Sammo

24th Mar 2020

Magnum, P.I. (1980)

Past Tense - S3-E4

Other mistake: Magnum quite literally breaks into TC's office, shattering the glass with his shoe and reaching through to unlock the door. When he and Rick leave, he reaches in again and locks the door back. They get stopped by Lieutenant Yoshi Tanaka in the corridor, have a bit of banter without them touching the door, and when the policemen walk past them, they just have to push the door to open it; it's completely unlocked already. (00:15:55 - 00:16:55)

Sammo

24th Mar 2020

Magnum P.I. (2018)

Sudden Death - S1-E5

Other mistake: During the game at the beginning of the episode, the opposing team (the Pearl City Chargers, white and purple) fields at least two players with the same jersey number 12. The kid protagonist runs past a guy with number 12 at he starts his run, and then dodges another two in front of him, who are present in the same shot - it's not a matter of editing/continuity, at least in that second shot. (00:50:00)

Sammo

21st Mar 2020

Hawaii Five-0 (2010)

Lanakila - S1-E4

Other mistake: The episode makes sure to mention the real places where the action happens. The fugitive escapes from Halawa Correctional Facility, and dumps the car at Kakaʻako Beach Park, which is about 25 minutes away. Danny and the others arrive at the location way before Steve, who was at the airport, which is roughly 15 mins away from the penitentiary (kinda odd that they'd happen to be even closer than him, but fine). They have then the footage to investigate, the guard to talk to, the game of hoops with the prisoners, go back to their precinct, but despite the huge headstart Ellers had, they catch the car that was abandoned "15 minutes earlier." Moreover, Chin calls Danny to tell him about the car only after he already investigated the location and interrogated the witness. It can't even be 15 minutes, because 15 minutes is when the fugitive bought the products from the market, and he still needed to dye his hair.

Sammo

21st Mar 2020

Hawaii Five-0 (2010)

Ohana - S1-E2

Other mistake: When Chin shows the ID of the fugitive, his last name is Ivanovitch, with a T. Later he is looking at his travel history and immigration record, and he's Sergei Ivanovich, no T. (00:16:25 - 00:26:35)

Sammo

21st Mar 2020

Hawaii Five-0 (2010)

Ohana - S1-E2

Other mistake: When Steve picks up the call from the Governor, his wristwatch points at about half past 10. The kidnapping, he then says getting to the location, happened one hour before, but during the opening his kid Evan whined that it was 6 am. Also to be noted, Steve in typical movie fashion is expositing the mission during the drive in the outskirts of town, as if he'd just have dragged his partner for miles without saying the first thing about the reason. (00:05:40)

Sammo

21st Mar 2020

Hawaii Five-0 (2010)

Pilot - S1-E1

Other mistake: The human trafficker Sang Min covers his retreat from the warehouse firing wildly with a Micro Galil. In the time it takes for Steve to shout to the others if anybody is hurt, he somehow already ran all the way to his Mercedes deep up the alley and start it up so it can make a nice screeching noise and ram McGarrett. (00:34:50)

Sammo

21st Mar 2020

Magnum P.I. (2018)

Six Paintings, One Frame - S1-E4

Other mistake: Speaking with Chen, Higgins tells him that she had Robin Master's IT experts "scrub every byte" of the computer Magnum used to upload the report, and there was no security breach on their end. Considering that she is with Magnum when they visit the crime scene that the police is still processing, it'd mean that the experts 'scrubbed' the computer doing a complete forensics analysis in an hour or so - assuming they did it on remote too, since obviously Robin Masters' team is not in Hawaii. (00:13:00)

Sammo

21st Mar 2020

Magnum, P.I. (1980)

21st Mar 2020

Magnum P.I. (2018)

From the Head Down - S1-E2

Other mistake: When Magnum asks Higgins a favour, she tells him that he already asked for one 'last week'. She repeats that later in the terrorist's car. With that being a reference to the previous episode, it means that her arm, literally pierced by a bullet and that she had in a sling, healed completely without as little as a bandage (she is even wearing a sleeveless dress!) in 7 days or so. (00:25:40)

Sammo

21st Mar 2020

Magnum P.I. (2018)

I Saw the Sun Rise - S1-E1

Other mistake: Nuzo saved Magnum's life in Afghanistan, cauterizing with gunpowder a big deep wound that hit a blood vessel in his chest. Throughout the whole series, Magnum flaunts all the time his flawless torso, with no scars whatsoever. (00:20:40)

Sammo

21st Mar 2020

Taxi Driver (1976)

Other mistake: Travis built a special arm holster for a gun that allows him to pull a gun easily, popping it in hand while his arm is already outstretched. It's the weapon he prepared for in the iconic "You talkin' to me?" scene, and practices handshaking with it. We see a scene when he prepares to go kill the Senator cutting the sleeve of the shirt off. And yet, when the actual attempted hit is shown, Travis has his hand (the gun hand) inside his jacket, alerting security. (01:36:30)

Sammo

Other mistake: After the weird scene with the dude in a wig, there's one quick display of all the various pages that talked about the viral video. One of those pages is written in Italian, but it's obviously machine-translated and/or not supervised by anyone speaking the language, since it contains multiple mistakes (including also an edit flub with the picture of the brothers on top of an article about medusae). Even the name of the magazine is certainly pretty bad for an Italian one; "Daily du Jour", which is French, not Italian. (00:14:15)

Sammo

Other mistake: Mike and Dave put the ad on Craigslist, and people begin to share it through social media. The first time we see someone share it through Facebook the date of the post is "March 19 at 12:38 AM." Moments later there's a zoom in and now the date is still the 19th, still at 12:38 AM, but the month changed to May. (00:12:30)

Sammo

21st Mar 2020

Hotel Artemis (2018)

Other mistake: In the close-up of the gun freshly printed, there's a bunch of molten plastic by the gun cylinder and the grip. Waikiki retrieves it right away, bare handed, and the bed is completely clean too. (01:03:25)

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)

Sammo

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