Deliberate mistake: To meet Manny, Mike walks through his store. The last obstacle is a PVC curtain. The camera has to go through the curtain, moving it and thus revealing its presence. However, it is definitely a deliberate artistic choice. (00:32:50)
Sammo
11th Jan 2025
Bad Boys for Life (2020)
1st Dec 2024
Fracture (2007)
Deliberate mistake: When Willy's fellow prosecutor, Norman, dropped the Crawford preliminary hearing on him, they said it started at 15:00. Willy is in a rush and the whole ordeal takes him just a few minutes. Still, when Nunally accosts him in the parking lot, the movie sped things up; it's nighttime. (00:27:00)
1st Dec 2024
Agatha All Along (2024)
Deliberate mistake: Throughout the episode, all the police station clocks are still and show the same time (3:33) in different scenes. (00:18:55)
29th Oct 2024
Venom: The Last Dance (2024)
Deliberate mistake: The movie reprises the mid-credits scene of Spiderman: No Way Home. However, it's a reshoot, since the delivery of the lines and the flow of the conversation are different, and so is the way Eddie returns to the SSU from the MCU. Instead of dissolving into thin air on the spot because of Strange's spell (like everyone else), here he gets violently sucked in by a portal. Also, in No Way Home, he was leaving behind a seedling of his symbiote on the counter of the MCU bar, but in this movie this happens in his own universe.
8th Jan 2023
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
Deliberate mistake: Being merely a comedy bit it does not have to make sense, but Dave Bautista's mom solves the puzzles without even being able to look at them from her sitting spot. You could argue she somehow could figure out the nature of the compass from the first glance she took solving the stereogram, but the Fibonacci sequence was not on display yet. Also, Duke joins the call saying that she "did something" to the box, it "opened up" and she "broke it", but actually he never saw any of that that, the puzzle was already open in the background before she'd even told him there was a delivery.
8th Jan 2023
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
Deliberate mistake: One of the first shots in Greece shows Benoit Blanc and Lionel standing on the pier. As director Rian Johnson himself says in an interview for the Vanity Fair Youtube channel, "Matches nothing else in the scene lighting-wise, but it's gorgeous soooo...who cares." (00:13:30)
6th Mar 2022
Death on the Nile (1978)
Deliberate mistake: Poirot riles up Pennington narrating the story of Grand vizier Ptahhotep who was crushed under the weight of the silver he embezzled. It's a lovely moral story, but Ptahhotep was actually a virtuous administrator and is credited (with various caveats) with writing "The Maxims of Ptahhotep", one of the first books in human history, and there's no record of such a story. It's likely that Poirot made that part of the story up counting on Pennington's ignorance on the subject. (00:44:20)
3rd Mar 2022
Scream 2 (1997)
Deliberate mistake: It's a humorous twist that Randy's killing is covered up by some random guys passing by with a ghetto blaster, but there was dead silence when Randy was talking earlier; not being in frame does not block soundwaves. (01:05:15)
2nd Mar 2022
Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo Returns (2014)
The Campground 'Bizarre' Case - S1-E17
Deliberate mistake: The evidence that proves Kindaichi's alibi is the store receipt detailing the time of his purchase. Notice that the year is recorded too, but it reads "20XY." (00:12:40)
10th Jan 2022
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
Deliberate mistake: When Spidey jumps on the hood of the truck, Rhino squirts him using the wipers. Funny, but he can do that only because the detergent sprays forward instead of the angle actual windscreen washers are pointed at. (00:12:50)
27th Dec 2021
Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)
Deliberate mistake: When Kasady and his symbiote are fighting for control at the bell tower, they are reflected inside Venom's eyes...who is lying on his back in the middle of the cathedral and is nowhere near and at the totally wrong angle for a reflection like that to happen. (01:15:50)
20th Oct 2021
The Suicide Squad (2021)
Deliberate mistake: When King Shark grabs the guard from behind and eats him, he screams loudly, but nobody reacts to it, not even his buddy who just went left to fetch a drink. Later Cena and Elba kill 'silently' every other guard, but when they get to a group of three that Bloodsport yo-yos to death, it's pretty impossible that those three could have missed the carnage just a little off to the left. Then again, at the end a whole tower gets demolished without anyone noticing, so It'has to be deliberate. (00:33:05)
19th Aug 2021
Fast & Furious 9 (2021)
Deliberate mistake: The F&F series always shows some amazingly advanced (and unlikely) technology; in this movie there is a big usage of electromagnets that are nothing short of miraculous. Not only they have a strength that would require them to have generators tens of times bigger than the cars they are on, and repel with the same ease as they attract; they also attract objects with varying° of precision and direction, all by turning their simple dial.
14th Apr 2021
Rules Don't Apply (2016)
Deliberate mistake: The movie is set in the late 50s, but Howard Hughes is dealing with his plane crash and the senate hearing about the H-4 Hercules prototype. Those are events from over a decade earlier. However, it should be noted that the initial disclaimer of the movie is "Names and dates have been changed."
12th Feb 2021
Batman: The Animated Series (1992)
Deliberate mistake: At Pete's diner, the owner puts the tray down, and instantly glasses appear in front of the 5 patrons. (00:02:50)
22nd Jan 2021
Pay the Ghost (2015)
Deliberate mistake: In the opening, the kids are looking up at the floor boards. Uniform light seeps through, but as it turns out, the house was small and swarming with an angry mob carrying torch. The light is not really compatible with that scenario, and in fact when the scene is shown later again, the lights are warmer and you can see the torches flickering. It's most likely a trick not to give away exactly what was hunting the kids in the basement. (00:01:00 - 01:11:20)
19th Jan 2021
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
Deliberate mistake: When Diana and Steve visit the Mayan guru hideout, they find an issue of Pro Wrestling Illustrated with Jerry Lawler on the cover. It's the August 1984 issue though, that couldn't be there since it's still early July. The prop department knew what they were doing there though; if you look at the cover, you can see they modified it and it actually says July 1984. (01:29:40)
19th Jan 2021
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
Deliberate mistake: Steve is not superhuman, but he could see and almost (Diana whips it out of the way first) dodge a bullet at the beginning of the car chase. (01:21:55)
13th Sep 2020
XXX: State of the Union (2005)
Deliberate mistake: It's a really fun visual, but when the bad guys enter the kitchen and get swarmed by African-American waiters in white tuxedos, one can't help but wonder how it could be that Darius was almost the only waiter on the floor up until a moment before - there were a couple others, mostly white dudes, while now we see about 20 people, all of color, coming out at once. The disproportion is huge, it's not like dinner is being served. (00:39:30)
10th Sep 2020
xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017)
Deliberate mistake: The elevator chime we hear at the beginning when the CIA exec reaches the floor, and the one we hear when Michael Bisping storms out of it to tackle the agent, are different. That's obviously a Deliberate Mistake since the second time around the chime is meant to resemble the bell ringing at the beginning of a match, a nod to Bisping's main occupation. Deliberate or not, the implication that Bisping has been hiding for no reason in a closed elevator for minutes is kinda comical. (00:07:40 - 00:10:10)
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