Sammo

3rd Feb 2021

Trespass (2011)

Factual error: When Elias shows Kyle the syringe full of succinylcholine, the liquid is brown. Succinylcholine is colorless. He also describes it as something that will basically get them high, which is not what the substance does (although that part may be deliberate deception - even if he does not hide at all the fact that an OD would kill them, so the purpose of such deception is unclear). (00:26:10)

Sammo

31st Jan 2021

Kyaputen Tsubasa (1983)

Soccer Is My Dream - S1-E20

Factual error: It's the first leg of a tournament between elementary school players, and people skip work to see it, the city streets are empty because everyone is home watching it (since it is televised, too!)... That just never happens. It is not a world different from our own where everything is based on the sport (like Pokemon).

Sammo

30th Jan 2021

Pay the Ghost (2015)

Factual error: A corpse that has been dead for hours is still bleeding the moment the coroner pricks the skin with a scalpel. Here it is particularly incongruous because the victim died 'cooked' from within and the internal organs, as shown, are all burnt to a crisp. The coroner also did not open the victim's mouth before getting to the cutting bit; it's like he did not perform the most basic check first. (01:04:00)

Sammo

30th Jan 2021

Kyaputen Tsubasa (1983)

Show generally

Factual error: Blanket statement for most of the series; 90% of the tackles and blocks shown in the anime would never fly in a real soccer match. Some are particularly outrageous and deserve separate mention, but in general everyone's defense is careless at best, and downright criminal at their worst. Take Kojiro Hyuga's introduction; his 'dribbling' involves shoving the opponent off and the challenges for the ball end up with the opponents bleeding and with torn socks. Any ref would stop this sort of 'play' right away.

Sammo

30th Jan 2021

Kyaputen Tsubasa (1983)

The Provocation - S1-E11

Factual error: The world record for high jump from professional adult athletes is barely above 2 meters when we do not consider the Fosbury flop. An 11 years old kid here nonchalantly leaps over the goal net (which is around 2 meters, close to two and half if they use a professional one, slightly less for junior matches), from a big distance and landing on his feet on top of the bar...and it's just an effortless transition before he does the REALLY impressive stuff. These kids are not supposed to be superhuman. (00:14:50)

Sammo

29th Jan 2021

Kyaputen Tsubasa (1983)

An Unfair Enemy - S1-E15

Factual error: Wakabayashi is seriously injured and everyone is aware of that and acknowledges it, but no substitution is made. That's criminally irresponsible, especially with the team being in the lead. The referee himself couldn't ignore this in a real match, since the player couldn't even perform a goal kick.

Sammo

26th Jan 2021

Kyaputen Tsubasa (1983)

Where Is the Rival? - S1-E5

Factual error: If we had to go by the pre-kickoff aerial shot, Shuutetsu is playing with a 2-3-5, which is definitely not a normal soccer formation - and we never see during the actual play anything close to the team having 5 forwards. Also, the linesmen are infield instead of behind the sidelines. (00:17:05)

Sammo

26th Jan 2021

The Mandalorian (2019)

Chapter 10: The Passenger - S2-E2

Factual error: The premise of the episode is that Mando needs to travel at sublight speed or else the fragile eggs will die. They need to travel to a nearby star system, though, not just a planet. Stars can't be too close together, so Mando is in for a trip that would take him literally years, which is not reflected at all by what is shown in the episode. (00:08:00)

Sammo

25th Jan 2021

Trespass (2011)

Factual error: Avery crashes the car on purpose at top speed against a street lamp and undoes at the last moment Petal's safety belt. Neither airbag is deployed on impact. (01:16:10)

Sammo

23rd Jan 2021

Trespass (2011)

Factual error: In the climax of the movie, Nicholas Cage uses a nail gun like a marksman, hitting with precision the bad guy that holds his wife tight. Besides this skill of his coming out of left field, a nail gun does needs a surface against the opening. It does not shoot nails in the air without pressure being applied, it's a Hollywood trope. (01:18:45)

Sammo

Factual error: Louise is reading the latest issue of Time magazine which deals with inflation, a hot topic as already addressed earlier in the movie. Not really the latest though, since that issue is from April 1974, 6 years earlier. (00:23:20)

Sammo

22nd Jan 2021

Kyaputen Tsubasa (1983)

20th Jan 2021

Kyaputen Tsubasa (1983)

20th Jan 2021

Kyaputen Tsubasa (1983)

20th Jan 2021

Kyaputen Tsubasa (1983)

A Career Begins - S1-E2

Factual error: Genzo challenges Tsubasa to a rematch, this time in a regular "90 minutes match." They are elementary school students, their matches last only about 40 minutes.

Sammo

19th Jan 2021

Kyaputen Tsubasa (1983)

The New Soccer Star - S1-E1

Factual error: Tsubasa is daydreaming over a picture of Italy winning the 1982 World Cup. The uniform in the photo though has trunks and collars of the wrong color, a yellow that has never been part of any of Italy's sets. And even if it's certainly not a photorealistic cartoon, the features/hairstyles of the team depicted have nothing to do with the winning team; the winning team was not composed of gingers with big perms; the majority had black hair of medium to short length. (00:02:45)

Sammo

19th Jan 2021

Kyaputen Tsubasa (1983)

Show generally

Factual error: During the series it's routine for powerful shoots to rip through the net. Needless to say, that can't happen with human strength. In later seasons there are shots that even leave craters in cement walls. Remember, nobody in this series has superpowers. It's supposed to be dramatic and over exaggerated in how the whole pitch feats play out, but those holes in the wall are real.

Sammo

19th Jan 2021

Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)

Factual error: When Max is driving off with the egyptian Emir's former security team, they are driving cars that have license plates with numbers and letters. In the '80s, Egyptian license plates were in a numbers only format. (01:19:20)

Sammo

19th Jan 2021

Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)

Factual error: Past the escalator, Steve and Diana walk past some literal punks who are wearing T-shirts. Some are appropriate for the period (such as the Bad Brains one, their debut album is from 1982) but the one with the cheetah leggings is sporting a Cro-Mags T-shirt; their debut album "The Age of Quarrel" (and its artwork is on the T-shirt itself) was a September 1986 release and this unfortunately isn't Wonder Woman 1986. (00:57:50)

Sammo

Factual error: It is established early in the movie (Natalie's call) that the money ball event celebration is part of the -first - anniversary of the Valley River Center, the shopping mall where most of the movie is set, with the town of Eugene, Oregon, mentioned explicitly. However, the center opened in 1969, and the movie is set in 1980. The original script was written in 1971, so that line needed an update and slipped by.

Sammo

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