Factual error: The opening of the movie has the two "CHiPs" in two different locations. One is in California, the other in Florida. One wakes up at 5 and prepares for the big criminal enterprise, while the other gets up at 8 for their law enforcement test. The montage shows their accolades entwined. After all, there is a 3 hours difference between the 2 states. The problem is... it's the one in Florida that is up at 5 AM, and the one in California that is up at 8 AM. When it's 5 AM in FL, it's 2 AM in CA. It should have been the other way around, the CA guy being up at 5 and the East coast guy at 8.
Sammo
12th Sep 2019
CHIPS (2017)
12th Sep 2019
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012)
Murder in Montparnasse - S1-E7
Factual error: During scenes in the kitchen (when Bert and Cec hire Miss Fisher; when Butler the butler advises Dot about dealing with the hypocrite priest) a wall calendar is featured. It's nice that it shows the month of October, consistent with the continuity of the season, but it's not an October 1928 calendar, the days are all wrong. (00:21:25 - 00:27:15)
12th Sep 2019
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012)
Murder in Montparnasse - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: When the mechanic puts his cheap cigar on the ashtray, it's an enormous, almost whole cigar in the close-up, leaning on top of the matchbox. When it is shown again a few seconds later, it's reduced to just a butt, lying at distance from the box. (00:25:00)
12th Sep 2019
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012)
Murder in Montparnasse - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: As Jack and Hugh are questioning the bookie in the bar, Jack mentions he could be charged with murder. The guy, startled, asks "Murder? What?" across 2 shots. In the first, his left hand is under the table, in the second he is holding his hands together as he smokes. (00:09:45)
12th Sep 2019
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012)
Ruddy Gore - S1-E6
Revealing mistake: It is revealed that the ghost apparitions come through thanks to projection over falling sand, but that's not the trick used in the actual movie shoot: no sand is falling and accumulating on the floor in the last ghost apparition (when we can see the floor for a while) and in the second apparition (to Miss Fisher backstage) the line of sand was in the wrong direction for it to act as screen.
12th Sep 2019
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012)
Ruddy Gore - S1-E6
Factual error: Miss Fisher and Dot browse several issues of Table Talk, an actual Australian publication from the era depicted, and with the exact same font for the header. The cover layout is not at all like the original (it's contemporary and sexier) and they obviously glued newly printed covers to modern paperback magazines, because the actual Table Talk had very limited foliage (around 24 pages) while the magazines shown here are one inch thick. Moreover, a "June 15 1908" edition is mentioned, which was a Monday. Table Talk was a Thursday magazine.
12th Sep 2019
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012)
Continuity mistake: When Miss Fisher gets face to face with Foyle for the first time, her arm goes from straight to slightly bent at the first cut after his mocking applause; in the reverse shot the arm is still straight and only then begins to curve. (00:39:30)
12th Sep 2019
Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)
Continuity mistake: Johnny's widow is back from her little scouting, and is telling the Reverend about the cotton bale in Harlem. During the scene there's an obvious shadow cast by her head over her right shoulder that disappears in the reverse shots. (00:37:55)
12th Sep 2019
A Cure for Wellness (2016)
Factual error: The license plate of the car that takes the protagonist to the sanitarium is GR 36E46. That's not a valid Swiss plate: GR indicates the canton of Graubünden, but other than that it is supposed to have only digits and no letters.
12th Sep 2019
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012)
12th Sep 2019
Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)
Revealing mistake: As the final chase for Deke starts, Ed tosses a wicker basket at Iris. The toss is already pretty weak looking, but to make matters worse, Judy Pace tosses the gun on purpose in front of her a moment after being 'hit'. (01:28:55)
12th Sep 2019
The Boy Next Door (2015)
Continuity mistake: As Kevin tells his dad during dinner that he dropped out from computer engineering class and is taking up boxing, John Corbett is listening with his hands on his chest, but the fingers are positioned differently between shots. (00:36:15)
12th Sep 2019
Lucifer (2015)
Lucifer, Stay. Good Devil. - S1-E2
Continuity mistake: Immediately after the close-up on the poster of Demon Town with Penelope Decker, Lucifer holds the trophy. From behind it's evident that Chloe's healthy arm is down her side, but in the reverse shot she has her arms crossed. (00:17:30)
12th Sep 2019
Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)
Continuity mistake: Iris enters the house of the widow with no problem, just turning the knob, and just lets the door close behind her - yet when O'Malley has to escape, people outside the door are frantically trying to open the door to no avail.
12th Sep 2019
Child's Play (2019)
Continuity mistake: Andy returns home a little early and opens the door finding mom doing tonsil hockey with a dude named Shane. The multicolored wrapping in her hand switches instantly from right to left hand as she realises her kid is there. (00:09:20)
12th Sep 2019
Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989)
12th Sep 2019
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012)
Continuity mistake: Jack and Hugh are checking out of the serial numbers of the banknotes. It's quite obvious during the sequence that Hugh has a couple of wads in his hands, then he is hands free, and then is holding the same wads as before. (00:39:30)
12th Sep 2019
Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)
Continuity mistake: The junkman played by Redd Foxx closes the door in front of the white guy, who gets in front of the broken window and shouts at him. His hand in the faraway view is on the sill, and in the tighter angle is at the side. (00:45:05)
12th Sep 2019
Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)
Continuity mistake: At O'Malley's release, he is approached by a man wearing a red fez. The people in the background change position at the close-up (the guy in orange turtleneck gets much closer to the one in a blue suit, for instance). (01:09:55)
12th Sep 2019
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012)
Continuity mistake: In the faraway shot, the snake is wrapped around the neck of the dead body full circle, while in the close-ups that follow and precede, the snake is draped across its neck and creeps up the right side of the deceased. (00:01:20)
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