Knever

25th Jul 2012

Cube 2: Hypercube (2002)

Continuity mistake: When we first see the colonel, he grabs the suitcase to examine it. In the far shot, you can see that the handcuffs are on the far side of the handle, near his body. The next shot is a closeup of the suitcase, and the handcuffs are now on the opposite side of the handle, away from his body.

Knever

25th Jul 2012

Cube 2: Hypercube (2002)

Other mistake: In the second scene, where we see the colonel, he is looking through a door to another room. After the door closes, we see that he was looking down, into the room below. But, as we saw in the previous shot, his tie was not dangling downwards as it should have been. It wasn't a Gravity Shift, as he never entered that Cube that the camera was in.

Knever

25th Jul 2012

Cube 2: Hypercube (2002)

Other mistake: This occurs during the scene where the group has just rescued the colonel. Before Mrs. Paley makes her appearance, the others notice the panel opening, and make movements, but they don't make sense. We'll call the side where the colonel was the north. Sasha is in the southwest corner, and Max is near her. Simon and Jerry are both at the north wall. When the sound of the door opening is heard, Max looks to the west. Simon is kind of in a strange position, but looks correctly to the north, where Mrs. Paley comes from. Simon and Jerry both knew where to look before the door opened, so it's reasonable to assume that it's easy to tell which door is opening, so Max shouldn't have looked at any other door.

Knever

25th Jul 2012

Cube 2: Hypercube (2002)

Continuity mistake: Just after Jerry writes the number 4 on the room where he meets Kate and Sasha, they cut to a far shot as he and Kate converse. The spot where he wrote is visible and the marking is gone.

Knever

25th Jul 2012

Cube 2: Hypercube (2002)

Visible crew/equipment: Just after Mrs. Paley joins the others, the door closes and a boom mic can be seen in the reflection of the door, lowering down a bit.

Knever

23rd Jul 2012

Saw III (2006)

Other mistake: After Jeff gets the key from the Rack trap room, the shotgun fires and hits the judge. He is standing with the shotgun to his right, yet he is hit on the left side of his face. There is also an inconsistency with the timing. The gun fires, then the actor turns to reveal the wound on the left side of his face. It's easier (but in no way required) to see the glaring mistake with slow motion.

Knever

20th Jul 2012

Falling Skies (2011)

Live and Learn - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: When Tom starts shooting at the skitter in the food depot, the shots from his gun, the hits on the metal, and sound of ricochet are inconsistent with each other.

Knever

Intervention - S4-E4

Continuity mistake: After the gang gets to the bar around the end of the episode, Ted starts his speech about how they all need to move on. As he moves over to the booth, he tells the people sitting there to get out. You can see that the girl takes her phone with her, and there is no other phone anywhere on the table. A few seconds later, she comes back saying that she left her phone, and now the phone is visible on the table. (00:19:25)

Knever

11th Jun 2012

Cube (1997)

Question: Is there any particular reason that Leaven refers to the Z coordinate as "zed?" I know that it would be used to differentiate between similar sounding letters, but since spacial coordinates only use X, Y, and Z, (to my knowledge) it doesn't really seem necessary. I'm guessing it's a mathematics thing that I just don't know, but if anybody can answer, it would be greatly appreciated.

Knever

Chosen answer: Cube is a Canadian film. In Canada, the last letter of the alphabet is pronounced "zed" rather than "zee".

Phixius

28th May 2012

Smallville (2001)

Lexmas - S5-E9

Plot hole: Lex is shot in Granville, yet is taken to Smallville Medical Center. It looked like he was in a downtown area, and it's unreasonable to assume that there wasn't a closer hospital in Granville to which he should have been taken.

Knever

28th May 2012

Smallville (2001)

Spirit - S4-E18

Plot hole: When Dawn enters Clark's body, she slaps Chloe in the face with the back of the hand, and Chloe goes flying. A few minutes later, we see Chloe get up and say that she's fine. Getting backhanded by Clark would make you very far from fine. First of all, Clark can knock someone out just by tapping them on the forehead, as seen in a previous episode. Second, Dawn has no idea of Clark's powers, so she would have used way more force than she actually needed to. The amount of force inflicted from the attack should have caused fatal injuries to Chloe. There's not even a cut or bruise or anything.

Knever

28th May 2012

Smallville (2001)

Scare - S4-E10

Factual error: When Lionel is leaving the prison, there is a bus unloading convicts as he walks past. No prison in the world would ever unload inmates and release an inmate in the same area at the same time.

Knever

28th May 2012

Smallville (2001)

Truth - S3-E18

Factual error: Clark lifts Chloe's car by the back. He is only holding on to the very back left portion of the car, yet while he's turning it, the car is completely horizontal. The front of the car would buckle since it weighs so much and isn't being handled by its center of gravity.

Knever

21st May 2012

Smallville (2001)

21st May 2012

Smallville (2001)

Red - S2-E4

Other mistake: The physics of what happens to the mallet after it hits the ring are completely unrealistic. No matter what the actual composition of red kryptonite contains, there is no way that it could reflect all of the force that was impacted upon it. Clark was also weakened by the green kryptonite. Jonathan's swing of the mallet and Clark's weakened strength would not have allowed him to keep his arm out after being struck by the mallet.

Knever

21st May 2012

Smallville (2001)

Heat - S2-E2

Plot hole: When Clark uses his heat vision to heat the metal door handle to prevent Desiree from escaping, he only heats one handle. I know that things were happening fast, but it wouldn't have taken him that much more time to heat both handles, which he should have done since there is no way he could have known that she would have tried that particular handle.

Knever

21st May 2012

Smallville (2001)

Crush - S1-E19

Other mistake: When Justin launches the chainsaw towards Chloe, Clark steps in and it breaks upon hitting his chest. However, there is no damage at all done to his clothes. There should have been at least a tear in his shirt. He's not wearing Super-Plaid.

Knever

13th Mar 2012

Trapped Ashes (2006)

Revealing mistake: When Phoebe is looking at herself in the mirror, she's trying to find out why she isn't attractive enough for roles. When she takes her bra off and inspects her breasts, it's painfully obvious that that is not her real torso, as her head kind of bobs around in a strange fashion, showing that her face/head was superimposed onto another woman's body.

Knever

4th Mar 2012

Doctor Who (2005)

Army of Ghosts (1) - S2-E15

Question: When Rose is snooping around after having put on the white coat, she passes a few fire extinguishers in a hall. In the room with the Void Sphere, there's another one. But they're all silver. I may just not be worldly enough, but I've only ever seen red fire extinguishers. Are they like that in the UK, or is it a Doctor Who thing?

Knever

Chosen answer: It's a Doctor Who thing, fire extinguishers in the UK have been red since 1997. Before then different colours represented different contents (water, foam, etc.), but it's unlikely the extinguishers seen would be that old.

pinkwafer

16th Nov 2011

Coupling (2000)

Inferno - S1-E4

Visible crew/equipment: When Steve goes into the dining room, he meets Jill and they chat for a bit. When Jill says, "I'm sorry, am I making you nervous?", a boom mic can be seen in the upper right corner of the screen. (00:11:45)

Knever

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