Sammo

21st Mar 2020

Fun Size (2012)

Other mistake: During her somber trick-or-treat stroll with April, Wren receives a message from Aaron. She is really surprised by that and wonders how did he get her number. On the other hand, the text is identified by his full name, showing that she had his number saved in the phone book. (00:10:50)

Sammo

21st Mar 2020

A Simple Favor (2018)

Other mistake: The vlog entry that leads to the finale is #47. Six months pass, the caption say, but in the finale Stephanie is posting her vlog #290. That's more than 40 entries per month, and Stephanie always keeps her entries daily throughout the movie even under the craziest circumstances.

Sammo

21st Mar 2020

A Simple Favor (2018)

Other mistake: Stephanie's vlog gains over 85,000 subscribers in the space of the minutes it takes for her to livestream from her home to Emily's house. While Youtube has had much larger sudden increases in followers, this is not Youtube, but a private blog that begins from 34,000 subscribers. It seems quite unlikely that even by word of mouth it could have the critical mass to grow by 200% in such a short time, considering that it reached those 30k with a murder story that had media coverage, and it takes then 6 months for her to hit 1 million afterwards, with the amazing scoop and juicy media story that follows. It should also be noted that her figures when she asks to identify the Kia are ridiculously low; she manages to find the same car the police can't find thanks to her channel that has a whopping 1,013 subscribers worldwide at the time.

Sammo

21st Mar 2020

A Simple Favor (2018)

Other mistake: Bashir Salahuddin appears in the ending credits of the Italian localization as "Detective Summervile" with one L. It's a spelling mistake that appears also on IMDB, so one wonders if the localization team lifted name from the website, or if the theatrical version had the spelling mistake and was fixed afterwards.

Sammo

20th Mar 2020

Death and Taxes

Other mistake: Objects you put inside a drawer do not disappear just in the part of the drawer that goes into the desk, but also in the lateral sides.

Sammo

19th Mar 2020

I, Daniel Blake (2016)

Other mistake: Daniel Blake in the first minutes of the movie is at the hospital taking an echocardiogram. On screen you can see the date of the test; 20/10/2015, so he took it on the 20th of October. The day goes on with Daniel visiting his coworkers, then he is at home, with BBC Radio Four saying it's twelve to 1:00 and broadcasting the first shipping forecast of the day for "Tuesday the 20th." (00:04:40 - 00:06:50)

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Other mistake: In Memphis, the vain Dr. Chilton is giving an interview in front of the courthouse. So the captions say, because the building he is talking in front of (in actuality the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum in Pittsburg) has just a dimly lit "Shelby County War Museum" sign. From the look of the hall, the latter seems to be correct. (01:05:10)

Sammo

Other mistake: Clarice on the plane with Crawford is flipping through the report about the first victim (third found). Despite being a report on a victim of a case already thoroughly analyzed, it is lacking pretty much every detail about the victim other than the name and an incomplete address, and the data about the coroner in its second page point at Cleveland but with a California 408 area code (this page is realistically visible in detail only through slow motion, even if the relevant aspects - zip code and town name - can be spotted at normal speed). Finally, when Clarice turns page in the next shot to get to the photo part, the page is different. (00:36:15)

Sammo

19th Mar 2020

Relic Hunter (1999)

Affaire de Coeur - S1-E15

Other mistake: In the Romeo & Juliet-like beginning of the story, Calum looks at his own hand and discovers Elena's blood. Obviously censorship ratings prevent the scene from being realistic and he has barely a smudge of blood on his own hand, but Elena was lying dead on top of him; the fact that his clothes are absolutely pristine for the rest of the scene is laughable - at least she could have gutted herself a little bit on the side and not where she would inevitably bleed him a river right on his white shirt. (00:02:55)

Sammo

19th Mar 2020

Relic Hunter (1999)

Affaire de Coeur - S1-E15

Other mistake: Calum fights off Elena's father and is chased away by the guards. Somehow he has a fight on the top of the stairs with 2 guards, but it takes in excess of 40 seconds for the previous pursuers to catch up with him. (00:04:25)

Sammo

19th Mar 2020

Relic Hunter (1999)

Smoking Gun - S1-E2

Other mistake: Somehow, the pineapple grenade that explodes right against the room's baseboard punches a hole in a thick stone wall, but in the middle of it, preserving the base and creating a gap in a diamond shape that radiates from mid-height. (00:17:40)

Sammo

19th Mar 2020

Relic Hunter (1999)

Smoking Gun - S1-E2

Other mistake: The episode begins with a caption; "Chicago, 1930." In present day, through internet magic (hotel records from early 1900s somehow digitalized and publicly available!) Nigel and Sydney talk about the history (fictional, no actual historical basis) of the Roxbury. Nigel says that the original owner went out of business "after the war", then the company was sold, and the hotel refurbished, despite being, Sydney says, "only 5 years old." Later in the episode, Sydney looks at a plaque from the Chicago Historical Board that dates the elevator as "circa 1901." (00:12:35)

Sammo

19th Mar 2020

Death in Paradise (2011)

Episode #1.3 - S1-E3

Other mistake: Inside Angelique Morel's residence, Camille spots an altar with pictures of an unnamed girl and says "This must be Angelique's daughter, Delilah." They went straight to the murder scene and from there to that shack, without time to consult files. Nobody mentioned the name of the daughter.

Sammo

19th Mar 2020

Death in Paradise (2011)

Murder from Above - S7-E1

Other mistake: The text message used as ploy to cover up the murder was sent at 17:44, but during the flashback showing the killer setting up the murder scene, a wristwatch on the vanity is at about 10 o'clock. (00:44:25)

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Other mistake: Rupert almost got to the end of the cue cards when he flips too quickly the one saying "Alive", partially hidden behind another he is holding in his hand, showing the one saying "again" too early. So Jerry asks him to go back. And he does, only to bring then from behind "again." There is a small bit when De Niro is off-camera, but for this sequence to go as shown, he would have slipped to the bottom/the back of the pile the "again" card that was already at the top and then put in its place one of the two he had already in hand, the correct one, "alive." The fact that "again", that was at the top of the pile, is pulled from the bottom instead, makes no sense. (01:08:50)

Sammo

19th Mar 2020

Taxi Driver (1976)

Other mistake: Travis' hair length appears inconsistent throughout the movie; he begins working in early May with his hair of a certain length, his hair appears trimmed differently in certain scenes driving the cab, it is certainly much shorter, sort of a buzz cut, during the scenes when he interacts with the senator's guards, but it is already longer when he is doing the "You talkin' to me scene" and the murder of Stick-Up Man, which is in between the buzzcut scenes. And then of course, there's the ending.

Sammo

19th Mar 2020

Taxi Driver (1976)

Other mistake: The continuity of the sequence with Travis killing Iris' Time Keeper is choppy; audio of him screaming is heard even when his mouth is closed, and his eyes are open, then closed. He is also staying completely still for the shots of the final blow after displaying fierce blind suicidal aggression (going after a man with a gun even having no weapon and one hand turned into a pulp), where his head appears pushed against the couch in a different way between angles. (01:41:25)

Sammo

19th Mar 2020

Taxi Driver (1976)

Other mistake: Travis Bickle's voiceover reading the letter to Mom and Dad says that July is Father's day month. But the holiday happens in the month of June (at least in the US). On the other hand, it's more than just a Character Error, because when you see the written part of the card held by Robert De Niro, the word used is "June" and not "July." (01:12:00 - 01:13:20)

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Other mistake: Guido Mauri spots the police from the window. He tells his accomplice to go while he'll draw the guards' attention. Thing is, Marco is leaving through the same door they came from, and the police is already there. Yet he manages to slip unnoticed. Moreover, he leaves to Guido's right, but in the reverse shot you can see someone's head pop in frame on Guido's left for a moment. (00:04:10)

Sammo

17th Mar 2020

Magnum, P.I. (1980)

Almost Home - S3-E10

Other mistake: When Magnum passes a can of nondescript soda to Bridget outside of the Navy building after the chat with Maggie, the vending machine has a big triangle of masking tape to conceal the Coca Cola logo for sponsorship reasons - however the production failed to cover the Sprite button which remains recognizable. (00:13:00)

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