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Factual error: George Carlin is played in the movie by Matthew Rhys. They went as far as to recreate with him, on a prop, the cover of "An Evening With Wally Londo Featuring Bill Slaszo", the album that Carlin pitched at the end of the original episode and that Rhys brings on stage in this movie at dress rehearsal. However, in this cover, Rhys is looking to his upper left, Carlin looked to the upper right. With such attention to detail, it's easy to imagine it could be deliberate. (00:43:00)

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Factual error: Professor Alessando steals the keys from the ward. One key is under a copy of the Italian magazine "L'Eternauta." However, it is issue #103, released in November 1991. The movie is set one year earlier, at the end of 1990.

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Factual error: Coach Hutch escorts Paige to an exclusive booth during WrestleMania XXX, taking place in 2014. In the corridor leading to the booth, far in the back, posters for Money in the Bank 2013 and Royal Rumble 2012 (which are fine), a poster with Randy Orton from No Mercy 2007 (a bit old but always a cool poster), and one with John Cena in Extreme Rules 2015 (that one is just impossible). (01:22:40)

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Factual error: For the last day of training before the Christmas holidays, the NXT bus stops at a gas station with food retail from Fastrip, which is a chain based on the West Coast (mostly California with some stores in Nevada and Arizona) and with no stores in Florida, where the training facility is supposed to be. (01:00:00)

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Factual error: Saraya is 18 when she gets picked up by WWE; it's 2011. When we see her pack her bags to leave for the States, there's a picture of her and her brother holding cardboard belts. The actors are the same used to play them at the beginning of the movie. However, the Diva Championship debuted in 2008, a mere couple of years before 'present day.' They are too young in that photo. (00:32:30)

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Factual error: Saraya and her brother meet The Rock backstage during their tryout. He says he is in London because he is shooting a movie. Not the first or last liberties with history that the movie takes to shoehorn his producer into the story, but Dwayne Johnson in 2011 wasn't shooting any movie in London or the UK or anywhere near. This is probably inspired somewhat by the fact that The Rock noticed the documentary this movie is based on while shooting Hobbs & Shaw in London in 2017. (00:22:00)

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Factual error: Wandering backstage before their try-out session, Saraya and her brother look at the titantron set. However, the graphic used is the "SmackDown Live" logo that debuted in 2016, several years after the movie events. (00:20:45)

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Factual error: Saraya and Zak go to the tryouts at the O2. Saraya is 18 years old, so the scene has to take place in 2010 or 2011 (a poster backstage on NXT establishes she is in Florida in 2011). It's too early for the version of the WWE logo displayed in the road equipment at the O2 and pretty much everywhere else in the movie (like the performance center). That version of the logo was only adopted in 2014. The proper version would have been the 'scratch' logo. (00:20:35)

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Factual error: In the opening heist, the gang of thieves wants to steal "The Medal of Zeus." A plate at the museum explains that in Ancient Greece, Olympic champions were awarded olive wreaths, up to the 88th Olympics in 424 BC, when a golden medal was given to the victor for the first time. This last bit about gold medals is just made up by the movie. But it also gets the timeline wrong; the 88th Olympics were in 428 BC. 424 BC is when the 89th games took place. (00:03:30)

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Factual error: Evil 'sangoma' witch doctor Randoku is supposed to have almost superhuman abilities, but the cops that chase him in Rome aren't too shabby either; they somehow manage to give chase from Piazza di Spagna to the Colosseum to Castel Sant'Angelo. That's roughly 3 kilometres from one landmark to the other, on foot, within minutes.

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Factual error: The protagonist, Cole Hauser, works for the Clinton police, as it is written everywhere on the police cars and the T-shirt he wears. However, he is assigned to murder investigations that take place by the river, and plenty of locations (the bar they hang out at, Morgan Freeman's college) are explicitly in Jackson.

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Factual error: A little spoiler about the ending: Bob Hoskins' character saves his life by breathing underwater because he "has his own tank," namely his asthma inhaler. That's not how inhalers work. They are not little scuba diving tanks full of oxygen; they are full of the drug they need to puff into your respiratory system.

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Bliss - S1-E3

Factual error: Episode 1x3 Bliss When Viti gives Sofia the boarding pass, it says it's for Thursday, November 20th, 2022. November 20th was a Sunday in 2022. (00:20:40)

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Factual error: The film begins with a caption saying it's Germany, year 1195, Durrestein castle. That's kind of two mistakes and a half in a single line; Richard Lionheart was held captive in a castle in modern Austria (Germany is an acceptable approximation, arguably, considering Austria was not an autonomous state), but it was called Dürnstein castle, and more importantly, Robin Hood wouldn't meet him there as a captive in 1195, given the fact that he had already been released two years prior.

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Factual error: In the Senate scenes, there are a few women in the council. Women couldn't be senators in Rome. To be fair, none is shown raising their hand when Macrinus asks to vote, so it can be argued that they are perhaps not portrayed to be full-fledged members; however, the simple participation in the most important ruling body of the Empire appears to be anachronistic.

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Factual error: While it is true that in ancient Rome naval battles were orchestrated and would occasionally take place in the Colosseum itself, and even that salt water could be used, the logistics of bringing live sharks all the way inland are patently absurd.

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Factual error: In his flashback en route to Rome, young Lucius is shown playing football (soccer) as goalkeeper with his friends in Africa. There is no historic testimony of any ball game in the ancient world with such a close resemblance to modern soccer (exclusive use of feet, rectangular goal, etc.).

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Factual error: The Numidians defend their city against the Roman invaders using also trebuchets - a type of siege equipment that would only appear in the Middle Ages.

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Factual error: You can't expect a great deal of historical accuracy from a movie that narrates a love story, conveniently ignoring the glaring fact that one of the two lovers was DEAF. Nevertheless, here Francisco Jose de Goya paints for his lover, Duchess Maria, a 1797 painting, "The Black Duchess", only after he already painted "Charles IV of Spain and His Family", finished in 1801, and the St. Anthony of La Florida frescos, 1798.

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Factual error: Justin Kemp is summoned for the jury hearing on Monday, 26 October 2022, according to the letter his wife holds in close-up at the beginning of the movie. Hard to be there on Monday, since 26 October in 2022 was a Wednesday.

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