with a 747 outside (also the movie cover). This fountain and location is inside the McNamara terminal in Detroit. As he is a million miler with American Airlines, he would be in the other terminal.
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Suggested correction: But he is flying with Natalie this time, who is not a million miler.
24th Dec 2003
Training Day (2001)
Corrected entry: When Ethan Hawke is upside down in the bathtub with a shotgun in his face you can see that he has spare magazines. In the previous scene when his pistol was handed back to him (unloaded) all he had to do was reload using one of his spares.
Correction: How? Ethan had handcuffs on. So I doubt he could reload his weapon turn himself around and shoot three guys! Especially considering the fact that he had a shotgun right up next to his face.
No he's actually right. He could have used his other magazines.
The mistake is referring to before he was cuffed. When they are still at the kitchen table, they give him his empty gun back, at which time he could have used one of the other magazines to reload.
26th Aug 2003
Fight Club (1999)
Corrected entry: When Ed Norton calls Tyler in the phone booth, Tyler star 69's him to call him. Yet when we go back to Tyler's house, all of the phones are the old fashioned phones - not touch tone ones. He would not be able to do star 69 on his phones. Even Chuck Palahniuk points this out on the DVD.
Correction: On a rotary dial phone 1169 is the equivalent of star 69.
Which doesn't much matter either way, as the phone call never happened. Tyler, being a figment of the narrator's imagination, does not exist so he could not have made the phone call. This is backed up in this very scene if you look closely at the pay phone, which says "no incoming calls allowed."
25th Oct 2021
Baby Driver (2017)
Continuity mistake: The car at the arresting scene was boosted by Baby a couple scenes earlier. When he gets arrested, he suddenly has a key of the car and turns off the engine. How did he acquire the key of that boosted car?
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Suggested correction: We don't see him boost the car, though. He could have stolen it from somebody who was in the car, as he has done a couple times in the movie already.
2nd Mar 2018
Source Code (2011)
Other mistake: When the conductor / ticket inspector is checking tickets, why doesn't he check Christina's?
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Suggested correction: Perhaps she boarded the train before Sean at a different stop, and the conductor had already checked her ticket.
15th Mar 2004
Jackie Brown (1997)
Corrected entry: When Bridget Fonda comes to the door of the dressing room to exchange the bags, Jackie knows she's there because she can see her feet. However, when Max goes to get the real bag, you can see that the dressing room doors go all the way to the floor.
Correction: The exchange happens between stalls (which one can see do not go all the way to the ground) and not under the door.
Correction: When Max walks in to the dressing room to retrieve the bag, both side walls also go to the floor.
Incorrect. When he walks in, the wall on his left goes all the way to the floor, as that is the last dressing room. But the wall on the right does not, which falls right in line with how Jackie handed the bag to Melanie.
27th Aug 2001
Die Hard 2 (1990)
Corrected entry: The plane crashes into the runway because they think they are higher than they really are, but the runway lights are never turned on. I'm no pilot, but I don't think a pilot would try to land a plane on an unlit runway.
Correction: A pilot got in touch with me about this: If necessary we will land a plane without runway lights - there is this thing called an ILS (instrument landing system) which they used to land the plane. If not tampered with you would be able to land the plane safely. On the other hand with that much snow on the runway, no plane would be able to land, not enough space to stop the planes. Another thing there is is a safe altitude and approach slope warning that would have went off no matter what the ILS was telling them.
They think they can't see the lights due to the storm, and are flying through clouds. I've seen and been on planes that have taken off and/or landed in heavy fog. The pilots are assuming the lights are on, and they just can't see them yet.
I agree with everything said here, and we can also add that the pilot was being guided by Colonel Stewart, who he thought was air traffic control.
15th Nov 2020
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
Continuity mistake: After Winston opens the cage and lets Dog and his gang into the house, Dog grabs him and headbutts him hard in the face, but Winston has no blood, bruises or swelling on his face at any time afterwards.
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Suggested correction: Later that day, when he is being interrogated by Rory, there is definitely a mark on his forehead.
13th Sep 2003
Road House (1989)
Corrected entry: There is a scene that starts with one of the bar waitresses (Kari-Ann) up on the stage singing with the band. Watch the drummer; some of his playing is in perfect sync with the singer and music, but at another time you can hear a cymbal crash when visually he doesn't hit a cymbal.
Correction: He could have had a foot pedal setup for the cymbal.
Cymbals are not operated by foot pedals; you might be thinking of the hi-hat.
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