Factual error: When Dr Ryan first arrives in Colombia and takes a government vehicle through town, he rolls down the window. The DEA agent says, "Don't do that because it's a bulletproof vehicle." In reality, you can't roll down the window on an armored/bulletproof vehicle. (00:50:00 - 00:55:00)
jimba
18th Jun 2023
Clear And Present Danger (1994)
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Suggested correction: A quick Google search shows that some armored cars have roll-down windows and some don't. Maybe this one did.
30th Apr 2021
The Sword in the Stone (1963)
Character mistake: Archimedes says he told Arthur not to pull the sword out of the stone. He didn't, he pointed it out in the churchyard to him instead.
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Suggested correction: Archimedes was trying to be helpful when he pointed out the sword so Merlin could take it to the tournament. But after it became a big issue with the rays from heaven and the legend, Archimedes thought he might get in trouble so tried to act innocent by fibbing. It was deliberate and in character, not a character mistake.
12th Apr 2021
Air Force One (1997)
Corrected entry: In his first conversation with VP Bennett, Ivan says that he now controls Air Force One. But since "Air Force One" is a call sign and not a specific plane, it only applies when the president is on board, which, at this point, isn't technically the case, because he and his men (and by extension, we the audience) all assume that Marshall fled in the plane's escape pod.
Correction: It may technically not be an accurate term given the situation, but they are not professional US military and it would be reasonable that the plane the president flies on would still be referred to as Air Force One even if the president was (believed) no longer on board instead of switching to calling it SAM 28000 or 29000 (depending on which was in use). It would be like seeing the plane on the tarmac at Andrews and saying "that's Air Force One" even though the president isn't on board.
1st Feb 2005
Shrek (2001)
Corrected entry: When Donkey first meets Shrek, he calls him a "mean green fighting machine". How would he know Shrek is green? We later find out he is colour blind.
Correction: Donkey knows that ogres are green.
How? Shrek is the only ogre around. Before you tell me about the others we learn about in Shrek : Forever After, shrek didn't know about them, and Donkey belonged to an old lady so he couldn't have known.
It's made clear that Donkey knows about ogres, as proved by what he says when they're walking through the vegetable field: "Why don't you just pull some of that ogre stuff on him? Throttle him, lay siege to his fortress, grind his bones to make your bread, the whole ogre trip." Donkey has heard about ogres before, or at least stories of what they can do, so why couldn't he know they're green? And how does being owned by an old lady negate his ability to know about ogres?
Correction: Just throwing in that there are different kinds of color blindness. The term means difficulty telling some colors apart, not necessarily the inability to see color at all (though that is one of the kinds of color blindness). It is possible Donkey can see green but not red and/or blue, hence his trouble finding a blue flower with red thorns.
4th Feb 2021
Starman (1984)
Factual error: When the government agents are reviewing the trajectory of the spaceship, the map is oriented incorrectly. Instead of Winslow, Arizona, the plotted trajectory is actually somewhere in north east Pennsylvania.
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Suggested correction: The map is correct. We are looking at it upside down (from the camera's perspective), and the dashed purple line terminates about where the crater is in Arizona, and the red line terminates in Wisconsin. No line passes over Pennsylvania. It does bring up the issue though that the shoot down engagement happened over Canada, near Moosonee, so why are US Air Force F-4 jets in mid/northern Canada firing missiles?
16th Oct 2016
Air Force One (1997)
Plot hole: After the President sabotages the fuel pumps, two of the bad guys go down and manage to repair the damage. They then proceed to go back upstairs and (supposedly) lock the President downstairs... Where he would be free to simply sabotage the fuel pumps again.
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Suggested correction: Harrison Ford tricks the other Russian watching the conference room door and holds him at gun point to escape the cargo hold, you can't miss it.
The point by the poster is that the guys who fixed the sabotage didn't know the president had escaped, so they thought they were locking him in the lower compartment where he could then just sabotage the plane again.
5th Jan 2021
Back to School (1986)
Continuity mistake: When Jason and Derek first go into their dorm room and Thornton and Lou are in the room, they are roommates in one room, but in the later scene, Jason and Derek are opening doors next to each other, which would suggest that they each now have their own rooms.
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Suggested correction: At that point they could have had individual rooms since after Thornton comes to the school he could have arranged for each to have their own rooms. After all, he is Thornton.
30th Nov 2020
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
Corrected entry: This could be an error done on purpose to simplify the audience understanding. When the Russian Alpha fires on the Red October towards the movie's end, the torpedo's course is stated as 315. Ramius then tells Ryan to steer the sub to a course of 315 to head into the torpedo. That's wrong. If the torpedo were on a bearing of 315, the sub would need to be on a bearing of 135 to be heading directly into it.
Correction: The torpedo fired at Red October is reported at bearing 315. Then Red October seers a course of 315. That is accurate to set a collision course with the torpedo.
How? Both objects would then be on a heading of 315 thereby going in the same direction, not heading into each other. If the torpedo was traveling on a bearing of 315, the reciprocal heading would be 180° opposite, or 135.
When they detect the torpedo the Russian says there is a torpedo in the water bearing 315, meaning the torpedo is 315° from them, not that its course is 315. Ramius then orders the sub to head in the direction of 315 which is the direction they detected the torpedo as coming from.
The torpedo's bearing is 315 from the sub's position, but has a COURSE of 135, towards the sub.
29th Nov 2010
Back to the Future Part II (1989)
Corrected entry: When Marty buys the sports almanac, how does he get the money to do it? Considering a Pepsi costs 50 bucks, the almanac probably costs several hundred dollars. How many teens from the 1980's just happened to have that amount of money in their wallet at any given moment? He didn't get the money from Doc since Doc didn't even know he bought it until after the fact.
Correction: The Store also buys money, so he pays with money from his pocket the novel states this exact thing.
18th Nov 2020
Apollo 13 (1995)
Corrected entry: In the reentry scene in the Command Module, the astronauts are sitting with their backs are against the Earth and the CM is decelerating. The condensed water droplets should be dropping towards the Earth not the opposite. In the movie, the droplets fly away from the Earth. (02:06:00)
Correction: The drops are coming off the panel and dripping onto the astronauts, so toward the heat shield. This is the correct direction given the capsule is decelerating.
23rd Oct 2020
Taken (2008)
Corrected entry: Peter and the girls share a cab from the airport, but when they get to the girls apartment, the cab drives away. Shouldn't Peter have got back in to get to his destination?
Correction: He could have said he lives near their apartment and could walk, or that he lives near a metro stop and will just catch the metro for the remainder of the trip.
23rd Oct 2020
In the Line of Fire (1993)
Corrected entry: When Lilly and Frank are talking on airplane about Frank protecting President Kennedy's dignity, Frank says, "Don't you go believing every rumor someone tells you." Lilly responds, "Frank Wilder told me the whole story." Clint Eastwood is Frank. Matt Wilder is other agent who told Lilly the story. (01:00:00 - 01:01:00)
6th Dec 2004
Top Gun (1986)
Corrected entry: Charlie is chasing Maverick in her car to tell him how she feels. Maverick races down the road on his motorcycle, then two cars start to move out of an intersecting road and Charlie narrowly misses them. In the next shot, Maverick starts yelling at Charlie about her 'reckless' driving, but behind them, you see the highway, with no traffic lights or signals. Charlie actually had right of way.
Correction: Just as her car pulls to the curb a traffic light is visible.
The traffic light was added by the studio since there are also stop signs, and an intersection wouldn't have both. The intersection is West Laurel and Union Street in San Diego and you can see in Google StreetView that there is no light, and three of the directions have stop signs, but the uphill direction doesn't. So in real life she had the right-of-way, but the added light is to make it appear she didn't, though we don't see the uphill light, just the downhill one, so can't actually say her light was red.
17th Oct 2020
Sneakers (1992)
Corrected entry: After all those years the statute of limitation would have run out, so he couldn't go to prison for the crime that he committed in his college student years, so couldn't be blackmailed with that threat.
Correction: He had an arrest warrant against him and he was a fugitive. He was being sought under 18 USC 1073 (Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution). And under 18 USC 3290 "No statute of limitations shall extend to any person fleeing from justice."
13th Oct 2020
Ghostbusters 2 (1989)
Corrected entry: At the end of the movie, the Statue of Liberty is looking down into the window of the art building. When the Ghostbusters come out of the building, it's on the ground.
Correction: That is intentional since the power of the slime had been neutralized. The statue was just a statue again, so fell over.
8th Oct 2020
Finding Dory (2016)
Corrected entry: When the bucket launches, Marlin and Nemo fly into a small plastic tank with a toy fish. The tank was filled with freshwater, which means Marlin and Nemo would have died in there before they had a chance to get out.
Correction: Salt water fish will die after a while if left in fresh water, but it takes between hours and days depending on the fish. In fact a common method to kill some parasites is to place the salt water fish in fresh water for a few minutes (it is not recommended to do it for more than 10 minutes). Marlin and Nemo were not in the tank for very long so would not have died, and probably would not have shown any adverse symptoms.
16th Sep 2020
Matilda (1996)
Corrected entry: When Harry asks Michael to add up the cost of the cars he sold that day, Matilda says the total is $10,265.00. The actual total is $12,265.00.
14th May 2015
The Karate Kid (1984)
Corrected entry: When the referee is going over the rules to Daniel and Johnny, he tells them both that kicks to the face are illegal. However, when Daniel is in the Crane position, Johnny charges and gets kicked right in the face. This should have disqualified Daniel immediately and made Johnny the winner.
Correction: Because the referee never told both this. This affirmation is not in the movie.
28th Jul 2020
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Visible crew/equipment: While the T-1000 drives the trailer, in front of him the camera crew is visible on a pick up truck.
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Suggested correction: Entry not specific enough.
How is this not specific enough?
For one, there's more than one chase scene involving a truck in this movie. This entry doesn't specify which one. Nor does he specify if we see the camera crew itself or simply a reflection of the crew on the vehicle.
I think he is referring to a truck seen just before the Freightliner runs the stop sign and hits the brown and dark blue cars. The "camera" truck though looks like it has trash cans in the back, not a film crew, at least nothing that I can see in the 1080p version to indicate it is a film crew. The reverse shot of the collision if from a fixed position camera close to the cars so wasn't shot from a truck, so again no evidence this is a film crew truck.
4th Aug 2010
Hancock (2008)
Continuity mistake: In the scene when Mary visits Hancock for the first time at his house, she arrives from the air and crashes down on the ground, after a discussion inside they both walk outside together and Mary is shown getting into a car. In the next shot shown from above the house the car has disappeared and they both fly into the air.
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Suggested correction: No, we see her drive up in the car, not fly in. But you are right that when we see them take off the car is missing.
You must have seen a different version of the movie I saw her land there, it's on Netflix.
You're right. I just saw the version on Netflix and she flies in, while the version from disc I have shows her drive up with a minute of dialog between them next to the car that is not in the Netflix version. I find it very surprising that there are two versions with that major of a difference.
An extended cut was released on DVD and Blu-Ray which has a couple extra scenes as well as modified scenes (including Mary driving to Hancock's). Netflix would have shown the theatrical cut version. (Or if I had to venture a guess, the UK release version as Netflix has a tendency to use those versions for some reason).
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