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Corrected entry: The RCMP officer at the rendezvous is a captain. But the Mounties (in common with other Canadian police forces) have always used British-style police ranks. He would actually be an inspector.

Correction: The RCMP officer never refers to his rank, Ness refers to him as a captain which is a character mistake.

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15th Aug 2005

The Untouchables (1987)

Corrected entry: In the shot from the POV of the killer, as he comes in through the window of Sean Connery's apartment to kill him, the crew is briefly visible in a window reflection as the killer opens the windows.

Correction: It's not the crew, it's the killer, it's intentional.

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Corrected entry: Ness watches his buddy get on the elevator with the hit man, on the upper floor. The door closes and in the next shot (same hall) he looks out the window and sees the elevator open to the alley/loading dock with his buddy dead inside and the hit man escapes. The top of the elevator and the bottom are in a different vertical space (the elevator went down and then made two 90 degree turns to a different wing of the building).

Correction: Hopelessly wrong. Firstly Ness is not there to see his buddy enter the elevator which is why he asks where he is and looks worried for a brief moment when told and secondly the guy who looks out at the escaping hitman is the senior police officer and he's not able to see the elevator, just a dead policeman and the hitman.

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Correction: The senior police officer walks down the corridor into a room and straight to a window which looks out directly at the hit man leaving the elevator. This is impossible as the elevator is located behind the senior officer as he looks out the window.

24th Nov 2002

The Untouchables (1987)

Corrected entry: In the scene where Elliot Ness comes to meet Jimmy Malone for the first time at Malone's apartment, Malone answers the door wearing a simple shirt and vest. After he invites him in and serves him tea, however, he's wearing a policeman's uniform.

Correction: No he's not, that is simply not true.

tw_stuart

Corrected entry: After the Untouchables charge the bridge at the USA/Canada border, Ness chases one of Capone's cronies to the shack. Ness kills him with a shotgun blast through the doorway, making the body land on the porch with his feet at the door jam. Later, when Malone steps out to 'interrogate' the body, it is laying across the porch in an entirely different position.

Correction: It's a different scene quite some time later. There was more than enough time for the body to be moved so that it wasn't blocking the door.

tw_stuart

8th Dec 2003

The Simpsons (1989)

Maximum Homerdrive - S10-E17

Corrected entry: When Red is declared the winner of the eating contest and dies, just before he is pronouced dead by Dr. Hibbert he blinks. Last time I checked dead people don't blink.

Correction: He blinks and then is pronounced dead, seems OK to me. If it happened the other way round then it's a mistake.

tw_stuart

22nd Oct 2005

The Simpsons (1989)

Correction: Mr Burns regularly forgets things and certainly wouldn't remember someone he regards as unimportant like Abe. Mr Burns has to be reminded who Homer is almost every time, even though they regularly interact.

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30th Oct 2005

Trainspotting (1996)

Corrected entry: When Spud heads downstairs after spending the night in his girlfriend's bed he is carrying sheets heavily soiled with his own feces. Nobody notices until someone wrenches the sheets out of his hands, spraying the room and everyone in it. Didn't anyone notice the smell? It should have filled the whole house.

Correction: They may well have noticed the smell but nobody would have thought it was coming from the bedsheets. It's not a mistake for nobody to remark on it, the family had a guest and were being polite.

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Corrected entry: When Trillian uses the lightsaber/knife to cut the bread, you can see the blade of the "lightknife" passes through the breadboard without even cutting or marking it.

Correction: Given the advanced technology on the spaceship the bread-sabre would obviously be designed to only cut through bread and not inflict damage on the breadboard, anyone clever enough to invent a knife that toasts while cutting would think of such things. Alternatively the breadboard is made of a material that is impervious to the bread-sabre, a fairly obvious requirement for a breadboard in those circumstances.

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23rd Sep 2005

Sin City (2005)

Corrected entry: The scar on Hartigan's forehead keeps changing from one of 4 repaired cuts (like a plus sign +) to one of 5 (like a starfish.).

Correction: No, but what does happen is that the visibility of the 5th scar changes, depending on the light and Hartigan's level of activity - the color of his skin will change dependent on the blood flow.

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30th Sep 2002

Ronin (1998)

Corrected entry: When Spence checks the armaments they are going to buy, he states "it's not all here". They have a gunfight and return to base. No-one makes any comment that they need to obtain the missing armaments.

Correction: They may consider it so obvious as to not be worth stating. Either way it's not a mistake.

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27th Aug 2001

Shanghai Noon (2000)

Corrected entry: In the Qing Dynasty which reigned China when the story was set, Chinese men, be it commoners or those in the palace, were all bald in the front and wore ponytails at the back. It's the same for Emperor or servants. Although Jackie Chan has a ponytail, why does he have hair in the front?

Correction: During the 268 years of the Qing dynasty, numerous rebellions occurred because of the strict rules regarding dress and hairstyle, this would suggest that not everyone obeyed the rules.

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20th Aug 2005

Sin City (2005)

Corrected entry: When the cop tells Dwight he pulled him over for a busted tail light, Look at the back of the car before cop pulls in back of him. Both lights look fine. (01:09:55 - 01:11:40)

Correction: The cop was looking for a payoff, but decided not to pursue it once he saw Dwight and figured he had no chance. It would hardly be the first time a cop has pulled someone over on a fake charge.

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22nd Jun 2004

School of Rock (2003)

Corrected entry: On her first meeting with Dewey, wouldn't Miss Mullins be a little suspicious of the fact that not only has Dewey lost the deep voice that he was using over the phone, but also that he sounds an awful lot like "Mr Schneebly's Roommate?"

Gavin Jackson

Correction: She obviously wasn't suspicious; she desperately needs a teacher and didn't over-analyse. At worst, this is a character mistake.

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27th Aug 2001

The Sting (1973)

Corrected entry: Just before the sting goes down, the assassin and the bodyguard are shown preparing their weapons. Both place largish suppressers (aka "silencers") on their guns. Both of them are using revolvers. Except for a few, rare models built specifically for the purpose, revolvers can't be effectively suppressed. There is a gap between the cylinder and the barrel that allows some of the expanding gasses and accompanying noise to escape before they can be affected by a suppresser on the end of the barrel. This is one of the most common firearms related mistakes in older and period films.

Correction: The key word is "effectively", from the submitters description it appears that the silencers offer some noise reduction which is presumably enough for their needs.

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16th Jul 2003

Spy Game (2001)

Corrected entry: When the helicopters are landing at the prison you can see someone directing the landing who is on the ground but no U.S. forces were on the ground yet. He was directing the first helicopter on where to land.

MCKD

Correction: We don't know the details of the operation. There may have been advance troops. We know that there were additional people involved to cut the power so having someone to guide the helicopters is not impossible.

tw_stuart

1st Sep 2005

Speed (1994)

Correction: Speculation, it's not a mistake for someone to realise that they are being approached.

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14th Nov 2002

Spy Game (2001)

Corrected entry: In the scene where Robert Redford calls his broker at the London Stock Exchange to have $282,000 transferred to a Caiman Island account, the time that's given on screen is 9.22 p.m. in Langley/Virginia. Knowing that EST is GMT -5 hours that would mean that the London stock exchange is open at 2.22 am, which is impossible.

Correction: We see him call a secretary who then transfers his call, but we don't know to where and there is never any indication that the London Stock Exchange is open, only that his broker is still available.

tw_stuart

4th Sep 2005

Die Another Day (2002)

Corrected entry: In the car chase, you can see when Bond's car flips that there is a large metal plate underneath it, presumably to mount explosives and effects paraphernalia on. A real Vanquish would have an assortment of metal tubes and engine parts.

Correction: It's highly unlikely that Bond would have a standard production model. It's completely in line with the story that it would have been heavily modified.

tw_stuart

10th Dec 2001

Spy Game (2001)

Corrected entry: Near the end of the film, when the helicopter carrying Brad Pitt away from the prison lifts off, it is silhouetted against a lighted cloud of steam or smoke. If the whole city had its power shut off, what was lighting the cloud?

Correction: Earlier it was made clear that the power was cut for 30 mins. By the time we see the helicopter, the power has been restored.

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