Factual error: The scene with Queen Victoria in Florence happens too early since it is supposed to happen in the spring of 1888 but Abdul Karim was not yet her official "Munshi", being appointed to that title in August of the same year.
Sammo
17th Jan 2021
Victoria and Abdul (2017)
17th Jan 2021
Victoria and Abdul (2017)
Factual error: Performing for Queen Victoria is the famous opera composer Giacomo Puccini. This happens during her sojourn in Florence in 1888. Puccini was born in 1858, so he was barely thirty years of age, but the actor portraying him, Simon Callow, is in his late 60s (and it shows). Moreover, he is presenting his latest creation "Manon Lescaut"; in 1888 he hadn't even started working on it.
17th Jan 2021
Kyaputen Tsubasa (1983)
Factual error: In this episode we have a random person showing up and being admitted to the team and playing as substitute on the spot, with nobody protesting. He puts on the (sweat-soaked, presumably!) uniform of another player and just goes ahead without any check from the referee or assistants. Given that the match is between two schools without necessarily having the official football federation involved, it is understandable, but they do not even ask the opposing coach if they are OK with something so obviously outside of any established rule. And they are still playing in a packed stadium, with official referees and even a radio commentator! Only in anime.
17th Jan 2021
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
Factual error: The mall robbery happens on July 1st, as shown on the newspaper clipping Diana finds, which is coherent with the events depicted in the movie (they rob the mall on the 1st, the day after the stone is at the Smithsonian and Diana and Barbara bond over dinner, then on the 3rd Maxwell arrives, grabs the stone at the evening party, and he is already super powerful the afternoon he takes off for Cairo). Problem is, July the 1st was a Sunday, and not just the mall, but pretty much any other store downtown is open, and similarly since it's the 4th, financial operations wouldn't be happening (although in this case you could always argue that we deal with wishes - but it's an extra layer of implausibility). (01:04:05)
16th Jan 2021
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
Factual error: Diana decides to attend the party Lord invited her to. The music played as she makes her way through the various sleazeballs is "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" from Frankie Goes to Hollywood's eponymous album, which was released in 1984 yes, but just on October 29th, and almost a whole year later as a single. The movie takes places around 4th of July. (00:41:05)
11th Jan 2021
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
Factual error: Diana tells Steve to sum up Barbara's report that the stone appeared in places that all have something in common; "Their civilization collapsed catastrophically, without a trace as to why." That's just ridiculous; one could even argue it could apply to the Maya, who did suffer a sharp decline historians have not reached consensus on, or the Kingdom of Kush's, due to not a great abundance of historical sources, but Carthage? And the Roman Empire had been in a crisis for centuries and it is far from being some mystical overnight disappearance. (01:27:50)
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Suggested correction: She never says this sentence. She just said the stone was there, not that it caused unexplained collapses of civilizations.
Never? "The stone has traveled the world to seemingly random and different places, but they all have something in common; their civilization collapsed catastrophically, without a trace as to why." She says that sentence as I quoted it. If that's not a clear implication (together with what happens in this movie when in less than a week the whole world is on the brink of destruction) that it is the stone that caused it, I don't know what it is.
She doesn't say it in the version of the movie I have. Not at that timestamp anyway.
She says it to Steve when she hangs up, my timestamp is about half a minute off since I pointed the beginning of the conversation about civilizations collapsing, I apologize if it caused an inconvenience.
Oh wait, now I know what you mean. She is just jumping to conclusions there. She means that the real reason was the stone, not what history tells them.
11th Jan 2021
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
Factual error: Diana conjures a shield of invisibility for the jet, but must have also summoned a sound-dampening spell, since the two are comfortably chatting without a helmet and / or usage of the intercom. (01:08:20)
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Suggested correction: You correct your own mistake. Not only is the plane invisible, but also silent as is heard when the plane lifts up and disappears.
I was being facetious. The lack of noise happens way before she starts doing the magic hand thing. If anything, it happens in a ton of movies (prolly there's already an entry in the Common mistakes section somewhere) for people to communicate inside aircrafts or other exceptionally noisy vehicles without the aid of intercoms.
Before she does the invisibility trick Steve hasn't put on the full throttle yet.
11th Jan 2021
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
Factual error: Diana is having a romantic walk with the newfound Steve by the Reflecting Pool, walking towards the Lincoln Memorial. Behind them there's the imposing shape of the Washington monument, but also lit in the night are the columns of the World War II memorial, which was built entirely in the new millennium. (00:46:50)
11th Jan 2021
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
Factual error: As his secretary Raquel tried to tell him, Max has his kid with him because he gets to see him on weekends, and that's 'his weekend'. Good but...it is not the weekend. This is Wonder Woman 1984, and the robbery happened on July 1st, Sunday, and this scene happens two days after that. Maxwell's "weekend" is happening on a Tuesday. (00:36:25)
11th Jan 2021
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
Factual error: As Barbara Minerva is introduced together with her comical inability to walk properly on heels, she passes by "Henry" the elephant at the Smithsonian. But the elephant is on the newly designed infographic podium of our present day, inaugurated in 2015. In 1984 he'd have been on a simpler, differently designed stand. (00:20:10)
11th Jan 2021
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
Factual error: Very nice of the production department to set a scene up inside the iconic "Commander Salamander" store. They could however remove the display rack from Paintglow, which sports the internet address of the company rather prominently. (00:12:00)
11th Jan 2021
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
Factual error: In one of the first establishing shots featuring Max's voice saying "Welcome to the future", a girl with a very movie 80s attire jogs in the street and she passes by a billboard with a Budweiser ad with girls on a beach towel. But it's an ad released in 1987. (00:11:20)
5th Jan 2021
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
Factual error: In the brief showing of the arcade at the mall, not featured as prominently as other anachronistic arcades is the recognizable (it allowed 4 players at the same time) coin-op cabinet of Gauntlet, a game a released only in 1985. (00:12:45)
17th Sep 2020
No Retreat, No Surrender (1986)
Factual error: For the climax of the movie, the bad guy arrives from New York to Seattle, and hops on a limo with a California license plate. (01:14:20)
16th Sep 2020
No Retreat, No Surrender (1986)
Factual error: The movie is set in Seattle for the most part, however in the parking lot of the burger joint you can see plenty nice palm trees planted all around it, in particular when RJ tries to escape. (00:21:30)
15th Sep 2020
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993)
Factual error: During the movie, characters may use lingo that would not be understood easily in the time period of their counterparts. April for instance uses the word "cool" in the modern sense, and nobody questions that, but you could assume that they don't understand every word and infer nonetheless the meaning from the context. Walker however when he's about to fire his cannon uses an idiom "Try this on for size" that was coined in early XX century. (01:19:40)
15th Sep 2020
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993)
Factual error: Raphael tells Yoshi that being a kid, he shouldn't think about war but rather fly "one of those things." He is pointing at kites who have artwork (kabuki-ish makeup with the modern japanese flag) that looks out of place for 1603. (00:56:40)
14th Sep 2020
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993)
Factual error: The movie feels the need to justify the fact that everyone in 1603 Japan happens to speak English (something most kid movies just gloss over) by explaining that they are trading with Great Britain, and therefore the locals picked up the language. That's real cute, but also blatantly false. Trade with the British empire was rather sparse, mostly with Dutch mediation, and knowledge of the English language was practically nonexistent - here, any peasant and even kids are practically bilingual.
Factual error: In the scene inside Channel 3's open space, there are several wall clocks, but they are wrong. When it's 10:05 in New York it's not 3:05 in Frankfurt, London and Paris; besides, 3 clocks out of 6 which always point the same time is really wasteful - not that London is in the same timezone as the other two, but here they all point at the same time. (00:37:25)
14th Sep 2020
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020)
Factual error: At the beginning of the move Lars' family is watching Abba performing Waterloo, live. The day is, as the caption shows, April 6th, 1974. The first time Eurovision was broadcasted live in Iceland was in 1983. (00:00:10)
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