Corrected entry: When the villains have made their lousy landing at the airfield and the police are coming, Cyrus opens a box with shotguns and throws one to his fellow convicts. The next scene shows the convict catching the gun, and it has somehow turned into an M-16.
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27th Aug 2001
Con Air (1997)
27th Aug 2001
Con Air (1997)
Corrected entry: When Johnny tries to rape the female guard, Poe comes to the rescue and knocks him out. Poe then handcuffs him to an overhead rail with both hands in the cuffs over the rail. Yet after the crash, while the police are doing clean-up, they drag away Johnny leaving one arm hanging off, as if Poe put only one of his hands in the cuffs, and one cuff on the overhead rail. Even with one arm severed, they couldn't naturally have got out of that position without the severed arm going over the rail, in which case it would be lying on the floor with the rest of him.
Correction: We don't see Johnny the whole time from the cuffing till the crash. There would have been enough time for somebody, even Poe, to uncuff one arm so that Johnny could be better prepared for the imminent crash.
14th Jun 2008
Con Air (1997)
Revealing mistake: When Pinballs is squeezed in between the landing-gear door and the fuselage/landing-gear, you can see in the face that it's a dummy. (00:53:35)
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Suggested correction: That absolutely looks like Dave Chappelle and not a dummy.
7th May 2021
Nobody (2021)
Factual error: Neighbor states: '72 Challenger, 4.9-liter, V8. The '72 Challenger came with a 3.7-liter slant-6, 5.2 and 5.6-liter V8. (00:11:30)
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Suggested correction: Sounds like the neighbor is mistaken, which would just be a character mistake. Remember, the car wasn't his. He had just inherited it, recently as Hutch points out. He admittedly didn't even know the correct 0 to 60 time.
30th Jan 2008
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Corrected entry: Indiana explains to Willie that Shorty is his adopted son, orphaned by the Japanese bombing of Shanghai in 1932. "The Temple of Doom" takes place in 1935, three years afterwards, yet in Raiders of the Lost Ark and the Last Crusade, both of which take place after Temple of Doom, Shorty makes no appearance whatsoever. It makes sense that maybe Indy decided to call a sitter for his latter two adventures, he doesn't even agnowledge his existence once in that entire time.
Correction: Character decision, not a mistake. For all we now, Shorty could be dead or reunited with his family in the years between Temple of Doom and Raiders of the Lost Ark. In either case, it would not be something Indy would want to talk about.
Correction: He definitely never says that Short Round is his adopted son, nor does he even imply it. He mentions the Shanghai bombing, says he caught Shorty trying to pickpocket him, and that is all the backstory we are ever given on Short Round.
22nd Feb 2005
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Corrected entry: The end credits list Alfred Molina's character as "Satipo". Harrison Ford says "Adios Sapito".
Correction: Actually he said "Adios estúpido", meaning "Goodbye, fool."
He definitely doesn't say "estúpido."
Correction: Nope. I do believe Harrison Ford was meant to say "Adios Satipo" but made a mistake and said "Adios Sapito." Judge by yourselves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwXAIlYlkTo&t=1m12s.
11th Sep 2021
Wrath of Man (2021)
Stupidity: For someone trained like "H", it was absurd that he would run down the center of the road toward masked gunmen and get shot multiple times. It was also ridiculous for him to have taken his son to a location that was potentially dangerous and put him in harm's way in the first place. (01:13:20)
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Suggested correction: I'm not sure how much H was trained. If I recall correctly he's a skilled criminal, and all his "training" was faked so he could get the job with the company. Regardless... training or not, all that goes out the window when your child is being attacked. Paternal instinct took over and he was rushing in to protect his son. As for your 2nd point, it's made clear that his task was to simply stake out what was supposed to be a routine truck route. They had no idea the truck was going to be robbed.
26th May 2015
Romancing the Stone (1984)
Corrected entry: When Joan takes over cutting the leaves in the jungle, she drops the machete when she comes upon the skeleton. Neither she nor Jack bend over to pick it up, but Jack has it in the plane to kill the snake. (00:04:00)
Correction: When they're outside in the rain, it is daylight. By the time he kills the snake inside the plane, night has fallen. Plenty of time for him to go back out and fetch the machete.
11th Mar 2020
In Time (2011)
Revealing mistake: When serving on the bridge, there are multiple shots where skid marks from previous takes are visible. (00:44:20)
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7th Jun 2021
Suspect (1987)
Revealing mistake: Carl is supposed to be deaf. However a few times in the early interrogation room with the officers and Kathleen, or just Kathleen alone (during questioning) his body movements and reactions reflect otherwise. Unless he is just keenly aware of his immediate surroundings.
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Suggested correction: Looking at the scene that I at least think you were talking about, or any other scene for that matter, Liam Neeson does nothing that I would not expect a deaf person to do. It's not like he reacted to a loud sound that a deaf person shouldn't be able to hear. I see nothing out of the ordinary. Perhaps if you use a specific example.
19th Oct 2008
Suspect (1987)
Other mistake: When Eddie Sanger is saving Kathleen Riley from "Michael", he gets slashed in the chest, through his leather jacket and sweater. When they meet up the next day, he is wearing the same leather jacket. Although the front is not shown, it is the same type and colour and obviously same jacket. He doesn't seem to be the type who would wear a slashed and likely bloody leather jacket.
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Suggested correction: He gets cut through the sweater only. The jacket was unzipped and does not get damaged, therefore the fact that he is wearing it a few days later is a reasonable decision.
7th Jun 2002
Snatch (2000)
Other mistake: Why does Boris remove and carefully wrap Franky's arm after he's cut it off? It would have been easier to cut at the wrist, therefore removing the need to take a bloody and very odd shaped parcel with you.
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Suggested correction: It's a pretty good point you bring up, and as many times as I've seen the movie, I never thought of that. And apparently, neither did Boris. This was a character decision, and one that falls right in line with his flair for the dramatic. We later see him casually walk out of his house with a huge gun and proceeded to walk down the street. I'm sure an arm attached to a briefcase was of no concern to him.
3rd Jan 2010
Nick of Time (1995)
Deliberate mistake: In one of the scenes where Johnny Depp goes into the bathroom (specifically, when he changes clothes with the other man), Christopher Walken's character looks under the stall. The camera then shows the legs and crotch of a man sitting on the toilet, who still has his boxers fully on, but his pants are down.
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Suggested correction: That man was not actually using the toilet. He was posing as Watson (Depp) so that Walken would think he was in the stall the whole time.
23rd Sep 2002
Midnight Run (1988)
Continuity mistake: When Jack Walsh is in the diner after losing the Duke to Marvyn he can't light his cigarette with his lighter the man behind the counter gives him a pack of matches and say "keep them", but when Jack brings the Duke to LA airport he comes down the escalator and lights up a cigarette with his own lighter.
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Suggested correction: The lighter simply didn't ignite for him in the restaurant, and it did later in the airport. Lighters can be finicky like that, especially when they start getting a little low on fluid. Plus, smokers often carry 2 lighters.
13th Jun 2005
Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)
Corrected entry: At the very end of the film beside the Nord des Lignes truckstop, John McLane makes a phone call on the Canadian payphone. However he has only collected American quarters from the German drivers and hence wouldn't have any Canadian Currency.
Correction: Canadian quarters and American ones both work in the same machines.
27th Apr 2003
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Continuity mistake: When Mr. White is trying to calm Mr. Orange in the warehouse White pulls out a comb and uses it on Orange then goes to put it in his pocket, but lays it on Orange's chest and never picks it back up. In the next sequence when talking to Mr.Pink, White washes his hands and face, puts some water in his hair, pulls a comb out of his pocket and uses it. (00:13:05)
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Suggested correction: He combs his own hair and Mr. Orange's when neither are necessary. Can definitely see a guy like that carrying more than one comb. They don't take up much pocket space anyway.
15th Apr 2019
X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
Corrected entry: Before Raven helps Nightcrawler to escape her hair is loose, then tied up.
Correction: Exactly. She is also "wearing" completely different clothes when her hair changes. She manipulated her appearance to appear in dress with her hair down. When she changes into the more everyday look with jeans and jacket, she changed her appearance to have her hair tied back. Keep in mind, she can manipulate her appearance at any given point, and very quickly.
16th Apr 2011
Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
Continuity mistake: When Lo Pan is questioning Jack & Wang while they are in the wheelchairs, the security monitors on the wall change from 2 to 4 then back to 2 again.
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Suggested correction: We are seeing 2 different sets of monitors. When Lo-Pan first comes in, he is next to the 2 monitor set. You can tell that Jack and Wang are looking to their right. Then, Lo Pan moves closer, right in front of them. After a little conversation, Lo Pan backs up straight, still in front of Jack and Wang, to a different set of monitors, with 4 screens. He then leaves, out the same door he came in, to Jack and Wang's right, passing the 2 monitor set on his way out. The monitors stay consistent.
5th Jul 2006
X-Men 3 (2006)
Corrected entry: When Magneto is holding Wolverine up in the air in the forest you can plainly see one of the wires used to hold him up.
Correction: Watching this now, I see nothing. This scene is loaded with trees and branches, and there are no wires in plain sight as suggested.
27th Aug 2001
Arlington Road (1999)
Continuity mistake: When Jeff Bridges leaves the home of Dean's father he takes a Taxi wearing glasses. When he gets into the Taxi he's not wearing them.
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Suggested correction: Keep your eye on his left hand. Happens very quickly, but you can see him take the glasses off, and you can see the glasses in his left hand right before he enters the cab.
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Correction: There were three different boxes. One (the one Cyrus opened) contained the shotguns, behind him was another box that contained the M-16's, and the third box on the left (the one Diamond Dogg opens) contained the grenade launchers that were used to blow up the propane tanks.
While this is true that the crates carry different weapons, the original mistake is pointing out how Cyrus picks up a shotgun, tosses it to Swamp Thing, but the weapon Swamp Thing catches is an assault rifle. This is a valid mistake.
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