Plot hole: Throughout the entire show, the chief, Juliet, and Lassiter constantly tell Gus and Shawn to stay out of their way and off their case. The chief even reminds them several times that they can't work on a case unless she's assigned it to them, ignoring the fact that Shawn and Gus are private detectives and do not need police permission to investigate a case.
brianjr0412
19th May 2024
Psych (2006)
Suggested correction: But they're only involved in police cases by invitation. People can't just take it on themselves to wade into crime scenes, private detectives or not. Warnings like that might not strictly be a command they "have" to obey, but it's in their best interest to take it on board and not annoy the department too much.
Yes, but the detectives do not know whether they have been privately hired or not. If they had been hired, they have every right to be involved.
2nd Mar 2024
Haven (2010)
Question: Duke creates a paradox by giving his grandfather the gold coin. Duke gives the coin to his grandfather, who then gives it to Duke's father, who then gives it to Duke. Where did it come from?
5th Feb 2024
Haven (2010)
Character mistake: Nathan suggests to Dwight and Audrey that maybe he should shut down the meeting of troubled people. As chief, he should know he has no authority to stop citizens from assembling.
29th Apr 2023
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)
Other mistake: When Jessica first goes to her mother's house after her murder, her friend asks why she didn't tell her about the baby. Jessica says she was going to tell everyone but didn't expect to be back so soon. She just told her mom on the phone she was going to visit the following weekend so yes she did.
14th Apr 2022
Halloween Kills (2021)
Plot hole: Tommy leads the mob after the 2nd escaped patient, thinking it's Michael, but Tommy should have known it wasn't Michael. He saw the patient on the TV at the bar at the beginning of the film.
19th Mar 2021
CSI: Miami (2002)
Other mistake: The hotel manager is charged with negligent homicide because he was using propane without the additive, but the victim was knocked unconscious. The additive wouldn't have made a difference.
10th Mar 2021
CSI: Miami (2002)
Plot hole: The whole scenario is fake and everyone at the bar is an actor, so why would they call the real cops.
Suggested correction: To specifically get the cops involved so Neal feels more in danger. LIVE Corporation basically filed a false police report, which Wendy Colton said the cops can talk to the company's lawyers about.
15th Jun 2020
Urban Legend (1998)
Other mistake: Why would Natalie get probation? She wasn't driving. It wasn't even her idea.
Suggested correction: Lawyer here - Not a mistake at all. She would be liable as an accessory, under aiding and abetting. The exact crime varies between common law jurisdictions, but she is laughing along when Michelle is speeding and terrorizing the other driver. In common law jurisdictions, that would be viewed as encouragement of Michelle's committing a crime (she explicitly says she didn't tell Michelle to stop), which is a form of abetting, and indeed carries criminal charges.
4th Jun 2020
Urban Legends: Bloody Mary (2005)
Factual error: Police do not wait 24 hours to start looking for a possible missing person.
30th May 2020
Charmed (1998)
Other mistake: This entire episode the ghost brothers whine that Leo is responsible for them dying and he left them to die, even Leo believes this. It makes no sense. As we see in the flashback even if Leo stayed to help they were blown up moments later and still would have died.
6th Nov 2019
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
Stupidity: The master goes through all the trouble of making Luke the vessel so Luke can go and kill several people and risk getting the attention of the slayer, when all he had to do is have his minions go out and kidnap a bunch of people and bring them to him and he could've fed off them himself.
31st Jul 2019
Evil Dead (2013)
Plot hole: The book says the demon has to devour 5 souls in order for the abomination to return, but it only got 4 since David saved Mia's.
Suggested correction: In the extended version, we see Mia's soul isn't actually saved.
"In the extended version" has no relevance. Bonus content holds no weight when leveling criticism at the theatrical cut of a film.
Suggested correction: Actually, more than five souls were claimed over the course of the film, whether or not you count Mia. Four people died in the cabin, plus the possessed girl in the beginning of the film, in addition to the girl's mother, who is mentioned to have been killed by her. You could also make an argument that the dog counted, technically. You also gotta remember, the book said the souls must be "consumed," and technically, it did possess Mia and she "died" while still possessed before being revived. So by the vague definition of "consumed," she could still possibly count. Either way, definitely more than five souls were claimed over the course of the film.
Brother and friend were also technically cleansed by fire.
13th Jul 2019
Bride of Chucky (1998)
Plot hole: In this film Chucky says they need the heart of dumbbells to transfer their souls into human body. If he knew this why did he even attempt it in the first 3 movies? And he never uses it in the next 3 movies, including "Cult of Chucky," where he is successful at the transfer. (Side Note: The series writer has admitted that this was a ret-con added to the film in order to justify the road-trip. So, while still a mistake, it was purposely done).
Suggested correction: The amulet is necessary to amplify power in order to transfer multiple souls at a time - it's only used in Bride with two souls and Seed with three or four.
10th Jul 2019
Shazam! (2019)
Other mistake: Towards the end of the film when they're at the fair, Mary refers to the Sins as "sins", but there is no way she would know that they are sins.
Suggested correction: If you think about it, Billy shouldn't have known either. However he does posses knowledge of these after he transforms and receives the powers. It is evident that when the other children held the staff and said Shazam to get the powers as well, that it also came with some, at least limited, knowledge of these things.
Agreed, except the scene I'm referring to takes place before the rest of the family get powers.
She called them "sins" before she held the staff.
He does get told they are sins.
Mary may not have known but Billy would, because old Shazam talked to Billy about how a previous champion released the sins into his world.
4th Jun 2019
CSI: Miami (2002)
Death Grip - S2-E4
Plot hole: There is absolutely nothing that would give Horatio any reason to think the severed arm they found was from a previous victim of their suspect. It doesn't make any sense he would pick something as random as the arm that has no connection (other than it being found during the search for the girl) to the case.
4th Jun 2019
CSI: Miami (2002)
Death Grip - S2-E4
Other mistake: While irrigating the alligator's stomach a human foot falls out, there is no way a foot that size could fit through that PVC pipe.
6th May 2019
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)
Plot hole: At the end of Apocalypse the Umbrella corporation bombs raccoon City. It doesn't make any sense that they would do this with the entire Umbrella high command underneath the city, as we learn it is in this movie.
Suggested correction: The Umbrella high command is far underground and safe from the surface bombing. There's no mistake here.
Really? The whole point of the bomb was to destroy any evidence of what happened. That includes the hive.
The point of the bomb was to remove any trace of the virus. Meaning all the inhabitants, dead or alive. Not necessarily the Hive.
Yes but literally the head of company in Dr. Isaac's is located there. It makes no sense that they would bomb Raccoon City because according to Final Chapter they wanted the virus to spread anyway. This film franchise is filled with bad writing, crappy continuity, and plot holes.
4th May 2019
Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
Question: In the beginning of the movie Alice says the virus didn't just affect humans, that eventually the rivers dried up. Why would the rivers dry up? The virus doesn't affect the weather.
Answer: The implication is that the virus has began to effect the environment as well. (Presumably by adapting and mutating).
15th Apr 2019
Halloween (2018)
Continuity mistake: Towards the end when Laurie and her daughter are in the basement, they look up to see light coming through the wood floor and see Michael's shadow. But in all the shots from the first floor it is a tile floor with no spaces for light.
14th Apr 2019
Hell Fest (2018)
Continuity mistake: After Asher is separated from Quinn he's looking around a room with a flashlight and finds the killer. We can see the killer's eyes but a few shots later there is mesh over the eye holes of the mask. (00:52:15)
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