Plot hole: Murphy can't arrest OCP Executive, Dick Jones as it's against his Directive. But with the video recording of Boddicker admitting that Dick Jones is the man behind the murder of Bob Morton, any other police officer could have made the arrest anytime.
Gavin Jackson
5th Mar 2022
Robocop (1987)
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Suggested correction: Murphy's big mistake was trying to arrest Dick Jones himself (considering he had no idea that it was against his directives). After that fails, Jones has ordered the entire police department to destroy Murphy, which means he has to go into hiding. Even at the end, he still has to take Dick Jones down by himself. Now if Robocop had simply gone back to the police department and showed the evidence, things might have turned out differently. But his self-confidence turned out to be a huge mistake.
19th Dec 2023
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
Other mistake: In flashbacks, younger Indiana Jones has exactly the same voice as the older one.
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Suggested correction: Harrison Ford's voice has always sounded the same. Watch any film he's done.
It's a noticeably "older" voice than in previous films when he was about the age his de-aged self is meant to be. I mean he's now in his 80s not 40s, of course his voice is different! An unavoidable mistake but still clearly different.
Harrison Ford's voice has definitely become pretty gravelly.
14th Aug 2006
Blue Thunder (1983)
Plot hole: Apart from the impressive pyrotechnics, what is the point of destroying the Blue Thunder helicopter? By far the most expensive, time consuming and technically complex part of producing any aircraft is the design and development phase - once the prototype is in the air production is relatively straightforward. The bad guys can make new Blue Thunders any time they like, and Murphy has destroyed the only evidence he has that there was a criminal conspiracy behind the whole programme - the 'videotape' he has of blurry, false coloured characters will convince nobody. Without the helicopter to back him up that tape is of no value to him.
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Suggested correction: The Blue Thunder is caught on camera by a TV helicopter during the aquaduct chase which is evidence it existed.
A helicopter is filmed on CCTV, yes, which gives no detail at all to its use, where it came from, or anything about the conspiracy behind it. The helicopter is proof of the sinister plot and Murphy just destroyed it.
Suggested correction: What you are forgetting is Murphy is already a criminal with or without the helicopter. He stole blue thunder, destroyed two police helicopters, a jet and a police car, endangered civilians lives and finally killed Cochrane. Even if he could prove the conspiracy, there was no way he was avoiding jail. When he walks off at the end, he knows the future is bleak for him.
In no way does that correct the posting. Murphy would have an open-and-shut defence against all "criminal" charges if he could show he was acting against a much larger criminal conspiracy, which he now cannot do. Not only has he scuppered his own chances of defending himself he has handed the real criminals a Get Out Of Jail Free card. The posting is absolutely correct.
8th Apr 2022
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
Trivia: Jon Watts is the first director in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to complete a trilogy of films.
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Suggested correction: The Spider-man trilogy aren't technically MCU films although Spiderman has appeared in MCU films and characters from MCU have appeared in this. As Spider-man is still own by Sony...at this point its just character cross-overs and little else. MCU still don't have full ownership of Spider-man yet.
That's incorrect. All 3 films were co-produced by Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios and distributed by Sony. Tom Holland's Spider-Man IS part of the MCU because Sony shared the rights to the character and the films are not only set in the MCU, but part of the franchise. It should be noted that Marvel Studios and the MCU are two separate things. The MCU doesn't really own anything because it's the setting, not the company.
13th May 2006
Blue Thunder (1983)
Corrected entry: At the end when Blue thunder is being destroyed, the distance that Murphy is from the helicopter is totally ludicrous. Even an Olympic sprinter would be hard pressed to get that far in such short time. And Murphy didn't look like he made any effort to run at all.
Correction: It is not a continuous sequence. We don't see him get out of the helicopter, just walking away from it, and we have no idea how long it was between his exit and the first time we see him walking. Films don't show every second in real time - we'd have some long, boring films if they did.
Correction: You saw Murphy in the helicopter staring straight at the oncoming train. No way he could have made that distance so quick. The mistake is correct.
16th Jul 2016
So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993)
Corrected entry: When Charlie is being pursued by Rose on the rooftop, at one point they both fall down near each other and Rose drops her axe. Charlie could have easily picked up the axe and defused the whole situation...but instead he gets up and just keeps running.
Correction: If he was calm and thinking, yes. But in this case he was running for his life. People frequently make mistakes and miss opportunities when they're terrified.
It's still a stupidity. Especially considering he just put himself at further risk.
People not behaving as you would, or even making stupid mistakes, doesn't qualify as a "stupidity" entry. Stupidity enters are basically minor plot holes. Just because Rose drops the axe doesn't mean Charlie would have gotten to it first or been able to defuse the situation just by having it. It's perfectly reasonable for him to take the opportunity to run away.
28th Apr 2020
The Great Outdoors (1988)
Stupidity: John Candy was being dragged by the speedboat because he was holding the bar when the boat took off. It simply never occurred to him that letting go off the bar would have solved the problem (Of course then you wouldn't have had the speedboat scene at all but it's still pretty dumb).
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Suggested correction: Characters doing stupid things doesn't constitute a stupidity entry. That was part of the joke, that Chet spent all the time telling his son to remember to let go of the rope if something goes wrong, but then forgets his own advice in the heat of the moment. People do stupid things in real life all the time.
Well how does this not count as a Stupidity then? You just said it was and there was no need for him to stay holding onto the rope.
Stupidity is basically a minor plot hole, something small that doesn't rise to the level of an plot hole entry. Characters are still allowed to do stupid things though if it's not a plot hole (otherwise everything Lloyd and Harry do in all the Dumb and Dumber movies would be stupidity entries).
26th Jun 2019
Child's Play (2019)
Other mistake: Andy and his friends are watching "Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2" in one scene. However, the scenes they watch are completely out of order compared to the actual film.
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Suggested correction: Actually this is simply a movie convention. When kids watch films onscreen, they deliberately only show the best bits of the film as oppose to just playing the film normally. Otherwise it would look dull and pointless.
Explaining why a mistake exists doesn't invalidate them. Skipping time or jump cuts is one thing, showing scenes from a movie kids are watching out of order, without a valid in-film reason, is still a mistake.
Technically no.
The issue isn't that they aren't showing the whole movie. They did the right thing by just showing clips, since it illustrates a passage of time. The issue is that the clips they show are all out of order. (You'll see one from the ending of the movie, then one from the beginning, then another from the ending, then one from the middle, etc.) They could have just as easily shown a couple clips in order from throughout the film, and it would have worked, but they chose not to for some bizarre reason.
26th Jan 2019
The Warriors (1979)
Corrected entry: During auditions, the Writer (Yurick) and the Casting Manager did not want Michael Beck as Swan, as he looked too old at age 27. The Warriors were all supposed to be 16 to 24. But Walter Hill was so impressed by Beck's performance in Xanadu and his audition for this film that he cast him anyway.
Correction: Xanadu came out in 1980, one year after The Warriors, and Michael Beck has even stated that Xanadu "closed all the doors that Warriors opened". It's true that Walter Hill did see Beck in an earlier performance and gave him the role of Swan but it wasn't Xanadu. Also many would agree that Beck's performance in Xanadu was so bad that it wouldn't have even got him a McDonald's commercial.
2nd Nov 2003
Halloween (1978)
Corrected entry: There is a scene involving Michael Myers breaking the closet in order to get to Laurie, then why near the end of the film does it show you the closet in tip-top condition?
Correction: The closet shown at the end of the film is the one at Annie's house, not the Doyle residence.
The ending of the film where Michaels breaks through the closet door is indeed at the Doyle residence. The Wallace house is across the street.
17th Sep 2015
Under Siege 2 (1995)
Corrected entry: It doesn't make sense that Penn would shoot at the black suspension wires to break them off the train. His own men were originally on them to get to Ryback (who was barely hanging on the side of the cliff), and Penn never knew Ryback killed his men or that he was now the one now hanging on the wire.
Correction: Bear in mind that Penn wasn't above killing his own men. He shot the guy who was on fire and later took out the mercenary who felt Penn screwed up. In other words he's determined to see the mission succeed regardless of any collateral. He suspects there are still people on the ropes and by shooting the ropes, he is eliminating the Ryback threat and not wasting time waiting for his own people to return.
13th Jun 2010
Speed (1994)
Corrected entry: Just before the first bus blows up, a cameraman can be seen in Jack's jeep. (00:26:40)
Correction: I have watched this entire scene frame by frame...and I can't see any cameraman in his jeep.
8th May 2013
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
Corrected entry: In order to tell Archie where the loot is hidden, Ken imitates a flying jet, and Archie immediately states "Heathrow". That may be okay for people who don't know London, but Archie is born and bred - he would have to know that Ken could be alluding to any one of the two major or two large regional airports which serve London - Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted or Luton (London City wasn't open in those days). He's a lawyer - he wouldn't jump to conclusions like that. (Why didn't he ask Ken to write the address down?!?).
Correction: At 1:36:31, Ken tries to tell Archie the name of the airport, successfully pronounces the first syllable ("He-he-he"), then gives up and starts imitating an aeroplane. Archie then promptly puts two and two together and darts off. Btw. Archie offers the pen to Ken immediately after Ken starts stuttering ("Here, here, again!"), but the latter thinks that playing at aeroplanes is faster and easier. (Quite obviously, the makers of the movie decided that this was more comical than Ken writing again.)
Correction: The whole point of that scene is to make a joke about how Archie is able to guess the correct airport from just the imitation of a plane.
13th Feb 2013
Mad Max (1979)
Corrected entry: With 15 minutes left in the movie, the bikers jump on a gas truck to steal some gas. They put a hose into the top of the truck. The gas just starts flowing. They would have to create a suction first to create the siphon effect where the weight of the fuel in the line would then continue the flow.
Correction: Johnny, the boy who's at the bottom of the truck, does create a suction for the pipe (even accidently taking some in his mouth). No goof there.
18th Sep 2012
Jurassic Park (1993)
Corrected entry: Nedry has supposedly worked on the island for years. It is very implausible that he would need a street sign to tell him which way to get from the control center to the East Dock.
Correction: It was raining heavily and Nedry could barely see out the front window. In his desperate and panicking state, it's easy to think that he got lost down some road he had never been on. It's not like he spent all his time on Jurassic Park studying the roads.
30th Jul 2012
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Corrected entry: After successfully emerging from the prison, Wayne drops the coil of rope, where did the rope come from since it was the free climb that led to his success?
Correction: The rope was at the top of the well on the side. Bruce threw it down so the others could escape.
16th Jul 2012
The Art of War (2000)
Corrected entry: In the "death scene" where Snipes character is shot by the FBI, one of the squibs goes off late.
Correction: That's because it was a fake assassination. So Snipes not reacting properly is quite reasonable.
7th May 2012
A View to a Kill (1985)
Corrected entry: When Bond and Tibbett are sneaking into the stables, they left a tape recorder in Bond's room playing sleeping/snoring noises to pretend Bond is in his room sleeping. When Zorin and Mayday look for Bond in his room the tape recorder isn't there any more. It is absolutely quiet in this room.
Correction: The tape had run out by the time Zorin and Mayday went into Bond's room which is why it was quiet. As for why they didn't see it...either it was an oversight, or they just didn't care.
18th Apr 2012
Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
Corrected entry: When Rambo is being interrogated by the Russian he glares at the Russian, making eye contact, not answering his questions, and eventually antagonizing him by saying f*ck you. This is not the way US Special Forces are trained. Rambo should have avoided his gaze, repeated his name, rank, and social security number. The last thing anyone who has been through SERE training (survival, evasion, resistance, escape), let alone been a pow before, would do is antagonize their captors.
Correction: If you have seen all the Rambo films, you would realise that Rambo is a loose cannon who follows his own code. His mission here was to take photos, but he disregarded that. Rambo clearly isn't afraid of the Russian and is willing to test him, no matter the cost.
16th Apr 2012
Titanic (1997)
Corrected entry: On deck during the sinking Cal says about Jack's drawing 'Too bad I didn't keep it. It will be worth a lot more in the morning'. But he did keep it! He actually even put it back in the safe.
Correction: Cal meant to keep it with him when he gets off the ship. Since the ship is sinking, the safe will be at the bottom of the ocean very shortly. Besides, he was probably being sarcastic.
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