Sammo

12th Feb 2020

Joker (2019)

Factual error: Heading home after the first encounter with the social worker and the incident with the kid and the irritable mom, Arthur is trudging to get his meds at Helms' Pharmacy. Parked in front of the pharmacy there's a sedan, a Mercury Grand Marquis, which by bumper design is a post 1988 model, way past the events of the movie, in 1981. (00:09:20)

Sammo

10th Feb 2020

Common mistakes

Factual error: In almost every movie when a landmine is involved, dramatic tension builds when the character steps on it, inevitably hearing a click. That's it, you and everyone else realise that you triggered the mine, and it will explode the moment you try to step away. It's time to say farewell to your friends surrendering to your fate, or hold very still until someone thinks of something extremely clever and bold to save you. In the real world, though, you'd already been maimed, since mines are made to explode with the initial pressure, not the release. Example; the legendary ending of Double Team, or the movie Mine, which is...literally all based on this.

Sammo

2nd Feb 2020

Taxi Driver (1976)

2nd Feb 2020

Seinfeld (1990)

2nd Feb 2020

Taxi Driver (1976)

2nd Feb 2020

Taxi Driver (1976)

Continuity mistake: When Travis joins Easy Andy in the cab, cars and people in the street behind him change in the reverse angle. (00:54:00)

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2nd Feb 2020

Taxi Driver (1976)

Continuity mistake: In the close-up of the stabbing, Murray Moston's hand looks different compared to the previous shot. (01:41:20)

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Remembrance - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: Right at the beginning, the camera zooms into the Enterprise through a view that shows 3 windows of equal size. In the rest of the scene, Jean-Luc Picard and Data are playing poker in front of two side windows and a central window that is wider than the other two combined. (00:00:30)

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Maps and Legends - S1-E2

Stupidity: The super powerful Romulan commandos (no doubt with the help from the higher-ups infiltrated in the Federation) managed to touch up the footage of the fight in the roof so to remove every trace of the Romulan agents present. But Picard has been running, dodging blasts, ducking, and is knocked back by a huge explosion caught on camera and not deleted; we see it in this episode and it is unequivocally not caused by him. What is the point of going through subtly deleting every trace of the aggressors when it is transparent that something real happened and it's not all Picard's imagination? And the police simply take Picard back home from San Francisco to France without questioning him, not caring about investigating the explosion in the heart of the city involving a famous Admiral battling invisible enemies. If the conspiracy can erase anyone from the tape, why not erase Picard too, or the explosion and explain how he ended up K.O.'d differently?

Sammo

1st Feb 2020

Joker (2019)

Trivia: The detectives who are investigating Arthur throughout the movie are Detective Garrity and Detective Burke. In "The King of Comedy", inspiration for this movie, Rupert Pupkin was investigated by inspector Gerrity and Captain Burke.

Sammo

1st Feb 2020

Joker (2019)

Continuity mistake: When Arthur Fleck gets hit by the yellow sign, the sign breaks in two different ways in the two separate shots - the first time it is evident that the bottom half of the sign splits further in the middle, while in the wider angle it stays largely intact. (00:02:50)

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Factual error: At the beginning of the movie, Jason Sudeikis pops out of a door wearing a Jurassic 5 T-shirt. Problem is, the artwork on it is from the cover of Feedback, their 2006 album. The scene, as the introductory caption says, is supposed to happen in 2002. (00:00:55)

Sammo

28th Jan 2020

Star Trek: Picard (2020)

Remembrance - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: Dahj's boyfriend stands to go get something from the replicator. Dahj has her hands off camera, but in the wider angle she is leaning against her right arm and has the wine glass lifted, so both should have been visible. (00:04:55)

Sammo

28th Jan 2020

Star Trek: Picard (2020)

Remembrance - S1-E1

Other mistake: Picard gives the mysterious girl some Earl Grey. She has it in hand only in one shot, the faraway one when the two Romulan servants are leaving. The way the scene goes, at no point during the whole scene does she have time to even take a sip. (00:19:05)

Sammo

28th Jan 2020

Star Trek: Picard (2020)

Remembrance - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: Dahj is fighting the last remaining assailant on the rooftop. The guy tries to use a rifle on her...swinging it like a mace, for some reason. She disarms him and the rifle falls joining the helmet on the ground. When she picks the weapon up, the helmet is gone. (00:32:30)

Sammo

28th Jan 2020

Plot of Fear (1976)

Character mistake: The first victim gets smacked in the face by the Mistress, and then in subservient fashion holds her hand and kisses it asking if she hurt her hand hitting him. Thing is, she slapped him with the right hand and he is kissing the left better. (00:01:40)

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