Other mistake: Jack realises that he 'lost' the watch, but luckily Leena shows she wasn't as forgetful and it's in her possession. We saw Jack toss the watch as ordered by the possessed policeman. We saw also Leena show up to save Jack, and leave the scene with him hand in hand - he dragged her with her, actually. She was nowhere near the point where the watch would end up, and she didn't have a chance to get it later, especially without Jack's knowledge.
Sammo
21st Jun 2022
Trancers (1985)
21st Jun 2022
Trancers (1985)
Other mistake: The policemen work with Whistler all day long doing his bidding, to the point of shooting an unarmed woman, but they show the big-lipped zombie Trancer look only at the very end, in contrast with everyone else who would fully transform into a Trancer the moment they commit to attempting to kill someone.
21st Jun 2022
Trancers (1985)
Revealing mistake: When the policemen are looking for Jack who poses as a hobo, and when Lopez confronts him and gets killed, the scene is supposed to happen to during the night, but what appears to be daylight comes through the openings (we see the outside of the building when they all escape and there's no light source like that). (00:53:15)
20th Jun 2022
Trancers (1985)
Plot hole: Whistler's powers are not fully explained, but most certainly he has no god-like abilities or is omniscient; the rest of the movie shows he is not. But Jack's first run-in with a Trancer in 1985 LA makes no sense then; unless Whistler was mentally controlling every mall Santa in LA, he had no way to know where "Philip" would end up. If he did (and again, how could he; he doesn't have the power to control legions of Trancers), he would have capitalized on it catching him in the act with the police, too.
19th Jun 2022
Trancers (1985)
Continuity mistake: Jack has just learned about Whistler's evil plan from the TV. He tosses a sleepy Leena her kimono; she is touching her hair with her hand, but in close-up she gets a faceful of silk with no hand. (00:47:35)
19th Jun 2022
Trancers (1985)
Audio problem: When Jack hauls Baby McNulty out of the apartment, the young actress (Alyson Croft) 's lines are dubbed over and you can also see she actually bursts out laughing at the turn of the corner. (00:43:00)
19th Jun 2022
Trancers (1985)
Audio problem: At the 'punk' club in Chinatown, the live singer (or yeller) is lip-syncing (and with lots of lips but very little of the synching). (00:38:10)
19th Jun 2022
Trancers (1985)
Continuity mistake: When the cops catch up with Jack and Leena in the parking lot of the Caheunga Boulevard salon, the first cop says "Freeze." Jack raises his hands, which are in front of Leena. Reverse angle, and he's touching Lena's back. (00:31:20)
19th Jun 2022
Trancers (1985)
Continuity mistake: When Helen Hunt recovers from the "long second" and asks "Why aren't we dead?" her hair changes position on the lapels of the denim jacket between shots. (00:33:35)
19th Jun 2022
Trancers (1985)
Plot hole: The 'medics' carry the body bag that is supposed to have the body of Evil Santa inside, but Whistler vaporized it. Somehow, they fail to notice that the obese man weighs like a feather and the bag is deflated and empty. Moreover, the other Trancers vaporize within seconds from their death, but that one, and only that one, took minutes or even hours to disappear, only with Whistler's direct intervention. (00:25:00)
19th Jun 2022
Trancers (1985)
Continuity mistake: When Leena walks away from Jack (who just 'guessed' her name) saying "Thank God", her hair is a mess under the hat. It's more neat when the camera angle changes. (00:21:50)
19th Jun 2022
Trancers (1985)
Other mistake: Jack receives a summons from the officers, but he wants to ignore it. He's arguing with his former colleague on the beach. His hair is wet but the suit is dry. (00:08:30)
19th Jun 2022
Kindaichi shônen no jiken bo (1997)
Black Butterfly Murder Case: File 1 - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: Kindaichi spots Ruri's ball after the death threat. The ball lies in the grass turned in a different direction at the cut. (00:00:21)
19th Jun 2022
Kindaichi shônen no jiken bo (1997)
Black Butterfly Murder Case: File 1 - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: When the three daughters of the host do their little choreography, you see the painting of the butterfly in the close-ups of the eldest two. In the wide shot, they are so close to the wall and the painting is set so high on it that it should have been impossible to see the wings. (00:11:20)
19th Jun 2022
Trancers (1985)
Revealing mistake: Jack just killed the trancer old lady at the diner's. The place was empty and nobody else was supposed to be there, but as he turns away from the charred remains, in the top right corner of the frame you can see someone peek as Tim Thomerson loudly stumbles into the kitchenware on the floor, and then nonchalantly get back to their business. (00:05:40)
19th Jun 2022
Trancers (1985)
Revealing mistake: Jack just killed the first Trancer of the movie; the special effect of the corpse disappearing is not only visually poor to the point of being obviously fake, but it also has a clear mistake in execution; there's a spoon on the kitchen counter that changes position between frames (someone on set was careless and moved it, ruining the composite shot). (00:05:25)
18th Jun 2022
Star Trek: Picard (2020)
Plot hole: In this episode, the 'Watcher' displays the power to possess/mind control people at will, jumping from body to body to set up the meeting with Picard. Forgetting the fact that this usage of power for such a menial task is actually detrimental to what she wants to do (it leaves more evidence, by unnecessarily messing up with minds just to tell the guy to go from A to B), this would have been super-useful for the rest of the season, but she just never ever uses it again, not even a nerfed version of it.
18th Jun 2022
Star Trek: Picard (2020)
Other mistake: The show is supposed to take place in the same timeline as Next Generation, but the presence of a young Guinan in 2024 who has never met Picard before contradicts the TNG Season 5 finale, Time's Arrow, where Picard met Guinan (looking like Whoopi Goldberg, who also appears here) in the XIX century. When asked about this contradiction, show writer Terry Matalas said that the Federation actually never happened since the 'future' was changed by Q's actions, so Picard never traveled back in TNG meeting her. However, that is never referenced in the actual episode or the season finale, and would create other paradoxes, especially since in the very same episode there is a reference to Star Trek IV. The same punk from back then rubs nervously his neck remembering Spock's nerve pinch; the TOS cast would have not visited XX century Earth in the way shown in the movie if the Federation never came into existence.
18th Jun 2022
Star Trek: Picard (2020)
Two of One - S2-E6
Stupidity: Adam Soong's daughter is a grown woman who is well aware of her unique critical condition and the outside world, and is homebound because of her health condition that prevents her from being exposed to direct sunlight and pathogens. Apparently, with all the free time she has and awareness and investment in her father's researches who are all about her, she never ever looked at her father's computer (which has all the info about her story right there on the desktop) nor googled him before.
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Suggested correction: I'm sorry, but what reason would she have to look at her father's computer or google him prior to becoming suspicious of him? Yes, the information about the experiments is laughably easy to find but that doesn't mean it's stupid that she hasn't stumbled upon it yet. She never looked because she trusted her father. She doesn't have a reason not to, she isn't privy to his shady actions like the audience. It doesn't seem unreasonable that someone who is so isolated from society might be naïve.
If she were a pure innocent soul isolated from society in an absolute sense, yes, but if you look at episode 4, she is aware that he is being audited, and she even jokes about the line he actually used "Humanity is at a crossroad" implying it's a bad line that he used before and that, besides being a huge red flag about the unethical experiments she is totally unaware of a couple episodes later, there is contention about what he is doing. If your dad were implied in some public auditing the outcome of which your very life depends on, I think you'd peek at the media coverage. Even worse for the computer, with the data easily accessible from the desktop, in video format - she's home all day and yet she never ever in a lifetime peeked what her dad was up to, which is, and she is aware of that much, finalized to save her life.
18th Jun 2022
Star Trek: Picard (2020)
Plot hole: Dr. Adam Soong is initially presented as a discredited scientist, banned from the scientific community; he gets debarred and his funding revoked. And it's not an internal matter; he is publicly exposed for it. His daughter in episode 6 even finds out this information on Google. Several news articles call him "mad scientist" and such. However, this same person at the same time throughout the rest of the season has every bit of pull and influence, not just through undercover channels, but is treated with the utmost honor and deference by the NASA PR people at public events.
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