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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
20th Jul 2012
Falling Skies (2011)
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.
5th Jul 2012
How I Met Your Mother (2005)
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)
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.
28th May 2012
Smallville (2001)
28th May 2012
Smallville (2001)
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.
28th May 2012
Smallville (2001)
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.
28th May 2012
Smallville (2001)
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.
21st May 2012
Smallville (2001)
Visible crew/equipment: When Tina, disguised as Lana, throws Pete against the lockers, you can easily see that it's Pete's stunt double.
21st May 2012
Smallville (2001)
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.
21st May 2012
Smallville (2001)
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.
21st May 2012
Smallville (2001)
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.
4th Mar 2012
Doctor Who (2005)
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?
16th Nov 2011
Coupling (2000)
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)
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Chosen answer: Cube is a Canadian film. In Canada, the last letter of the alphabet is pronounced "zed" rather than "zee".
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