Factual error: The captain requests a climb to "40,000 feet" to avoid weather. The correct terminology would have been to request a climb to "Flight Level 400." Class A airspace begins at 18,000 feet and everything above that is designated in Flight Levels, not feet.
toroscan
15th Feb 2023
Plane (2023)
15th Feb 2023
Plane (2023)
Factual error: The captain and the first officer are both supposed to be wearing the uniform of Trailblazer Airlines. Yet their ties are completely different.
Suggested correction: Other airlines might only have a single tie design; however, this could only be classed as a factual error with proof that Trailblazer Airlines does not have more than one tie option. However, since it's a fictional airline, it can't be proved; therefore, it can't be classed as an error.
You have a point. Noted as possible. Thanks.
19th Jan 2023
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan (2018)
18th Jan 2023
Risen (2021)
Other mistake: General Gomes has 13 ribbons. The order of precedence is correct, which shows somebody was careful to place them correctly. But not correct enough. The Armed Forces Expeditionary Service Ribbon is upside down. (00:42:06)
13th Dec 2022
Bullet Train (2022)
Factual error: In one scene a phone call states that boomslang venom was used to kill a person. The caller states that the venom congeals the blood, makes a person exude blood from every orifice, and if an antidote is not administered in 30 seconds you are dead. A lot of this is wrong. The venom does make you eventually bleed profusely, but you have a 24-48 hour window to administer antivenom, and if it congealed the blood, it means it would make the blood clot, not make the person bleed. (00:54:50)
Suggested correction: Although I agree that "A lot of this is wrong", I don't entirely agree with your rationale and/or wording. It can take 24-48 hours (or even up to 5 days) to succumb to the Boonslang's bite, so I don't believe you have a 24-48 hour window to administer antivenom"; it would be too late to prevent death. "If it congealed the blood, it means it would make the blood clot, not make the person bleed" - yes and no. Venom causes both coagulation and hemorrhaging but in different areas of the body.
I used the information on the National Institutes of Health, nih.gov. I quote: "Traditionally, it has been taught that there is a window period of 24-48 h after a Boomslang bite to administer antivenom."
Antivenom is at least worth a try.
"Coagulation" is the preferred term when referring to blood. Although "congealed" is used, congealed typically refers to food substances that gel or harden.
I used the quotes given by the actors in the program. Congealed is what they said. Yet they also said the victim would bleed out. Confusing. Thanks for the info.
I was clarifying my substitution of the word "coagulation" for "congealed", not criticizing your usage of "congealed" (the word that was used in the movie). Yes, it is confusing! (You're welcome).
1st Nov 2022
Bullet Train (2022)
Factual error: During a fight, a person is thrown against a glass partition window and the glass shatters. Trains use toughened safety glass in their construction and would not shatter like that.
17th Jan 2022
Encounter (2018)
Factual error: Malik's son calls his father's parole officer. When she asks where they are he says they had entered Nevada. A while later, they stop at a pharmacy. It is called Las Lunas Pharmacy and Liquor. Las Lunas is in New Mexico, 85 miles away from the Nevada border.
17th Jan 2022
Magnum P.I. (2018)
Other mistake: A man kidnaps an IT tech and steals his uniform. The IT guy is quite large - at least a XXXL if not more. When the impostor IT guy walks into HPD Headquarters, he has a very well fitting IT uniform shirt. And he is of average build -maybe a medium size. There is no way he could be wearing the real IT guy's shirt without it looking like a tent.
5th Jan 2022
Invasion (2021)
Continuity mistake: Invasion 2021 Season 1 Episode 10 While riding in a car with Hitomi's father, he recalls that she loved a compass she had. She would take it everywhere and loved to follow the red arrow north. But later, when Hitomi's girlfriend finds the compass among her things, the arrow is black with a white tip.
4th Jan 2022
Invasion (2021)
Continuity mistake: Casper is being carried to a wheeled hospital trolley, where he is laid down with no support system and is being wheeled in search of a doctor. A doctor arrives and now Casper has an oxygen mask on.
3rd Jan 2022
4400 (2021)
Continuity mistake: One of the 4400 now has an apartment and shows off her new darkroom to a friend. It has a sliding door at the entrance. In a later scene she is in the darkroom and her friend enters. But this time the door is a regular one that swings. In truth, neither of these are typical of a darkroom, as darkrooms have a light lock entry. Either double doors or a U-turn entry to prevent light from getting in.
26th Nov 2021
4400 (2021)
Harlem's Renaissance Man - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: One of the 4400 is at the library looking at a newspaper headline on the computer. It says "Quicy Solarin..." A few shots later the same newspaper headline has been corrected to read "Quincy Solarin..."
17th Nov 2021
Red Notice (2021)
Factual error: Dwayne Johnson is pursuing a thief. He gets into a Porsche Taycan and pushed the start button, and he can drive off. But you have to have the key fob in your pocket or bag. Porsche explains: "As long as your key is close when you grab the door handle, the system automatically checks the encrypted access code on the key. Once your code is validated, the door will unlock, and you'll be granted access to your vehicle." Dwayne had no fob, as the car was just parked.
Suggested correction: I assumed the car belonged to the guy who was stood just in front of it, so the fob would have been in his pocket, close enough to start it.
Maybe start it, but since he drove away, the fob would no longer be in his possession and although the car would continue running one time, it could not be restarted.
Maybe the owner was so stupid to leave the keys in the car. "Who can steal it, here in front of me?"
9th Nov 2021
Tough As Nails (2020)
Facing Fear - S3-E4
Factual error: The teams are at a US Coast Guard base. Two coasties are introduced. One as a chief (correct) and one as a "Captain." He is not a Captain, he is a Lieutenant. The USCG uses naval ranks, so the person with the two bars is a Lieutenant. A Captain is three pay grades above this, and uses eagles as insignia.
27th Oct 2021
The Morning Show (2019)
Factual error: An email address is shown on a cellphone: Ken @ Vanity Fair. Email names cannot have spaces in them. (00:12:10)
14th Oct 2021
Spectral (2016)
Continuity mistake: Gen. Orland is shown in one shot having a US Army name tape on his left side. A few shots later, it is on the left.
14th Oct 2021
Spectral (2016)
Other mistake: Mark is driving down the road in an old pickup truck. An inside shot shows the truck is bouncing and the scenery is passing by the left side of the truck. But the ignition switch is in the off position. A few shots later he pulls up to the research facility and the ignition is now on, which he turns off.
29th Sep 2021
Jaws 2 (1978)
Continuity mistake: The boat Tina's Joy is hit on the sideboard by the shark and a portion splits off. When they are rescued the boat is intact.
29th Sep 2021
Jaws 2 (1978)
Continuity mistake: Brody fires six shots from his revolver after coming down from the tower. He ejects the shells on the beach. Then he squats to pick them up and there are many more than six.
20th Sep 2021
Jungle Cruise (2021)
Revealing mistake: Frank and Lily are swinging from a vine. As they reach the end of the swing, Frank manages to put one boot heel on the landing, but cannot get his footing to stay there. He lifts his foot repeatedly trying to get a better purchase. Except that as he is barely hanging on, lifting his boot even once would propel him backwards, much less lifting his foot several times without a back swing. He finally loses his purchase on the landing, but not because of the repeated attempts to lift his foot off. (01:09:40)
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